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Chapter 116: 50+ in the first playoff game of his career!

Al Nelson is a sophomore at Seattle University.

There is still almost a month left before the summer vacation, but this does not prevent him from driving to the home team venue early.

As a local, he has been a SuperSonics fan for nearly 20 years.

From the time he won a championship in the late 1970s until the team's performance was struggling before this season, he never gave up and supported the home team without changing his mind.

Same thing tonight!

As soon as he entered the venue, he was startled by the packed auditorium and the noisy atmosphere.

"Oh my God, there are still half an hour and there are already so many people?"

He exclaimed as he walked to find his place.

After a while, he found his seat in the eighth row on the sidelines, and the person sitting next to him was his classmate.

"Hi, Al, you're finally here." His classmates greeted him happily when they saw him coming.

"Are you here early, Roger?" Nelson smiled at his classmates.

"It's only been ten minutes, Al, come here quickly." His classmate waved to him and told him to come over and sit down.

Nelson nodded, with a smile on his face, and sat down in his seat.

As soon as he sat down, his classmates noticed the brand new pair of Lightning generation shoes on his feet and couldn't help but sigh, "I'm so envious of you for buying them."

"Hehe." Nielsen looked at the shoes, laughed loudly, and said, "I bought it for Su. Fortunately, I went early, otherwise I would have to wait another two days."

"Ahhhh." His classmates were a little crazy, "I'm just one of those people who left late."

"When I got up, it was already noon. As soon as I got in line, I was told that it was sold out. I was so sad."

"Hey." Nielsen patted his shoes and looked proud, "Who asked you to get up so late? It's obviously the weekend."

"It's all your fault, brother." His classmate pushed him and complained: "You didn't call me when you got up."

"Should I call you?" Nelson said happily, "Roger, if I call you, maybe my shoes will have to be worn on your feet."

"Our height seems to be as big as our feet, so we can't call you."

"Oh! My God, I'm going to fight you!"

His classmate named Roger heard the hidden meaning in his words and instantly felt even more uncomfortable.

It turns out that the pair of shoes Nelson wore were the last pair of this size.

"Don't make trouble!" Nelson saw Roger gnashing his teeth for a while, and quickly diverted his attention and looked into the field. Su and the others came out.

Following his line of sight, he looked towards the player tunnel and saw Su Wen and the other SuperSonics players. Roger didn't have any intention of making trouble with him. He immediately sat up straight and concentrated.

Tonight is April 4th, the second day of the league's playoffs, and the first game of the first round between the SuperSonics and the Spurs.

Just yesterday, the officials arranged a game, the first game of the first round between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Washington Bullets.

With their stronger overall strength and star-studded starting lineup, the 76ers defeated their opponents 104:97 in four quarters and got a good start in the playoffs.

而全场14投8中，罚球12中10，砍下26分5篮板5助攻6抢断的摩西·马龙，成了当晚的MVP球员。

Although Dr. J is old, the weak Washington Bullets cannot pose any threat to them. He also made 19 of 11 shots and scored 24 points and 6 rebounds.

In Barkley's first playoff game, he was not qualified to start. He played 31 minutes as a substitute, making 11 of 6 shots and 8 of 5 free throws. He scored 17 points and grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds.

Among the 12 rebounds, 8 were offensive rebounds.

He almost destroyed the Wizards' inside line by himself.

Only on the second match day after this game does the league official arrange other games.

There are five games in total, namely Celtics and Cavaliers, Mavericks and Rockets, Spurs and SuperSonics, Pistons and Nets, Suns and Lakers.

The first round at this time is still a best-of-five series. Whichever team wins three games first will advance to the next round.

In the second round of the playoffs, it is still a best-of-seven game.

Therefore, even though it is only the first round, the opponent is only a team like the Spurs that is neither good nor bad. No one in the SuperSonics dares to take it lightly.

A best-of-five game system. If you lose one more game, the danger level will increase by one level.

What if you are careless and someone else wins three games first?

Even though they played five games against each other in the regular season and won four of them, they had enough psychological advantages to still take it seriously.

"Tactics and other things have been discussed too much in previous trainings, and we have also conducted several targeted drills. I don't want to say more."

After the warm-up of both sides, Lanny Wilkens called all the players together and emphasized: "The most important thing you need to pay attention to is to guard against your own people!"

"Yes!"

Everyone looked solemn and responded to the coach's words.

"Okay, let's play."

Wilkens sent everyone on the field with a wave of his hand.

Watching an individual enter, when Su Wen passed by him last, he said: "Su, although tonight is your first playoff career, don't put too much pressure on you."

"Just play it like a normal regular season game."

Su Wen made an OK gesture and came on stage.

Although the head coach comforted him so much, this was his first playoff game, so it would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous.

No matter how good the playoffs are, no matter how good the teammates are, they cannot just be treated as an ordinary regular season.

In the playoffs, both offense and defense will be several times stronger than in the regular season.

The moment he stepped onto the court, he took a deep breath, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and after calming down for a while, he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

He glanced at the starting lineup on the opposite side as they entered the field, walked to the center circle without saying a word.

If it were the GPD Spurs, he might not be so optimistic about tonight, but this is just a Spurs with a seriously aging core lineup.

He is confident enough to beat this opponent.

In this way, the starting lineups of both sides, except for the point guards, all stood around the center circle, waiting for the jump ball.

The Spurs' starting lineup is the same as the regular season lineup, and it is still the strongest lineup.

No. 218, Artis Gilmore, 208cm; No. , Jeff Cook, cm;

No. 201, Mike Mitchell, cm;

No. 201, George Gervin, cm;

No. 185, John Moore, cm.

The same goes for Seattle's starters.

No. 211, Tim McCormick, cm;

No. 208, Tom Chambers, cm;

No. 201, Su Wen, cm;

No. 198, Al Wood, cm;

No. 191, Brad Davis, cm.

The game officially begins as the referee throws the ball into the air.

Artis Gilmore used his height advantage to win the ball for the team for the first time.

John Moore, the point guard who ranked third in assists, slowly pushed the ball into the frontcourt. With Davis following and guarding, he was always observing the dynamics of his teammates.

Seeing that his attention was not on him, Davis suddenly pressed forward.

Who would have thought that Moore's interference would be eliminated by turning his butt back, like a wild goose falling on the sand, and he would move forward.

Unfortunately, their first attack failed to score. When Su Wen was defending the Iceman, he made a big block when the opponent jumped up to shoot.

After the block, when his teammates grabbed the ball, they immediately rushed forward and participated in the fast break counterattack aggressively.

He was full of energy from the beginning, which even surprised the Iceman.

Iceman, who was chasing after him but unable to catch up, looked at his back and sped away. After completing the two-on-one cooperation, he shook his head.

Sure enough, the world is dominated by young people now.

Su Wen's activity was not only reflected in this offensive and defensive round.

In the next few minutes, he frequently broke into the paint and participated in the team's offense. He used off-ball cuts again and again to get rid of the Iceman's defense, and then received passes from teammates and attacked the frame crazily.

At the end of the first quarter, Su Wen had made 13 of 9 shots and scored 20 points.

The SuperSonics also led temporarily with 36:24 and 12 points.

Back on the sidelines, the Iceman sitting on the bench was out of breath, which shocked his coach Cotton Fitzsimmons.

This is the first quarter, George.

Is it so tiring to defend that Su?

Fitzsimmons was worried when he saw George Gervin like this.

Unfortunately, he was worried to no avail.

What is the overall strength gap between the two sides?

Although they have a 218cm big All-Star center, a four-time rebounding champion, Artis Gilmore who has been on the All-NBA team and defense for several times, and George Gervin.

But the former, like the latter, are both old players and both entered the ABA in the early 70s.

Their lineup is seriously aging, there is no replacement, and there is no successor.

Therefore, facing the young and energetic Sonics, physical fitness is a big problem.

When the two teams returned to the court in the second quarter, Iceman and Gilmore had physical problems. In the last two minutes, they could hardly keep up with their opponents. The SuperSonics, led by Su Wen and Chambers, attacked the defense like crazy. Shaky.

Finally, at the end of the first half, they struggled to maintain the point difference at around 20 points.

40:63

In the second half, they strengthened their defense and double-teamed Su Wen.

But the Sonics can't solve it by double-teaming Su Wen. They still can't guard against Chambers inside.

At the end of the third quarter, with the help of Su Wenluye, Chambers made 14 of 10 shots and also scored 22 points in a single quarter.

And their point difference has been stretched to more than 30 points.

At the end of the quarter, the Spurs still wanted to make a desperate struggle. They bombarded for several minutes at the beginning, but the effect was limited. They had to replace all the starters in the fifth minute and announced their surrender.

At the end of the game, they only managed to reduce the score difference to within 30 points.

127:101, they still lost by 26 points.

Before leaving the venue, George Gervin and Suvin hugged each other goodbye, feeling bitter in their hearts.

He looked at Huan Suwen with a rather immature face and very sharp eyes, and was convinced again.

他今晚尽了最大努力防守了，依旧让对方26投19中，罚球15中13，砍下51分8篮板8助攻5封盖的数据。

Seeing that the Iceman was hesitating to speak while shaking hands, Su Wen suddenly said inexplicably: "George, I know I am strong."

"But you must not say that the future is yours at this time."

"Why?" Iceman asked in confusion, "The future of the alliance is you young people?"

"It's yours too!" Su Wen grinned and said, "I'm only a few years younger than you!"

"How many years younger?" Iceman shook his head and smiled: "How many years younger? Stop joking."

"You are about the same age as my son."

"???"

Su Wen was shocked for a moment.

Okay, why am I a child?

Then you might as well say the future is yours.

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(End of this chapter)