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Chapter 225: A record, 70 wins!

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As soon as the game between the Lakers and the Jazz came, Lakers head coach Bill Bateka, the 67-year-old acting head coach of the Lakers, gave up the offensive style that the team has always adhered to, and directly shrank and played defense.

This is entirely to deal with the Jazz's running and athletic ability. For a team like the Jazz, if you want to play offense with them, basically, except for a few teams in the league, other teams die as much as possible. What's more, the Lakers are now. According to Bill Bateca's design, although the Lakers' conservative style of playing in this game may not be able to really win, according to the characteristics of the Jazz, they still have the chance to win one game.

Although Bill Betka, the Lakers' consultant and scout director, hurriedly took office after the team's former head coach Randy Fender resigned, as an assistant coach at the Lakers' show-time, this 67-year-old man has experienced all kinds of storms in the NBA and has never seen any situation. So he was the team's head coach only a rogue move. Originally, Jerry West hoped that Magic Johnson could come back to become a team player and serve as head coach, but Magic was unwilling to come back at this time. There is no way. The Lakers' current record is really impossible. In addition, the Jazz's terrifying power in the West, even if the Lakers can finally counterattack the Trail Blazers, Magic Johnson does not think he has done anything to lead the team.

So although the Magician had always planned to make a comeback after his condition was brought under control and wanted to become the team's head coach, he finally refused Jerry West's request. So the old man who was originally acting as a head coach could only continue to lead the team. Although he had never coached an NBA team, this old man still led the Lakers well with his prestige and experience in the team, and his record in recent times was actually quite good.

According to his estimate of the Jazz, this team can only rely on Malone for the inside offense. Although Malone has excellent technical skills and comprehensive offensive skills, his natural height disadvantages and personality are due to some reasons. As long as he can defend the inside, he suppresses the Jazz's offensive speed and inside offense. As long as the Jazz keeps shooting outside, the Lakers will definitely have some chances to win.

But when the game started, no one expected that the Jazz's offense was not a pick-and-roll by Malone and Stockton, nor was it a very crazy three-point shooting in recent times. This kid actually completed the "Little Sky Hook" of Magic Johnson in front of him. He scored the first two points in this game with the Lakers in this way.

As the Lakers assistant coach in the Lakers show-time era, he was unfamiliar with Magic Johnson. When Lin Han just made a side move, the Lakers head coach already had a very familiar feeling. When Lin Han completed the hook, he looked shocked like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

Although with the success of Kareem and Magic Johnson in hooking, hook shots, which have always been non-mainstream play, can be said to be one of the conventional weapons of inside players in the NBA, and many insiders will have very good hooks at the basket. For example, O'Neal, one of the four major centers who have recently been on the lead, this guy's small hook shot at the basket can be said to be one of the best in the league now.

But it is obvious. Although many insiders in the league have regarded the hooking skill as a conventional weapon, the hooking hands used by these people are still different from those used by Magicians and Jabbar. This is not only the different people used, but the styles used are also completely different.

The biggest feature of Kareem Kareem's Sky Hook is not only a long range and can cover all positions in the three-point line. Another feature is that its technical movements are complex. When Kareem Kareem uses hooks, he often habitually gets rid of the opponent first, shakes the opponent backwards and then takes action. In addition to exerting force on his wrists and fingers when he hooks, the technical movements are really complicated, and the attack speed is really slow. Although it is powerful, it will be embarrassing to encounter some strong people. For example, when he met Chamberlain, he was because he had too many hook preparations. This skill, which was originally called by Kareem Kareem Kareem was definitely impossible to be blocked, and was also attacked by the old Chamberlain.

Of course, there is only one Chamberlain in the history of NBA. After Chamberlain, Jabbar was not afraid of anyone. Even the current No. 1 center Olajuwon met the elderly Jabbar. This move could only be a defeat.

Although Jabbar's move is indeed very powerful, just like the incident when Jabbar was attacked by Chamberlain before, it is clear that this skill is a bit complicated, and the preparation time is a bit complicated, and the requirements for the players' technical ability and physical fitness, especially height are too many, so ordinary players cannot use it well. After all, for inside players, the most taboo thing is that the offensive movements are too complicated. If you don't have the super technical ability and body as Jabbar, you can easily be defended or beaten.

So even though Jabbar's move was already famous in that era, most players in the league were only jealous and could not learn at all. However, what was very surprising was that others were so jealous that they could not learn. However, at that time, Jabbar's teammate Magic Johnson, this extremely smart league super point guard, actually took a different approach and improved the hook-up that Jabbar's powerful power but was not suitable for others to learn. All the complicated preparation movements and the way they used to exert force were changed. Although the range of this hook-up was greatly reduced due to the change of the way of exerting force, the chance of being covered was increased because of the failure to shake off the defender, the speed of the attack was greatly improved, and more importantly, the suddenness of the attack increased.

When Magic Johnson was attacking, the mid-range hook after breaking through the emergency stop was a great success in the league, and this also allowed him to gain the nickname of "Xiao Tian Gou". Xiao Tian Gou is definitely the most suitable hook for outside players.

And more importantly, since the Magicians improved Jabbar's Sky Hook, many players in the league have found inspiration from this. Most of them gave up Jabbar's hook with almost no blind spots, because they all knew that it was impossible to completely copy it, so after the Magician turned the Sky Hook into a Xiaotian Hook with faster shooting speed and shorter shooting range. Many players in the league began to improve again based on the Magician's Sky Hook. In the end, the range of the hook in the league is getting closer and closer, but the suddenness and speed of the attack are getting faster and faster and more direct.

For example, the hooks used by inside players such as O'Neal have even changed their defenses. If both Jabbar and the Magician are still hooking sideways, then these insiders are hooking fronts when using hooks, because this is more direct and the technical content is lower. And more importantly, the hooks in the face frame are more stable and have better control of the hit rate. Of course, the relative range is naturally shorter.

After all, although Magic Johnson improved Jabbar's Tiangou, making Tiangou's technical content lower, Xiaotiangou's technical content is not low, and it is not so easy to learn. For many outside players, instead of learning this powerful shooting method, which is really huge, it is better to learn three-pointers than to spend a lot of energy, and a three-pointer can have three-pointers at a time. No matter how beautiful Xiaotiangou plays, it is only two points. Moreover, although this not-so-controlled shooting method is powerful in the hands of the Magician, the shooting rate in the hands of others may not be higher than that of the mid-range shot. In this case, Xiaotiangou and Tiangou gradually become useless, so after the Magic retired, it disappeared in front of everyone.

Of course, Tiangou and Xiaotiangou disappeared, but the attacking methods of hook and Xiaogou are still greatly promoted in the current NBA, especially among the NBA's inside players.

So at this time, when Lin Han used Xiaotian Gou to complete the attack on his first offense, it was understandable that these people at the scene were so surprised, especially those Lakers celebrities who were so surprised.

Especially for the Lakers, when Lin Han used Xiaotian hook to attack on the offensive end, their inside blockade against the Jazz became a joke, especially when Lin Han used Xiaotian hook to complete the attack on the first quarter of the game, and continued to hit the free throw line in the positional offense, and kept hitting the Lakers players in surprise and surprise. The Lakers' current acting head coach Bateka was even stunned.

As one of the most experienced coaches in the Lakers, how could Bateka not know that Magic Johnson's Xiaotian Gou is not an invincible skill, even Jabbar's Tian Gou is not invincible, let alone the simplified and improved Xiaotian Gou. But the key is that even if he knows how to deal with Xiaotian Gou, he cannot let his players know how to deal with such an offensive method. Especially at this time, except for Worthy, the Lakers players on the court, no matter Divac, Harvey, or George Lynch who directly defends Lin Han, are dull on the court, as he looks like him.

He was completely shocked by Lin Han's unique skills as a great player in the team's history. He was at a loss for a moment. The Lakers' defensive formation that was originally arranged was directly damaged by Lin Han after the game began.

"It's incredible, Lin Han is really incredible. When did he learn this way of attacking under the basket? It's incredible?!"

When this game started, Lin Han used his hooks to stir up the wind and rain in the Lakers' interior. As the live commentator of this game, former Bulls head coach Collins was also a little excited for a moment. You should know that when he coached the Bulls, Jordan also learned the Magician's Xiaotian Gou. Although the hook on his back was actually pretty good, the Bulls' player became less and less like the one he learned back then. He gradually became the front hook on many inside players. In the playoffs with the Knicks last season, facing Starks' defense, it was finally swearing that the magician-style Xiaotian Gou was ineffective. From this, we can also see the difficulty of this technology. Even a person like Jordan with extremely talented cannot play the Xiaotian Gou on his back, and Lin Han is now so skillful in even the Xiaotian Gou who runs and shoots. This can no longer be said to be a miracle.

At least at this time, in Collins' mind, Lin Han's basketball talent can no longer be described as a miracle. It is a miracle. This makes Collins, who is more and more crazy like Lin Han, develop in a more crazy direction.

"It seems that it is really difficult for the Lakers to get out of here."

Of course, Collins was really extremely excited at this time. After Lin Han proved that he had mastered the skill of Xiao Tiangou, the former Bulls head coach was so excited that he couldn't stop. At this time, Larry Bird, the legendary Celtics football king around Collins, was calmed down a lot after being excited. As a member of the tide of learning Jabbar's Tiangou, although he was also extremely smart, he was not able to learn Tiangou well like a magician. However, Larry Bird's hooking skills are also excellent. Although it may not be as good as a magician, it is not that far away. In Larry Bird's mind, Lin Han was originally considered a super genius at the same level as him. In this case, Lin Han can now learn the best outside hooking of Magic Johnson, although he was indeed a little surprised, but he was still relieved after the accident. After all, Lin Han had such ability and potential in his mind.

So after calming down, the legendary Celtics player also sighed at the tragedy of the Lakers in this game.

Although he had been competing with the Lakers and his gay friend Magic Johnson for a lifetime when he was still a player, he still felt very complicated when he saw that the invincible Lakers that year had now become the background board for a team like the Jazz.

Especially in recent times, his parent team, the Celtics, is actually not much better than the Lakers, which makes the Celtics, who just retired, feel a sense of change in things.

Of course. At this time, Larry Bird was feeling the change of things and people in NBA. This era is no longer the era of him, the Magician and Thomas. Even this era seems to be no longer the era of Jordan alone, but at this time the players on both sides of the court still did not think so much about it.

Although not long ago, the Lakers called a timeout, and the Lakers made a lot of small-skimming shots against Lin Han, which can be seen from the game, but after this arrangement, the Lakers did not become better in essence or even make it more difficult.

Because when the Lakers no longer tolerate opponents' players using the skills of the greatest player in their team history to deal with themselves, they almost made a full effort to make a dead stop against Lin Han. Not only George Lynch, as the first defense line of defense, Lin Han, but the Lakers' inside combinations Divac and Harvey were staring at Lin Han almost all the time. In this case, this is too beneficial for other Jazz players, such as Jazz's power forward Malone.

When the Lakers' inside defense was aimed at Lin Han, this Jazz power forward who was extremely bright as long as he was a little sunny was so great that it was incredible that it was incredible. At least it was not as good as Lin Han's killing against the Lakers.

However, facing Malone's big killing and special killing at this time, the Lakers had no choice at all. Although Lin Han played on the outside in this game, this guy's inside offense completely opened up space for Malone. The Jazz's inside offense no longer only counted on Malone. In this case, the Lakers' pre-game arrangement was already considered a failure. In this case, in order to save the last face, even if they die, they cannot die under the magician's unique skills, which makes them have to pinch Lin Han and let Malone go. There is no way.

So when the Lakers and Jazz's game in this game, the Lakers looked increasingly collapsed, not only the Lakers players on the court and the Lakers coach on the sidelines looked very ugly at this time.

Even the Knicks head coach Pat Riley on the sidelines looked very ugly at this time. The Lakers head coach in the Lakers show-time era really knew this move too well, and also knew too much about how Lin Han could use this move to the Jazz.

If the Jazz and Lakers' game in this game reflects that Lin Han can free Malone's offensive pressure after using Xiaotian hook, so that Malone no longer supports the Jazz's inside offense alone, then more importantly, teams like the Supersonics and Rockets or the Knicks with super strong inside defense will have no way to defend Lin Han.

Although Lin Han's offenses were diverse in the past, straight breakthroughs, changing direction breakthroughs, super three-pointers, as well as straight jump shots and Jordan-style back-turning back jump shots, even back-turning breakthroughs that were very similar to Kemp, these offense and defense were actually very disturbed by the super insiders, such as Jordan, and Lin Han would do all of them, but what kind of performance did Jordan face when facing the Rockets and Olajuwon? For Jordan, that was absolutely terrible, and what kind of performance did Jordan face against the Knicks? Although Jordan's Bulls defeated the Knicks for two consecutive years, Jordan's performance against the Knicks was not as good as he used to be.

For a super outside line, when they face a super inside line, especially a team with extremely holistic defense with super inside line as the core, their performance will definitely be suppressed.

So although he was double-killed by the Jazz in the regular season this season, Pat Riley has always been confident about whether he can defeat the Jazz, because the Knicks' failure in these two games cannot be said to be a tactical failure of the team. It was just because of some accidents that the team lost. There is a way for the Jazz and Knicks, and Pat Riley also has a way. Although Lin Han has been growing and his growth speed is extremely surprising, Lin Han's growth has not exceeded the highest range he designed.

But now, when Lin Han can have an extremely excellent inside scoring method on the offensive end, the defense difficulty of all teams in the league has reached more than one level, especially after having this move, combined with Lin Han's excellent off-ball running and ball-holding ability, he does not need to hit the basket at all, nor does he need to throw three-pointers crazy on the outside, nor does he need to play the mid-range emergency stop jump shot with a low hit rate but a high jump, nor does he need to be close to the middle distance and bend back to the back jump shot with a difficult back.

So when I thought of this, the Knicks head coach looked at the Jazz No. 8 on the court that almost restrained most of the Lakers' defense. This Lakers celebrity was almost gritting his teeth with hatred.

Of course, Pat Riley's face was extremely bad at this time, but many other Lakers celebrities on the sidelines now have strange faces, especially after Lin Han played such a small gobang more than once.

Although it is difficult to learn Xiaotiangou, there are countless geniuses in NBA. Although most people cannot turn this move into a conventional weapon, there are also players who can use it once or twice in the game. The most famous Jordan was ineffective in using that time. In addition to Jordan, Jordan's teammate Pippen also played Xiaotiangou, which is very similar to Magic Johnson, in the game. However, these people are all accidental. There are only ones like Lin Han who can use this move as a conventional weapon.

In this case, with the difficulty of learning this move, if the magician had not been able to play Xiaotian Gou without the guidance of Jabbar, the magician would definitely not be able to play Xiaotian Gou. Similarly, without the guidance of the magician, if Lin Han could play Xiaotian Gou, he would believe that even a strong man like Jordan, who is known as the first genius of NBA history, could not play with the outside line. How old is Lin Han this year? How long has he been in contact with basketball? Can he play this move?

It is true that Lin Han is a genius, but it is hard to believe that genius is so strong that he is stronger than Jordan.

So at this time, watching the Lakers keep falling on the court, Johnson, the Magician on the sidelines, was quite uncomfortable by his teammates or senior celebrities, especially when he saw Lin Han's almost identical movements again and again, he himself believed that Lin Han was definitely the apprentice he taught step by step.

"magic, it seems that you are like Jerry, and you also admire this kid very much. However, this kid has a good talent. You spent a lot of time when you learned this trick. I didn't expect this kid to learn from you so soon."

When the half-time of this game ended, the Lakers, who were originally planning to shrink in this game, lost 24 points away 42-66. In the first half, the Lakers performed quite poorly, both offensively and defensively.

So as the Lakers' head coach, Lakers' boss Miller, sitting next to Jazz boss and league president David Stern, Jerry Bass, also looked not that good-looking, but he was obviously not a compliment when facing his own team boss. At this time, Magic Johnson wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed and looked at the Jazz No. 8 on the court with some complexity.

The same is true. At this time, the Lakers General Manager Jerry Sloan frowned after Old Bass said such words.

It is obvious that Old Bass was a little dissatisfied with the magician and him. Jerry West had been recommending Lin Han to him before. Old Bass naturally knew that Jerry West admired Lin Han very much because he admired Lin Han, so in Old Bass's opinion, Jerry West contacted Lin Han in advance without explaining to him. Not only did he contact Lin Han in advance, but he also asked the magician to contact Lin Han to directly teach Lin Han to learn his unique skills.

Although Old Bass is indeed open-minded and trusts Jerry West and the Magicians very much, one of them is the godfather of the team. The other is the greatest player in the team's history. These two people have contacted Lin Han without explaining to him, and they have such a deep contact. How can he accept this? No matter how generous a person is, he cannot accept such a thing. Moreover, Old Bass has been thinking about letting his son take over recently. At this pace, if he really retires, if Jerry West and the Magicians join forces, his son may not be able to suppress these two people, so this makes the Lakers boss a little very unhappy.

With the IQs of Jerry West and Magic Johnson, how could they not know what Jerry Bass thought at this time? So Magic Johnson wanted to explain something, but in the end he simply did not explain. Instead, he looked at Lin Han on the court with a resentful look on his face.

At this time, Lin Han naturally could not know the Magician's resentment towards him, because at the end of the half game, Lin Han's old opponent George Lynch at Chicago training camp was about to clash with Lin Han when he was walking off the court.

Lin Han is now confronting George Lynch, a peer who hates him to the core. Moreover, because of Lin Han and George Lynch, although George Lynch is not very popular in the Lakers because of Van Eksel, he is a Lakers player after all, and other Lakers players naturally cannot sit idly by. Except for the two Lin Han friends of Van Eksel and Harvey, standing behind the Lakers team, other Lakers players still stand in front and confront the sidelines like Jazz players. After this incident, this made the already crazy Jazz fans boo all over the court. For a moment, the Lakers players didn't look very good at this time.

"Boy, don't look at me with that kind of look. If you have the ability to attack me directly on the court, if you can kill someone, I'm afraid I'll have died many times, you coward."

George Lynch was in a very bad mood at this time, for sure, so when Lin Han got off with him, the young Lakers player looked at Lin Han very unhappy, so Lin Han also directly opened his mocking mouth and mocking face. With Lin Han's mocking skills, George Lynch was not his opponent, and this Lakers rookie was directly angered by Lin Han.

But in the face of Lin Han's disdain for him, the Lakers' rookie really didn't know what to say for a moment. Just as Lin Han said, he had no way to do anything except his eyes could kill Lin Han, which made the young Lakers player extremely depressed now.

"Boy, this is a bit too heavy, right?"

Looking at George Lynch who was completely suppressed by Lin Han, James Worthy was a little unable to bear it at this time as the Lakers' only leader. However, after Worthy interrupted, Lin Han looked at the legendary Lakers' forward indifferently and smiled again on his face.

"Okay, I didn't think about how to deal with this coward. We are not people from the same world."

After Lin Han finished speaking, he turned around and left. At this time, George Lynch, whose words were echoing in his mind, had almost blood-filled and flushed, and his fists were tightly clenched. If possible, he really wanted to destroy Lin Han on the court, but just like Lin Han said, he really couldn't do this. He really didn't have the courage to take the consequences of destroying Lin Han, because as long as he really did this, the Lakers would not have his place to stay, and the league would not have his place to stay.

"George, relax"

At this time, James Worthy looked at the young rookie of the team and sighed and patted his shoulder. At this time, George Lynch's whole body relaxed after hearing James Worthy's words, but his eyes turned red.

"I'm such a coward, I'm such a coward"

At this time, this sentence was echoing in George Lynch's heart.

The Jazz and Lakers lost their suspense after the first half, and there was almost no doubt about this. No one would believe that the Lakers could recover the score difference of more than 20 points in the second half, and no one could believe that the Lakers could eventually perform a miracle.

In this case, when the half-time game ended, many media reporters had already started to write press releases, and many Jazz fans at the scene were already celebrating their team's 70 wins at this time.

Of course, although the suspense was lost after the half-time game, the game was not over yet. For the Jazz players, although most of them were very happy at this time, they also knew that there was still a fact that they needed to play in the half-time game.

So when the second half of the game began, when the winner lost the suspense, and when the Jazz players chased the Lakers again amid the crazy cheers of all Jazz fans on the scene, some people lost all their last luck.

When the game ended, when the whistle sounded, all the audiences in the audience, including the league's president David Stern and the league legends on the sidelines, the Lakers legends, the Jazz legends, the two team bosses, and even all the reporters and commentators from all over the world stood up to applaud the Jazz for the game, and everyone knew that a crazy record of the NBA was refreshed.

129 to 93, the Jazz beat the Lakers at home and won their 70th victory of the season. The record of 70 wins and 10 losses makes the Jazz the best regular season team in NBA history!

After creating a miracle of 37 consecutive victories this season, this team once again created another miracle!

"70 wins, 10 losses, 70 wins, 10 losses, congratulations to the Jazz, their performance this year deserves such glory, this is a very great team, they have a very great group of players"

When the game ended, when the ribbons and colored paper floated over the center of the Delta, the two ABC commentators on the sidelines were also applauding wildly.

For the Jazz, they created a miracle, and the same is true for the entire NBA, but for Larry Bird, the Celtic legendary player had never left Lin Han after the game. If he was now the Celtic general manager, he would probably go down to poach people directly at this time.
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