In the second half, the Jazz still had to attack, and the five-point advantage was too little for the Lakers, and once there was anything wrong, they could be overtaken in two or three rounds.

The Lakers lost one game at home this year, and of course Sloan panicked, and he could only pin his hopes on the second elder.

But today the Lakers want to split the connection between the two elders and the other three, which causes Stockton and Malone to single-handedly pick up the entire Lakers team, so it is impossible to win, the Jazz's advantage is more like a team than the Lakers, Harris This is the biggest advantage of wanting to strangle the Jazz, and the intention is very vicious.

Harris completed this idea in the first half, this seemingly kind old man, his heart is very dark, and his routines are not less than anyone else, but the Lakers' offense did not play well in the first half, and the Jazz used their routines to crack the division many times, which led the Lakers.

The Jazz still have to break the Lakers' split defense in the second half to be safe, and this can only be done by Stockton, a playmaker master, Sloan has given him a heavy task in the halftime, and the burden is almost entirely on the 35-year-old veteran.

In the second half, Stockton was still expressionless, but he used his actions to make Kidd realize his immaturity again, and also let Kidd know that it is not so easy to become a real point guard master.

Kidd went to defend Stockton in the second half, and Harris couldn't keep him out of the game because he couldn't fight the right match, so he couldn't grow, and the experience was often gained in this kind of direct encounter, which is the tuition.

Kidd did spot Stockton's strengths, as his nerves and split-second decisiveness were quicker than his. In other words, this person has combined more than ten years of experience and his own talent in these two aspects, so every time after blocking and dismantling, Stockton can use Malone's cover and even the opponent's move to complete the breakthrough in an instant.

Stockton is cunning enough to allow two Lakers players to block him, and he has mastered his sense of space and position, while also being able to react to opponents' reactions in an instant, and always make defenders feel extremely uncomfortable, so that he can successfully complete the breakthrough and then shoot and pass.

From this point of view, it seems that Stockton plays a greater role in the Jazz's system, after all, there are always some roles like Malone, but a top CPU that can handle so many tasks in an instant is rare in history.

The Magic also thinks that he can't make the right decision in such a short time in Stockton, and he can't complete the breakthrough and pass in such a narrow place, he relies on his demonic vision, offensive and defensive reading and passing awareness, and takes the road of opening and closing, and Stockton's style is like the same as the northern boxing and the southern boxing.

Zhang Yu also admires Stockton very much on the side, he is very familiar with this style of play, because he himself is thick and fine. Ever since he saw Tianlong Babu, he felt that he was very similar to Qiao Feng, although it was a way to open and close, but he was not inferior to anyone in the details.

Kidd still couldn't control Stockton in the second half, and the more he played, the more passive he became, and finally he had to switch with Starks again.

Well, after all, it's not the real core, the Lakers still have to focus on the overall situation, and this kind of treatment is good.

Although Zhang Zhu felt that he could also do these operations of Stockton, he did not have the patience to really play with the Jazz.

Now the situation of the Lakers is not good, Stockton has opened the gap with individual ability, and the Jazz's blocking and pick-and-roll can contact all the players again, which means that Harris's division is on the verge of failure.

The worse news is that Kidd's mentality was inevitably affected after being blown up by Stockton on the defensive end, and the offensive end that played well in the first half began to be unable to play, and today he is considered a waste.

Starks' defense is okay, but in the second half he was still very undercover on the offensive end, I don't know if he was born unable to play games with the word "final", and he will drop the chain when it comes to the final.

The Lakers can now only rely on Zhang Zhu, Mason and Mutombo to score points, and the Jazz naturally have to watch Zhang Zhu, forcing the Lakers to become only two teams that can contribute consistent output inside, then the general trend is set.

At 9 minutes and 11 seconds in the third quarter, Stockton blocked and dismantled directly outside the three-point line, using Malone's body to throw the ball, and the basketball fell steadily into the frame!

With a score of 61:71, the Jazz had widened the gap to 10 points.

This is not the end, after Zhang Yu turned around and forced a miss, the Jazz suddenly hit a fast break, and it was Stockton again, he chased the Lakers' ass to advance to the frontcourt, and the handshake was an unexpected ground-hitting pass, and the assist-and-follow Lao Huo made a quick stop jump shot to score two more points.

The morale of the Lakers players has dropped, and if they continue to play like this, they will collapse the rhythm, and the collapse will be so unacceptable to the Lakers themselves.

They didn't think they were going to lose today, and they didn't expect the two defenders who played well in the last round to be so sluggish today.

Harris can only ask for a timeout, and a 12-point deficit is already dangerous in the playoffs, and now it's not a situation that can be recovered in a few rounds, but a situation where it is possible to be pulled further away after a few rounds.

Zhang Mao knew very well in his heart that the ball after the timeout was very important, and if he couldn't score and turn his head, he might be pulled to 15+ by the Jazz, and even he didn't have the confidence to catch up with the score at that time, after all, this is the most stable team now, and it is extremely difficult to play an attack wave from the Jazz, and now he must stand up and stabilize the situation.

The director should also know the importance of this goal, and after the game restarted, the camera followed Zhang Qi all the way, hanging high behind him to follow the shot.

Fans in front of the TV can now see all the details of Zhang's attack with the ball, and can even see the nervous look on Russell in front of him.

When Zhang Qi dribbles against defenders, he likes to keep a distance that is not far away, which gives him more options. The defending side is usually more embarrassed at this time, and if it is pressed too hard, it is easy to be squeezed by Zhang Qi to complete the breakthrough.

His first step is not against the sky, but combined with a strong body, even Pippen will be knocked out, and he will take the opportunity to break through half of his body. And the second step of Zhang Qi is really a bit against the sky, at this time Zhang Qi, who has already started speed, combined with his confrontation ability, is basically an unstoppable existence, so the defenders dare not get too close.

But this season, after Zhang Mao's three-point shot began to explode, the defenders found themselves far away, and could only maintain a distance that made Zhang Qiu the most comfortable, which was also a helpless compromise.

The Jazz look like they have three layers of blocking today, Russell is the first layer, the Jazz's interior players are the second layer, and the outside players on both sides are also considered a layer.

So after Zhang Mao gets past Russell, there is only Malone or Ostertag in front of him, as long as he can keep the defenders on both sides of the fence from having time to cover him, and the blockade under the basket can actually be pulled away by his teammates.

In this attack, Mutombo was ready to respond near the penalty line, and Mason pulled to the weak side of the middle to involve Malone in the defense, and his teammates on both wings also tried to spread out as much as possible, so that he was not easy to be caught by the wingers.

Zhang Qiu singled out Russell at the top of the arc, and the latter didn't even dare to blink his eyes, let alone come up to force the robbery, obviously very jealous of Zhang Zhu's breakthrough.

In this attack, Zhang Qian did not want to block and dismantle, and in the face of Russell's forced breakthrough from the left side, he passed half of his body in one step, but when the second step was just taken, Malone had already retracted in advance to wrap him.

Zhang Zhu wanted to pass the ball, but not only Malone shrank back alone, but the whole Jazz team shrank back, and for a while it was impossible to tell who was in the bag, who was misplaced, and who was changing defenses, in short, the scene was a mess!

The referee is certainly sharp-eyed, he can see that everyone in the Jazz is on the verge of violating the rules, and can even blow them for "illegal defense".

But that's what Sloan intended, and he's playing on the league's laissez-faire approach to "illegal defense."

The Jazz know that the league is very loose about "illegal defense", which started last year, and this year is even looser than last year, so they can use the banner of "bag clip" to wantonly change defense and assist defense, and use a defense that is almost a joint defense to limit Zhang Mao.

Of course, the referee can blow for the Jazz for violating the rules, but if they do, then the Jazz really can't play, unless the league wants to see another 4:0, otherwise it has to leave a way for the Jazz to live.

Zhang Yi also knew that the referee would not blow the penalty easily, and in the face of Ma Long's bag (xiefang), he immediately made a sharp stop and turned around, shaking the two defenders in front of him and behind him almost hit the street, but the basketball was already thrown out by him when he turned around.

Mason received the pass and was immediately caught by Lao Huo (misplaced defense).

Lakers fans are angry, is that too much?

But the referee still doesn't blow the penalty, fortunately, Mason has no problem playing an old Huo, but if Lao Huo is a tall defender, this goal Mason is really difficult to score.

"Aren't you forcing me?"

Although the attack scored a goal this time, Zhang Qi was really angry, thinking, "Since you plan to play like this, then I won't be reasonable anymore"! After thinking about it, he waved his hand to his teammates and signaled to hand over all the ball to him next, and the rest stood aside, and the Lakers stopped playing routines today.

This gesture is a signal that Zhang Qi is ready to play infinite singles, and he is ready to start performing.

It should be mentioned here that in 1988, the NBA introduced the "Anti-Isolated Singles Rule", which specifically stipulates that if the offensive team places 3 or more players outside the top of the free throw circle or on the side without the ball, it shall be declared a violation, and the offensive team loses possession of the ball, and the ball will be awarded to the opponent to throw a throw-in on the sideline of the extension of the top of the free throw circle.

This rule is set to limit the superstar's ability to play too prominently, in fact, it is aimed at Jordan and Magic, etc., otherwise the four teammates will be pulled to the weak side, and it will be difficult for the defender to contain the offensive player with the ball if he does not know the blatant violation.

But this rule was abolished by the league in 1994, because Jordan retired, although the gang leader soon returned, but at this time he no longer had the breakthrough of the god blocking and killing the gods of the year, and the magician and others were also aging, and the league did not use this provision again.

However, they obviously didn't expect young players to rise so quickly, let alone expect such a demon as Zhang Zhu to appear.

Last summer, the NBA had already thought about restarting the rule, but many people felt that changing the rules so frequently for a rookie would really damage the prestige of the NBA, and in fact, they just felt faceless. Moreover, Zhang Zhu has given people the impression of "comprehensive" in the past two years, and he rarely scores as desperately as Jordan back then, so the league feels that Zhang Zhu will not affect the balance of the game for the time being, so he is not in a hurry to update the rules of the game.

Therefore, this year's NBA still does not have an "anti-isolation singles rule", which means that any team can follow the example of the Bulls of that year, put all four of its players on one side, and then let Zhang Zhu play unlimited singles on the other side.

This hand is actually one of the tricks prepared by the Lakers for the Finals, which was originally a trick to disgust the other party when preparing to face the Bulls, and then it will also make Jordan, a god who used to do whatever he wants, now come to taste what it was like when he harmed others?

But they never expected that they were forced by the Jazz in the first game of the division finals.

As soon as the Lakers players put out this familiar formation for the majority of fans, the Lakers fans climaxed collectively!

Although this "anti-isolated singles rule" was mainly aimed at Jordan, the Magic of the year were also victims of this rule, including super outside players such as Drexler and Wilkins, who had almost unsolvable singles ability at the time, but Jordan was even more unsolvable.

But in this era, the unsolved players of the year have grown old, and the new unsolved players are still growing, and for the time being, only Zhang Fu's singles are truly unsolvable.

People are just confused by his all-around data in the past two years, and even Lakers fans themselves ignore Zhang Fu's singles ability, and even Zhang Qi himself doesn't know how terrifying he will be when he really wants to attack and score points!

"Well, how do we deal with him?"

"It's too far, how do you get there?"

"Hell!"

“…………”

After the Jazz players were pulled down on the weak side by four Lakers players, they moved a big step to the strong side like a loophole to stand, wanting to get closer to Zhang.

But after the damn three-point line was restored, they still didn't have time to assist Russell at the far end too much, and at most they could rush to the basket at full speed to block Zhang Mao, which was already the limit.

However, doing so will expose a big gap to the rest of the Lakers, because after they rush back to the basket with all their might, it is impossible for them to go against inertia and turn around and kill back in an instant, which is something that humans can't do now, so as long as Zhang Mao passes the ball in the breakthrough, they have to pray that the Lakers players can be stupid enough to shoot even such a large empty space.

Russell's side wanted to buy some time for his teammates, but let him face Zhang Yu alone, it was really too difficult for him, he really couldn't do it!

Zhang Zhu's first single, he used a series of feints to shake the Jazz players in front of him and in the distance.

Ma Long first shouted in his heart, he thought that Zhang Qian was going to break through, and immediately made a prediction to rush to the basket, but as a result, people pulled the ball back, and Ma Long instantly fell into an embarrassing situation of not being able to advance or retreat.

The referee looked at Malone who turned around and ran to the basket without authorization, and said in his heart, "Do you dare to come back and try again?"

Ma Long naturally didn't dare to return to the defensive position, he could only run from the weak side to the strong side, and go to Zhang Qi from a long distance.

Zhang Wei laughed in his heart, this time he really rushed to the basket and passed the ball to the unguarded Mason in front of Malone, who scored the ball in a mid-range open jumper.

At this moment, the Jazz players could only watch as Mason threw the ball in with a large open space, and could no longer defend.

"This rule is really rubbish!"

Jazz players are complaining about the league's broken rules, why can't they switch defenses?

Because, this shows that your defense is to mark the ball and not to mark people, then it is a joint defense, which is naturally an "illegal defense", and even if the referee blows loosely, it can't really not blow.

As soon as Zhang Zhu did this, the Jazz players would not dare to make such a prediction next time, and the result was that Zhang Zhu continued to use his speed and body to force Russell.

Don't look at the technical content of such a fight, but unless you foul, if you want to limit him with single defense within the rules, does the ability gap between 96 and 83 really not exist?

Zhang Zhu hadn't checked his physical attributes for a long time, and now just by looking at the comparison of the physical attributes of the two, you can know how powerless Russell is in the face of Zhang Zhu.

Let's take a look at Russell's physical attributes: strength (69); Confrontation (80); Speed (85); Agile (82); Explosiveness (86); Stamina (92); Bounce (84); reactions (86); Resistance to injuries and illnesses (82).

To be honest, Russell's physical fitness is not bad in the NBA, after all, none of them are below 80, his physical fitness is very comprehensive, and his physical strength is very strong, which makes many star players he can entangle embarrassed.

But then look at Zhang Fu's physical attributes: strength (80); Confrontation (88); Speed (94); Agile (92); Explosiveness (93); Stamina (97); Bounce (91); reactions (99); Resistance to injuries and illnesses (99).

What do you mean by "being most afraid of comparing goods?" ”

That's it, put the physical fitness of the two together, and you can see how big the gap is between the average genius and the real genius.

Zhang Zhu's strength and confrontation attributes don't seem to be high, one has just reached 80, and the other is less than 90, but if you look at Mutombo's strength of only 81 and 85's confrontation attributes, Mason's strength is only 90, against 91, you can know that Zhang Zhu's strength and confrontation have completely reached the inside level, and then with the bonus of speed and explosiveness, Russell himself will definitely be beaten into a melon skin.

Russell was indeed beaten into a melon, and Sloan couldn't do anything about the Lakers' brutal and unreasonable style of play.

After so many years, many people have forgotten that there is such a misunderstood way of playing on the rivers and lakes.

Sloan did ignore Zhang Zhu's singles threat, but even if he wasn't negligent, it would be really difficult for Zhang Zhu to defend like this, otherwise the league wouldn't have deliberately created an "anti-isolated singles rule" to limit this rogue style of play.

Zhang Fu's biggest enemy now is actually himself, first, how to maintain an efficient attack, and second, how long can his physical strength last?

Don't think it's easy to play like this, continuous high-intensity ball-holding offense is a very big test of physical strength and stability, especially if the Lakers want to chase points now, Zhang Qian must maintain a high singles efficiency, 50% of the shooting rate is a bit insufficient, and you must score points continuously.

Throughout the third quarter, the Lakers fans at home gave their cheers to Zhang Yu alone, hoping that their cornerstone could play the role of a lone hero and knock the Jazz to the ground on their own.

This kind of game of single-handedly breaking through the enemy camp is more exciting than other ways to win in this kind of crucial game, and Lakers fans are naturally looking forward to it.

Zhang Qian did not live up to the expectations of the fans in this quarter, he completely opened up on the offensive end, and his breakthrough was not unreasonable all the time, sometimes he would use feints to shake the opponent a few times, so that the Jazz players on the weak side were always very depressed.

This fast and slow rhythm makes it completely unpredictable for Jazz players to grasp his offensive timing, and it is difficult to retract to the basket for the bag.

Zhang Qi seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on them, and slowly the fans found that the score gap on the scoreboard was getting smaller and smaller, while Zhang Zhu's own scoreboard was getting higher and higher......

This reminded Lakers fans of Zhang Fu's words not long ago - "I am an army alone." ”