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Chapter 405 The strength gap is too large
The moment Wang Feng's whole body passed by Royce O'Neill, the latter turned around and chased Wang Feng in vain as if he realized it belatedly.

As for the inside line of the Jazz, Gobert seems to have judged the result in advance, and has already stood under the basket and waited for it.

Gobert is 2 meters tall and has long arms. Although there may be some problems due to slow footwork when the defense is small, he is the top inside defender in the league after all.

Wang Feng is confident that he can overwhelm Gobert and score the ball by forcefully jumping and attacking the basket, but such a choice is risky.

One is the risk of being defended by Gobert or even capped, and the other is the risk of injury under such intense physical confrontation.

Although Wang Feng has a stamina of 99, he will try his best to avoid such intense physical contact attacks in the fierce competition of the playoffs.

If he is a player who is not good at shooting like Antetokounmpo and Zion Williams, he can only rely on rushing to the basket to score, but his three-pointers and mid-to-long-range shooting ability are obviously inferior. It is higher than the basket, and most of the badges are also shooting types, so there is no need for that at all.

Wang Feng, who quickly rushed to the free throw line, stopped with a sudden stop, took advantage of the momentum, and made a sudden stop to shoot a jump shot.

Gobert at the basket was far away from him, while Royce O'Neal behind him moved a little slower, and could only watch Wang Feng make a shot and hit it accurately.

"brush!"

The basketball swiped the net into the basket neatly.

Wang Feng's shooting ability after dribbling is 97, and his mid-range shooting ability is 96. Although the position he chooses to shoot is at the free throw line and not within the range of the badge hot zone hunter, his shots with super high attributes are still as stable as old dogs.

2: 2.

Although it was just an offense, the head coach of the Jazz was already a little restless.

How should Wang Feng deal with it?

It's a question the entire league is working on this season.

Super scoring ability, not inferior to inside players' sense of rebounding, and passing IQ and ability comparable to top point guards.

Wang Feng is like an impeccable machine on the field, and he can't find any flaws.

In the face of double-teams, you can pass the ball for assists. In the face of a single defense, if you stand a little farther and raise your hand, you can score a three-pointer. If you stand too close, you can pass you.

This is also the reason why Wang Feng was able to score an exaggerated super triple-double of 40+13+11 in the regular season.

Leaving aside the average triple-double, just this average of 40 points per game is shocking enough. This is a miracle that Jordan, the basketball god of the year, never did.

In the highest season of Jordan's career, he averaged 37.1 points per game and played 40 minutes per game. This is already the limit of his physical fitness.

With the blessing of three fatigue badges this season, Wang Feng's average playing time is close to 44 minutes per game, which is one of the main reasons why he can average 40 points per game.

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The Jazz's offense is still dominated by a lot of off-the-ball running and pass-and-cut pick-and-roll cooperation. Mitchell, the team's first core scoring point, does not have many suitable shots under Wang Feng's defense.

It's not that the Jazz didn't arrange off-ball pick-and-roll coverage for Mitchell.

However, the quality of the off-ball pick-and-roll itself is not as good as the pick-and-roll effect when standing still. For Wang Feng, who holds the purple Hall of Fame-level badge pick-and-roll dodger, it cannot cause any blocking effect.

Often Mitchell ran hard for a long time, and when he looked back, he found that Wang Feng was still closely following him, never leaving him.

This led to the entire first quarter of the game, Mitchell only took 3 shots, hit 1 goal and scored 2 points.

As the first scoring point of the Jazz, Mitchell averaged 26 points per game in the regular season. In the first round of the playoffs against the Lone Ranger, Mitchell averaged 5 points per game in 31.8 games, and his performance was not inferior. Doncic on the Lone Ranger's side is the biggest contributor to the Jazz's ability to easily enter the second round.

But now, the strongest scoring point was restricted by Wang Feng's full-time marking and only scored 2 points in the first quarter. Therefore, the Lakers established a lead in the first quarter, 31:27. Although it is only a 4-point advantage, it is already a good start.

As the game entered the second quarter, the Jazz began to adjust their rotation. Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles appeared one after another to improve the Jazz's offensive firepower.

The change was indeed effective. At the beginning of the second quarter, the Jazz rushed to catch up and quickly tied the previous 4-point difference, but the good times did not last long. With the Lakers Wang Feng and Ingram Suddenly exerting force, the Lakers directly played a wave of 12:0 attacks, and the point difference was stretched from a tie to more than double digits in a blink of an eye.

Everything happened so suddenly that the Jazz couldn't react at all.

Wang Feng first used his teammate's pick-and-roll to cover the three-point line and made a free throw, then intercepted Conley's pass, assisted Ingram to make a mid-range shot, and then hit a mid-range shot and two free throws in the next two rounds. That's how the difference was drawn.

The Jazz urgently called out a timeout to adjust, but the point difference that had been widened was not until the end of the third quarter, and the depth of the lineup during the substitute rotation barely caught up to single digits.

But as the game entered the fourth quarter, the Jazz completely lost hope of a comeback.

Wang Feng's title of the king of the final quarter is not in vain. 15 points in the final quarter is just a standard performance. Sometimes when the hand feels better, it is not impossible to score 2 points in the last 15 minutes.

This game didn't even wait for Wang Feng to show his power in the last 2 minutes. Halfway through the time, the point difference between the two teams returned to above double digits again.

As the game time passed, the Jazz, seeing no hope of reversal, could only replace all the main players and give up the game early.

Fans at the Jazz's home court were a little disappointed.

They are clearly the No. [-] team in the Western Conference, but why does the Lakers play more like the No. [-] team in the Western Conference?

The Jazz never took the lead throughout the game, and at best they were tied.

You must know that the Lakers are a broken team, lacking an All-Star player like Jimmy Butler!
But that's the status quo for the Jazz.

The No. [-] record in the Western Conference is just a superficial phenomenon.

In another time and space, the Jazz, who is also No. 4 in the West, faced the Los Angeles Clippers, No. 2 in the West in the second round. Facing the dual-core Clippers of Leonard + George, they also lost the game with a total score of [-]:[-].

It is too difficult for a team that does not have top superstars in attack and relies on the team to win the championship. In the league for so many years, only the Detroit Pistons have done it once.

Of course, Mitchell is a promising new star, but he is obviously too young. He felt tremendous pressure when facing Wang Feng, and many basic offensive moves were seriously deformed, plus the blessing of the purple Hall of Fame-level defensive deterrence badge , how can it be possible to maintain a normal hit rate?
In the whole game, Mitchell took 14 shots and only hit 4 goals, with a shooting percentage of 28.5%. He scored 11 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 turnovers, which was a completely negative performance.

The highest scorer of the Jazz is Bojan Bogdanovic, who plays the main striker position, with 21 points, followed by Gobert's 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Jordan Clarkson's 15 points...

On the Lakers side, Wang Feng still scored 37 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists under the targeted defense of the Jazz, shooting 52% from the field and 44% from the three-point range.

In addition to Wang Feng, players such as Ingram also performed well.

The Jazz's defensive attention is mainly concentrated on Wang Feng, and they don't pay much attention to the defense of Ingram and others. Ingram, who is 2 meters tall, is known as Durant Jr., and his mid-to-long distance shooting is very stable. With Bojan Bogdanovic and Joe Ingles and other strikers, he had the advantage, making 06 of 19 shots, scoring 9 points, 24 rebounds and 4 assists.

The loss of the G1 game has made many people more convinced that although the Jazz is the number one in the Western Conference in the regular season, after all, they lack enough background and it is difficult to do anything in the playoffs.

In fact, before the start of the playoffs, among the predictions for this championship, the Jazz were excluded from the favorites by most people.

Leaving aside the Nets, Bucks, Clippers, Warriors and other favorite teams to win the championship, the Jazz's probability of winning the championship is even lower than the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers without Butler.

The current situation does not surprise everyone. People who have watched the whole process of the game will only sigh.

"It seems that compared with Wang Feng, a top star in the league, Mitchell still has a big gap."

"Mitchell, who averaged 31 points per game in the last round, could only deliver 14 points on 4 of 11 shots when facing Wang Feng, which is obviously seriously unqualified. The Jazz want to go further in the playoffs in the future. Far, it is very difficult with the current lineup..."

"However, from this game, we can also see Wang Feng's toughness. The Jazz's defensive system is completely built for Wang Feng. Royce O'Neal, who can't defend against shooting from the outside, and Gobert, who is ready to help defend from the inside, form two teams." There is no line of defense, but still can't stop Wang Feng's scoring, I am afraid that there is no player in today's league who can stop Wang Feng."

"How to limit Wang Feng's scoring will be a question that the Jazz, all opponents in the Western Conference Finals and even the finals must think about!"

In this atmosphere, after April passed, the series G4 continued on May 5 at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, home of the Jazz.

After two days, the Jazz made some new adjustments to the tactical system and used them in this game.

They used double-team tactics against Wang Feng.

Once Wang Feng receives the ball from outside, Bogdanovic and Royce O'Neal will double-team immediately without giving Wang Feng any time to react.

Even while performing double-team tactics on the outside, Gobert is already on the inside to prevent Wang Feng from breaking through the double-team with his strength and physical confrontation.

Such extreme defensive tactics are not unused by other teams, and there are even classic cases that prove that such defensive tactics are not successful.

Wang Feng is not afraid of double-teaming. His strong strength allows him to stabilize his body when facing double-teaming, calmly find the open position of his teammates and pass the ball.

The result of the double-teaming is that the rest of the Lakers blossomed more, and the point difference became bigger and bigger.

But even knowing this truth, the Jazz still chose to take a risk. What they fought was that the other players of the Lakers were not as accurate as Wang Feng.

Obviously the Jazz are thinking too much.

It is possible that other Lakers players may feel bad, but Wang Feng has a badge that exists specifically for this situation, a purple Hall of Fame-level ten cents.

The effect of the ten-cent badge is to increase the opponent's shooting percentage when passing the ball to an open player, and the lower the shooter's shooting ability value, the higher the bonus effect.

Just relying on this badge, everyone in the team can be forcibly promoted to the level of a standard shooter. Of course, the premise here is that the players are in an open state.

Wang Feng is very aware of this, and the Jazz's double-teaming tactic requires the cooperation of two outside players, which will inevitably lead to an open state.

In the five positions of the Lakers, even if Wang Feng is excluded, the other four starters all have the ability to shoot three-pointers, including Kuzma and Lopez inside.

Therefore, after the Jazz used double-team tactics, Wang Feng immediately educated the Jazz's management with exquisite passing.

In the first quarter of the game, Wang Feng only took 4 shots, hit 2 goals, made 2 of 2 free throws and scored 6 points, but he sent a full 7 assists in a single quarter.

The Lakers players who received the pass from Wang Feng acted like a god, and they made the shots no matter what.

In the first quarter alone, the Lakers team scored 39 points. On the other hand, the Jazz only had 30 points, and the point difference almost reached double digits.

In the second quarter, Wang Feng sent out another 5 assists, and the point difference between the two teams officially reached double digits.

By this time, the Jazz had already sensed something was wrong, gave up the double-teaming tactic, and turned to strengthen the defense against other Lakers players, but it was already a bit late.

As soon as Wang Feng's defensive pressure was reduced, he immediately attacked with the ball by himself. The Jazz, who played in various ways of scoring, were miserable.

This is really unsolvable.

The defense is unstoppable, and the offensive end has no sharp spears that can break the shield.

Mitchell's performance in this game is much better than in G1. He is slightly adapted to Wang Feng's aggressive defense, but he is only slightly adapted, and his shooting rate is still below 40%, which cannot effectively help the team. Score.

最终，王峰单场砍下26分16篮板21助攻的大号三双，创造季后赛新纪录，成为历史上首位在季后赛单场比赛中砍下25+15+20的球员。

Breaking 10 assists in a single game is not uncommon in the league playoffs. The current general manager of Wang Feng's Lakers team, Irvin Johnson, has done it [-] times in his career.

John Stockton, who ranks first in assists in history, also reached 20+ assists in a single game four times, and once scored 23 points and 24 assists.

But while scoring and assisting double 20+, rebounds can reach more than 15. Throughout the history of the league, no one has ever done it!

Wang Feng created a new league record without making a sound, and at the same time gave the Utah Jazz a big score of 0:2.

(End of this chapter)