Chapter 215: Two Purple-Gold Skill Points
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After winning the Lakers at home, the Jazz ushered in a wave of 7 consecutive wins, and the record also came to 57-6, so far it is still ranked first in the West and the first in the league, and the second in the league is now 47-16, and the difference has been opened up by the Jazz to 1o games again, and in the last 19 games, as long as the Jazz can win 9 games, then this team will be able to ensure its first place in the league in the regular season.
For the Jazz, winning nine of their 19 games is no problem at all, and even the least favorite of the Jazz doesn't think the Jazz will win even nine of their remaining 19 games.
So when the Jazz started their road trip again after ending their home schedule, at this time almost all public opinion in the NBA was discussing whether the Jazz would set a new regular season record after winning the league, knowing that the best record in the league now is the 69-13 season best record held by the Lakers who won three consecutive games in Chinese New Year's Eve, and in addition to the 69-13 of the Lakers, the next is the Philadelphia 76ers in the 67-68 season, The 76ers that season had a 68-14 record under the leadership of Chamberlain, and the team that also had a 68-14 record like the 76ers was the NBA No. 1 giant, the Boston Celtics, which also played this record in the 72-73 season, as for the Chicago Bulls, a dynasty team that has won three consecutive championships in recent times, the team's best season is the 92-93 season, that is, last season, the team's regular season record is 67-15, Ranked fifth in the history of the league.
In that case, when the Jazz won 57 of the 63 games this season. Almost everyone thinks that the Jazz can at least surpass the Bulls last season, but as for whether they can surpass the Lakers more than 2o years ago, this is not certain. After all, although the Jazz look 57-6 right now is quite scary. But this team can't keep such a high level of attention all the time, when the Jazz confirm their league's No. 1 record, they can't work hard every regular season, and they will definitely adjust their state for the playoffs, and this is an important reason why no team in the NBA can reach 7o wins in a single season, because most of the teams with a record of more than 65 wins in a single season have almost locked the first place in the league by April, in this case, Most teams have opted to adjust for the playoffs.
Therefore. Now almost all the NBA public opinion in the United States is discussing whether this Jazz will start to adjust their form in April after determining the first place in the league in March, as those previous teams have done, or will fight for the league record of 7o wins in April.
After the NBA time entered mid-to-late March, the focus of the NBA was almost entirely on the Jazz, when everyone discussed the ownership of this year's regular season MVP, no one could jump away from the Jazz, and when everyone talked about the best coach, they would also think of the Jazz, and as for the best rookie, the best team. Even the best defensive team has been discussed very hotly in recent times, and the reason is that many people support Lin Han, who is now working harder and harder on the defensive end, to enter the best defensive team in the league. But there are also many people's impression of Lin Han's defense is still stuck in Lin Han's eye defense at the beginning of the season, and even some undisciplined reporters also made a 13-minute highlight of Lin Han's eye defense in those games at the beginning of the season and sent it to the TV station for some TV stations to broadcast.
It's fair to say that when the NBA's regular season comes to an end, even though Utah is a small place, the Jazz aren't a popular team, but when everyone is putting the finishing touches on the season, no one can avoid this team that has been almost crazy this season.
Of course, at this time, the whole world is debating whether the Jazz can play 7o wins this season. The Jazz themselves didn't think about it. Neither the head coach nor the players of the team have ever thought about this problem, because with Karl Malone falling out of love xù. Some things about the Jazz have almost become clear, and although the team is on an road trip now, the atmosphere of the team has begun to become more and more solidified.
Although Karl Malone is usually a very funny person, to say that the IQ is not very high, and Lin Han is the same as Stockton suppressed in IQ, even worse than Lin Han, but don't look at this guy's usual head is not very bright, but I have to say that the things that this guy has identified are really stubborn when he does it, and he really doesn't care about the feelings of the rest of the team at all, which makes Lin Han very surprised.
Because obviously, he is also such a person, as long as he identifies something, basically no one can pull it back, and now Malone is like this, when he decides what he wants, even if the team's head coach Jerry Sloan advises him, even if his good friend Stockton also advises him, but it is still useless.
This guy is still in love, although Lin Han doesn't know why Carl Malone suddenly has such an abnormality, Stockton and Jerry Sloan didn't tell him, joke, if Jerry Sloan and Stockton tell Sù Lin Han about this, they are really afraid that the conflict between Lin Han and Ma Long will directly intensify, after all, Ma Long's abnormalities are all caused by Lin Han, but Lin Han has not been aware of it, in the eyes of this jazz rookie, he has recently brushed a little skill point in addition to brushing a little jù, The shot did increase a little, but there are still not too many changes in the style of play, and there is no desire to continue to encroach on Ma Long's territory, after Jerry Sloan found Lin Han before and asked Lin Han not to play so freely, although Jerry Sloan still did not limit Lin Han in the end, but Lin Han himself also has some restrictions, knowing that he has now reached the maximum, if he no longer swells his offense and shots in moderation, the team may really have problems.
Although Lin Han is not the leader and boss of this team, he doesn't want the team to have problems because of himself, so Lin Han has actually been quite restrained recently, in this case, Lin Han doesn't think that Ma Long is abnormal because of his own reasons, and even Lin Han thought that Ma Long's increased offense annoyed Jerry Sloan at first. Jerry Sloan wanted to suppress Malone as he suppressed himself at the beginning, but he was full of sympathy for Marlon.
So, at this time, I watched Malone and Stockton and Jerry Sloan having an affair. Lin Han is actually quite worried about Ma Long, which can be regarded as a kind of sympathy. Therefore, after the team started the away trip, Lin Han, who had been holding a novel in his hand, rarely cared about Ma Long, especially when he saw that Ma Long and Stockton were in a cold war, and no one paid attention to anyone, the three masters of the Jazz would actually go to talk to Ma Long from time to time, as if he was enlightening Ma Long.
As for Lin Han's behavior of not knowing what to say, Ma Long was directly stunned. He really didn't know what Lin Han was doing, and as for Jerry Sloan and Stockton, they couldn't help but laugh when they saw this situation.
"Carl, I think you're right, it's not a good thing to suppress your instinctive desires for a lot of things in the game, I know how you feel now, because I've had it with you, but seriously, although you guys usually look quite unreliable, but the endurance that didn't want to bring you is really strong enough, if it were me. I'm afraid it's hard for me to suppress myself for more than half a season."
Since Karl Malone has increased his attack in the recent period, Lin Han does feel that his offense is a lot easier, after all, after all, after the All-Star. Because Lin Han's momentum is getting higher and higher, when facing many teams, they would rather choose to wrap Lin Han than to wrap Ma Long, this situation is completely different from the past, although Lin Han is not afraid of many teams, but I have to say that even Jordan is not so calm and comfortable when facing the bag.
And now after Ma Long has increased his attack power, although because Lin Han and Ma Long have become very unrestrained, it has affected the rest of the team. But both of them are actually quite cool.
It's just that in the face of Lin Han's comfort, Ma Long didn't know what to say for a while. So I can only choose to be silent, just after seeing Ma Long's silence. Lin Han also encouraged the teammate who had the same experience as himself and said with a smile: "Carl, don't worry, because in this matter, even if John chooses to oppose you, the coach chooses to oppose you, or even the whole team is against you, I will stand behind you and support you!" ”
This time Lin Han said very seriously, if it wasn't for Lin Han's cause, Ma Long would even be very moved at this time, even if he knew that this incident was caused by Lin Han, Ma Long was also very moved at this time, especially when Stockton chose not to support him and chose to stand with head coach Jerry Sloan to prevent him from brushing up jù, Ma Long felt that he was very empty now, because he couldn't understand why he was so supportive of him at the beginning. The old comrades-in-arms who have fought side by side with him for so many years will choose Lin Han between him and Lin Han, Stockton advised him not to fight against Lin Han, and Jerry Sloan also advised him to focus on the overall situation of the team, why didn't these people tell Lin Han not to play so aggressively?
In the end, Ma Long really didn't expect that it was his 'enemy' who stood by his side and supported him in the end, although Lin Han didn't realize this, but this did make Ma Long, who had been depressed recently, feel comforted.
"Lin, thank you, I know what to do"
In Ma Long's room in the hotel where the Indianapolis Jazz stayed, Ma Long leaned on Lin Han's back with some emotion and said.
At this time, the two big brushes of the Jazz team sat back to back on Malone's bed, and they were a little emotional for a while, of course, the content of the emotion was definitely different.
However, if Stockton and Jerry Sloan know that the team's two big brushes are hugging each other at this time, I'm afraid these two will really not know what to say at this time.
On March 18, 1994, the Jazz played the first game of their Eastern Conference road trip, this time against the Pacers, who were sixth in the East.
This team has been struggling in the first half of the season, and the recent table is really good, and now the team's record is 34-29, and the record has been brushed over 5o%, which is naturally enough to satisfy the Pacers, after all, in the first half of the season, the team's winning rate has not been more than half, and even at the beginning of the game, the team's head coach Larry Brown was even facing the crisis of resignation, and the team's fans really hated the defensive head coach to death.
And now, not many of these fans like Larry Brown. But there was no clamoring for him to step down, after all, the Pacers' record this season has been so bad that they have achieved a better record than last season, and that is enough. You know, last season the Pacers were 41-41 and barely made the playoffs as eighth. Because the Magic, who finished ninth in the East last season, were also 41-41.
Of course, although the Pacers' record is not bad now, it is really not comparable to the Jazz, after all, the Jazz are now 57-6, more than 2o games ahead of them, in terms of record, the two teams are not at the same level at all.
But obviously, although the record is not at all a grade. But the Pacers, who have been in a very hot state in recent times, are definitely not a store that the Jazz can despise, especially when these two teams met last time, that is, at the beginning of the season, Lin Han, who was still a visual defense at that time, was blown up by Reggie Miller.
At that time, Lin Han had just gotten Hamilton's off-ball running stunt and was ethereal, but it was obvious that at that time, how could Lin Han's gold-level ethereal stunt be Reggie Miller's opponent, it can be said that if it weren't for Reggie Miller in that game because he gave up his body flow to Lin Han to crush him, Reggie Miller was very moved and thought that Lin Han was a real gentleman on the court. So in the end, Reggie Miller also had the opportunity to humiliate Lin Han, but he did not choose to humiliate Lin Han, after all, in that game, except for Reggie Miller, he had an advantage over Lin Han. The Pacers are really no match for the Jazz, and there is no need for Reggie Miller to humiliate Linhan.
Therefore, for this game, in the face of one of the few opponents who embarrassed him very much this season, Lin Han was really cautious and very excited, after all, he also knew that his current self was definitely not the one he could compare with at the beginning of the season, at least now his ethereal is 1v3. Westbrook's straight-up pull-up jumper is also 1v3, in this case. Lin Han is really, very confident.
Of course, Lin Han is very confident in this match. The same is true for Reggie Miller, in the last game against Lin Han, he didn't play very well, there is no way, the gap between the strength of the two teams is too big, the gap between the state of the two teams at that time is too big, in this case, there is no way to let him go all out in that game, and now it is different, the team is in good shape now, and everyone's run-in has been completely in place, in this case, although he also knows that there is still a gap between the team and the Jazz, but the gap is not so huge and unchangeable.
"Lin, I'm going to show you all my strength in this game"
At the beginning of this game, Reggie Miller, who has always been arrogant, and even the league's top scorer who didn't even throw Jordan would find Lin Han, and the expression on his face was very kind, which made Lin Han a little surprised, Lin Han really didn't think that Reggie Miller would change his opinion of him so much because of the last game.
You must know that when Lin Han and Olajuwon were arguing over the best of the month in November, Reggie Miller was one of the players who also said that he wanted to teach Lin Han a lesson, and in Lin Han's heart, this guy has always been his enemy.
"I'll do my best, too"
Although Lin Han has always regarded Reggie Miller as an enemy, since this guy greeted him with a smile, it is impossible for Lin Han to put on a stinky face, after all, Reggie Miller and Olajuwon are different, and the two have no inextricable mortal enmity.
Recently, the Jazz's style of play is very simple, basically Malone and Lin Han use their talents to crush their opponents, there is no tactical content, and when they encounter teams that also do not have much tactical content or teams that are crushed in talent, the Jazz team is really killing gods and ghosts.
According to what Ellie said to Lin Han not long ago, the current Jazz reminds her of a team called Oklahoma City Thunder in 2o years, as if that team's style of play is exactly the same as the current Jazz, and even makes Ellie feel very interesting that the second leader of that team seems to be Westbrook who gave Lin Han the inheritance, and it is also very interesting that the team's second leader has more shots than the big boss.
Although judging from Ellie's expression, she seems to have some disdain for the current Jazz's simple and rough style of play, which is usually very powerful, but when encountering a team that Lin Han and Ma Long's talent can't crush, or a team with very tactical content, the Jazz will die miserably, but how many teams in the NBA can really have that tactical content? And how many teams are no worse than the Jazz in terms of talent?
But. As far as today's Jazz's opponent, the Pacers, is concerned, this team really belongs to the kind of team that is very tactical!
Although at the beginning of the season, Larry Brown had just arrived at the team. This team has to attack without attacking, and has to defend without defense. Even within the team, there is a lot of excitement within the team, and it can be said that it is a complete three-nil team, and such a team has now become one of the most rigorous teams in the league after most of the season.
And this Pacer is very similar to the Jazz's bitter home team, this is a team that is also very tall, the center Dutchman Schmitz is not very good defensively, but he is 2.24 meters tall, and the big forward Davis is not very offensive much. But being able to defend on top of people, and full of strength, the key point is that he is taller than Malone, this guy is 2.11 meters tall, as for the team's small forward, he is also a defensive giant, Derek McGee, one of the three musketeers of the front sound, is a 2-meter O6 big player who can be inside and outside, maybe the only weakness of this team now is their playmaking guard Poole Richardson, a short point guard whose offense is worse than Stockton, and this team is not as good as Stockton.
Of course. Aside from the lack of an athletic interior player like Kemp and a point guard with defensive capabilities like Payton, the team's configuration is really similar to the sound.
However, as normal. The main reason why Yin can restrain Jazz is because there is a Camp who is feared by both Lin Han and Malone, and there is also a Peyton who makes Stockton almost have a headache, so, normally, although the Pacers are very similar to Yin, it is impossible to restrain Jazz like Yin.
Therefore, for this game, Lin Han is very excited and very cautious. Reggie Miller is a strong opponent, but for the Jazz. It's easy for this team up and down.
However, when this game starts. The Jazz team, which was originally very relaxed, suddenly seemed to be a little relaxed, not because of how strong the strength of the Pacers is, although the technical and tactical ability of this team is very strong, but as many people know, this team still lacks so many players who can restrain the Jazz when facing the Jazz, and it seems to be a little difficult to really beat the Jazz, unless the team has its own problems.
Even the head coach of the Pacers, Larry Brown, knows this very well, so he just wants to fight for this game, and he doesn't necessarily have to win for his team, but when the game starts, things seem to be unfolding beyond his imagination.
Because obviously, really obviously, almost even the Pacers fans on the scene can see that after the game started, there were some problems with the Jazz's style of play, not the team's previous team-style running and bombardment play, nor the simple and crude talent flow play that shocked the entire league some time ago, because the big man of this team, Karl Malone, actually couldn't catch the ball on the court.
"What the hell has this team been in recent times?"
At this time, even Larry Brown was speechless for a while, although the Jazz's situation was very beneficial to them, but the Pacers' tactics before the game were not arranged like this, he didn't think that when Malone asked for the ball from Stockton, as long as Malone wanted to play alone, Stockton would not pass it, in this case, although the Jazz seemed to have some infighting in the table Xiàn was beneficial to his team, but what this defensive head coach hated the most was this kind of thing out of his control, He's a very controlling manager.
Moreover, at this time, when Stockton sent a large number of passes to Lynham and other Jazz players, although the Jazz changed their style of play, the offensive efficiency was not low, and the Pacers did not take advantage of it.
"A team that is going to compete for the championship, such a random change in the team's playing style is not a good thing, it seems that Jerry Sloan's heat is far from ah, and the control of this team can only be said to be average"
At this time, although Larry Brown's face was not very good-looking, he thought of Jerry Sloan, who had been very hot in recent times and was almost certain to become the best head coach of the season, Larry Brown thought with some disdain.
Lin Han is indeed a player who likes to attack a lot, and he is also a player who likes to control the ball, and he also hopes that he can have more balls to challenge Reggie Miller in this game.
But Lin Han, who mainly wanted to play no-ball running with Reggie Miller in this game, really didn't think that he would be able to gain so much ball, when he came out to catch the ball every time he ran without the ball. Stockton was able to get the ball to him almost every time, compared to Reggie Miller, who often couldn't catch the ball even if he was in good shape because he lacked a good point guard. Lin Han felt that he was really, very happy.
However, at the same time of accident and happiness. Lin Han couldn't be happy at this time, especially as the game progressed, watching his teammate Carl Malone keep asking for the ball in singles, and Stockton almost didn't look at Ma Long, Lin Han was very angry and very upset for Ma Long.
In Lin Han's opinion, what's wrong with Malone wanting to show his offense? He has this strength, and he is willing to swing it. Jerry Sloan and Stockton have no reason to stop him, and now that the team is winning, it has won seven in a row, and Jerry Sloan and Stockton have no reason to stop Malone.
It's just that Lin Han is complaining about Ma Long, who is very depressed about this game, but it is obvious that Jerry Sloan, who has been supported by Stockton, and Stockton, who has been supported by Jerry Sloan, are ready to be hard in the team, and the two must have reached a consensus, and the team will definitely not work if it continues like this, you know. Now that the playoffs are only a month away, the Jazz haven't gotten together yet, and there's no time left.
Lin Han and Ma Long are too willful. It is almost impossible to make these two realize their mistakes, and in this case, Stockton and Jerry Sloan decided to go straight after discussion, and after Jerry Sloan and Stockton combined, they did completely control the team's style of play.
If it weren't for Lin Han's style of play in this game as a no-ball run, which is a more team-based style of play, even if Lin Han wants to do that kind of brainless singles again, Stockton will not bird him, I have to say. While Stockton does have selfish intentions in this matter against Linham, the league is perhaps one of the best point guards right now. A very team player indeed, on the pitch. It's very rare that he can really make his teammates play the ball without any personal factors when they have the chance.
It's just that such a player who is not a bird in this game, and Stockton, who is not a bird of Lin Han, will not be liked by Ma Long and Lin Han, Lin Han is okay, he is an outside line, and this game was originally his scheduled way of playing with Reggie Miller to run without the ball, so he has not many shots or even more than before, but Ma Long is an inside line, which is difficult.
Because of the recent dissatisfaction with Stockton, Malone has rarely blocked and dismantled with Stockton in recent times, the two are not only a little cold off the court, but also a little cold on the field, for an inside line like Ma Long, there is no tactics without blocking and dismantling cover, there is no tactics can only go to singles, sit in the low position singles, the opponent is too high, Malone can't play, then you can only hold the ball and play breakthrough, which is also Ma Long's strength, But it's almost impossible to get this kind of singles stream of inside ball-breaking to get from Stockton, who is relentless in this game to control the team.
In this case, Malone is really aggrieved, as the player who is now the number one player in the league's MVP rankings, he can only defend and turn back and run throughout the game, how can he be happy.
Therefore, when this game reached the second half of the third quarter, when the Pacers' power forward accidentally put his elbow on Malone's neck when grabbing a frontcourt rebound, Davis did not have the strength to elbow Malone, and now the league's interior line does not elbow when grabbing rebounds, but at this time, Malone, who is in a very unhappy mood, does not care about these, after Davis grabbed this frontcourt rebound, the Jazz leader jumped up directly and knocked Davis to the ground with an elbow.
And when Karl Malone had not yet made a second-degree malicious foul by the referee, the Jazz leader himself left the court and walked into the players' tunnel.
You know, this game is a game that is broadcast live in the United States, and when this scene was born, almost the entire NBA fans in the United States were stunned.
Especially when they saw that Malone didn't see Stockton and Jerry Sloan when he left, many reporters went crazy with excitement after a brief period of shock.
For a long time before, many of them were concocting news of the Jazz infighting, which eventually turned out to be rumors, and now, the Jazz are really infighting!
This Jazz and Pacers game. The Jazz have the upper hand, although the Jazz's style of play has changed in this game, and Stockton completely controls the team. It was true that the Jazz were not aggressive enough, but this team played a rare overall game. Even Lin Han can only get passes in the off-ball run, and it is difficult for the Jazz not to be overall.
But although the Jazz played very well, the strength of the Pacers was indeed very good, although the Jazz led at the beginning of the game, but the lead was not much.
And when the third quarter was about to end, Malone went off the court because of an elbow on the opponent, and the referee immediately made up a second-degree malicious foul for Malone and ejected him from the game, and the balance of the game was tilted.
At least. When Malone chose to play in this way, not to mention the other players on the Jazz court, even Stockton and Jerry Sloan were stunned, and it was obvious that the current situation of the Jazz team was no longer suitable for a very anxious game.
And when the Jazz players insisted on finishing the game, but the Jazz, who was reversed from the middle of the fourth quarter, never caught up with the score after that, and even at the last moment, Lin Han roared at Stockton for the ball, ready to save the team by himself, but Stockton, who was determined not to give Lin Han and Malone a single ball in this game, almost rejected Lin Han's request with an iron face.
In this case. Although Lin Han was very helpless, there was no way, as long as Stockton was willing. He's really in control of the ball, and it's clear at this point that he has Jerry Sloan behind him.
"Damn, it's so damnable!"
When Lin Han almost watched the team continue to fall behind, but it was difficult to chase the score because of the lack of a sharp knife, Lin Han was almost completely enraged by Stockton, and even he wanted to apply to leave the field by himself like Ma Long, but obviously, he couldn't do it. After all, this game is nothing but singles balls. As long as he ran out of the way, Stockton didn't treat him badly, which is much better than Malone.
It's just that without those unreasonable scores. Although Lin Han's score in this game is still very high, but the lethality has indeed decreased a lot, in this case, the Jazz lost the first game of the Eastern road trip to the Pacers by five points 111-116.
And when the game ended, the whole Jazz team was a little confused at this time, except for Stockton, who was still calm, and Lin Han was a little angry, the other players were a little dazed.
At this time, many reporters on the sidelines looked at the technical statistics in their hands after the game, and when they saw Malone scoring 6 points and 1o rebounds on 2-of-4 shooting in this game, they almost subconsciously became excited.
"The Jazz are done this season! It's really over! ”
Everyone knows that when the season is about to end, there is infighting in the team, which is almost the end of the game!
Even if Lin Han scored 52 points and 14 rebounds on 19-of-32 shooting in this game, these reporters have directly ignored it, compared with Lin Han's number jù, the jazz infighting is more newsworthy!
Of course, these reporters ignored Lin Han's number jù in this game, and Lin Han, who was very angry at this time, almost ignored the number jù he played in this game.
Because he really didn't want to score in this game, because Stockton didn't give him a chance to score at all, but even so, with the good feel and state of this game, as well as the fighting spirit to challenge Reggie Miller, Lin Han played very the offensive end in this game, and Stockton's passing was really powerful, which made Lin Han not want to brush this game, but he unexpectedly got 52 points, and after Malone left, Lin Han's rebounds in the second half also increased a lot.
In this case, Lin Han, who was originally unintentional, actually won 5o+1o again, and after the end of the game, he actually got a purple-gold skill point again, plus Lin Han's remaining purple-gold skill point, Lin Han now has two purple-gold skill points.
It is already possible to improve Kobe's turn-and-back jumper to 1v3, and it is also possible to learn Kobe's jump-up pass.
And this is probably the only gain of Lin Han in this game. (To be continued)
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