Chapter 213 Five-game winning streak and Sloan's choice
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"Carl, congratulations, the latest MVP rankings have come first again"
When the Utah Jazz finished the away game with the Trail Blazers, the team did not make much adjustments and flew directly to Los Angeles. On March 10, the team and the Los Angeles Clippers, which are only considered to be the Jazz's victims, still have one game to play.
However, when the team got off the plane and came to the hotel on March 9, the Jazz's player Karl Malone smiled foolishly with a newspaper in his hand. Seeing this scene, almost all the Jazz players laughed. You know, these Jazz players are different from Jerry Sloan. Jerry Sloan, a very old-school coach, really doesn't care about these things. According to many Jazz players, he will not pay attention to anything except games and training. Fortunately, he met team players like Stockton and Malone. If he met another superstar player with a sharp personality, such as Jordan and Pippen, Jerry Sloan would have been swept out of the Jazz long ago.
Compared, in the NBA, except for a few head coaches, the other head coaches are all nannies for players, especially the nannies for superstar players of the team. Therefore, these coaches naturally need to pay attention to the status of these star players in the team at all times. If you just have excellent business skills, this is definitely not enough.
"Haha, what's the matter? Look, aren't Lin and John still behind? Maybe next time Lin and John might be the first one."
After Karl Malone finished speaking, Lin Han and Stockton glared at Malone speechlessly. The guy said he didn't care, but looking at the expression and the look of dancing eyebrows, this guy was quite happy now.
"It's a pity that the best of the month this month was taken away by David Robinson. It would be great if the best of the month would stay with our team."
"Yes, but the team did lose a lot last month, and David Robinson scored a four-double game last month, and the Spurs' record is also very good. There is no way."
Of course, for the Jazz, whether it is Karl Malone, Lin Han or any of Stockton's three players topped the MVP list, this is something worth celebrating. According to the current situation, Malone, Lin Han and Stockton have almost booked this trophy. In the eyes of many Jazz players, it would be better for the three leading players of the team to win all the best of the month this year, which would be even more perfect.
However, the current NBA only has one best month every month, and it is impossible to completely win a team. As strong as the Bulls, Jordan and Pippen could not win the best month. As strong as the Black and White Contest, no team did it.
Moreover, in fact, even if Lin Han, Malone or Stockton were given the best player of the month in February, there was no objection to David Robinson. The joke, and the Spurs only lost 2 games in the whole month, it would be really unreasonable not to give him the best of the month.
Of course, the Jazz in February lost the Jazz, but Lin Han's rookie of the month is still his. According to Lin Han's current performance, although his competitor Hardaway is very strong, if it weren't for the existence of a super rookie like Lin Han, all the players of the month this year would probably be won by him. This Magic player who was deeply stimulated by Lin Han now seems to have accepted such a reality, especially before the All-Star, as long as he meets an opponent who is miserable by Lin Han, such as Maxville of the Rockets, Lin Han beat him up very miserably. In order to prove that he is not worse than Lin Han, he will also beat Maxville once. Now, he has not done such a thing again.
I just don't know if it was stimulated by Lin Han in the All-Star Game. After the All-Star Game, Hardaway's style of play has obviously changed. It's not that he began to attack like Lin Han, but that his playing style is more proactive and aggressive. He no longer waits for his teammates to fail before he stands up. In this case, the Magic, which had already begun to decline in record before the All-Star Game, rose very clearly after the All-Star Game. After Hardaway became stronger, the record finally stabilized its fourth position in the East, and once again held back the Hawks, Knicks and Bulls in the front three.
Of course, as long as Hardaway's all-around data such as 20+6+7 is not encountered by Jordan, Lin Han and the four centers, this guy can be said to be the best rookie in any year in the past 10 years. Of course, in addition to Hardaway, the players who can compete for the best rookie with Lin Han this year are like the other Mashburn, the four little swingers who have completely played in the Mavericks. This guy has maintained an average of 22 points per game this season, and even after the All-Star Game, there are signs of getting better and better performance after the All-Star Game. However, due to the team's record, he really cannot compete with Lin Han. As for another, this year's No. 1 pick, middle school teenager Chris Webber, if it weren't for such performance, he wouldn't have the capital to compete with the team's head coach. For old Nelson, even if he doesn't like Webber, he can't ignore him.
However, like Hardaway, Chris Webber's data is enough to win the best rookie, but in the same way, although Lin Han's average of 28 shots per game is indeed controversial, as a rookie, he averaged 28 shots in a season, which can be said to have caught up with Chamberlain. Chamberlain's average of more than 32 shots per game in the rookie season.
Now with the time for the NBA, the Jazz have begun to discuss the ownership of major awards after the end of this year's regular season. It can be said that when the Jazz team came to Los Angeles, almost all major media in the NBA were discussing this matter.
Just like the Jazz players are discussing now, the regular season MVP is naturally the hottest quarrel. Malone, Lin Han and Stockton are all ranked in the top three in the last two MVP rankings, which means that in the league, these three are basically equally important to the Jazz, and those media experts naturally have similar arguments. For example, when discussing Stockton, they will say that the Jazz player is the team's metronome. This point guard who has never been favored by mainstream NBA experts has always cared with a data.
The reputation of the brush is considered to be a functional point guard who only plays pick-and-roll on Malone. If he is allowed to attack, he may not even be able to attack the Rockets Kenny Smith. So even though the Jazz's point guard has won so many assists and steals kings, he has never even entered the best team once. You should know that the Cavaliers' point guard Mark Price has been familiar with each other once in a while. This year, he led the Jazz, a team with a dull offense, to successfully combine pick-and-roll and bombardment this season, Stockton has completely cleared himself.
In addition to the metronome of the team Stockton, Malone is considered the cornerstone of the Jazz. Although due to Lin Han, his average average of only 25 points this season is the lowest per game in the past seven years, his average assists and rebounds per game have reached a career high, especially in the frontcourt rebounds. Malone has been able to grab nearly 4 games this season. It can be seen that due to Lin Han, he can put more energy into it.
In terms of the team's defense and support, if Lin Han's performance was not really good a while ago and also played 5x5 data, the league would never have pulled him off from the first place in MVP. It has to be said that although this guy was not so powerful when he met Olajuwon and Ewing, in terms of data, it is definitely a cornerstone data, with an average of 25+13+ per game. There is no problem with such data to get MVP.
Of course, compared with Stockton's metronome and Malone's cornerstone role, Lin Han's role is simple. This guy's position in the Jazz is the team's sharp knife. Although Lin Han has shown his strong defensive ability and all-round ability on the court in recent times, this has surprised many American media and experts, and his evaluation of Lin Han has also changed. However, Lin Han's basic evaluation is still a "cancer" that allows the whole team to provide him with firepower and mobile phone opportunities. Although now, because he can defend and play other things, the evaluation is slightly better, but it is just a "cancer" with comprehensive technology.
In the NBA, these experts are indeed a bit discriminatory to a player who scores with high scores. Just like Pippen said when asked about Lin Han’s question before: ‘If I had 30 mobile phones per game, I would have averaged 40 points per game’. So although Lin Han’s average score is indeed terrifying, the data value is not that high. If it weren’t for the rankings being ranked in the league, Lin Han might have been surpassed by Stockton now, but that is,
In the minds of many expert media, Lin Han was surpassed by Stockton, which does not mean that Lin Han's performance is not outstanding this season. The Jazz rookie has done well enough, so it is still one of the popular MVP this year. After all, when three people compete for an award, it is really possible that an accident will happen. Three people share the votes. If there are fewer loyal media who support Malone and more loyal media who support Lin Han, then even if Malone is the first in the MVP ranking, it may turn the tables.
Therefore, at this time, the entire league has now discussed the final ownership of this year's regular season MVP. The three core players of the Jazz have obviously seen a much higher rate of quota after March.
Under such circumstances, when Jerry Sloan brought the team to Los Angeles, in this city with extremely developed media industry, even Jerry Sloan, who was still in a state of disarray, had a lot of knowledge about the changes in the NBA's public opinion in recent times. At least he finally understood why Kal Malone had such abnormal performance in recent times.
In Jerry Sloan's mind, Lin Han's performance has not been any problem in recent times. Even though Lin Han has indeed become more effective in taking action recently, this was his original style of play. We cannot directly say that Lin Han is brushing data. But one thing Jerry Sloan is sure of is that Kal Malone has been brushing data recently.
The boss of the team made data in the game, which was a very difficult thing to deal with. Just as the team's assistant coach Fei Er Johnson thought before, even if he told Jerry Sloan about Malone's problem, Jerry Sloan would only add to his worries, because he had no way to solve it. According to Kal Malone's current situation, unless he could make Lin Han reduce his attacks, Lin Han's score was reduced, and Malone naturally did not have to do it. It was obvious that how could Lin Han's score fall? This guy not only used his ball rights to score, but even the ball rights he arranged for Lin Han to organize attacks on certain periods of time on the court, this kid took most of it.
It is almost impossible to reduce the score of this kid and reduce the number of shots. If Lin Han's shots and scores cannot be controlled, then why should Ma Long give in? Since Ma Long decided to brush up the data for his honor, it means that he has figured out all the consequences.
Now Lin Han and Malone are really making a big splash. Their scores have been rising in recent times. The Jazz are becoming more and more like a giant team. Other players in the team, even Stockton, have become vassals of these two. In this case, as the playoffs gradually lead, Jerry Sloan really feels that he can't wait.
Because he has less and less time to run in the team, according to the situation of Karl Malone and Lin Han, if Malone does not believe that he has ensured his honor and status, the team's leading player will definitely not be able to stop.
"It's hard to deal with, it's really hard to deal with."
In the hotel where the Jazz stayed, as the team's head coach, Jerry Sloan found himself very troubled at this time. When the team did not have Lin Han before, he expected a player like Lin Han. The team now had Lin Han, and he also had other troubles. If Lin Han was the boss of the team now, the team would never have such problems. If Malone's strength was stronger, the team would not have such problems.
It's just obvious that Lin Han cannot be the boss of the team, and Malone cannot be able to keep up with Lin Han's progress in strength. This has caused such a very entangled situation in the Jazz team, which is a very happy trouble.
Jerry Sloan now has some happy troubles because the team has two super players like Malone and Lin Han. However, on March 10, the Jazz's away game against the Clippers, as one of the Jazz's miserable teams, the Clippers will not give the Jazz the chance to deal with these troubles.
Although the Jazz won the two matches with the Clippers not long ago, this team was born to restrain the Jazz. If the Jazz had a super center like Olajuwon and David Robinson, the Jazz would naturally not be afraid of this team. After all, although this team is very powerful on the outside, the inside players are indeed relatively poor. If Malone was more concerned about defense and support in the past, although the Clippers were poor in the inside, because of their good height, the Jazz could not crush it. In this case, this team could even defeat the Jazz with the strength of their own outside players.
In this game, although the Clippers really want to defeat the Jazz, the first team in the league, because for this team, their current record is a bit embarrassing. They have failed to win the lottery team and compete for the top draft picks. Their record is too good, but if they want to enter the playoffs, their record is too poor. In this case, this team is indeed a bit embarrassing. Perhaps the only goal this season is to defeat the Jazz, which is also an explanation for this season. After all, the Jazz is the first in the league. The team that breaks the Lakers' winning streak has only lost 6 games this season, and it is not impossible for them to defeat the Jazz. They actually have a chance in the previous two confrontations.
And this time, they can really fight for it at home.
However, what makes the Clippers a little embarrassed is that they are indeed trying to defeat the Jazz at home in this game, but today's Jazz's style of playing is completely different from the previous two matches. In the first two matches, they only need to entangle Lin Han and then entangle with other Jazz players. Because after entangle Lin Han, the Jazz's offense pursues the overall and lacks aggressiveness. Although Malone is very good on the offensive end, he has been suppressing his offense this season to give more opportunities to his teammates. This is right, but sometimes it lacks aggressiveness. Especially for the already weak Clippers' inside line, what they are most afraid of is that others are entangled with them, because they have enough outside capital to entangle with their opponents.
After the game started, when the Jazz's player Malone faced his opponent Bootero, who was 2.03 meters in this game, he almost performed like a god on the offensive end. The rookie power forward Otero, who was injured in the team's young potential power forward Royot, was almost directly broken by Malone.
Facing an inside player who is not as tall as his own, even a strong man like Rodman has to lie in front of Malone. When Malone bullies these people, he can basically do whatever he wants. The offensive methods made Lin Han dazzled, and he did not face the hesitation of players such as Olajuwon or Ewing at all.
In this case, the Clippers, who were originally planning to continue to deal with the Jazz like they did before, soon discovered that they seemed to be looking for the wrong method.
Especially in this game, Lin Han did not choose to defend the Clippers' shooting guard Ron Hapa, but instead chose the Clippers' super small forward Dominic Wilkins, which exceeded the Clippers' estimates.
This also led to the Clippers, who were originally looking forward to a victory in this game, finally lost to the Jazz 107-121 at home at the end of the game, and lost 14 points at home, completely losing the style of the Jazz nemesis.
After the game, Karl Malone, the best player in this game, made 18 of 31 shots and 8 of 10 free throws. He scored 44 points in the game and also grabbed 14 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 blocks. He performed very comprehensively, and the Clippers' inside line was almost completely defeated by him.
Although Lin Han encountered Ron Harpa, the former Jordan finisher, in this game, he was not as good as Malone in data, and only made 13 of 27 shots and scored only 33 points, Lin Han’s real contribution in this game was not to score, but to defend. In this game, facing Lin Han’s defense, Dominic Wilkins made 12 of 36 shots in the whole game, only scoring 38 points.
As the hottest young cancer in the league, Lin Han finally understood the style of Dominic Wilkins, a senior in the league, in this game. Lin Han was really arrogant when playing, and this former Hawks legendary player was almost the same. He made 36 shots in the game, but he didn't have an assist. Even Lin Han, under normal circumstances, he would have assists once or twice in a game.
Of course, although the Clippers lost in this game, their three outside cores actually performed poorly. At least Dominic Wilkins scored nearly 40 points against Lin Han's defense, while big-butt point guard Mark Jackson scored 16 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds against Stockton, almost having a triple-double. Although Stockton gave 18 assists in this game, it has to be said that with Stockton's style, no first-line point guard in the league can attack and beat the opponent. If he hadn't really shown everyone this season his ability to guide running and bomb, Lin Han would probably understand why his assists were so high, but those experts looked down on it.
After defeating the Clippers away, the Jazz won five consecutive victories. In this game, Lin Han and Malone scored 77 points, accounting for almost 65 of the team's scores. This is not the first time that the two of them have done this. It can be said that after losing to the Rockets, the team's five consecutive victories have exceeded the team's 60 points in total.
This is not a very normal data, because it allows everyone to see that the Jazz's current style of playing is becoming more and more giant.
Although this style of play is indeed very effective when facing opponents like the Clippers, even better than the Jazz's previous style of play, it is obvious that even if the Jazz can defeat the League's 90 team with giant play, and even the 90s game is better than the team's style of play, the remaining 10 teams are definitely not defeated by the Jazz with this style of play, and the remaining 10 teams are even likely to be the biggest competitors of the remaining championships of this team.
Now that the Jazz are constantly winning with giants, Jerry Sloan also needs a choice now, whether to continue to let Malone and Lin Han continue to play such talented basketball and giant basketball according to their instincts and nature, or whether the team will forcefully return to tradition and team, this is a very big question.
If you continue to play in this way, the Jazz don’t need to get in. Just watch Lin Han and Malone just swing the hammer. With the strength of these two people and Stockton’s cooperation, there is no problem to reach the Western Conference Finals, but it is difficult to go further. The Jazz can sacrifice this season and let Malone clean up the data and get MVP to strive for the team to return in the next season. This kind of resistance will be smaller.
Chapter completed!