"Someone asked me when I was going to lose, and I told him if I was okay today?"

Zhang Zhu's words before the game are obviously the opposite, today's Lakers' opponent is the Jazz, but these guys are not all wins, and now the only team in the league to win all is the Lakers.

To be honest, there is a lot of suspense about whether anyone asks this kind of idiotic question, it's more like Zhang Yu wanted to pretend to be forced by himself, and then made up a problem that didn't exist at all.

The Jazz's combat effectiveness has improved a lot compared to last year, and they didn't have to spend too much to get some quality players, otherwise they would not be able to play against the Lakers.

Some people may disagree with this, but David Stern has only wanted to strengthen the Western Conference until now, and there is only one reason - the Lakers in the new season are too rebellious, and the difficulty of this game needs to be increased a little more.

But I'm sorry, now the strength of the east and west has long been out of balance, and if the east wall is demolished to make up for the west wall, then the eastern division will not be able to play.

Dragonborn Sports has a special "Eastern Team VS Western Team Record Win Rate Statistics - Up to now, East VS West has played a total of 81 games, East VS West won 30 games VS West won 51 games, and the win rate comparison is 37.04% in the East VS 62.96% in the West, and the two sides are basically in a state of imbalance in strength.

Some media sarcastically said: If the strength of the Western Division is enhanced, then the Eastern team is afraid that it can enter the playoffs with 30 wins, and the Western team will have to earn eighth if it doesn't get 50 wins, and someone must have called the police at that time, okay?

This year's Jazz is strong in Eric Williams, who was about to play on another plane, but only suffered a major injury that hurt his muscles and bones, which is really bad luck.

But even then, he struggled in the league for 12 seasons before retiring, and you could think of him as a low-profile version of Paul Pearce, who was developed in the first two years in exactly the same way as the later Leather team.

The Jazz have been weak in the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, and now they have a strong forward with an 85 ability value, plus a guard with superb shooting skills, Dow Christie, who can now rank second in the West and pose a threat to the Lakers, which is not an unexpected performance at all.

The data that Zhang Mao checked before the game also told him that the chances of a home overturn today are not impossible, and one of the biggest obstacles to the 34-game winning streak is in front of him.

Jazz starters: John Stockton (85), Dow Christie (84), Eric Williams (85), Karl Malone (90), Greg Ostertag (80). Then look at the subs: Jeff Hornacek (82), Brian Russell (83).

Zhang Wei fought another battle with the full Jazz last night as usual, but lost again because he dragged his feet.

During the day, he had nothing to do and calculated that if the teams he played against this year were all in full condition, the Lakers' record was 6-2, and most of the games were played until the last minute.

The Jazz team in front of them is actually very tricky, and the seven players who have played the most minutes this year are all above 80, which is really a bit powerful.

Ma Long was naturally the focus of media attention before the game, everyone knows that his lungs were blown up by the koala baby last season, and how much he has recovered now is still a suspense, of course, these reporters have to add fuel and vinegar to provoke.

Mr. "Postman" has a stomach full of words on this issue and can't say anything, but he can't swallow this breath, especially thinking of the apology text message Zhang Mao sent him last year, he originally felt quite sincere after reading it, but there was a parenthesis at the end of the text message, and the parentheses said (sent the next afternoon).

This is too bullying, this apology text message is clearly written by someone else for him, and TM has to wait until the media is up and running before sending it to him, where is the slightest sincerity, I wonder if that bastard is using this as an opportunity to hype?

Of course, Ma Long couldn't swallow this breath, but unfortunately the content in the brackets could not be proved to be sent by Zhang Mao, and it was also possible that he modified it himself, so this evidence alone could not make a challenge to the koala baby, and if it was not good, he would be beaten back by Zhang Mao's 6 billion fans.

At this pre-game press conference, the angry Ma Long still couldn't hold back his anger under the provocation of reporters, and he said vaguely: "I have often fought since I was a child, and I have fought dozens of times, and I have only lost once or twice." The implication is that there is no pressure to kill Zhang Qi.

This is too stupid to say, before the game started, there was a wave of condemnation of Malone in the Dragonborn forum, and even the section discussing infertility had someone post to scold poor Marlon.

But on the matter, this is really brainless, it is really IQ that has grown into muscles, and it is inevitable that I will be fined after the game.

In view of the grievances between Zhang Fu and Ma Long last year, this is a live broadcast in the United States that has been arranged for a long time, and the spinach outside even opened a handicap for whether the two will fight?

For such a sensitive game, the league naturally attaches great importance to it, not only the referee lineup sent can be called an all-star, but even David Stern himself came to the scene to watch the game, and personally pressed the formation to make the two calm and calm.

Well, the baby koala is the one who hurts and kills, of course he can calm down, he is too calm now!

Therefore, today's league is still targeting Ma Long, after all, from the appearance of the elbows, especially from the appearance of the two, Ma Long is more like a villain, and the harmless koala baby doesn't look like a player who will hurt others.

Today, there are still many female fans in the Great Western Forum Arena holding signs that read: "Please don't hurt our baby koala, do you know how hard he works and is kind?" ”

Not to mention the reaction of the Jazz players when they saw this brand, after the Lakers players saw these signs when they appeared, they could only fall into silence one by one, and there was another scene of thousands of horses on the court.

"Phew! If he's kind, then my defense is the cleanest in the league. ”

When Stockton saw the contents of the cards, he immediately showed a disdainful smile, and couldn't help but complain about himself.

However, as soon as the defense was mentioned, a little kid led by a bearded black man at the scene suddenly couldn't help but yawn!

"Boy, you have to look at it, Lyon is the best defensive player in the league, you have to learn his defense and the way he plays."

The bearded black man apparently always used Zhang Mao to educate his children, but today he picked a bad day.

In the first quarter of today's game, Zhang Fu did not use his body to ravage the opponent as before, but kept looking for body hair contact like his younger brother Ginobili, and then used the tense atmosphere between the two sides to seek fouls.

Of course, it's very smart to fight like this, and today's punishment scale is one word "strict"!

Let's put it this way, if anyone moves a little bigger, the referee will immediately blow it for a foul.

Such a penalty scale caused Zhang to go to the free throw line 11 times in a single quarter, and at the same time he didn't defend seriously at all, and at this time he also ate too many fouls to prevent it, so he defended with his eyes throughout the quarter, and Eric Williams, who almost defended with his eyes, doubted life.

"This ...... Is this the NBA's strongest offense and defense? ”

The eyes of the little guy next to the bearded black man became brighter and brighter, and at this moment he seemed to have found his direction in life.

The Lakers led the Jazz by 12 points in the first quarter, but they didn't rely on strength to crush them, today's Jazz is more like being blown up by the home whistle, Zhang Qiu alone made 11 free throws in this quarter, and Sloan's side was already pumping.

Ma Long is also panting here, but don't get me wrong, his lungs are not blown up, they are completely blown up!

In the first quarter, Malone only played for three minutes, and then received two fouls and sat until now, how can he not be angry?

Throughout the first half, the Lakers completely lost their previous rapid offense and sharp defense, and Zhang Mao's impact was rarely shown, but there were really many free throws. In the first half, the Lakers made a total of 26 free throws, and Zhang Zhu himself made 18 free throws, which is already the number of free throws made by many outside stars in three games, and Zhang Zhu only used half a game to achieve this number today.

The Lakers relied on free throws to kill the Jazz alive in the first half, with a score of 56:43, and the Jazz players handed over a full 20 fouls in the first half.

David Stern's face is not very good-looking, such obvious favoritism is not what he wants to see, the NBA must be a fair and just league at least on the surface, and there is absolutely no room for favoritism in favor of big teams and superstars.

Fortunately, today's referees are all veteran actors who have been carefully selected by him, and the midcourt found his mistake in time, and decisively began to tilt towards the Jazz in the second half.

At this time, the Jazz can logically fight with the Lakers, even if they are more than a dozen points behind, it is not the end.

It's a pity that the Lakers still have a series of advantages at the beginning of the season, and Zhang Mao will not let people complain that he will only cheat and foul, otherwise it will not be good to teach bad children. Today is a national live broadcast, and I don't know how many future all-stars are watching him with little stars in front of the TV.

As long as the Lakers played steadily in the second half, they could hold on to their 13-point advantage, but Zhang Mao would not let the game be so monotonous, and today he took out a summer strengthened back play for the first time.

This season, the Lakers started too smoothly, and Zhang Yi could easily lead the team to a winning streak even if he only played without the ball, but this does not mean that he has changed to a no-ball style.

"Back playing" is a skill that Zhang Mao mastered in the first season, but he did not strengthen it in the second season, and it was not until this summer that he reperfected his back hitting skill package, and the main strengthening point was the jump shot behind his back.

The back-to-back jumper is very difficult to practice, and Jordan first practiced the back-to-back breakthrough before he began to hone the skill of the back-to-back jumper, because this move requires a lot of front-end techniques to exert its power, simply put, it requires footwork, shooting, core strength and rhythm to form power.

Zhang Zhu's summer strength is mainly the training of back feet, which originally requires a lot of practical experience to practice, but Zhang Zhu has a cheating system for actual combat, and every day he takes Brother Pi and others to fight alone, and it is difficult to make progress quickly.

Eric Williams played a lot in the first half, he felt that Zhang Zhu didn't come to fight with him, and the dignified triple MVP actually played so obscenely?

Of course, he wouldn't feel that Zhang Qi couldn't play head-on, after all, he had played against Zhang Qi in the Celtics two years ago, don't look at his weight close to 230 pounds, but he was dumb when he met Zhang Qi before.

In the second half, Zhang Qi began to play back frequently, and Eric immediately realized how lucky he was in the first half, and now he could not resist Zhang Qi's back push with all his strength.

Now you can see the importance of power, Zhang Zhu can easily use his back posture to advance near the penalty line, at this time even if he doesn't need to use his feet, he can easily find an opportunity to turn and shoot, anyway, Eric can't make an effective block when he encounters a hard stun, so he can only watch Zhang Zhu jump shot.

"Alas, you guys are so unhelpful, my footsteps are so redundant that I can't catch the drama at all."

Zhang Qi scored easily with two back-to-back shots, but Eric's defense was not bad, otherwise he wouldn't have been hit by the Jazz, but at the moment he didn't even have anything to do with Zhang Qi's back.

This is the power of "back play", as long as the defending side can't bear it in strength, it doesn't matter if the opponent doesn't score or not, even if there is a height advantage, because the attacker only needs to find a defender after the confrontation is in the time point of hard stunning, even if the defender's arm span is 240cm, in the end can only open his hands like a stupid hat to watch the show.

No one in the Jazz team can defend against Zhang Zhu's back alone, and it is estimated that no one in the entire league can do it, if he changes to a power-type No. 4 position, he can resist him, but Zhang Zhu can easily wipe it in with a turn, and it still can't be done.

Sloan can only use the trap method to deal with Zhang, but this goes back to the old problem - even the Jazz, who are known for their execution and stability, are not fast enough in rotation at this stage, anyway, they are too far behind the Jazz team that Zhang played last night, and he only needs one pass to create chances, and he doesn't need his teammates to help him reverse the ball.

"If the bag clip doesn't work, then join forces!"

Sloan was ruthless in his heart, and simply took out the team's immature joint defense for a last-ditch effort.

Not to mention, now the league allows joint defense, but even the Lakers have not played real joint defense.

Now everyone just uses some of the characteristics of joint defense to strengthen the speed of assisting defense and making up for positions, and the real joint defense has hardly appeared, because this kind of defense needs to be practiced for a long time to form a power, and everyone does not have this time to practice.

The Jazz broke the jar today, and they can't beat the Lakers in the conventional way anyway, so let's just experiment with the power of joint defense.

Sloan's joint defense is a combination of marking and joint defense system specifically for Zhang Qi, which is the position of 221 at the moment, the strong point lies in the two ribs, the wing and the middle, and the weakness lies in the baseline and the top of the arc, especially the bottom corner three-point line is completely in a vacuum.

"Interesting, but what would you do if I dribbled to the top of the arc myself?"

It was also the first time that Zhang Wei had seen someone use joint defense against him, and this time the offense was almost surrounded by the Jazz, but fortunately, he assisted Kidd to play a game at the last moment, and finally there was no mistake.

In the next round, Zhang Zhen really advanced with the ball by himself, and stood directly at the top of the arc, he wanted to see how the Jazz would react?

The Jazz seem to have really practiced, the defenders on the left and right flanks are not moving, Eric is on his close defense, Malone is staring at him from a step inside the free throw line, and the center is alone in the restricted area, and the defensive position becomes 311.

Zhang Yu nodded, he knew that as long as he broke inside, the Jazz players on both sides and Eric on the opposite side should follow him and retreat inside, but they should not easily confront him, but they would wait until he was completely surrounded before making any moves, he had seen this formation last night.

"The formation is good, but I don't know how the execution is?"

Of course, Zhang Yu wanted to touch the bottom of Jazz, he knew that he would close the door as soon as he broke through the opponent, but he still dribbled and killed inside.

The players on both wings of the Jazz did not shrink immediately, and they also had to take into account the three-point shots of Finley and Kidd, so the formation was in a "pin" shape to shrink inward to prevent Zhang Yu from distributing the ball to the outside, and he had to face the bag of Eric and Malone at the first time, and then he would be surrounded by the two behind him.

Zhang Zhu passed the ball to Mason on the right side of the rib before the two of them closed behind him, and Stockton hurriedly went to fill Malone's position, which was closest to Finley at the moment, and Malone, who had just gone to wrap Zhang Fu.

Mason himself could shoot or dribble inside, but the Jazz still had a center under the basket, and Mason didn't want to shoot it himself, so he immediately gave the ball to Kidd.

Stockton just made up for Ma Long's position, and now Ma Long naturally wants to make up for Stockton's position, but the big defense is still in the outside area, and Kidd's advantage is too great, and he will kill it as soon as his body is low.

Sloan was nervous on the sidelines, this was the first time they used joint defense in actual combat, and the early defense was done quite well, now it is up to us to see if we can continue to lock up the Lakers' offense.

Unfortunately, Kidd's ability to read the defense was too good, and his choice of breakthrough route made it difficult for the Jazz players to make up for it, so when short center Adam Kee was in front of Kidd as the final barrier, Mutombo was already in the basket.

Of course, Kidd will not attack, and the ball will be sent to Lao Mu under the basket as soon as he hangs it.

Mutombo threw it casually and scored two points at an ultra-close distance, and Eric, who had just rushed back at the moment, could not effectively block him at all, and the "African Mountain" was too high.

The Lakers' goal once again reflects their perfect teamwork, the Jazz have done a good job of defense this time, but the Lakers players' individual ability + tacit cooperation does not give a chance at all.

Sloan saw it more clearly from the sidelines, even if their rotation was a little faster, so that Mutombo could not form a shot under the basket, but Finley was already unguarded on the weak side of the baseline, and Zhang Zhu also went around the ribs of the weak side, and the two of them could create shooting opportunities no matter who got the ball, and the Jazz's rotation could hold up to Mutombo here is already the limit at this stage.

Zhang Qian thought it was a little interesting, the Jazz he met last night was fully capable of rotating two or three more rounds in the back, and the Lakers' transfer ball was almost at the limit at that time, so maybe who would make a mistake first in the end?

Offense and defense, don't think that the defending side will always be passive, if the attacker's continuous transfer of the ball is not a threat, the further back the easier it is to play yourself to death.

Soon, the Jazz demonstrated to everyone on the offensive end - "how to play yourself to death with passing"!

The Lakers have just completed a wonderful offense, and they are naturally very motivated to return to the defensive end, which is doomed to tragedy for the Jazz.

Stockton and Malone still played the opening game of blocking and dismantling, and the Lakers reciprocated this time, and Kidd and Mason went directly up to surround Malone who received the basketball after the disassembly.

Malone quickly passed the ball to Stockton, which is also a typical combination of the Jazz's pick-and-roll offense, and it has been difficult to defend.

But now that he can change the defense, Zhang Qian immediately made up for it, took steps to keep up with Stockton's breakthrough, and did not give him a chance to shoot.

Lao Si had nothing to say about his pass, and immediately sent the ball to Eric from behind.

Finley made up again, and Eric threw the ball into the hands of Dow Christie, who was standing on the baseline and should have been unguarded.

Lakers fans are nervous, because the Jazz's rotation defense just now has only lasted this step, but the Lakers obviously still have the strength to spare, Kidd has already rushed to the baseline one step ahead, and his figure does not suffer at all against the top of Christie, but can be misplaced to form a pressing defense.

Dow Christie also wanted to pass the ball out, but when he looked up, Zhang and Mason didn't know when they pounced from behind Kidd, and the Lakers actually formed a layer of encirclement around him.

Look at his position at the bottom corner three-point line, it is really a position that can't be more embarrassing, the left and back are out of bounds, he can't pass the ball to the empty teammates behind Zhang Qi and Mason, this kind of ball will definitely be cut off as long as it is passed.

At this moment, it can be seen more clearly from the bird's-eye view, all the Lakers players are pressed in the direction of Christie's bottom corner, although there are at least three Jazz players behind them in an unguarded state, but the ball is impossible to pass, and the professional players can stop this kind of high ball with a single jump.

Dow Christie was also witty, he tried to smash the ball on the Lakers player before he made a mistake, but the basketball hit Kidd's leg and bounced back to himself, falling into the hands of Mason, who rushed to the scene.

There is no need to look at it, the Lakers immediately launched a fast attack, and the Jazz players could only watch Zhang Yu kill a violent dunk in the frontcourt!

Sloan can only sit on the bench with a decadent face, although it is only a round, but he can see the gap between the two teams, now whether it is individual ability or team cooperation, the Jazz are far inferior to the Lakers, even if there is luck in the face of such a big disadvantage, you can't win.

The Jazz players also felt a deep sense of powerlessness, they took out all the tricks they hadn't practiced yet, but they still couldn't break the defense, how could they play such a game?

Zhang Fu is just the opposite, he feels that he has not yet made a force, and the opponent has already fallen, which makes his back play very embarrassing, he still has a lot of tricks to show off, Jazz really can't catch the play!

After the first three quarters, the Lakers once again took a 23-point lead, and Zhang Qian could return to the court and touch the Argentine's hair while thinking about how to pretend to be forced after the game.

Harris is still very cautious, and did not easily withdraw the main force in the fourth quarter, Zhang Fu has been staying on the court, really not giving the Jazz a chance to turn the tables.

The Jazz found that there was not even a chance to take advantage of it, and in the end, it was Sloan who withdrew the main lineup first.

Zhang Qi finally handed over a data of 43 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, he may not have noticed that this is the 6th time he has scored 40+ points this season, you must know that counting today's game, the Lakers have only played a total of 9 games, which is another phenomenal performance.

"I don't think there's anything to be proud of, 74 wins in a season and an average of 50+ per game doesn't mean you can win a championship. If I don't win the championship in the end, no matter how good my performance in the regular season is, it will only be a sore spot for being ridiculed afterwards, so I still put defending the title first. ”

At the post-game press conference, Zhang Fu's forced pretense made the reporter very uncomfortable, is it really good for him to say it himself?

After a while, a female reporter who seemed to be big-chested asked him: "Leon, do you agree with Carl's statement that you are not his opponent when it comes to fighting?" ”

Zhang Yu hurriedly glanced at the female reporter's chest, nodded first, and then replied: "This place is full of stupid remarks, you don't need to make it worse, miss." ”

Although the murderous female reporter felt as if she had been scolded, she still asked, "You haven't answered my question yet." ”

Zhang Yu glanced at the female reporter's chest again, nodded and said: "The basketball court is not a boxing ring, so it is not enough to have muscles and a smart mind, that's the case." ”