The Los Angeles media couldn't wait to beat gongs and drums to praise Zhang Zhu's greatness after the game, and the second game of the Western Conference Finals was a typical Zhang Sect Leader-style victory, and the entire Los Angeles media was full of adjectives like "great", "elegant", and "noble", which was very disgusting!

The Lakers only got a 1:1 score at home, which is not a very satisfactory result, but considering Mutombo's injury, the Lakers did not lose two games in a row is already a reflection of Zhang Mao's ability.

Zhang Zhu's fans even think that the current Lakers are all supported by him alone, and the koala baby is almost doing whatever he wants in the first two games, scoring 46 and 48 points in the two games respectively, and he is almost inexplicable on the offensive end, but the Lakers only got one victory, do you say his teammates are rubbish?!

In the second game, even if the Jazz went all out to encircle Zhang Zhu, they still let him score 48 points, and they couldn't limit Zhang Zhu's firepower output at all. And now it can be boldly predicted that in the third game, even if he goes to the home court of the Devils in the top three in the NBA, Zhang Zhu will still be unstoppable, and the Lakers will still need Zhang Zhu to maintain this phenomenal performance to win.

Coincidentally, the New York media has also raised their coverage of Zhang Fu, and they have recently begun to openly call Zhang Zhu the "leader" in the media, and it is hard for the average fan to imagine that the media and fans of the Big Apple City will have such a high opinion of their Los Angeles core, which they have always looked down on.

But the world is so unpredictable, New York fans have always been uninterested in the Lakers, but it is different for Zhang Zhu, from the time of participating in the draft, New York fans and media are very optimistic about Zhang Zhu, and later it became the craziest area for koala babies in addition to Los Angeles, and the nickname of "Zhang Sect Master" is also exclusive to New York fans.

But compared to the blind touting of the Los Angeles media, the New York media is finally a bit pressing, and the current situation of the Lakers is like a bamboo compared to the regular season, and now it can only be said that it is not satisfactory. Many of their problems were exposed in the first two games, but they were difficult to solve, and these hidden dangers could be used as a talisman to kill them when they arrive in Salt Lake City.

The biggest problem the Lakers have exposed in the last two games is that they haven't shown what they can do to defend Malone and McDyes, as long as they can't get them into foul problems.

This is already to save the referee's respect, even if Kidd and Zhang Qian frequently go to the inside to wrap up, Stockton can smoothly pass good balls for the two or the vacated outside, which makes the Lakers' defense always lose more than it loses. Moreover, this leads to another thorny problem, that is, in this season's playoffs, Stockton once again played a huge role, it was his passing that drove the Jazz's overall offense, and also made the Lakers' airtight defense in the regular season show a four-sided embarrassment.

This really embarrassed the Lakers, Stockton had a total of 25 assists in the first two games, and his indirect assists were also as many as 14, which adds up to a direct output of at least 78 points, and it can be said that nearly half of the Jazz's scoring was controlled by Stockton.

The Lakers have realized the importance of Stockton in the second game, and now suppressing him is equivalent to suppressing nearly half of the Jazz's scoring, but unfortunately the Lakers can only limit Stockton for a period of time, which is too little time and has a certain amount of controversy.

Therefore, there are a lot of problems in front of the Lakers at the moment, and it is difficult to limit the opponent, but it is not easy to play their own characteristics.

Now the news is that Mutombo will miss at least the next two games, and the Lakers will need more excellent performances on the inside of Mason, O'Neal Jr. and Big Ben to make up for Mutombo's absence to some extent. In addition, Kidd, Jones, Starks and others must find offensive form on the road, and what they need to do next is to make up for the defense lost after the absence of the best defensive player with a strong outside attack.

We didn't mention Lyon here, because the koala baby has always been a no-brainer, he just needs to maintain his offensive firepower in the first two games, don't care about triple-doubles, quadruple-doubles and other things that have no substantial data for winning, and maintain dominance on both offensive and defensive ends, even if the Lakers lack their important defensive core on the inside, it will still make the Jazz feel infinite headaches, because they also can't find a way to limit the koala baby, and I believe the next games will not be found.

If we were to say that we could win this series regardless of everything, we would have to vote for Lyon, who would be able to increase the winning percentage of any team by two or three percent out of thin air, and that's the dominance our koala baby showed.

The media in Los Angeles and New York undoubtedly occupy half of the American media voice, which is still a very modest statement, so Zhang Fu is indeed a little forced to count under the praise of the media in the two places.

Naturally, the media in Salt Lake City was very weak, but they still shouted the next day: Will you win, don't you have a little pressure in your heart?

They think that the Lakers can come to Salt Lake City with a score of 1:1, which is not their own ability at all, especially in the second game, as long as they don't watch the game with their eyes closed, they can see that the referee is holding back the pace of the Jazz victory.

Although the total score is now 1:1, judging from the first two games between the Lakers and the Jazz, the latter is not inferior to the Lakers in terms of strength and momentum, and even occupies a certain advantage.

But the presence of the referee in the second game is too obvious, the first game is actually not too much, and the referee's performance is quite decent. But after entering the second game, when Malone and McDyess help the team play an advantage, the situation on the court often changes abruptly, the referee will always stand up and become the first star on the court, and Zhang Zhu, the god of war in the eyes of the media, will suddenly become an untouchable player, almost every contact can cause Jazz fouls, and the Lakers either get a second chance to attack or get free throws.

It was the referee's deflection that fooled the blind man, and the Jazz were still unable to reverse the score even though they were taking the initiative.

If you still don't believe the referees favor the Lakers, then let's look at an interesting statistic, the Jazz were 30-28 fouls to the Lakers, but they trailed nearly half of the free throws at 16:30, and the Lakers outscored by 11 points at 23-12 on free throws alone.

The referee relies on his whistle to influence the course of the game, and always accurately controls the score difference between the two sides. Otherwise, in the first half, the Jazz would have been able to catch up with the difference, and there would not have been a scene like in the fourth quarter where they had the intention to kill the enemy, but they were powerless to return to the sky.

The media in Salt Lake City is not purely based on lip service, they are well-founded, in addition to the dead data, some live footage of the game is enough to see the bias of the referee, such as Malone against Mason in the third quarter, a turn with an elbow swing, and the referee immediately caught a foul.

Originally, you said that this is a foul and it is a normal range, but the problem is that the referee turned a blind eye to Mason's push and shoved before, and in turn immediately caught an offensive player for a foul. Not to mention that the harmless and handsome koala baby who was so handsome that he accidentally touched McDyes's crotch, but the referee only gave an ordinary foul, which can obviously be considered, and the referee can completely sentence McDyes's deliberately using his crotch to interfere with Lyon's defense.

In addition, Kidd's physical contact with Stockton also has the taste of boxing, after the game through the slow-motion footage, we can see that Kidd's actions against Stockton are not small, but Kidd only had 3 fouls in the whole game, but Stockton got 5 fouls, what a fair penalty!

In the whole game, in addition to the fourth quarter, there were more controversial shots, such as a pass from Lyon out of bounds in the first half, and the referee inexplicably gave the ball to the Lakers; Ben Wallace stood stupidly in his penalty area twice for five seconds, but the referee did not react; Eric was behind Lyon's mark, with one hand behind his back, and was immediately whistled for a pushing foul, which is all too normal for back-to-back defense.

In short, the countless fouls, small actions and timeouts in this game completely interrupted the Jazz's offensive rhythm, and the referee's control of the whole situation was unsatisfactory, and the Jazz also became confused under repeated interruptions, and finally lost the game.

Obviously, the media coverage of Salt Lake City did not make a splash in the United States, the place was already small, the local media had no voice to speak of, let alone the city had no presence in the world. Let's put it this way, most fans outside the United States don't know what the Jazz's home city is called, and everyone still thinks it's called "Utah City", who made the Jazz name "Utah Jazz".

Most fans feel that the reason why the Lakers failed to win the first two games is only because they had too long a break in the first game, and Mutombo was injured unexpectedly, otherwise it would be a pipe dream for the Jazz to steal a victory on the Lakers' turf.

The Lakers have a sense of crisis inside, Zhang Qiu's expansion is different from ordinary people, this guy always allows himself to expand, but as soon as his teammates float up, he turns his face as soon as he keeps it, which is a typical example of only allowing state officials to set fires, and not allowing people to light lights.

But it is this kind of unreasonableness, the Lakers' discipline and discipline have always been among the best in the NBA team, Harris does not need to worry about the mentality of the players at all, Zhang Mao's training ability is more awesome than that of a Zen master, the Lakers never have problems internally, and whoever dares to affect the chemistry will be put on the roster as soon as possible.

This explains why the Lakers' players degenerate very quickly as soon as they leave the Lakers, just imagine how free and easy the black players who are used to letting loose are restrained for a few years under the brutal oppression of Zhang Fu, once they regain their personal freedom, but it is never a good thing for athletes to be too laid-back, especially in the strong contrast between before and after, it is not surprising that the decline in state is comparable to Waterloo.

That said, the Lakers were a little too laid-back before Game 3. Harris saw that the young players were too nervous, so he canceled the pre-game confrontation training and cut the shooting training in half, because he felt that grinding the gun on the spot was not as effective as letting the players rest, which was contrary to Zhang's idea that shooting training should be strengthened before the game.

Since the beginning of this season, Zhang Qi will practice a lot of shooting before each game, and he feels that it is good to enter the game with a certain amount of fatigue, of course, this fatigue cannot be physical fatigue, but hand fatigue, and a large number of pre-game shots will increase the shooting memory in the game.

But the problem is that everyone's shooting memory is different, and the amount of shooting that everyone should master before the game is also different, and he can't let others achieve the same state as himself, and if this kind of large number of shots is excessive, it will affect the shooting percentage in the game, so he can't ask everyone to be the same as himself.

But at the very least, they shouldn't cut back on their pre-match training, it's never a good idea to be too relaxed, and it will take a break from their competitive form.

Of course, the victory or defeat of a game can never be caused by such a small reason, and many Zhang Zhu fans and Lakers fans are unwilling to accept the reality that it is so difficult to play at home, and it will be even more difficult to go away. But everyone is comforting themselves with the Lakers' invincibility in the regular season, ignoring that the regular season and the playoffs are really different, and the Jazz are really capable of beating the Lakers.

The game returned to the home court, and the referees did not take sides, which in itself was a way of favoring the Lakers, because the Jazz did not enjoy the home whistle they deserved.

But this did not prevent the Jazz from attacking extremely resolutely, and they made a 7-0 start after the opening, and the Lakers players were a little slow to get into the groove.

Malone and Stockton took the team's first seven points, these two old monsters are really old and have become demons, who would dare to believe that a 35-year-old and a 36-year-old old guy will be more energetic and impactful in front of a group of young Lakers?

But the Lakers are not vegetarians, Zhang Yi immediately launched a counterattack, first assisted Eddie Jones to break through the score, and the koala baby himself also began to cut the score, a backward jump shot, a blind few shots to complete 2 + 1, the Lakers caught up with the score in a blink of an eye.

However, the Jazz not only have an old guy, but the old Huo who returned to the starting list is also born in 1963, and a 35-year-old old monster who shot Jones, who is 10 years younger than him, twice in a row to shoot three-pointers, including a four-point shot.

The morale of the Jazz team immediately went up, and the already weird energy scheme arena, coupled with the almost crazy Salt Lake City fans, the Jazz's home court with the blessing of the two instantly exploded into a frenzied atmosphere far beyond the Lakers' home court.

Zhang Wei is also lamenting that this atmosphere of pagan horror is really not comparable to the group of stars on the Lakers' home court, and he found that except for himself, the ability values of all teammates are declining.

The Lakers don't have an advantage on the outside, let alone on the inside, Malone is still struggling with Mason today, although the strength is actually not too much, but there is a gap between the two in the use of power, not to mention the skills, last year's Mason can still rely on his own bravery to fight, but this year's Mason lacks that desperate atmosphere.

Malone first made a foul on Mason, and then hit a layup like a bully on his head, and in the next 3 minutes, Malone forced 6 points on Mason's head, and the Lakers' interior line was exploded again.

Harris ran out of ideas, and the two three-pointers of Old Horn were tantamount to warning the Lakers: If you dare to wrap up our inside, I will shoot you out of a hole.

But that's not all, McDyce played very smart today, and Ben's lack of experience allowed him to get fouls too quickly, and the Lakers' two starting interior players only held on for a little more than half a quarter before they both got into foul trouble.

In this adversity, Zhang Yu was forced to fight back against the Jazz in the way of a lone hero, he still repeatedly fought a bloody way in the double bag, and continuously used breakthroughs to inflict the same damage on the Jazz, Malone and McDyce did not last until the end of the first quarter of the game, and were both beaten into two fouls by Zhang Fu.

At this time, someone should have to question the referee again, but it is undeniable that Zhang Yu is indeed easy to foul, as long as he rushes to the crowd desperately, he can basically stand on the free throw line.

But this is the only way for the Lakers to persevere, and it is by relying on Zhang Zhu to turn on the personal scoring mode and slash 14 points in the first quarter that the Lakers can form a stalemate with the Jazz at 24:25.

Zhang scored 14 points on 2-of-3 shooting in the first quarter, which should be considered a slot, as he stepped to the free throw line a horrific 11 times, hitting 9 of them.

Zhang Mao can't not only carry the team, Kidd's shooting score today is 4 shots and 0 shots, and Mason on the inside is only 1 of 3 in front of Malone, O'Neal Jr.'s offense is really unreliable in this kind of game, and Big Ben simply don't mention it. Koala baby looks at it, it seems that there are so many people around him, but the only one he can rely on is Jones, and the two of them teamed up to score 20 points in a single quarter, which also proves that the team is really in an output crisis on the offensive end.

This is something that no one thought before, the Lakers averaged 119 points per game in the regular season, and who would have thought that they would face the embarrassment of insufficient output in the playoffs?

Harris also saw the problem, and used the more offensive Starks in the second quarter, but Starks, who also declined this year, faced Stockton, who had a small trick, and couldn't play the scene of exploding each other like last year.

Zhang Wei didn't understand this situation very much, Mason and Starks were 3 years younger than Malone and Stockton, and everyone was getting older, why did you decline faster than others?

If Starks and Mason knew about Zhang Zhu's complaint, they would definitely protest aggrievedly: That's why we can only take a few million, but they can take more than 10 million, everyone is different!

In the second quarter, Malone returned again to let Mason know that he couldn't play his anal with his upper body, and "Postman" hit three consecutive shots, and also caused Zhang Qi to foul once, once again proving that his name as the No. 1 in history was not obtained out of thin air.

Not to be outdone, Zhang suddenly accelerated from the free throw line in the next round, and Kidd finally contributed to the pass, and a precise pass helped Zhang Qi ride McDece to dunk the ball.

You read that right, Malone was not under the basket at the time, otherwise the koala baby would not have risked his own elbow to dunk, he knows better than anyone that persimmons are soft, and McDyce is much softer than Malone.

After "hitting three points" this time, O'Neal Jr. finally picked up the leak and scored two points, and the Lakers equalized the score. But they still couldn't control the situation, and the Jazz's home atmosphere made Zhang feel uncomfortable, let alone his teammates, and don't expect anyone to stand up and shoot consecutive three-pointers like Lao Huo.

Zhang Yu hated this person so much, the Lakers just equalized, Lao Huo began to explode again, and the Jazz immediately responded with a wave of 6-0.

The Lakers hoped that Kidd could get his touch back, but the guy in the white camouflage uniform couldn't shoot the ball in like most white shooters anyway, and the Jazz began to empty him later, but all eight shots in the first half were still off, including a close-range layup, and finally he didn't even dare to shoot again.

The Jazz's home commentary kept sarcastically: "That ball will never go in, he is not Van Exel", "What a shot!" It's powerful! But please relax and don't smash our baskets", "He should treat the basket as a teammate and the shot as a pass so he can shoot the ball in", "Jason Kidd, like Gary Payton, was born in Oakland, Calif., an All-Star if he can shoot well".

Zhang Wei also felt incredible, and even wondered if Kidd had opened the iron hanging, otherwise how could he have hit every ball so accurately?

The Jazz launched an 11-0 attack wave in the middle of the second quarter, widening the margin to 11 points in one go, until Harris couldn't take it anymore and replaced Kidd, and the Lakers stopped the scoring drought, but the double-digit deficit was already formed.

In the last four minutes of the first half, the Jazz relaxed a little, and the Lakers took the opportunity to play a small climax of 8:2 under the leadership of Zhang Mao. But the Jazz quickly refocused as McDyess made one of two free throws for a foul just before halftime. After the final half, the Jazz led by seven points at 53:46 and went into halftime.

Zhang Yu was very helpless, he scored 25 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, but Jones, who scored the highest score among his teammates, only scored 10 points, the two starters Kidd and Big Ben did not score a point, and Mason only scored 5 points.

Looking at the Jazz again, Malone had 16 points and 8 rebounds in the half, McDice had 10 points and 5 rebounds, Lao Huo had 14 points, and Stockton had 5 points and 9 assists.

Harris already has a premonition that it will be difficult to get out of the whole body today, Zhang Qi is now a bit like Jordan singled out the Pistons bad boy army, and the people who can help him on the whole team are actually the two most dish-chested on the All-Star.

David Stern also felt that he had accidentally adjusted the difficulty too high, and now with the completion of the run-in of each team, the script no longer seems to be a crusade between the heroes, nor a melee between the heroes, the Lakers are like a bit of a big boss in the early stage of the TV series, but even the kind of soldiers can't beat in the later stage.

Zhang was of course not convinced, but in the second half, McDies came up and forced Ben to get two free throws, and the latter had to go off the court with four fouls in seconds.

Big Ben couldn't bear it, O'Neal Jr. came up and gave it more freely, even if Zhang Qiu could still stand on the free throw line frequently, the point difference was still pulled back to double digits.

The game came to a critical moment again, and the Jazz defended Zhang Zhu to death, but fortunately, Eddie Jones stood up this time and attacked Lao Huo to make it 2+1, helping the Lakers stabilize their position.

The third quarter of the game was again a muscle-to-muscle battle, and both teams began to decline in their scoring rate.

Not to be outdone, Zhang Zhu, Kidd, and Jones broke through in a row, and the referee also quietly sent some carbon to the Lakers again, and the starting interior lines of both sides were soon plagued by fouls, McDaces and Malone only held on for a while more than Mason and Big Ben, and also each carried four fouls.

It stands to reason that this should be an extremely favorable situation for the Lakers, but the tragedy is that Eddie Jones's body obviously can't withstand such a toss, Zhang Yu rushed for most of the game and was fine, but he was elbowed by Malone after only half a quarter of the game.

"No, there have been no injuries for three years, and this time one injury is the two main forces?"

Zhang Fu's mentality collapsed a little, and Lakers fans also found the biggest difference between Finley and Jones, that is, the durability of the two is obviously several gears worse!

In fact, this can be seen from the physique of the two, and once Jones's slender figure encounters a meat grinder team like Jazz, it is really easy to tragedy.

Eddie Jones was forced back into the locker room for treatment, and while it was clear from the fact that he was able to walk on his own that the injury was not too serious, Zhang was left to his own today.

Undeterred by Jones' injury, the Koala Baby still played hard, and with the final minute of the third quarter, he was on the free-throw line for the 23rd time, but the Lakers still trailed by 11 points at 65:76.

This score was definitely not good in the final quarter, and Zhang Yu once again broke through to the basket with the explosive bag, and forcibly dunked the ball when Malone had to control his foul.

This is the first time Zhang Zhu has been facing Malone to dunk the ball today, Sloan has been shouting "calm down" on the sidelines, because Malone can't foul anymore, he has to replace Malone with four fouls at the end of the quarter in order to maintain the team's offense, if he gets another foul, the current advantage may not be able to hold.

Zhang Yu knew that the current Malone was tied up on the defensive end, so in the next round, he took the ball directly into the restricted area, and chose to go straight to the basket in the face of Ma Long.

This is too bullying, of course Stockton can't let his old friend be humiliated continuously, this time he suddenly came out from the side, and slapped Zhang Mao's handsome face, this time it was really merciless.

Zhang Yu subconsciously lowered his head, this was an action to protect his eyes, but the eyebrow bone was still hit by Stockton, and blood was splashed on the spot!

This should be the first time Zhang Yu spilled blood on the field, and the koala baby after landing on the ground was furious, ignoring the blood on his face, and ran towards Stockton with his legs raised, looking like he was going to beat the other party.

Seeing this, Stockton hurriedly retreated, and Malone strode up to block him, looking like he was ready to let Zhang Yu sprinkle some more blood.

At this time, a shocking scene appeared, only to see Kidd jump and hug Zhang Mao's thigh. But the strength of the two is obviously not at the same level, I saw that the koala baby with a bloody face didn't realize that there was still a person dragging on his legs, and he actually dragged Kidd more than ten meters away.

This unprecedented scene frightened Malone and Stockton couldn't help but take a few steps back, and finally Zhang Yu was pulled back by O'Neal Jr. and Starks, plus Kidd who was holding his thigh, and avoided a brawl that would not have happened.

There is no incident of Van Gundy hugging Mourning's thigh in this time and space, and Kidd and Zhang Ju's player's version of hugging his thigh this time has naturally become a classic scene in NBA history, and the fans who saw this amazing scene also grew their mouths and couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.

This situation is unprecedented on the court, how terrifying does Zhang Zhu have to be to drag a strong defender more than ten meters away?

"That's because I didn't have any strength at all!"

Kidd also fought hard, and he was really hugging his thighs this time.

The anger in Zhang Fu's heart has already disappeared with Kidd's cooperation, and now he feels that such a little brother, even if he hits 0 out of 10, he is a good little brother, and Nike should definitely give Kidd a signed shoe, otherwise he will not give him the face of the koala baby.

The Lakers' team doctor naturally didn't know that a thigh hug was worth so much money, and after the referee took control of the situation, he immediately stopped Zhang Mao's bleeding.

But the referee still showed a technical foul to Zhang Qiu, after all, dragging his teammates to rub is not something to boast about. Stockton was then heavily penalized, and this time the referee sent him off for a malicious foul.

Kidd completed the foul free throw instead of Zhang Zhu, but what made Zhang Qi off the court rage again was that Kidd only hit one of the two free throws, and the next three-point shot hit the iron again, and the matter of signing sneakers must be considered in the long run.

The Jazz were not affected by Stockton's eviction, and Eric took advantage of Zhang Zhu's absence to bully the elderly and decrepit Wilkins, and made a 2+1 before the end of the quarter.

The shot gave the Jazz a 15-point lead over the Lakers at 84-69 at the end of the third quarter.

Zhang Qiu's wound was a little unstoppable, which was obviously angered by his teammates, although this did not prevent him from taking the opportunity to pretend to be 13, because he asked the team doctor to stitch up the wound for him on the spot, and he could not leave the field for treatment, otherwise there would be no hope for this game at all.

The team doctor had no choice but to temporarily give him emergency treatment on the sidelines, and directly suture and micro-surgery on his injury on the spot. And during the stitches, the fans in front of the TV could clearly hear Zhang Fu urging the team doctor to hurry up and return to the field.

Needless to say, this scene will definitely become a classic shot in the NBA again, let's not talk about how the male fans in front of the TV feel, anyway, the female fans who can cry even when they watch the animal world must have cried a lot.

But what Zhang Fu himself didn't expect was that the referee played a hard-hearted role, and he refused Zhang Fu's request to return to the court after the start of the fourth quarter, on the grounds that Zhang had blood stains on his jersey and some on his body, and he had to deal with everything before he could play again.

This TM is embarrassing, because it means that even if Zhang Ji stitches up the wound on the spot, he still has to run back to the locker room to change the jersey, and then wipe the blood off his body, so is there any need for on-site stitching?

But that explains why there's no such behavior in the NBA, because you have to go back to the locker room to change your clothes, so there's really no need to stay on the spot to stitch up the wound except for pretending.

Of course, the majority of emotional fans will never think about these things, and countless female fans who were crying just now turned their heads and cursed the referee viciously! They think that this is because the referee is worried that the Jazz team will be beaten down by the return of King Zhang, so they will not let their warriors reappear, this is a conspiracy, too despicable!

Zhang Qi was really angry this time, although he was annoyed and angry, but no matter what the reason for the anger, it had a positive blessing effect on Zhang Fu, because this was his own attribute - whether it was positive or negative emotions, it could make him perform better.

As a result, the koala baby, who ran back to the locker room and quickly changed into new clothes, scored 18 points after re-entering the game, and did it in only 9 minutes of playing time, so the fighting spirit of the more courageous people can't help but be awe-inspiring.

However, when Zhang returned to the court, the Jazz had a 19-point lead, and the Koala baby's final crazy performance could only make the Lakers lose decently, and the final score of 108-99 still made this madness useless, and his performance of 52 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks could not make the Lakers leave with victory.