The halftime time is really short, although people who usually watch the game may think that the halftime break is quite long, and it takes a long time to watch advertisements or something, but in fact, for the players who are playing on the spot, the fifteen-minute break is really not enough, and there is no sufficient rest and recovery at all, and the second half will start again.

But I couldn't do anything, even though I was very tired in the first half, but I still kept going because I already saw some hope of winning this game, and if I can really win this game with my efforts, then there is no doubt that I can basically be considered famous.

Although our Lakers record before this season was also very good, and my stats were okay, it was an achievement with Shaq after all, and this back-to-back away game, against the strong Jazz, if I can still win the game without Shaq, there is no doubt that it will be able to bring a very big advantage to my own psychology, and I will be a little more confident when I meet Shaq in the future.

At least not to say that he is considered to be completely hugging Shak's thigh, although Shaq is indeed the mainstay of our Lakers team, it can't be said that Shaq alone has made our Lakers this far.

I even felt a little bit of excitement in the back of my heart when I thought about it, and there was no doubt that this match was an opportunity for me to prove myself.

In the first quarter of the first half, I was heavily defended by Stockton, and my form was very sluggish, but in the second quarter, I didn't improve my form a lot, which shows that I do have the ability or the potential to do this.

As long as I can play well, no matter what the end result is, as long as I can play my full game, then it's all worth it.

In the second quarter, I had two balls that were particularly exciting, and the fans at the scene also turned against each other and booed their home team, which shows that as long as my strength is strong enough, it can also make the home fans have a feeling that our Lakers team may even be better than their home team.

The second half started very quickly, and our Lakers took the lead in attacking, and I was watching to see if the Jazz had decided to change their defensive strategy to me in the second half, but I found that it didn't seem to be much different from the first half, and they still let Stockton defend me, and then they rarely wrapped me up.

My understanding of this is that they may have figured out in the first half that if I was really in a really good state, it would be difficult to really defend me even if a lot of people were clamping me, so they simply let me play on my own, and they still cut off the connection between me and my teammates as much as possible, as long as I did that, then my power was generated by one person after all.

My fitness had already dropped a bit in the first half, I couldn't have scored all the points for the team, and they seemed happy to see me overuse my energy, so when they went crazy with me in the fourth quarter, it would be hard for me to have the fitness to score key points.

I thought of something like this in my mind, so I immediately frowned, I didn't want to be like that, so I didn't get involved in the offense too early after the second half started, or I was trying to find a way to completely liberate our Lakers offense in a state where I could have a more benign interaction with my teammates.

If my offensive singles can't attract the Jazz's bag, it's a pretty big question how long my singles can last.

This is also a problem that the single-core team has to face, when there is Shaq, we are at least the inner and outer core, so that the opponent can take care of one or the other when defending us, and now I have to support the offensive and defensive system of the entire Lakers team alone, obviously my current strength is not up to that level, you must know that even if it is the peak Kobe, it is difficult to really do this, which is actually determined by Kobe's style of play.

Kobe's style of play often determines that he can make a team very top-notch, but the premise is that he needs a good interior player as the foundation of the team, because Kobe Bryant can't do everything alone, and what he is best at is one-on-one singles and one-on-one defense.

And other things such as organization and rebounding, in fact, need teammates to share some of the pressure for him, so when Kobe Bryant has achieved brilliant achievements in his career, the team has a top interior such as Shaq or Pau Gasol.

I guess I feel the same situation in my current state, because my energy is still limited after all, and I have to give all my strength to lock up Stockton on the defensive end, which makes it impossible for me to maintain my output on the offensive end all the time.

And I found that after the half-time, not only did I not feel much more recovered, but I felt that my body was more tired, and I knew that this was because my fatigue had accumulated to a certain level during this time.

My usual training intensity is too great, so that my body has not been able to fully get a maximum recovery, which also leads to my fatigue accumulation is actually far beyond my teammates, although my body's ability to resist this fatigue accumulation is also very strong, but everything has a limit, once it reaches a certain limit, my body still has no way to resist.

In the next game, Robert Horry and I played on the offensive end because he had a three-point range, so he could step back to the three-point line after we blocked, and I would have more options, and the interior player on the opposite side, Karl Malone, was actually not very willing to defend Robert Horry outside the three-point line.

Every time he defended, he just pretended to pounce on the outside, but in fact, many times he didn't really save Robert Horry.

Naturally, I saw this in my eyes, so I decided to use this to let Robert Horry and I do a high pick-and-roll, and then find a way to get the Jazz to change their defensive strategy.

Robert Horry doesn't have any problems with his basketball IQ despite his lack of athleticism, and at least when it comes to executing his tactics, I think he's the best player on our Lakers roster.

Since Stockton and Karl Malone like to use pick-and-roll tactics to beat us, then we simply use pick-and-roll tactics to beat them, and I don't know what they think in their hearts at this time.

Of course, since they are the top pick-and-rolls and must have a lot of experience defending pick-and-rolls, I'd better not be too happy.

However, in fact, the results I received after Robert Horry and I carried out the pick-and-roll strategy were really unexpectedly good, and soon Robert Horry and I revitalized the entire Lakers' offense on the offensive end, and it seemed that even the black and white of the pick-and-roll master was difficult to defend my and Robert Horry's pick-and-roll offense.

Because in fact, I kept observing the blocking and pick-and-roll between Stockton and Karl Malone, as the so-called threesome must have my teacher, and I also worked hard to study the blocking and pick-and-roll tactics that they are best at, in fact, in our Lakers team training before, I tried to get Shaq and me to practice similar blocking and pick-and-roll tactics.

However, Shaq is a bit too self-righteous, he doesn't think it's necessary to learn and use other people's tactical systems, I can only shake my head helplessly, if Shaq wasn't for this kind of character, I think his achievements should be much higher than now.

Of course, the Jazz also played a good role on their offensive end, when my defense against Stockton has reached a limit, the Jazz came up with their killer feature, many blocks, and their blocking is not limited to Karl Malone and Stockton, but continues to expand to other Jazz players, when they use this changeable blocking system, our Lakers will still fall into some trouble in dealing with it.

The Jazz players execute their tactics very well, and the most important thing is that Hornacek is getting a lot more difficult to defend now, and when I put all the defensive focus on Stockton, their other outside shooter, Jeff Hornacek, is not so easy to handle.

Our Lakers team really has nothing to do about it, because Van Exel's defensive ability is relatively poor, he mainly plays his power on the offensive end, and today Van Exel has actually helped our Lakers team a lot on the offensive end.

I didn't mention him much before, but he was still the Lakers player with the most points in today's game besides me, followed by Robert Horry.

However, his scoring was mostly concentrated in the first quarter, and when I was completely locked up by Stockton, he stepped up and took on a fair share of the scoring tasks, but then when I got into shape, he didn't take much action on the offensive end.

Now in the third quarter, I was consciously conserving my energy, so I also gave a large part of the offensive opportunity to Van Exel, hoping that he could help our Lakers team to a certain extent when my form was relatively declining.

However, although Van Exel's offensive play is okay, he can only be regarded as a big colander on the defensive end, because whether it is defending Hornacek or Stockton, he is difficult to really defend, of course, among these two people, Hornacek is actually a little better defensive, after all, Hornacek's speed is not very fast, so with his speed advantage, he can still have a chance to defend.

It's just that in the actual defensive process, Van Exel's real problem is that he is very inexperienced, not only because of his lack of defensive experience, but I think the more important thing may be that his defensive habits are relatively bad, which can be changed through later learning in many cases.

It's just that if you don't get used to this thing at the beginning, it's more difficult to really want to correct and modify it later, and I feel deeply about this.

Because I'm actually trying to fix some of my bad habits on the defensive end, which sometimes don't form in a day or two.

It was gradually formed over a long period of time, and I didn't know which habits I had problems with, or in the process of watching the game video later, and then communicating with the defensive coach, I realized that I still needed to improve in many defensive details.

Only by improving my defensive skills step by step will it become more solid.

And when Van Exel's face Hornacek, although he can keep up with the speed of his footsteps, what really makes him so powerless is that when he defends the Jazz's blocking, he seems to think a little too simply, precisely because of this single-mindedness, he can't see the Jazz's real tactical intentions after the blocking.

Many times when you are on the basketball court, the opponents you face will create some problems for you, they will let you see some flaws, but in fact, those flaws are deliberately let you see, the purpose is to lead you into their trap, and this is actually a very normal thing, because the basketball game itself is a game process, so in this process, you and the opponent are not only competing for the body, skills, willpower, but also for the brain. If you don't have enough basketball IQ, it's easy to lose sight of your opponent's true tactical intentions, which can make you suffer on the defensive end.

This is especially true when dealing with a team like the Jazz, who are obviously very good at this kind of complex tactics, and their multiple pick-and-rolls will have a lot of possible follow-up tactical extensions, and the result of these tactical extensions is that our Lakers players will be helpless in the face of their kind of offense, lose a defensive focus, and then always give their outside shooters room to leak.

Of course, there is no way to do it, after all, any team is actually very weak in the face of the Jazz's blocking and dismantling tactics, but some teams are willing to pay more energy on the defensive end, and our Lakers win many times by defeating the opponent on the offensive end, we rely more often on the defensive end are the individual talents and personal defensive abilities of the players themselves, but in the face of the opponent's overall team offense, no matter how strong the individual defensive ability is, it is very limited after all.

In the next game, our Lakers and Jazz continued to collide fiercely on both offensive and defensive ends, and as our Lakers players' expectations for this game changed, they began to realize that we had a certain chance to win this game, and at this time our Lakers team began to become stronger.

This kind of psychological change is very valuable, it will give you strong inner strength, so that you can overcome any difficulties, as the saying goes, difficulties are like springs, if you are strong, it will be weak, if you are weak, it will be strong, but it is not easy to achieve this kind of mental toughness.

And this kind of game actually gives our Lakers a better opportunity to give our players the opportunity to develop this kind of resilience on the level of character, which is actually very important for us, because when the opportunity comes again, especially in the playoffs, the temporary deficit can't really beat you, what you need to do is to keep a positive heart no matter how big the disadvantage is, and firmly believe that you can have a chance to change the current disadvantage.

The Jazz's offense played quite well in the next few minutes, and at one point regained a five-point advantage, but our Lakers' resilience showed itself at this point, and we quickly used another small surge to recover those differences.

To be honest, this process of pulling points between each other is very interesting, which means that you have made some progress in attack and defense, and as long as we can grit our teeth and keep the margin within a certain range, we will definitely have a chance to win this game.

And this opportunity is not small, I also found that the Jazz players have some psychological problems when they have no way to open up the point difference, they are also human beings, and they will also affect their psychology because of some external factors, once their emotions begin to change, then it means that our Lakers team can get a certain opportunity, which may have been difficult to obtain before.

When the game reached the third quarter or so about six minutes, the coaches of both sides did not even call a timeout, which made the NBA only call an official timeout.

He also saw the resilience that we showed against strong opponents, and that was very, very valuable.