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Since the 1997-98 season, at the end of the regular season, the league has been relatively loose. Last season was a shrinking season, but this year, starting from late March, when the season entered the last four game weeks, it was obvious that the schedule has become much looser.

However, it also depends on the team. Teams with good predictions are more relaxed and more average. For example, the Supersonics are still not so friendly. After playing against the Knicks on the 25th, there will be games on the 29th, but from April 2nd to the 22nd, there will be 11 games in 21 days.

Other teams are in April, three weeks, usually 9 games, while the Supersonics are 11 games in 22 days in April.

But compared with the 1996-97 season, such a schedule is already very good. As for the Supersonics, at least before this 21-day and 11-game match, there is a two-game schedule that can be buffered by a week.

The reason for such a change in the schedule was caused by the Iron Blood Age. In those years, too many stars suffered injuries and performed poorly in the playoffs, which affected the playoffs.

However, the Supersonics chose to adjust the schedule distribution that is unfavorable to those popular teams in a favorable direction. After playing against the Kings, on the afternoon of March 30, the Supersonics began to conduct intensive training based on recent problems.

I don’t have to worry about my physical strength this time. I had already had three days off before playing against the Kings team on the 29th.

There are no other teams like the Supersonics, and they can get a lot of improvements. Of course, it does not mean that all problems can be improved through training and finding ways to improve them. Some problems cannot be solved. For example, the Supersonics have no scorer, so they can't think of turning Ben Wallace into a center with averaging 15+ points per game. This problem can't be solved even if Ben Wallace practices the Golden Pill.

But with many problems, there are always some solutions, such as making the team-cooperation of Kassel, Ruben Patterson, James Percy, Ben Wallace, and Zhang Hao's defensive lineup better, making Much Brecklelo, Ruben Patterson, Artest, Ben Wallace, and Zhang Hao's hard steel flow defense more violent...

As long as your mind does not slip, you can always think of ways.

Two days off, and on the morning of April 1, the Chicago Bulls came to Seattle.

At 12 noon, the league announced the best prizes for the fifth competition month.

Raptors coach Lanny Wilkens won the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month in March, and Timberwolves coach Philip Sanders won the Western Conference Coach of the Month.

The rookie of the month, Kobe's five consecutive tycoons were no surprise.

Player of the Month, Zhang Hao relied on his 10-4 record in March and his impressive personal performance, and defeated O'Neal, who led the team to win 13-3 losses, and won the third best player of the month award for the season!

After the live broadcast of the award was announced, CNN commentator Former 76ers superstar Morris Chicks said that although O'Neal led the team to get a better record and played more games, the Lakers' opponent in March was not as strong as the Supersonics, and O'Neal's teammates were much stronger than Zhang Hao's teammates...

In addition, Morris Chicks said that Zhang Hao did not lock in the regular season MVP just because he won the Best Player of the Month in April. If O'Neal won the Best Player of the Month in April, coupled with the huge record advantage of 60 wins and 13 losses, it will be enough to make up for the best Player of the Month and data disadvantages. O'Neal's efficiency on both offense and defense is higher than Zhang Hao...

The third best player of the month was won, and Zhang Hao felt happy after getting his lifespan of 60 days.

As for the MVP competition... he certainly cares a lot, but it is useless to care about this kind of thing. All he has to do is to try his best to lead the team to win more games in April and minimize the record gap with the Lakers.

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Thinking back to 1996, every year in early April, the hottest thing in North American basketball was naturally about the Naa Basketball Championship. At the end of March, the semi-finals of the Naa Basketball Championship had already been decided, and the remaining two teams played the final one from April 3 to 6.

This year, the defending champion Duke University Blue Devils stopped in the quarterfinals, with the Spartans and Florida State Seminoles joining the finals.

Florida State University is the big dark horse this year. They only joined the Naa Division 1 Atlantic Coast League in 1991. This year, they barely entered the semi-finals with a mediocre record of 22 wins and 13 losses, and ended up in the finals.

Generally speaking, such a team is definitely the focus of attention, just like the 2013 American Superman Hancock led the University of Louisville to the finals with an incredible performance.

The Florida State University here is also a huge surprise, but the popularity... was snatched away by one person!

Just like in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1996 and 1997, Zhang Hao made the media laugh at the Naa basketball team that did not give him full scholarships. In 1998, "not giving scholarships" could not attract much attention. Zhang Hao led the team to a terrifying record of less than 10 games in the number of games in the 1998... This year, Zhang Hao was still in the process of competing for Kenyon-Martin's Supersonics team to win a record of 51 wins and 20 losses when they finished playing in March, leading such a team to compete for MVP!

Who was the last NBA star who fought against it alone? Michael Jordan in the 1992-93 season, and the other one was Larry Bird in the 1985-86 season.

Now, Zhang Hao has been doing this all the time!

Today, Zhang Hao won the third player of the month of the season... Before the start of the season, no one linked Zhang Hao with the player of the month of the season.

No one would suspect that Zhang Hao would get good data. Even if he stopped for a year and didn't play, no one felt that there was a problem with Zhang Hao's competition for the score king. However, not many people think that this kind of award, which is the main factor in team performance, is related to Zhang Hao.

But Zhang Hao has been the best week 6 times this season and the best month 3 times!

There is no doubt that the basketball world's gaze has once focused on Zhang Hao.

Although the legendary man said that Zhang Hao is not stable in getting MVP, O'Neal still has a high probability of getting MVP, but does this mean that Zhang Hao and a group of players like the Supersonics still become the number one popular MVP?

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On April 2, the Supersonics' home game day is here.

There are two highly anticipated youth teams this season, which are regarded as the "next 76ers", one is the Raptors in the North and the other is the Bulls.

These two teams have one common characteristic. They are not lucky and meet Zhang Hao.

The Raptors were beaten to 86 points, the second worst in history and the third worst in history were the Bulls, who were beaten to 76 points by Zhang Hao, all of which happened this season.

However, when the Raptors fought with Zhang Hao for the second time in the season, they relied on Carter to defeat Zhang Hao, saving some face.

Can Kobe regain his dignity like Carter? This matter has attracted considerable attention.

At noon, in the midday sports news program of .t Sports Channel, a video of the interview Zhang Hao was interviewed this morning was played.

When Barkley asked what the Bulls wanted to do tonight's game, Zhang Hao said: "It's time to create 101."

After this interview was broadcast, it immediately attracted widespread attention.

The number of live broadcast payments on t Sports and Fox Sports has begun to soar.

Kobe and his team didn't even believe a word about what Zhang Hao said in an interview at noon.

The Bulls analyzed it during preparations. After Zhang Hao said similar things, he did not score. Instead, he took advantage of the threat he brought to the team to attack, got high assists, and led the team to win.

Many teams were fooled and then lost, including the Lakers.

There are very few teams that can play as determined as the Jazz.

Kobe believes his team will not be deceived!

Larry Brown also chose a safe defense, using Kobe at the first defense level, and McGrady who had a little chance of being selected for the second defense, plus the quick round conversion ability of BJ Armstrong and Tim Thomas, cut off the Supersonics team in the game with Zhang Hao as the restraining point to play passes and cuts.

Then, at 7 pm, after the Supersonics played against the Bulls at home, Zhang Hao continued to chisel at the basket in the first quarter, bullying Tim Thomas, unable to withstand it, bullying the Bulls' center forwards were bulky and not moving fast enough, and 17 points in the first quarter helped the Supersonics score a 24-21 single quarter.

Fortunately, although the Bulls were a little panicked by Zhang Hao in the first quarter, they were not confused. The defensive end did a good job of Zhang Hao passing the ball, and did not allow Zhang Hao to score an uncontrollable score. They were 3 points behind in the first quarter and were still within the acceptance range of the Bulls.

The Bulls never thought how easy it would be to play the Supersonics.

Although the Supersonics will be in a ten-game game this season, and there are few times when playing teams with playoff level strength, the Supersonics still won 51 wins.

The Supersonics have the ability to bite the score tightly when facing most opponents by relying on the shit-stick style, and then relies on Zhang Hao and Kassel, who is always ignored to solve the game.

Now, the Bulls are still wondering whether Zhang Hao wants to scare them by playing the first quarter?

Then, after the start of the second quarter, Zhang Hao scored a pick-and-roll and directly shot a three-pointer, a counterattack dunk, and scored 5 points in a row, turning the score to 29-21, leading the Bulls 8 points.

Zhang Hao scored 5 points in a row, and the Bulls missed two-point shots at the beginning. This is actually within the acceptable range and is not a big problem.

But when Zhang Hao made that three-pointer, Kobe who was defending Kassel and McGrady who was defending Zhang Hao, the two chose to attack Zhang Hao. Kassel both ran to the right side of the free throw line, and Zhang Hao still threw it directly against the defense!

This reminded Kobe and McGrady about more than 3 months ago...

A strong willpower player, a stubborn coach, always transforms so quickly from one firm to another.

After Larry Brown joined the Bulls, he often had disputes with Kobe, but this time he became a strange tacit understanding.

Larry Brown doesn't want to see a player scoring high scores on his team, and Kobe doesn't want to be scoring high scores by Zhang Hao anymore, so he decisively starts to attack and defend.

However, in the Bulls' starting strategy, the main defense cut off Zhang Hao's pass and receive the ball, which made Zhang Hao feel like he was shooting.

Although Zhang Hao was not as strong as the 13 minutes before the game in the next time, he still scored 29 points in the 27 minutes he played.

In the end, Zhang Hao played 40 minutes in the game, making 18 of 35 shots, including 4 of 9 three-pointers, plus 11 of 14 free throws, so he rushed 51 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, leading the Supersonics to defeat the Bulls 104-93!

Although he did not get a triple-double and failed to create 101, Zhang Hao won the fourth single game of the season, tying his performance in the second grade, with 12 single games of 40+, which is only one game away from his personal record of 13 single games of 40+ in a single game of 13 single games of 40+ in a single game of 1, which still makes fans on the scene ecstatic.

When asked whether he was really trying to create 101 tonight, Zhang Hao replied: "Yes, I'm telling the truth. I just want to create 101 in them, but they don't believe it, and I can't do it either, but the opportunity is not that good, I only got 51 points..."

After the game, Kobe refused to attend the press conference and rejected interviews from many media...

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After the 7th consecutive game, the Supersonics' record increased to 52 wins and 20 losses, and there were still 10 games left to not play.

The remaining 10 games of the Supersonics, 4 home games and 6 away games, are not as cruel as in March.

The Bulls are the last Eastern Conference opponent of the Supersonics this season, and the remaining opponents are Western Conference teams.

The day after the game against the Bulls, the Supersonics set out, with two consecutive away games, No. 4 and No. 5 playing back to back against the Rockets and Nuggets.

The Rockets and the Nuggets are ranked tenth and eleventh in the Western Conference, and even the standard teams are not good at playing badly. Currently, the Rockets are 31 wins and 42 losses, while the Nuggets are 30 wins and 42 losses. They really don’t even want to play badly. The record is not up or down. There is absolutely no hope in the playoffs. The top five who ended up with the greatest probability of winning the No. 1 pick can’t get into the range.

After playing 72 games, they won 50 games. Many Supersonic fans are already yelling at 60 wins... But the reality is still quite cruel.

88 to 97, 114 to 119, when the Supersonics entered the 10th game, they lost two consecutive games.

When playing against the Rockets, he never made any shots. When playing against the Nuggets, he made the Nuggets the balls.

The game against the Rockets was completely lost.

When playing against the Nuggets, the Supersonics relied on Zhang Hao to equalize the score, and the two teams tied at 105 and entered overtime.

In overtime, the Nuggets were still in the game, scoring 14 points in 5 minutes. Although the Supersonics also scored 9 points in overtime, they still lost.

Although Zhang Hao scored 36 points, 14 rebounds and 16 assists in the Nuggets game, tied the second highest triple-double in a single season maintained by Chamberlain.

Schramf also made a comeback in the Nuggets game. After missing for nearly 8 weeks, Schramf finally recovered from his groin injury and played well. He played in his first game in 19 minutes and scored 9 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

But these still cannot hide the decline of two consecutive defeats.

On April 6th, the league's offseason was one day, and the Naa final day was here.
To be continued...