Chapter 227: The Harvest Season

(Season inventory is too hard to write, this chapter is updated late, sorry)

"It's a great feeling, it's incredible"

"Even now, even though we have made this step, there is still some unbelievable feeling, it feels like this qiē is in a dream"

When the Jazz returned to Utah with a 72-1o record at the end of their trip to Los Angeles, when the Jazz players walked out of the airport, they looked at the thousands of fans wearing Jazz jerseys and holding all kinds of placards in the square outside the airport, and they were all excited for a while. It's still unbelievable to be able to accept such continued madness from the fans. {

Especially Malone and Stockton, the two biggest sinners of the team's failure last season, at this time, when the two leading players of these teams came out from a few games to see such a scene, the expressions on their faces were not only excited, but their bodies even trembled a little.

"Okay, don't be emotional, don't forget, this is just the beginning, if we lose in the playoffs, I'm afraid the pressure will be even greater."

Lin Han looked at the two leading players of the team around him and said with a smile, to be honest, as a newcomer to the team, Lin Han has never felt the pressure of Malone and Stockton last season, for him, he does not have so much emotion and melancholy, nor so sad. For Lin Han, this year's regular season can almost be called perfect, so it is absolutely difficult for him to understand how Stockton and Malone feel at this time. I really can't understand it.

"Lin is right, although we have crystallized our regular season this year, this is just another beginning of the season, we have not yet reached the end, and we will definitely not tolerate the same fiasco as last year."

"Yes, this year we will not tolerate a fiasco like last year, and this year we have only one goal. That's the overall championship."

When Malone shouted the slogan of the championship after Stockton and Lin Han finished speaking, Lin Han and Stockton were also a little stunned. However, after these two Jazz leading players were a little stunned, they quickly came to their senses, and looking at the more and more crazy Jazz fans in the square, Lin Han and Stockton seemed to be able to understand why Malone shouted such a slogan at this time.

"Carl. As long as you old guy don't hold me back. We're going to be able to win the championship in the end."

In the end, Lin Han also said jokingly after a little glance at Ma Long, who rarely showed such a serious expression, but after Lin Han finished speaking, before Lin Han boarded the team's bus, Lin Han saw that the head of the back of his head was grabbed.

"Boy, what do you mean by an old fellow? I'm only 3o years old this year, sue you, I can play for at least another ten years, and it's you who should be holding back."

"Bastard. You defend, put my head on the go. If I am turned bald by you, I will not kill you."

Lin Han and Ma Long, two players with similar 'personalities', have always been a scenery of the Jazz team, and these Jazz players are basically accustomed to the fight between these two at this time, so after watching Lin Han and Malone play again, whether it is Stockton or other Jazz players, they all laughed after shaking their heads helplessly.

"Jerry, it seems that the team is in really good shape right now."

At this time, the Jazz's player sentiment is very high, the atmosphere within the team is very good, and the playoffs are approaching, the assistant coach of the Jazz team, Phil Johnson, who has been paying close attention to the situation of the team's players, also said with a smile, compared to Jerry Sloan's strict sù cautious and even rigid, Jerry Sloan's fellow brother is a different character, so compared with Jerry Sloan, the head coach who gives the Jazz players a great sense of pressure on the team, Phil Johnson is more loved by the team players.

However, after Phil Johnson finished speaking, Jerry Sloan's face at this time was not as happy as Phil Johnson, the Jazz head coach's face was still very strict at this time, especially looking at Lin Han and Malone who were fighting together, the head coach of the Jazz team couldn't brow.

Since last month's failure to deal with Malone and Linham, Jerry Sloan has given up the control of these two players on the court, it can be said that Jerry Sloan, who has always been very controlling, unexpectedly suppressed his desire to control the team, the head coach of the Jazz team has begun to let Lin Han and Malone follow their instincts on the court to play after last month.

These two Jazz leading players are indeed extremely talented, with their individual abilities, especially after Lin Han learned to pass the ball to Malone, the superstar play of these two has even reached a higher level, which is a very exciting thing, at least the team's assistant coach Phil Johnson is very happy, but Jerry Sloan is not happy.

It's no surprise that he lacks an instinctive sense of security when he loses control of the team's tactics, and that's the case for people who are very controlling, when they lose control of things, and that's the case with Jerry Sloan.

Even if the Jazz won the league's best regular season record under the leadership of Lin Han and Ma Long, Jerry Sloan still has no way to be completely at ease, this Jazz's current style of play is not his ideal Jazz, nor is it his ideal team, especially this team is not what worries him the most, but the lack of an alternative solution to the problem, because of the lack of absolute control over this team, It would be fine if the team could make it to the Finals and win the championship, but if the team had some problems along the way, Jerry Sloan didn't know what to do, and that's why he's so upset right now.

When the team now plays after the playoffs. It is impossible for him to forcibly change the team's style of play, and after the failure of the last change, it is even more impossible now.

So at this time, after Phil Johnson finished with a smile. Jerry Sloan sighed a little.

"I hope that a qiē will be smooth"

I hope that everything will be smooth, this is the only thing Jerry Sloan can do now, and after Jerry Sloan finished speaking, Phil Johnson, who was in a good mood, frowned, although he knew that his friendship with this good foundation had not been very stable in the past month or so, and even doubted his coaching ability at some times, Phil Johnson thought that the team could win the first record in history would make Jerry Sloan confident. But now it seems that the Jazz head coach has not been able to recover from the blow of the previous period, and the current situation of Jerry Sloan, who has beaten George Carr and is known as the league's No. 1 Mesozoic coach this season, does make Phil Johnson a little worried.

Jerry Sloan was looking forward to Jazz being able to go smoothly at this time. In terms of the team's current record as the first in the West, their opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Trail Blazers, who are eighth in the West.

Trading Drexler for this team meant that the team entered a rebuilding phase, and in this case, it is impossible for this team to cause too much trouble for the Jazz. After all, this team enters the playoffs this season with a 35-47 record. It's not because they still have the strength of the playoffs, but before trading Drexler, the Trail Blazers had a good record and laid a good foundation, so that no matter how bad they are in the second half of the schedule, they can still guarantee a playoff spot.

If you exclude the team's record in the first half of the season, only counting Drexler's record after being traded, this team is not as good as the Lakers, who are ninth in the West, and even the Kings and Clippers behind them in terms of strength.

So. After the playoff matchup with the Trail Blazers is confirmed, the expert media or the team across the United States. Basically no one is bullish on the Trail Blazers, and almost all of them predict that the Jazz will sweep the team 3-0.

Of course, the Jazz's first-round opponents in the playoffs weren't very good, but in the West, the other playoff opponents didn't do that.

Especially in recent times, the competition has been very fierce in the fifth and third positions in the West, since February, the Spurs have been in a crazy sprint under the leadership of David Robinson, in order to be able to get the top three in the West, this team has been sprinting from February to the end of April, during which David Robinson even got a quadruple-double, and also got an average triple-double in a single month and won the best player of the month, it can be said that this team has seen the hope of catching up with the Rockets at the end of March, In fact, there is only one win gap between the two sides.

It's just that in that big battle between the Spurs and the Jazz, after the Spurs lost, it also greatly stimulated the confidence of this team, but fortunately, the Spurs were not discouraged for too long, or the Rockets' swing also gave them confidence.

This Rockets don't know if they are too confident or really think that it doesn't matter how many times they rank in the regular season, as long as they can enter the playoffs, when they are crazy sprinting in other teams such as the Spurs, this team is still tepid, the team's leading player Drexler is still absent from time to time, and even when the playoffs are approaching, the team's leading player Olajuwon's playing time is constantly being accused, which makes the Spurs although after losing to the Jazz, In this case, the Spurs almost gritted their teeth and insisted on sprinting through all the games of the regular season, and the third battle between the Spurs and the Rockets was not until the last game The Rockets defeated the Nuggets, and the Spurs defeated the Clippers to finally decide the winner, and finally the Rockets became third in the West with 57 wins and 25 losses, while the Spurs were very wolf with 56 wins and 26 losses and finally became fourth in the West with a disadvantage of one win.

Of course, the second team in the West is Yin, and the minimum gap between this team and the crazy Spurs is only three games, but Yin's young team is not the same as the Rockets, an aging team, the Rockets really can't sprint, it's not that they don't want to rush, and Yin is getting more and more brave in the end, and the final season ended with a record of 62 wins and 2o losses, which is quite good, and it can be said that it also created the best record in the history of this team. If it weren't for the Jazz's madness this season, the most glamorous team in the regular season this year would definitely be the music team.

Although it is said that because the Jazz's performance this season is so good, the first place in the league and the first place in the West lost the suspense early. It's a pity that the Nuggets didn't meet a team like the Trail Blazers in the first round, but for this young team, it's actually a very good thing that they can meet an equally young Nuggets team in the first round, after all, it's better to meet the Nuggets in the first round than to meet the Suns or Warriors in the first round, especially if they were eliminated by the Suns in the Western Conference finals last season, if they are really third in the West by the Spurs or Rockets at the end of the season, and finally face the Suns in the first round. Then this team is going to definitely cry.

After all, for the West, when the Suns kept recovering and losing in the final stretch of the season. The whole world knows what they want to do, and this team wants to be sixth in the face of a hopeless top three, because for this team, the top four in the West, except for the Jazz, both the Spurs and the sound were their opponents in the playoffs last season. As for the rocket. The last two seasons have been tied in the regular season, although the Suns have no chance of winning, but it is better than meeting the Jazz in advance, and in the Suns' opinion, except for the Jazz, who can only restrain them a little, the other teams in the West are really not so terrible.

It's just a little regrettable for this team that in the end, the Spurs were not able to counterattack the Rockets, and if the Spurs really beat the Rockets to become third in the West, pushing the Rockets to the fourth place in the West and the Jazz met in advance. This is the situation they want to see the most.

Therefore, in the case of the Suns almost directly releasing the water, the Warriors, who had no hope of being fifth in the West, finally counterattacked the Suns and finally rose to the fifth place in the West.

And the Western Conference playoffs eventually became. The Jazz, who are first in the West, are 72-1o against the Trail Blazers, who are eighth in the West, are 35-47, the 62-2o team in the West are in the Nuggets, who are seventh in the West, are 41-41, the Rockets, who are third in the West, are 57-25, are against the Suns, who are sixth in the West, are 52-32, and the Spurs, who are fourth in the West, are 52-3, who are fifth in the West.

Except for the Jazz and the Trail Blazers and the Tone and Nuggets, the other two matches are extremely close in terms of the difference in the strength of the players on both sides.

In this regard, this is much better than the East side, which has a fiercer playoff competition than the West, because the Charlotte Hornets, who are ninth in the East, have a record of 41 wins and 41 losses, and a 5o% win rate actually can't make the playoffs, while the Lakers, who are ninth in the West, have a record of only 32 wins and 5o losses.

At least the four matches in the first round of the East, the Knicks who are the first in the East are against the Heat who are the eighth in the East, this is a matchup with a huge disparity in strength, as for the Hawks in the second place in the East and the Nets in the seventh in the East, the same is true for the Hawks in the East and the Knicks in terms of record, because the record is relatively poor when the two sides meet, so the Hawks are the second, the Knicks are the first, and as for the Bulls in the third place in the East, this team's record is 55-27, And his opponent, the Pacers, who are sixth in the East, is 47-35, and the gap is still obvious, even if the Magic team in the fourth place in the East has the least gap, this team's record is 54-28, and his opponent Cavaliers is also 47-35, the gap is still relatively large.

Therefore, when the first round of the league playoffs came out, almost all the focus was on the Jazz, Magic and Rockets Suns, Jazz and Magic, very simple, because Lynham and Hardaway and O'Neal are three popular young players playing the playoffs for the first time, and many people are looking forward to what the first playoff trip of these three perhaps the best young people in the league will look like, as for the Rockets and the Suns, these two teams with championship strength will meet in the first round of the West It is naturally extremely interesting, Although the Jazz are now the league's No. 1 in terms of record, not everyone thinks that the Jazz are the favorites for this year's championship, especially the Rockets still have a lot of supporters.

In addition to these four teams, the Warriors and the Bulls are also very expected, the Warriors are because of Chris Webber's popular insider, and the Bulls are because Jordan is facing the playoffs for the first time since Jordan left. Especially a lot of Jordan fans, they are now waiting for the Bulls to lose in the playoffs, if the Bulls are still good in the playoffs. The time for Jordan's comeback is going to be pushed back again, and recently, Jordan's partner Nike has been letting out the wind that Jordan is likely to come back next season, if the Bulls are still good in the playoffs this year, Jordan will still come back like this? Especially according to what Pippen, the current leader of the Bulls, said that the goal of the Bulls this year is to win the championship, and if the Bulls win the championship without Jordan as Pippen said, Jordan may need to go to other teams if he wants to come back.

Of course. For the Jazz, the team's first game of the playoffs against the Trail Blazers is on April 28, and the first playoff game of the first and eighth games in the West is the finale of the first day of the playoffs.

The Jazz finished the season with a 72-1o record after beating the Lakers. The team's playoff opponents were the worst of all the high-seeded teams in the first round, which is a very good thing, and in addition to the team's playoff alignment, this year's regular season is over. This team has also won a lot of awards.

As the big boss of the team. Although there were some conflicts between Malone and the team last month, But the Jazz's leading player averaged 26 points, 12.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.9 blocks and 1.8 steals per game this season can be said to be extremely amazing, although he did not get the scoring king or the rebounding king, let alone the assist king and the block king or the steal king, he definitely couldn't get it, but although Malone couldn't get any single title, his score ranked fifth among all players this season. Rebounds ranked third among all players, behind Rodman's 17 rebounds and O'Neal's 13 rebounds. As for assists, they are also ranked 45th, and steals and blocks, the Jazz's leading players, are ranked 11th and 12th in the league, and it can be said that all the numbers except for assists are all in the top 2o in the league, which is a very rare all-round table, and there are such all-round players in the league this season In addition to Malone, there are only two centers left Olajuwon and David Robinson.

It's just that in terms of team records, David Robinson and Olajuwon have no way to pose a threat to Malone, and it is precisely because of such a number that after the regular season, when all the media mentioned the MVP candidate, Malone was almost the first candidate.

In addition to Malone, the team's point guard Stockton averaged 11.2 points, 15 assists and 2.4 steals per game this season, although the average of 11 points per game set a new low in the Jazz player's career, but the assists set a new career high, breaking the new record of 14.5 assists per game held by himself four years ago, and the 15 assists per game in a single season also made the Jazz's point guard the assist king this year.

Of course, in addition to the two leading players of the Jazz team who are extremely good at the number of jù, such as Lin Han, The Jazz's young rookie scoring an average of 35.9 points per game this season may also be extremely shocking, although it is not the first time in NBA history to win the scoring title in his rookie season, but it is clear that at Lin Han's age, Lin Han scored 35.9 points per game with an average of 28.1 shots per game this season The scoring title is the youngest scoring champion in the league, and in addition to the incredible scoring, Lin Han is also extremely terrifying in shooting efficiency this season, with a shooting rate of 51%, Three-point shooting is a whopping 4o.5%, and if it weren't for the fact that Lin Han's free-throw shooting rate of 81% per game is a little dismal, the Jazz shooting guard could well be a player for the '18o' club.

However, although it was a bit of a pity for Lin Han not to be able to become an 18o club, because it was difficult to get the care of the referees in the first season of the rookie, and the average of less than 7 free throws per game was not very good, but Lin Han's average of 35.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 9 steals and 1.2 blocks per game in his first season was still good enough.

And after the end of the regular season, in addition to Lin Han receiving a special purple and gold consecutive reward, because he won the scoring champion, Lin Han also received a silver-level milestone reward, and the league's scoring champion is a silver-level milestone reward.

For Lin Han, the next period of time is definitely a period of harvest. (To be continued!)

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