On the same day that the Lakers and Trail Blazers decided the winner, the Atlanta Hawks also defeated the Detroit Pistons at home 84-79, they completed the comeback and successfully eliminated the Pistons to enter the Eastern Conference semifinals, Grant Hill played the whole game, he cut 30 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists all-round performance, but helpless teammates did not help, they still lost the game. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this way, the matchmaking table for the divisional semifinals is officially released.

In the West, the Utah Jazz vs. the Los Angeles Lakers, the Houston Rockets vs. the Seattle SuperSonics, the Chicago Bulls vs. the Atlanta Hawks, and the Orlando Magic vs. the New York Knicks in the East.

Such a situation is undoubtedly very exciting, not only the dark horse to challenge the top team in the division, but also the two old teams only see fierce attacks.

However, although all aspects of the game are very exciting, but the media public opinion has been focused on Jordan's Bulls, they swept the Bullets 3-0 in the first round, facing the Hawks who just fought hard to get out, no one thinks that the Hawks will have much chance of winning, and now everyone is concerned about whether the Hawks can win one game from Jordan.

The first game between the Lakers and the Jazz will be two days later, the Jazz team is the first in the West, they naturally have the home court advantage, the Lakers flew to Utah a day earlier in order to adapt to the bad situation in Utah, the Jazz official is not as stingy as the Trail Blazers, they still provide the Lakers with a special training ground, after all, in the eyes of the Jazz, the Lakers are not even an opponent, they don't need to use this way to fool the Lakers players. Coach Harris brought the Lakers together, and although they knew they weren't the Jazz's opponents, they had no intention of admitting defeat, and Harris let the Lakers players watch the Jazz game footage all day.

In the end, they still have to admit that they know that the Jazz's offense basically relies on Stockton and Malone's blocking, but they still can't find a way to deal with the Jazz, which makes the Lakers players feel a deep sense of frustration.

The Jazz have exposed everything in front of themselves, but the Lakers just can't do anything about them, this is the suppression of absolute strength, which has to be discouraged.

On the night of May 6, U.S. time, the Lakers played away against the Jazz.

Shortly before their game, the first game between the Hawks and Bulls had just ended.

Originally, everyone thought that the Hawks, who had exhausted a lot of physical strength in five games with the Pistons, basically did not have much ability to resist when they met the Bulls, who had rested for many days, but the result was beyond everyone's expectations, the Hawks played very hard all the time, and the Bulls did not return to their peak because they rested for too long, so they fought with the Bulls until the last minute before unfortunately losing to the Bulls.

97：100

In the final moments, the Bulls relied on Pippen to help Jordan and a relay in the air to really seal the victory.

Returning to the game between the Lakers and the Jazz, the Jazz team did not have the slightest weakness under the tutelage of Sloan's old coach, although they did not regard the Lakers as real opponents, but in the game, they did not relax at all, which is to strategically despise the opponent and tactically value the opponent.

The game started from the moment the ball jumped, and the Lakers were firmly suppressed by the Jazz.

The Jazz's shooting percentage today is not high, but it has nothing to do with the Lakers' defense, Stockton and Karl Malone's blocking quality can never be better than them even in the entire league history, and the Lakers' defensive players have no way to do anything in front of Karl Malone's strong wall-strong body.

And Stockton's excellent big-picture vision and scalpel-like precision passing always find the Jazz's open players in the first place.

Sloan started his career as a young man on defense, and this year is his ninth season at the helm of the Jazz, and he has firmly implanted his defensive philosophy into this team, which now has no obvious weaknesses on both ends of the floor.

Compared with the Jazz's fluid offense and watertight defense, the Lakers look a lot more jerky on both offensive and defensive ends.

It's just that Malone's hand is worse today, and he missed several mid-range shots, so the Lakers can stabilize the score for the time being.

At the end of the first quarter, they trailed by just two points, 25-27.

However, from the beginning of the second quarter when the two sides began to put on the bench lineup, the Lakers collapsed, the Jazz's starting lineup was strong, and even the depth of the bench lineup was completely exploded Lakers, the Lakers were directly beaten by the Jazz, although Harris put the starting lineup again within a few minutes, but the Jazz had already played their own momentum, and their shooting rate began to go up, so the Lakers had nothing to do even if they struggled desperately.

Half time, 40:52

The Lakers are already trailing by twelve points.

At halftime, Harris kept proposing to strengthen the defense and increase the pressure of the defense, but his words still played a role, and at the beginning of the third quarter, the Lakers' defense was much tougher, and their desperate style of play was completely different from the first half, which did cause some problems for the Jazz.

Throughout the third quarter, the Lakers managed to keep the Jazz's scoring score below 20 points, and they allowed the Jazz to score only 18 points in the first quarter.

However, the Lakers defense was desperate, but their offense also lost their crosshairs, and they only scored 20 points in the entire third quarter, and the two-point advantage actually had little impact on the overall direction of the game.

And after the start of the fourth quarter, the Jazz immediately relieved themselves, their offensive efficiency was average, then they made up for it with a strong defense, and the Lakers almost fell into an iron frenzy throughout the fourth quarter.

Kobe Bryant intended to save the team from fire and water, but the Jazz were very targeted at his defense, Kobe's strongest breakthrough ability completely lost its effect in the face of the Jazz's layers of defense, and his shooting rhythm was also destroyed by Hornacek, Kobe Bryant had already hit four irons in the middle of the fourth quarter, shooting 1 of 5.

The Lakers are inaccurate on the outside, Tony on the inside can't save the team by himself no matter how good he is, and although Harris is anxious, he can only watch the score being pulled wider and wider.

77:93

The Lakers were hit head-on in their first game.

Toney's performance was the best for the Lakers, he scored 23 points and 12 boards on 8-of-16 shooting, but Kobe Bryant only scored 15 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists on 7-of-19 shooting.

For the Jazz, Karl Malone scored 23 points and 13 rebounds on 9-of-21 shooting, while Stockton and Hornacek both scored 10 points.

The top players on both sides played half a pound, but the difference in role players was not half a star.