On November 14, 2000, after two consecutive wins on the road, the Spurs will play their old rivals at home, the Jazz, who have been fiercely competing for a playoff spot over the past few seasons. As a superstar with two superstars, Malone and Stockton, or a superstar with a pick-and-roll system, the Jazz have never missed a playoff game since the Jazz drafted Malone, and the Spurs and Jazz have also played each other many times in the playoffs.

Jazz and Spurs, this is a pair of two opponents that have been entangled since David Robinson and Karl Malone entered the league, but with the passage of time, the newcomers on the Spurs pushed the old, David Robinson and Sean Elliott have taken a back seat, and Malone and Stockton are still carrying the burden of leading the Jazz to move forward without a successor, and the most important thing is that the Jazz have not won a championship until now, which has always been an obsession that Malone and Stockton can't let goAfter entering the Jazz, the pair jointly vowed to bring a championship trophy to the Jazz, but 15 seasons have passed, and the two have still not been able to fulfill the promise they made to each other when they entered the league.

Compared with the Spurs, the Jazz is a more aging team, if the Spurs are still changing blood to make the team younger and younger, then the Jazz roster is getting older and older, and the team with the most game experience in the current league deserves it. In the Jazz's current starting lineup, the big forward is also the team's star Malone is 37 years old this season, Alden Pollinis, the main center nicknamed the "Haitian Monster", is only one year younger than Malone, and he is 36 years old this year, scoring guard John Starks is 35 years old, the leader of the team, one of the best point guards in the league, John Stockton is one year older than Malone, and he is 38 years old this year, and the main small forward Brian Russell, this player is still a little younger, But he is also 31 years old, in this league that is more than 30 years old and has been called an old guy, it is not an exaggeration to say that Jazz is a group of old men who are over the age of old, so Jazz's current record is also Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year, 9697 and 9798 two seasons Jazz has reached the finals for two consecutive years, and in the next two seasons, they were easily handled by the Trail Blazers in the semifinals, especially in last year's series, the Jazz lost to the Trail Blazers by as many as 15 points per game, and the average age rose by one year this year, the Jazz's record is definitely going to regress.

Compared with the Spurs, the biggest slight advantage of the Jazz is that Salt Lake City is a small city with less than 200,000 people, and at the same time, Salt Lake City is still a bitter cold place, and the boss of the Jazz is a "poor sling", so there is no superstar willing to come to the Jazz at all, not only that, the Jazz can't even keep the rookies they have cultivated, and they have appeared many times in the rookies played by the Jazz, and they have jumped ship after the contract expires, which has led to Malone and Stottunk although they are already so old. But the Jazz still can't find their replacement, and it's to be expected that once Malone and Stockton retire in the next few years, the Jazz will soon be in a downturn.

When the two teams warmed up and the starters of the two teams were ready to enter the field, Michaels, who got the starting list of the two teams for this game, was directly forced after seeing the starting lineup sent by the Spurs for this game.

"Meng Xu actually wants to play a playmaker in this game? Am I not mistaken? Popovich's arrangement was simply too unexpected. ”

"It's finally time for this day." And the other commentator of this game, Magic Johnson, after being stunned for a while, showed a very excited look, it can be said that the Magic has been looking forward to the day when Meng Xu played the organization guard.

Compared with Magic Johnson's excitement and expectation, Michaels is much more rational, because this game is opposite Meng Xu Stockton, although Stockton is 38 years old, but he is still one of the best three active organizational guards in the league, and Stockton is notoriously dirty, ranking first among the "four villains" in the 90s, and is the leader of the NBA's list of villains, with all kinds of small actions to fly out of the sky. Rodman, the league's most famous villain, scolded Stockton as the most despicable and shameless person in the entire league, and also commented on Stockton in his autobiography: "If you survey all the players in the NBA and ask them who is the dirtiest guard in the NBA?" Guess what they will answer? They'll probably all say it's John Stockton, but no one on the outside world would guess it's him. Because Stockton always pretends to be a decent gentleman. ”

"Meng Xu vs. Stockton, Meng Xu, who has no point guard experience, this game is going to be against the best point guard in the past 10 years, I think this must be very interesting, maybe Meng Xu can have something else in this game." As a Meng Fu, Michaels is surprisingly not optimistic about Meng Xu today, originally in Michaels' opinion, in the face of the Jazz's winning and weak front, this game Meng Xu will definitely be like in the previous games, killing and killing, but I didn't expect Popovich to let him play point guard directly, you know, Stockton is the best guard in the league to deal with big players.

"El, in my opinion, this game was not as bad as you think, Meng had good possession of the ball, and he had good vision and passing, and his performances on the court always reminded us of players like Pippen, Hardaway, so I think maybe after this game, the league will have another special player like me." In fact, since Meng Xu was crowned as Larry Bird's successor, Magic Johnson began to pay attention to Meng Xu, but in the Magician's opinion, Meng Xu is more like himself than Larry Bird, for which the Magic also had an argument with Larry Bird on the phone, and finally the two decided to make a bet to see if Meng Xu's style of play is ultimately more like Magic or Larry Bird when no one interferes, and because of this, when the Pacers sent a trade request to the Spurs, The Magician also calls Larry Bird and scolds him for being a shameless villain and a discredited person.

Elwyn。。。。。 We'll see. Michaels couldn't believe the magician's statement, who was the magician? Jordan was the first person in the league before him, a player who could play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position, and could play well in every position, but Michaels couldn't see this talent from Meng Xu at all.

When Meng Xu played the point guard in this game, the Spurs' starting list also changed slightly, the two interior lines are still David Robinson and Duncan, small forward Sean Elliott, and in the scoring guard position, Mario Elie returned to the starting lineup.

"Meng, be steady." When Duncan beat Alden Polynes to jump successfully, Meng Xu began to dribble from the backcourt, this game is the first time in Meng Xu's career as a group of defenders, to say that you are not nervous is definitely nonsense, as a 2.01 meter big man, even if your ball control skills are skilled, compared with those orthodox point guards of 1.8 meters and 1.90 meters, it is somewhat worse, and Meng Xu's ball control and passing attributes have now reached 96 points, But Meng Xu doesn't have a ball control and passing skills, if he keeps using a serpentine breakthrough to kill the basket, and then passing, not to mention whether the team's tactics will allow it, even the current physical strength is not enough to support Meng Xu to use that style of play throughout the game.

"It looks like it's time to learn a full-time passing skill." After nodding at the assistant coach Mike Budenholzer on the sidelines, Meng slowly dribbled through the center circle, and when he came to the top of the arc, the Jazz point guard Stockton immediately pasted it, originally before the game, Sloan also formulated a defensive strategy to contain Meng Xu, but now it seems that there is no need for this at all, a Meng Xu who plays point guard, Stockton is very confident that he will be obedient to his education, and wait until the next time he is playing Jazz, so that his hands will tremble as soon as he holds the ball, or feel a faint sadness in a certain part.

"Boy, you're really interesting, this game is just my old guy, let's teach you a little life experience." In the first round of offense and defense, Meng Xu and Stockton are now the focus of attention on the court, and the referee's attention, as an old fritter, Stockton also knows that it is not yet the time to use the "trick", so Stockton just sprayed trash talk at Meng Xu to divert his attention and affect his mentality.

"Thank you, John." Meng Xu squeezed his eyes and said something that shocked Stockton, no matter whether Meng Xu's style of play is not like Larry Bird, at least in terms of cheapness, he still has Larry Bird's true inheritance. Therefore, Stockton, who originally thought that Meng Xu would say some bad words, was stunned for a moment when he heard Meng Xu say thank you to himself, this kid doesn't play cards according to the routine? Or is this guy a stupid white sweet idiot?

Taking advantage of the moment when Stockton was stunned, Meng Xu jumped up lightly and passed the ball directly to Duncan, who was already standing under the basket.

After seeing Duncan hit, Meng Xu smiled at Stockton again, and quickly retreated, after changing to organizational guard, Meng Xu's defensive task was reduced a lot, and the Jazz did not have an excellent outside scorer, so Meng Xu was also very relaxed on the defensive end in this game.