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January 3, 1994, Monday in the United States time. For the current NBA, there are often only one or two games on Mondays every week, and this or two games are all live broadcasts by ABC.

It's very interesting. The first all-around live game of the Utah Jazz in the New Year was the Jazz away challenger Trail Blazers. For this schedule, even the NBA officials never thought it would be so coincidental. You know, in the past half month, almost the whole of the United States has been talking about Lin Han and Drexler.

In this case, the showdown between Lin Han and Drexler, as well as the showdown between the Jazz and the Trail Blazers, is definitely the most anticipated game that all NBA fans in the United States are now. However, such a game that is really a live broadcast across the United States that has been arranged long ago, and it is the only NBA game in the whole day. Fans don’t have to pay attention to other games, they just need to watch such a game.

Therefore, for ABC, this broadcaster almost once again took out the scale of the Jazz Rockets' broadcasting not long ago, and has been promoting this live broadcasting game in various programs since the afternoon. When there were still three hours before the game, he also started a special report again.

From this we can also see that the popularity of the showdown between Lin Han and Drexler in the United States is really terrifying.

"Before this game, the Jazz have won all 28 games, ranking first in the West, and are rushing to the league's longest 33 consecutive wins. The Trail Blazers are now 17 wins and 11 losses, and are currently ranked sixth in the West. Currently, this team that has entered the Finals twice in the past few seasons is in a bit bad now."

"The Jazz are now the hottest upstart in the league, while the Trail Blazers are once a powerful man in the evening sunset. Lin Han is the best rookie this year and is also considered the best young shooting guard in the league. Drexler is the league's four super swingers. He was once the second NBA shooting guard. Although he is not at the peak due to his age and injuries, his experience and super physical fitness still make him one of the best shooting guards in the NBA at present."

"This is a new and old game. This game may determine the future of the two teams and the future of the two current league super shooting guards. The Jazz won the Trail Blazers and could fly to the sky. Taking the most solid step on the road of 33 consecutive victories, Lin Han defeated Drexler, which can prove to everyone that without Jordan's NBA, he already has the strength to top the league's first shooting guard!"

"Of course, if you lose this away game back-to-back game, the Jazz's future path and Lin Han's future path may face a very big turning point."

On January 3, 1994, the Portland Trail Blazers' home memorial arena was in the away team locker room. At this time, there was still some time before the Jazz and Trail Blazers' game. At this time, on the TV of the Trail Blazers' visiting team locker room, a live broadcast special report about the game was being played.

At this time, whether it was Lin Han or other Jazz players, they basically stared at the scenes coming from the TV.

Especially Lin Han, the protagonist of this game, has almost never looked away. Regarding ABC's statement, Lin Han and the Jazz won in this game and soared into the sky. No one can easily defeat this already crazy team. Similarly, if they lose in this game, the team and Lin Han will have a turn for themselves, which Lin Han agrees very much.

After defeating the Mavericks yesterday, today's media reports about Jazz. It can be said that there is almost no word about the Mavericks, as if the Jazz defeated the Mavericks yesterday did not exist at all. Why is this?

Because almost all media in the United States are building momentum, and the momentum is coming to an end, they have been attacking Lin Han for half a month. Just like last year they attacked Jordan for a year, this is the preparation, and doing anything requires the preparation. When they attacked Jordan for a whole year, after laying the preparation for a whole year, a big thing happened and finally made Jordan doom. For the big event about Jordan, all media were willing to be Jordan lost the championship last season, but in the end, Jordan did not lose the championship, which allowed Jordan to escape. However, so lucky Jordan still did not escape in the end, because although he won the championship, his father died bizarrely. Although the media in the United States used the death of Jordan's father as the end of all the preparations, this kind of thing was a bit unauthorized, but in order to subdue Jordan, they didn't care, and they finally succeeded.

Now, Lin Han is like Jordan at that time. The media across the United States have been laying the foundation for a long time to subdue Lin Han. They are waiting for Drexler to give Lin Han a last blow, allowing Lin Han to show his true form in front of American fans or the world. Then they will give Lin Han the last blow like they did when they gave Jordan!

Don’t doubt the IQ and determination of these American media. As long as players who are beyond their control are not allowed to go, they will not let go of them. Even if they really ruin Lin Han, they will not think that this is their own reason. Everything is Lin Han’s fault. Just like they forced Jordan away and almost destroyed the thriving NBA, they will not think that this is their fault. This is all Jordan’s fault.

In this case, for Lin Han, the only way he wants to get rid of these guys' last blow is to reverse the Knicks, defeat Barkley, and directly reach the NBA like Jordan last year. Of course, Lin Han cannot reach the NBA now, and it is only the regular season now, so what Lin Han needs to do is very simple. Defeat Drexler and lead the team to defeat the Trail Blazers, then all the preparations of these media will become laughing stocks!

These guys can't be so lucky, and something like Jordan's father's bizarre death happened.

How could it be that simple to defeat Drexler and the Trail Blazers?

Although the current Trail Blazers are much worse than in previous years, because the team's aging problem is very serious. For example, Drexler, the head of this team, is 31 years old this year. This teammate and roommate from Olajuwon entered the NBA one year earlier than Olajuwon. It has been ten years since he entered the NBA in 1983. At his peak, he had the best one-handed one-handed aerial dunk. At his peak, he averaged 25+6+6 in a single season as simple as eating and sleeping, so he was the second most well-deserved shooting guard at that time, second only to Jordan. Now, Drexler's condition has declined due to his age and injuries.

In addition to their boss Drexler, this Trail Blazers had the strongest outside double gun at the time. Terryport, the point guard, was also older. The point guard who was able to be infinitely close to 20+10 back then has gradually become a substitute. Similarly, the super defensive center Bucks, Buck Williams, who was only 2.03 meters, but is one of the best defensive centers in the league, is now old.

Lao Mai, this is the biggest enemy of the Trail Blazers now, but the old age of the Trail Blazers' three core cores does not mean that this team is easier to play than before.

For most teams in the league, the team needs to be rebuilt after they get old. That takes a long time, but for this Trail Blazers, they actually don't need to be that complicated. Because this team has the richest boss in the NBA, and as long as he wants, the team will not lose its competitiveness.

So the old core lineup of this team did not mean that this team had no new force to replenish.

For example, this team replaced Terryport's starting point guard this season. This guard player at New York Street Stadium may be one of the most successful streetball players in the transformation. The 27-year-old white point guard averaged 13+7 per game last season. After reaching the top start this year, he directly increased his data to 18+9. He has become one of the leading figures in the league's midzoo point guards.

In addition to Strickland, the starting power forward of the Trail Blazers, Clifford Robinson. This forward with excellent athletic ability, can run and jump. However, he has a very good outside shooting. He has now become the team's scoring champion and is basically about to replace Drexler. This power forward, who averages 20+7 games since the beginning of this season, is only 27 years old.

The team's small forward, Harvey Grant, is a player brought by the Trail Blazers from the Washington Wizards this season. In the Washington Wizards, they averaged 18 points per game for three consecutive seasons. Although this guy came to the Trail Blazers, with the strength of the Trail Blazers starting player, his mobile phone will be almost halved, and his average score is only over 10 points per game.

But the Trail Blazers are rich. They are willing to get a player with averaging nearly 20 points per game to the team, so that he can average only 10 points per game. However, even though Grant is only a player with an average of 10 points per game, which team really dares to regard him as an ordinary role player?

No matter how old the core players before the Trail Blazers are, this team is still in all All-Star or Qual-All-Star lineups. They need to have inside, outside, score points, and defense.

Although this team has also experienced a running-in period in the new season and has a poor performance as good as the Jazz, the integrity of the team is incomparable to the Trail Blazers in terms of the Jazz.

Such a team is very difficult to defeat.

Besides, is Drexler, who is considered a veteran, really old? This guy was still 20+6+6 last season, and so far this season, he is still 20+6+5. Don’t forget that the Trail Blazers are always a team with a quasi-All-Star starting lineup. Drexler doesn’t need to score alone. If he is in a weak team, or he is a team like the Jazz that needs him to score, this "veteran" can still play 25+6+6 or even 27+7+7 at his peak in minutes.

Therefore, this is also the reason why the media across the United States believe that the former second-largest shooting guard can teach Lin Han a lesson, because the Trail Blazers are very strong in integrity, because Drexler is not old or inferior to Richmond, but is just pretending to be dead.

And they all believed that it would be impossible for Drexler to pretend to be dead again in the face of Lin Han.

In the NBA, everyone says that Rodman hates young players the most because these young players are becoming more and more insatiable and do not take these veterans seriously. In fact, Drexler is even worse than Rodman. No matter how low Rodman's salary is, it is at least 2.5 million US dollars. As the second shooting guard and one of the most popular players in the league that year, Drexler's salary for the Trail Blazers was only 1.5 million.

This is the Trail Blazers. The Trail Blazers boss is the richest boss in the league. Such a salary makes Drexler feel ashamed, because as the boss of the team, his salary is only ranked sixth in the team. He entered the finals with him, fought against Jordan and Pistons' younger brother Jelomi Kossi, who made more money than him.

There is no way. He was foolish back then. Before Paul Allen joined the team, he signed a long contract. After he signed the contract, Paul Allen came. Therefore, he could only pay attention to the salary of his younger brothers or new players back then, and the salary was higher and higher.

So after his contract with the Trail Blazers ended this year, he had decided to play the big one once. Paul Allen gave him a very high contract, and his annual salary of more than 5 million was rejected by him. The Trail Blazers defender was preparing to pay 10 million to make up for his previous losses, but even Paul Allen could not give him 10 million. After all, there is no player in the league who can get 10 million at all, and Jordan is still receiving 4 million.

Similarly, this is also the reason why Drexler dislikes Lin Han so much. It is not only that Lin Han snatched his position as the All-Star Guard Ticket King, but more importantly, like Rodman, he doesn't like these rookies or young people. He even hates these young people even more than Rodman.

"Okay, turn off the TV now."

I have to say that as the most professional commentary media in NBA, ABC has done a lot of homework. Lin Han and other Jazz players were even stunned by the special programs before this game.

Of course, although Jerry Sloan, the head coach of the team, also admires the professionalism of this media at this time, he needs to arrange targeted tactics before the game.

For general NBA games, there will be no coaches or teams to arrange targeted tactics, but it does not mean that any regular season is played casually. In some key games, the coaches and players of both sides will have targeted arrangements, such as the Jazz playing against the Knicks, Rockets, Suns, etc. Of course, this game is the same.

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"Aaron, don't be nervous about starting this game. Although Buck Williams is an All-Star Center, he is already 33 now. His physical function has declined. Although he can still average 10+10 per game, he still focuses more on the defensive end. So what you need to do is harass him and don't let him have the extra energy to assist in defense and make up for his teammates."

In this game, the Jazz finally made changes in personnel. Spyder, who had been playing the starting center in the team and was always a "potential player", was finally defeated by Sloan. Instead, he was replaced by this year's rookie, Aaron Williams, who is also Lin Han's younger brother. This center, who is 2.06 meters tall, was very excited to be able to start in this game. After all, this game has been paid attention to the whole country and even the whole world, and its importance to the Jazz is self-evident. Such a game made him start, which obviously means he trusts him very much.

The center who is not good at defense or offense is not good at attacking, and is still very soft can start with the Jazz because he is big and tall. These two points are very important in the current NBA. After all, the NBA is now, the All-Star Center is walking all over the ground. If there was no tall center with big size, no one would be at ease. It’s just that Spencer’s performance before this season really disappointed the team. If Aaron Williams hadn’t been too short, Spencer would have been thick long ago.

In this game, Jerry Sloan has no need to use Spencer against Bucks Williams, a former All-Star center and one of the best NBA defenses inside. After all, Buck Williams is only 2.03 meters tall, and Aron Williams still has the advantage in this regard.

Moreover, Aaron Williams' characteristics are actually very suitable for restraining his opponents. Lin Han's younger brother is a player who is not good at everything. What does it mean? This means that such a player can do anything, but nothing is very good. Aaron Williams is like this. He can grab rebounds, and he can defend him. On the offensive, he can also play first and have a job in all aspects. But these jobs are not outstanding, and such players are basically useless most of the time. After all, such a player is not a role player at all. What is a role player? A role player can be very poor in other aspects, but there must be one and a strong one.

In the NBA, those who play all-round are either superstars or core players. The role players play all-round and few can play well, so if they don’t have Lin Han, he wouldn’t have found a job at all if he hadn’t been to Lin Han.

However, such a player is not without benefits. If the opponent is a defensive insider, then the effect of connecting and making is extremely strong. For example, Buck Williams of the Trail Blazers is such an opponent.

As long as Aaron Williams can restrain Buck Williams and use Clifford Robinson's defense, he can't even suppress the Trail Blazers' inside.

At that time, whether it is Lin Han or Ma Long, it will definitely give and ask for.

Therefore, Aaron Williams' task this year is very heavy. Jerry Sloan did not ask his assistant coach Fier Johnson to arrange tactics, but instead arranged it himself. This was very difficult.

"Lin, I don't want to say much about your task in this game. I think you should be very clear about what you need to do. Regarding Drexler, this is a very strong team player. His off-ball empty cut is very strong. So, when you pay attention to his ball break, you should also pay attention to this point, even. His empty cut is stronger than the ball break. As for his defense, I don't think I will introduce it much. With your offensive ability, it is difficult for him to defend you. You only need to be careful of Buck Williams' supplementary defense. It depends on how much restraint Aaron can give him.

After Jerry Sloan set up the tactics, Lin Han nodded.

He already has a lot of knowledge about Drexler's characteristics. What this guy is most well-known is gliding dunks. In fact, in addition to dunks, his organizational offense after the free cut, scoring and organizational offense after the breakthrough may be stronger, but everyone doesn't care much about it.

Drexler is an all-around player. Since Lin Han wants to defeat him in this game, he naturally cannot make him omnipotent.

"Whether it's scoring, rebounding or assisting, I have to let you know my existence?!"

As he followed the team out of the locker room, Lin Han secretly swore in his heart.

Of course, at this time, Lin Han secretly vowed in his heart to make Drexler look good. Drexler was also doing the same thing in the Blazers' locker room. For both of them, this game was a game that they could not afford to lose. He wanted to defeat Lin Han, so that everyone now remembers that after Jordan, when the league was placing the shooting guard, it would not be Richmond, nor Choudhumas, nor Linghan, but a man named Clyde Drexler.

"I haven't gone crazy for a long time. Some people have begun to forget how powerful I am!"

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"Aaron, relax and just treat it as an ordinary game. Even if you lose this game, it is my responsibility and has nothing to do with others."

Such a game, as a young man, may not be nervous, be the only one in the entire league. The American media has laid the foundation for half a month. Can it be an ordinary game? Naturally, it cannot be.

So when Lin Han and the Jazz played, the Portland Memorial Arena was constantly scolding the suck. Lin Han was so bad, the Jazz was so bad, Malone was so bad, Stockton was so bad, and all the Jazz's core players could not escape the boos of the Trail Blazers fans.

Even though the two starting role players Aaron Williams and Brian Russell could not escape such boos, Russell was a little better. After all, he was both the starting players before, but Aaron Williams is in a bad condition now, and Lin Han can see his lips turn white.

"Boss, I don't want you to lose in this game. I know, you don't want to lose."

Faced with Lin Han's comfort, Aron Williams forced his tension down and gritted his teeth and said, "He knew that even if Lin Han said that even if he lost, it didn't matter to comfort him, but he couldn't really take this as real!"

Although Lin Han, as the team's leading player, rarely makes any comments or grabs the right to speak on the team, he and Russell are really taking good care of him and Russell. Without Lin Han, he would not be able to start on this stage, even entering the NBA. Brian Russell is even more incapable of overwhelming Bennott and becoming a fixed starter for the team.

Now that the boss is in trouble, how could he really not take responsibility!

"No matter what, my game will definitely not affect the showdown between Boss and Drexler!"

At this time, Aaron Williams thought secretly in his heart.

At this time, Lin Han was actually quite moved. No matter what, Lin Han just nodded at the inside guy and didn't say much.

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Before the game started, the Trail Blazers fans made a lot of noise for the Jazz. Such a game did not look like a regular season game at all, but rather like a life-and-death playoff game. In this case, the Jazz, who had already paid enough attention to it, became more cautious at this time.

Of course, there are naturally the Trail Blazers who have become more cautious. Because the boss of this team, Paul Allen, has come in this game, and the richest man in the NBA is sitting with Jazz owner Miller.

"You really chose an amazing rookie this year. Mr. Miller, are you interested in giving him to us? In the Trail Blazers, you can choose whatever you want except Drexler."

In the front stands of the Portland Memorial Arena, Jazz owner Miller and Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen were seated. At this time, Paul Allen looked at the big screen on the scene and said to Miller with some emotion.

At this time, the richest boss in the league seemed to really fall in love with Lin Han. This made Miller nervous. After all, the player he liked by this guy. As long as this guy is willing, the Jazz would pay a very high price to keep Lin Han.

"Paul, don't joke. He is Jordan of our team. We can't trade him. You should understand this."

However, Lin Han and Jazz have two years left in contract, and Lin Han is also a native of Utah, which is Miller's trump card. He doesn't think Lin Han will leave them.

"Hahaha, yeah. There's another Jordan"

When Miller said about Jordan, Paul Allen's face was a little bit not so good-looking. If it weren't for Jordan, he would have won the championship long ago. The Trail Blazers he built at the time had almost defeated all the teams in the league, but in the end he was defeated by Jordan in the finals.
To be continued...