Chapter 217: Boy, Hit Me with the Ball Again!
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"Hahaha, Perry, what did that kid from the Jazz team tell you just now, and he was smiling so happily?"
On the afternoon of March 23, 1994, at the Delta Center Arena in Salt Lake City, the Magic team that came to challenge the Magic team that was doing adaptation training was quite relaxed at this time, especially the team's leading player, big center Shaq O'Neal, who could see the smile on his face at this time.
Although O'Neal's face was very gloomy for a long time after being overshadowed by Olajuwon and Pippen in the All-Star Game, recently, because of the Magic's excellent record, the team's big man quickly came out of that very gloomy mood and became a 'comic' again
However, it is clear that in the face of O'Neal's 'affection', Hardaway, who is also one of the team's twin stars, is still full of O'Neal' Indifferent', after watching Aaron Williams leave, there was a smile on his face, and it seemed that Hardaway, who had a good chat with Aaron Williams before, immediately cooled down after seeing O'Neal come over with a smile, and then didn't look at O'Neal and staggered directly from O'Neal's side, which also made O'Neal quite embarrassed, but at this time, seeing the scene of O'Neal and Hardaway, the other Magic players all laughed.
There are too many interactions between the two leading players of the team, O'Neal's enthusiasm and extroversion, Hardaway's cold introversion, it can be said that although these two young twin stars of the Magic have completely different personalities, no one in the Magic team will really think that there is any contradiction between these two people, and even many times, these two players with completely different personalities get along for many moments that will make them feel very interesting, and the atmosphere in the Magic team is very good.
"Perry, don't forget. The boy you asked me to help Sir before, I did, and you still owe me a favor. You can't do that to me, smile. Don't be so cold."
At this time, in the face of O'Neal's stalking against Hardaway as usual, the other players of the Magic team will basically put down the basketball in their hands, stop their training, and watch it interestingly on the side, facing the atmosphere of the team, as the team's head coach Brian Hill is also a little helpless.
Because of O'Neal's personality and Hardaway's strength, there has been a voice within the team in recent times that wants to focus on cultivating Hardaway, although O'Neal is stronger. But Hardaway's personality is more calm and more suitable for being a leader, for a team that aspires to a championship, it is indeed difficult for the team to show if there is no qualified leader, but looking at the atmosphere of the team, Brian Hill really doesn't know how to start.
But fortunately, the team's recent table is very good, especially Hardaway's recent table is quite active, from March 18 Magic home game with the Cavaliers Hardaway scored 25 points, 11 assists and 4 steals, the next Western road trip, whether it is 2O facing the Lakers or 22 facing the Warriors, the young Magic swingman has played a number of 2o+1o. Even yesterday's game against the Warriors, Hardaway scored 22 points while dishing out 17 assists and five steals against Chris Webber, a strong contender for Rookie of the Year. In one fell swoop, he set a new career assist record, although Chris Webber's table yesterday was also very against the sky, 13 of 15 from the field almost hit 100%, but led the team to finally beat the Warriors 118-117 and in the final minute with O'Neal sent off with 9 seconds left in the game, Hardaway in recent times, although Bryan Hill did not say let him take the responsibility of a leader, But the Magic young rookie was transformed after the All-Star break.
This is not only something that Bryan Hill can feel, but O'Neal and other Magic players can also feel it, otherwise with O'Neal's funny but proud character, after he becomes one of the four centers, if he feels that Hardaway is not worthy of him. There is no way he is willing to be deflated in front of Hardaway, and if Hardaway cannot get his approval, he will put on a bad face for him. O'Neill had already soared.
As a head coach, Brian Hill feels very lucky. Because he's been able to watch two talented players grow in incredible ways.
"Aside from the Jazz's rookie level, I don't think anyone in the entire league can compare to Perry and Shaq, and they will be the strongest combination in the future, better than the Bulls' pair!"
When thinking of this, the head coach of the Magic team is full of expectations for the future of the team, and also thinks of Stockton and Malone, who have been fighting in recent times, and the Magic head coach is very pleased, in his opinion, Hardaway and O'Neal are not only better than Stockton and Malone in terms of talent, but also the duo of their own team will definitely not fight after nearly 1o years of partnership!
In the eyes of the head coach of the Magic, although the Jazz have a very good regular season schedule this year, but from the current point of view, this team is still just a dry bone in the grave, and the future of the league is not in the Jazz, nor in Linhan, but in their Magic, and this game against the Jazz, he will let the world see this.
Of course, at this time, the head coach of the Magic team, Brian Hill, was already imagining the future of the team, while the Jazz did not have that kind of confidence, and they were not as nervous as the outside world imagined.
I don't know if it's because I rested in Salt Lake City for a few days, a little calmer, this year when the team was training, the anger on Malone's face was not much, although he still didn't say a word to Stockton on the training ground, but he was able to come to the team to participate in training normally, which is already a concession, according to the game with the Pacers Malone applied for early departure, this guy probably really didn't want to appear in the same game with Stockton at that time, Otherwise, this wayward big kid wouldn't have run back to Salt Lake City by himself without making a sound.
"Lin, why do you always hit me with a ball behind your back! Do you want to fight?! ”
Of course, although Ma Long has calmed down a lot at this time, the Jazz boss, who has been very depressed recently, is still not in a good mood at this time, and what makes Ma Long speechless is even more. After today's training began, I don't know why, Lin Han, this guy always has something to do, and suddenly he will take the basketball and smash it from behind his back.
It's simply unbearable. Ma Long didn't think that Lin Han was joking with him, but in fact. Every time he was angry with Lin Han, Lin Han always said jokes, at first Ma Long really believed it, but as Lin Han smashed the basketball at him from behind faster and faster, and the angle became more and more tricky, if Ma Long still believed that this was a joke, then he would be a complete fool.
It's just that what makes Ma Long very depressed is that Lin Han is too cunning. He just wanted to be angry, Lin Han ran away with a smile, and the place he ran to was still a place he couldn't go at all, this guy ran directly to Stockton after smashing him with the ball, which made Malone do this? At this time, Malone, who was still in a cold war with Stockton, didn't want to see his old partner at all, let alone stand with him.
I have to say that Lin Han's move is too vicious and too 'slut', and even Stockton, who has been used as a gunman by Lin Han on the side, glared at Lin Han angrily.
"Looks like this guy doesn't have a bad reflexes."
At this time, he stood next to Stockton, although he was glared at fiercely by Stockton. But Lin Han didn't have any anger, he still had a smile on his face, and his eyes still looked quite excited.
Of course. At this time, the other players of the Jazz team really didn't know what kind of nerves Lin Han was on the training ground at this time, but Lin Han knew what he was doing, he was testing whether Malone had the ability to pick up and pass the ball like him, I have to say, although Malone looks a lot fatter than the bearded white man of the Lakers, but Malone's reflexes are still very good, Lin Han used a variety of different angles and degrees to smash the ball at Malone's back, The Jazz's power forward was able to react almost to the fullest, although there were some balls that were too sudden to be received. But he still reacted to most of the balls and received them at the same time, which made Lin Han very excited.
Seriously. The recent cold war between Stockton and Ma Long, Lin Han really doesn't want to see. After returning to Salt Lake City, the team's head coach Jerry Sloan said to Lin Han that he hoped that Lin Han could accept the team's arrangement for the time being, although the team's strength would decline a lot without his and Malone's contributions, and the Hawks lost to the Pacers on the Eastern road trip, without him and Malone, this team does not have the strength to win the championship, but in the same way, if he and Malone, the team also has no possibility of winning the championship, because according to Jerry Lone's meaning, When their teammates lose motivation and start to be spectators of the game, even if the two can win 9o% of the games and crush 9o% of their opponents, they will not be able to defeat all their opponents.
Lin Han doesn't know much about Jerry Sloan's statements, although Ellie in the system space agrees very much, but Lin Han is very ignorant, this is not to say that his IQ is problematic, but he has never experienced or witnessed the situation that Jerry Sloan said, because Lin Han saw that he and Malone were very happy, the team had been winning, and his teammates were also very happy after winning, although they had lost to the Rockets because of the two of them, but in Lin Han's opinion, this is nothing, After all, in the NBA, no one can guarantee that their hands will always be good, and the crushing defeat to the Rockets was just a coincidence, and he and Malone felt cold at the same time.
As for the team-mates' involvement, how can the teammates not be happy if they can win all the time?
Therefore, Lin Han disagrees with Sloan and Stockton's approach to Malone in the recent period, and he also doesn't have much sense of identity with Stockton and Jerry Sloan's giant basketball and team basketball to grasp a degree, although he didn't say anything on the surface, but for Ma Long, who was in a very similar situation to himself before, Lin Han was very sympathetic at this time, and in Lin Han's opinion, now they don't agree with Ma Long's style of play, don't they just disagree with his style of play?
Of course, although Lin Han has the right to speak in the team, Lin Han is not stupid, if he really stands on Malone's side directly, the Jazz will directly have civil strife. That's not what he wants to see, either.
How can you make Jerry Sloan and Stockton understand that even if only him and Malone attack, the team can win, and win all teams, without compromising the unity within the team? This is a very difficult question. After all, the ball is in Stockton's hands, if he doesn't let it out. No matter how much Lin Han thought about it, he couldn't think of a way to prove it, after all, Stockton and Jerry Sloan were here to play extreme this time.
At 8 o'clock in the evening on March 23, 1994, the Jazz's home stadium Delta Center was almost full early on the day, although the team's performance this season is very good, but there have been a lot of rumors about the team in recent times that have made the team's fans very worried, which makes this game particularly eye-catching.
"Did you say Karl would play in this game?"
"Carl and John can't really have conflicts and infighting, right? How is this possible? ”
When the game hadn't even started, almost all the Jazz fans in the audience were extremely worried. No way, Stockton and Malone are the symbols of the team for the past ten years, and these two people are contradictory? It was a question they had never thought of before, and even if they believed in the end of the world, they wouldn't believe that something would happen to these two people.
Therefore, in this case, when the Magic team played as the away team, the Magic fans who had been caring about the team's two leading players did not even boo the Magic, and it seemed that the Jazz fans on the scene even ignored it directly when the Magic team played, and at this time their eyes were all focused on the team's appearance order.
And when this game as a center forward, Polinis, took the lead. When the second player, small forward Elliott, also played, almost all Jazz players were subconsciously tight at this time. If the next one to play is not Lin Han, then it proves that Ma Long may not play in this game, and the next one to play is Lin Han, then Ma Long will definitely play.
didn't let these nervous Jazz fans wait long, when Elliott came out and Lin Han also came out, the Jazz fans on the scene were stunned for a short time, and almost immediately exploded in the audience, and the crazy cheers almost surprised Lin Han. Jazz fans are usually very enthusiastic, but that's definitely not the case.
Obviously. At this time, the cheers of these Jazz fans are definitely not only for Lin Han, but also for Ma Long. That's why the center of the delta suddenly fell into madness.
"Looks like there's no problem with the Jazz in this game"
When Lin Han appeared in the penultimate game, Collins on the sidelines also said with a smile on his face, and at the same time secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if Malone does not play in this game, then the Jazz will really have problems this season, from now on, although the Jazz must have internal problems, but this problem has not reached the point of complete irreparability.
"However, I don't know what kind of tactics the Jazz will play in this game."
Later, when Stockton and Malone played in the cheers of the Jazz fans in the stadium, the Jazz fans at the scene of the game were also relieved, but for the two commentators on the sidelines, when Malone returned to the court in this game, which Jazz should play became a key.
Most of the time this season, the Jazz has been a team with Lin Han's run-and-bomb tactics, run-and-bomb is the keynote, Malone and Stockton's blocking and dismantling is the basis of the team, and Lin Han is an offensive free man, this tactic has allowed the Jazz to achieve 37 consecutive wins, making this team the strongest offensive team in the league, and both the individual and the team are very good, but this tactic is in the later stage, after Lin Han's strength is getting stronger and stronger, the proportion of the team is compressed a lot by Lin Han personally, which is a huge problem.
And the other tactic is the giant tactics played by the Jazz team some time ago, everyone else on the offensive end is watching, Malone and Lin Han use their talent and technical strength to throw and play casually, such tactics face some teams that do not have too much tactical ability and not too much talent, almost directly crushing the past, this style of play is very simple and rough.
And the last tactic, which is probably the most helpless tactic for Jazz, is to directly surround Malone and Lin Han around Stockton, so that Stockton can completely suppress the individual offense of these two, this extreme team play lacks sharpness, and everyone can see that this tactic will definitely not be the tactic that Jazz wants to play, but it is a tactic that has to be played because of problems with the team.
How to determine what the current situation of the Jazz is depends on what kind of tactics this team plays, and the Jazz continue to play the third type. Then the infighting in this team is still there, and neither Stockton nor Jerry Sloan compromised, but played the first two. It means that Stockton and Jerry Sloan compromised in the face of the inward situation, and the Jazz infighting barely ended.
And while the two commentators of this game, Collins and Larry Bird, were waiting for how the Jazz would play this game. didn't make the two wait long, and soon the Jazz on the court gave the answer, when Malone was still unwilling to block with Stockton on the court, and Stockton was also unwilling to give the ball to Lin Han and Malone who wanted to play alone, this situation was already obvious.
Although Malone is on the court in this game, the team's problems are still the same, Stockton is still forcibly controlling the team, and Malone is a little self-defeating on the court. Although he played but didn't have much enthusiasm, as for Lin Han, after the opening, he forcibly asked for two balls, and now Stockton just didn't pass, Lin Han threw away all the luck in his heart, and finally honestly went to play without the ball.
And when they saw this scene, whether it was Larry Bird or Collins or the Jazz fans on the sidelines, they all sighed, but at this time the Magic head coach on the sidelines, Brian Hill, was a little excited at this time.
"We won this game!"
Despite Stockton's strong quality, this season looks to have shone off his reputation as a number of brushes. But without Malone and his pick-and-roll cooperation, what will he use to deal with O'Neal?
Is it just because of the enthusiasm of Elliott and Pollinis? Elliott, despite his excellent two-game schedule, is also an All-Star caliber player. Because of the increase in the number of shots, the offensive involvement has increased, and the confidence and form that have been destroyed for a long time on the Pistons have returned, but can Elliott replace Malone's tactical position? Naturally it can't be, now all they need to do is block Lin Han, the reason why the Hornets blocked Lin Han, but the team lost, it was because their interior line was Mourning not O'Neal, Mourning and Larry Johnson were facing the two defensive interior lines of Polynes and PJ Brown. The offense wasn't going so well, but O'Neal wasn't the same.
Especially after watching this game start. O'Neal almost directly crushed Polines to complete the attack, forcing Malone to come up early and flank the attack. The head coach of the Magic knew his team had won this game.
"The current situation of this game is very dangerous for the Jazz, Malone can't be so angry anymore, he needs to interact with Stockton, otherwise the Jazz will lose this game!"
When the game started, under O'Neal's crazy offense, the Jazz, who fell into the disadvantage as soon as he came up, made Collins on the sidelines very annoyed, facing a team like Magic, how could Malone win if he didn't contribute? It's just that now no one is able to pass the ball to Malone except Stockton.
"If only Lin Han could have some playmaking ability with the ball"
At this time, Larry Bird also sighed after Collins complained, Lin Han's passing is good, but he doesn't know where to pass, when to pass, when not to pass, I'm afraid that in addition to dribbling on the spot for 2o seconds, the horizontal pass without any technical content directly after attracting the defense is the only organizational talent he can handle.
It's just that such a horizontal pass doesn't seem to have much effect on the inside line.
The Magic team's arrangement of Lin Han in this game is actually very sufficient, as the outside core of the team, Hardaway's task in this game is to stick to Lin Han, Lin Han can't force the ball when there is no chance in this game, so Hardaway's defensive difficulty has actually become not so great, after all, Lin Han has been moving, there is not much physical confrontation between him and Lin Han, if it is just a comparison and movement, Hardaway does not think that he is much worse than Lin Han.
In this case, when Lin Han ran out of the opportunity a little, Hardaway was able to post it quickly, and at this time, Lin Han wanted to play singles, but because of time, it was difficult to really be fully powerful.
This is also the reason why although Lin Han can also play singles after running without the ball and receiving the ball, he rarely plays singles, there is not enough time, no mana, unlike when Lin Han was crazy to ask for the ball before, there was at least 15 seconds for Lin Han to play casually at a time.
Of course, although it is said, Lin Han may not have many singles in this game. But as one of the most deadly points of the Magic, when Lin Han holds the ball, even if there are only five or six seconds left. Almost all the other players on the Magic team will move closer to Lin Han's side, this is to prevent Lin Han's forced breakthrough and forced singles.
And when the game was played 2 minutes later. After receiving Stockton's pass at the top of the free throw line for the first time in this game, with seven seconds left, Lin Han almost did not hesitate, and leaned directly towards Hardaway after receiving the ball, looking ready to force a breakthrough, after all, Hardaway's height is taller than Lin Han, and Lin Han's decision to forcibly move away from Hardaway after choosing to receive the ball cannot be said to be wrong. Just like the All-Star Rookie Game before, if it weren't for Hardaway, plus there was always a Magic assistant defense player next to him, although Magic's power forward Turner in this game was far inferior to Webb in strength, but this was also a trouble.
So when Lin Han was ready to rely on Hardaway, almost all of the Magic's defenses moved, ready to help Hardaway, and in this case, when Lin Han forcibly turned around and jumped up with a little bit of space after leaning on Hardaway. At this time, Hardaway, who had been posted again, and Turner, who had already helped to defend, had all jumped up with Lin Han and were ready to block Lin Han's shot.
"This time, I will never let you succeed again!"
Thinking that when he and Webb were defeated by Lin Han's crazy shooting in the All-Star Rookie Game, Hardaway, who jumped in the air at this time, almost used all his strength to bounce. I have to say that Hardaway's physical condition is really outstanding, when he and Turner jumped up in front of Lin Han, the deterrent power is indeed there, of course, if Lin Han reluctantly makes a shot under the two-person sandwich, Kobe Bryant-style turning back is not afraid of this kind of bag.
It's just that Hardaway Haotena, who was flying in the air, was very shocked that Lin Han, who was already ready to shoot, had completed the shot posture in the air, and was even stuck in the air, faced the defense of these two people. At the moment when he was ready to make a move, he directly turned his hands. It was supposed to be a shot, directly under the eyes of Hardaway and Turner. This shot turned into a pass!
Lin Han: This is a jump pass! And the object of the pass is Malone who Turner is responsible for defending!
Lin Han actually passed the ball at this time?!
When such a surprising scene happened, not to mention Hardaway and Turner on the field, even Jerry Sloan on the sidelines and Stockton on the field were also stunned, and even at this time, both of them subconsciously forgot that Lin Han was a very dangerous jump pass.
"Lin Han actually passed the ball? This, how is this possible? ”
When Magic head coach Brian Hill got up from his seat in disbelief, he subconsciously looked in the direction of the ball's flight, until he saw that the Jazz power forward Malone had his back to Lin Han, ready to grab the rebound, at this time the Magic head coach Brian Hill relieved his heart, no one likes this kind of thing that is not under their control, and now, although things are unexpected, but they can still be controlled.
"Didn't Jerry Sloan tell him that he couldn't jump up and pass the ball on the pitch?"
Brian Hill, who was originally stunned, looked at Ma Long, who was passing the ball with his back, and Lin Han, who was still flying in the air, and thought with a smile.
At this time, the head coach of the Magic team, Brian Hill, laughed, and the Jazz fans on the sidelines almost covered their faces with their hands after seeing Lin Han's pass, because the next picture would be very miserable, and they were a little afraid to look at it.
If Ma Long, who is in a very unhappy mood now, is really hit by Lin Han like this, who knows what will happen.
"Oops, the Jazz team made a mistake, Lin Han's pass is really bad, fast and sudden, Malone can't catch it!"
When Collins was speechless for Lin Han's pass like everyone on the scene, there was an extremely strange scene on the court at this time, I thought that Lin Han's urgent and fast pass would be smashed directly on Ma Long's back, at this time, Ma Long, who was already facing away from the basket and grabbed the rebound at the moment when Lin Han jumped up, suddenly smashed the basketball behind him, Ma Long suddenly turned his head sideways and directly stretched out his right hand to receive Lin Han's jumping pass.
And when Malone received this pass from Lin Han, O'Neal, who was going to grab a rebound with Malone, even forgot about the card position at this time, in fact, he couldn't get stuck at all, when an inside line received the ball under the basket, there was basically no way to defend, not to mention that such an inside line was still Ma Long, so when Ma Long received the ball and won his first two points in this game with a violent dunk, the whole court was solemn.
Whether it was the fans on the scene, the coaches of the two teams on the sidelines, or the players on both sides of the field, they were all stunned at this time, and a bad jumping pass that was considered to be a mistake turned into an assist that could enter the top ten goals?
When this was born, even Collins, who was very angry and speechless on the sidelines, was stunned at this time, and didn't know what to say for a while, and at this time, Larry Bird, who was next to Collins, shook his head and smiled bitterly after being stunned for a moment after the cooperation between Lin Han and Ma Long ended.
It's a passing that really leaves people speechless, either a mistake or a brilliant finish.
"Boy, you're smashing me with the ball again!"
When Malone finished dunking and got off the basket, he didn't care about O'Neal's stunned gaze at all, but turned around and extended a thumbs up directly to Lin Han.
And at this time, when the others were still looking at Lin Han and Ma Long incredulously, the Delta Center went crazy directly when Ma Long gave Lin Han that thumbs up.
And Stockton and Jerry Sloan, who had been looking at Malone and Lin Han on the side, had very complicated faces at this time. (To be continued)
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