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Chapter 222 Because the NBA has no quarter line!

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On March 27, 1994, the Jazz once again started their away journey after defeating the Magic and the Bucks at home. Now the Jazz has a record of 60 wins and 8 losses. There are only 14 games left in the regular season this season. It can be said that when the time comes to the end of March, most teams in the league have reached the final stage.

For example, in the West, the Jazz's record is 60 wins and 8 losses, and the second Supersonics record is 51 wins and 17 losses. With 14 games left, the Supersonics basically cannot surpass the Jazz. Even the Supersonics themselves know this. The Houston Rockets, third in the West, are now 48 wins and 19 losses. In fact, the truly fiercely competitive position has now become the second place in the West, especially the fourth in the West. Due to the recent sprint performance of Admiral David Robinson, this team's record has surpassed the Suns and has become 48 wins and 20 losses. The Suns' current record is 44 wins and 24 losses. Unless the first three teams collapse, it will be difficult for the Suns to really compete in the last 14 games.

In the game, they chased four games in a row, and for the Suns, there seems to be no difference between fourth and fifth in the West. In this case, there have been rumors recently that the Suns may appropriately "tread" at the last moment. What does the so-called appropriate "tread" mean almost all the world = long = wind world know that since they can't win the top three, don't win the fourth and fifth. After all, when the Suns see the Jazz this season, they really lose when they see the Jazz. It can be said that whether it is the Supersonics, Rockets or Spurs. The Suns are not inferior in the regular season, but there is no way to deal with the Jazz. After all, the Jazz put Lin Han as the power forward when facing the Suns is really effective for the Suns.

And for the Suns, they also have the qualification to "revise". Although the record of 44 wins and 24 losses is not very good, it is not very good for the first four teams, but it is enough for entering the playoffs. After all, the Warriors, the sixth-ranked Warriors, are now 39 wins and 28 losses, while the Nuggets, the seventh-ranked Warriors, have 35 wins and 32 losses. As for the eighth-ranked Trail Blazers, there is no need to say. Since Drexler left, the team's record has declined and has declined to a terrible level. The team has not won many goals in February and March. The current record has reached 31 wins and 37 losses. If it weren't for the Lakers, Kings, Clippers, Timberwolves and Mavericks, the Trail Blazers would have withdrawn from the eighth-ranked West long ago.

So for the Suns, it may be difficult for them to win seventh in the West. After all, although the Nuggets are strong now, they are difficult for so many consecutive games. If they want to retreat to sixth in the West, there is absolutely no problem with the Warriors. Even if the Warriors can see the Suns' intentions, they will bite the bullet. For the Suns, a team that is competing for the championship, it is good to be able to meet the Jazz later, but the first goal of the Warriors this season is to be able to enter the second round, rather than an illusory championship. In this case, the higher the ranking, the more beneficial it is to them. When will they meet the Jazz in the second round? Then wait until the second round.

So, now that the Jazz have determined their first place in the West, no team that is determined to win the championship is willing to become fourth in the West or fifth in the West. In this case, the Spurs, as fourth in the West, will naturally not be as pessimistic as the Suns. Their goal is very simple, that is, to pull the Spurs or the Supersonics off the horse. Therefore, the Spurs' sprint in the past two months is the strongest among all NBA teams. You should know that before February, the Spurs' record of the Rockets and the Supersonics is far worse than that of the Suns, but with David Robinson's crazy outbreak, such a gap is almost impossible to see.

The Jazz ended their home schedule and started their away schedule, the Spurs were the first team, who is in extremely hot and has almost overwhelmed with confidence.

"Are you worried about Rodman's revenge in this game? Obviously, I have never considered being revenge by him. If he really said that he wanted to revenge me in this game, then I would be very disappointed, because the confrontation between me and him in the last game did not involve such a dark thing. Yes, the last time he lost and I won, but I don't think he lost his dignity. I always felt that we are still brave people in the same position. The struggle between the two brave people is better than revenge by confrontation."

"Are you afraid of being attacked by Rodman in this game? I know that when he and I walked to the court at the same time, we all need to worry about whether we can get off the court healthy. The last time he had such an idea, and I also had such an idea. I wouldn't hide anything about this, so if I am really afraid, then I might still be lying in the hospital. Faced with such a challenge, I think neither I nor Rodman would have any fear, because we all know that fear will only make the situation worse."

"The Spurs are in good shape now and are you confident in defeating the Spurs? Of course, this is certain. The Spurs have performed very well recently. David Robinson won four doubles more than a month ago. Their current state is still at their peak, but what I want to say is that this season, the Spurs have never beaten the Jazz in a game. They couldn't win before, and now they can't win either. Maybe they can't win either in the future."

This game between the Jazz and the Spurs was very interesting before the game, especially the Spurs players. Rodman, a ruthless man who just made a comeback in recent times, is very enthusiastic about this game. It can even be said that before the Jazz team came to San Antonio, the Spurs' super forward said that they would revenge Lin Han in this game. Things that were not done against Lin Han in the last game must be done in this game, and they also directly stated in the media that Lin Han should be careful if he would break his legs in this game.

Of course, when Rodman said such a sentence, even this guy had a high status in the NBA. So high that David Robinson had no way to deal with him, and he couldn't lift the head of the team boss in front of him. However, Rodman wanted to destroy Lin Han to privately say or think about what no one would do to him, but the key point was that this guy said so arrogantly during the interview that he almost encountered huge criticism. Even the first time the league president David Stern gave this guy and the Spurs a warning.

However, although Rodman and the Spurs were given warnings, for the Spurs and Rodman, such warnings naturally would not have any effect. So after Lin Han and the team came to San Antonio, this issue became more and more quarrels. For Lin Han, Rodman's crazy words did surprise him a little. After all, the previous few confrontations between the two made Lin Han feel that this person was quite interesting and a good opponent, but he didn't expect that this interesting person would do this.

However, for these warnings or pre-match intimidation and psychological hints, Lin Han's personality, he would never be afraid, nor would he be afraid of anything. If he was really afraid of Rodman, he would probably be ruined by Rodman in the last game and would never wait for this game. So facing this group of reporters who wanted to find trouble, Lin Han directly expressed his disdain for Rodman's statement.

However, Lin Han also knew that no matter what he said before the game, he still had to face the butcher in such an alliance. Moreover, the butcher may be more ruthless in this game.

Moreover, this game is a game that the two teams, especially the Spurs, cannot lose. In recent times, they have been sprinting for two consecutive months in their state, so they are just to be able to enter the top three in the West. They are just like this. Now they lose 20, while the Rockets lose 19, and the victory is in front of them. As long as they can grit their teeth and persevere for a few more games, they can overtake the Rockets. At this time, the Spurs are very similar to the later stage when the Jazz were striving for the 33-game winning streak. The team's energy was almost exhausted. The reason why they can continue to win is more due to the support of their will and spirit. The Spurs are the same now, even worse than the Jazz. After all, although the Jazz were not very thick at the beginning, they were thicker than the Spurs.

In this case, the Spurs probably know what their current situation is, so when Rodman told Lin Han that he wanted to destroy Lin Han, Spurs head coach Lucas even expressed his support for Rodman in an interview with the media. This is almost impossible in the NBA. After all, players can say that they have destroyed their opponents. If the coach shouts "upper leg, upper leg" on the court and shouts "outer Y" off the court, then it will be difficult for others to accept it. At least in recent times, public opinion across the United States has despised Lucas, but now the Spurs have reached such a point, and if they don't play a little hate, they may really have no chance.

Therefore, this time the Jazz and the Spurs are definitely completely different from the previous two teams. So in the Jazz locker room before the start of the game, Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan kept emphasizing to almost all the important players of the team that the first priority of this game is to protect yourself.

When the Spurs were shouting that they were playing "Iron Blood" from the coach to the players, even fools knew what the game would be like, so it was not surprising that Jerry Sloan had such a arrangement.

After all, the Jazz had ambitions for winning the first game of this away game, especially after the last game against the Bucks, when all the fans held the '70' sign high, it was impossible for the Jazz to really make a complete adjustment after ensuring the first position in the league. Although they still adjust their state, winning 70 wins has become a goal.

However, although the Jazz really hope to win this game and achieve 70 wins as soon as possible, if you can't win this game, the impact will basically not be that great. At this time, the most important thing for the team is to ensure the health of the core players.

At 8 o'clock in the evening on March 27, 1994, the San Antonio Alamo Stadium was packed. At this time, this newly built comprehensive sports hall was packed. The Spurs team was very clear about the importance of this game, and the Spurs fans were naturally very clear, so they were really crazy about the team of supporters in this game.

Especially when the Jazz played, the crazy scolding and booing almost made Lin Han and other Jazz players think that this game was a playoff game.

"It seems that this game is really hard to play."

When the Jazz came to his bench amid the booing of all the fans, Stockton smiled and sighed after looking around. After the team's point guard finished speaking, the Jazz player next to him also nodded with a smile. However, at this time, the Jazz's super substitute Elliott had no smile on his face at this time.

This Spurs All-Star, David Robinson's second in command, was also San Antonio's darling, so the former Spurs player was still full of feelings for this place. However, the team sent him to a team like the Pistons for Rodman, which also made him very sad. After all, after coming to the Jazz, he was also very clear that when the Jazz sent Jeff Malone away, he really considered Jeff Malone's own opinion.

Of course. Although he was a little dissatisfied with the Spurs' management, he was really worried now when he saw the current situation of the Spurs, because no one in the entire league can know the Spurs and the Jazz better than him. Although he left the team this season, the Spurs have not changed much except for adding Rodman and leaving a young general Johnson. Such a team has soared with David Robinson's crazy performance in recent times, but such a soar is hardly useful in front of the Jazz.

So when he saw the Spurs players all raised their heads and showed up with the cheers of the fans in the court, Elliott sighed, and at the same time looked at Lin Han, who was already shining with his eyes and was ready to rub his hands.

"Rodman will probably be miserable in this game."

Before the game started, the Jazz player Elliott was a little worried about his old club, and his old club did not have such an idea. For this game, the Spurs were really ready to fight desperately.

So when the two teams warm up and walked towards the stadium, these Spurs players looked at Jazz players almost, and their eyes were almost sucking.

The Jazz's starting lineup has not changed in this game. The point guard is still Stockton, the shooting guard is Lin Han, the small forward is Russell, the power forward is Malone, and the center is PJ Brown with stronger athletic talent. Facing the strongest center in the league, Polynis is at a disadvantage, and PJ Brown is more suitable. After all, it is difficult for David Robinson's little butt to really sit and die like Ewing or Olajuwon.

Of course, with David Robinson's current state, even if he doesn't have to sit down with his little butt, he may not be able to defend him.

It's just obvious that for the Jazz, whether they can defend David Robinson has never been the most important winning factor in this game. Like the last game, the winning factor in this game was between Rodman and Lin Han. Why did the Spurs stare at Lin Han before the game, whether players or coaches were staring at Lin Han? This is not only David Robinson and Lin Han have a grudge, but more importantly, everyone knows that the biggest difference between the Jazz and the Spurs is that one has Lin Han and the other has Lin Han.

"Boy, I want to see if you can still walk out of the court while standing, hum"

When the Jazz's PJ Brown and David Robinson stood in the middle circle and jumped the ball, Rodman snorted at Lin Han disdainfully, but Lin Han didn't show much in the face of Rodman's provocation.

Because in Lin Han's opinion, if it weren't for those black moves, Rodman wouldn't have been able to defend him at all. Just like Jordan back then, without the Pistons' system, Rodman could not have stopped Jordan one-on-one. After all, this butcher is a power forward. Although he is really strong in defense of the No. 3 and 4 position and his physical fitness is extremely comprehensive, it is indeed a bit difficult to defend the No. 2 position. Perhaps under the Pistons' system back then, Rodman could defend most of the No. 2 position, but that was in the Pistons, and now it is in the Spurs.

So, in Lin Han's opinion, the former Pistons player who made a fuss to him had not noticed that he had arrived at the Spurs, there was no Ranbir behind him, and there were no Choudumas and Isaiah Thomas beside him.

Although PJ Brown has good athletic ability, it is naturally incomparable to David Robinson. Whether it is physical fitness or experience, PJ Brown almost lost, so the Jazz had no expectations for the first ball in this game. Even after the referee threw the ball, Lin Han was ready to return to defense.

When the Jazz successfully returned to defense after David Robinson successfully jumped, David Robinson showed his super offensive ability as soon as he got the ball in the inside. After receiving the ball from the inside, the Spurs center defended against PJ Brown almost in the form of a small forward and then broke through PJ Brown to the basket to complete the dunk. After completing the dunk, the Spurs' big center did not forget to roar at Malone who had just come to make up for the defense, which made Spurs fans in the Alamo Arena go crazy again.

However, in the face of David Robinson's provocation, Malone was speechless. He and David Robinson were considered old opponents. Both sides knew very well about the strength of each other. They had fought for so many years before, and basically no one could really suppress anyone. In this case, when David Robinson yelled at Malone like this, Malone was also speechless, and she also felt a little contempt in her heart. This guy would not think that he could suppress me by yelling at Malone in this game?

For Malone, if Olajuwon, Ewing or Sean Kamp yelled at him twice after deducting him, he might be a little afraid. But it was impossible for David Robinson to make Malone afraid, so when the Spurs scored the first goal, he got a very strong start, which made Spurs head coach Lucas very satisfied. The next game simply made the Spurs fans at the scene feel like they came directly from the sky to the underground.

The Spurs did fight for the top three positions in the regular season. The team's boss David Robinson directly killed the inside from the beginning of the game. This is a statement, and other Spurs players cannot say that they are not working hard. Instead, they have worked very hard, but the same is true. Although it is a away game, the Jazz's condition is not bad at all, and even very good. Perhaps the Jazz's condition is slightly worse in this game. After the Spurs start strongly, they are likely to be suppressed by the Spurs. However, even if the Spurs start strongly in this game, they have no way to do it.

This is not just that Malone was not scared by David Robinson's aura at all, but more importantly, before the game, the Spurs power forward Rodman, who had given up his bold words before the game, was almost completely defeated by Lin Han at the beginning of this game.

In the last game, when the two teams met, it was when Lin Han's ball rights were restricted. Jerry Sloan personally asked Lin Han to go to his office to hope that Lin Han could reduce his ball-holding style, which made Lin Han's performance in the entire first half of that game extremely depressing. It was not until the second half that Jerry Sloan liberated Lin Han that the Jazz completely defeated the Spurs.

In fact, Lin Han, who plays in a team, is really easy to be pinched by Rodman, just like when the two met last time, Rodman was indeed the winner in the first half.

It's just obvious that Stockton will still restrict Lin Han's ball rights in this game? Will Jerry Sloan still let Lin Han play more teams? Of course not.

Since Elliot was completely placed on the bench in the last game, Jerry Sloan has actually accepted his fate. It doesn't matter whether Elliot can integrate into the team's starting lineup, and he is not prepared to intervene forcibly no matter how the team's starting lineup plays.

Under such circumstances, Lin Han never cut off the ball right in the first game.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Han can almost play on the court, and when the ball reaches him, he has a lot of time to play instead of just five or six seconds left.

Therefore, when Lin Han kept pulling from the top of the arc or the three-point line to the near-center circle to receive the ball, Rodman and the entire Spurs were almost completely confused, because Lin Han's playing style was too cancerous. Just like many people commented that Kemp turned the game into a dunk game, Lin Han turned the game into a one-on-one game.

When Lin Han has a lot of ball rights and even catches the ball near the center circle to launch an attack, even Pippen has no choice but to Lin Han, let alone a power forward like Rodman?

Therefore, when the game started, when he saw that Rodman, his team's butcher Rodman, was almost forcibly overtaken by Lin Han again and again, or was shaken and even had no chance to play a black hand or a black foot, the Jazz fans on the sidelines were completely shocked.

Not to mention the Jazz fans on the sidelines were shocked, even the Spurs players on the field and the Spurs head coach Lucas on the sidelines were shocked. Even the Bulls had never given Jordan such a lot of room to play, right? Lin Han was really playing NBA games on the court at this time, instead of playing street ball on the street court or playing one-on-one bullfights directly?

You should know that Lin Han's playing style can't even be said to be a cancer. It is simply out of the scope of NBA games, because such playing style is really difficult to maintain an excellent hit rate and has extremely low offensive efficiency. This is also the biggest difference between NBA and single-handed matches or catch-up matches. Even cancers need to be within a certain range to get cancerous. Players like Lin Han who initiate single-handed matches in the middle circle and then can directly attack about two steps outside the three-point line. There has never been a player in the history of NBA.

And what's even more terrible is that other players like Lin Han basically do not need to defend and offensive efficiency, but although Lin Han's offensive efficiency is not high in this game, it is definitely not low. In this case, almost all the people who support the Spurs on the court were confused at this time.

As for what would it feel like to see Lin Han doing this at this time? The Jazz head coach now has no feeling, no smile or dissatisfaction. It is quite calm.

"It's too cruel, it's too cruel. This kid is too cruel. Rodman can't keep up with him at all."

"It would be strange if Rodman could keep up. With such a large offensive space, even Pippen could not keep up, right? How could this kid's offensive range be so large? It's better than Jordan's."

"If Jordan had such a large offensive range, I'm afraid Chamberlain would not be his opponent. Lin Han would be too terrifying. Such a three-pointer looks like a good shooting percentage. Incredible, incredible."

As the team he supported was beaten more and more miserably as the game progressed, almost all the Spurs fans at the scene were upset, especially Lin Han's offensive method in this game was too brutal.

If facing the Rockets and super offensive teams like the Warriors, Lin Han really doesn't dare to play like this, but when facing a team like the Spurs, which has weak offensive and excellent defense, Lin Han really doesn't worry about his inefficient offense at all. For the Jazz, his task is to be able to score, as long as the efficiency is not that low.

So, at this time, Rodman was probably the worst on the court. He was going to teach Lin Han a lesson in this game, but when the game was finally played, he found that he was completely fooled by Lin Han.

"hateful!"

When Lin Han almost completed the overtaking directly in front of him again, the defensive player who was not good at both attacking and kicking even squatted down and pounded the floor of the Alamo Stadium when Lin Han passed.

Seeing Rodman giving up on himself, the Spurs fans on the sidelines also sighed a little, and a middle-aged white man sitting in the stands frowned at this time.

"Greg, it seems that the Spurs are really not the Jazz's opponent now."

As the new general manager of the Spurs, **Vic was very dissatisfied with the Spurs' performance in this game, and the same is true for his assistant, his fellow brother Buford.

**Vic called him from college to the Spurs in the hope of reforming the Spurs.

“There are so many things that this team needs to change.”

When the referee blew the whistle in this game and the Spurs lost to the Jazz 96-114 at home 18 points, **Vic looked a little ugly and looked at the head coach of the Spurs who was in a daze on the sidelines and said lightly.

However, after finishing his words, **Vic almost quickly put his eyes tightly on the Jazz No. 8 who was celebrating with his teammates on the field.

For a moment, no one knew what the newly appointed Spurs head coach was thinking.

Of course, the Jazz played very well in this game against the Spurs. It should be said that Lin Han's crazy singles against Rodman almost directly spitted Rodman. In this game, Lin Han threw 18 three-pointers, 18 three-pointers in a single game, and 8 of them were scored. Although he could not break Lin Han's NBA record of 11 three-pointers in a single game, this performance was also excellent.

Lin Han made 13 of 26 shots in the game, scoring 48 points was also the highest score in the game. Faced with Rodman, 48 points in the whole game, this was enough to make the former Pistons butcher feel humiliated, just like Jordan scored crazily in front of him. Lin Han also did it today, but Jordan chose a crazy breakthrough back then, and Jordan's breakthrough was no less than Lin Han's three-point difference.

"Lin, with your personality, you should humiliate Rodman now. It's not your style to look at it on the side."

At this time, Lin Han, who won the highest score in the game, celebrated with his teammates for a while, and kept his eyes on Rodman who was walking towards the bench not far away. Stockton on the side was a little surprised. After all, according to Lin Han's personality, it would be strange if this kid didn't humiliate Rodman.

"John. You don't know that this guy is not an opponent who can be defeated by humiliation."

After a little silence, Lin Han said with a smile, and after Lin Han finished speaking, Stockton was a little stunned. He really didn't expect that the former Piston player who was beaten by Malone and was beaten by Lin Han was so valued by Lin Han. You must know that in the hearts of Stockton and many NBA veterans, if Rodman hadn't been supported by Ranbill and Thomas back then, this kid would have been terrible. Although this kid is also very strong, he is not yet invincible.

Of course, in the game between the Jazz and the Spurs, the Jazz beat the Spurs away. This caused an uproar in almost all media experts in the United States. After all, although the Spurs are really restrained by the Jazz, the recent state of this team is not that the Jazz can win so many teams, especially when Lin Han defeated Rodman, the most famous butcher in the league like Jordan back then, it was even more uproar. Of course, Lin Han's extremely crazy style of playing in this game, especially the extremely unreasonable three-point shooting at about two steps outside the three-point line has caused huge controversy.

What is even more controversial is that after the game, when Lin Han faced many reporters questioning that he had made too many three-pointers, Lin Han's answer almost drove the football masters and experts from all over the United States crazy.

"Lin, you're not a pure three-pointer, but you didn't feel like you've made too many three-pointers in this game? Why is that?"

"Why are there so many three-pointers? It's very simple, because the NBA has no quarter-pointers"

When Lin Han said such a sentence in the face of doubts, no matter the reporters, media experts on the scene, even many fans in the United States were in an uproar. Those who like Lin Han would naturally say that Lin Han was domineering, while those who don’t like Lin Han were clamoring and scolding Lin Han again, and Lin Han was the biggest cancer in NBA history.

However, Lin Han and Jazz have no expression or time to respond to these public opinions in the NBA, because the team is still on a difficult road trip.

After defeating the Spurs on March 27, then on March 29, the Jazz played against Phoenix to face the fifth-place Suns in the West. What surprised the Jazz was that the Suns actually put two of their team's players, Barkley and Kevin Johnson, on the verge. In this case, facing the Suns who had never thought about winning, Lin Han and the Jazz defeated the team 111-94 without any effort.

After defeating the Suns in the 'rest' on March 29, immediately on March 30, the Jazz ushered in the challenge of the sixth-ranked Warriors in the West away game.

The Warriors are not comparable to the Suns' team, which is now the sixth-ranked team in the West, which has played very crazy recently and has no intention of adjusting for the playoffs. The Jazz also played extremely hard in this game.

Especially after Chris Mullin's return, the team's outside strength was simply terrifying. In this case, the Jazz won the last one, but it was very difficult to win, 116 to 113. At the last moment, Chris Mullin failed to hit a three-pointer in an open position, resulting in the Warriors losing at home.

However, after a difficult away game to defeat the Warriors and won five consecutive victories, the Jazz came to Seattle on April 1st, facing the Supersonics, the game could be said to have once again caused the Jazz to suffer a helpless defeat. After the game with the Warriors, the team, which was originally in the half-adjustment period, was unable to play in the best state against the Supersonics, especially in the assisted defense of the old nemesis Sean Camp, the Jazz's offense was a bit silenced, 89 to 96, and the Jazz, who had weak offense, lost again after five consecutive victories.

However, after losing to the Supersonics, the Jazz ended this difficult away trip. The team's record still reached 63 wins and 9 losses. With 10 games left in the season, they are getting closer and closer to 70 wins (to be continued...)
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