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Chapter 234 The Defeated Jazz

If someone asked when the Lakers were at their best in a game, most fans would answer the third quarter.Since the Lakers changed their lineup this season, they have often scored staggeringly high scores in the third quarter. The reason is that the Lakers have basically adapted to the opponent's defensive system in the third quarter. They will find loopholes in such a defensive system, and then defeat their opponents in one fell swoop, and the Lakers are mostly young players with relatively abundant physical strength. By the second half of the game, the opponent's physical strength has been exhausted, so the Lakers can often play in the third half. The team scored an astonishingly high score in the fourth quarter, turning most of the fourth quarter into garbage time.

The Jazz had studied the Lakers' style of play in detail before this game, but they couldn't find a good way to limit the Lakers' style of play. In desperation, coach Jerry Sloan came up with the idea that it was not a solution. method, but after the verification of the first half of the game, it is found that this method is still very difficult to deal with the Lakers.

During the intermission, Jerry Sloan fell into trouble again. He didn't know if he should continue to implement the current style of play. This style of play does not seem to be so powerful.

The Lakers will be much more relaxed. After being enlightened by Li Rui, George Crent has completely found his way of thinking. He is no longer obsessed with the strength of Malone or Stockton, but regards the Jazz as a whole to deal with.The Jazz has a strong style, but a team with relatively simple tactics is actually not difficult to deal with, as long as you find the right people to defend the right players.

After the intermission, the game continued. Jerry Sloan did not change his tactics. He chose to stick to his style of play, and the Lakers also returned to the starting lineup.

Liu Han controlled the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. The defender was Stockton, who reappeared in the second half. His various small movements did not change the rhythm of Liu Han's dribbling.

Liu Han dribbled the ball and directly accelerated to break through Stockton, and the opponent also pressed Liu Han tightly from the side, and the Jazz's defense was also very fast.Liu Han did not break through forcefully, but distributed the ball to Ray Allen who was open. Ray Allen made a three-pointer and widened the gap to 12 points.Since he came into contact with Liu Han, Ray Allen has been practicing three-pointers hard, and now it is finally effective.

The defense of the Jazz is actually very good in the entire league, but facing the Lakers with Liu Han, they still seem a little weak.In this season, many teams are afraid of Liu Han's amazing shooting rate and have to strengthen their defense against him alone. In this way, the chances of other Lakers players will increase a lot.

The Jazz attacked, and Stockton continued to cooperate with Malone in the pick-and-roll. Horry still had no good way to face Malone again. Malone caught the ball and made a mid-range shot, narrowing the score gap to ten.

After less than 4 minutes in the third quarter, Stockton was replaced again, and Jerry Sloan still insisted on the pre-match arrangement.

After Stockton left the field, the Lakers suddenly increased the team's offensive speed. O'Neal followed the team and began to run back and forth, and the Lakers fired again.

The Jazz were caught off guard by the sudden changes of the Lakers. Malone and Greg Foster were both pulled away in the defense. The Lakers did not force shots from the outside.

After the Jazz lacked Stockton's control of the rhythm, their offense unconsciously began to follow the Lakers to speed up. After all, Howard Ellis is a young player, and his control of the rhythm of the game is still not as good as Stockton.

As the Jazz subconsciously accelerated their offensive rhythm, their shooting percentage began to decline, and they couldn't grab rebounds from the Lakers with O'Neal in charge. The Jazz were frequently counterattacked by the Lakers, which formed a vicious circle.

Jerry Sloan kept yelling from the sidelines to slow Howard Ellis down, but to no avail.

The Lakers played a 5-16 offensive climax in the next 4 minutes, widening the gap to more than 20 points.

"I have to say that the Lakers are almost an invincible team in the third quarter. If they can play like this throughout the game, I think they can win 80 games in the regular season." Magic Johnson He was very happy to watch the game, and he found the shadow of his peak from this Lakers team.

"You know that's impossible, Ervin, a season is too long, there will be many accidents, and players' physical strength also has a limit, and if they exceed the limit, they will be injured, so I think unless the Lakers are given With four robots, maybe the Lakers can get 80 wins." Myrph Albert still held his objection as always.

"I agree with this point, but I think the Lakers are five robots in this case, because Liu is a shooting machine, hahaha." Rego Sager is indeed "true love" for Liu now.

Jerry Sloan finally couldn't stand Howard Ellis' poor performance and replaced him, and Stockton played again.

Except for Liu Han and O'Neal, the Lakers had rotations in other positions in the third quarter. George felt that as long as the two cores of Liu Han and O'Neal were on the court, the Lakers would not go into trouble.

After Stockton was replaced on the court again, the Lakers slowed down the pace of the game. Liu Han took the initiative to slow down the offensive rhythm, and the Lakers began to play inside offense with O'Neill as the core.

For the current Lakers team, George Crent basically doesn't need to tell when and what rhythm to play on the court. As long as Liu Han is on the court, the Lakers are awake at any time.

There is really no way for Stockton to face Liu Han's tight defense. In terms of body, Stockton is not good at all. In terms of experience, Liu Han is more like a veteran than Stockton, although when defending There are no small moves, but Liu's defensive quality is very good.

At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers extended their lead to 26 points, and the Jazz were in a rout.

Entering the fourth quarter, the Jazz decided to give it a go. They increased the intensity of their defense and made more and more moves during the game, but this made them completely mired in fouls.

In the first half, in order to interrupt the smooth offensive rhythm of the Lakers, the Jazz had to let all players, including the substitutes, commit fouls in rotation, but now in the fourth quarter when the Jazz wanted to launch a Jedi counterattack, they found that Too many fouls on their players.

All starters, including Stockton, had more than three fouls, and the inside players all had four fouls. When Malone was fouled for the fifth time by the referee for trying to block Liu Han's layup, The Jazz have basically lost their chance of a comeback.

Jerry Sloan almost replaced Malone and other main players with a black face, but he still gave up the game.

In the end, the Lakers beat the Jazz by 109 points 85 to 24, and won the first two home games of the Western Conference Finals.Jazz coach Jerry Sloan's initiative to change has become a complete joke.

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