So far, the Jazz and the Lakers are already very familiar with each other, what characteristics each team has with each other, both sides are clear, the Jazz are slightly inferior to the Lakers in any aspect, but the most attractive thing about competitive sports is the tenacious spirit of never giving up, and the only thing that the Jazz can compete with the Lakers is probably the spirit.

There were about two minutes left in the second quarter of the game, and in the previous four minutes, the Lakers relied on O'Neal's outburst to play a wave of 16-2 offensive climax, not only equalizing the score but also overtaking four points, and even Malone, who returned to the court after less than five minutes of rest, failed to limit O'Neal's play.

In the remaining two minutes of the second quarter, although the Jazz tried their best to deal with the Lakers, but the current Lakers team has completely played with momentum, Liu Han grabbed a three-point shot at the last moment, O'Neal also scored a basket two plus one and a hook score, and finally at the end of the second quarter, the Lakers expanded the score difference to more than ten points.

Jazz fans still applaud the Jazz players as they prepare to return to the locker room, but they are less polite to the Lakers on the road, with overwhelming boos and discriminatory slogans everywhere.

"Haha, Shaq, you're so fierce today, haven't you been looking for a girl recently?" As soon as he returned to the locker room, Michael Finley, who had the same smell as O'Neal, made a joke with O'Neal.

The atmosphere in the Lakers' locker room right now is very good.

"Hey, Michael, I'm fierce every day, okay." O'Neill said and made a toned pose.

"Well done, guys, I think we can take them in a wave in the third quarter, what do you think?" Coach George Krent was also pleased with the good atmosphere in the team's dressing room.

"yes, take them away, those guys are so dark, I hate these guys who are full of little movements." Ray Allen, who has always had a good temper, also said that he couldn't tolerate some "dirty" actions of the Jazz.

"Well, yes, speaking of which, I think the players who play on the court have to protect their bodies in the next games, and I don't want any of you to miss the finals. Liu, pay attention to the second half, don't impact the Jazz's interior again, play your outside firepower, Shaq, the opponent will definitely strengthen the defense of the interior in the second half, I don't want you to continue to attack, pay attention to the outside ball. In the third quarter, we were going to play our character and try to leave Salt Lake City and never come back. "George Krent is now confident of winning this game.

While the Lakers were talking and laughing in the locker room, the Jazz's locker room was full of gloom.

"Don't keep your head down and be silent, we haven't lost the game yet, it's just a temporary deficit." Jerry Sloan wanted to encourage the players, but he couldn't find the right words.

"I'm 36 years old and I'm going to retire soon, I don't want to retire with regrets, and so is Carl, guys, don't lose faith, we have to keep fighting, even if the opponent is very strong, we have to treat the game like a war, defeat the enemy, and we have any hope of survival." Stockton, who had always been relatively reticent, stood up at this time and began to encourage his teammates.

'Alright, boys, cheer up, there's still time in the second half. John, in the second half I need you to continue to organise the attack, but you have to pay attention to the speed of the ball, Liu's defensive response is excellent. Karl, strengthen your offense in the second half, I don't need you to put too much energy into the defense, the Lakers are used to focusing on outside offense in the third quarter, and I think George Krent will also be able to arrange how much outside the Lakers will be in the second half, because he will feel that the inside attack in the second quarter will attract our attention. Greg, yes, I'm talking about you, Greg Ostertag, you must remember, you are a center, what you need to protect is the inside line, I don't need you to be so active in making up for the opponent's breakthrough, there will be someone to do it, what you have to do is to kill Shaquille, let the fat man who lost weight completely disappear from the inside line, tell me, can you do it? Jerry Sloan is now picking up the last spirit and preparing to launch a final attack on the Lakers.

If the Jazz lose this game, they will be 3-0 down, and no team has ever been able to come back from 3-0 down, and the pressure will break down the players' mental defenses.

"Yes, sir, I will try to do it." Greg Ostertag was very positive in answering Jerry Sloan's question, but Jerry Sloan felt that his biggest problem was being too positive.

At halftime, both teams returned to the court at the same time, and the Jazz were greeted with encouraging applause, and Salt Lake City fans would not give up on supporting their team because of the team's results. And to the Lakers, Salt Lake City fans are sent all kinds of expletives and death threats.

The Lakers switched to the starting lineup in the third quarter, Nash continued to control the ball, and Liu Han once again turned into a mobile battery, relying on the cover of his teammates and his own running to catch the ball.

The Lakers' tactic was finally guessed by Jerry Sloan this time, and the Jazz got the results on their first defense at the beginning of the third quarter.

Nash was accidentally cut off by Stockton when passing the ball to Liu Han, and the Jazz launched a counterattack, Liu Han and Ray Allen on the front line quickly returned to defense, but the Jazz team formed a three-on-two, and Malone dunked in the third-line fast break.

The Jazz's defensive success this time did not make the Lakers wary, and it should be said that the current Lakers do not feel that the Jazz can limit their play by changing their style of play.

But the Jazz team is now full of physical strength as if they have rereplenished their energy, and in the face of the Lakers' outside-based offense-based play, every player in the Jazz team is desperately running and changing defenses as if they are dying, and the Lakers' offense has stagnated for a while.

Malone began to put more energy into the offense, and in the face of Robert Horry, who was inferior to himself, Malone played extremely strongly, as long as he received the ball, it was a strong attack, and for a while Horry was a little unable to parry.

Stockton was very well restricted by Liu Han, but no matter how strong Liu Han's defense was, he couldn't completely restrict Stockton from passing, so after Stockton accelerated the speed of the ball, Liu Han's defense did not play a big role.

With less than three minutes into the third quarter, the Jazz closed the deficit to seven points, and the Lakers didn't score a point in the first three minutes.

George Krent frowned a little, he didn't expect the Jazz, who had begun to lose some confidence in the second quarter, to regain their vitality in the third quarter.

"The Jazz showed amazing energy at the start of the third quarter, they were as powerful as a battery full of electricity, and the Lakers were a little careless, and they were sent a wave of climaxes by the Jazz, which is not like the previous Lakers in the third quarter." Melf Albert is supportive of the Jazz's resurgence, after all, he has been a contrarian from the beginning, and he was a little embarrassed to say how good the Jazz were, but now at least he is more open.

"It's true that the Jazz seemed to wake up suddenly in the third quarter, and it seems like Jerry Sloan did a lot in the locker room." Bill Wharton also praised the Jazz's performance.

Salt Lake City fans cheered again and again on the sidelines, rejoicing at the team's resurgence.

The Jazz now seem to have found hope in a re-enactment, and their aggressive and tactical style of play has embarrassed the somewhat underweight Lakers. (To be continued.) )