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Chapter 227 Harvest Season

(Season inventory is really hard to write, this chapter is updated late, sorry)

“This feeling is really amazing, it’s really incredible”

"Even now, although we have done this, we still have some incredible feelings, and it feels like it's in a dream."

When the Jazz finished their trip to Los Angeles away and returned to Utah with a 72-10-loss season record, when the Jazz players walked out of the airport and looked at the thousands of fans wearing Jazz jerseys and holding various placards in the square outside the airport, they were all excited for a moment. Although the team had just celebrated the team's breaking the league record not long ago, when they returned again after the best game of the regular season this season, it was still unbelievable that the fans could still accept the continued madness of the fans. {

Especially as the two biggest sinners who failed last season, Malone and Stockton, the team's leading players came out of several games and saw such a scene. The expressions on their faces were not only excited, but their bodies were even trembling.

"Okay, don't sigh, don't forget, this is just the beginning. If we fail in the playoffs, we may be under greater pressure."

Lin Han looked at the two team players around him and said with a smile. To be honest, as a newcomer to the team, Lin Han has never felt the pressure of Malone and Stockton last season. For him, he did not have so much emotion and melancholy, nor was he so sad. For Lin Han, this year's regular season can almost be called perfect, so it is absolutely difficult for him to understand Stockton and Malone's feelings at this time. He really can't understand.

"Lin said it right. Although our performance in the regular season has been perfect this year, this is just another beginning of the season. We have not yet reached the end. This year we will definitely not tolerate such a crushing defeat as last year."

"Yes, this year we will never tolerate such a crushing defeat as last year. This year we only have one goal. That is the championship."

After Malone finished speaking with Lin Han and shouted the championship slogan, Lin Han and Stockton were all stunned. However, after the two Jazz players were a little stunned, they quickly woke up. Looking at the Jazz fans becoming more and more crazy in the square, Lin Han and Stockton seemed to be able to understand why Malone shouted such slogans at this time.

"Carl. As long as you, the old guy, don't hold me back, we will definitely win the final championship in the end."

Finally, Lin Han took a quick look at Ma Long, who rarely showed such serious expressions, and also said jokingly. However, after Lin Han finished speaking, before Lin Han could board the team's bus, Lin Han found that the hair on the back of his head was grabbed.

"Boy, what is an old guy? I'm only 30 years old this year. Let me tell you, I can fight for at least ten more years. You should be the one who drags you down."

"Bastard. You defend, let me put my hair down. If you pull me into a bald man, I will not kill you."

Lin Han and Malone, two players with similar "characters", have always been a scene for the Jazz team. These Jazz players are basically used to the fights at this time. So after watching Lin Han and Malone play again, both Stockton and other Jazz players shook their heads helplessly and laughed.

"Jerry, it seems that the team is in a really good condition now."

At this time, the Jazz players were in high spirits and the atmosphere inside the team was very good. As the playoffs were approaching, Jazz assistant coach Fier Johnson, who had always paid great attention to the team's players' situation, also said with a smile. Compared with Jerry Sloan's seriousness, cautiousness and even stereotypes, this fellow Jerry Sloan's fellow disciple has another personality, so compared with Jerry Sloan, the head coach who gave Jazz players a lot of oppression in the team, Fier Johnson is more loved by the team's players.

However, after Feier and Johnson finished speaking, Jerry Sloan's face was not as happy as Feier and Johnson. The Jazz's head coach's face was still very serious at this time, especially looking at Lin Han and Malone who were playing together, the Jazz's head coach could not untie his eyebrows.

Since last month's failure to deal with the problems of Malone and Lin Han, Jerry Sloan has given up his control over these two players on the court. It can be said that Jerry Sloan, who has always had a strong desire to control the team, unexpectedly suppressed his desire to control the team. The head coach of the Jazz team began to let Lin Han and Malone follow their instincts on the court after last month.

The talent of these two Jazz is indeed very junior high school. With their personal abilities, especially after Lin Han learned to pass the ball to Malone, the superstar style of these two people has even reached a higher level. This is a very exciting thing. At least the team's assistant coach Fei Er Johnson was very happy, but Jerry Sloan couldn't be happy.

When he loses control of the team's tactics, he lacks an instinctive sense of security. This is not a strange thing. For people with strong control, when they lose control of things, they lack security. This is how Jerry Sloan is now.

Even though Lin Han and Malone led the Jazz to win the best record in the league's regular season, Jerry Sloan still couldn't feel completely at ease. The Jazz's current style of playing is not the Jazz he ideally nor the team he ideally. Especially the team's most worry is not the style of playing, but the team lacks an alternative solution to the problem, because it lacks absolute control over the team. If this team can keep playing smoothly until the finals win the championship, it would be fine, but if this team encounters some problems in the process, Jerry Sloan doesn't know what to do if he changes, which is also the reason why he is very uneasy now.

When the team is now playing to the playoffs, it is impossible for him to forcibly change the team's playing style, and after the last transformation failed, it is even more impossible now.

So at this time, after Feier and Johnson finished speaking with a smile, Jerry Sloan sighed a little.

"I hope everything goes well"

Hope everything goes well. This is the only thing Jerry Sloan can do now. After Jerry Sloan finished speaking, Fier Johnson, who was in a good mood, also frowned. Although he knew that his good friend's mood has not been very stable in the past month, and sometimes he even doubted his coaching ability. Fier Johnson originally thought that the team could win the first record in history would make Jerry Sloan confident. But now it seems that the Jazz's head coach still has not been able to get out of the blows some time ago. The current situation of Jerry Sloan who beat George Carl this season and was called the first middle-aged coach of the league, is indeed a little worried about Fier Johnson.

Jerry Sloan is looking forward to the Jazz's success. As for the team's current record of No. 1 in the West, their opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the eighth Trail Blazers in the West.

After this team traded Drexler, it means that the team has entered the stage of reconstruction. In this case, it is impossible for this team to cause too many difficulties to the Jazz. After all, this team entered the playoffs with a record of 35 wins and 47 losses this season. It is not because their strength is still in the playoffs, but before trading Drexler, the Trail Blazers had a good record and laid a good foundation, so that no matter how bad their performance in the second half of the year, they can still guarantee a playoff position.

If the team's record in the first half of the game is considered to be the record after Drexler was traded, this team is not as good as the Lakers, the ninth place in the West, and even in terms of strength, the Kings and the Clippers behind are not even comparable to those behind.

So, after confirming the playoffs against the Trail Blazers, basically no one in the United States is optimistic about the Trail Blazers, and almost all predict that the Jazz will directly sweep the team three to zero.

Of course, the Jazz's first round of the playoffs is not very strong, but in the West, other playoff matches are not like this.

Especially in the recent period of competition, the fifth and third place in the West, the Spurs have been in a crazy sprint under the leadership of David Robinson. In order to win the top three in the West, the team has been sprinting from February to the end of April. During this period, David Robinson even got a four-double, and has won a regular triple-double per game in a single month and won the best player of the month. It can be said that this team had already seen hope of catching up with the Rockets at the end of March, and the difference between the two sides was actually only one game left.

However, in that battle between the Spurs and Jazz, after the Spurs lost, the confidence of the team was greatly stimulated. Fortunately, the Spurs were not discouraged for too long, or the Rockets' performance also gave them confidence.

I don't know if the Rockets are too confident or really think that it doesn't matter which regular season ranks. As long as they can enter the playoffs, they are still lukewarm when other teams such as the Spurs are sprinting wildly, and the team's player Drexler is still absent from time to time. Even when the playoffs are approaching, the team's player Olajuwon's time to play is constantly being controlled, which makes the Spurs lose to the Jazz after the Spurs lost to the Jazz.

That tone was gone, but the Rockets' performance did not completely lose hope. In this case, the Spurs almost gritted their teeth and persisted in sprinting through all the regular season games. The third battle between the Spurs and the Rockets was not until the last game that the Rockets defeated the Nuggets and the Spurs defeated the Clippers. In the end, the Rockets became the third in the West with 57 wins and 25 losses, while the Spurs were very embarrassed and finally became the fourth in the West with a win-win situation with 56 wins and 26 losses.

Of course, the second team in the West is the Supersonics. The smallest gap between this team from the Spurs was only three games at the beginning, but the young team of the Supersonics is different from the Rockets. The Rockets really can't sprint. It's not that they don't want to rush, but the Supersonics became more and more courageous in the end. At the end of the season, the record reached 62 wins and 20 losses. This record is quite outstanding. It can be said that it also created the best record in the history of this team. If it weren't for the crazy Jazz this season, the most glorious team this year's regular season will definitely be the Supersonics.

Although the Jazz's performance this season is really great, the league's first and Western Conference No. 1 lost the suspense early. The Nuggets were also a bit regretful that they could not meet a team like the Trail Blazers in the first round, but for this young team, it is actually a very good thing for them to meet an equally young Nuggets in the first round. After all, it is better to meet the Nuggets in the first round than to meet the Suns or the Warriors in the first round, especially the Supersonics were eliminated by the Suns in the Western Conference Finals last season. If they were really overtaken by the Spurs or the Rockets at the end of the season and finally face the Suns in the first round, then this team would definitely cry.

After all, for the West, when the Suns kept getting more and more losses in the last period of the season, the whole world knew what they wanted to do. This team wanted sixth in the top three without hope, because for this team, the top four in the West, except for the Jazz, both the Spurs and the Supersonics were their defeats in the playoffs last season. As for the Rockets, the two teams have tied in the regular season in the last two seasons. Although the Suns have no chance of winning, it is better than meeting the Jazz in advance. Moreover, in the Suns' opinion, the West is really not so scary except for the Jazz that can only slightly restrain their team.

But what makes this team a little regretful is that the Spurs were unable to counterattack the Rockets in the end. If the Spurs really beat the Rockets to become third in the West, push the Rockets to fourth in the West and meet the Jazz in advance. This is the situation they most want to see.

So with the Suns almost directly letting the water go, the Warriors, who were originally fifth in the West, finally made a comeback against the Suns and finally rose to fifth in the West.

The West playoffs finally became. The Jazz, who had the first place in the West, lost 72 and lost 10, played against the West, with the eighth, 35 and 47 losses Trail Blazers, the second place in the West, with the second place in the West, with the second place in the West, with the 7th, 41 and 41 losses Nuggets, the third place in the West, with the third place in the West, with the Rockets, with the sixth, 50 and 32 losses, and the Spurs, with the fourth place in the West, with the 56 and 26 losses, were against the West, with the 52 and 30 losses Warriors.

In addition to the Jazz and the Trail Blazers and the Supersonics and the Nuggets, the strength gap between the other two players against both sides is extremely close.

In this regard, this is much better than the East. The competition in the playoffs is more fierce than that in the West, because the Charlotte Hornets, the ninth-ranked East, has a record of 41 wins and 41 losses, and a 50% winning rate cannot enter the playoffs, while the Lakers, the ninth-ranked West, have only 32 wins and 50 losses. Of course, in addition to the fierce competition in the playoffs, the competition in the playoffs is not very fierce.

At least four matches in the first round of the Eastern Conference, the Knicks, the Knicks, the top in the East, the eighth in the East, the Heat, the eighth in the East, the same is true for the Hawks, the second in the East, and the seventh in the East. The Hawks, the second in the East, the record is 57 wins and 25 losses like the Knicks. Because the record between the two sides was relatively poor when they met, the Hawks were second, and the Knicks were first. As for the Bulls, the third in the East, the record is 55 wins and 27 losses, while his opponent, the Pacers, the sixth in the East, the Pacers, the sixth in the East, the gap is still very obvious. Even if the Magic, the fourth in the East, the record is 54 wins and 28 losses, and his opponent, the Cavaliers, also have 47 wins and 35 losses, the gap is still relatively large.

Therefore, when the first round of the league playoffs came out, almost all the focus was on the four teams of Jazz, Magic and Rocket Suns. Jazz and Magic are very simple, because three super popular young players, Lin Han, Hardaway and O'Neal, played in the playoffs for the first time. Many people are looking forward to what these three young people, perhaps the best in the league, will be like in their first playoff journey. As for the Rockets and Suns, it is naturally very interesting to meet these two teams with championship strength in the first round of the Western Conference. Although the Jazz are now the first in the league in record, not everyone thinks that the Jazz is the biggest favorite of the championship this year, especially the Rockets still have many supporters.

In addition to these four teams, the Warriors and the Bulls are also very much anticipated. The Warriors are because of Chris Webber, a super popular inside player, and the Bulls are because of Jordan's first face in the playoffs after he left. Many people want to see if this team, which is not bad at all after Jordan, will continue to perform well in the playoffs. Especially many Jordan fans, they are waiting for the Bulls to be embarrassed in the playoffs, if the Bulls still perform well in the playoffs.

Dan's return time will be pushed back again. Recently, Jordan's partner Nike has been making noises and saying that Jordan is likely to make a comeback next season. If the Bulls still perform well in the playoffs this year, Jordan will still make a comeback like this? Especially according to what the Bulls are now the leader of the Bulls, the Bulls' goal this year is to win the championship. If the Bulls win the championship as Pippen said in the absence of Jordan, Jordan may need to go to other teams if he wants to make a comeback.

Of course. For the Jazz, the first game of the team's playoffs and the Trail Blazers was on April 28, and the first game of the West No. 1 and the West No. 8 was the finale of the first day of the playoffs.

After defeating the Lakers and gaining a 72-10 record in the season, the team's playoff opponents were the worst among all high-seeded teams in the first round, which is a very good thing. In addition to the team's playoff matchup, after the end of this year's regular season, this team is also very good at winning many awards.

As the team leader, although Malone had some conflicts with the team last month, the Jazz's leading player averaged 26 points, 12.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.9 blocks and 1.8 steals per game this season. It can be said that he is extremely amazing. Although he has not been able to get the scoring king or the rebounding king, let alone the assist king, the blocking king or the stealing king, he will definitely not get it. However, although Malone's data cannot get any single king, his scoring ranks among all players this season

Five and rebounds ranked third among all players, second only to Rodman's 17 rebounds and O'Neal's 13 rebounds. As for assists, they also ranked 45, while the Jazz's leading players ranked 11th and 12th in the league. It can be said that all the data are in the top 20 in the league except assists. This is a very rare all-round performance. In the league, there are still players with such all-round performance this season, except Malone, who are left with two super centers, Olajuwon and David Robinson.

But in terms of team record, neither David Robinson nor Olajuwon could pose a threat to Malone. It is precisely because of such a data that after the regular season, when all the media mentioned the MVP candidate, Malone was almost the first candidate.

In addition to Malone, the team's super point guard Stockton averaged 11.2 points, 15 assists and 2.4 steals per game this season. Although the average score of 11 points per game set a new low after the start of the Jazz player's career, assists set a career high, breaking the new record of 14.5 assists per game four years ago. The average of 15 assists per game in a single season also made the Jazz's super point guard the assists king this year.

Of course, in addition to the two leading players of the Jazz team who performed extremely well in data, such as Lin Han, this Jazz's young rookie averaged 35.9 points per game this season, which is probably also shocking. Although it is not the first time in NBA history that the rookie season has won the points, it is obvious that with Lin Han's age, Lin Han averaged 35.9 points per game this season, but is the youngest scoring champion in the league. In addition to the unbelievable score, Lin Han's shooting efficiency this season is also extremely terrifying, with his shooting percentage reaching 51% and his three-point shooting percentage as high as 40.5%. If it weren't for the free throw percentage, Lin Han's free throw percentage averaged 81% per game, and the shooting percentage was a bit dismal, the Jazz's shooting guard is likely to become a player in the '180' club.

However, although Lin Han was a little regretful that he was unable to become a 180 club. The rookie's first season was difficult to get the care of the referee and his free throws averaged less than 7 times were not very good, but Lin Han's averaged 35.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 0.9 steals and 1.2 blocks in his first season.

After the regular season, in addition to Lin Han receiving a special purple-gold reward, Lin Han also received a silver-level milestone reward because he won the scoring champion. The league's scoring champion is a silver-level milestone reward.

For Lin Han, the next period of time is definitely a period of harvest. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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