"The NBA is a business league, and I know that. ”

Many rookies who join the NBA league will say this when interviewed by the media.

It's actually quite interesting to say that when a team wants to trade a player, the player has to follow the arrangement, and the player also has that freedom when the player can go elsewhere to get a bigger contract.

Probably all fans want the team they support to keep the quality players who play well, but the ball market has always been difficult to retain stars, especially in a religious city like Salt Lake City, where life is extremely boring.

When Delon came to Salt Lake City, his thoughts inevitably went back to a few years ago, and NBA rookie Chen Zhi naturally only focused on the current Jazz team.

From the scouting report distributed at the team meeting and Coach Carlisle's mouth, Chen Zhi has learned about the special of the Jazz team under Coach Quinn Schneider, excellent defense, especially excellent rebounding protection, which is mainly due to the Jazz interior pillar Rudy Gobert, the French Wu Yanzu is the core of the Jazz team's defense, and he is holding up the Jazz team's defensive banner with one hand.

At the same time, the Jazz's outside defense is also good, with Coach Schneider** ranking seventh in the league in defensive efficiency last season, and under their defense, opponents are averaging the second-lowest points per game in the league.

In fact, if it hadn't been for too many injuries last season, the Jazz might have made the playoffs. This offseason welcomed George Hill to strengthen the No. 1 position, which has always been weak, and the Jazz have shown great fighting power this year.

The Jazz are in high spirits right now, as they beat the San Antonio Spurs in their last game, and a win over the Spurs, who have been the league's benchmark for two decades, will definitely boost the team's morale.

Especially since the start of the new season, George Hill has been a seamless connection with the Jazz team, and the run-in with the Jazz team is very good, which is one of the reasons why they were able to achieve a big victory in the Holy City.

It is still necessary for the Bulls to arrive in Salt Lake City a day early, after a day of rest, the aging Dallas Bulls players are in good shape, although Chen Zhi has long heard that the Jazz are located on the plateau, but he did not feel the slightest abnormality when he arrived here, probably only in the fierce physical confrontation, can he experience it.

The next evening, the game started as scheduled on the Jazz's home court.

In this game, the old driver who has rested for two games is back, and his comeback against the Jazz is very important, the Jazz's interior defense is too terrifying, in addition to Gobert, there is also a Favors, although the height is slightly lacking, but solid strength and outstanding arm span, there is enough weight on the defensive end, and the Bulls can rely on his three-point range to open up space.

In the face of a super interior defensive team like the Jazz, an interior three-point shooter who can open up space is naturally extremely important, otherwise he must have the consciousness of facing Gobert.

Before the game officially started, just when the on-site DJ introduced the players, Chen Zhi felt the terrifying atmosphere of the Utah home court, especially when the Jazz team's core forward Gordon Hayward played, the cries from all over the sky, coupled with the outstanding sound effect of this home court, were really noisy.

When the Jazz fans saw Deron playing with the other bull players, the Energy Solutions Arena suddenly resounded with boos! The consistent pace makes people feel like the 20,000 spectators at the scene are like one!

Although he has returned to this stadium many times, in the face of the boos of these fans who once loved him, Delong is still a little difficult to let go.

Even now, Delong doesn't think that Lao Shuai's departure is all his problem, but it happened that after a quarrel between the two, Lao Shuai finally decided to leave.

"Guys, how about we get a big win here!" Chen Zhi looked around the Jazz court, and after the boos were over, there were still boos sounding sporadically, "These boos are really noisy, how about we use our actions to make them completely shut up!" ”

King Nuo Tianwang glanced at Delong, whose face was solemn and obviously quite stressed, and smiled at Chen Zhi: "Ah, yes! This venue is so noisy, old people like me can't stand such noise, it's better to shut them up! ”

"Oh, I don't like the noise either." Barnes tugged at the corners of his mouth, his round head tilted.

The core trio expressed their stance one after another, and the Bulls players, who were originally a little depressed in the midst of the cries at the Jazz's home court, had a smile on the corner of their mouths, and a glimmer of light flashed in their eyes.

Boss Niu Cuban combed his hair with his left hand and said with a smile: "Who is Dallas old, I think Dallas is still very passionate!" ”

"There is passion, but this year the Jazz are definitely a strong team that cannot be reckoned with, and even the Spurs are planted at home!" Carlisle wasn't too optimistic about the Jazz game.

Gobert and Bogut jumped the ball in the middle circle, only to see Gobert gently stretch his 2.35-meter long arms after jumping, and swing the basketball to his teammates in the backcourt without pressure.

After Hayward held the ball over half the court, he handed it to George Hill on the left arc, pretending to use Gobert to cover and then cut to the bottom left corner, Barnes then moved to the left to avoid Gobert's cover and intercepted in advance, but Hayward rushed to the basket in an instant.

Bogut, who was taken to the free throw line by Gobert, immediately went inside to make up for the defense, but the pace speed was far worse than that of forward Hayward, Hayward reached the basket, George Hill's empty pass flew in synchronously, Hayward jumped up to catch the ball was a violent dunk, and the Jazz fans immediately cheered.

The opening dunk took the lead, which was a good momentum, he was an extremely beautiful handsome guy when he was young, and Coach Schneider, who was already able to play a serial killer without makeup in middle age, couldn't help but bow his head, and this tactic of cutting the basket to Hayward was very successful.

Although the Jazz are at the bottom of the league in points per game, the Jazz themselves are not bad at offensive efficiency, at least at the mid-league level, mainly because the slow offensive pace makes them look like they are not strong enough offensively.

With Strongward, a sharp white all-around forward, and new signing George Hill, Coach Schneider is not worried about the Jazz's offense, especially the slow and weak interior defense of the current old Bulls, which is difficult to effectively limit the Jazz.

The reason why this old Bulls can achieve three consecutive wins in the new season is definitely not the defensive ability, but the strong play on the offensive end, and the most important offensive firepower is concentrated on the Huaxia point guard, and his anti-sky offense has covered up many problems on the defensive end of the Bulls. Whether or not they can form an effective defense against him is the key to whether the Jazz can win.

Therefore, the Jazz can only use Hayward to defend Chen's arrival, and the change of defense starts from the beginning! This method of relying on height on the flanks to defend against Chen should already be the consensus of the league.

Quinn Schneider's No. 1 fierce appearance in the league, two equally fierce eyes, among the coaches after the resignation of the old coach Sloan, he is the only one who can calm the scene on the Jazz team, presumably this appearance has played a lot of roles.

He stared closely at Chen Dao who was advancing with the dribble, according to the data analysis, although the rookie's offensive firepower has been very high, but the three-point shot has a significant downward trend, I hope that guy can continue this momentum in this game, and gradually cool down from the high temperature.

However, the next moment, he saw Hayward jump inexplicably in front of the point guard, and then the guy stepped back to the right and shot three points directly!

Coach Schneider immediately stood up from the bench and watched Chen Zhi's basketball draw a beautiful arc into the net after his shot!

"How to set up the defense before the game!" Coach Schneider walked to the midfield position and questioned Grandpa Hai angrily, his eyes exuding a heavy killing intent, it was simply a death gaze!

Put the sudden and don't let go, put Chen Zhi into the inner line, and hand it over to Gobert to solve! It's a defensive tactic he's set in.

Even if he was the core of the team, Hayward still had no temper with the coach, didn't explain much, and just said: "Bye-Buddha!" ”

Coach Schneider's eyes are finally not as sharp as just now, "Don't let him shoot 3 points, close defense, let him go inside!" ”

Although the pick-and-roll master Sloan has left, the speed of the pick-and-roll battle is still a heavy weight in the Jazz, and in this round of the Jazz offense, the Jazz team showed their high-post double-block and pick-and-roll tactics.

Rodney Hood and Hay, who had already shown a lot of potential for the Jazz in the first two years of their rookie season, ambushed the bottom corner, with power forward Favors standing outside the three-point line on the left and the corner on the right.

George Hill moved from the left side of the three-point line to the right with the ball, and Chen Zhi, who was defending George Hill, was blocked by Favors, but Favors did not do a good job of blocking in order to find a quick cut.

Favors quickly cut inside after blocking and dismantling, although Nowitzki's pace was slower than Favors, he simply stood inside, and Favors had no chance to take advantage of it.

The Jazz's second pick-and-roll was quickly activated, with Gobert moving quickly from the Horns to the Arc and George Hill for the second.

This time Gobert's blocking quality is very high, seeing that George Hill is vacant Bogut can only change the defense, Gobert continues to cut to the basket after Favors, and Favors who cut into the basket first, after not getting an offensive opportunity, still pulls out to the right mid-distance and takes away Nowitzki under the follow-up basket.

George Hill hit the ground with one hand, and Gobert immediately carried the ball to the basket, and Matthews, who quickly shrank to the basket, caused little interference to the 2.16 Gobert, who made a layup to easily score the ball.

Although Nowitzki also returned to the defense as soon as possible, his footwork was too slow, and when he rushed back to the basket, he didn't even have time to foul.

The Bulls' starting lineup defense does have a very big problem, Bogut and Nuo Tianwang are also too slow to move, but there is a huge gap in the offensive ability of the bench lineup, so they may be blown up in the face of the Jazz's two starting interior lines, and they can only rely on the ability of Nuo Tianwang to open up space on the offensive end as a compensation.

On the offensive end, the Jazz seized on the weakness of the Bulls' slow interior defense and continued to attack inside.

Carlisle had a clear look on the pitch from the sidelines, but he didn't make any adjustments, which was foreseen before the game, and there were no suitable players. The Bulls can now only play as efficiently as possible on the offensive end while trying to limit their opponents.

Chen Zhi is also very clear about this, in the next attack, he frequently blocks and dismantles with Nuotianwang, and Nowitzki responds in the high position, although Bogut has a good ability to respond, and can often pass some good balls, but he sometimes makes mistakes because of the pursuit of exquisite passes, for Bogut's special, Carlisle is really not at ease to let him do a lot of high-position work.

The two teams began to attack back and forth, and in the middle of the first quarter of the game, in the case of Chen Zhi's slight increase in shots, the scores of the two teams have been deadlocked, leading each other, and it seems that Chen Zhi's idea of silencing the home audience is difficult to achieve.

However, it all reversed after Carlisle called a timeout and the rotation began, with Deron Williams coming on.

The Jazz's home court immediately erupted in a massive boo, and they really cared about Delon after several years, and Delon still had to be booed in this place.

DeLong played, but Chen Zhi was not replaced, and it was Bogut who was replaced.

The Bulls put out a lineup of Chen Dao, DeLong, Matthews, Barnes, and Nowitzki, with Nowitzki leading the team to a big four, and all five players were extremely threatening with three-point shots.

The Jazz's defensive formation was immediately torn apart, with Nowitzki standing in the high post or even outside the three-point line, Gobert had to follow out to defend, and the Jazz's interior defensive threat was immediately greatly reduced.

After this lineup change, the Bulls' interior defense has indeed decreased, but it is not obvious, Barnes has long proven his ability as the fourth position in the fifth lineup in the Warriors, his strength can indeed prevent some players in the fourth position, at least it can play a certain limiting role, and Barnes's movement advantage in the fourth position is very obvious, far from being comparable to Favors.

Anyway, even when Bogut is on the floor, it will be difficult to limit the Jazz's George Hill and Hayward to take turns and pick and roll the offense inside.

But the offensive firepower and tactical changes of the Bulls were immediately enriched, and after opening up the space, Chen Zhi only needed to single-handedly beat Hayward to face the basket, which was really not difficult for Chen to arrive.

After Chen Zhi passed Hayward twice in a row and entered the interior line, the Jazz team immediately began to try to have Gobert to help defend the interior line, Chen Zhi did not hesitate to share the ball with the old driver, at this time, if he did not give him the ball, he would have no meaning of existence on the court.

The Jazz didn't feel too good after betting on Nowitzki after two rests, but the Noble Kings on the defensive end of the court used two accurate three-pointers in quick succession to pull the score away.

Seeing this, Shi Nai'an's elder brother Schneider had to immediately call a pause to adjust.

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