May 6, 1996, Great Western Forum Arena, Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Lakers host the first game of the second round of the playoffs at home.

Home to the mighty Utah Jazz.

Because of Lin Han's relationship, the relationship between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Utah Jazz is a bit like a rival.

However, such an old enemy is not like an ordinary old enemy.

Most of the ordinary rivals are fans who support each other's hatred for each other.

But the Jazz and the Lakers.

It's all about the players holding up the hatred with the other side.

The relationship between Ma Long and Lin Han is confusing.

Lin Han's attitude towards Ma Long is very ambiguous.

Ma Long's attitude towards Lin Han is very direct.

It's like a fist hitting cotton made of steel wire, what kind of feeling it is, only Ma Long himself knows what kind of punch he makes.

After Lin Han came to the Lakers, he took the Lakers to win the championship like a miracle last season.

Right now, the Lakers' home arena, the Great West Forum Arena, is definitely one of the most enthusiastic in the league.

Before the game even started, the Lakers fans in the stadium were already chanting Lin Han's name and booing Marlon Stockton.

Shouting Lin Han's name and singing for Lin Han before the game is a regular item for Lakers fans.

But boo Malone, this is not a fixed project.

Lakers fans are not like fans of other teams.

For example, to compare with Celtics fans.

The Lakers and Celtics are the two biggest names in the NBA.

But the styles of fans of the two teams are completely different.

The Celtics give people a feeling of blood to the bones, the team is bloody, the fans are bloody, and there is a lot of emphasis on that kind of mental strength.

The Lakers, on the other hand, will place more emphasis on elegance.

This has to do with the Celtics and the founders of the Lakers.

It was the Cardinal who laid the foundation for the Celtic style and foundation.

It was the Magic who laid the foundation for the Lakers' style and foundation.

Cardinals play with blood and spiritual strength.

And magicians play with elegance.

So, at Celtic's home stadium, you'll often hear them booing the away team's opponents.

But on the Lakers' home court, as it is now, it is not so easy for all the fans to boo one person or two.

Maybe it's easier to give the other person a round of applause.

From another point of view, being able to be booed by Lakers fans like this in Los Angeles, Malone and Stockton can be regarded as the pinnacle of their lives.

"Thank you Malone and Stockton for sending Han Lin to the Lakers, they deserve to enjoy our boo-off celebration"

"Maybe we'll be more effective by thanking Malone and Stockton before the game"

It is not known which fan group proposed it before the game.

Before the game between the Lakers and the Jazz, there were really a large number of fans who were booing him with words of thanks to Malone.

This made Malone at the scene very speechless.

This kind of thing that belongs to black history is mentioned again and again, and he always feels extremely embarrassed.

"Karl, don't be influenced by the fans in the stadium, the Lakers are not the Spurs, and the Lakers will not give us a chance to make mistakes!"

"I know that I will not be provoked by anyone in this race, this season I only want to win the championship"

After beating the Spurs, Malone was very confident.

The Spurs are not an ordinary powerhouse, but a super powerhouse with eight superstars.

Such victories and promotions are a great boost to morale.

If it was last season's Jazz vs. last season's Lakers, Jerry Sloan wouldn't have any luck.

There is no use for his coaching skills or his on-the-spot play.

Now, when the two teams are close to each other, his coaching ability can be brought into play.

"The Jazz are going to play big and four small in this game, and Spencer didn't start."

"Apparently Jerry Sloan thinks Spencer, who managed to stop David Robinson in the last round, is useless against the Lakers"

"The starters on both sides of this game, the Lakers' side is a combination of Mutombo, Rodman, Eddie Jones and Lin Hanjo Dumas, while the Jazz side is Marlon, Stockton, Hornacek, Steve-Smith, Russell."

"On the Jazz side, this is a very fast lineup, which should be the strategy for Lin Han's passing"

"Jerry Sloan is very familiar with Lin Han, and he defends Lin Han alone, and this defensive strategy was invented by Jerry Sloan"

"Using Malone as a center in a small lineup is the Jazz's secret weapon, but it's also quite risky."

"In the face of the Lakers, the Jazz can't take risks"

When the Jazz beat the Lakers, they had to take a risk, and they wanted to let Spencer play five and Malone play four.

This will squeeze a lot of offensive space, and the Jazz's offense will drop.

But the Lakers aren't going to drop much offense.

Lin Han's kind of offense, how many points he scores in a game is fixed.

So, if they want to beat the Lakers, the Jazz must make breakthroughs and risks on offense.

Purely want to defend well, it's not realistic at all, Lin Han's offense is already difficult enough, how difficult can it be to defend even harder?

At the end of the day, basketball is a game of who scores more points.

When the opponent knows that he can't defend no matter how he defends, he will score so many points in every game.

What do you have to do to win against this opponent?

Naturally, they won't do things to improve the defense, and no matter how good the defense is, the opponent can easily score, so there is no point.

Defense doesn't make sense against Lin Han, but Malone can play on the offensive end, as long as they score more points than the Lakers.

And if you want to change the offense, you have to take the risk and put Steve Smith in the starting lineup.

Forming a lineup of Malone, Russell, Stockton, Steve Smith, Hornacek.

These five lineups, except for Ma Long, who can play strongly inside, are full of excellent shooters outside!

Hornacek is shooting 47 percent from three-point range this season, Stockton is 42 percent and Russell is 40 percent.

And Steve Smith's is 35%.

Even the lowest Steve Smith is a pretty good shooter in the NBA right now

What's more, Steve Smith is not responsible for outside the three-point line, but in the middle distance!

The tactic is already obvious.

is ready to allow Malone to better play his all-round offensive advantage.

Malone can play hard inside, can block with Hornacek or Stockton, and can also pass the ball.

Such a lineup can almost be said to have brought Ma Long's influence on the offensive end to the extreme!

It's just that such a change has made Jazz's height shorter across the board.

Whether this will be an advantage or a disadvantage, no one knows.

On the first ball of the game, Malone couldn't jump Mutombo, so the Jazz lost a midcircle jump ball victory.

"The race has finally begun!"

Before the game, Malone heard a lot of Lakers fans thank him, of course such thanks are not really thanks, and he is not an idiot, this is a humiliation for him!

In the face of the humiliation of these Lakers fans, it would be impossible if he didn't get angry, but he knew that it was useless to be angry!

He needs to wash it all away with his grades!

He needs to clean it all up with a championship that he leads alone!

After the series against the Spurs, he felt really good!

He felt the feeling of omnipotence!

Facing David Robinson, who is also one of the eight superstars, he did whatever he wanted!

Now, he wants to keep this omnipotence until the end of the season, so that he will be the final champion, and then he will also wash away all the stains on his body!

"Now the Jazz have a very small lineup on the court, and the Lakers have a lot of options to attack!"

The Jazz had a small lineup in this game, and the role of the defensive end was to pinch Lin Han's pass.

In the face of Stockton's single defense, Lin Han unexpectedly did not rush to dry up as he was in the regular season.

Every game with the Jazz in the regular season was played to the end, which means that his style of play that has been dry cannot kill the Jazz all at once.

When he didn't have the stamina to pull out and picked up the mid-range weapon again, he and his teammates, hands were cold.

In the end, there is naturally no way to kill Jazz with a hammer, and even Jazz will chase points in the end.

The Jazz put this kind of small man lineup and let Stockton defend him alone, which is clearly to let him continue to pull out three points.

If he really did this, wouldn't he have fallen in the shoes of Jerry Sloan?

After Lin Han advanced to the front court with the ball, he signaled to Mutombo on the inside, and soon, Mutombo mentioned the ceiling.

"Lin Han is ready to play with Mutombo, he has already seen the problem of the Jazz's small lineup, the Jazz's small lineup has no frame!"

"Malone is very difficult to do now, if you follow out, then the inside line will be empty, if you don't follow out Mutombo and Lin Han to block and dismantle, after helping Lin Han block Stockton, it will be an empty three-point! Let Lin Han throw three points in the empty position, almost no different from suicide! ”

Since the Jazz are ready to use a small lineup in this game, they are naturally prepared.

Ma Long did not hesitate at all, and when Lin Han and Mutombo were about to block and dismantle, they followed directly.

Blocking and dismantling substitutions, Ma Long did not give Lin Han a chance to vacate the position.

It's just that after the substitution was completed, the basketball in Lin Han's hand went to Mutombo's hand like a trick.

Signature Lin Han-style behind-the-back pass!

Facing his own defense were Stockton and Russell, who was on the back of the basket.

Mutombo can almost ignore it outright!

Russell didn't stand still, and he just snapped it out.

If, stand still......

"Russell's defensive anticipation is very good, blocking Mutombo's approach, but he can no longer defend his opponent Eddie Jones, beautiful two-handed dunks, Mutombo's condescending pass is also excellent, and of course even better is Lin Han's incomparably freehand back pass as the initiator of this attack!"

Although I thought that the Lakers would attack like this, it was still a little surprising to see that the Lakers really played this kind of overall offense.

"He's really changed now"

If it was last season, he believed that in the face of Stockton's single defense in front of him, Lin Han would not hesitate to pull out three points!

In this way, the disadvantages of the Jazz's small lineup will be completely covered up.

No matter how powerful Lin Han's three-point pull is, it will only have a 50% shooting rate!

The 50% hit rate is very powerful, but Lin Han can't shoot infinitely, and he can't beat Jazz!

However, because of his large number of dry pulls from outside the three-point line, the rest of the Lakers players will lose their offensive rhythm and waste the best offensive opportunities of their teammates.

There were few challenges for Lin Han and the Lakers in the regular season, so the rest of the Lakers players could even lose their rhythm.

But when it comes to the playoffs, when it comes to this kind of targeted game, it can be dangerous to lose rhythm.

Lin Han saw this danger, so he changed!

Lin Han's change is not an improvement in strength, but an improvement in ball quotient and understanding of basketball.

This series with the Lakers is more difficult than he imagined!

Because of the continuous lessons of Malone in the regular season and the playoffs, Rodman is ready to take revenge.

In the second half of the season, the most important thing for Rodman is to let Lin Han simulate Malone to beat him, in addition to brushing data and flashes on the court.

Now, finally facing Malone again, Rodman is riveting and ready to wrestle with Marlon!

It's just that Malone is playing center forward in this game, and Rodman will be very uncomfortable if he steals Mutombo's defender.

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Come with it, and Rodman will have a frame problem.

Don't go out, it's full of three-point opportunities outside, and there are a bunch of players on the Jazz court who shoot 40% from three-point range.

In the end, Mutombo gritted his teeth and went out.

As for the issue of protecting the frame, I can only believe that Rodman can withstand Malone one-on-one.

Mutombo was just about to go outside to stare at Russell when he turned around. I heard a thud behind me.

When I looked back, I saw Malone hanging on the basket.

"From this defense, it can be seen that Rodman's preparation is very sufficient, compared with the regular season, he can withstand Malone, but his figure is still too thin compared to Malone, after Malone's power hit, Rodman will not be able to defend Malone's back and turn around."

This style of back to turn around.

Full of O'Neill's shadow.

Lin Han has been paying attention to Ma Long's fight against Rodman, although Rodman has practiced with him for half a season, he is very well prepared.

But the Ma Long he simulated was different from Ma Long after all.

His figure is much thinner than Malone, and after he knocked Rodman away, it was impossible to play Malone's style of back turn.

is worthy of the person who beat the admiral to tears in the last round.

Even if the general was attacked by Ma Long, it would be against the sky to be able to sneak attack the general at the level of the best defensive player like that.

After the game started, Lin Han did not force the fight.

Faced with the Jazz's traps, he is organizing his teammates.

The Jazz, on the other hand, are constantly using Malone's offensive influence to score.

Halfway through the first quarter, the two sides played a 16-16 tie, and the offensive efficiency of both sides was quite high!

"Dennis, you're alright"

"He's a lot stronger than I thought he would!"

Without the devastation that Lin Han feared, Rodman looked excited!

"Lin, I don't want your help in this game, I want to be alone against him!"

"Whatever you want"

With Lin Han's permission, Rodman was very happy, and Lin Han was also very happy.

This feeling of being surrounded by helpers is something he didn't feel last season.

Last season, after Malone exploded, he needed to take care of Malone personally, and if other people exploded, he had to take care of others.

How good it is now, even if the other party explodes, there is a point on his side.

As for being beaten to death by Marlon?

Of course it doesn't exist!

As long as he and the Jazz are evenly matched in the first half, it is not up to him to have the final say in the second half!

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