Chapter 222: Jazz in a Winning Streak

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When Drexler, the leader of the Rockets, withdrew after the end of the third quarter of the game for unknown reasons in the last game, in the eyes of many Jazz fans, even if Drexler was not injured, the Jazz team was also more dominant in this continuous matchup between the Jazz and the Rockets, and even some more arrogant Jazz fans shouted the slogan of winning two games in a row against the Rockets before the game.

It's just that the final result of this game is very speechless, especially for Jazz fans who are very speechless, although they know that they are fighting away from home, or back-to-back away games, which is very difficult for any team, but, Jazz is away back-to-back, and the Rockets are about the same, this team is home back-to-back, although the Rockets are slightly better than the Jazz, but not much better, this game is generally speaking, as long as the Jazz can stabilize, the Rockets' home-court advantage will not be much.

But what is very speechless is that at the beginning of this game between the Rockets and the Jazz, the Jazz were not able to play steadily, this team played very impatiently, almost the same as the last home game with the Rockets, wanting to suppress the Rockets as soon as they came up, and then beat the Rockets with the advantage of the opening.

According to the strength of the Jazz and the Rockets, there is no problem for the Jazz to do this, they won the home game like this, but it is clear that this game is not a home game, but an away game, and it is a back-to-back away game, when Jazz fans see the game on TV, Ma Long and Lin Han, who are constantly playing iron, these Jazz fans are directly speechless, even they ordinary fans know that the back-to-back away team needs to stabilize and try their feel when playing away games, can attack like crazy, why don't these Jazz players understand? The reason why the Rockets were attacked by the Jazz away was because this team was not stable enough when they played the Jazz away. Drexler continued to underestimate Lin Han's defensive ability, and after being directly exploded by Lin Han, he played a high [tide], such an example is right in front of him.

As a very good manager. No one will think that in this game, the Jazz will attack as soon as they come up, and Lin Han will attack and shoot from the outside. Malone forced to shoot in the middle range, if Jerry Sloan really arranged the team to suppress the Rockets as soon as it came up, then Lin Han and Malone's offensive style is definitely not like this, obviously, this is their own decision on the court.

And this is why Jerry Sloan called two timeouts in the first quarter of this game alone, and after the game, he was extremely dissatisfied with the defeat of this game, and he didn't know why several of the team's big guys were so abnormal at the beginning of this game. Are these guys really like the newspapers say, because after beating the Spurs, Suns and Rockets in a row, they feel invincible? Do they really not have any IQ to analyze the last game, if Drexler had physical problems and left the game early, if Lin Han hadn't become a first-class defensive player at the last moment, the Jazz would have been very likely to lose at home.

Of course, at this time, Jerry Sloan really didn't know why, Lin Han messed around on the court, Jerry Sloan has always been more tolerant of Lin Han, although he wants to transform Lin Han recently. But he also knew that he was in a hurry, and he had already felt Lin Han's pulse, which made him more confident in transforming Lin Han, the key point is. Lin Han's crazy shooting and crazy offense as soon as he came up in this game, this is Lin Han's own personal style of play, he himself is like this, what kind of madness is Karl Malone and Stockton? Seeing Lin Han shooting wildly, Malone also shot wildly, and Stockton, as the team's big man on the court, not only did not stop it, but actually kept giving these two people zào shooting opportunities, and even deprived other teammates on the court of their right to shoot. What are these three people going to do?

Anyway, after the game, Jerry Sloan was really angry. Because of this game, his three leading players did not let him see the indifference and momentum of a team that should compete for the championship, but let him see the three number jù brushes constantly brushing the number jù on the field.

Of course. The Jazz lost to the Rockets on the road, this matter is nothing, after all, the Jazz's current record is no longer a two-game game loss can be shaken, Yin's current record is 42-14, far from the Jazz's 5o 6-6 difference, and there are still 8 games to win, in this case, the Jazz who have come out of the devil's schedule even if they lose a few games, the key is that as a team to compete for the championship, such a lack of stability is not a good thing.

It's just that what makes Jerry Sloan a little difficult is that it is really difficult for him to talk too much to his core players at this time, because in this game, he called many, many timeouts, and Lin Han, Malone or Stockton all nodded at his arrangement and arrangement after the timeout, but when they stood on the court, they couldn't help but fight after playing for a while again.

After the Jazz-Rockets away game, Jerry Sloan was sulking on the plane, while his assistant Phil Johnson sat next to Jerry Sloan with a helpless expression.

Jerry Sloan doesn't know why the team's three core players are so impatient in such an important game, but he knows very well, it's not all because of the latest MVP rankings officially announced by the NBA this morning, after the Jazz defeated the Rockets at home, after Lin Han won the 5x5 number Jù very versatilely, Karl Malone, who has dominated the rankings for half a season, was finally pulled down by Lin Han from the first position in the MVP, Stockton, on the other hand, moved up from fifth place behind Olajuwon and Pippen to third.

Although many media are focusing on Lin Han's all-around table and Jazz's victory table today, few people have noticed the change in the MVP list, and even because of the need for consecutive games, Jerry Sloan has not noticed, but Phil Johnson definitely does not think that Lin Han, Malone and Stockton have not noticed such a change.

When Malone was ripped off from the first position by Lin Han, this is not just that the competition for MVP has reached a white heat, but the league is telling everyone that Malone is no longer so stable in the Jazz's boss position, and the cornerstone of the team's win is no longer Ma Long, Lin Han and Stockton have ushered in opportunities. If Malone is still the cornerstone of the Jazz's game win, no matter how good Lin Han is in numbers, he will not be able to surpass Malone. And now that he's over Malone, it means that the cornerstone of the Jazz's winning game has changed.

Lin Han may not have any special thoughts because of this ranking change. Because his style of play is like this, even if he doesn't enter the MVP rankings, he still plays like this, but Malone and Stockton are different, when Lin Han didn't cross Ma Long, Ma Long didn't care how Lin Han beat him, because the whole world knew that Lin Han was assisting him now. No matter how beautiful Lin Han is, that is also assisting him, and now, when Lin Han surpasses Ma Long in the rankings, will Ma Long still stupidly think that Lin Han is assisting him? When he saw that Lin Han was still playing like that, would the Jazz player still tolerate Lin Han?

Just like when Lin Han became the only leader of the team, he was willing to sacrifice for his teammates, if Malone is still considered by everyone to be the big boss of the Jazz, he is also willing to sacrifice some for Lin Han, but if everyone no longer regards him as the absolute boss of the Jazz. Will he still sacrifice for Lin Han? Isn't it obvious that Malone is not a saint, or rather. How many of the NBA's players are saints?

Especially for Stockton and Malone, who have been in the league for * years, the regular season MVP is not even worse than the championship, and now is the time for them to produce results and honors.

Especially Malone, why is Barkley the number one striker and he not the number one striker? Is he worse than Barkley? Of course it's not bad, neither of them is a dominant insider, neither of them has the ability to dominate the other players in their position, in theory, just like Magic and Isaiah Thomas retired from the injury director zhì The league does not have a first point guard, and now the league does not have a number one power forward. Malone and Buckley are beautiful, but both have fatal wounds. Dominate not a lot of opponents, in this case. If you want to win the glory of the league's No. 1 forward, you can only get it through Guò Honor Mountain, Barkley won the regular season MVP, so he is the No. 1 forward, and Malone naturally does not want to be pressed by Barkley, an old rival.

In this case, in order to be able to win the MVP, when he and Lin Han have a controversial area on the court, it is often Malone who finally makes concessions, because he knows that if he wants to win the MVP, he needs the team to be stable enough to win more balls, and it turns out that his approach is also correct, Jazz has won more and more games this season, because of his concessions, many experts and media also think that he is mature, much more mature than before, and he is already a qualified team leader.

It's just now, when his hard work for most of the season finally becomes the current result, of course Malone will not back down to Lin Han anymore, now the team's record has been almost brushed, and now since his position has been shaken by Lin Han, then according to Ma Long's idea, just take it back yourself, in this case, in the last game with the Rockets, the other players on the Jazz court were simply bloody, and everyone was quietly watching Lin Han and Malone desperately shoot, Watching Stockton being frantically asked for the ball by Lin Han and being frantically asked for by Malone at the same time, the Jazz played very chaotic and aggressive on the court.

Immortals fight, mortals suffer like this, although Malone and Lin Han did not fight, and even Lin Han was a little surprised in the last game with the rocket Ma Long was not cowardly when he faced Olajuwon, and he actually began to be able to shoot crazy, so after the game started, Lin Han still praised Ma Long very much, if Ma Long knew what Lin Han thought in his heart, this jazz boss would definitely vomit blood angrily, with his ability, if he wanted, even if Olajuwon was strong, it was very simple for him to make a crazy shot, How could Ma Long's offensive means and offensive ability be completely suppressed, Ma Long is not Lin Han, when he was still the big boss of the team, he needed to consider the impact of his offensive efficiency on the team, but unlike Lin Han, who can ignore it, the two are in different positions, and now, when Ma Long is about to be pulled down by Lin Han, he has finally torn off his coat and mature label, and is ready to be more able to attack than Lin Han.

So when I think of this, Phil Johnson is also a little helpless, as the winner of the league's best coach, Phil Johnson naturally knows that this kind of thing can be seen almost everywhere in the NBA, the second child has always been much more than the oldest, and the boss has been maintaining the second, this is not because of the boss's selflessness and maturity. Maybe there is such a reason, but more often than not, the boss feels that the second child cannot shake his position, and if the boss shows that his position is shaken. That's not the case at all.

That's the situation for the Jazz now, and Phil Johnson knows it at this time. But I can't say it to Jerry Longming, do you want to tell Sù that this good friend of yours is that the ranking of the league's MVP rankings has changed and Ma Long has a sense of crisis, so Ma Long is ready to counter Lin Han?

Let's not talk about it, but it must not be said at this time, after all, Lin Han and Stockton's ball problems are now more and more, plus the problem of Ma Long and Lin Han's shooting, if Jerry Sloan needs to solve these two problems now. Phil Johnson felt that his good friend would be driven crazy.

So, since Jerry Sloan, a workaholic, doesn't know these things, then he doesn't know what, and even if he does, I'm afraid he can't do anything, the NBA is a league of players and not a league of coaches, and in the entire league except for a few people such as Pat Riley and Chuck Daley, no one can make the team's core players completely obey the coach's orders, the old Nelson of the Warriors. Now he is still being forced to die by Webb and Sprewell, two second-class teenagers.

It's just that Ma Long and Lin Han don't have such a mess on the court, and I don't know when it will take to wait, maybe it will have to wait until the end of the regular season, maybe it will need to wait until the position of the MVP in the regular season has been decided. Maybe it will have to wait until Malone is recognized by the world again as the well-deserved boss of the Jazz.

The Jazz suddenly caused such a big stir because of an MVP ranking in the NBA league, and the assistant coach of the team, Phil Johnson, couldn't handle it, and this problem was not provoked by Lin Han, but by Ma Long, which is also a little surprising.

Of course, at this time, Phil Johnson felt that it was difficult for him to do it, and Starks was actually similar, the Jazz point guard needed to implement the head coach's arrangement and share more of the ball with Lin Han. Let Lin Han also try to organize on the court, although in the end Lin Han will turn most of the ball possession that allowed him to organize the team into his own shots. But Stockton still needs to do what the coach has set up and do it on the other side. Malone is his friend again, his old partner, since Malone wants the ball, he can't help but give it, in this case, Stockton, a very team-oriented point guard, is playing painfully on the court, because he is doing things that sacrifice the team to serve two big brushes.

After the Jazz defeated the Rockets at home, the team also began its own road trip to the West, and the road game against the Rockets on February 28 was just the beginning, and the Jazz's away game against the Rockets was only the first of the team's three away games in Texas.

Now the league because there are only 27 teams, so there are only two major regions and four districts, the two regions are known to almost everyone, that is, the east and the west, as for the four districts, the southeast and the Atlantic region in the east, and the west is the Midwest and Pacific regions, and the Rockets, Spurs and Mavericks Texas top three now belong to the Central and Western divisions, that is, they are in the same division as the Jazz.

Generally speaking, at this time, because there are only 27 teams, the team in a division will play five games in the regular season, and even more extreme is that the team in one division will play six games in the regular season in a season, and the Jazz and the Spurs played six games last season, and the Jazz will soon need to adjust the San Antonio Spurs, also in Texas, on March 2 after beating the Rockets on the road.

This season's Jazz is really the Spurs' sufferer, and the team that the Texas team is most afraid of this season is probably the Jazz, especially when the team's strength has declined compared to last season, in this case, even in the face of the Jazz who have some problems in recent times, the Spurs have not been able to beat the Jazz team who came to challenge away at home.

The Jazz's style of play in this game has not changed much compared to the last game with the Rockets, the team is still the beginning of Lin Han and Ma Long's strong attack, Ma Long is more offensive than at any time this season, in this case, the Jazz's previous style is the style of bombardment, and the team's style of play is only Lin Han alone outside the team, except for Lin Han, everyone else is a team style of play, and since the away game with the Rockets, the Jazz's style has changed abruptly. From a team-oriented team to a giant team.

What is the style of play of a giant team? It's a team of two or more superstars, and the team hasn't been able to pinch the superstars together, in this case. The superstars play in a simple and rough way, and it is difficult to lead the rest of their teammates. In this case, the number of giants of the giant team will be very terrifying, often two people together to cut 6o points, three people to cut 8o points, etc., the team's offense depends on the faces of the giants.

This style of play has a very good advantage, that is, as long as the team's giants are strong enough, the play is very impactful and very beautiful. After all, every fan likes to watch those superstars on the court brush up jù, Jordan throws a three-pointer and David Wesley throws a three-pointer is still very different, of course, this style of play also has very big limitations, such as the last game with the Rockets, if Malone and Lin Han don't feel good, then the team will be really tragic, and they can't change the offense.

But fortunately, the Spurs are not the Rockets, although this team also has a three-center team, and the strength of this three-center is no worse than Olajuwon. But in terms of dominance, it is indeed a lot worse, and the two giants of the Jazz team, Lin Han and Ma Long, are very happy in this game.

Even some Spurs fans of the visiting team were shocked when they saw Malone and Lin Han constantly using their talents and abilities to play one-on-one in this game, especially in this game because of Rodman's foot injury. No one in the Spurs can withstand Lin Han at all, and after Lin Han had no scruples in this game, he almost staged a brutal killing of other outside players of the Spurs.

122 to 1o6, the Jazz actually defeated the Spurs by 16 points on the road, and this game entered garbage time in the third quarter, in the third quarter, Lin Han scored 36 points on 14-of-24 shooting, Malone scored 31 points on 12-of-22 shooting, and the two giants of the Jazz combined for 67 points in this game.

And after beating the Spurs. The following March 4th, the Jazz and Mavericks play away from home. The Jazz also made a kill on the road against the Mavericks, 113-9o. The Jazz won the Mavericks away by 23 points, this game the Mavericks and the Spurs are different, they didn't think about trying to use David Robinson like the Spurs to dominate Ewing and Linhan like Olajuwon, this Maverick is very simple and doesn't want to lose by a big score, so almost the whole team is guarding the basket, the Jazz have the ability to throw them to death on the outside, except for sending Marshburn to stick to Lin Han on the outside, everyone else has shrunk, even if Malone pulls out the middle distance, they are just a symbolic defense.

In this case, the Jazz team did not play as easy as the last game and the Spurs, although the score won quite a lot, but in the first half, because of the Jazz's continuous away battles, the hand felt extremely cold, so the Mavericks did not fall behind much in the first half, knowing that the Jazz found their feel in the second half, the team only widened the difference between the two sides.

In the whole game, Lin Han scored 41 points and 11 rebounds in 14 of 29 from the field, allowing Lin Han to gain a golden skill point after this game.

And Malone in this game was also unwilling to be lonely, shooting 13 of 25, scoring 35 points and 14 rebounds in the whole game, and he was also extremely good.

When the Jazz lost their road game against the Rockets, the team defeated the Spurs and Mavericks in a row, and quickly embarked on a winning streak again.

It's just that this jazz won the game in this way, but it gave people a feeling that it was not so down-to-earth.

Even after the team defeated old rival Suns 114-1o6 on March 6 and then defeated the Trail Blazers on March 8 to make it four wins in a row, the team's head coach Jerry Sloan and the team's core point guard Stockton were frowning.

Of course, at this time, Jerry Sloan and Stockton were a little worried, but Lin Han played very well, especially after Malone strengthened his attack, Lin Han felt that his pressure was instantly reduced a lot.

"Karl, your game should be played like this, why did you suppress yourself so much before"

After defeating the Trail Blazers away, when the game ended, Lin Han, who scored 38 points in the game against the Trail Blazers who had become a fish belly, was very good and patted Malone on the shoulder excitedly.

And Lin Han's praise made Ma Long a little speechless, this kid didn't seem to have realized what he wanted to do.

When he thought of this, Malone felt as if he had misunderstood this guy.

However, Lin Han and Malone have really played well recently, and the two giants have restrained each other inside and outside, which makes the opponent very headache, but the other Jazz players are really a bit collapsed.

At the very least, this change in style has made the jazz, which was still in the run-in, more elusive. (To be continued)

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