"We had a tough game, the Jazz were strong, they caused us a lot of problems in the game, the two teams had more than 20 alternate leads throughout the game, we had five All-Defensive players on the roster, but we still didn't have anything to do with the Jazz's offense, it was a historic offensive battle."

"Is Lin going to defend Malone alone a turning point in this game? Of course, Lin is the best defensive player in the league, and this game he once again proved his value in the team, his value on both ends of the floor, he is willing to take over the team's most difficult tasks in the most difficult times for the team, he has always been, the decision about him to go to the single defense Malone is not my arrangement, it is his initiative, he is the leader of the team, and the most solid support of the team in difficult moments"

On May 6, 1996, in the Western Conference semifinals between the Lakers and the Jazz, the Lakers defeated the Utah Jazz 122-113 at home after a hard-fought battle.

In the media interview after the game, Magic, as the head coach of the Lakers, was full of praise for Lin Han.

The game between the Lakers and the Jazz was a surprise for the Lakers.

Before the game, they knew that the Jazz and Malone were very strong, and they could beat the Spurs in that devastating way and replace them with the Lakers, and it was probably like that.

However, the strength shown by Jazz and Malone in this game still surprised the Lakers.

Malone directly blasted the league's first-defense power forward Rodman one-on-one.

Even in the face of Lin Han's single defense, although Ma Long's independent offense and singles were restricted, he could still calmly contain Lin Han behind him.

He then used his containment to organize the Jazz to score.

Malone showed no calmness in the game at all like the Malone who diss the magician's special illness at the beginning.

There are really not many players in the league who can allow Lin Han to defend with all his strength, except for Jordan, Ma Long in this game!

In this game, the Lakers really won after Lin Han's single defense of Ma Long, and the Jazz's offensive efficiency declined.

After the Lakers put a lot of defensive energy on defending Malone, the Lakers' offensive efficiency also decreased.

But in the second half, after Lin Han strengthened his unreasonable three-point shooting, the offensive efficiency was still guaranteed.

So in the end, the Lakers beat the Jazz!

"Will the next game start with Lin defending Malone? There is a possibility, but it depends on Lin's own choice, he feels that he needs to defend Malone from the beginning, then he will do it, and I will support it, if he feels that it is not necessary, the team will attack first, I will also support it"

Although the Lakers did not win the first game of the Western Conference semifinals so easily, they won anyway, and the Magic was still in a good mood.

The Western Conference semifinals between the Lakers and the Jazz are definitely the most watched group of the four second-round matchups.

The grievances between Lin Han and Ma Long, and between Lin Han and Sir are full of all kinds of drama.

Especially in this game, the strength shown by Lin Han and Ma Long really made many people feel incredible.

The Lakers beat the Jazz 122-113 at home, and Lin Han scored a triple-double of 44 points, 12 rebounds and 14 assists in this game.

And Malone is not much inferior, with a triple-double of 32 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, which is equally good!

Especially the triple-doubles like Lin Han and Ma Long didn't even make a single mistake!

It can be said that both men played a near-perfect game in this match!

Lin Han showed everyone in the game that he is capable of both offensive and defensive ends.

Ma Long, on the other hand, showed everyone that he is now cautious.

In the face of Lin Han and Rodman's defense, he can be so cautious in a game that he doesn't make a single mistake.

"You guy has finally used the poison of the elbow man in the game"

This is what Lin Han said to Ma Long at the end of this game, and Ma Long was of course very unhappy after hearing it.

According to his previous personality, he must be directly irritable.

But now, he was able to hold back.

In the past, Ma Long was a very yin and yin person, but now, Lin Han feels that he is even more yin.

In the past, although Ma Long was yin, he lacked forbearance, and belonged to the kind of person who was easy to be arrested because he was proud or not IQ enough when he did bad things.

Now, this guy is not only more yin, but he can actually hide and protect himself like a king.

In the second half of this game, when Lin Han began to defend him alone, he lured Malone very many times.

But this guy just doesn't fall for it, he just doesn't take the initiative to attack!

Just like when he first faced his help defensive block, there was a more than 80% chance of success, and it was because his defensive success rate was 100%, so Malone passed the ball......

In the second half, when he single-handedly defended Malone, Malone had too many such passing options.

There is no 100% chance of not making mistakes, and in the face of his defense, Malone just doesn't attack!

stunned to make him work hard to defend him for more than a quarter, and he didn't get a block or a steal on his body!

"You're an old turtle now!"

Although Lin Han won this game, he also held back the fire in his stomach.

As a person with special needs and preferences for data, he spent so much physical strength and energy to defend Ma Long, and he didn't get any data, of course he would be very unhappy!

Although he also knew that Malone must be more unhappy than him.

Malone has already played like this, and the Jazz have not won.

In short, this game is Xiangwei ice cream for Lin Han.

For Malone, it's the ice cream-flavored Xiang.

Lin Han and Ma Long definitely belong to the level of mutual damage in this round of the series!

"Even if I can't beat you, I won't let you farm beautiful stats!"

Malone's idea is simple, he will definitely not turn into someone he hates!

Last season, the person he hated the most besides Lin Han was Jordan!

If it weren't for Jordan's messy behavior in last year's finals, Lin Han would not have been able to brush up so many supernatural data in last year's finals!

To win against Lin Han and the Lakers, this is the first choice of Malone and Jazz in this round of the series.

But after concentrating on the first game and going all out, it was found that there was still no possibility of winning against the Lakers.

Malone and Jazz can clearly feel the difference in strength between the two sides.

The first choice is naturally not the first choice.

As long as Malone can't single Lin Han with high efficiency, then the Jazz's offense will be lower than the Lakers, no matter how it changes.

In other words, no matter how much the Jazz score, they can't compare to the Lakers.

Unless the Lakers are crazy about hitting iron at an abnormal level.

It's just that this probability is extremely low!

At the very least, that probability doesn't support the Jazz to win a series.

With the mentality of Jazz and Ma Long, Lin Han played the most bloody series of his career.

Because his game data is linked to his system rewards, Lin Han certainly hopes to win and farm beautiful data.

But in the end, it turned out that Malone was really ready to fight with him in this round of the series!

It is to use physical strength to consume Lin Han on the defensive end, and consume all Lin Han's physical strength on the defensive end!

In addition, the Jazz's style of play in this series is that all the team's offense has to pass through Malone's hands.

Therefore, when defending Ma Long, Lin Han really couldn't be careless.

Although after he single-handedly defended Ma Long, Ma Long's offensive efficiency declined, it doesn't mean that he can still stop Ma Long by deserting!

Malone's sense of smell on the pitch now is really sharp!

Lin Han thinks that Ma Long has watched too many video videos of his game, and he will learn to calculate the probability? All played digital basketball!

How much footage of his game does this Nima have to watch?

I analyze him every night in my dreams and think about him, right?

If Malone really wants to be like this, can he not feel sensitive to him?

He now suddenly felt that an old yin type opponent like Ma Long had maximized the attributes of the old yin b, and it was no worse than an atmospheric opponent like Jordan!

The strength of the opponent of the old yin type B may not be as good as that kind of atmospheric opponent, but it makes you even more uncomfortable!

Before, he thought that Malone could make the admiral cry, Olajuwon, him, Jordan, they can too.

Now it seems that the Admiral will definitely not cry when he loses to him and Jordan!

The admiral was really cried by Ma Long!

On May 8, 1996, the Los Angeles Lakers continued to face the Jazz at home, and the Jazz's style of play did not change from the first game.

It's still maximizing the use of Malone's influence on the offensive end.

The Lakers, on the other hand, used Lin Han to defend Malone from the beginning.

Both teams were a bit less efficient in attacking this game than they were in the first game.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Jazz 111-99 at home to claim their second win in the Western Conference semifinals.

In this game, Lin Han scored 31 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists on 9-of-20 shooting.

Although it is still a 30-point triple-double, it is compared with Lin Han's supernatural data from time to time in the playoffs last year.

In these two games, Lin Han's data really fell from the sky to the ground.

In the second game, Malone's statistics were also very average, with only 10 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists on 3-of-12 shooting.

This is also a world of difference compared to the first match between the two sides.

Only those who watched this game knew how much influence Ma Long had on Lin Han!

"If Charles had been replaced by Carl, the Rockets would have been able to beat the Lakers!"

That's what Olajuwon of the Rockets thought when he watched this game.

Such a good player who can contain Lin Han, except for Jordan, is Malone in the entire league!

Not only did Lin Han's data come down, but he was also able to achieve a level close to a triple-double under Lin Han's hard defense!

That's pretty impressive, okay!

Judging from the performance of Lin Han and Ma Long in this game, Ma Long lost to Lin Han with 21 points + 3 assists!

can make Lin Han pinched with all his strength, and it is not ashamed to lose to Lin Han, the player with the highest strength in history, with 21 points + 3 assists!

In the last round, Lin Han was also pinching Stackhouse with all his might, and Stackhouse lost more than 40 points and more than 10 assists on his books.

This is not counting the points lost by Stackhouse's mistakes under Lin Han's single defense!

So, although the Jazz have won two games in a row by the Lakers, the league's evaluation of Malone has been rising.

Since last season's finals, there are not many players who can make Lin Han play so uncomfortable.

On May 11, 1996, at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, the Jazz welcomed their first home court in the Western Conference semifinals.

Compared to the praise given to Malone in other parts of the country, Salt Lake City's local performance of Malone can be described as deaf and deaf.

Compared to whether Malone has been underestimated before, such a topic.

Salt Lake City fans are more likely to discuss "What if Salt Lake City left Lin Han?" ”

As long as Malone doesn't prove that he can lead the team to win the championship without Lin Han, it is impossible for him to make Salt Lake City fans change their opinion of him.

Malone himself knows it.

That's also the biggest motivation for him to be in the NBA right now!

In Salt Lake City, he was worse off than in Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, at most, you are ridiculed by enemy fans, and when you return to Salt Lake City, you are ridiculed by your own fans, which are two completely different states of mind.

Even Ma Long, who has now learned to endure to the extreme, almost can't help it.

However, when Malone endured it, it seemed to have entered a new world......

"TM's, I said that you are an old turtle, you are an insult to the old turtle, you are a king who has been a thousand years old!"

Lin Han is really unhappy!

In the third game between the Lakers and the Jazz, Malone was even more excessive, and simply brought the style of 'I just can't get in' to the extreme!

In the last game, Malone attacked 12 times by himself, and in this game, Malone only attacked three times!

He scored 10 points on 3-of-3 shooting, 10 points, 16 rebounds and 12 assists!

He put a lot of energy into the battle of wits and courage with Lin Han before the attack.

Every time Lin Han expected Ma Long to attack by himself after fighting wits with him, but every time, he passed the ball!

This made Lin Han discover that the battle of wits and courage between him and Ma Long really didn't have any meaning, what was the point except for consuming physical strength?

The key is that he feels that there is no point in slacking off a little, and Malone can really seize the opportunity to attack a few!

He scored 10 points after three shots, and he really can't relax with this efficiency!

106-97, in this more unhappy game played by Lin Han, the Lakers defeated the Jazz again.

In this game, Lin Han's statistics became more civilian, with 28 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists.

Although it is still a triple-double, it is far from his average triple-double data per game in the regular season!

"We've got to win the next game! I feel sick when I stand on the field for more than a minute with that old turtle of Marlon! ”

Before the fourth series between the Lakers and the Jazz on May 13, Lin Han made this rare instruction to Lakers players to end the series.

Seriously, in the game with the Jazz, Lin Han didn't play well, and the other players of the Lakers didn't play so well.

Ma Long is too yin, facing Lin Han to become a turtle, and facing them like a dragon.

What is the ultimate in bullying the soft and fearing the hard?

Ma Long is now, this guy doesn't want any face at all, you are a supergiant to a supergiant Gan Linhan!

It's useless to us people!

On May 13, 1996, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Utah Jazz 104-92 and swept the Jazz 4-0.

Ended this series that made them very uncomfortable!

At the same time, it was also the first to enter the regional finals!