The Feb. 19, 2008 home game against the Grizzlies was the first game since the SuperSonics All-Star break, the first game of the second half of the sprint, and a two-game game in the race for third.

Now the Seattle SuperSonics have a 43-8 record, while the Grizzlies have a negative record, and now the Seattle SuperSonics are third in the West and third in the league, and the Grizzlies are seventh in the West and seventh in the league.

As long as the Grizzlies can beat the SuperSonics in this game, then the Grizzlies will officially enter the top three in the league and the top three in the West.

And if the Grizzlies lose this game, then basically the Grizzlies will say goodbye to the fight for third place in the West.

Therefore, this game between the SuperSonics and the Grizzlies is quite an important game, and it is extremely important for the rest of the regular season sprint.

Key Arena, Seattle.

When the Seattle SuperSonics players walked out one by one in the introduction of the live DJ and the cheers of the Seattle fans in the stadium, the entire Key Arena was boiling.

For Seattle fans at Key Arena, it's been a 'long, long, long time' since they've seen a supersonic game.

After such a period of absence, the players of the team also changed significantly when they were introduced by the live DJ.

For example, when introducing Durant, who was the first to play, not only introduced him as a player from the University of Texas, but also added a three-point king.

When introducing Rondo, who appeared in the second game, it was no longer just about introducing the university and the assist king, but also the champion of the skills competition.

And Ye Si ......

“mvp！”

“mvp！”

“mvp！”

The MVP cheers became even more natural and incredible!

I have to say that the momentum of the supersonic fans tonight is indeed quite amazing.

The enthusiasm of the supersonic fans also made the game more difficult.

The hardships here are for both sides.

For the Grizzlies, they are going to give it their all, and it should be said that this game is the most important regular season game for the Grizzlies, deciding their fate this season.

If you win, then rush into the top three in one go!

If you lose, you will really be pressed to the seventh position in the west, and you can't go up or down.

Seventh in the West and eighth in the West, there really is no difference this season.

Whether it's against the Rockets or the Suns, it's a nightmare for them.

So, this game can be said to be an all-or-nothing game for them.

The fans are so crazy that the supersonic becomes more difficult to play, and the price they have to pay is even greater.

And the price they paid in this game is greater, stronger, more difficult to play, correspondingly, SuperSonics does not want to lose and must also become stronger.

It can be said that the supersonic fans in the field were the catalyst for this game.

With such a catalyst, neither team will allow this game to fail.

Especially in the previous situation where the Lakers, Spurs and Nuggets all won, there was no way back for either team!

As the head coach of the Grizzlies, Stotts frowned as he looked at the supersonic players who were greeted by the frantic cheers of the fans in the stadium.

The look on the faces of these supersonic players is confident, relaxed and morale high.

There is no such tension and apprehension of a young team facing a life-and-death battle.

At this point, they are far inferior to the grizzly bears.

"The mentality of these supersonic young players is incredible!"

The win in this game is important for the Grizzlies, and it is important for the SuperSonics.

The pressure brought by this game is huge for both sides, even if the Grizzlies are a fairly mature team, they are nervous and uneasy when facing such a high-pressure game.

For this game, the Grizzlies didn't have a holiday for the entire All-Star Weekend, and no one except Oden went to the All-Star Weekend, everyone was training and preparing for the game, just to take down this stressful game in this game.

The Grizzlies as a whole have really paid too much for this game.

Even a mature team with a focus on mature players like the Grizzlies would have a hard time facing a bad outcome in such a game.

"No matter what, this game is a revenge battle that must be won!"

Stotts has a determined gaze, and the Grizzlies players next to him have an equally determined gaze.

Especially Battier.

You know, the last time the two teams met was during yes's crazy ten-game streak.

In that encounter, the Grizzlies were one of the teams to be killed by yes in a ten-game losing streak.

Battier is the player who was sent to the annals of basketball history by yes.

yes faced his eye-sealing defense and used his three-pointer to kill the Grizzlies!

In this game, Carter and Gasol want to help the Grizzlies win a game and work hard for the Grizzlies to go further in this year's playoffs.

In this game, Oden is going to prove once again that he is more fit than Durant to be the best game of the year.

And he!

This game is the battle of revenge and counterattack that he washed away when he was sent to the annals of basketball history by yes!

Since the last meeting between the two teams, Battier has been studying this game since the last time the two teams met.

He wanted to scientifically figure out why yes would be as unafraid of his eye-sealing defense as a battlefield veteran like Kobe.

It is unscientific for a young player to be so calm and relaxed in the face of his blind-eyed and intimidating defense.

At the same time, he also wants to know scientifically why yes chose the three-point lore in the end instead of the other way.

In the face of his defense, yes could have had more options, but in the end he chose the most difficult path, which is also unscientific.

"The two teams in this game, the strength of the Grizzlies is greater than that of the SuperSonics, and the overall strength of the Grizzlies is the existence of the top six in the entire West, and it is in the same gear as the Lakers, Nuggets and Spurs."

"And the hard power of hypersonic is only the top eight or even the top ten in the West at best."

"The gap between the two teams in this game is far less huge than the ranking of the two teams."

Kenny Smith gave a national audience a background and information about the game before it began.

In fact, there is no need for him to introduce it, most of the veteran fans who have been chasing the NBA schedule know it very well.

The standings of the two teams look to be third in the West and seventh in the West, which seems to be huge.

But if you replace the third and seventh in the West with the third and seventh in the league, does it feel like there is not such a big gap?

After the Boston Celtics were hammered by the Nuggets some time ago, the Grizzlies are now a veritable seventh-place team in the league.

The Boston Celtics, who are first in the East, can only finish eighth in the West.

Meanwhile, after the Boston Celtics lost to the Nuggets on the road, the Boston Celtics faced the top eight teams in the West, all of which lost except for the SuperSonics, who are third in the West.

To put it simply, eight of the top eight teams in the West, except for the SuperSonics led by Yes, the other seven teams have beaten the Celtics this season.

Do you feel that the Celtics, who are the first in the East this season, are also having a miserable time?

But if you think about it again, as the third supersonic in the league, even the Celtics, who are having such a miserable life, can't win, will it be even worse?

No, supersonic is not miserable!

Because of yes, this Western team, which can't even win against the Celtics, can actually rank third in the West and third in the league.

It's not miserable, it's lucky!

But luck can't always be with this team.

Virtue is not worthy!

Using the Celtics as a reference, the supersonics' hard power is not as good as the other seven top eight teams in the West, but they can rank third in the West.

This is the bonus of eating yes, and other teams in the first half of the schedule, without the benefit of full force.

Now everyone is going to sprint, and the Grizzlies have even been preparing for this game for more than half a week, and the Grizzlies are preparing for this game as a playoffs and a Finals.

In this case, hard power is important.

So, before the start of this game, most of the expert reporters in the United States believed that the SuperSonics would lose this game.

The reason why the Grizzlies were restrained by the speed of yes before, in addition to the style of play, is more because of the supersonic because of the comprehensiveness and perfection of yes, it has always been aimed at playing opponents only in the playoffs.

And in this game, the Grizzlies will definitely target the hypersonic with their high and big.

Now both teams are going to target each other in this game, whether yes is fast but Grizzlies are tall and big, or Grizzlies are tall and big and supersonic is fast, it's hard to say.

In the end, this game could well turn into a battle between two teams.

If it really comes to such a point, hypersound is bound to lose!

"According to the prediction of the TNT expert group, in the last game of pizza, the Grizzlies in regular season state need to be able to win by YES difficult kills, and in this game against the Grizzlies in playoff form, the SuperSonics are likely to lose by about 10 points."

"According to their analysis, Yes has occupied the No. 1 spot in the official MVP chart for an entire season, and from this game, Yes will cede his No. 1 spot."

"If I had voting rights in MVP, I would definitely vote for yes."

"The legend created by Yes this season is epic, but for many people, MVP is a sacred honor that needs to be supported by a record, and if there is no record, even if Yes averages a triple-double this season, they will not vote for Yes."

"In the face of the Suns and the Rockets, it is very likely that they will both break the 70-win record, and yes and the SuperSonics will need at least 65 wins or more."

"However, according to TNT's expert panel, the SuperSonics are likely to have less than 65 wins this season, or even just around 60 wins, which is good enough, but not enough to be in the top four in the West this season."

Kenny Smith is stating what he thinks is the truth.

Barkley, on the other hand, was worried.

There's no way not to worry.

Yes's performance in the first half of the race was too perfect.

Win all the best of the month, and win all the MVP official firsts.

He scored 82 points in the game, completed 10 consecutive kills in the game, and just won the greatest game in history at the All-Star Game.

Now yes and hypersound are a target!

The Eastern Conference team is playing the field and the SuperSonics.

The strong teams in the west will also fight hard with the superSonics because of their rankings.

And those teams like the Grizzlies, who have both a conflict of interest and a vengeance relationship with the yes supersonics, will not let the supersonics go.

Look at the murderous aura on the Grizzlies players now as the two teams stand on the court and the game is ready to begin.

As for the evil spirit of the Grizzlies players, there are also people who believe that this game is the last game before the extinction of humanity.

As the referee on duty, Javi, threw the basketball in his hand high, Oden and Milicic bounced out almost at the same time.

This time, the jumping ball is a direct contest between one emperor and one emperor and four heavenly kings.

In the end, Auden, as the first emperor, defeated Milicic, who was the fourth heavenly king.

It's hard to win!

Oden's face was quite surprised when he made the jump ball.

According to his estimates, he should be able to have a little easier.

The morale on the faces of the players Milicic and the SuperSonics is also abnormal!

The morale of the superSonics players in this game was somewhat abnormal, and the Grizzlies players quickly felt it.

In the NBA, morale plays a major role in defense.

When a player has high morale and concentration, it is also the time when he defends best.

SuperSonics are not strictly a defensive team.

Abandon the question of who restrained whom supersonic and grizzly bears fast and high each other.

Just take the Grizzlies' offense.

When the Grizzlies play their double-high strategy, they should be able to score with relative ease.

But after the start of this game, whether Oden played Milicic or Gasol played Millsap, it was not so easy to play!

To the surprise of Grizzlies head coach Stotts and the two TNT commentators on the sidelines, the Grizzlies, who were so well prepared before the game and showed the highest state and attitude, only slightly suppressed the supersonic in the first quarter.

At the end of the first quarter, the Grizzlies only led the SuperSonics by 3 points, and the score was quite low!

"The morale of the supersonic players is no worse than that of the Grizzlies!"

No, even harder!

If it weren't for the supersonic players working harder than the Grizzlies, they wouldn't have been able to play such a score in the first quarter!

It's incredible!

Barkley and Kenny Smith both looked at each other a bit after the end of the first quarter.

If the morale of the Grizzlies is that the starters are strong and the benches are weak, the Grizzlies' starters have many reasons to give everything for this game, but the bench is almost meaningless.

But on the supersonic side, the morale of the substitutes is not weaker than that of the starters at all!

In the case that the hard power of the two teams' substitutes was almost the same, after the second quarter, the two teams actually tied!

"A surprising first half!"

The first half of the Grizzlies and the Hypersonics was really surprising enough.

Phil Jackson looked at the stats on TV, and he was surprised not only by the fact that the two teams could fight at half time, but also by shooting 1 of 4 three-pointers in the first half of the game, and only scoring 8 points from the free throw line.

"In this game, Battier defended YES very tightly outside the three-point line, and YES should jump out of the three-point line to the mid-range or other areas to attack, but YES had 0 mid-range shots in the first half!"

Bryant had some disbelief on his face.

Don't?!

Battier has found a weakness in YES and found a way to defend YES?!

How is this possible?!

Looking at the smiling and extremely excited Battier on TV, Kobe Bryant even jumped up excitedly!

What is the weakness of yes?!

"yes is perfect, but it's not that perfect either!"

"His weakness is the middle distance!"

Battier could feel the trembling of his hands, it wasn't fear, it was excitement!

He's already feeling it, and this fight could well be the best of his career!