Chapter 29 swept the Lakers

Unlike the format of the first round, the second round was a best-of-seven game, with the Jazz sweeping the Timberwolves first to end the game.

The Lakers played one more game, and Barkley's supernatural play allowed the Rockets to avoid the embarrassment of being swept.

In the face of the league's "strongest" center O'Neal's data, the Los Angeles people are full of confidence, after all, it is the Lakers who ended the Jazz's winning streak in the regular season, no matter how you look at the Lakers and Jazz games, the winning rate is still good.

The Jazz also know that the Lakers now only have the shark who is the most critical person in the game, and it is easy to say that everything is good to solve the shark, but the Jazz does not have David Robinson to incarnate Superman and fight with O'Neal.

The Spurs eliminated the Lakers because there were two super centers, one was abolished and one was abolished, and Duncan was also very competitive to play a god battle in the second round.

The Jazz can only let a few interior lines take turns to limit O'Neal's offense, but Sloan believes that the victory or defeat of the two teams is not in defense, but in offense, whose offensive efficiency is high, who will win the final game, Jazz just need to focus on O'Neal, the Lakers can't, so the Jazz still have an advantage, as long as they play normally, victory is not a problem.

Well! It's okay to be normal.

But what if the performance is not normal? As the Jazz's big boss, Malone is of course the target of opponents in the playoffs.

In this round of the series with the Lakers, Malone and Stockton cooperated in blocking and dismantling, and when there was an opportunity, the shot was also a succession, although the shooting rate did not fall below 40%, but it was also miserable, which was really a tragedy for Malone.

Fortunately, O'Neal is also tired, really tired, the dense arena has also caused a lot of burden on O'Neal, and he has fought with Big Dream for four games, although Olajuwon is no longer O'Neal's opponent at all, but this person is called Olajuwon, standing under the basket is a threat, and O'Neal cannot be distracted.

O'Neal's performance against the Jazz was also terrible, shooting less than five layers (49.3%) and only averaging 25 points, 13 rebounds (6.5 frontcourt rebounds) and 2 blocks per game.

The Jazz team's interior line was basically tempered by O'Neal, Kenjiro was okay because he came off the bench, and he was basically able to play against O'Neal for less than three minutes in a game, but even these three minutes Kenjiro was full of resentment.

It's too terrifying, this guy sticks up Kenjiro and feels like he can't breathe, the meat is all meat, a bunch of long legs and long hands, and the Roshan Great Demon King who pressed a meat ball on it.

In the first Jazz home game, O'Neal was clearly targeted, but fortunately, the Lakers' Kobe Bryant and Rice stepped up, both of whom scored more than 20 points, and Fisher also completed the role of a role player to score 15 points.

Everyone found out that O'Neal scored more than 20 points, and the four people could add and subtract 80 points, and if the bench took 10 or 20 points in the face of a strong defensive team like the Jazz, the Lakers could already win.

But alas, the last starter, Reid made 1 of 4 shots and 1 of 2 free throws to score 3 points.

The bench players made a total of 12 shots, and the Lakers played well as a bunch of veterans on the bench to win the game for the Jazz.

Malone had an excellent performance of 23 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals, and then looked at the seventeen free throws, the number and shooting percentage knew that Malone had a terrible performance.

Kenjiro became the hero of the Jazz's first home win, with 31 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, and Kenjiro was also taken care of by the home whistle, with 11 free throws, and Kenjiro made 11 of 11 free throws.

Do you say the home whistle is obvious? It's not obvious that the Jazz have less than 20 free throws than the Lakers.

In the second game, Malone's performance improved, scoring 25 points, 16 rebounds and 6 assists, leading the team to defeat the Lakers, although the performance of the big brother 25+15+5 was eye-catching, but Kenjiro's 24 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks were also excellent.

Everyone secretly lamented that the Jazz had earned it, Kenjiro was a star who could stand the test, and yes, Kenjiro was finally recognized by most mainstream media with his consistent play in the playoffs.

Although there are still some contradictory ones, anyone with a discerning eye can see that most of them are semi-official media of other teams, and they look like people who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour.

are all singing praises for the Lakers, saying that the Lakers just lost the home-court advantage, and returning to the home court will definitely educate the Jazz, the Jazz made a little more free throws, but the two teams were basically equal in the second game.

No one is going to talk about the Lakers' defensive problems, it's just black for the sake of black!

The Lakers faced a full-blooded resurrection of O'Neal at home, and Malone, who was supposed to lead the charge, finally handed over 17 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 turnovers, and the same problem also appeared in Stockton, the Lakers targeted the defense of the two, allowing the two brothers to send 10 turnovers in a game.

Kenjiro turned on the killing mode in this game, hitting 16 basketballs 25 times when the Lakers home team was behind, hitting 4 three-pointers, and 6 of 8 free throws, Kenjiro scored 42 points and took away a victory from the Lakers' home court.

The score came to 3:0, the threat of being swept made O'Neal finally go crazy, O'Neal made 25 shots in this game, causing a large number of fouls under the Jazz basket, but O'Neal's poor free throw shooting rate did not improve, otherwise the Jazz may really lose McCity, O'Neal's 42 points and 14 rebounds (8 frontcourt) data did not save the Lakers.

Malone and Kenjiro combined for 56 points and walked out of Staples Arena together.

Kenjiro's average of 32.5 points and 9 rebounds per game in this series against the Lakers was the key to the Jazz's victory.

The Jazz team rejoiced, only the owner Miller looked at his pocket and felt heartache, before Miller asked Sloan to find Kenjiro to renew his contract in advance, Sloan asked rhetorically how much contract you can give, at that time Miller looked heartbroken, and signed a contract for Kenjiro in the asset.

Sloan asked rhetorically again, do you want a championship? Miller doesn't squeak anymore! Miller certainly knows how important Kenjiro is to the team, and Kenjiro's bench bandits have become the team's winning weapon.

Sloan understands better that Kenjiro's ambition will not stay in a small team like the Jazz for long, and he will only use this place as a stage to show himself.

Sloan also tried to suppress Kenjiro's data a little, but Kenjiro was still as good as ever, and Sloan knew that he couldn't stop the future but seize the present.

Coming to the playoffs, the Jazz's old-fashioned blocking and pick-and-roll tactics have once again been exposed in front of the eyes of all teams, and Kenjiro's performance will play a decisive role in facing the Spurs next.

The problem of the West being strong and the East being weak has plagued the NBA for many years, and many Western teams think it is unfair, and more than half of the average win rate per game can't even enter the playoffs.

Before the game against the eastern team, the western team has already been tired of many battles.

Now the Western Conference Finals between the Jazz and the Spurs, many people have watched it as the Finals! The final winner of the two teams is this year's champion.