"Ding~"

"Congratulations on completing your daily quest - talk to a player: the player has greatly improved his spirit and spirit under your teaching, and he is no longer confused about the future development, and I am very grateful to you."

After the communication along the way, Antoine White already has a lot of trust in Wang Mingming, and the assistant coach's words are indeed very profound.

After more than five hours in the air, the plane finally arrived at Salt Lake City International Airport.

Salt Lake City, the capital and largest city in Utah, has a metropolitan area of nearly one million people and hosted the Winter Olympics four years ago.

Because it is part of the western highlands of the United States, it becomes particularly cold and dry in winter, with snow falling from November until April. So the players of the Utah Jazz, almost the whole season, spend it in the winter.

The Nets players got off the charter plane, each carrying a small bag with their belongings inside, and spent the next week in the West.

The official bus took everyone to the hotel near the Energy Solutions Arena.

At this time, it was already dark, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and everyone on the Nets had a working meal in the hotel, and then went back to their rooms to rest for the next day's game.

......

The Utah Jazz is the Young Guard of the West that has risen in recent years.

In last year's draft, they selected Deron Williams, known as one of the "four point guards" of this year, whose organizational talent and offensive ability made veteran coach Jerry Sloan see the shadow of the No. 12 of the year, so after halfway, he pushed Deron Williams to the team's starting point guard position.

Delon's ascension to the position means that the team's offensive team Andrei Kirilenko has further reduced its dependence, coupled with the presence of offensive powerhouses such as Omiit Oku and Carlos Boozer, the team has gradually formed a new generation of blocking and dismantling offensive system.

However, alas, the Jazz suffered a serious injury attack, and Carlos Boozer has not played since the start of the season due to a pull on his left leg.

After making a couple of appearances as a starter, Deron Williams fell into the rookie wall and was put back on the bench by Sloan.

The Jazz's record has also become very struggling, and Sloan has to reuse the Russian on the offensive end.

In this game, the Jazz fielded such a starting lineup: 1.88m point guard: Skik McRiod, scoring guard: Gordon Girisek, small forward: Andrei Kirilenko, power forward: Jalen Collins, center: Memet Oku.

It can also be seen from the lineup that Jalen Collins and Memet Oku are both big centers over 250 pounds, which is not much different from the Nets' interior configuration.

What's special is that Memet Oku's offensive style is different from that of traditional centers, he prefers to shoot from the outside, has a beautiful three-point shooting ability, and shoots as much as 40 percent from three-point range, and this season, after Carlos Boozer's injury, he took on the responsibility of the offensive arrow in Sloan's pick-and-roll system, averaging a career-high 18.4 points per game.

Nets vs Jazz, a game with little focus.

The Jazz are also two commentator partners, one named Greg, a young commentator, and the other is Rod Hendry.

Rod Hendry is a meritorious commentator for the Jazz team, since 1974, he has worked for the Jazz team for 32 years, and has worked longer than the head coach of the Jazz Jerry Sloan, and has commented on more than 2,700 games, which is very respectable.

"Greg, how should the Jazz deal with a league powerhouse like the Nets?"

"The Nets' strength lies in Jason Kidd's control of the court, and they also have two leading scorers, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson, who have strong firepower on the wing and lead the overall offense from the outside. While head coach Frank has always emphasized that the Nets are a team with Princeton as their offensive system, it doesn't seem to be quite that way now. ”

"I'm very optimistic about today's game, our Jazz can beat the Nets, they are a team from afar, and the young people should take this as a challenge and show their style in the battle of the strong teams."

From the words of the two, it is not difficult to hear that both of them think that the Jazz have a "chance" to win, but it is only a "chance", and it seems that the game has put the status in an unequal position at the beginning, so although the Jazz are competing for the top eight playoff positions in the West, even if they lose this game, no one will criticize them.

The Jazz are the team that really puts their baggage down, and under Sloan, everything is ready.

On the other hand, the Nets gave a military order under Frank, there are four games in the Western journey, if the first game is lost, it will definitely not be able to achieve the set goal of winning 3 games, Frank's plan, the first two games must be won, and in the last two back-to-back games, one can be slightly released.

The Nets started with no changes: Kidd, Carter, Jefferson, Kostic, Jason Collins.

"Jason Collins of the Nets' interior is the twin brother of Jalen Collins of the Jazz, and the two start the same game at the same time, which is extremely rare in the NBA......."

The narrator told some tidbits, and the game started at the point.

The Nets went on their first offense, and Jason Kidd returned to control of the offense in this game according to Frank's deployment, with Kidd waving at the top of the arc and Kostic coming to the free-throw line to receive the ball.

Receiving the ball inside is one of Princeton's typical style of play.

Kostic received the ball with his right hand, turned to the left and looked to the left, the "arrow" figure Vince Carter had already run to his side, and the two made a hand-to-hand pass cover at the right time, the cover was extremely high-quality, and the defender who defended Carter, Gordon Girisek, was "slammed" and blocked behind him.

Carter walked around, instinctively felt like he was shaking off the defender, facing the center, pulling sideways and confidently making a mid-range jumper.

As soon as the ball was raised, a large hand suddenly appeared in front of him, and the long arm stretched out like a hanging, as if it could knock him off at any moment.

Carter couldn't see the basket, couldn't see his teammates, panicked, raised a little arc, and his movements were slightly deformed.

"Bell~"

The basketball smashed wide of the rim, and Memet Oku took the lead in a scramble with Kostic to protect the rebound.

"When did it come out!"

Vince Carter was a little annoyed, and a good attack was ruined by this long-handed Russian.

The No. 47 jersey is like a sharp AK, the game has just begun, and it is already showing a dangerous and cold aura.