Chapter 168 Lin Han's Spirit!
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The Jazz encountered their first defeat of the season in the away game against the Rockets. Lin Han, a super rookie who became the focus of the league, ushered in his first defeat three months after entering the NBA. Although the failure of this game is actually not very meaningful to the Jazz, they are still not comparable to other teams in the league with 37 wins and 1 loss.
But for others, the Jazz's failure is not just an ordinary meaning. At least for the media across the United States who have been waiting for Lin Han's loss for more than three months, the loss of this game is really too timely.
At the end of this game, looking at Lin Han's lonely and helpless back sitting on the floor of the court, many people were silent at that time, including the Rockets fans who booed Lin Han at the beginning of the scene, and even many media who were full of prejudice against Lin Han chose to remain silent at that time. Although the Jazz lost on the court, the scene of Lin Han still fighting until the last minute of the game was really shocking, especially when Lin Han hit a buzzer-beating shot under the three players before the end of the game, it was even a bit suffocating.
Many people even thought at the time that if Lin Han was given 2 minutes, perhaps this game, which had already been extremely ups and downs, would have caused trouble again.
Fortunately, the game ended in the end. Even Lin Han, who didn't want to lose, eventually lost, but the process was a bit suffocating.
However, on the court at that time, Lin Han gave people a very shocking feeling, and such shock could not last for a long time. Perhaps Lin Han’s fans would remember this scene for a lifetime. But for these media reporters, Lin Han could move them for a moment. It was already a miracle that a moment of shock!
So, the most important thing is that the Jazz lost and Lin Han lost, and that's enough!
"Crazy moves and crazily blacksmiths. The 20-year-old Lin Han pushed the team into the abyss step by step and lost his way on the court. Such a best rookie cannot bear the burden of a champion team!"
"He is proud, arrogant, unruly, he is the most special rookie in NBA history and the most arrogant rookie. He is now paying the price for his arrogance and frivolity, and he and his team are in pain for it!"
"Maron missed a winning streak and ended. Lin Han killed his team in his own way. If he chose to trust his teammates in the last two minutes of the game, would the end of this game be completely different? He needs to make himself look less selfish now!"
"The fast fame has made Lin Han lose himself on the court now. When he believes on the court that he can solve problems alone, he can do nothing. He should see how the Magician and Larry Bird do it. It can be seen that Lin Han is learning from Jordan, but Jordan's early stage was extremely failed. He is heading towards the same path as Jordan!"
The Jazz actually didn't have too many requirements for this game, and there were really no requirements. As long as you don't lose too ugly in this game, Lin Han almost used his own strength to turn the result of this game from a crushing defeat to a shameful defeat. At this time, no one cares about Lin Han's 29 shots in the half and 53 shots in the whole game. He broke the record of the most shots by the active players. The record of the most shots by Jordan was maintained by Jordan. Jordan made 49 shots against the Magic last season and scored 64 points. Lin Han broke his idol record in one fell swoop and also set a new high in his career. Lin Han made 29 of 53 shots in this game, scoring 68 points.
In this game, Lin Han used more than half of the team's shots and scored more than half of the team's score. In terms of scoring efficiency, it was already very good. It should not be said that Lin Han's style of sacrifice in his body was successful when facing Olajuwon. However, for those media and newspapers, the process of this game was so exciting. Lin Han's performance even made Tom Janovic, who attended the press conference after the game, admitted that the best player in this game should be Lin Han. Even Olajuwon, who hated Lin Han, said that Lin Han was shocked by him in this game. Many Rockets fans even sat on the floor after the game and couldn't get up. When his teammates helped him leave the stadium, many Rockets fans even gave Lin Han a ovation.
All this is enough to prove that Lin Han did everything he could do in this game, but in the end, Lin Han and the Jazz lost. In the NBA, no matter what the process is like, losing means nothing.
Therefore, the Jazz was not dissatisfied with Lin Han for this game, but they could not resist the dissatisfaction with Lin Han that had already accumulated with Lin Han.
Of course, although such a scene is a bit speechless for Lin Han, fortunately, this game is not an unpopular game. This game is a live broadcast game across the United States and even the world. Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied, angry and smeared Lin Han, it actually could not stop Lin Han's almost terrifying popularity after the end of this game!
That's right, after the end of this game, Lin Han showed his terrifying basketball spirit, his will and fighting spirit in this game, which shocked all the fans who watched this game. At the end of this game, even Lin Han's mortal enemy was shocked by Lin Han and even the fans of the opponents on the scene gave applause. You can imagine what the audience in front of the TV was in this game.
Many fans who didn't even know about the NBA and just watched the lively fans quickly got to know Lin Han after seeing Lin Han's performance in this game, and fell in love with him as the Jazz No. 8.
So, at this time, a very interesting imagination appeared in the US public opinion, that is, most media in the United States were criticizing Lin Han, and the fans of the public were not influenced by this group of media at all, and many media that even reported Lin Han very viciously. For example, the New York Post, a media that originally reported that Lin Han, Stockton and Malone played 4p with a Jazz cheerleader and finally became enemies. After the game, they directly put a big title on their front page headlines. After this game, Lin Han played all night with several teammates in Houston nightclubs, and Lin Han pretended to be exhausted and exhausted on the court.
This is a very vicious report. Although the New York Post is different from the New York Times, most of his influence is in the New York region, so he can smear Lin Han unscrupulously and nothing can be done about Lin Han. Anyway, Lin Han has the ability to sue him, as long as Lin Han dares to sue, they dare to take it. Such a chance of becoming famous may be disdainful to the New York Times and other major media, but it is simply too good for tabloids like them. So most of the time, even if many celebrities are smeared, they just pretend not to see it. This time, just when the media was still regretting that Lin Han did not come to sue them, soon, at noon on January 20, the headquarters of the New York media was surrounded. It is obvious that it is naturally impossible for others to besiege them, but some Lin Han fans who have spontaneously contacted them.
The incident happened almost completely unexpectedly by the New York Post. This is New York, even the NBA, it is also the base camp of the New York Knicks. Lin Han is the mortal enemy of the New York Knicks and the mortal enemy of New York. Who would like Lin Han except the group of people in Chinatown?
And it turns out that in New York, there are many fans who like Lin Han at all. At least most of the fans who came to siege them this time were fans with black and white skin.
Of course, at this time, the New York Post was besieged by Lin Han fans for maliciously smearing Lin Han. Some people were really laughing and crying after the game. For example, the senior management of Adidas stores. After the game, the traffic of Adidas stores increased significantly again, and the people who booked Lin Han Miracle Generation sneakers had a big explosive growth. According to this posture, before these sneakers were sold, the number of reservations would probably be very terrifying.
So, at this time, something very strange happened to the entire NBA and the entire American public opinion community. These uncrowned kings originally hoped to destroy Lin Han by using a game failure like Jordan, but they did not expect that the final result would be completely different.
The things Jordan did really left a handle on the things he did, and he was gambling before the game, and his gambling debt was high. Even his father died in that strange time. So, at that time, these uncrowned kings bombarded Jordan. Even David Stern could do was to protect him silently and dare not stand out at all, because the evidence was made public and it was too easy for people to associate, so they finally succeeded.
And this time, Lin Han, not to mention that there is no handle outside, even on the court, although Lin Han's playing style is indeed a little more poisonous, and he has made a little more 53 shots in a single game, but everyone knows that Lin Han won't score in this game, who will score? Lin Han won't take action, the Rockets swept the Jazz long ago, and will keep the winner until the end?
Everyone is not fools, and the influence of this game is so great that almost most fans who follow Lin Han and NBA have watched it. Even Jordan fans who don’t like Lin Han don’t say anything about Lin Han’s performance at this time, because Lin Han is really similar to the previous Jordan at this time. If Lin Han was not Jordan’s biggest threat and competitor, they would even cheer for Lin Han.
So, at this time, these media outlets who wanted to use the failure of a game to destroy Lin Han with public opinion found that they seemed to have really miscalculated.
"David, things are indeed as you expected, and they did not develop in a bad direction. Lin Han did not become Jordan!"
On the afternoon of January 20, 1994, the president's office of the NBA's New York headquarters. At this time, as the president of the NBA, David Stern had returned to New York from Houston. Now the Jazz has finally lost, and he no longer has to continue to run around the United States with the Jazz. In fact, he has been doing a lot in recent times, so yesterday's Jazz lost was considered a relief.
However, although the Jazz lost was a relief from him, his assistants were extremely nervous. The attention of NBA this year has not declined but increased compared to previous years after Jordan left. The main contributor is Lin Han. It can be said that after Jordan, Lin Han has become the top card of the NBA, at least the top card of the year. Because of Lin Han's existence, NBA has absorbed a large number of new fans. Among so many superstars in the NBA, there are very few superstars who can absorb fans, such as Olajuwon, Marlon Stockton and other superstars. Their influence is only local. If you want to absorb fans from all over the world, although you can do it, the amount is too small. This is why NBA only had two peaks of development when Magicians and Larry Bird and Jordan entered the NBA, because the ability of these three people to absorb fans determines that they are the darlings of NBA and the top card of NBA.
This year, after Jordan left, the popularity indicators of NBA did not drop at all. The main reason naturally needs to be attributed to Lin Han. Although Lin Han did not make NBA jumping development like Magicians, Larry Bird and Jordan, this year's ability to stabilize the situation is no worse than jumping development. At least this makes David Stern and many NBA executives hope that NBA can develop better after Jordan returns.
Therefore, they are extremely worried about this popular top player in the league, whether it is David Stern or others, because Lin Han and Jordan are so similar, and they are not the darlings of the media. In this case, they are always worried about Lin Han's events that Jordan will appear last year.
Last year, Jordan was forced to leave the NBA. David Stern really had no choice at that time. Although the NBA has developed rapidly in the past 10 years, the 10-year period is really too short.
Because 10 years ago, NBA could not be considered a business alliance. Because at that time, NBA was still a group of poor people and could not even care about their livelihood. Is it possible to think about establishing relationships with media and public opinion?
The only person who had such an idea at that time was probably David Stern, who was also the vice president of NBA at that time. In order to establish a relationship with the media from 1980 to 1981, this guy gave the most important award of NBA to sports journalists and media to decide. The NBA's regular season MVP was generated by reporters' voting at that time.
Although at that time, because Larry Bird and the Magician entered the league, media reporters across the United States became interested in the NBA and the NBA was paying more and more attention. However, after all, it has only been ten years. Although David Stern has done a lot of homework in the past ten years, his current position is still a situation where customers bully stores. David Stern has limited influence in the media circle, or in other words, how could this group of uncrowned kings who are not even a US president win over David Stern?
Therefore, David Stern has always been very helpless for these people who are not under his control.
If David Stern really knocked Lin Han down like Jordan, although this would make him and NBA very painful, he would be powerless.
However, from now on, Lin Han and Jordan are indeed different. This rebellious young man is simply a gentleman outside the court, and he is not as chaotic as Jordan, which makes David Stern very satisfied.
"Maybe, now we should have some protection for him."
Thinking of the last Rockets and Jazz game, Lin Han's crazy impact on Olajuwon, David Stern had some concerns about Lin Han's style of play. He did not want the league he was optimistic about would die in a few years in the future. Although Lin Han's health seemed to be better than the blacks, in the NBA, yellow-skinned players were born to not gain trust in their bodies, even if Lin Han was really in a strong body.
Of course, at this time, NBA was a little messy by Lin Han, and at this time, almost everyone in NBA was crazy about Lin Han's affairs. At this time, the Jazz's young rookie had returned to Utah.
"Hmph, now I know it hurts. Why don't you feel at all during the game? Isn't it just a regular season game? Is it necessary to work so hard?"
"Even if you really have that strong strength, do you think you can win against a championship-level team alone?"
On the evening of January 20, 1994, at Lin Han's home in Utah, at this time, Lin Han was sitting in the training hall in the system space with a bandage on his entire right shoulder, demented. After the last game against the Rockets, there was almost no place on his body without injuries, his arms, back, legs, waist, and even his face slapped by Olajuwon and Thorpe. Even Lin Han could not walk off the court by himself, and it was Aaron Williams and Brian Russell who drove him down the court.
When Lin Han got out, when he returned to the team's locker room, the Jazz team doctor gave him a simple physical examination. Seeing Lin Han's bruises all over his body almost cried. Fortunately, Lin Han had no major damage to his waist and back after his right shoulder was dislocated and his right wrist was slightly sprained. According to the Jazz team doctor's wish, it would be best not to play again in the past ten days and half a month.
However, for Lin Han, letting him stand on the sidelines and watch his teammates play now is even more uncomfortable than killing him, so after returning home, Lin Han directly avoided his family and locked him in the room, then entered the system space, preparing to use the system space to quickly recover his injuries. Of course, it is not just that Lin Han played earlier, but also hoped that his family would not worry. If Lin Han had been wearing bandages all over the past ten days, then he would not dare to imagine whether his elder sister would continue to support him in the NBA.
I dare not. Although the training ground in the system space is different from the outside world, Lin Han can't recover in an instant inside the training ground. The injury that takes ten days and half a month to recover is actually very boring. It's just that Lin Han has done all the more boring things than this. Lin Han doesn't care much about this. In order to develop his full potential, Lin Han even spent more than four years in the system space.
Fortunately, the time in the system space will not let Lin Han pass away, which is why Lin Han always feels that this system is really terrifying, or the degree of mutation after this system travels through time is unimaginable.
However, although it was a little boring, fortunately, Aili, who had been very homeless, didn't know why. After seeing Lin Han's tight-fitting clothes, he no longer watched anime or soap opera in his small room. He had been sitting next to Lin Han for a long time, and although Lin Han had been sitting there with a dull face without talking to him, he was scolded by Aili, but Lin Han was very moved.
Because Lin Han knew that although this little girl kept scolding him, she was really caring about him.
"I haven't reminded you before that ignoring physical fitness does not really allow you to use skills without restraint. ignoring physical fitness is more of a kind of mental stimulation, just like a closure, making you unable to feel the pain and consumption of your body on the court. But in fact, every time you shoot and shoot, your body is exhausted. Now that you're done, you've actually dislocated your shot. I'm really convinced you."
Of course, after being taken care of by Aili in the system space for more than ten days, Lin Han's body was cured after being examined by the system team doctor. Lin Han returned to his room. At this time, his body had recovered and there was no bruises. Except for his arms and wrists still a little awkward, there was basically no discomfort.
Of course, the awkwardness of the shoulders and wrists is more because I haven’t played basketball for more than ten days, no intense training and competition, and my body feels a little reduced.
This is also the biggest disadvantage of using system space to recover injuries. If the Jazz recovers from injuries, the Jazz can cooperate with him for off-ball training and ball training during the injury. However, in the system, he has to summon a team to accompany him to do ball and ball training. This not only requires summoning a team, but also summoning some physical therapists and coaches. Lin Han can't imagine the cost. With Lin Han's current net worth, he can't afford it.
Under such circumstances, although Lin Han is in good health now, he has not played basketball for more than ten days, so the game may not be better.
On January 21, 1994, after returning to Utah, Lin Han returned to the team after staying at home for a day. Originally, Jerry Sloan gave him a vacation in recent days, but now Lin Han's condition is useless even if he returns to the team. He needs to take a few days off first and then return to the team for injury recovery training. What surprised the Jazz's team was that Lin Han not only returned to the team after only one day off, but even asked to play in the game against the Supersonics in the evening. This made the Jazz's mouth wide open so that he could swallow several eggs.
"Lin, aren't you crazy? With your current physical condition, you still want to play? You're not kidding, are you?"
"Do you think I'm joking?"
At this time, Lin Han glared at Ma Long with a serious look and then looked directly at the team's head coach Jerry Sloan. At this time, Jerry Sloan was also difficult to deal with. He knew Lin Han's condition. The team doctor said it was best not to move around for 10 days and not to play for half a month, but Lin Han's will to fight is very strong now. Moreover, after Lin Han took off his shirt, the bruises on his body were so shallow that they could no longer see them. Even the bandages on his body had been taken off. It can be said that Lin Han's recovery speed was even Jerry Sloan. Although the team doctor said after the examination, Lin Han's recovery was considered healthy, it was still recommended to observe for a while, which made Jerry Sloan hesitate.
"Coach, don't worry, I know my own physical condition. I won't mess around!"
Lin Han immediately said after seeing Jerry Sloan hesitating, but at this time, not only Jerry Sloan, but also the others of the Jazz, gave Lin Han a blank look and secretly complaining in his heart, if you, a kid, know what your physical condition is, you wouldn't have to be carried away by others in the last game.
"Lin, you have to think clearly that we are not fighting for victory in the last few games. The main task is to restore the team's condition to normal before the start of February. Do you understand what I mean?"
Now that the Jazz have ended their winning streak, there are not many goals that the team has to achieve. The NBA playoffs began in April. For most teams, February and March are the sprint stages. The results in these two months are related to the future of the team's playoffs. In this case, the Jazz must now recover before the entire league sprint. If this is not done, the Jazz's future will be very miserable, because the NBA team that sprints in the end will increase in strength.
In the NBA, most teams are in November and December, and they are adjusted to find the game state. January is entering the game state, February and March are the sprint when the state reaches its peak. April is the adjustment period, and most teams in the playoffs are adjusted to late April and the playoffs begin.
In this case, with the remaining five games in November, it is difficult for the Jazz to play wholeheartedly, especially in two games with the Supersonics and the Warriors, and the Jazz are even more unlikely to play with these two teams.
The final result is likely that even if Lin Han plays on the court and persists, he may encounter the same failure as the Rockets. If Lin Han is as willful as in the Rockets, Jerry Sloan will not be able to let Lin Han play.
Therefore, Jerry Sloan needs a guarantee from Lin Han, and Lin Han needs to ensure that he can't mess around anymore.
Of course, Lin Han knew about Jerry Sloan and the team's considerations, so he still agreed to the team's requirements. There was no way, there was less than 10 days left before the game against the Bulls, and now there was not much time left for Lin Han. Lin Han must find the game state, otherwise, if he waited until the game against the Bulls next time, his future would be really miserable.
So, in the end, Lin Han agreed to Jerry Sloan's request and could not do anything willful anymore, otherwise he would replace Lin Han directly.
On January 21, 1994, the Jazz played against the second-place Supersonics team at home. This opponent was the Jazz's miserable. In the last game, Lin Han broke Peyton and disrupted the Supersonics' tactical arrangements. Only after the Rockets defeated the team, the Lakers' record of 33 consecutive victories were difficult.
Therefore, this time the two teams fought again, and the Supersonics came with the belief of winning. Stockton and Malone appeared on the court at the same time in this game. Lin Han, who was expected to be injured in this game, finally appeared on the court. This time it was a match with all the Jazz.
Although we know that the three cores of the team are now having some physical problems and this game will be a very difficult game, the Jazz fans on the scene still gave the team the greatest support, especially when Lin Han appeared, these Jazz fans were greeting him like heroes. It can be seen that although the US media's attack on Lin Han has failed in recent times, as Lin Han's backing, Jazz fans still have to make their own posture.
However, what embarrassed Jazz fans in this game was that although they had a lot of support for the team in this game, it has to be said that when the two teams met last time, George Carl used Sean Kemp as a defensive libero, Schramff defended Malone, and Payton's strategy of defending Lin Han alone did not play out in the last time. However, this strategy proved to be successful in this game. Faced with Schramff's defense, Malone dared not attack the basket now. Also, in the last game, Lin Han who directly exploded. The poor condition of this game was simply outrageous, especially Lin Han's breakthrough always made people feel a little awkward, and he made many mistakes in holding the ball. Even Lin Han's best shots in this game were more times than hits.
"Why is Lin Han so in such a poor state in this game?"
Even at this time, even the Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan on the sidelines was speechless. In this case, the three core Jazz players performed poorly in this game against the Supersonics. In the end, the team that played at home lost to the Supersonics 88-104 at home. They ushered in two consecutive losses. In this game, Malone's data was 9 of 25 shots, and then 24 points, while Lin Han made 8 of 26 shots. Not only did he hit the iron almost 20 times, but he even made 5 mistakes.
Soon, the day after the end of this game, the Jazz welcomed the Warriors back-to-back at home. Facing this offensive mad team, the Jazz was extremely difficult. The Jazz is now in poor offensive form, not afraid of playing with defensive strong teams, but afraid of attacking with offensive strong teams. In this case, the result of this game is even worse than when playing Supersonics in the last game.
Malone and Stockton still played in this home back-to-back game. They mainly wanted to maintain the game and would not be able to fight in the game. In this case, Malone was directly hit by Chris Weber, the rookie who was unhappy when he looked at Lin Han. Lin Han was not much better. The feel of this game was still a little cold and the dribbling was still a bit awkward. In this case, Lin Han, who was supposed to play against Chris Mullin and Spreville, was beaten by Mullin after strangling Spreville in this game.
Three consecutive losses! After losing to the Warriors 95-115 at home, the Jazz ushered in a three-game losing streak after 37 consecutive victories!
Lin Han's super bad performance in two consecutive games once again aroused the fighting spirit of the American media!
In recent times, they wanted to attack Lin Han like they did when they attacked Jordan, but they eventually failed. Because Lin Han was a little poisonous to play on the court and had a bad personality, they really had no black spots. In this case, their crazy attack on Lin Han was exchanged for the rebound of fans across the United States and the boycott of Lin Han fans, which made these uncrowned kings quite unhappy in recent times.
Okay, Lin Han’s performance on the court is finally very bad now. The team lost the game and his data are not very good. Now he can finally attack!
It can be said that these uncrowned kings who have just experienced a crushing defeat by Lin Han have found confidence again!
"The sequelae of thirty-seven consecutive victories? The Jazz will break the embarrassing record of 1 win and 5 losses after the Lakers' thirty-three consecutive victories. The Jazz will usher in a brutal six-game losing streak after the thirty-seven consecutive victories!"
"The Bucks won 2 and 4 after 20 consecutive victories, the Lakers won 1 and 5 after 33 consecutive victories, and how many will the Jazz win after 37 consecutive victories? Pippen said that the Bulls are already sure to win!"
"Lin Han has performed poorly in two consecutive games, and he has already ushered in his rookie wall. In the game against the Bulls a week later, Lin Han's future is worrying!"
Although the Jazz's record is still 37 wins and 3 losses, it is still the best in the league after losing three consecutive times, it may be extremely difficult for this team that starts the away trip to the East in just one go.
At least at this time, Pippen has already stated that the Jazz can now win two wins against the Nets. As for the game between the Jazz and the Bulls, the current Bulls player has already stated that he will add another victory to the team and then take the lead in the Eastern Conference first place.
Of course, at this time, the media and journalists across the United States were hyping the Jazz's failure, Lin Han's poor performance and Pippen's declaration of victory, but for Lin Han, he was in a normal mood now, because he knew what kind of state he was in now, and also knew that he was definitely a completely different person from him in a week.
He is indeed no match for Pippen now, but it will be hard to say in a week!
"What a bunch of interesting guys"
On the Jazz's plane to New Jersey, Lin Han held several newspapers that had just been released today in his hand and chuckled and still left the newspaper on one side, with some contempt on his face. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!