The first game was lost, and everyone in the Jazz team, from the coach to the players, was a little depressed. It's not terrible to lose a game, it's terrible to lose like this game without temper and without any way. Although Karl Malone scored a game-high 36 points plus 12 rebounds, and the shooting rate was as high as 60%, but one person could not beat a team, facing the Lakers team with seven players scoring double-doubles, Liu Han scoring triple-doubles, and O'Neal winning two-doubles, even if the Jazz team defended desperately, the effect was obvious.

Compared with the depression of the Jazz team, the Lakers seem to be very relaxed, they won the Jazz as it should be, and the atmosphere in the Lakers team is also very good, there are no special alternative players in the team, and they are mainly young people, plus O'Neal and Liu Han are one tall and one short, one is funny, and a cute core player exists, the Lakers are not like some teams, the locker room is messy, all kinds of disputes.

The outside media is not too surprised that the Lakers won the first victory of the Western Conference Finals, no matter in which aspect, the Lakers are better than the Jazz, although the combination of Stockton and Malone in the Jazz team is admirable, but they have always lacked the blessing of the championship, which makes many media and basketball practitioners not optimistic about the Jazz, and Salt Lake City's presence in the United States is indeed very weak, so in the Western Conference Finals for two consecutive years, the Jazz have basically been ignored.

After the first game of the Western Conference Finals, the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals will also be played on May 17.

The first game of the Eastern Conference Finals was played in Chicago, and the Bulls sat at home and used their strong momentum to suppress the Pacers playing on the road.

In this game, the Pacers were full of various turnovers and confusion. Reggie Miller scored 16 points on just five of 14 shots, but it was already the Pacers' highest score, with 25 turnovers compared to 13 for the opposing Bulls.

On the Bulls' side, although the second-in-command Scott Pippen played abnormally in this game, scoring only 4 points on 1-of-9 shooting, Jordan still scored 31 points. Ron Harper, who has always had a modest presence on the Bulls, scored 15 points in this game against Mark Jackson, who doesn't like to defend.

In the end, the Pacers lost the game 79-85.

Similar to the Jazz, the Pacers are destined to be a supporting player with little presence, and although they are coached by legendary star Larry Bird, Indianapolis has always been a small city, and Indiana is a big country in the eyes of Americans. The Pacers made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, but they were still undervalued against the Bulls with Jordan.

Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan has a new understanding of the Lakers' tactics after the first game, although the last game lost without temper, but Sloan did not have too much loss in his heart, indeed, the Lakers are difficult to deal with, but the most worthy of appreciation in competitive sports is the spirit of never giving up, challenging the strong, which can arouse the deepest excitement in people's hearts.

Jerry Sloan knows that the Lakers have changed dramatically since they had Liu Han, and compared to last season's playoffs, Liu Han has fully grown into a player comparable to Jordan in his prime, and what makes him better than Jordan is that he has a longer range and a higher shooting percentage. However, Jerry Sloan now has a way to deal with the Lakers in his mind after a game, although he himself doesn't know if this method will be effective against Liu Han and the Lakers, but now he can't tolerate a little hesitation, and the Jazz can only hope to advance to future games if they make changes.

On May 18, the second game of the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Jazz began.

George Krent has not made any changes to the Lakers' lineup or style of play, the players have adapted to the style of play in the last game, and the effect is also very good, if you have to change now, then maybe the Lakers will decline.

The Jazz changed their usual lineup today and put on a double point guard, with Stockton and his backup Howard Ellis on the starting lineup, with Brian Russell at small forward, Karl Malone at power forward, and Greg Foster at center.

Jerry Sloan's arrangement of such a lineup is somewhat unexpected by George Crent, because the Lakers' point guard is Liu Han, and their scoring guard is Ray Allen, such a lineup completes the Jazz's guard lineup in terms of height, whether it is Stockton or Howard Ellis, their height is not more than one meter nine, so the Jazz will be very difficult in defense, whether it is Liu Han single, or Ray Allen single, the Lakers have a great advantage.

However, George Krent and the Lakers will still stick to their own style of play no matter how the Jazz team changes, and George Krent knows that as long as Liu Han is on the court, he is not worried about how the team will respond to accidents, and George believes that Liu Han can solve these problems by himself.

The game started with the attention of nearly 20,000 fans in the stadium, and O'Neal still won the pick, and if someone counted the Lakers' jump ball win rate, they would find that as long as O'Neal was there, the Lakers' jump ball win rate was more than 90%.

O'Neal's ball was obtained by Ray Allen, who stabilized the ball and passed the ball to point guard Liu Han, the Jazz returned to defense very quickly, and the Lakers switched to positional battles.

It is still Stockton who defends Liu Han, and Stockton did not suffer much loss in defense in the last game, but he received special attention from Liu Han in the attack.

The first offense, according to the convention of the Lakers, if it was a positional battle, it would be handed over to O'Neal to play, but today Liu Han suddenly changed his style of play, he directly forced Stockton, without any feints, just relying on speed and physical advantages to force a breakthrough.

Sure enough, Stockton was thrown away by Liu Han in one step, and then Liu Han continued to dribble the ball into the interior, and the Jazz seemed to be underprepared defensively, so Liu Han took the ball into the basket.

Facing the unguarded basket, Liu Han came to a beautiful windmill slam dunk. Some of the audience on the sidelines saw Liu Han's performance as soon as they sat down, and had to stand up again to applaud and cheer for Liu Han.

As soon as the Jazz team opened, Liu Han easily completed a wonderful dunk, but they didn't seem to care, but Malone under the basket picked up the ball as soon as possible and launched a counterattack.

The other players of the Lakers team were also celebrating because of Liu Han's beautiful dunk, and they didn't expect that the Jazz, who had been using positional battles as their main means of blocking and dismantling, would suddenly fight back.

Malone served in the Jazz backcourt, and Stockton in the front court received the ball without the slightest hesitation and passed directly to Bryan Russell, who had no Lakers players around him to defend, who received the ball and completed a mid-range shot.

Even the team's first offense was completed, and it was done extremely quickly, with the Lakers' first offense taking less than ten seconds, while the Jazz's faster offense completed an offense in less than five seconds.

Liu Han didn't know where the feeling came from, he felt that this Jazz team had changed, as for what kind of changes and adjustments, he hadn't seen it yet, and the Jazz team would definitely change in the next game. (To be continued.) )