No matter what happens after that, our Lakers players have believed that their team can win the game, and now there is not much time left before the end of the fourth quarter, and the Jazz, who are leading the game, are falling behind, which must be a big blow to them.

A lot of times we don't feel sad about things we didn't have, but we do feel very sad because we once had things and then lost them, and this can be common in many places.

The Jazz must not have thought that this game would be in the current situation at the beginning of the game, before the game started, they were probably still thinking about how to directly knock down our Lakers team, directly into garbage time, in fact, they did almost make our Lakers players believe this in the first quarter.

But then our Lakers players came together and finally brought back the spirit that should belong to us, so that the Jazz's ambitions could not be so easy to succeed.

In the previous games, our Lakers team has managed to drag the game into garbage time or close to garbage time in the first three quarters, of course we know how cool the feeling of opening the third quarter is, but obviously today we let them down, so that they can't experience the sourness of opening the third quarter, but may have to face the doom of failure.

I felt like I was a lot more relaxed during this timeout, but I know it's not the time to relax because as long as the game is not over, everything can be rewritten, and we are finally able to take the lead after the whole game, but the lead is only five points.

We can't play on that five-point advantage, we need to give all the strength we have left, try to win as much as we can, and we need to make it clear to the Jazz that the Lakers are a very strong team and we don't have to fear them at all.

This mental advantage is very important, and it may not be obvious in the regular season, but once it comes to the playoffs, the psychological advantage will determine a lot of things.

After the timeout, the Jazz launched the offense, and they obviously became more cautious on the offensive end, and they should want to ensure the success rate of every offense, because they don't have more capital to waste at this time.

The first offense after this pause, it is obvious that the Jazz have done a better job in offensive selection and ball sharing, the ball is no longer in the hands of a single player, but the whole team is involved in the offense, and their offensive tactics are also one ring after another, so that our defenders are exhausted when defending, and they have no idea what their real offensive intentions are.

After about a dozen times of the Jazz's offense, it finally passed to Karl Malone, who cut to the inside, and Karl Malone smashed the ball into our Lakers' basket with a two-handed dunk.

With the completion of his violent dunk, the emotions of the Jazz's home fans were finally reawakened after a while, and they probably held back for a long time in the second half of this game, and finally their team played a very wonderful offensive wave, which made the fans feel the strength and passion of the home team again.

Of course, our Lakers players didn't react to the goal and we quickly sent it out, and I carried the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and then handed it to Van Exel, who dribbled the ball on the outside for a few seconds and then passed it to Robert Horry.

At this time, I used SF's blocking to make a baseline inward cut, and after Robert Horry saw me in, he passed the ball to me at the first time, and I successfully completed this attack after receiving the ball.

Robert Horry's pass this time was quite good, he passed a proper amount of advance, guiding my offensive line to attack, in this offense our tactics are actually very simple, but because our Lakers did not use this tactic much on the offensive end before, it is equivalent to catching the Jazz off guard.

They probably thought I was going to play more with the ball at this point, but they didn't expect me to do the opposite, so they didn't notice my off-ball movements, and in the end we were able to pull the deficit back to five points again, and it was only two minutes before the end of the game.

The Jazz also quickly sent the ball out, Stockton held the ball in his hands for only about a few seconds, and then they began to play organized team basketball again, the Jazz's team basketball is honestly relatively good in the entire league, the reason why we were able to bite the point difference firmly today is actually more dependent on our mental strength, but there is also a very important reason that if you want to play with this Jazz team, Sometimes you can't really rely too much on the individual abilities of a superstar.

On the other hand, if you play team basketball like their Jazz team, you may have to play back and forth with them, this Jazz team is very good at stifling the superstars of the opposing team, and Shaq and I were very hard to suppress in the last game.

Of course, since it is a superstar, it is impossible to be rubbed on the ground by the opponent in the whole game, whether it is the recovery of my form and Shaq in the last game with the Jazz, or my outburst after the second quarter of the game in this game, it can show that the players who can really become superstars still have a little real ability, and it is not so easy to be completely blocked by the opponent.

In the next offense, the Jazz's style of play was like the previous offense, full of patience, and the tactical configuration should be quite successful, they will use different tactics for each offense, the purpose is to make our Lakers unable to respond in time.

Of course, this is mainly due to the strong overall tactical execution of their players, and when I completely blocked Stockton, the Jazz were still able to make enough responses, and they made every Jazz player on the court become an axis when Stockton had no way to organize.

In the game between our Lakers and the Rockets at home, I was quite impressed, because the players on the court of the Rockets at that time were also able to organize some games with each other, but now the Jazz players are still above the Rockets at that time, which has to be shocking, because to have such a strong tactical execution ability and on-the-spot adaptability, it is really not something that ordinary coaches can do.

Jerry Sloan, the head coach of the Jazz team, is really a pretty good coach, I think in the time and space of my previous life, he spent his life not being able to win a championship for the Jazz, which may also be the regret of the old man's life, but in fact, many very powerful players and coaches have not been able to get the championship ring in the end, because in order to win the championship, in addition to strength, it still requires some luck.

Especially in the playoffs, there are many times when some originally strong teams have a large number of injuries, and sometimes the opponents who could have been able to win fail to win due to referees or injuries, which is a huge blow to the team and the coach.

The game is still going on, the Jazz team cherishes every offensive opportunity very much, the previous attack was completed by Karl Malone's dunk, and this time they are looking for an opportunity for Hornacek to shoot three points, after all, they are now five points behind our Lakers, and the game has only about one and a half minutes left, so it is also fateful that they want to fight for a three-point shot.

Our Lakers team has actually been working very hard to chase Hornacek, this time the Jazz's three-point tactics are very obvious, but the helpless thing is that our Lakers players have reached the limit of physical fitness at this time, so there will still be a little bit of difficulty on the defensive end after all, even if our willpower is very strong, strong enough to ignore the pain caused by this lack of physical fitness, but lack of physical strength is not a problem that can be overcome by willpower alone.

When Hornacek received the ball outside the three-point line, we knew that it was too late to make up for it, and we could only silently pray in our hearts that he would not shoot this three-point shot, but it was just thinking about it, and it didn't work.

Hornacek has always been a player with a big heart, and many times the Jazz rely more on Hornacek's play to win at critical moments, and at this time Hornacek once again showed his characteristics and threw this very critical three-pointer, after the three-point shot, the entire Jazz home court was boiling, as if he had scored a three-pointer.

At this time, head coach Silver Fox Harris called a timeout, and his timeout was relatively timely, because after the three-point shot was made, the Jazz team was only two points behind our Lakers, in this case, we can't take it lightly, because once we are careless, then the next thing that will greet us will be quite a bad situation, the Jazz team is a strong team with continuous scoring ability, and their tactical execution is excellent, so their entire team will be very dangerous at critical momentsEvery point in their team is capable of scoring key goals, so in the next few offensive and defensive rounds, both teams will be battling it out, and who will emerge victorious?

The head coach Harris told me a lot at the timeout, but I basically couldn't listen to it, because the more critical moments like this, the more I trusted my instincts and my own judgment, and I didn't pay so much attention to what the manager said, because I knew that believing in myself at the critical moment was the most important thing, and no matter what, I needed to believe in my own ability at any moment.

When the timeout was over, I got the ball and went off, I carried the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and this time the Jazz didn't put a lot of pressure on me, and they must have been impressed with my off-ball run before, and they must have wondered how I was going to do it.

At this time, time is constantly passing, I did not rush to complete my offensive round, because I know that I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, I have to suppress my impulses and those not so good thoughts, what I need to do more is to be calm, when I only have the other team's basket in my eyes, I will let myself enter a different mode, in which I may no longer be myself.

By the time the Jazz players started to pack me, the clock was already within ten seconds, and the time of our Lakers' offensive round was about to run out, 10, 9, 8, 6, 5, 4, the time was already running out.

And I'm not particularly flustered, my whole person is in a state of detachment, I know what I'm doing, I know what the opponent is going to do to me, they're going to do their best to defend me, so all I need to do is complete this attack, no matter what, I said to myself.

I used a cross step past two Jazz defenders, but I didn't break inside, and when they stepped back, I used a step-back step straight to the three-point line and jumped out.

The difficulty of this ball is naturally very huge, and it is also completely unthinkable for the Jazz team, because I have also had some difficult shots or difficult three-point shots before, but such a step-back shot outside the three-point line is extremely rare at least in this era, but I have actually practiced these positions in my usual training, in order to prepare for such moments.

I was the key player in that moment that could make the difference between the two teams and I knew I had to take the ball into my own hands because I had the ability to do it all.

It's amazing that this three-pointer hit again, and with this three-pointer, my game score today has unknowingly reached 40 points, I cut more than 10 points in one breath in the second quarter, and I also unknowingly cut more than 10 points in the fourth quarter, I don't know how I got so many points in a situation of extreme physical exhaustion.

It may be a miracle for others, but I know it's not a miracle for me, because I've put so much effort into a moment like this, I've trained so hard, so I feel like I deserve it, and it's a moment that is undoubtedly mine.

The Jazz were only able to call another timeout, and with less than a minute to go until the end of the game, the balance of victory once again tipped in favor of our Lakers, and after trailing by 43 minutes, we were five minutes from the end of the fourth quarter to take the deficit and gradually expand the margin to five points.

And then we Lakers held that advantage until the last minute, and then the pressure will undoubtedly come to the Jazz, because this is their home court, so they will face an additional pressure from the home fans.

I think this pause time passed very quickly, maybe because my whole person is a little floating now, this is a state of being very focused on one point, in this state my ability has really improved a lot, this is not only an improvement in personal ability, but also an improvement in personal mental state, when my personal competitive state is so good, everything will become different.

The Jazz's offense after the timeout is going to be crucial, and if they don't have a way to score this offense, then there is no doubt that our Lakers have a very good chance of winning.

Stockton eventually managed to get possession in the crunch of time, but what they didn't know was how excited I was at this point, and in that state, even a top ball handler like Stockton couldn't take advantage of my defense.

When I steal Stockton, I see a trace of fear and confusion in Stockton's eyes, which I have never seen in the whole game, when I directly cut off the ball in Stockton's hand, my brain is actually blank, and finally I smashed the ball into the basket, this feeling is really too wonderful to be honest, there is no way to describe it easily in words.

With a seven-point lead and less than 50 seconds left, have the Jazz been condemned to death?

Yes, I personally pronounced the death sentence for the Jazz, and in the end our Lakers won the game by six points, and when the game was over, I fell to the ground, and I scored 46 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 steals by myself.

I fell to the ground and seemed to remember the rest of the matter, my brain briefly starved of oxygen, and then I passed out.