After the Lakers eliminated the Rockets to enter the division finals, they quickly set their sights on the Jazz, and the division finals opponent on the Western side has been confirmed, and the second in 10,000 years will appear again.

However, the Knicks and Heat in the East are still wrestling, and the two teams built by Pat Riley must have similarities in many places, know each other well enough, and have similar playing styles, so they are destined to not be able to win a quick game in a short period of time.

The Heat 3:2 Knicks, but the fifth game was only decided in overtime, so whether the next game can determine the last team to advance to the division finals in New York, this eighty percent can't, the New Yorkers' home court is not easy to play.

The Lakers hope that these two teams can decide the winner quickly, and the longer they fight, the more time the Jazz will have to study the Lakers, and they can continue to improve their tactical details, and even be meticulous enough to distinguish between Zhang Zhu's defensive methods with and without the ball, and how to deal with Zhang Qiu when he holds the ball or does not have the ball, the Jazz can list a lot of plans for this, and then let the players practice them one by one.

This kind of thing, the Jazz can definitely do it, otherwise why would they argue with the Lakers and Bulls?

It is precisely because of such details that the Lakers can't do it, and the Bulls can't do it, so the Jazz have the strength to fight, because they can do it.

The world says that "diligence can make up for clumsiness", but there are so many teams in the league, only the Jazz have explained how to make up for it.

However, the Lakers still want to play the Jazz because the ceiling of this team is there.

However, it is still necessary to start playing as soon as possible, which is beneficial to the Lakers.

Zhang Qi is confident that even if the two teams start a war tomorrow, the Lakers are more than sixty percent sure of winning the first game.

But with each day of drag, the Jazz's win rate increases, which is not good.

It's a pity that the Lakers can only think in their own hearts that the Knicks are not willing to fulfill their wishes, which means that they are eliminated.

In the sixth game, the Knicks played a back-to-back momentum at home, backup guard Chris Childs became the X-factor affecting the victory, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson and Charles Oakley all played well, and the Knicks finally pulled the total score to 3:3 at home with three military lives, and successfully dragged the suspense to the seventh game.

That's the last thing the Lakers want to see, and the Jazz will have two more days to prepare for the game, which will be very detrimental to the Lakers.

Since the Knicks and Heat are going to play Game 7, the first four games of the division finals can be released-

On May 19, Los Angeles Lakers VS Utah Jazz - Great Western Forum Arena.

On May 21, Los Angeles Lakers VS Utah Jazz - Great Western Forum Arena.

On May 24, Los Angeles Lakers vs Utah Jazz - Delta Air Lines Center.

On May 26, Los Angeles Lakers vs Utah Jazz - Delta Air Lines Center.

In the period leading up to the game, the Lakers focused all their energy on studying the old rival.

It can be said that since the early eighties, when Malone and Stockton were selected by the Jazz one after another, the Lakers and Jazz have always been the top teams in the West, and every time they meet in the regular season, it is a big drama.

However, the Lakers and Jazz have not played each other many times in the playoffs. Since 1984, the two teams have only met in the playoffs in the '87-88 season, when the Lakers narrowly defeated the Jazz 4-3 in the Western Conference semifinals, and then fought all the way through until they wore the final crown and were crowned king.

If you look at it this way, the two teams are not very familiar, and no amount of regular season experience can be used in the playoffs, and this is the second time the two teams have met in the playoffs after nine years.

Zhang Fu calculated that when the Lakers start the game, they will get a total of 5 days off, and the Jazz will have 6 days.

During this period, the Lakers' coaching staff was more mixed in their opinions on the enemy, and Harris, the old fox, certainly looked like he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, but it can be seen from the tactical lessons he arranged that this guy has been undecided and can't make up his mind how to deal with the Jazz.

Everyone knows that the Jazz want to play pick-and-roll, but what is hidden under the pick-and-roll is truly deadly.

The Jazz don't just block and dismantle, they just use the block to create opportunities for their final score, in fact, you can't figure out how they will play after the pick-and-roll, just like Dugu Jiujian's move is just a name, you won't know how he will play the sword, and the Lakers now don't know how the Jazz will end the offense after each block.

This question has not been figured out by everyone for so many years, so let's put it aside for now, because the Lakers want to figure out one question first: Who is more important, Stockton or Malone?

Zhang Zhu believes that one of these two people is a tactical initiator and the other is a tactical terminator, and asking this kind of question is similar to asking "the chicken and the egg first".

Of course, Harris didn't mean that, he felt that since no one could stop the Jazz from playing the pick-and-roll, and there was no way to predict what would happen to the two of them after the pick-and-roll, why not treat the two of them as a whole and defend the two together?

Stockton and Malone belong to each other, without Malone's accurate mid-range shooting and face-frame attack efficiency, Stockton can't have so many assists; Without Stockton's accurate passing, Malone wouldn't have been able to score as many points with such a high shooting percentage, and the Jazz's real boss and core should be Sloan.

Harris means that it doesn't matter who you are to fulfill whom, just find a way to kill the two of them together, and it's a hundred.

As for Sloane's question, well, if the discussion continues, then Zhang Yu feels that Harris is still a little worse than Sloan in this regard.

Because, without Sloane, Malone and Stockton may not have been able to play the superstar style they are today, and it would be difficult for these two to grow to the point where they are today.

However, even if the Lakers don't have Harris, no one will think that Zhang Fu can't play. On the contrary, there are many people who feel that if Zhang Qian had a better coach, he might grow faster.

Of course, Harris will not continue to discuss this kind of heart-wrenching topic.

In fact, he is very good at this and has a very high emotional intelligence.

Of course, Harris is not really incompetent, and after thinking about it for a few days, he can be considered to have a general strategy.

Since the ceiling of Jazz is very clear, and the playing style can be at least half clear, then play all your cards, and don't play any conspiracy with you, just use your strength to crush you, crush your ceiling, and crush your hole cards.

I can say a heart-wrenching sentence here, no matter how good Malone and Stockton are, but they have never won the championship, it can't be Jordan or someone else's fault, right?

Jordan has been dormant for seven years, haven't you Sir Sir not played?

In the two years since the big dream broke out, didn't you sir also be fucked?

Two young people with supersonic who killed you with the same dual core last year, what is there to say about this?

In this, especially in the regional finals with the rocket, Xuan Ming and the second elder were almost swept by a single-core rocket, isn't it a bit embarrassing?

That is the peak of Malone + Stockton + Lao Huo, but it is not to the single-core rocket, it can be seen that although the lower limit of this team is extremely high, when it encounters an unreasonable real genius, it will still be pressed by half.

It can be said that a team with good talent + super hard work and dedication, against a team with top talent + relative hard work and dedication, I am afraid that the former will be inferior.

In the last round, the Lakers played the Rockets with absolute strength to break each one.

Now, Harris believes that the Lakers' strategy does not need to change, just a few changes to the tactics.

Malone + Stockton + Lao Huo, this is the basic framework of the Jazz in the past ten years, the two elders are responsible for joining forces to break the point, Lao Huo is responsible for responding from the side, and the rest are step-by-step modular components, which is the default routine of the Jazz.

The Lakers can strangle the two who are in order to do it first, which is not difficult to do, and Zhang Mao and Mutombo will have a lot of spare power in addition to completing the task.

Malone is 34 years old this year, and his state is still stable, but to say that his athletic ability can still suppress the 31-year-old Anthony Mason, Zhang Mao definitely doesn't believe it, no matter how well your body is maintained, it is also a mortal fetus, and now Malone is not much stronger than Mason in terms of confrontation ability and mobility ability.

If it is still a 1-on-1 single defense, Mason said that he is willing to make a military order and will not let "The Postman" play above the level.

Zhang Qi and Harris were a little suspicious of this, not because they were not at ease, but because they felt that they could send Mutombo to help, and there was no need for Mason to resist on his own.

Therefore, if Mason has a hard anus and Mutombo assists from the side, then it is inevitable that Malone will be restricted, and he will have more trouble in the game than Olajuwon, and the Jazz will not have a big ass to help him share his worries.

Next, it's the turn of the 35-year-old Stockton.

Well, fans who watched the SuperSonics vs. Jazz last season should remember that Stockton was helpless by Payton in the first three games. Although Stockton's performance rebounded in the next few games, he was also limited to below average, and Payton's own offense was not disturbed in the slightest.

So it's completely fair to say that last year's Stockton was blown up by Peyton!

Kidd is still young, and he can't say he has the defensive quality of Payton last year, but the 35-year-old Stockton can't get older and better, right?

There is no example of rejuvenation in this world, and Kidd believes that he already has 80% of Payton's defensive skills last year, not to mention that it can blow up Stockton, but he can't play above average, and Kidd is confident that he can do it.

In this way, the Jazz will still have an old Huo left.

Unfortunately, Starks has a similar style, but is a little more athletic, three years younger, and better defensively.

This kind of alignment is very unfriendly to the Jazz, and if Lao Huo can still play at a level above normal, it can only be said that Starks has begun to play Infernal Affairs again.

But even if he's an intermediary, the Lakers aren't worried, they still have a backup plan.

Although Michael Finley's performance in the playoffs is average, he performed well when he met Lao Huo in the regular season, and he can continue to limit this when needed. That's too unlikely.

As for the bench, this aspect has always been a weakness of the Jazz and a strength of the Lakers.

The Lakers' bench can't win, but they can't lose.

Admittedly, these ideas are too wishful thinking, without taking into account the changes in the game, and seem rather like talk on paper.

However, the individual combat ability of these players of the Lakers is not just on paper.

Sizz's side, I'm afraid it's a headache to even talk about things on paper, right?

If nothing else, let's talk about how to kill Zhang Qi on paper, and Coach Sloan is afraid that he will not be able to put pen to paper.

I have to say that having a good hand is confident, and Harris is ready to play cards in this round, relying on the player's personal ability to kill the Jazz.

At this moment, Sloan, who has set off from Salt Lake City and is heading to Los Angeles, is not confident.

How important is the individual ability in this era, as long as you recall the single-core team of the big dream to win the championship, people can have a general impression.

The Rockets in the 93-94 season are really a single-core team, Olajuwon is the offensive and defensive core of the team, and almost every offense has to be controlled by him. There were some second-rate stars in the team at the time, like Thorpe, but there were definitely no first-rate stars. The whole team was Thorpe, and Cassel, who was still a rookie at the time, was barely an All-Star fringe figure.

But it was such a team that looked like a first- or second-round tour on paper, and actually killed Malone and Stockton at the peak, and with the help of Starks, they successfully killed the Knicks to reach the top.

Look at Zhang Qi at this time, his ferocity seems to be not inferior to Da Meng and Jordan of that year, but there are too many helpers around him, and the four main forces can be regarded as second-rate stars, or the most cost-effective among them.

Sloan is now at a loss for Zhang, and he also has to worry about the variables of Kidd, Mason, Starks, and Finley.

The Lakers' roster depth is much higher than that of the Jazz, which means that no matter how you calculate, there can be unexpected variables in the game.

The Rockets died on this in the last round, and Starks, Kidd and Mason changed the trend of at least two games, but the Jazz have no one to step up on the offensive end except for the three elders, which is where their shortcomings have always been.

The media has a similar view, most voices in the American media believe that the Lakers will eliminate the Jazz 4:1 or 4:2, and the biggest similarity among the reasons listed by these media is - lineup!

That's right, the Jazz have a lot of playoff experience, and Malone and Stockton have a lot of experience losing the Western Conference finals, and they know how to play in the division finals better than Zhang. But can these lessons be useful in the face of a huge gap in the books? Will the Jazz be able to bring their opponents to a similar level again? Most people didn't expect much before the game.

On May 18, Game 7 between the Knicks and the Heat is about to begin.

The division finals will start tomorrow, and the Jazz were already in Los Angeles yesterday with an open practice session in the afternoon.

The Lakers also had an open practice session in the afternoon, and the players looked relaxed on the training court, still talking and laughing. This was seen by the Los Angeles media as a sign of self-confidence, while the Salt Lake City media saw it as a sign of carelessness.

A sentence in Zhang's interview made the media in Salt Lake City feel the enemy's contempt for his team, because this guy said: "Time is a luxury they no longer have, and they will face the power of the Dragonborn." ”

This is very invisible, and immediately a reporter asked him: "That...... What is the power of the Dragonborn? ”

It only took Zhang Qi a quarter of a second to decide to put on this force, only to see him reply without thinking: "The wrath of the dragonborn resounded through the mountains. The power of the Dragonborn is unstoppable. The wisdom of the Dragonborn illuminates eternity. The will of the Dragonborn is irreversible. The words of the Dragonborn, invisible and deadly. ”