Jerry Sloan's face turned pale.

This is the third game of the season for the Lakers and Jazz, with one win and one loss in the first two games. This game is a key battle to determine whether the Lakers can win 70 wins. And the blocking and demolition system that Jerry Sloan is proud of was actually suppressed in the mutual attack!

Non-1990s fans may not be able to imagine how surprising the Jazz's pick-and-roll system was suppressed at the time. In this era, the Jazz's tactics are unique in American professional basketball. Before the popularity of pick-and-roll tactics, the trend of American professional basketball has always been star singles and defensive counterattacks.

Jerry Sloan's pick-and-roll play adds a lot of movement to the traditional simple pick-and-roll play. Let the whole team form a whole and form a perfect offensive machine. Stockton and Malone are the core of the team, and the two players who are both historical passers in the same position are the cornerstones, building an advanced and timeless tactical system.

Twenty years later, the mainstream tactics of many teams are still point guards as the initiator of blocking and pick-and-roll. Pick-and-roll tactics are the root of basketball, and although it wasn't invented by Jerry Sloan, this tactic has indeed reached his peak in the Jazz in recent years.

And the Jazz's peak offensive system was actually blown up by a set of offensive lineups that the Lakers improvised together!?

Jerry Sloan's fingers flare, and during the break after the first quarter, his eyes flashed at the Silver Fox Harris from time to time. Jerry Sloan was born in '42 and Del Harris was born in '37. They also coached the American professional basketball team for a relatively close time.

He deserves to be the best coach of the season, and he deserves to be the top coach who can bring out the best potential of Kobe and O'Neal.

Jerry Sloan has been thinking about how to crack the Lakers' system, but he can't find a way for a while. Or maybe the team's lineup caused him to find a solution.

"If there is a player who can defend Kobe Bryant..."The only way Sloan can think of is to defend Kobe Bryant alone, and let Malone and Ostertag go to fight the big sharks. At the same time, it infinitely impacted the Lakers' interior on the offensive end, causing O'Neal's foul trouble.

It's a pity that the Jazz team has tried up and down, inside and outside rotations, but they really can't find a role that can defend Kobe Bryant.

But the team had to change, and the sweat on Malone's forehead showed that he struggled between Kobe and O'Neal on the defensive end.

Choose one of the two.

Kobe or O'Neal?

Sloan chose to lock Kobe this time, although O'Neal's fame and strength are clearly superior. But Kobe's explosiveness is too terrible, O'Neal can't be stronger by 2 points, and he can still use foul tactics if he can't prevent it. And Kobe Bryant is different, Kobe Bryant may hit a single quarter with 30 points.

Fortunately, the game entered the second quarter, and the two sides also entered the regular rotation time.

Speaking of benches, the Jazz's bench is in the lower middle of the pack among the teams contending for a championship this season.

The Lakers have the elder Curry and Horry, the old twin stars leading the two recruits, Little Fish and Big Ben.

The Bulls have a number of proud warriors such as Cole, Cooke, and Parish.

Houston has AC Green, Sam Mark one inside and one outside.

The SuperSonics have two top-tier role players like Sam Perkins and Nate McMillan.

And the Jazz can't help but look a little stumbling compared to these teams. Their sixth man is a forward like Antoine Kyle, who averages 7.4 points in 17.8 minutes, 2.4 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 0.3 steals and 0.8 blocks per game. This is already the strongest player on the Jazz bench, and other players such as Shanton Anderson, Howard Easley, and Chris Morris are even less worth mentioning. They're all guys who don't average more than five points per game, but there's one thing about these players.

That's obedience!

They are completely subordinate to Jerry Sloan's tactical command!

First of all, defense, the Jazz's bench has very poor offensive talent, but their overall defense is very good after Sloan's adjustments.

Sloan, on the other hand, tends to let one of the team's trio of Karl Malone, Hornacek or Stockton play with a second team. That's why the average minutes played by the Iron Man, Malone and Stockton are so high every season.

The Lakers' bench and the Jazz's bench were strangled early in the second quarter.

Dell Curry and Horry are on the hot spot because they played four minutes in the first quarter. And Sloan threw Hornacek on the field, Stockton injured his ankle, Malone was the key to just OK, Sloan couldn't move, so he had to let Hornacek go to the fire.

"The Jazz's bench defense is really good." The Magic sighed, although the Jazz bench players are all some players who are not well-known and leftover players from other teams, after all, not everyone is willing to play in Utah, the home camp of Mormonism. Utah's stars are almost always selected by the team, and the Jazz in the free market will always appear as a supporting role, and Utah's land reason accounts for a very large part.

"The situation on the court is actually deadlocked, and the Lakers' bench group rarely opens up the situation."

"A couple of goals from Hornacek also gave the Jazz bench a mouthful of nectar."

"Fisher seems to be a little timid in the arena in Utah, and he's not as good as Big Ben and Bruce in that regard."

"Toot!" The referee blows the whistle, and halfway through the second quarter, it goes into advertising time.

At this time, the two sides have begun to gradually replace the main players.

The score between the two sides was 43:40 Jazz for the Lakers. The Lakers had a slight advantage, but the score went up alternately, and the Jazz's bench had several waves of defensive counterattacks that almost broke the Lakers.

Then came the second round of the Lakers' one-division, one-shark, three-shooter vs. Jazz blocking and pick-and-roll system!

"Perfect! The Lakers' passing ball can only be described as perfect! Kobe Bryant and O'Neal as the core actually don't stick to the ball at all! ”

"Another wave of attack! The Lakers' show continues! No stopping! ”

"Malone received a pass from Stockton and hit the basket and pressed Horry to score consecutive points! Karl Malone is starting to take over the game! ”

"Giant Planet VS Overall Basketball! The offensive focus of the Lakers and Jazz has been completely reversed! ”

Malone faced Horry to get what he wanted, and Horry was fouled twice in a short period of time. Carl Malone! He held up the Jazz's offense in the second half of the second quarter. ”

At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers 57:56 Jazz.

Karl Malone turned on the takeover mode, facing Big Ben and Horry, shooting 6-of-11 from the field and 9-of-12 from the free-throw line in the half, scoring 21 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

Bryant shot 6-of-9 from the field and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with 16 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists.

O'Neal was 5-of-7, 2-of-5 from the free-throw line, and had 12 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks at halftime, heading for a triple-double.