Chapter Ninety-Four: The Last Stand III.

Hornacek, who has been performing well in the Jazz team in the first few games, has completely lost himself in this game, he was blown up by Kobe Bryant today, not only on the defensive end he can't limit Kobe Bryant can only rely on the help of his teammates, and on the offensive end, he has completely lost his crosshairs, the game has played so far, he only has a pitiful 7 shots 1 of 1, and since the beginning of the second quarter shortly after one of his layups was fanned out of bounds by Kobe like a volleyball smash, he has lost the courage to attack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Jerry Sloan was also secretly dissatisfied, and he took advantage of a Carl Malone foul on Campbell to take a free throw.

Replacing Hornace is the Jazz's No. 25 show Shanton Anderson in the second round this season, this guy can only score 5.9 points and 2.8 rebounds this season, but his aggressive defensive attitude still wins the trust of Sloan's old coach, and Anderson is the same height as Kobe, both are 198 cm, he looks stronger than Kobe, which can at least cause some trouble for Kobe.

But the truth is exactly the opposite of what Sloan thought, even if the body is about the same, but the gap between the first-round pick and the second-round pick can be made up by the body, after the substitution, Kobe's offensive shooting rate has not decreased but increased, and he also staged a good show of breaking through Anderson into the Jazz interior line and dunking Ostertag.

This caused the Lakers fans to go crazy.

However, this was almost the only bright spot in the second quarter, and both teams did not shoot well throughout the game.

With 25 seconds left in the second quarter, the Jazz possessed the ball, and they had time left to make their final offense.

Stockton dribbled at a leisurely pace, he was grinding time, and now that the Jazz still have a nine-point lead, he is not in a hurry.

As the clock ticked by, he still had no intention of attacking.

With seven seconds left to attack, Stockton is ready to kick off.

He beckoned Karl Malone to step forward and make a pick-and-roll, and then he twisted into the Lakers' defense in a serpentine step.

Campbell immediately stepped forward to force Stockton, but Stockton still used his nimble body to dodge Campbell's tall body, and with 2 seconds left on the clock, he jumped to the basket.

Hit!

Stockton hit a buzzer-kick to extend his lead to 11 points.

The Lakers, on the other hand, only have a little more than 2 seconds left to attack.

There were some shuffled boos in the forum arena, but no matter how you listened to it, it looked a little lacking in breath.

But the Lakers don't seem to have given up yet.

Toney quickly threw the ball to Fisher at the three-point line, and as soon as Fisher received the ball, he ran out as fast as he could, two seconds was not even enough time for him to dribble the ball across half court, Fisher did not even think about it, and with 0.3 seconds left, he made a hasty shot near the halfcourt.

To everyone's surprise, the basketball crossed an extremely long arc and miraculously got into the hoop!

Fisher hit a midfield buzzer-beating three-pointer!!

The audience immediately applauded!

The Lakers regained the score back to within 10 points.

Fisher didn't seem to believe his eyes either, and he rubbed his eyes until he saw the Lakers' score increase by another three points on the electronic scoreboard.

A bunch of people on the Lakers' bench jumped up, and everyone surrounded Fisher, and the little guy made a miracle shot.

Although the difference between 8 points and 11 points is only three points, it gives people a completely different feeling, if the difference is less than 10 points, everyone still feels that there is hope for working hard, but once the difference reaches 10 points, this will create an invisible pressure.

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Halftime, Lakers locker room.

After that excitement, the Lakers' players quickly returned to reality, they are far from the time to cheer and celebrate, and now the team is still 8 points behind, although it doesn't seem like much, but you must know that their opponent is the Jazz, and it is difficult to complete the comeback under the nose of a master of the court like Stockton.

"Guys! Then it's time for the most critical moment, to give your all, no matter how you played in the first half, the next time it's time to fight for bayonets, I need everybody to be involved! Go to Utah or end! Let's see! Harris's eyes swept over everyone, and he said aloud.

Harris paused for a moment as his eyes swept over Campbell.

Campbell's old face couldn't help but blush, his performance in the first half was very bad, on the defensive end, he was swept away by Karl Malone in just half time with 19 points and 12 boards, and on the offensive end, he was also Malone did not score a point in 7 shots, such a performance is not worthy of his starting identity at all.

'Tony, I need to be more on both ends of the pitch in the second half, I know it's going to be tough, but we have nothing but to fight them to the death! Harris patted Tony on the shoulder, his tone very solemn.

Tony had just wiped the sweat off his head with a towel, and he knew that the next battle would be very difficult, and he nodded heavily, "I know what to do!" Rest assured. ā€

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"The second half of the game is about to start, and the next time will decide the fate of the Lakers, the two teams fought fiercely for us in the first half, and the second half will definitely be more exciting!" The commentary DJ at the Forum Arena kept fanning the atmosphere of the scene, "The Lakers fell behind by 8 points in the first half, let's see if the Lakers can complete the counterattack and take a victory from the powerful Jazz team next!" ā€

In the frenzied atmosphere of the scene, the second half of the game began.

Like the Lakers, it was clear that the Jazz were prepared for this, and the two sides were locked in a wrestling from the start of the game, with Stockton's near-frantic pressing forcing Fisher to pass the ball early to make sure he didn't make a turnover.

Hornacek re-entered the court, he almost completely wrapped himself around Kobe Bryant and did not let him have room to shoot, under such a crazy defense, the Lakers' first offense almost violated the 24-second violation, and in the end it could only be rushed by Jones, there was no doubt, the shot was naturally iron.

The rebound was picked up by Malone, and he threw a long throw to Russell, who was about to go down, and Jones already knew that he would not score this ball the moment he shot the basket, and he didn't stop at all and went straight to his half court.

Fortunately, because of this, he didn't miss Russell, who was about to go.

He blocked Russell's fast-break layup and grabbed the rebound.