When I started to focus on defending my Stockton, I noticed that this guy was thin and calm, and you could barely see the slightest change in emotion on his face, and I knew that such a player was the most terrifying, and you couldn't tell what he was thinking or how he was going to react next from the details of his eyes and movements.

In Stockton's first round of defending me, I didn't find a particularly good way to attack because when he was in front of you you you had the illusion that all the offensive styles could hit him, and when you were unprepared to choose a random offensive style to hit him, he would change his defensive strategy on the spot depending on the way you attacked.

As the 24-second stretch of this offense was about to end, I took a step outside the three-point line with the ball and began to press the center of gravity, ready to directly attack the Jazz's interior with the simplest cross-step breakthrough.

But then I realized that it was all a trap that Stockton and the Jazz deliberately set for me, he deliberately left me a line of his right-hand, my left-hand offensive line, when he was defending me, and then when I broke down the middle, the other Jazz players did a very quick big bag on me.

The speed of the Jazz players was amazing, obviously this was a time when they had already practiced and worked very well with a very skillful defensive strategy, but by the time I realized that it was too late, because their bag speed was so fast, I didn't even have a chance to pass the ball out in the first place, no matter how strong my breakthrough ability was, I dare say that even if Jordan entered this pocket defense, he would have been pressed to death.

I tried to force my shot, but the ball was caught by Karl Malone in mid-air, like a small leather ball, and my body lost my balance due to being pushed by a Jazz defender in mid-air, and I fell to the ground in an instant.

I was only able to watch the Jazz players play a quick break, but what I didn't expect was that Shaq, who usually doesn't want to move his feet much on the defensive end, started to accelerate from the front court to the backcourt.

His speed is not inferior to the opposing defenders, of course, in fact, players like Stockton are not known for their speed and athleticism, and Shaq's short-distance sprint explosiveness is really strong, and it feels like running from the front court to the back court without using a few steps at all, which may feel very similar to the later alphabet song.

In fact, although Shaq at this time is much fatter than when he first entered the league, he is still far from the chubby state that he later had, and if he wants to run a certain distance during the game, it is no problem.

"Bang!" Only a loud noise was heard, and a relay pass in the air that Stockton was about to throw to Karl Malone was actually slapped by Shaq directly in the air from behind and pressed to the rebound.

Then Shak's huge body and unimaginable inertial force directly knocked Karl Malone out of the sideline of the game, and a large part of Shaq's body was pressed on Karl Malone's body.

However, after all, it was Carl Malone, he quickly stood up, looking at his expression was very dissatisfied with Shaq, and when Shaq also stood up, he rushed to Shaq and pushed Shaq hard.

Seeing this scene, the referees and players around them rushed up quickly, trying to separate Karl Malone from Shaq, who was about to be furious.

I also rushed up, trying to persuade Shaq to say a few words, but the words came to my mouth and I was forced to swallow back, to be honest, I actually quite support Shaq's ball, because it shows that he still has a trace of blood in his heart, if it was like this earlier, our Lakers may not be behind by as many as 37 points at halftime.

The referees then awarded two technical fouls to each side of the Lakers and Jazz, two for Shaq and Karl Malone, and the other two for the Lakers and Jazz coaches Silver Fox Harris and Jerry Sloan.

After this brief clash, the game between the two sides officially began to enter the white-hot stage, and if you put aside the 30-point difference between the two sides at this time, the intensity of the game on the court at this time has almost reached the playoff level.

And the faces of our Lakers players are completely devoid of the tired look they had before, one by one as if they have been beaten with chicken blood, and when their physical fitness is not very sufficient, they run faster than usual and jump higher than usual, which may be the role of willpower and mental strength, which allows you to get huge strength beyond your imagination in a desperate situation.

With the increase in the intensity of the game between the two sides, the referee's penalty standards have also been slightly relaxed, after all, with the current state of almost hand-to-hand combat on the court, almost every offense and defense can blow several fouls.

And when the referee does not blow many foul actions, it also further improves the intensity of physical contact between the two sides, but basketball games are not boxing games after all, many times when you exert too much force, your shooting feel will quickly decline, especially when you use most of your strength in the card position and hand-to-hand combat, your hands and feet may feel soft, and some goals that can be scored easily will find that you have no way to control your fingers at all.

However, this kind of ultra-high-intensity confrontation is actually good for our Lakers, because the Jazz's main offensive means are still dominated by mid-to-long-range shooting, and their interior line lacks absolute high points, and the outside line also lacks a superstar outside line who can score at ultra-high defensive intensity.

Whether it's Stockton or Karl Malone, their height and athleticism are obviously not as good as me and Shaq, so when we really need to fight for talent, Shaq and I can have a certain advantage.

Of course, all of this is based on the unprecedented unity of the entire Lakers, and we who were not very tacit at this time seem to have suddenly woken up, or to put it another way, it is like being connected to Kara of the Protoss in StarCraft, and our thoughts and consciousness have begun to become highly unified.

This is especially important for defense, where the Jazz used our lack of understanding on the defensive end to easily get open shots, but now our defensive intensity has increased several notches and we are starting to play high-intensity half-court pressing defense against the Jazz players almost after halftime.

This also led to the Jazz players' offensive rhythm being greatly disturbed and delayed, so that they had no way to make effective blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, after all, the tacit understanding of the Jazz players is often based on a kind of diligent training, and for our kind of high-intensity pressing in the half they must rarely practice.

The disruption of the rhythm can also win us a lot of opportunities, and with the Jazz constantly making mistakes on the offensive end, now our Lakers can play an easy defensive counterattack.

The difference between the two sides has been narrowed to 23 points almost halfway through the third quarter, but after all, there is still a 23-point difference, you must know that almost all of our players on the court in this half quarter have done their best, and the lack of physical reserves has also made us a little weak at this time, which also means that we must take a break for a while, otherwise the game is not over, and it will be a bit more than worth the loss to get tired of a few players.

Therefore, even though we have been chasing points, the head coach of the Jazz team is quite calm and does not call a timeout, because he knows that our physical strength will not last long in a game of this intensity.

Sure enough, the person who gave priority to calling a timeout in the end was our Lakers head coach Silver Fox Harris, who did not seem happy at all because the difference between the two sides had narrowed, on the contrary, the black line above his head became more obvious.

In fact, even Shaq couldn't be happy at this time, his physical strength had been overdrawn in advance, I could feel that his huge body must be in a state of overwhelming mountains at this time, with his weight for such a high-intensity attack and defense for a few minutes, it will definitely make the heat in his body too large, this is actually a rather dangerous state, just like the machine overheating may cause the machine to be scrapped, if the athlete's body is overheated, he must need enough water and rest.

And the physical fitness is the best in the entire Lakers team, and I also feel a little powerless at this time, but I still believe that with Kobe's physical recovery ability, this short-term discomfort can still grit my teeth and persevere, so then I told the silver fox Harris that I can still persevere, let me take the bench players to play for a few minutes first, and buy a little time for the rest of the main players.

This time, the Silver Fox Harris agreed to my request more readily, it seems that he should also have a better idea of our situation in front of him, at this time the other starters of the Lakers team have no more physical strength to continue to fight, and this kind of defensive intensity for five to six minutes is almost their limit.

And then the Lakers' bench players couldn't find a player who could be the core of the court, so I could only continue to play with the bench players for a few minutes, and if I could hold on until the beginning of the fourth quarter, the score between the two sides would not further increase, and then the main force would come up and play for a few minutes.

If the difference between the two sides is too large at the beginning of the fourth quarter, maybe the Lakers will directly give up the game and let the remaining bench players play the last quarter directly, and naturally the Jazz will use the bench players to play the rest of the game.

Therefore, the last half of the third quarter is very critical for our Lakers, and now the difference between the two sides is 23 points, if it can be pulled back to within 20 or even 15 points, then there is still a chance to fight again in the fourth quarter, even if it can't be reversed to win, but this feeling of such a big difference is still very good.

After all, there are really not many headwinds for the Lakers this season, in fact, there was a game before where we reversed 30 points to win the derby with the Clippers, but the overall strength of the Clippers in that game was completely inferior to ours, but today's game is a back-to-back away game in the Utah Plateau, and the Utah Jazz itself is also a league powerhouse.

Therefore, it can be said that it is extremely difficult for us to complete the reversal when our physical strength is almost overdrawn, but for us at this time, the final victory or defeat is no longer important, we are just fighting for one breath, and the shame of losing 37 points at halftime has deeply stimulated every Lakers player, even if we lose, we must fight until the last moment.

The Lakers' bench players have also changed dramatically from before, to be honest, they usually have less game time, so their physical reserves are still relatively sufficient, so I can still lead these bench players to defend the Jazz in the half.

The Jazz, on the other hand, didn't bring in their bench players after this timeout, as if they wanted to pull the score back up enough to make us give up the game in one fell swoop.

However, they clearly underestimated the determination of our Lakers players to fight to the end, and soon our Lakers bench players gave them a resounding slap in the face, and under my leadership, these bench players who were not very athletic were originally very athletic began to contribute to the game with their enthusiasm.

Especially on the defensive end, many times the test is the enthusiasm of the players rather than the athletic talent, when the main players of the Jazz team with a tired body to face the Lakers bench players who are like a group of hungry wolves, their arrogance is suppressed at once, because the referee is more lenient on the court, so many times you can gain an advantage through some relatively large actions on the defensive end.

In the current situation, these defensive moves that seem to be a bit big have become so-called defensive aggression, and the Jazz's offense is becoming more and more stagnant, and our Lakers' defensive enthusiasm is getting higher and higher, and we have not scored a point against the Jazz's main players for a full three minutes.

At this time, the entire Jazz stadium resounded one after another boos, it is obvious that they are booing the main players of the Jazz team, the gap between their performance in the first half and the second half is too big, the audience can still bear it in the first few minutes because of the large difference in points, but at this time their main players of the home team are prevented by our Lakers bench players like this, their depressed mood can no longer be controlled, and it is shown with a wide range of boos for the home team.

Jerry Sloan saw this situation and had to call a timeout, at this time the Lakers were only 19 points behind the Jazz, and the reason why the difference was only reduced by 4 points was that the offensive talent of these Lakers bench players was too poor, and I was no longer physically fit enough to make a big impact on the defensive and offensive ends at the same time.

On the offensive end, I attracted several Jazz players to pass the ball to the teammates in the open position, but I don't know if they have too little time to play, so the feeling on the offensive end is really too bad, even the shooting rate of the open position is less than 50%, and the five open shooting opportunities I passed, they only grasped two of the shots.

So even though we were able to contain the Jazz's offense, our offense couldn't be opened.

Of course, this is actually a completion of the plan we made at the beginning, as long as it can prevent the Jazz from further opening the score.

Seeing that my fitness was also starting to run out, Harris the Silver Fox decisively re-introduced the other four in the main team except for Shaq.

I didn't say much about his arrangement, it seems that he has begun to trust my ability a little bit by this time, and I should be replaced with Shaq in the last quarter.

Of course, we should have played in the last eight minutes or so of the fourth quarter.

In the last three minutes of the third quarter, the Lakers and Jazz re-fell into a relatively balanced mutual offensive state, the Lakers side was unable to support the half-court press due to lack of physical fitness, and the substitute players on the Jazz side also lacked enough talent, and they were a little unaccustomed to the Lakers' lineup on the court at this time.

Usually the Lakers usually have a core presence on the court, whether it is Shaq in the starting game or me on the bench, their coach can always easily develop a defensive center of gravity for them.

However, the Lakers lineup on the court at this time appeared for the first time this season, so they did not find the offensive core of the Lakers for a while, and it was difficult to organize more effective defensive tactics.

The Lakers, on the other hand, took advantage of this to make a few good shots, and I couldn't help but think about the question again, that is, why did Eddie Jones' performance drop so much when Shaq and Eddie Jones were on the floor at the same time?

To be honest, my judgment was only subjective speculation and some speculation before, but now the situation is becoming more and more unclear to me what the real reason is, and it stands to reason that a player like Shaq can provide a lot of offensive opportunities on the outside.

But contrary to expectations, Eddie Jones seems to be more suitable for a spatial-based tactical system, when the team does not have a super center he can play well, and when the team's tactical core revolves around the super center Shaq, his tactical position is completely unreflected, which may cause Eddie Jones to not find his suitable game position, which also affects his play.

Whatever the reason, at least now Eddie Jones has played his worth against the Jazz's bench players, hitting three straight three-pointers to close the gap to 14 points before the start of the fourth quarter.

This means that our Lakers won the Jazz by as many as 23 points in the entire third quarter, which is a bit of an incredible thing, and this season our Lakers lost like this in the first half, and the second half of the game was the second game.

But I'd rather we get into the groove earlier than when we're in a desperate situation and then we wake up and play seriously.