The players of both teams are also cooperating and playing around the two.

O'Neal was not frustrated because he couldn't get the ball. In the past 9 games, his teammates gave him all the opportunities he wanted, and his average score increased to 29.1 points. His third average of 29+ in his career, which scared Jordan so much that he averaged 31.2 points per game...

Scoring champion O'Neal has no chance. This is his 79th game of the season. If he wants to compete for MVP, he will probably score more than 160 points tonight.

But the MVP is already close! All O'Neal wants is to win the last game. At this time, the 73 wins help him compete for the MVP, which is much more helpful than the scoring champion.

O'Neal couldn't get the ball, and he wouldn't have to ask for it. He chose to reduce the consumption of positioning with the Big White Bear, find a better position, actively rush to grab, actively block people at the bottom line, and find opportunities to eat cakes...

After so much effort, the child has already coaxed him. The Lakers' strategy to deal with the Jazz around Zhang Hao is progressing smoothly.

The Jazz learned from the lessons of the first two All-Stars fights on the weekend and attacked Malone, an absolutely strong point.

The last time the two teams met, the Jazz wanted to play like this, but the last time the Malone was in a state that was too sluggish and had only a handful of miserable performances in his career. The Jazz were hit by the Lakers...

This time, the Jazz have had very good offensive cooperation.

After the official timeout in the first quarter, Malone's counterattack was amazing. Stockton's pass across the field was amazing.

The Jazz counterattacks made the Lakers follow the pace, and the number of shots in the first quarter was controlled very low.

After the first quarter, Zhang Hao and Ma Long played the whole quarter. Zhang Hao scored 10 points and 2 assists, Ma Long scored 8 points and 3 assists, and the two teams scored 25-24, and the Lakers only scored 1 point to lead!

Both of them have their own advantages.

Zhang Hao is young, with more teammates and more stars, and his lineup is younger, more energetic and more energetic.

Malone is experienced and can minimize consumption when playing almost any way of playing. He is very good at using his huge weight of 123 kilograms to reduce unnecessary consumption. He is good at taking action and pass opportunities. Although the Jazz players are basically older players, they have been working for a long time and are obviously better than the Lakers.

The Lakers only took advantage of O'Neal's 2+1 deduction in the first quarter, and the Lakers took a 1-point lead.

In the second quarter, Malone was replaced, and Sloan sent a combination of Stockton, Shandon Anderson, Adam Kife, Anthony Carr, and Greg Foster.

The Jazz have lost the absolute strength points, but the Lakers have also lost the absolute restraint point in the inside and the strongest point in the outside, Kenny Anderson, and the Silver Foxes sent a combination of Fisher, Zhang Hao, Rick Fox, Jason Williams, and Ben Wallace.

When the two teams were on the court, Silver Fox looked at the bench opposite, and Sloan was sitting in a chair, with his hands on his knees, his fingers crossed, and his chin.

The lineup rotation was guessed by the opponent...

Silver Fox was not surprised by this. The most pressure on him to play against the Jazz is that the opponent's coach, rather than the Jazz's most likely to have the second most powerful star in the league.

The Jazz are definitely the Lakers' most defense-oriented opponents in the West. Silver Foxes and his coaching staff have studied the Jazz's games in the past three years this year. In the past three years, the Jazz's representative game has been watched more than twice.

Fortunately, in the regular season, in the playoffs, Sloan has no problem with losing or winning or adjusting. Sometimes the Jazz lose, and the Silver Foxes can't think of any better way to do things that players can't do on the court, and most of the time the coach has no way to do it.

In the first round of 1995, the Jazz led the Rockets 2-1, and was reversed and eliminated 2-3 in the first round. G4 Olajuwon scored 40 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 5 blocks, G5 Olajuwon scored 30 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks. In the last quarter of the two games, Olajuwon scored more than 10 points, and Olajuwon's blocks + steals combined in the final quarter reached 4 times. What else can this opponent do?

In the second round of 1996, the Jazz lost to the Supersonics 3-4. In that series, Payton, Kemp and Schramf averaged 71 points per game.

Even after watching the Western Conference Finals last season, Silver Fox only had one idea that our 20-year-old dead child would surpass the Magician to rule the world.

He couldn't imagine that he had to come up with a magic trick to achieve better in his position, because Sloan almost reached the extreme in basic strength, stability, continuity, on-the-spot changes... in many aspects, but the opponent's superstar performed better than the Jazz's superstar. In the past three years, the Jazz's eliminated 2-3, 3-4, 2-4, which means that every round is almost in equal strength. But every time it reaches a critical moment. In the critical competition, the opponent has a super giant to raise the upper limit of strength, and the Jazz can't do this.

Today, Silver Foxes have to admit that when the Jazz's state adjusted to the playoff level, their Lakers are not as strong as the Jazz's basic combat power, and their stability is slightly inferior to the Jazz.

However, the Silver Fox is not panicked... He has won 72 times, so he is so angry that he will not win tonight. He is the coach of the team with the best record in history.

Moreover, when the third grade regular season was about to end, the dead child's performance in the first quarter of the curtain call, and thinking about the progress of the dead child this year... I was even less panicked.

...

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers' rotation was predicted by the opponent, and Sloan made targeted lineup adjustments.

Shandon Anderson, Adam Kife, Anthony Carl, these three brothers were sent by Zhang Hao for the high-speed round conversion. They were all players with 198 cm to 206 cm tall, fast moving speed, good defense awareness, good team cooperation, and strong clamping ability.

Not only did it put a huge limit on Zhang Hao, but it also played a good defensive effect on cutting the bottom line, running back on both sides, and receiving the ball with the wing pitcher. When the Lakers did not have O'Neal at the basket, the Jazz sent these three major forwards, which was really great.

The combined salary of the two evil spirits this year is US$9.4 million. The Jazz's character player lineup of 20 million US dollars is to be strong and experienced. It is a truly suitable team for the two evil spirits to compete for the championship. It is a true favorite to win the championship.

In the first 6 minutes and 11 seconds of the third quarter, the Jazz scored 13-8 in half a quarter, with Stockton making two three-pointers, which played a role in overtaking the score when the Jazz defended the Lakers' offense.

Entering the official timeout, the Jazz overtook the Lakers 37-33 for 4 points.

The gap was not widened, and the Silver Fox felt pretty good. He was ready to be widened. In the middle, he replaced Doug Christie and Piakowski one after another, but it didn't work. Zhang Hao made 1 of 3 shots in the middle distance, plus a counterattack dunk, and another with Jason Williams's rush to grab the offensive rebound, causing a foul, 2 free throws, and scored 6 points alone, supporting the situation, and not being able to break the gap by Stockton's 6 points and 1 assist.

Zhang Hao scored 16 points in more than 18 minutes, and the Jazz were crazy to lead!

After this period, Kenny Anderson and O'Neal returned to the court, Zhang Hao returned to the power forward position, Brent Barry and Doug Christie's forward-back line combination came again, and the Lakers' advantages on both offense and defense were here!

The Jazz's adjustments and execution were done well in the first half of the quarter, but Stockton did not rest for the first and half of the quarter and was replaced, and his offensive performance declined!

The Jazz's defense is pretty good, but Zhang Hao scored 16 points in one and a half quarter, and the threat came. The official timeout came back from the second quarter. Zhang Hao broke through and passed the ball twice, O'Neal took a cake twice, and the Lakers scored a 4-0 wave after the timeout, tied the score!

Kenny Anderson took advantage of Stockton's absence and made a mid-range shot with a singles jumper, and a fake shot tricked Howard Eisley into making all three-pointers with three free throws. In addition, O'Neal made a counterattack and made a three-pointer to Zhang Hao who was passing back to the top arc.

During this period, the Jazz scored 9 points.

In 5 minutes and 49 seconds, the Lakers scored a 12-9 score, falling from 33-37 to 45-46. After the half-time, the Lakers scored the gap to 1 point!

Malone scored 2 of 4 singles, plus 2 of 2 free throws to score 6 points, helping the Jazz to support the score.

The Lakers were a little regretful and failed to overtake the score in half.

If another team meets the Jazz, Malone just scored 50+ in a single game in the last game. He played more than 17 minutes in the first half tonight, scored 14 points and 4 assists from 5 of 9 shots. As an opponent, he will feel very stressed, especially since his own center forward can score normally after eating cakes and fast breaks tonight. He plays much worse than usual at other times, and he will probably have a burst of mentality...

But the Lakers didn't. They played in half and scored 19 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block!

6 of 13 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, plus 4 of 5 free throws, Zhang Hao's personal offensive performance and passing performance in the first half were excellent!

The efficiency is not as high as Malone, but...their Lakers' offensive rebounding is good!

With O'Neal, who made the first choice of rushing and Jason Williams, who rushed to the All-Star with rebounds, Zhang Hao can do whatever he wants!

...

Whether to cheat or not, this is a question...

"My strength is not inferior to most top stars. I use the star experience card. The biggest effect of the top star experience card is to change the style of play. If the matching degree is particularly high, you can probably expand your strength in basic strength, but the overall style of play is still to change it.

Our team played so well tonight, and my playing style changed greatly, which may affect others.

Let me see, except for Jordan Card, Garnett Card will definitely increase the upper limit of strength, and the rest may not be...

By the way, there is this…”

Zhang Hao looked at the "stage" outbreak, which could temporarily increase his strength to 94.

He has used it before, and he uses his current technical characteristics to enhance his strength.

"This card will definitely have an effect, but this can only be drawn from the golden lottery and exchanged for a 70-day life span reward, which is not worth it..."

Zhang Hao sat in the locker room and hesitated. His teammates rested for a while and returned to the locker room. The Silver Fox had already begun to arrange his strategies.

"We are not inferior to the Jazz, just play like this! Such a game is also beneficial for the playoffs.

And... they can't defend me!"

...

After returning from the break, the coaches of both teams made adjustments to the lineup and play details.

The Lakers sent Fisher, Doug Christie, Zhang Hao, Jason Williams and O'Neal.

The Jazz sent Stockton, Shanton Anderson, Hornersek, Anthony Carter and Malone.

The first three times this season were played against the Jazz, the first two times the Lakers won the strength, and the third time they had a good luck Malone performed poorly, overall, but this time it was not very smooth from the first quarter. As they played, at the beginning of the third quarter, the Lakers fell into a sluggish period... They could not make the inside, the outside shot, and were strictly guarded from the middle distance.

In the first 4 minutes and 45 seconds of the third quarter, the Lakers scored a goal in the sports game and were scored 9-2! The only two points were actually taken by O'Neal's free throw from 2 free throws.

55 to 47, the Jazz led by 8 points.

It was the Lakers' offense again. Zhang Hao wanted to play the ball strongly. He turned around and was fouled by Anthony Carter. The fouls were not reached. Returning to the table, the Lakers continued to attack.

Zhang Hao just saw a detail and greeted O'Neal who walked out: "Mr. O'Neal, you come here when I was singles later. When you see me breaking through, you stamp your feet."

As he said that, Zhang Hao pointed at the position within one step of the free throw line on the right side of the three-second zone with his toes. O'Neal didn't ask much and nodded. It was not the time to ask questions.

The Lakers continued to attack, and Anthony Carter continued to defend Zhang Hao from playing singles.

Last year's Western Conference Final, Anthony Carter was knocked out by Barkley. When he met the Lakers again, he dared not use those despicable moves. However, he was indeed good at defensive strength. He entered the NBA in 1983 and has always been a role player. Now he is 37 years old and is about to be 38 years old. On the offensive end, he has a matchless shooting and no other function. He is not a celebrity or a meritorious player. He can also get a three-year contract of 5.4 million US dollars. He still has a contract at the age of 39, and it depends on his defensive ability.

Anthony Carter is very good at cooperating with his teammates, preventing Zhang Hao from having a clear goal, holding on, and relying on his strong body to limit Zhang Hao's shots directly.

Zhang Hao took a step back with a fake move, Anthony Carter put it on, Zhang Hao turned around and walked towards the bottom line, and Malone expanded out. He originally planned to cut off the route of passing the basket with his arm span and surround him with Anthony Carter in front and sideways, but O'Neal moved upline when Zhang Hao was playing back!

When Zhang Hao turned around and broke through, O'Neal raised his foot... Malone quickly pulled it back under the basket.

Zhang Hao broke to the bottom line, took a step back, avoided Anthony Carter, who was catching up with him to defend, and made a two-pointer... hit!

As the saying goes, the Lakers are lucky in defense in the next two rounds, and they shorted Anthony Carter and Sandon Anderson, and they didn't make two points.

When the Lakers were attacking, Zhang Hao made a two-pointer shot at the same attack as the last one, and a fake move turned into a real turnover jump shot when Anthony Carter moved ahead of time, making two-pointer shots.

Zhang Hao scored 6 points in a row, chasing the score to 53-55, and hitting 6 minutes and 28 seconds. The Jazz called a timeout!

Back on the bench, O'Neal was shocked. He stamped his feet and Zhang Hao scored in three consecutive rounds!

Since he regards the current game as a playoff preview, O'Neal does not think his efforts on the defensive end are anything worth showing off. He does not think he was sacrificed because he knew that he should play like this when facing the Jazz, Trail Blazers, 76ers, Heat, Hawks... when he waits for the team.

He was really surprised. He just moved his position simply and stomped his feet and Zhang Hao burst out!

"Is this an evil ritual?"

O'Neal found Zhang Hao with the jersey in his mouth and asked this question.
To be continued...