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The Jazz and Magic played a very sudden change in the first half. Because of the Jazz's internal strife, the Magic, which had the advantage in the beginning, turned out to be behind. However, because of the internal strife, the Jazz, which had a great change in the connection between the team's core and tactical style, finally made a big difference because of Lin Han's change in passing the ball to the inside.

In this case, after the end of the half, the Magic not only fell behind in the score, but also looked at the situation and it was the rhythm of losing!

If it is normal, the Magic, which has a record of 41 wins and 25 losses so far, is actually not embarrassing to the Jazz with 58 wins and 8 losses. After all, this team was difficult to play against the Jazz in the past, and the Jazz is currently the first in the league this season, while the Magic is only fourth in the East. In this case, the Magic are back-to-back, or away games, losing "No > Wrong" will lose.

But this is a normal situation. The Magic can allow the loss, but is this game normal? Of course not. The Jazz are like this now because Malone refuses to cooperate with Stockton, resulting in the team's strongest weapon for the Magic. The pick-and-roll cooperation between the two evil spirits is gone. The Jazz can be said to have lost half of their martial arts. In this case, they still lose to the Jazz. How can this make the Magic go?

You know, this team is not young, whether it is the team's head coach Brian Hill, the team's boss O'Neal or the leader Hardaway, these people are not at all low. Although many people are optimistic about the Rockets and Jazz, and are optimistic about the Knicks or the Suns who will win this year's championship, these people from the Magic are not without pursuits. On the contrary, this team not only has pursuits but also pursues a lot!

So, after the half-time of this game, almost all of the Magic players returned to the locker room. Whether it was the team's head coach, the team's boss O'Neal, or the team's super rookie Hardaway, these people were silent.

The problem encountered by this team now is simple and simple, and it is also complicated. After Lin Han, who is almost the best attacker in the league, can pass the ball to Malone and connect it with Malone, the problem left to the Magic is how to block Lin Han's attack and pinch Lin Han's pass.

According to Lin Han's passing method, Lin Han is not Stockton. Although Stockton is stronger in passing ability, even with time-travel passes like Stockton, the Magic have nothing to be afraid of, because Stockton does not have much strong attack ability and the Magic does not need to double-team him. As long as the players are covered with players between Stockton and Malone, no matter how strong Stockton passes, he will never dare to pass such a pass. After all, this kind of pass has to pass through many players on the way. It is very easy to make mistakes.

Therefore, although Stockton's one-handed long-swinged cross is very exciting. It was one of the important cooperation and playing styles of the Jazz before, Stockton basically didn't need it after Lin Han came to the team, because such a pass is too dangerous. Instead of passing this ball to Malone in the inside, it is better to hand the ball to Lin Han's hand with a cross. In terms of attack power, Lin Han and Malone are actually not far from each other. Even if the two attacked one inside and the other outside, there was a difference in hit rate, but considering the turnover rate, this pass was still sealed by Stockton.

But what makes Lin Han and Stockton different is that he can attract double-teams. O'Neal and Turner of the team's two inside players must have one of them to assist in defense. If the Magic have a super assistant-team inside player like Kemp, Brian Hill is not worried at all, because Kemp can definitely run back to intercept Lin Han's pass to Malone after assisting in defense. Kemp's sports can do this. But the key point is that Turner does not have such ability. He is just a role player. There is only one thing he can do, either double-teaming Lin Han or staring at Malone. These two things cannot be done at the same time.

In this case, for the Magic, it is actually very simple to deal with Lin Han's playing style. Just have a super assisted defense like Kemp. It is also very difficult to deal with Lin Han's playing style because their team does not have such a player unless O'Neal is taken out from the inside to assist Lin Han. Although O'Neal's assisted defense is not top-notch, it is much better than Turner. But the key is that O'Neal is absolutely unwilling. If this flexibly fat man likes to assist defense outside, he will not be hung up by the pick-and-roll of Malone and Stockton.

Moreover, after O'Neal left the basket, even if Lin Han didn't pass the ball, the Magic had to kneel down.

So at this time, for Magic's head coach Brian Hill, the problem is very difficult now, and I don't know what to do. In the end, everyone in Magic was silent for a while, and the Magic's head coach also looked at the team's super rookie Hardaway.

"Perry, if you were asked to defend Lin Han alone in the second half, how sure are you?"

When Brian Hill looked at Hardaway after he finished speaking, all the other Magic players looked at Hardaway. If Hardaway could pinch Lin Han one-on-one on the defensive end, then these problems would be solved, and Turner could also focus on defending Malone. He could cut off the connection between Malone and Lin Han.

But almost all Magic players know that although Hardaway is comprehensive, his strongest is his help to the team on the offensive end. If he is allowed to focus all his energy on the defensive end, the Jazz's offense will definitely drop to a higher level. After all, although O'Neal is powerful, the Jazz's inside line is not the time in the past. Polinis was miserable by O'Neal in this game, but the Haitian monster did not collapse. Moreover, Malone has been preparing to double-team O'Neal on the defensive end. In this case, if Hardaway sacrifices his offense to defend Lin Han, if the Jazz double-team against O'Neal in this game, the Magic will really kneel.

Moreover, what is more important is that even if Hardaway really goes to defend Lin Han alone, the key is whether he can defend himself alone, which is also a question.

But at this time, everyone in the Magic team was behind. This is a matter of no choice. If you change, you may still lose, but if you don’t change, you will definitely lose. I have to say that although the Magic’s lineup is still very strong this season, there is another loophole in the team that the team’s power forward position lacks strength and O’Neal lacks a thug. This is also the reason why O’Neal was almost broken by Malone and Lin Han in this game.

Facing the extremely anticipated look of the team's head coach, Hardaway, who has always been cold in character, did not speak, but just silent for a while under everyone's eyes. He nodded.

“I will do my best”

After Hardaway finished speaking coldly, both Brian Hill and the team's power forward Turner breathed a sigh of relief. Hardaway was willing to do his best, which was enough.

Of course, during the half-time break, the Magic's atmosphere is very solemn. The Jazz locker room not far away is actually not much different. When Malone and Lin Han were both showing off their power again in the first half, Jazz players could feel that the team's situation might be a little bad.

After all, as long as you are not a fool, the whole team knows that the team's head coach Jerry Sloan and the team's head point guard Stockton are beating Malone or Lin Han. Now, in this game, Lin Han and Malone are working together to exert force while throwing Stockton away. Isn't this Hongguoguo's playing team's head coach Jerry Sloan's face?

Jerry Sloan is trying hard against Malone. I hope Malone can wake up, but now Lin Han is better. He directly shared the match with Malone with the ball he got from Stockton in the first half.

What's even more speechless is that as time goes by Stockton even relaxed his ball rights requirements for Lin Han. Even if Lin Han doesn't have a chance, he will give the team's shooting guard a ball. Stockton's approach is also contrary to the arrangement of Jerry Sloan's game.

With Jerry Sloan's personality, it would be strange if he could get better at this time.

So although the Jazz entered the locker room with the leading score at this time, almost everyone was silent, and even Lin Han and Malone, two players who played very well in the first half, did not speak at this time.

According to the character of Lin Han and Malone, if the team's head coach was not Jerry Sloan, the two would have been proud of it and even embarrassed the team's head coach.

From this perspective, although the Jazz were indeed in internal strife before, the team has not lost control. Although Malone had a brief period of emotions, he has always adhered to the bottom line. At least in today's game, Jerry Sloan arranged for him to start, but he did not resist.

Of course, in Malone's heart, Jerry Sloan still has some status, so Stockton naturally needs to be said. Malone has been guarding the bottom line until the last moment, and Lin Han is similar. Although he has always wanted to help Malone and prove that he and Malone have no problem with basketball, Lin Han did not recklessly stand on Malone's side to fight Jerry Sloan or Stockton during the team's training. This is also Lin Han's bottom line.

So, the performance of the Jazz Lin Han and Malone in the first half of this game made Sloan very embarrassed. It was really embarrassing. Sloan meant that these two people were fighting alone. Only one player in the team was enough. But now the two players in the team fought alone actually played team basketball. How could he not embarrass him? If Lin Han had such ability before, how could he have fought directly with Malone or Lin Han? He had already begun to design new tactics to exert the maximum power of the team's three cores. Although Jerry Sloan is not his specialty in designing tactics, at least he would not forcefully reverse Malone at the risk of the team's fall apart.

Therefore, it is different from the Magic at this time. Although the atmosphere in the Jazz's locker room is also a bit wrong, everyone is still maintaining a balance. Now everyone is waiting for what Jerry Sloan will do next.

Lin Han and Malone are now connected. At least the two of them are no longer singles in this game. Can Jerry Sloan bring shame to lift the ball blockade against Malone and Malone? Although Stockton had already unlocked Lin Han by his own initiative in the first half.

Although Malone definitely hopes to get an apology from Sloan, Malone also knows that this is impossible. However, he has suffered so many grievances in recent times, even if no one apologized, at least he needs an explanation.

Stockton is also waiting for Jerry Sloan's choice. Although he lifted Lin Han's ball blockade in the first half, he has never lifted Malone. Because Stockton didn't know what Jerry Sloan's idea was, whether he would continue to force block Malone in the team, allowing Malone to reverse his recent play style. Stockton is a very smart player. If he lifted Malone's blockade in the first half, Jerry Sloan would definitely feel that the three leaders of the team were putting pressure and confronting him, which would be absolutely impossible for the stubborn Sloan to tolerate.

Stockton finally gave Sloan a face. Even though the Jazz point guard was still at the cost of hurting his gay friends, it has to be said that although Stockton is not the Jazz's strongest player in terms of strength, he is absolutely qualified as the leader of the team. If it were an ordinary person, he would have lost control of the team long ago.

The Jazz's locker room was silent. Although Malone always looked calm, the eyes of the Jazz's leading player were always very erratic. He kept floating around Jerry Sloan and Stockton, and the meaning was already very obvious.

After a short period of silence, Jerry Sloan, who had been standing there, finally broke the silence.

"We performed very well in the first half, Carl and Lin's cooperation was wonderful, we needed more cooperation in the second half, and all players needed more contact."

After saying this, Jerry Sloan did not wait for the reaction of his players. Instead, he left the locker room first. As Jerry Sloan's assistant, Fier Johnson quickly followed with a smile after a little stunned.

After Feier Johnson and Jerry Sloan left the team's locker room, after a brief silence, Malone, Lin Han and other Jazz players jumped up from their seats and cheered directly.

Especially Malone and Lin Han, the two Jazz players hugged each other almost directly. Although Jerry Sloan did not apologize or admit his mistake directly, the meaning of this sentence was very obvious to tell Malone that the things he had done before were not considered. Being able to say such words was already very rare with Jerry Sloan's personality, so this already satisfied Malone.

Of course, for other Jazz players, after the problem between the team's head coach and the boss was solved, they finally didn't have to be a person on both sides. In the NBA, no role player is willing to play in a team with many contradictions.

Maybe they knew that after Malone and Jerry Sloan reconciled today, their ball rights might be deprived of a lot, but compared to the helplessness on the court, this kind of depression off the court made them even more uncomfortable, so after Jerry Sloan said that, Elliot smiled helplessly and nodded.

"Karl Lin, you guys did a good job"

After the Jazz players celebrated briefly, Stockton, who had been silent and smiling, suddenly walked to Lin Han and Malone who were hugging each other and gave a thumbs up to Lin Han and Malone who were a little surprised. At this time, Lin Han and Malone were also stunned. Fortunately, Lin Han, although what Stockton did to him made Lin Han a little uncomfortable on the court, there was not much hurt in terms of emotions. The key is Malone. Stockton was his closest teammate and comrade-in-arms at the time. Although it was for the team, Stockton's previous actions undoubtedly made Malone, who was extremely childish, very unhappy. Otherwise, he would not have done the kind of thing on the court to elbow the opponent for no reason.

For Malone, most of the reason why he lost control of his emotions before was probably not that he could not receive the ball on the court, but that he did not think that Stockton would betray him.

So when Stockton finished apologizing, everyone was waiting for Malone to express his opinion. When the Jazz players saw Malone silent for a moment, and after several expressions, Stockton, who was also stretching out his right hand, the Jazz's locker room was once again filled with joy.

Of course, at this time, the Jazz's locker room was in jubilation, and Jerry Sloan, who had left the locker room before, stood outside the door with his assistant Fier Johnson. Although the sound insulation of the locker room was good, Jerry Sloan could not have known the noise inside.

"Jerry, it seems these guys are now reviving."

After listening to the movement inside, Feier Johnson said to her old partner with a smile, and after Feier Johnson finished speaking, Jerry Sloan was silent again.

"Fei'er, did you say I did something wrong before?"

After a brief silence, Jerry Sloan muttered to himself in a daze. But when he heard Jerry Sloan say this, Feier Johnson on the side shook his head.

"Jerry, you are not wrong, it's just that Lin is growing too fast. His growth rate has exceeded all of us's expectations and control. We just underestimated our own players."

After Feier and Johnson finished speaking, Jerry Sloan, who was originally in a low mood, also had a lit look in front of him. Although he was a stubborn person, a stubborn person was never a fool.

"Yeah, we really underestimated our players. They are better than we thought."

When I thought of this, Jerry Sloan and Fier Johnson smiled after looking at each other.

"The Magic encountered some difficulties in the first half of the game, but from the moment, the Jazz's problems have not been solved. Although the Jazz has slowly gained the upper hand, the Magic still plays. However, the biggest problem with the Magic is that they just played a tough game with the Warriors yesterday. I wonder if they can have the strength to last."

When the two teams returned to the court again after the half-time break, Collins on the sidelines also pondered a little.

The two teams played very fiercely in this game, which can be said to be completely unexpected to many people. According to the views of many people on this game before the game, if the Jazz did not have internal strife, the Magic who fought back to back away would only be beaten. Similarly, if the Jazz had internal strife, after losing the pick-and-roll of Malone and Stockton, the Magic would likely have completely destroyed the Jazz in the internal strife.

So, no matter how you look at it, it is difficult to score too fiercely in this game. After all, the Jazz can really restrain the Magic under normal circumstances. Even Magic's head coach Brian Hill agreed with this view. He hoped that his team could fight quickly before the game. After all, the continuous away games in the Western Conference did make the team's physical fitness problem, especially yesterday, when he played a fierce game of winning and being killed, even O'Neal was sent off in the end.

However, the two teams have reached this level and basically no retreat now. They will definitely strive for victory in this game. Even if the Magic really encounters physical difficulties, they will probably grit their teeth and persevere.

So under normal circumstances, the second half of this game should be a very intense game. As the commentator of this game, he naturally hoped that for the sake of ABC's ratings.

"Hey, the expressions on the Jazz players' faces are not very correct now."

Just as Collins was looking forward to how exciting the game will be, Larry Bird, who was on the side, suddenly felt something was wrong when he saw the Jazz players walking to the court again. The emotions of these players were somewhat wrong with the emotions of the Jazz players sitting on the bench on the sidelines.

And when Larry Bird finished speaking, Collins also felt something different.

"It seems that something should have happened in the Jazz in the locker room, just don't know whether these things are a good thing or a bad thing."

After a little stunned, Larry Bird also said with a smile, and the second half also began. Because O'Neal won the first quarter, the first offensive ball in the first quarter and the fourth quarter belonged to the Magic, and the first offensive ball in the second and third quarters belonged to the Jazz.

So after the third quarter begins, the Jazz attack first.

As the team's organizational defender, Stockton almost did not change any changes as usual after receiving the baseline ball. He pushed the ball to the frontcourt at a very suitable speed. If this is the case, no one would think it was wrong on the spot. According to the Jazz's style of playing in the first half, Lin Han should have started running around the baseline at this time, and other Jazz players also began to cover Lin Han's running positions everywhere on the court and transmitted the ball rights sent from Stockton.

What just made almost everyone in the scene was that when Jerry Sloan recommended the ball to the top of the arc, Malone, who had almost no movement in the first half, directly threw away the Magic's defensive player Turner and pulled out to make a pick-and-roll with Stockton. When Turner was briefly surprised, Malone and Stockton's pick-and-roll were completed. Stockton also had already passed the basketball in his hand to Malone's hand with a very gorgeous back of his head. At this time, Malone, who had already broken up to the left of the free throw line, took the next step without any hesitation after receiving the ball, and made a jump shot from the middle distance.

When Malone scored into this pick-and-roll very normally, when the Jazz returned to defense with a smile on their faces, all the Magic players on the field were stunned, and even the Magic coach Brian Hill on the sidelines were already trembling in shock.

The Jazz are playing pick-and-roll?! Malone and Stockton are starting to cooperate?!

After discovering such a problem, almost all of them were confused. They had thought about many ways to target the second half during the half break, but they didn't think that Malone and Stockton of the Jazz would cooperate again!

Even when the Jazz fans on the scene were briefly lost, they instantly brought cheers to the top. While the audience was shouting the names of Stockton and Malone, even Larry Bird and Collins on the sidelines were still a little incredible.

"Larry, it seems that a lot of things happened to the Jazz just now."

At this time, Collins shook his head with a bitter smile after looking at each other with Larry Bird.

Because both of them knew that after the pick-and-roll tactics against Stockton and Malone, who had the most damage to the Magic, had almost no hope of winning in this game, especially when Lin Han was still standing on the side.

So at this time, the Magic's super rookie Hardaway and the team's boss O'Neal were gritting their teeth after they came to their senses. Although the game was not over, their faces were full of reluctance.

And when the second half of the game started, as many people expected, the Magic quickly fell to a disadvantage, and the Jazz even directly controlled the general trend of the game. Although no one in the Jazz could withstand O'Neal, O'Neal's attack alone could not stop the Jazz, especially when Malone felt excellent in the second half.

And what people didn't expect was that the Magic might be worse than everyone expected after the start of the second half.

Because after Stockton and Malone cooperated, even if they defended one-on-one against Lin Han, Lin Han was often able to complete the pass against Malone, although the difficulty of passing the ball increased a lot. No one was watching between Lin Han and Malone, but as a player who defended Malone, Turner had almost no way to face Lin Han's almost unpredictable pass. Although because of the increased difficulty of passing, the speed and angle of this passing ball became faster, more grippy and harder to catch, and the error rate also increased very quickly.

But it is obvious that in this game, when Lin Han and Stockton were looking for Malone and passing the ball for the team, such a turnover rate could almost be ignored. No one would care about Lin Han’s mistakes for this kind of pass, because every time Lin Han passed this ball, the morale of Jazz players and Jazz fans on the scene would be greatly shocked. After all, this way of passing is more exciting than Stockton’s simple pick-and-roll pass.

So, when the second half of the game started, facing the continuous interaction between Lin Han, Malone and Starks, the Magic almost felt a sense of collapse.

"Beautiful, so beautiful. Although Lin Han, Stockton and Malone are a little unfamiliar with this cooperation, Lin Han has a big problem in his position in the offense and often makes mistakes in tactical running. However, when these three people began to constantly try to find the opponent, the magic trick with extremely weak internal defense capabilities was about to collapse!"

The Magic's collapsed, which almost everyone can see, especially when the Jazz trio kept looking for the opponent in the second half, especially when Lin Han and Stockton were playing for Malone, this game was a nightmare for O'Neal to the Magic's inside.

When the game ended, when the scoreboard on the sidelines showed the score 98 to 116, the Magic lost themselves completely in the Jazz rhythm in the entire second half. The Magic, who was only three points behind in the half, lost 18 points after the game ended!
To be continued...