The Lakers players didn't know about Webb yet, but Zhang Yu already knew what his general manager was quietly tinkering with. In fact, last season, the Lakers had the intention of prying Webb or Howard, but in the end they felt that the price was too great, and at that time, the combination of Mutombo + Mason was enough, and O'Neal Jr.'s potential was also good, so they didn't need to have such a big operation to poach people.

But who would have thought that his godson would add so much difficulty to himself, all the heroes are crazy to strengthen during the trade period, coupled with Mason's decline, O'Neal Jr. is difficult to take on in the short term, and the Lakers' interior strength is suddenly not enough to have an advantage in front of these opponents, and even often has the upper hand, at this time Jerry West began to regret not strengthening the interior line early.

Although the Lakers' interior line is not bad, O'Neal Jr.'s potential can already be seen a lot, but it is still that problem, the championship team will not stop and wait for anyone, let alone look at how high your potential is, unless you can play a satisfactory performance for the team in the short term, otherwise the Lakers will only choose players who can bring enough competitiveness to the championship, that is, choose to fight.

Therefore, once the Lakers have the opportunity to get Weber's instant combat power, West and Zhang Zhu will not hesitate to trade O'Neal Jr., after all, no matter how potential this product is, it will be difficult to surpass Webber's height in the future, but the instant combat power of the two is more than a little worse.

Zhang Wei can clearly see how big the gap is from the system, Chris Webb's current ability value is 88, which is already a proper All-Star inside, and it is still on the rise, and it is very likely to exceed 90 next season to be promoted to quasi-supergiant, and O'Neal Jr. will have at least two or three seasons to reach this level, how can the Lakers stop and wait for him?

Ma Long, on the other hand, was struggling with whether to say hello to Zhang Zhu, and just happened to see Zhang Zhu staring at McDyce and O'Neill Jr. after he came out, so he simply ignored Zhang Zhu and didn't greet him at all.

"This coercion!"

Zhang Qi soon found out that Ma Long was hiding from him and didn't come to say hello, and secretly laughed in his heart.

He was naturally secretly comparing McDyce and O'Neal Jr. with Webber just now, and it turned out that these two people's immediate combat power and potential were not as good as Webber's, and this deal was worth making!

Coming back to today's game, since the Lakers have already won the match point, this time back to the Devils' home court in Salt Lake City, the local fans naturally greeted them with their religious frenzy again.

However, there is much less racist abuse today, because the league has punished Jazz fans in games 3 and 4 for using racist voices to interfere with the visiting team, not only fining the Jazz $200,000, but also nearly banning home fans from entering the game.

This kind of punishment is rare, but it reflects the attitude of the league, if Jazz fans continue to attack visiting players with such brazen racism, then they may not be able to continue to cheer for their teams at home next season, and the league's punishment will continue to carry over to next season's playoffs.

The two teams started the same game today as before, and the Lakers continued to use the double forward to compete with the Jazz's double forward, but it can be seen from the short shooting warm-up before the game that Malone seems to have recovered well, basically without missing a shot, and every goal scored will cause a tsunami of cheers from the fans at the scene, as if they had scored a stunna.

"The warm-up is as fierce as a tiger, and the opening game is zero bar five!"

Zhang Wei cursed in his heart, of course he knew what Malone's mid-range shot meant to the Jazz.

This is a strategic weapon, and whether or not it will have a direct bearing on whether the Jazz's core tactics are sufficiently powerful.

The Lakers and the Jazz have played five games, and they have already summed up the opponent's routine, and the so-called iron triangle can be summarized as: Stockton's passing, Malone's mid-range shooting, and McDyce's reception, which is the basis for building the Jazz iron triangle.

Without Stockton's organization and breakouts, Malone and McDyce, or even the two teammates on the outside, would not have been activated; Without Malone's mid-range shooting and high-post response, it would be difficult for Stockton to have enough space to play his passing ability, and McDyess would also be in a tight encirclement and difficult to play; Without McDyes, the combination of Stockton + Malone would be the same as before, more than stable but unable to play explosive output, let alone allow outside teammates to get too much space, and it is easy to hit the street at critical moments.

So the question is, since the Jazz's iron triangle is invulnerable, how can the Lakers defend?

Harris said: "Defense is definitely not preventable, this perfect combination cannot be prevented, and we can only find ways to limit its efficiency.

The most important task of the two is to clear the paint area, push the opponent's offensive position out of the restricted area, and push it out as much as they can, as long as they can get the Jazz's shooting point as far outside as possible, they can minimize the opponent's shooting percentage.

This is the Lakers' defensive strategy, using the super mobility of the two interior lines, infinitely sweeping the paint area and the area near the restricted area line, the outside line can help defend the best, and if you can't help the defense, you can't expose the vacancy, you must hold the Jazz players to defend and give full play to their athletic advantages.

In the end, of course, it is to use Zhang Fu's inexplicable personal ability to find a way to score more points on Jazz's head, as long as the damage is more than Jazz, the final victory can fall into his own hands.

In the opening jump ball, Malone gave up directly, and Zhang Yi easily got the initiative for the Lakers.

The Jazz played very carefully today, picking up the details in the first defensive opening game, and the whole team gambled to make a mistake in the opening game.

But this can't blame the Jazz for frantically using a four-man bag to clamp Zhang Zhu, who makes the Lakers' first offense have an 80% chance of giving Zhang Zhu a hand to let him try his hand, this kind of defense is not even a gamble.

Zhang Fu was naturally very angry, and returned to the defensive end and Big Ben swept the entire restricted area like two pincers, Malone and McDyess were not weak inside, but they couldn't receive the ball in the penalty area, and they could only be pushed to the free throw line by two people to get the basketball to attack.

Of course, Malone was not convinced, he had no reason to be able to scare Zhang Zhu, and the Jazz also handed the ball to him on the first offense, hoping that the offense could start from Malone's back.

Zhang Qi is not cowardly at all when he defends Ma Long, don't look at the difference between him and Ma Long's weight by nearly 30 pounds, and his body size is also a lap apart, but compared to the strength of the next game, he is not cowardly to Ma Long.

Malone's lower body strength is certainly not bad, and he can barely resist O'Neal's back punch against the Clippers, which is something that even the other three of the four centers struggle to do.

This is the benefit of a low lower plate, Zhang Fu's lower limb strength is stronger than many inside lines, Ma Long's lower limb strength is not as terrifying as his upper body strength after all, and he can't even push Zhang Qian for a while.

Zhang Zhu resisted Malone many times in the low post in the last game, and he didn't feel any change today, Malone had to arch several times to make him take a step back if he wanted to hit him back, but as long as he stood in position, it was unlikely that Malone wanted to squeeze near the penalty area in five seconds. As for using the turn to break through, it is even more impossible, he is much faster than Malone in terms of footsteps, and Malone can only turn over and shoot in the middle range or low post if he wants to play, but the efficiency of such a shot can be imagined.

"Huh!"

Well, Zhang Zhu admitted that he underestimated Ma Long's turn-over jumper, which can turn around and throw the ball into it at a distance of 15 feet, this is the difference between Ma Long in full state and before, such a turn-over jumper cannot be covered in Ma Long's hands, and it is difficult to even interfere with it.

But back to the defensive end, the Jazz players are also very painful, they don't even know who is more appropriate to defend Zhang Zhu, the successful defense just now is just a sneak attack after all, Zhang Zhu can no longer be cut off as long as he pays attention.

McDyce stood in front of Zhang Qiu on the defensive end, and only he could defend Zhang Qiu in the Jazz's lineup, and if someone else defended Zhang Qiu, the Jazz's entire defensive position would be chaotic.

Zhang Yu also chose to attack with the ball on the offensive end, although the koala baby with the ball in one hand looked like he was playing handsome, but he first raised his eyes to look at McDyce, and the weight of the product was 240 pounds, and it was not as good as Big Ben in terms of physical confrontation, so it was naturally not as good as himself.

That's easy to do, Zhang Yi thought of this, and immediately gestured to his teammates.

The Lakers players received the signal and immediately spread out to the weak side, leaving Zhang Fu alone to hit McDyess on the strong side.

McDyce was very nervous, he was only 235 pounds, at least 15 pounds lighter than Zhang and Big Ben, which was why it was getting harder and harder for him to deal with Big Ben, the constant physical interference, coupled with less and less eating and shaking, made him more and more uncomfortable.

As soon as Zhang Yu came up, he took out a back-hitting posture, and the Jazz players began to struggle again, if they went to help McDyce, the outside line would leak out of the gap, but if they didn't help, could McDyce hold on?

The answer, of course, is that he can't hold it, Zhang Zhu can't parry McDyce with one arch and two pouts, but unlike Ma Long's back play, which mostly uses turn-over jumpers, Zhang Zhu can have more ways to complete the attack, such as taking advantage of the opponent's unstable footing, immediately turn around and break in, at this time the opponent will definitely not be able to react.

When McDies was desperately trying to stabilize his body, he was swept away by Zhang Fu's turn.

Malone hurriedly raised his legs and rushed to the basket, but Zhang Fu's speed was too fast, and he took off to complete the dunk in only two steps after turning around, and Ma Long had no time to stop Zhang Fu from ravaging his basket unless he took him down with an elbow at the moment!

At this time, the gap has already appeared, and Zhang Zhu's defense of Malone can force the opponent to choose a farther position and make a more difficult turnover jumper. But when he attacked, he could easily squeeze McDyce into the penalty area, or turn around and break through, or even simply use his dream feet to complete the attack, Zhang Mao had too many options.

McDyce could only show a bitter gourd face, he knew that Zhang Qian could also directly turn around and attack with a face frame, because he was not only inferior to Zhang Qi in the confrontation, but also inferior to his footsteps and explosiveness, basically the rhythm of being crushed in all directions, bitter!

Sloan didn't have much expression on the sidelines, raised his hand and pointed lightly, and then saw that Malone had almost let go of Big Ben.

The Jazz chose to use two interior lines to defend Zhang Qi, as long as Big Ben didn't get into the dunk area under the basket, even if he received a pass in the restricted area, it didn't matter, just let him shoot.

It's a bit too contemptuous, but Big Ben definitely deserves to be looked down upon, and he really has to rely on luck to shoot in the restricted area.

Jazz fans soon laughed and peed, Big Ben received Zhang Mao's split shot twice in a row but all of them were ironed, so angry that the koala baby wanted to kick his ass, is there really anyone in the world who can't even shoot from a distance of three meters?

Big Ben's face was a little red, and he knew that he was too bad on the offensive end, but he really wasn't sure to hit this kind of close-range shot steadily, but he also had his own way of atonement.

At 8:02 in the first quarter, the Lakers fell into a positional battle again, and the offense was still launched from Zhang Mao's back. But this time, Zhang Yi chose to pass the ball to the outside after being trapped, he really didn't dare to pass the ball to Big Ben, unless the guy had a chance to dunk directly, he would pass the ball to Big Ben again.

After receiving the ball, Kidd broke through directly and forcibly pushed Stockton to disrupt the Jazz's defensive formation, attracting Lao Huo's help defense.

Starks was comfortable with receiving and shooting from the outside, but that didn't affect his final hit.

"I'll you off!"

Zhang Qi and Ma Long scolded at the same time in their hearts, and the movements of their hands were also surprisingly consistent, first elbowing each other once to show friendship.

The two only cared about the elbow, Big Ben and McDyce competed for the rebound under the basket, and it was naturally not McDyce who had the advantage at this time, only to see Big Ben roar angrily, squeezed McDyce away directly in the air, and stretched out his long arm to scoop the ball in his hand.

"Buckle it yourself!"

Before he could give a hint, he was entangled with Malone, and McDéce was knocked crookedly again, leaving only Big Ben and Eric under the basket, the latter apparently unable to stop him from completing the dunk.

Eric was hesitating to foul outright when Big Ben got up and scored with a two-handed slam to finally push his series beyond double digits.

The Lakers players immediately applauded loudly, but they were slandering in their hearts: Ya only scored 10 points in six games, which is really a pick!

But there's no denying that Big Ben was really good at rebounding and helping to defend today.

A minute later, Starks was thrown away by Lao Huo's no-ball run, and Big Ben actually rushed directly to the outside line and almost knocked the ball down, and finally let the steady Lao Huo almost throw a three-pointer.

Zhang Yu was naturally entangled with Malone under the basket again, but Lakers fans were not worried about defensive rebounds, only to see Kidd roar angrily, directly from McDyce's head to protect the basketball, and then directly launched a fast break, a dragon rushed to the frontcourt to assist and follow up Eddie Jones to complete the layup.

"I can't even grab a point guard, it's really a dish!"

The Jazz players are also slandering McDyce, you can't grab the big book, even Kidd can't grab it, eat!

Lakers fans find it funny that when Jones rushed to the frontcourt to complete the layup, Zhang Zhu was still entangled with Malone in the backcourt, and the scene was very discordant.

"I'm going to be with you today!"

Zhang Zhu is a pure Rodman-style play today, pestering Malone at every opportunity to make him unable to participate in the offense, many times he is pulling stiffly, but the referee rarely blows fouls.

Halfway through the first quarter of the game, Zhang Qi and Ma Long didn't commit a single foul, which is big enough.

Under this kind of penalty scale, the two naturally acted more and more excessively......

In the 5th minute and 16 seconds, Ma Long was entangled with Zhang Zhu on the offensive end, seeing that the rebounding ball flew in his direction, Ma Long was in a hurry and flew to Zhang Zhu's throat with a move of "Iron Elbow Throat Kill", of course, his movements were like normal arm swings.

Zhang Yu is not easy to mess with, he immediately made a move "out of nothing", was knocked to the ground one second early, and used his actor-level body movements and facial expressions to make Ma Long eat the first foul.

Looking back, the koala baby was not to be outdone, and at the defensive end, he was entangled with Ma Long's arm, and the other hand took the opportunity to use a trick "fairy grape picking", and grabbed Ma Long's developed chest hard, only to hear the latter scream, and waved the arm thicker than the average person's thigh to throw the koala baby out in pain.

The referee naturally wouldn't be blind enough to give Ma Long a foul, and Zhang Yi finally opened his beard.

Malone's grapes were hit hard, and only one of those two free throws was made.

But don't think that this is the only time Ma Long has been played, Zhang Yu let the battle-hardened Ma Long know today, what is called the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave, his posture is more than this move!

When there was still the last minute left in the first quarter, Malone was entangled with Zhang Zhu in the backcourt this time, seeing the rebound ball flying in his direction, Zhang Zhu hurriedly made a stumbling block at his feet, and Malone immediately stood unsteadily and fell down.

Of course, Malone is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he dragged Zhang Mao down when he fell to the ground.

But what the "postman" never expected was that Zhang Fu was a trick of the old man's ♂ cart, and his whole body was pressed on his body, and he took the opportunity to give Ma Long's back a hard blow.

Ma Long was also evil to the gall under the pain, and when he turned around, he wanted to throw his elbow to give Zhang Fu's chin a plastic surgery, but unexpectedly, the koala baby's dodge skills were full, Ma Long's killing move was not only Miss, Zhang Zhu was also ready to try it again for a thousand years.

The referee couldn't bear it anymore, the whistle blew again and again, and each of them directly hit fifty boards, and one person gave a technical foul, so that these two guys who wrestled on the field restrained a little, especially this 18-forbidden trick, which can never be used again, they are a sport of all ages.

Sloan frowned, Zhang Mao's bastard allowed Malone to score 3 points in the whole quarter on the defensive end, but he himself scored 6 points from McDyes's head on the offensive end, which is a bit worthless!

Harris was naturally smiling, and after the first quarter, the score was 23:20, and the Lakers led by 3 points.

Don't look at the 3-point advantage, Zhang Zhu not only made Ma Long dumb in the first quarter, but also seriously consumed the physical strength of the "postman". Although, his own scoring has also been affected, and the physical exertion is not small, but judging from the score and the process of the game, the Lakers must have earned it.

After all, Malone is a 35-year-old man, and his body size is so exaggerated, even if his stamina is good, it must be better than Zhang Zhu, and this kind of consumption is bound to be beneficial to the Lakers.

Zhang Zhu's data of 6 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the first quarter is not bad, of course, the most uncomfortable for the Jazz are Big Ben and Kidd, one of these two got 2 points and 5 rebounds, the other got 3 points, 3 assists and 4 rebounds, plus Jones cut 10 points, the Lakers relied on two or three masters and a blue-collar in the first quarter, and actually played enough output and defense.

The statistics of the Jazz players are a bit miserable, Malone was interfered by Zhang Yu and failed to play a central role on the offensive end, which made the other two corners of the Iron Triangle also affected, Stockton actually scored a team-high 8 points in the first quarter, McDice only scored 4 points today, plus Malone's 3 points, which is obviously not enough to give the Jazz a lead. And a hidden danger is already obvious, Stockton scored so many points in the first quarter, which can only show that the Jazz's offense is very abnormal.