Chapter 225: Advance to the Western Conference Finals!
(Chris Gatlin, also known as Chris Gatlin, is a very good interior offensive player, interested book friends can go to his video to watch)
The Warriors have the strength of an all-star player on the bench, which is indeed a little stunned by Lin Han, you must know that the team's second and third leaders are still in the season reimbursement, if any team in the NBA is reimbursed by the second and third masters, the team can also have a set of quasi-All-Star level or All-Star level lineup, which is extremely amazing, and now it is good, the Warriors not only have a set of quasi-All-Star level, but also an All-Star substitute, This kind of lineup thickness doesn't even have the Jazz.
Of course, although Lin Han was a little surprised by the strength of Chris Gatlin, the left-handed interior who had beaten himself on the court just now, but fortunately, after the bench players on both sides came on the court, after missing such a substitute killer as Gatlin, the Warriors' bench players finally did not have the strength that could compete with the Jazz bench lineup in the previous games under the leadership of Avery Johnson, so Lin Han, who was a little shocked by the thickness of the Warriors' lineup, finally calmed down a lot at this time.
"It seems that the potential of this team has finally been exhausted"
After the start of the second quarter, looking at the Warriors' bench lineup suppressed by the Jazz bench lineup on the court, Lin Han also breathed a sigh of relief, although Avery Johnson's strength is also very strong, but the Warriors' point guard is the worst player on this team, this is not to say that his strength is weak, in fact, the strength of this point guard is not weak at all, although it is not the league's first-class, but there are still second-rate, the key is that his offensive characteristics are not so consistent with the rest of the Warriors. The former Spurs player has a good break, a good degree, good passing and vision. It's just that the shooting is not good, in the current NBA where the interior is full of strongmen. It is impossible for a guard player who does not shoot well to rely entirely on breakthroughs, even if Drexler, the strongest breakthrough player in the former league, although this guy does not shoot well, but in recent years, when his body has not been able to fly as before because of injuries, this guy has to throw four or five three-pointers per game, which is no way, even if Drexler's current strength is not as good as when he was at his peak, but in terms of breakthroughs, the whole league can still rank in the top five. But in order to maintain his dominance, he still has to open up space for his three-point shooting ability, and Avery Johnson really didn't shoot.
So Avery Johnson needs other players to open up space for his breakthrough, very dependent on strong teammates, so he is not a suitable player to play on the bench, because the substitute player is the strongest at the moment, everyone else has to count on him, how can he count on others.
So, while Avery Johnson isn't necessarily much worse than Chris Gettering, he's not a pure scorer. It's really hard for a player who needs the help of his teammates to score a game that can be as lethal as Gatling.
When the Warriors changed lineups in this game, the Warriors and Jazz were about the same in terms of lineups, because of Gatlin's survival. Lin Han was indeed suppressed by him on the defensive end most of the time and couldn't move on the inside, the threat of the help defense was greatly reduced, and the power of other players on the offensive end of the Warriors slowly returned, of course, because of Gatelin's storage, although the interior athleticism is really good, and the offensive ability is also extremely strong, but after all, it is the interior line, and the double interior Warriors have become a lot slower in the rhythm of the offense. So in general, the Warriors who changed the formation are similar to the Jazz who also play with an offensive lineup, so this also gives Nelson Sr. a lot of confidence.
However, I watched the second quarter of the game between the Warriors and the Jazz. The Warriors' head coach's confidence in winning could be greatly undermined.
"The Warriors players are really good in terms of thickness, and these offensive teams have always been good in terms of roster thickness. Because it's easier to find a pure offensive player than a balanced player."
After Lin Han calmed down a little, Stockton next to Lin Han also said with a smile, and after the Jazz team's leading point guard finished speaking, Lin Han also nodded, and understood what Stockton meant, for the NBA, the highest temple of basketball in the world, it is not difficult to find a pure offensive player or a pure defensive player, as long as the team is willing to cultivate, although it will be slightly difficult to attack or defend at a high level, but if you really want to find, It can still be found, however, although the NBA has two major schools of defense to win the championship and offense to win the championship, and no one can convince anyone of these two major guns, but there is one thing that both sides agree on, that is, the team that can win the championship has the least shortcomings and the least weaknesses, so even the team that wins the championship on offense needs its own team's players to have basic defensive capabilities, such as when the Lakers and the Warriors met in sho-time, The Warriors were the strongest offensive team in the regular season that year, but in the playoffs, when the two teams met, the Lakers were able to average 124 points per game under the leadership of the Magic, while the Warriors, the strongest offensive team in the regular season, could only average 118 points per game, do you want to say what is the difference between 124 points per game and 118 points per game? In fact, there is no difference, the offense of both sides is non-defensible, and both sides can't actually defend against each other, but the Lakers were able to do a better job of rebounding than the Warriors in that series, and basically won the Warriors by 1o more than twenty per game, and it is this little difference that makes the Warriors and the Lakers both swing their offense to the extreme, but because the Lakers' defense is slightly better than the Warriors, the Lakers still win in the end.
Therefore, most NBA teams are often evaluating the comprehensive ability of players when selecting players in the draft, and many low-pick rookies can finally play out and be ridiculed by fans to ridicule those teams that do not know people, and those team management who are ridiculed by fans are actually very innocent, because this is the unspoken rule of almost all team management in the NBA, such as last year's rookie Van Axel, who doesn't know that this guy is attacking bullish, but no team is willing to draft him. For example, the Jazz's current backup guard David Wesley, and the NBA scout is not a fool, how can he not know that this guy is extremely versatile. The offense was also excellent, but in the end, the Nets used him for half a season and threw him away. As for PJ Brown, the same is true, his defensive ability at the time of the draft is also first-class among his peers, that is, because he has almost no offensive ability, so he also fell to the second round, so when the NBA team selects players, most of the time it gives priority to players with comprehensive elements, even if the players do not have comprehensive elements at the time, but they must also have the potential to have comprehensive elements in the future. This gives the illusion that NBA team drafts always select players based on talent, and that players with high talent will be ranked higher, when in fact players who have a comprehensive quality in the present and players who have a comprehensive quality in the future are a group of highly talented players.
Therefore, Lin Han was able to be selected by the Jazz team in the front of the wheel this year, and the Jazz team really thought highly of Lin Han, because Lin Han did not have any defensive ability at that time, as for whether he had defensive ability in the future, with the fact that Lin Han is yellow and is still a yellow guard, that is, basically no one will expect him to be able to reach the basic value in defense in the future, so even the editor-in-chief of Today's United States at that time wanted to break through the sky and greatly appreciated Lin Han's offense. Lin Han became Jordan's second at that time, but Lin Han's pick was still predicted by him in the second round, although it was only the second round. It's already good, the NCAA has a lot of players who average more than 2o points per game every year and don't even have a chance in the second round.
"However, to be able to find so many players who have reached this level of attack, Nelson Sr. has a really good eye."
Although the Warriors seem to have excellent roster depth, this team is very different from the way other teams in the league are selected, which means that this team is actually going to the wrong way, such a player who does not have many comprehensive qualities is basically impossible to win the championship in the current NBA, and there are too many players in the NBA who are excellent and can become All-Stars and even superstars but have never won the championship in their lifetime. Some of these players are really out of time, but some of them are really not likely to be champions. And this Warriors have not been a championship-winning team since they were drafted, and there are too few players on the team who have a comprehensive profile. However, to be able to reach this level, the old Nelson's selection is indeed excellent, because although most of the teams in the league are more righteous and comprehensive, but it is not without teams that are on the right path, most of these teams are very miserable, and the Warriors are the best, and the reason why this is the case is naturally because they have an extremely good head coach.
Of course, at this time, Stockton is very appreciative of the old Nelson's vision, but Lin Han can't appreciate it at this time, although the Warriors are not a team that can win the championship, Chris Gatelin is not a comprehensive player because of physical reasons, but this left-handed inside line is only in this game, and it is really enough to make Lin Han disgusting on the offensive end, although Lin Han believes that he will meet this guy in the next game, and position his lock-on defense on him, No matter how strong this guy is, he is not afraid, but this is the next game after all.
So at this time, Lin Han really shows that his strength still has a very big flaw, at least in terms of interior defensive skills, except for a locked block Chamberlain, he really can't take other skills, and Chamberlain's skill is strong, but the flaw is also very big, only one player can be locked per game, facing the player who is locked, Lin Han is really powerful, but he is not facing the player who is locked, Lin Han's defense is not a grade or two.
At this time, Lin Han was a little depressed by the old Nelson suddenly got one of such substitutes, and on the other side, when the second quarter started, when he saw the substitute players on both sides fighting on the court, the old Nelson's face was also very ugly at this time.
You know, in this game, he changed the lineup and put Avery Johnson on the bench, which really believed that Avery Johnson could replace the role of Gatlin, because this money Spurs player played a lot of time on the bench in the regular season, and the score was not small, but obviously, the old coach forgot about it, and he was followed by Gatlin as an inside containment point with All-Star strength. In this case, Avery Johnson's breakthrough was naturally very bright.
And now that the Warriors don't even have Gatling on the bench, he really can't rely on Avery Johnson alone, so when the Warriors, who were originally in good shape, suddenly collapsed after coming off the bench. Old Nelson's whole face was a little unsightly.
"Avery is not a good fit for our team"
Looking at Avery Johnson, who was extremely hesitant to lead the team alone on the court, the old Nelson said with a blue face. And Bob Rainier, the assistant coach of the Warriors on his side and a legendary center in the league with a very mild personality, also sighed.
Because he knows that with Nelson Sr.'s words, Avery Johnson will definitely not be able to stay with the Warriors next season.
However, purging Avery Johnson at this time is a matter of next season, and the most important thing this season is how not to be swept by the Jazz, as far as the current game is concerned, although Nelson Sr. has solved the problems encountered by the team's lineup. But there was another problem with the team's bench lineup, which somewhat made Nelson a little ugly.
And after looking at the team's bench lineup for three minutes of bad performance, the Warriors' veteran almost directly gritted his teeth, called a timeout after only three minutes in the second quarter, and then directly replaced all the team, and such a posture is already obvious, that is, the Warriors are going to fight hard with the Jazz!
After losing patience with the team's bench, it was clear that Nelson was ready to use the team aggressively in this game.
In the face of a change of formation like Nelson Sr., Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan was calm, or rather, calm. The team's bench lineup is really good, and it took three minutes to give the Jazz a six-point lead, which also gave Jerry Sloan enough capital to give the Jazz players more rest.
But. This is also the Jerry Sloan who has changed a little now, if it was the Jerry Sloan in the past, at this time the Warriors and the old Nelson were going to compete with him against the players of the ruthless team, the head coach of the Jazz team would definitely fight directly, this guy was also a ruthless man who could beat Malone for 48 minutes in the playoffs.
It's just that although Jerry Sloan wants to learn to become more calm and indifferent, after the Warriors are all on the court, the Jazz's originally dominant bench lineup is not so calm and indifferent, although the Jazz's bench lineup has Jerry Sloan's trust. Everyone's fighting spirit is good, but the gap in strength is still too big. After just two minutes of hard work, the Jazz got all of their players on the court.
However, although it was defeated by the Warriors. But the Jazz's bench lineup was still very relaxed when he came off the court, or he was very happy, because this was the first time this season that this group of players had received such trust from Jerry Sloan.
Originally, Jerry Sloan, who wanted to change himself recently, wanted to comfort these substitutes of the Jazz team, but seeing the expressions of these substitutes on the team at this time, he really didn't know how to comfort them, because these guys didn't need him to comfort him at all, but looked at him with a look of gratitude, which made Jerry Sloan a little surprised at this time, he had never enjoyed the eyes of his team's bench players before, or he had never chosen to trust his players as a substitute player beforeAs a team that doesn't have a lot of money to build a team, there's nothing wrong with the manager not believing in his bench.
At this time, Jerry Sloan was feeling all kinds of things that had not happened before because of his change, and the Jazz players who returned to the court quickly made up for the decline caused by the team's bench.
The offense of the Warriors team has become more three-dimensional because of the addition of Gatlin, which makes Lin Han's defense very difficult, and the Warriors' offense has indeed swept away the decline of the first two games and returned to normal, but the Warriors' offense is indeed back to normal, and this defense is also normal, in this case, the two teams have become extremely open on the court, especially Lin Han, in the first quarter he still wanted to try to block Gatlin, but after the second quarter played, He didn't have that kind of attempt anymore, and the two games focused most of his energy on the defensive end of the line. He quickly changed his style of play and focused more on the offense against the Warriors in this game.
'It was a very good game, both teams played very well in this game. Especially the Jazz, this is after Lynham played center. This team's first all-out offense, or Linham's first all-out offense after playing center, the Warriors have to make changes now, otherwise at this pace, they will collapse sooner or later."
When the two teams were putting all their energy on the offensive end of the game, it was a really exciting game, especially the attack between Ringham and Gatling. At the beginning, Lin Han was the main defense, Gatling was the main attack, and Lin Han couldn't defend against Gatling, so it seemed that he and Gatling were at a disadvantage.
But after Lin Han started to attack, soon Gatlin's seemingly advantageous situation was gone, and the Warriors' All-Star strength inside line was soon at a disadvantage, after all, although Gatlin rarely made enough physical contact with others on the defensive end because of his body, he wanted to win the game in this game, when he saw Lin Han attacking him again and again. The Warriors' interior also showed his strength on the defensive end.
However, although Lin Han's interior offensive skills are not very many, they are also not small, and Gatling can shoot from mid-range. Lin Han can too, and even further, Gatling can play hook hands, Lin Han can, or even better, Gatling can play back and turn to break through, and Lin Han can also, or even better.
Although it is said that because of the strong back fighting skills of the back, Lin Han is not enough in lethality. But next to him is a very lethal Malone, a Jazz player who has made the most free throws in the league.
"I really didn't expect these two teams to be able to play this way!"
When the two sides played the game from the first half to the second half. Even the head coach of the Warriors in the fourth quarter directly let the team play the second half directly, and when there were no substitution adjustments in the bench time, Collins on the sidelines was also a little surprised at this time Nelson Sr.'s determination to win the game.
However, seeing that the Jazz team also did not make substitutions at this time. Especially when he saw Lin Han facing Gatlin's defense, after a back-turn breakthrough broke through Gatlin, facing Webb who came to help defend and Gatlin who caught up to make up for the defense, directly forced Webb in the air from top to bottom or rode Webb to complete the dunk again, the head coach of the Bulls also sighed.
The Warriors have worked very hard, but this team has begun to slowly fall behind after the start of the second half, I have to say, this team is really not as good as the Jazz in terms of physical fitness, played five games with the Spurs in the last round, and their players did not have much rest time in this game, so in the middle of the fourth quarter, the Warriors almost only left Gatling with good physical fitness to complete the offense, and in the end this game became Linhan vs. Gatling.
Although Gatling's quality is indeed strong, when the Warriors really put all their hopes on him, the team is not far from failure.
In fact, when the game came to the second half of the fourth quarter, the Warriors who were behind could not catch up with the Jazz no matter what, but the point difference was getting bigger and bigger, and the old Nelson on the sidelines was already a little more and more heartbroken, until the final game When the Warriors lost 113-122 to the Jazz at home, the old coach's face was almost pale at the end of the game. Because this is the first time he has been swept by a team in a single round of the playoffs since he came to the Warriors!
At the end of this game, Nelson Sr. was still thinking about his first sweep after coming to the Warriors, while Lin Han on the court was panting and looking at his opponent not far from this game, the Warriors' bench inside.
Lin Han really didn't expect that one day he would play this game with a substitute player of the Warriors, which was simply something that made Lin Han feel like a fantasy.
This made after the game, when the rest of the Jazz players were celebrating wildly because they had reached the Western Conference Finals, and Lin Han was looking at Gatelin.
Lin Han's expression at this time was still full of surprise and puzzlement, he really didn't understand why such a player was willing to play as a substitute in the Warriors, it seemed that this guy was still very satisfied and had a good relationship with his teammates, Lin Han couldn't understand it at all.
At this time, although Gatling was a little disappointed in his heart because he couldn't win this game because he tried his best, he still didn't have any expression on his face, but he still betrayed his love when he looked at Lin Han's tightly clenched fists.
In the end, the Warriors' bench player turned around and left after giving Lin Han a fierce look, and Lin Han was still looking at the back of the Warriors player with a puzzled expression, completely ignoring the cheers of many Chinese fans who supported Lin Han at this time.
In this game, Lin Han changed the 'comprehensive' of the first two games, and Lin Han, who scored 44 points in this game, really made the Chinese fans on the scene very excited, and for them, they really liked to watch Lin Han's score even more.
"Congratulations to the Jazz for being the first team to reach the division finals, they had a great run in this series, both the players and the coaches, and they deserved to win this series."
This is a completely different evaluation from the last round of the Jazz promotion! (To be continued)
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