Chapter 222: Because the NBA has no four-point line!
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On March 27, 1994, the Jazz started the team's road trip again after defeating the Magic and Bucks at home in a row, and now the Jazz have a record of 6o wins and 8 losses, and there are only 14 games left in the regular season this season.
For example, as far as the West is concerned, the Jazz's record is now 6o wins and 8 losses, and the second tone has a record of 51 wins and 17 losses, and with 14 games left, it is basically impossible for the sound to cross the Jazz, which is clear even to the tone itself, and the Houston Rockets, who are third in the West, are now 48-19, in fact, the really competitive position has now become the second position in the West, especially the Spurs in the fourth place in the West because of Admiral David Robinson's sprint table in recent times, This team's record has crossed the Suns and become 48-2O, and the Suns now have a 44-24 record, unless the first three teams have a big collapse, it will be difficult for the Suns to really chase 4 games in a row with 14 games left in the end, and for the Suns, there really seems to be no difference between the fourth and fifth in the West, in this case, there have even been rumors in recent times that the Suns may be the team's two core players, Barkley and Kevin Johnson, in the final moments Trimming'What does the so-called proper 'trimming' mean, almost the whole world knows = long = wind world, since you can't take the first three, then don't take the fourth and fifth. After all, the Suns really can't lose again when they see the Jazz this season, so to speak, whether it's the Rockets or the Spurs. The Suns don't fall behind in the regular season, but there is no way to take the Jazz, after all, when the Jazz face the Suns, putting Lin Han in the position of power forward is too effective for the Suns.
And for the Suns, they also have such a qualification to 'fix', although the 44-24 record is not good, which is not good for the first four teams, but it is enough for the playoffs. After all, the Warriors, who are sixth in the West, are now 39-28, the Nuggets who are seventh in the West are 35-32, and the Trail Blazers, who are eighth, needless to say. Since Drexler's departure, the team's record has now slipped to the point of misery, and the team has not won many goals throughout February and March. The current record is 31-37. If it weren't for the Lakers, Kings, Clippers, Timberwolves and Mavericks in the back of the West, the Trail Blazers would have dropped out of the eighth place in the West.
So for the Suns, it may be difficult for them to win seventh in the West, after all, although the Nuggets are now full of fighting spirit, it is difficult to win so many games in a row, and if they want to retreat to sixth in the West, it is absolutely no problem to switch places with the Warriors. Even if the Warriors can see the Suns' intentions, they'll bite the bullet. For the Suns, a team that is only competing for the championship, it is good to be able to meet the Jazz later, but the first purpose of the Warriors this season is to be able to enter the second round, not an illusory championship, in this case, the higher the ranking, the better it is for them, and when the time comes, will they meet the Jazz in the second round? Then wait until the second round.
Therefore, now after the Jazz have determined their position as the first in the West, no team that aspires to the championship is willing to become the fourth or fifth in the West, in this case, the Spurs as the fourth in the West will naturally not be as pessimistic as the Suns, their goal is very simple, that is, to pull the Spurs or the sound off the horse, so the Spurs' sprint in the past two months is the strongest in the NBA team, you must know that before February, the Spurs and the Rockets and the sound of the record are far behind, even inferior to the Suns, But with David Robinson's crazy explosion, such a gap is almost impossible to see.
And the Jazz ended the home schedule and started the first game of the away schedule with the Spurs, and now the team is extremely hot and the confidence is almost bursting.
"Will you be worried about Rodman's revenge in this game? Obviously, I never thought about being avenged by him, if he really said that this game is going to take revenge on me, then I will be very disappointed, because the confrontation between me and him in the last game does not involve such dark things, yes, last time he lost, and I won, but I don't think he lost his dignity, I always felt that we are still brave people in the same position, and the fight between two brave men is better than revenge"
"Are you afraid of being hacked by Rodman in this game? I know that when I walk on the pitch with him in this game, we all need to worry about whether we can get off the pitch healthy, and the last time he thought that, and I thought that too, and I'm not going to hide anything, so if I'm really scared, I'm probably still in the hospital right now, and I don't think there's any fear from me or Rodman in the face of this challenge, because we all know that fear only makes it worse."
"Spurs are in good shape right now and have confidence to beat Spurs? Of course, that's for sure, the Spurs' recent table has been very good, David Robinson had a quadruple-double a little more than a month ago, and they're still in peak form, but I want to say that this season, the Spurs haven't won a game against the Jazz, they couldn't win before, they can't win now, maybe they won't win in the future."
This Jazz and Spurs game is very interesting before the game, especially the Spurs players, the ruthless Rodman who has just returned in recent times is very, very high in enthusiasm for this game, and it can even be said that when the Jazz team has not yet come to San Antonio, the Spurs-level forward said that this game will take revenge on Lin Han, and what Lin Han did not do in the last game must be done in this game, and he also directly said in the media that Lin Han is careful whether he will break his leg in this game.
Of course, when Rodman said something like that, even this guy has a high status in the NBA. So high that David Robinson couldn't do anything about him, and he couldn't even lift the head of the team boss in front of him, but. Rodman wanted to abolish Lin Han's kind of thing in private or in private thinking that no one would do anything to him, but the key is that this guy said it so arrogantly in the face of an interview, and almost directly encountered huge criticism, and even at the first time the president of the league, David Stern, gave this guy and the Spurs a warning.
It's just that although Rodman and the Spurs were given a warning, for the Spurs and Rodman, such a warning is naturally unlikely to have any effect, so after Lin Han and the team came to San Antonio. This question is already getting more and more noisy, and for Lin Han, Rodman's wild words really surprised him a little. After all, the two had clashed several times before, which made Lin Han feel that this person was quite interesting, and he was a good opponent, but he didn't expect this interesting person to do this.
But. These warnings for Rodman were either pre-match intimidation and psychological cues. With Lin Han's character, he will never be afraid, and he will not be afraid of anything, if he is really afraid of Rodman, it is estimated that the last game will be scrapped by Rodman, and he will not be able to wait for this game at all, so in the face of this group of reporters who want to find trouble, Lin Han directly expressed his disdain for Rodman's statement.
It's just that Lin Han also knows that no matter what he said before the game. In the game, he still needs to face the butcher of such an alliance. And this butcher is likely to be even more ruthless in this game.
And this game is a game that the two teams, especially for the Spurs, can't lose, in the recent period of time with their state, they have been sprinting for two months in a row, in order to be able to enter the top three in the West, it is such a breath hanging, now they are 2o defeats, and the Rockets are 19 defeats, the victory is already in sight, as long as they can grit their teeth and hold on for a few more games, they will be able to complete the anti-Rockets, At this time, the Spurs are very similar to the Jazz team in the late stage when they hit the 33-game winning streak, the team's energy is almost exhausted, and the reason why they can continue to win is more because of the support of will and spirit, and the Spurs are like this now, even worse than the original Jazz, after all, although the thickness of the Jazz lineup was not very thick, it was also thicker than the Spurs.
In this case, the Spurs probably also know what their current situation is, so when Rodman said to Lin Han that he was going to abolish Lin Han, Spurs head coach Lucas even expressed his support for Rodman in an interview with the media, which is almost impossible to save in the NBA, after all, players can say to each other that the opponent is abolished, if the coach shouts 'upper legs, upper legs' on the court' off the court Abolish y' then this is difficult to be accepted by others, at least in recent times, public opinion in the United States has been quite contemptuous of Lucas, but now that the Spurs have reached such a point, if you don't play a little hate, you may really have no chance.
Therefore, this time the Jazz and Spurs are definitely completely different from the previous two teams, so in the Jazz locker room before the game began, Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan kept emphasizing to almost all the important players of the team that the first priority of this game is to protect themselves.
When the Spurs, from the coach down to the players, shouted that this game was playing 'Iron Will', even a fool knew what this game would be like, so it was not surprising that Jerry Sloan had such an arrangement.
After all, the Jazz have ambitions to win the first game of this road trip, especially after the last game against the Bucks, when the fans in the stadium held up the '7o' sign, it is naturally impossible for the Jazz to really completely adjust the state after ensuring the first position in the league, although they will still adjust the state, but winning 7o wins has also become a goal.
However, although the Jazz are very hopeful to win this game and achieve 7o wins as much as possible, if this game is not won, it will basically not have that much impact, and at this time the team is indeed the most important thing to ensure the health of the core players
At eight o'clock in the evening on March 27, 1994, the Alamo Arena in San Antonio, at this time, the newly built multi-sports complex was already full, and the Spurs team was very clear about the importance of this game, and the Spurs fans were naturally very clear, so they were really crazy supporters of this game.
Especially when the Jazz played, the crazy scolding and boos almost made Lin Han and the other Jazz players think that this game was a playoff game.
"It looks like this game is really not easy to play."
When the Jazz came to their bench to the boos of the fans. Stockton also smiled and sighed after looking around, and after the team's leading point guard finished speaking, the Jazz player next to him also smiled and nodded. However, at this time, the Jazz's level substitute player Elliott did not have the slightest smile on his face at this time.
The All-Star of the Spurs, the second leader of David Robinson, was also the darling of San Antonio, so the former Spurs player is still full of feelings for here, but the team sent him to a fallen team like the Pistons for Rodman, which also made him very sad, after all, after coming to the Jazz. He also knew very well that when the Jazz sent Jeff Malone away, he really considered Jeff Malone's own opinion.
Of course. Although he is a little dissatisfied with the management of the Spurs, he is really worried about the current situation of the Spurs, because no one in the entire league knows the Spurs and Jazz better than him. Although this season he left the team. But this Spurs has not changed much except for adding a Rodman and a small general Johnson, such a team has soared with David Robinson's crazy performance in recent times, but it is difficult for such a soaring to really be of much use in front of the Jazz.
So when he saw the Spurs players all raising their heads and confidently playing in the cheers of the fans, Elliott also sighed, and at the same time looked at Lin Han, who was already shining with eyes and gearing up not far from him.
"I'm afraid Rodman will be miserable in this game"
Before the game even started, Elliott, a Jazz player, was a little worried about his old club, which didn't have that in mind. For this game, the Spurs are really ready to fight hard.
So when the two teams finished warming up and walked to the court. When these Spurs players look at the Jazz players, those eyes are almost cannibalistic.
There is no change in the Jazz's lineup in this game, the point guard is still Stockton, the scoring guard is Lin Han, the small forward is Russell, the big forward is Malone, and the center is the more athletic PJ Brown.
Of course, with David Robinson's current state, even if he doesn't have to sit on PJ Brown with a small ass, PJ Brown may not be able to defend him.
It's just obvious that for the Jazz, whether they can defend David Robinson has never been the most important winning factor in this game, like the previous game, the winning factor in this game is between Rodman and Lin Han, why the Spurs are staring at Lin Han before the game, whether it is the players or coaches, this is not only David Robinson and Lin Han have a grudge, more importantly, everyone knows that the biggest difference between the Jazz and the Spurs is that there is a Lin Han and a no Lin Han.
"Boy, I'm going to see if you can walk out of the court standing in this game, huh"
When the Jazz's PJ Brown and David Robinson stood in the center circle and jumped the ball, Rodman snorted at Lin Han with disdain at this time, but in the face of Rodman's provocation, Lin Han didn't say much.
Because in Lin Han's opinion, if it weren't for those black moves, Rodman would not have been able to defend him, just like Jordan back then, without the Pistons' system, Rodman would not have been able to stop Jordan one-on-one, this butcher is a big forward after all, although the defense of the third and fourth positions is indeed very strong, and the body is also extremely comprehensive, but it is indeed a little difficult to defend the second position, maybe under the system of the Pistons back then, Rodman can defend most of the second positions, but that is in the Pistons, and now it is in the Spurs.
So, in Linham's opinion, the former Pistons player who made a lot of nonsense at him hasn't noticed that he has come to the Spurs, there is no Ranbier behind him, and there are no Joe Dumas and Isaiah Thomas next to him.
Although PJ Brown's athleticism is good, it is naturally incomparable to David Robinson, whether it is physical or experience, PJ Brown is almost completely defeated, so for the first ball in this game, the Jazz have no expectations. Even Lin Han was ready to return to defense after the referee threw the ball out.
And when the Jazz also successfully returned to defense after David Robinson's successful jump ball, David Robinson showed his strong offensive ability as soon as he came up in this game. After the Spurs center received the ball inside, the defense in the face of PJ Brown was almost a small forward after breaking through PJ Brown directly, and then hit the basket to complete the dunk, and the Spurs big center did not forget to yell at Malone who had just come over to make up for the failure of the defense after completing the dunk, which made the Spurs fans at the Alamo Arena go crazy again.
It's just that in the face of David Robinson's provocation, Malone is a little speechless, and he and David Robinson are also old rivals. Both sides know each other's strength very well, and the two have been fighting for so many years before, and basically no one can really suppress anyone. In this case, when David Robinson yelled at Malone like this, Malone was also a little speechless, and he was also a little disdainful in his heart, this guy wouldn't think that he would be able to suppress me in this game if he yelled at him?
For Malone. If Olajuwon and Ewing or Sean Kemp yelled at him after he had been detained, he might have been a little scared. But David Robinson wanted to make Malone afraid of this is really impossible, so when the Spurs scored the first goal and made a very strong start, so that the head coach of the Spurs Lucas was also very satisfied, the next game simply made the Spurs fans on the scene have a feeling of going directly from the sky to the ground.
The Spurs did fight for the top three positions in the regular season in this game, and the team's boss David Robinson went directly to the inside at the beginning of the game, which is a statement, and the other Spurs players can't say that they don't work hard. It's been really hard, but it's the same. Although it is an away game, the state of the Jazz team is not bad at all, and it is even said to be very good, maybe the Jazz are in a slightly worse state in this game, and after the Spurs start strongly, it is very likely to be suppressed by the Spurs, but in this game, even if the Spurs start strongly, they want to suppress the Jazz at the beginning, but there is no way to do it.
It's not just that Malone was not intimidated by David Robinson's momentum at all, but more importantly, the Spurs power forward Rodman, who put down his arrogance before the game to embarrass Lin Han in this game, was almost blown out by Lin Han at the beginning of this game.
In the last game, when the two teams met, it was when Lin Han's ball possession was restricted, when Jerry Sloan personally called Lin Han to his office in the hope that Lin Han could reduce his ball-holding style a little, which made Lin Han's table extremely depressed throughout the first half of that game, and it was not until after the second half, after Jerry Sloan liberated Lin Han, that the Jazz completely defeated the Spurs.
In fact, Lin Han, who plays as a team, is indeed easy to be choked by Rodman, just like the last time the two met, Rodman was indeed the winner in the first half.
It's just clear that Stockton will still limit Linhan's possession in this game? Will Jerry Sloan still let Lynham play more on the team? Of course not.
Since the last game completely put Elliott on the bench, Jerry Sloan has actually been a little resigned, it doesn't matter whether Elliott can integrate into the team, and he is not prepared to forcibly intervene no matter how the team plays.
In this case, Lin Han's possession of the ball in his hand has never been cut off in this game.
It is precisely because of this that Lin Han can swing almost casually on the court, and when the ball reaches his hand, he has a lot of swing time instead of only five or six seconds.
Therefore, when Lin Han kept pulling the ball from the top of the arc or the three-point line to the center circle to receive the ball, Rodman and the entire Spurs were almost completely confused, because Lin Han's style of play is too cancerous, just like many people commented that Camp turned the game into a game of dunk, this game Lin Han turned the game into a heads-up game.
When Lin Han has a lot of possession and even catches the ball near the center circle to attack, even Pippen can't do anything about Lin Han, let alone a big forward like Rodman?
Therefore, when this game started, when they saw that their team's butcher Rodman was almost forced by Lin Han again and again, or was shaken, and even had no chance to play black hands and black feet, the Jazz fans on the sidelines were completely stunned.
Not to mention that the Jazz fans on the sidelines were stunned, even the Spurs players on the court and the head coach of the Spurs on the sidelines Lucas were stunned, even if it was the Bulls back then. Haven't given Jordan such a lot of room to wield, right? Lin Han is really playing NBA games on the court at this time, instead of playing street ball on the street court or directly playing one-on-one bullfighting?
You must know that Lin Han's style of play can't even be said to be a cancer. It's out of the category of NBA games, because it's really difficult to maintain an excellent shooting rate with this style of play, and the offensive efficiency is extremely low, which is also the biggest difference between the NBA and heads-up games or catch-up games. It has never been seen in the history of the NBA.
And what's even worse is that other players like Lin Han basically don't use defense to play with a basically low offensive efficiency, but Lin Han's offensive efficiency in this game is not high. But it's definitely not low, in this case, almost all the people who support the Spurs in the court at this time are all confused.
As for how Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan would feel when he saw Lin Han messing around like this on the court at this time? The Jazz head coach isn't feeling anything right now. No smiles and no complaints. Quite calm.
"It's so brutal, it's so brutal, this kid is so brutal, Rodman can't keep up with him at all"
"It's strange if Rodman can keep up, with such a big offensive space, even Pippen can't keep up, right? How could this kid's attack range be so big? Better than Jordan's."
"If Jordan can have such a large offensive range, I'm afraid Chamberlain will not be his opponent, Lin Han is really terrifying, such a three-point shot looks like a good shooting rate. Incredible, incredible"
When as the game progresses. When the team he supported was beaten more and more badly, almost all the Spurs fans on the scene were in an uproar, especially Lin Han's offensive method in this game was too brutal.
If facing the Rockets and facing an offensive team like the Warriors, Lin Han really doesn't dare to play like this, but in the face of a team like the Spurs with weak offense and excellent defense, Lin Han really doesn't worry about his offensive inefficiency at all, for the Jazz, his task is to be able to score, as long as the efficiency is not so low.
Therefore, at this time, the worst person on the court is probably Rodman, originally he was going to teach Lin Han a lesson in this game, but in the end, when the game was played at the end, he was now completely tricked by Lin Han.
"Damn!"
And when Lin Han almost finished the car directly in front of him again, the defender who couldn't do it with his hands and feet even squatted down directly and slammed the floor of the Alamo Arena at the moment when Lin Han passed.
Seeing Rodman giving up on himself like this, the Spurs fans on the sidelines also sighed a little, and a middle-aged white man sitting in the stands at this time frowned.
"Greg, it seems that the current Spurs are really not the opponent of the Jazz."
As the new general manager of the Spurs, ** Vic was very dissatisfied with the Spurs' cousin at this time, and his assistant and brother Buford was also the same.
Vicky brought him to the Spurs from college in the hope of reforming the Spurs.
"There's just so much to change for this team"
When the referee blew the whistle for the game and the Spurs lost to the Jazz by 18 points at home, Vicky looked at the Spurs head coach who was staying on the sidelines with an ugly face and said lightly.
However, after Vicky finished speaking, he almost quickly fixed his eyes on the Jazz No. 8 who was celebrating with his teammates on the court.
For a while, no one knew what the new Spurs head coach was thinking.
Of course, in this game with the Spurs, the Jazz played very well, it should be said that Lin Han's crazy singles in the face of Rodman almost directly knocked Rodman to vomit, this game was only three-pointers Lin Han threw 18, 18 three-pointers in a single game, and 8 of the 18, although it was not able to break the NBA record of 11 three-pointers in a single game, but such a table is also extremely good.
In the whole game, Lin Han made 13 of 26 shots and scored 48 points, which was also the highest score in the game. Scoring 48 points against Rodman in the game was enough to humiliate the former Pistons butcher, just like Jordan did when he slashed points in front of him. Lin Han also did it today, but Jordan chose a crazy breakthrough back then, and Jordan's breakthrough was no worse than Lin Han's three points.
"Lin, with your character, you should humiliate Rodman now, it's not your style to look at it from the side."
At this time, Lin Han, who scored the highest score in the game, celebrated with his teammates, and then kept his eyes on Rodman, who was walking to the bench not far away. Stockton on the side was a little surprised, after all, according to Lin Han's character, it was strange that this kid didn't humiliate Rodman.
"John. You don't know this guy, he's not an opponent who can be defeated by humiliation"
After Lin Han was silent for a while, he said with a smile on his face, and Stockton was a little stunned after Lin Han finished speaking. He really didn't expect to be beaten by Marlon in the first place. Now the former Pistons player who was beaten by Lin Han was actually valued so much by Lin Han, you must know that in the hearts of Stockton and many NBA veterans, if Rodman hadn't had the support of Ranbier and Thomas, this kid would have been blown up miserably, although this kid is also very strong, but not strong enough to be invincible.
Of course, in the game between the Jazz and the Spurs, the Jazz beat the Spurs on the road. This caused an uproar among almost all media pundits in the United States, after all, the Spurs were really somewhat restrained by the Jazz. But the recent state of this team is not a team that the Jazz can win so much, especially in this game when Lin Han defeated Rodman, perhaps the most famous butcher in the league like Jordan back then, there was an uproar, of course, what was even more uproar was Lin Han's extremely crazy style of play in this game, especially the extremely unreasonable three-point shooting outside the three-point line in this game caused a huge controversy.
And what is even more controversial is that after the game, when Lin Han faced many reporters questioning him about shooting too many three-point shots, Lin Han's answer almost made the football experts and experts in the United States crazy.
"Lin, you're not a pure three-point shooter, but don't you feel like you're shooting too much three-pointers this game? Why is that? ”
"Why do you shoot so many three-point shots? It's simple, because there's no four-point line in the NBA."
When Lin Han said such a sentence in the face of questioning with a little joking, whether it was the reporters and media experts at the scene, even many fans in the United States were in an uproar, and those who like Lin Han will naturally say that Lin Han is domineering, and those who don't like Lin Han will once again shout and scold Lin Han for being the number one cancer in NBA history.
It's just that Lin Han and Jazz have no indication of these public opinions in the NBA now, and they don't have any time to respond, because the team is still on a hard road trip.
After beating the Spurs on March 27, and immediately after March 29, the Jazz visited Phoenix to face the Suns, who are fifth in the West, and the game surprised the Jazz to the surprise that the Suns actually let their two leading players, Barkley and Kevin Johnson, take a standout, in this case, in the face of the Suns who did not think about winning, Linham and Jazz almost did not need to do anything to beat the team 111-94.
And after defeating the Suns on March 29, the Jazz welcomed the Warriors in sixth place in the West on March 3o.
The Warriors are not comparable to the Suns, a team that is 'resting', and the team that is now sixth in the West has been playing very crazy recently, and there is no intention of adjusting for the playoffs, and the Jazz have played extremely hard in this game.
Especially after the return of Chris Mullin, the outside strength of this team is simply terrifying, in this case, the Jazz still won in the end, but the win was very hard, 116-113, Chris Mullin failed to hit an empty three-point opportunity at the last moment, leading the Warriors to lose at home.
However, after defeating the Warriors with difficulty on the road to win five consecutive wins, immediately after April 1st, April Fool's Day, when the Jazz came to Seattle as a guest, facing the sound, this game can be said to have once again made the Jazz suffer a helpless defeat, after the game with the Warriors, the team that was in the semi-adjustment period was not able to play the best state, especially in the face of the old nemesis Sean Kemp's defense, the Jazz team's offense was a little dumb, 89-96, The Jazz, who lacked offense, lost again after a five-game winning streak.
It's just that after losing to Yin, the Jazz ended this more difficult road trip, and the team's record is still 63-9, and they are getting closer and closer to a 7o win with 1o games left in the season (to be continued......
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