"Beep-" At halftime, the players from both sides returned. The 76ers' roster hasn't changed much, but the Jazz have changed. John Starks and Donyer Marshall went down, and Stockton and Carl Malone came up. At this time, there was a burst of cheers in the Delta Arena.

"How could it be them?" Luke thought to himself.

Jazz ball possession. Luke is still playing point guard, and his defense is of course Stockton.

"Boy, you played well." Stockton said.

Luke pursed his lips and said indifferently, "It's okay." ”

"I'll give it a try." Stockton was activated. He moved to the left, and Karl Malone came to block it with understanding, and with his strong body, he directly bounced Luke back. Stockton faced Tyrone Hill, who came to the defense, and easily passed to Malone, who rushed to the three-second zone, who dunked directly. The league's best pick-and-roll skills are on display. The audience cheered.

Offensive and defensive exchanges, 76ers possession. Luke just passed half-time when Stockton came over to defend him, and as soon as he came up, he made Luke gasp. This guy has too many small moves, even if he is as strong as Luke, he can't stand it at all, worthy of a player from the eighties and nineties, especially at the end of this kind of career, he has a lot of defensive experience, and he knows that those actions will not be blown by the referee (to be honest, I finally understand the reason why Jordan said that he can surpass Russell in the championship by now, and Barkley evaluates the current players too softly). Stockton saw Luke's discomfort and shot directly, stealing the ball and breaking fast. Score with an easy pick-and-roll layup.

"Damn it!" Luke cursed.

Back to the baseline serve, Luke was more careful after receiving the ball, always guarding against Stockton's attack and protecting the ball with his back. The ball was saved, but Luke's back suffered. Luke, who was dribbling, finally realized why Rodman would say Stockton was a dirty player. After feeling it for yourself, you will find out that it is because Rodman is also a very dirty player and has higher requirements for "dirty". Let Luke say that such a player bend should not exist. Fortunately, Stockton retired early, otherwise an offensive point guard like Arenas wouldn't know how to live. Not to mention small actions like pinching the waist and legs, there are also things like top knees (don't try it when you play, it's easy to provoke conflicts), and things like pulling pants. It's chilling.

"Damn it!" Just now, Stockton almost pinched it there (which is understood by men), Luke's hand trembled directly, and the ball was cut off by Stockton. "!" The good-natured Luke was almost provoked.

"Beep-" Larry quickly replaced Snow and told him to guard against Stockton. Say to Luke, "You go in and guard against Marlon!" ”

Hehehe, don't think that Luke's good days have arrived, Karl Malone is one of the best forwards in the league and one of the best forwards in the entire NBA history, that's not unreasonable, of course, there is no "elusive" small action like Stockton on Luke's offensive end, but Malone's body is not long in vain, Malone can't push Luke, Luke can't push Malone, and Luke has no rebounding awareness, and is always pressed by Malone to grab the frontcourt rebound. Then with the big elbow that he became famous here, he slammed directly into Luke, squeezed Luke away, and scored in the three-second zone. In the middle of the game, Luke's chest was hit no less than ten times, and his chest muscles were numb from the impact. I don't feel it when I walk.

"Beep-" Finally, the whistle blew at the end of the third quarter, and Luke could finally take a break.

It's a plateau in itself, and although Luke only played two quarters, it was too much consumption, and he drank water while he was carrying his rough air, and he had to listen to Larry's tactical arrangement.

"Hey Luke, how are you feeling?" Reid asked.

"Very bad."

"Look at you like that, it's definitely not like you when I go up." Reid said.

Luke looked at him sympathetically.

"What? You still don't believe it! Reed expressed dissatisfaction with Luke's sympathy, "It's because the coach won't let me go up, and if I go up, I'll definitely beat him all over the ground!" ”

"Really?" I heard a voice from behind Reed. When I turned my head, I saw that it was Larry.

"Coach, I didn't mean that." Reid seemed to be trying to quibble about something.

"Oh, what kind of consciousness are you?" Larry's eyes narrowed.

"I ...... I...... I ...... "Reed doesn't have much to say right now."

"Since you can't tell, let's go and have a look." Larry said.

"Yes, Coach." Reed said dejectedly.

"Also, Luke, you'll take a break in the last quarter, and you're not going to play."

"Uh." Luke thought he was going to play the full game today, but now that Larry had replaced him, he was a little puzzled. But there was no rebuttal, "Yes, coach."

So at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Luke sat honestly on the bench.

"What do you think of them?" Luke looked back and Larry sat down next to him.

"Eh, coach, why are you here?" Luke asked.

"Answer my question!" Larry said with a serious face.

"Oh oh, the Utah duo work very well together, they are very good at blocking ......"

"Don't say that, tell the truth! Getting to the point! Larry corrected.

"Well...... Luke thought for a moment, "when defending, Stockton's defense will make the perimeter players very unhappy, so they will rush to shoot or hand the ball to the inside, and the interior is guarded by Malone, and there are very few defenders who can escape him." Coupled with the support of other players and the impact of altitude sickness on the opposing players here, they are very solid defensively; On the offensive side, Stockton and Malone's pick-and-roll cooperation is the only one who can play simple blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, and it is difficult to defend, because anyone can be an offensive point, which is impossible to prevent......"

"So why did you summarize why the Jazz lost to the Bulls twice and didn't make it to the Western Conference Finals last year?" Larry asked again.

"That's not what you're supposed to do as a coach, ask me what I'm doing?" Luke seconded, but still replied, "The first loss to the Bulls was because Jordan played well, even with a high fever, he scored more than 30 points, and the second time was because everyone was old, but the Bulls also had a 'big bug', he single-handedly messed up the interior line and completely froze Malone's rebounding and offense, so that Stockton and Sloan couldn't do anything." And last year, it was because the overall aging of the team began, and the West now has a lot of good forwards and good centers, so Malone has no choice. That's what makes us where we are now. ”

"How can we break the deadlock on the field?" Larry asked again.

"Hmm...... It's unlikely to ...... now," Luke said.

"No, you see." Larry smiled slightly, called a timeout, and explained to Big Ben and Tyrone Hill and Snow for a while, and when he returned to the court, there was a noticeable change.

The Jazz's pass blocking was not as smooth as before, and Karl Malone didn't grab the board again, because he was either Big Ben or Tyrone Hill, and they kept suppressing Malone. Stockton's offense was also not smooth, Snow defended the pass and did not shoot, allowing Stockton to consume physical strength on the outside, of course, not much. But the shot wasn't so accurate. For a long time, the Jazz didn't score much.

This left Luke dumbfounded.

"You've got a long way to go, boy." Larry said, "But you studied well today, very well." At least you know a lot of people who are better than you and can analyze people. It also broke out with a leadership temperament, which is good. Lost today, though. ”

"But......" Luke wanted to say.

'It's not a big deal, there's a lot of games in a season and we can't win every single one. Besides, it's a pre-season game, it's fine. Larry was open-minded.

"Okay." Since Larry didn't care, Luke didn't have much to say. And Aaron went back to the locker room early to rest.

Soon after, the game was over, and the 76ers lost to the Jazz 83-105.

Luke didn't have much to say and followed Larry.

But the turmoil of the game is not over at all. The storm that awaits them is immense.

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