Chapter Ninety-Nine: Lost

Salt Lake City was founded in 1847 by a group of followers of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints. Located in northern Utah, it is the capital and largest city of Utah. With a population of nearly 200,000, it is the third-largest city in the western interior of the United States, after Denver and Phoenix.

Mining and railroads drove the city's growth, but in the 21st century, Salt Lake City began to develop tourism, so restaurants and hotels are everywhere in the city.

Located in the heart of the city, Energy Solutions Stadium is the home of the Jazz and the home of the Devils known throughout the league. This is not only because of the fanaticism of Jazz fans, but also because of the climate. Salt Lake City is located in the plateau, which is a typical highland climate area, with strong ultraviolet radiation, low air pressure, and a lack of oxygen in the environment will have a great impact on the players' games.

"What the hell weather! So cold? ”

Stepping out of the bus, Leylin immediately tightened his clothes.

Although the people of the club had warned that the weather was a little bad when he came last night, Lei Lin didn't expect it to snow the next day.

In fact, what Leylin didn't know was that it was normal for it to snow in Salt Lake City on April days.

"Hehe, you just enjoy this ghost weather! Wait for you to feel better. ”

Listening to his teammates' words, Lei Lin shrunk his neck and quickly walked into the Energy Solutions Arena.

……

Beep!

After more than an hour of warm-up, the game officially kicked off in the Energy Solutions Arena.

The moment the whistle sounded, Leylin leaped and gave the racket to his teammates, gaining possession for the team.

The last-minute loss to the Nuggets last night left the Rockets holding their breath to win this game.

After winning the ball, the Rockets quickly pushed through the half, and after a pass, Maddy hit a direct two-point shot to give the team the lead.

After the Rockets took the lead, the Jazz also spread their fangs.

Deron hit a long-range jumper on Boozer's block.

The score just kept climbing as the two sides went back and forth.

Clang.

Maddie's shot missed, and the basketball bounced off the basket directly on top of the basket.

Four large hands quickly reached for the basketball.

Syllable!

A big yellow hand, before the four big hands, grabbed the basketball directly.

Raylin, who grabbed the rebound, turned around and fell into the opponent's encirclement before he could make a shot.

Syllable.

Just when Lei Lin was thinking about how to pass the ball out, one hand slapped directly on the basketball, and when he was caught off guard, the basketball was directly stealed by the opponent.

Rumble!

The already hot energy plan arena was even more intense because of Delon's steal.

The hustle and bustle of shouts kept echoing in the stadium.

Clang.

After DeLong made a successful layup, the Rockets' offense was handed over to the inside, and although Leylin carried Oku away, he was still disturbed when he turned to make a layup, and the basketball smashed on the neck of the basket and rolled directly to the other side. Boozer jammed Scola and grabbed the rebound with ease.

"!"

Listening to the hustle and bustle around him, Lei Lin frowned and cursed secretly.

It was Railling's third shot of the first quarter, and none of them were hit.

"It seems that Ray still hasn't been able to adapt to the environment here!"

"Haha, as a rookie, the first time in Salt Lake City, Ray wasn't so scared that he peed his pants was already good."

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The Jazz's offense mainly relies on their pick-and-roll, a tactic in the entire league that if the Jazz say they don't play well, then it is estimated that no one dares to say that they will play pick-and-roll.

Back then, Sloan relied on the blocking of Malone and Skitroton to follow the Bulls in seven games in the Finals, almost destroying the Bulls' dynasty.

Then Oku's cover, Delong, the little fat man, shook off Alston behind him. With Delong's body and technique, even the two Alstoms can't stand it.

When Okula reached the high position, Rayling followed. When Oku blocked Alstom, Leylin took a stride to block Delon.

DeLong saw Leylin appear in front of him, smiled, and then changed direction, taking advantage of Leylin's still not turned around, he directly hit the basket from Leylin's left side, and hit a pick-and-roll shot.

When Leylin was substituted, the Rockets trailed by one point at 15-16. Maddy scored five straight points in the ensuing period to help the Rockets take a one-point lead at 22-21 at the end of the first quarter.

However, this advantage did not last long, and in the first quarter of the game, the Jazz were 36-31, leading by five points.

Adelman immediately replaced Maddy, Raylin and other main players.

Clang.

Raelin received a pass from his teammate inside, rolled over and made a jumper, and smashed on the basket again.

“DAMN!”

4 shots and 0 hits, such embarrassing data made Lei Lin a little unable to raise his head.

Before the game, he said that he wanted to teach the Jazz a lesson in this game? Now it seems that this can only be seen as a joke.

The embarrassing stats of 0 of 4 shots seemed to affect Railing's mood, and when the Jazz missed the offense, Railling actually watched the rebound being snatched away by the opponent under the basket.

"Ray! Be attentive! Protect your rebounds! ”

Seeing that Leylin was a little distracted, Maddie went up directly to remind him.

After losing to the Nuggets in the last game, they temporarily retained the first place in the West, and with two games left in the playoffs, it is really not so easy to keep the first place, especially this one is a tough battle.

He didn't want Leylin to get distracted at this time.

Clang!

"Rebound!"

Maddie shouted loudly after the shot.

"I'm coming!"

Listening to Maddie's shout, Leylin yelled, jumped forward, and grabbed the rebound.

"Give it to me!"

Rayling, who was about to play hard, heard the shout and saw Maddie who was in the empty position to ask for the ball, and Raylin passed the ball directly.

"Be careful!"

Syllable!

As soon as Delon stretched out his hand, he directly cut off Leylin's pass.

Rumble!

The stadium was boiling again.

“FUCK……”

After scolding secretly, Lei Lin quickly defended directly.

But it still couldn't stop the Jazz's fast break.

The next few times the Rockets didn't make it, and the Jazz directly widened the difference to 10 points.

Seeing this, Adelman directly replaced Leylin and replaced Landry, at least Landry's face frame offensive ability is a little stronger than Raylin. By the end of the third quarter, the Rockets were fifteen points behind the Jazz.

Raylin shot 0-of-5 in the first half and scored a point on free throws, which was terrible.

After a fifteen-minute break, the game resumed.

……

BOOM!

The sound of a dunk resounded throughout the arena.

Separated from Boozer and Oku, Leylin hung on top of the basket, showing domineering.

Leylin's dunk stunned the entire Energy Solutions arena with an audience.

However, this was also the only outstanding performance of the game by Raelin.

Raeling scored four points on 2-of-4 shooting in the entire third quarter, and his performance improved slightly, but Raelin's performance did not change the team's decline, and at the end of the third quarter, the Rockets trailed the Jazz by 17 points.

Although Oku didn't score a point in the fourth quarter, because the pit in front was too deep, by the end of the game, the Rockets had only closed the margin to single digits.

At 96-105, the Rockets tasted the bitterness of defeat in the Energy Scheme arena.

With 5 points and 7 boards, Raillin's sluggish performance in this game became the laughing stock of Salt Lake City fans.

At the same time, because of the loss of this game, the 56-25 record is the same as the Lakers' record, but because the results against the Western team are not as good as the Lakers, they can only settle for the second place.

With one game left in the regular season, the playoff matchups are largely set.

The Rockets are very likely to face the Mavericks in the playoffs, which is really not good news for the Rockets, who are in a slump throughout the game today.