If the Jazz continue to play a positional battle with the Lakers, the Jazz will really have a chance to stabilize and win the game with the remaining 1-point lead.

After all, in the positional battle, the stable Jazz played a few blocking and dismantling tactics, and the Lakers really couldn't resist it, but Jerry Sloan was still afraid of the Lakers' fast attack, so he could only put on a small lineup and was forced to deal with it.

However, Jerry Sloan also ignored the Lakers' three-point problem, to be precise, it was not that Jerry Sloan deliberately ignored it, but at this moment in the 20th century, most coaches have not realized the importance of three points, especially old-school coaches like Jerry Sloan, who pay more attention to mid-range shots.

So, after the timeout, when the Lakers hit two three-pointers in a row from the outside to tie the score by 2 points, Jerry Sloan was stunned.

He kept shaking his head: "Why are the Lakers suddenly so accurate?" If you continue to fight like this, you can't win at all......"

Jazz chief assistant coach Phil Johnson also expressed his helplessness: "Yes, the three-point is too accurate, and I don't give a chance at all." ”

In the last two minutes, the Lakers relied on this small lineup to directly open the score.

In the end, Kobe Bryant scored 11 points in the last five minutes, and the Lakers defeated the Jazz 97-89 on the road, continuing the winning streak to nine games......

……

In the Lakers general manager's office, Jerry West took a deep breath of cigarette, the team won, but he didn't have any special expression, just said lightly: "Win, it's really unexpected......"

Cortlambis's face was full of bitterness and a little helpless: "Yes, in the last few minutes, Joe's adjustment was too good, completely suppressing Jerry Sloan, we can turn the tables, relying on the last few minutes." ”

"It's good, but it's also a big problem, and Shaq is deprecated."

Cotlambis nodded thoughtfully, at the last moment, O'Neal was abandoned This question is good if you don't think about it carefully, think about it carefully, the problem is very big, the team's star is abandoned at a critical moment, once the matter ferments, the consequence is the team's infighting, and the coach is forced to step down......

At the post-match press conference, Qiao Hai was indeed troubled by similar questions.

The Los Angeles Times reporter Brad Turner and Qiao Hai do not deal with each other, which is well known to passers-by, Brad Turner also enjoys this role positioning, no matter before and after the game, he has to find a few problems to harass Qiao Hai.

The question about Shaquille O'Neal's discarding was also asked by Brad Turner.

Qiao Hai is also very familiar with Brad Turner, and Qiao Hai answered this question very carefully.

"We didn't abandon Shaq, Shaq played very well in the first three quarters, without Shaq, we couldn't have dragged on to the last quarter, but the problem is that we have been in a behind-position and our goal is to win, so in order to recover the score, in the end we decided to play a small lineup, so not letting Shaq play at the last moment is for the sake of the overall situation, for tactical considerations."

Bradturner asked, "Even so, why take Shaq?" Can't you chase points with Shaq here? ”

In this regard, Qiao Hai could only reply coldly: "I'm sorry, I just know that we won the game, my tactical play worked, and that's enough." ”

Even with such an explanation, the next day, after the headlines of major media came out, Qiao Hai still saw a lot of reports of sowing discord or criticizing Qiao Hai's employment at critical moments.

For example, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times, Brad Turner is not good at blackmailing a head coach who leads the team to win, so he came up with a headline that sowed discord: "Shaq was abandoned at the decisive moment, and Coach Qiao Hai's use of people proves that Shaq's ability at critical moments is overestimated?" ”

This is good, he directly began to question O'Neill's personal ability, and put the charge of questioning on Qiao Hai's head, which is a proper way to sow discord.

When he saw this report, Qiao Hai was angry.

He knew that Kevindin was also a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, so he called Kevinding to find out what was going on.

Kevinding is also helpless, although he is also a reporter for the sports section of the Los Angeles Times, he is far below Bradtner, and is currently only a small reporter, and under normal circumstances, it is not his turn to write the front-page headlines.

In a small corner of the sports section of this issue of the Los Angeles Times, there is also a report by Kevending.

Kevinding asked Qiao Hai to read the report, and said helplessly: "Joe, I can't help it, Brad Turner is responsible for the sports sector, and he has the final say on what the headlines use, and you have also read my report, the Lakers have won 9 consecutive games and risen in the rankings, which is completely a positive report." ”

Qiao Hai nodded, indicating that he understood.

However, Bradturner repeatedly provoked, and Qiao Hai felt that he couldn't bear it.

At that moment, the phone number of Mitch Kupchak was dialed.

"Mitch, have you read the Los Angeles Times report?"

At this time, Kupchak on the other side of the phone directly showed a wry smile: "Look, what do you think?" ”

"I want to publish an article in the Los Angeles Daily News to refute the rumors and announce a comprehensive ban on the Los Angeles Times, not allowing the Los Angeles Times to get even one interview right from the Lakers."

Mitch Kupchak was shocked: "Won't you, Joe, do you do that?" ”

"You have to do this, if you don't do this, any reporter will be able to on their heads in the future, and I think we still have to let them know that the Lakers are not what you want to do."

Qiao Hai said very arrogantly, but Michi Kupchak on the other end of the phone was not confident

"I'm going to ask Jerry......

Qiao Hai was speechless for a while, and while waiting for Jerry West's reply, he called Mark Medina, a reporter from the Los Angeles Daily News.

Compared with Brad Turner, Mark Medina of the Daily News has always been a positive report, and even sometimes blows too hard, making Qiao Hai think that this product is also ill-intentioned, blowing too hard, and will scold and criticize in the future.

But at this time, Qiao Hai must use the platform of the Daily News to fight with the Los Angeles Times.

Soon, as expected, Jerry West agreed.

So, Qiao Hai directly dialed Mark Medina's phone and asked for the next day's headline, and wrote: "The Lakers will block the Los Angeles Times indefinitely until unscrupulous reporter Brad Turner is fired." ”

In the evening, the Lakers also have back-to-back games, this time the Lakers return to Los Angeles to challenge away from home.

Facing the Clippers again, who are at the bottom of the West, the Lakers easily won 103-79 and won 10 in a row.

In order to make up for the problem of abandoning O'Neal in the last quarter, Qiao Hai gave O'Neal enough playing time in this game, so that O'Neal played a good game, and finally cut 35 points and 12 rebounds, and O'Neal's heart knot in the last game was also untied.

Because it is obvious that in Qiao Hai's tactical system, O'Neill is still the absolute core, as long as this is proven, O'Neill will not care about anything else.

The day after the game, the Los Angeles Times headlined the Lakers' 10-game winning streak.

But on that day, the highest sales in Los Angeles were the Los Angeles Daily News, which had been suppressed by the Los Angeles Times.

The headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily News read: "Lakers Coach Qiao Hai: Block the Los Angeles Times with immediate effect!" ”

This headline directly detonated the basketball world in Los Angeles......