Chapter 62: The First Dirty in NBA History!
The Bulls, who left Los Angeles and completed another wave of road trips, also got another two days of rest.
In the past two days, Jackson has locked the door of the training hall almost irritably, prohibiting everyone from coming to the training hall during non-training hours, and he also made it clear:
"If there is anyone who is fighting and playing around, and the game is in a bad state, just get out of here and sit on the cold bench!"
"It doesn't matter who it is, Jordan, Pippen, everyone on the team!"
After Jackson's almost angry outburst, Jordan or Pippen were finally honest, although they still had to fight with Lin Tiandou in training, but the outrageous two-man bag and sandwich tactical drill was finally not taken out in training.
After a few days of recuperation, the Bulls finally showed their top league power, and successively killed the Nets and the league's new army Raptors at home, and the Bulls won by a total of 47 points in two games!
They swept away the haze of being upset by the Clippers and hit the road again!
In these two games, Lin Tian also played a very perfect state, scoring 20+ points in two consecutive games, and playing time also reached more than 20 minutes!
The system gave him the task of playing 20 minutes in 10 consecutive games, and finally started counting again.
As the Bulls get back on track and the season deepens, Jackson has once again begun to adjust his lineup, and the Bulls' five starting combinations are no longer fixed, except for Jordan and Pippen, even Rodman has played 2 games off the bench!
Even though it's only January, Jackson, who is aiming for the championship, has already begun to prepare for the playoffs and began to run in for the playoffs and seek the best lineup!
And the most surprising thing is the terrifying stability that the Bulls have shown during this period!
Throughout January, the Bulls changed a total of 7 starting lineups, 9 people played the starter, and even Lin Tian entered the starting lineup twice, but during this period, the Bulls only lost 1 game and played an absolutely perfect record!
No matter how they switch lineups, how they increase the depth of the bench to experiment with different combinations, they can win game after game, or they can always occupy the first place in the league!
By the time January came to the 31st, the Bulls had once again won a wave of 9 straight wins!
And their overall record has improved to an exaggerated 41-6!
Not only does he still occupy the first position in the league without any suspense, Jordan has averaged 31 points per game so far this season, and Olajuwon, who is second on the scoring list, has an average of only 27 points per game! With a cliff-like lead of more than 4 points, Jordan basically locked his 8th scoring title 3 months ahead of schedule!
The Bulls are averaging 105 points per game this season, ranking first in the league, and conceding only 92 points per game, the second fewest in the league!
In other words, the Bulls have the No. 1 offense and No. 2 defense this season!
The average points difference per game is undoubtedly the first in the league!
Chicago's unique reign of terror has swept the league halfway through the season! Let the whole league start to tremble!
This season, it seems that the finale is already coming early!
And the goal of the Bulls has unconsciously changed from winning the championship to winning the first record in NBA history!
After all, based on the Bulls' current win rate, their win rate in the first half of the season is the second highest in league history!
Second only to the invincible Lakers in the 1971-1972 season! It is the Lakers team that played a 33-game winning streak, won a perfect record of 69-13 all season, and finally broke the monopoly of the Celtics and won the championship!
Now, the Bulls are the most likely team to break the Lakers record and become the first team in NBA history to win 70 in a single season!
Everyone is looking forward to them!
On January 31, 1996, the Bulls, who had won nine in a row, sat at the Chicago Union Center and ushered in another strong opponent.
Jordan and the Bulls' old rivals, second in the West, the Utah Jazz led by the Utah duo Karl Malone and John Stockton!
The Jazz are definitely a formidable opponent for the Bulls, who are second in the West this season behind the SuperSonics, who are also led by both inside and outside stars!
And the combination of Malone and Stockton is a famous golden partner in the NBA! The two have played together for nearly 20 years and have won countless honors together, except, of course, the championship!
And the duo of Malone and Stockton, in addition to the Utah Twins, has another particularly loud nickname.
Utah Double Dirty or Utah Double Black!
These two people play ball, and one is really dirtier than the other!
In the long history of the NBA, there are countless players who are known for playing dirty, such as Ranbier, Mahon, Oakley, Mason Jr., and later Bowen, Beverley, Pachuria, etc., all of whom can enter this list.
But it's worth mentioning that most of these people are role players and are not the core of the team, in other words, those who are really the stars of the team, they will be tough and have small moves, but most of the top stars don't bother to do dirty things to waste people.
I can't afford to lose that man!
And Malone and Stockton are the absolute outliers in this list!
Both of them can be called superstars in the league, whether it is ability, status or statistics, they are the top level in the league!
But the two of them have a different kind of love for dirty hands, tricks, foot pads, and elbows!
They're just dirty, they just like to do it themselves!
So, if you want to find one of the dirtiest people in the history of the NBA, it is definitely a matter of opinion, and many people can be nominated.
But if you had to add a 'top star' prefix to this selection, then sorry, if you look at the entire history of the NBA, there are only these two!
Dirty and playable is their best label!
And perhaps it's their love of playing dirty that has allowed these two guys to work together and fight together in Utah for nearly 20 years!
The smell is the same!
So, the Jazz are not only the top teams in the league, they are also the least popular team in the entire league! Especially after the disbandment of the Pistons' bad boy legion, they are the most hated bastard team in the entire league!
It can be said that out of Utah, they can hardly find any fans!
Serious people, who will like them!
And at this time, when meeting the Jazz, Chicagoans were actually very unhappy.
This is the third time this season that they have won nine in a row.
On the previous two occasions, they had lost on their own 10-game winning streak.
This time, it was their third time hitting a 10-game winning streak!
But at this time, they encountered the most difficult bone in the alliance, and it was also the hardest and most hated opponent!