In the first quarter, O'Neal scored the most points on the Lakers' side, scoring 15 points on his own, hitting six of eight shots and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line.

In the first quarter break, Jerry Sloan criticized his players fiercely, in his opinion, the current Jazz team has lost their temperament to make a living, their offensive routine has always been relatively simple, that is, blocking and dismantling cooperation, and what makes the Jazz team really rise is their "iron defense", you know, under Malone's pair of iron elbows, never hurt the nobody, even his friend David Robinson, Malone will never be soft when he should start, but now he has retreated, which is a failure in Jerry Sloan's view.

After the start of the second quarter, both teams made substitutions, and the Lakers let Nash continue to play point guard. In fact, George Krent has been struggling in the point guard position, because there are too few people to choose from to play point guard for the Lakers, and only Nash and Liu Han can be a suitable point guard in the team, and others can make cameos, but they have never been able to find the right rhythm, the most important thing for the current Lakers is the control of rhythm, and there are not many active point guards in the league who can do this.

The Jazz also played off the bench in the second quarter, and as some of the main players aged, the Jazz's rotation began to become more frequent than before, which was actually a helpless move by Jerry Sloan, and it was really difficult for Salt Lake City, Utah, to retain young talent......

Compared to the Lakers' bench players, the Jazz's grade was directly pulled into a third-rate team by their bench players.

The Lakers have Michael Finley, Kittles, Brent Barry and two veterans, Dell Curry and Byron Scott, in terms of physicality, experience, and technology, the Lakers' bench lineup has thrown out several levels of the Jazz.

So as the game continued, the Lakers gradually stretched the difference to more than ten points.

Jerry Sloan was really helpless off the court, he was an ambitious coach and his only dream was that championship ring, but now it seems that that dream is getting farther and farther away from him.

With less than five minutes to go in the second quarter, Jerry Sloan replaced all the main players, and he couldn't just watch the team become a backdrop for the Lakers to tie history.

After the Jazz's main team returned, the situation on the court finally stabilized.

Although the Lakers' bench couldn't pull the score away again, they didn't fall behind at all when they started the game, and these young Lakers didn't have any fear in the face of the Jazz who began to become iron again.

George Krent still replaced the two veterans with Liu Han and O'Neal, after all, the two veterans are old, and if O'Neal is not up, the Lakers' internal hole is too big, so George replaced Liu Han and O'Neal.

Liu Han hit a three-point shot on the first offense after he came on the court, his trick is really getting more and more powerful now, no matter who the defender in front of him is, his shot is very stable, and what is even more powerful is that his shot is very fast, and it is difficult for ordinary defensive players to predict, even if the judgment is accurate, it is difficult to block.

Liu Han's three points stretched the gap in the score to 14 points, and the Jazz team was unwilling to fail like this, and Malone beat Finley to make it two plus one, responding to Liu Han's three points just now.

Next, Liu Han controlled the ball and sent a wonderful pass outside the three-point line to assist O'Neal to catch the empty hand, and the gap in the score continued to remain above ten points.

The game then went into a stalemate, with both sides attacking and defending each other, with the Jazz making more moves when defending, and they were heavily watched by referee Crawford.

The Lakers' offense is still playing very well, they are more conservative in defense, and now the playoffs are about to start, George Krent doesn't want anyone to get hurt anymore, in fact, sometimes he even thinks that if it weren't for the Lakers' injury and Liu Han's ban this season, they might be able to surpass the Bulls' 72 wins, but now it's also very good, his best coach this season is definitely not running, and Liu Han's regular season MVP is likely to be out of play, O'Neal is still a little lacking in dominance, Therefore, although the Lakers have won the most games in the regular season this season, they may not have won many awards, and the most important thing is to look at the playoffs.

At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers ended the first half with a 60-50 lead.

In the second half, the Lakers reintroduced the starting lineup, while the Jazz had to give Stockton and Malone a short rest, both of whom are now over thirty-five years old, although Malone has maintained a good physical condition, but the years of high-intensity games still make these two have a lot of dark injuries, such as the injury at the beginning of the season, if it was likely that he would have recovered in less than ten games before, but now Stockton has to rest for a full eighteen games.

The Jazz team without Malone and Stockton has completely reduced to a third-rate team, and the core of the court is actually Hornacek, who can only shoot three-pointers, and under Liu Han's lone defense, Hornacek was directly invisible for a long time.

The gap in the score was gradually widened, Liu Han frequently scored outside the three-point line, O'Neal also took what he wanted on the inside, and even Nash, who has always rarely shot, scored under the basket in the third quarter.

Off the pitch, Malone and Stockton came back on the pitch after less than a five-minute break.

After Malone and Stockton returned to the court, the situation of the Jazz gradually stabilized, but they had no way to narrow the 17-point difference, with Liu Han and O'Neal, it was difficult for the Jazz to catch up with the score.

The average age of the Jazz starters is 31 years old, while the average age of the Lakers starters is less than 25 years old, which means that the young guys of the Lakers are much stronger than the Jazz in terms of physical reserves, so as the game progresses, the Lakers are playing more and more relaxed, thinking that after a season of 82 games, these "old guys" of the Jazz are exhausted.

At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers extended the margin to more than 20 points.

Seeing that there was no hope of a comeback, Jerry Sloan considered that the playoffs were about to start, so he had to replace the Jazz's main players and abandon the game, although this made the Jazz a backdrop for the Lakers to tie the Bulls' 72 wins, but the playoffs are the most important for a team that aspires to win the championship.

The entire fourth quarter turned into garbage time, and the Lakers also replaced all the substitutes, and the Lakers won this crucial battle without blood.

To the cheers of nearly 19,000 spectators, the Lakers completed their 72-win campaign, becoming only the second team in league history to do so since the Bulls completed 72 wins in the '95-96 season, which lit a bright opening light for their upcoming playoffs. (To be continued.) )