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Chapter 332 The player closest to a five-double

(Chapter 2, it was finally completed. There were too many things to do this morning. I am really sorry that everyone has been waiting for a long time, but finally it was completed with more than 16,000 words. Thank you for your support)

In the playoff game of the first game of the rookie season, Lin Han once again staged a 5x5 show at the Delta Center Arena, and he was the first player in NBA history to play 5x5 in the playoffs. So on the second day of this highly anticipated game, Lin Han's performance almost caused a sensation in the entire NBA.

Although the 5x5 data is not even dazzling for many fans, it is true that just from the accumulation of data, triple-double is indeed better looking, but obviously for many players and professionals, triple-double is often found, but 5x5 is not often found. In the history of the NBA playoffs, not to mention the 30-point large triple-double, even the 40-point large triple-double has appeared, but the 5x5 data has never appeared.

Maybe there were in ancient times, but the technical statistics of NBA in that era were incomplete. Not to mention that the blocking data were basically impossible to find, even some other data were often not found. In this case, when NBA has complete technical statistics, the 5x5 in the playoffs really disappeared, and even Olajuwon, who has the title of King of 5x5, was unable to complete it.

Although the 5x5 data does not look very gorgeous, in the professional field of NBA, this data has another title, that is, the stepping stone for five pairs!

For any NBA player, five-double is the most perfect data. No one doesn't want to achieve such a data that is almost the same as a god, but it's obvious. Even if Chamberlain can score 100 points and more than 50 rebounds, even if a player can score 30 assists in a game, let a player score, rebound, assist, steal and block into doubles. This is almost impossible, either almost impossible, or it should be said that it is impossible.

This not only requires extremely strong luck, but also requires extremely strong strength and extremely comprehensive quality. In this case, the NBA has always called a player who can win five-double in the future, or the player who is most likely to win five-double in the future. This type of person is a player like Lin Han and Olajuwon who can often complete 5x5 data.

Don’t think that such a title is an indifferent title. You should know that even Jordan won countless triple-doubles at his peak, and even averaged three-doubles per game for a while, and 32+8+8 in a single season. This Jordan master was not considered a player who can win five-doubles in the future. This is not to say that Jordan is not comprehensive enough. His quality is not outstanding enough, Jordan can score points, grab rebounds, and assists are also very good. As for steals, it is even more good. Even if it is blocking, with Jordan’s physical talent, he can do well if he is willing to do it. He is a very comprehensive player.

But it is because he has never even won 5x5 once, so even if he is comprehensive, he does not have such a title. He can't even get half of the five-double in one game, so don't expect to pursue five-double.

Just like the NBA championship is the highest pursuit of an NBA professional player, a five-double is the highest pursuit of a basketball player.

"Yes, I admire Lin Han very much. He is the most talented young man I have ever seen. I have never seen a young man grow up as quickly as he is. I have never seen him. Even if you ask me how Jordan is doing, I still answer this way. Lin Han is the most talented player I have ever seen. He is a genius, an absolute genius!"

After the game ended, as the broadcast guest of ABC, Larry Bird was interviewed and faced Lin Han's performance in his first career game, the former Boston Celtics football king did not hide his love for Lin Han at all, and he was even a little fanatical.

"Five-double? I don't know if he is likely to win five-double in the future, because this is too difficult. That is no longer a field that people can reach. But if there is still someone who has hope to reach the future, I will choose Lin Han as this player. He looks more relaxed than Olajuwon. I think he has more hope than Olajuwon!"

Especially when asked if Lin Han had the chance to become a future five-double player, this Lin Han's die-hard supporter even directly put Lin Han in front of Olajuwon. You should know that although those reporters who asked about it also hope that Larry Bird could say some good things about Lin Han, after all, this would make newspaper sales better, but who is Olajuwon? He is the recognized 5x5 king in the league. Those who have this title are recognized as the most likely player to achieve a five-double player. Although Lin Han has played 5x5 twice in his career, he has not yet been able to get this title. At this time, no matter how you look at it, you feel that Larry Bird's praise for Lin Han is a bit too much. At least in the eyes of many people, if Olajuwon hears this Celtic legend say this, he will definitely be very angry.

However, Larry Bird, who was extremely excited at this time, would not pay attention to what these media or Olajuwon would think in the future. For now, he thought so. Lin Han is the best young player in his mind and the most likely player to achieve a five-double.

Not to mention that Larry Bird thought so, even the Trail Blazers coach Calesimo, who was defeated by Lin Han in this game, looked depressed and helpless when he was interviewed after this game, and also gave a very high evaluation when asked about Lin Han's questions.

"There is no doubt that he is a superstar. He is very young, but he already has the ability to change the situation of the game. We lost to him in this game, whether it is defense or offense, we were unable to beat him. He is a great player, 5x5? I think this data does not fully show his greatness. If he wants, he can still stay on the court for more than three minutes in the game, and he can even complete triple-doubles or even four-doubles. He has such a chance, but in the end he gave up doing so. He is different from many young players, so he achieved unimaginable achievements when he was young."

"Do you still have the confidence to win this round of the series? Of course, our team is very strong, and the loss in this game is not because of our poor strength. I believe this is an accident for us. Facing a team like the Jazz, facing a great player like Lin Han Malone and Stockton. Any accident or carelessness may lead to tragedy. Just like this game, although we overestimated Lin Han again and again, we finally underestimated him, so we received the punishment we should have. I believe that when our two teams fight again in the next game, we will definitely not underestimate the Jazz anymore."

Of course. Although the Trail Blazers lost a lot in this playoff, the Trail Blazers' head coach was not very frustrated or even seemed to be extremely confident. However, as he said, the Trail Blazers' strength is still strong. All their losses in this game were due to underestimating Lin Han, so it created a huge gap from the beginning. In this case, the subsequent games were too impatient. In this case, such a tragedy was caused. For the Trail Blazers, such a score loss was of course not a reflection of their real strength.

When the day after the first game between the Jazz and the Trail Blazers, when the public opinion of the NBA was paying attention to Lin Han's first game with 5x5 data, and when the focus of the sports world in the United States was on the NBA playoffs and the focus of the NBA playoffs was on Lin Han, although Lin Han was still very excited now, the Jazz player disappeared in front of the media.

It can be said that except for accepting TV interviews after the game, the Jazz's super defender did not even attend the post-match press conference. Obviously, as the best player in this game, Lin Han is naturally unruly doing this, so it is almost certain that Lin Han, who has become popular again in recent times, must have been banned from media activities by their team's head coach Jerry Sloan.

This extremely cautious and conservative NBA head coach already felt like he was full of plants and trees after the playoffs. Any factors that may cause unexpected results cannot exist. The relationship between Lin Han and the media is obviously one of such unexpected factors.

Although Lin Han was not very satisfied with the ban on media activities in the playoffs by Jerry Sloan, after all, in his opinion, he was the winner of his confrontation with these American media for most of the time. In Lin Han's opinion, Jerry Sloan was completely unnecessary. However, out of respect for Jerry Sloan, although Lin Han was a little unsatisfied because he could no longer mock those annoying guys, Lin Han finally chose to accept it.

Of course, although Lin Han disappeared from the media after the game, how could the media or fans outside stop because of Lin Han's disappearance for the data Lin Han had produced in his playoffs? It can be said that even the next day, before the other four playoffs started again, even if another super star Hardaway was about to appear, Lin Han was still the protagonist of the day.

However, after all the NBA playoff games ended on the second day of the NBA playoffs, when the results of these four games came out, the focus of public opinion in the NBA playoffs changed.

Because in the eyes of many people, the NBA first round of playoffs actually experienced extremely violent waves, and it was a very unexpected wave.

In the second day after the NBA, the Magic, the fourth-ranked Eastern Conference faced the Cleveland Cavaliers, the fifth-ranked Eastern Conference. In this game, O'Neal and Hardaway played in the playoffs for the first time in their careers, they received great attention. However, the result of this game made many people not expect that the young Magic are likely to face great challenges in this game. After all, the Cavaliers are a veteran team in the league, and the team has a large number of old ball players. The team has extremely balanced internal and external strength. In this case, it is not easy for the Magic to defeat the Cavaliers, and many people even think that the Cavaliers may win.

But even though so many people have thought about the different results of this game, when the game ended, the Magic lost 96-111 to the Cavaliers at home, 15 points. When the Magic's center and one of the four new centers were sent off for six fouls in his first playoff game, it was unexpected. The Magic's young center was completely surrounded by two experienced All-Star inside veterans, Doherty and Nance. Although O'Neal, who lacked an inside assistant, had amazing courage, he got 15 free throws in this game. Doherty and Nance were both fouls on their backs and 4 fouls on their backs, but these two experienced insiders often would rather foul than let O'Neal take a easy move, making O'Neal very impatient in the end.

As the third player in the scoring list this year, O'Neal averaged nearly 30 points per game in the regular season. Such a player finally made only 8 shots, made 3 8 times in this game, and scored 14 points in 15 free throws. After only 35 minutes of playing, he was sent off by the two inside balls of the Cavaliers. I'm afraid that when all this happened, let alone the Magic fans on the scene did not expect it. O'Neal himself did not expect it.

O'Neal, one of the Magic's double stars, suffered the fate of being sent off in his first playoff game of his career, which made the newly promoted young player, one of the four centers, understand that the group of inside ball gangsters in the league are not easy to bully. Don't think that you can do anything with the strength. As long as you reveal a little flaw, these guys will never let them go.

Of course, after O'Neal was sent off, the Magic's home loss was actually predictable in this game. It was just that Magic's head coach Brian Hill asked another super young man, Hardaway, to play in this game for 48 minutes, which caused huge controversy.

O'Neal was sent off, which really required Hardaway to play more, especially since the Magic had been behind in the score since the beginning of the game, which led to a young coach Brian Hill, who had a somewhat imbalanced mentality, did not dare to switch to Hardaway at all. In this case, Hardaway became an extremely rare player in the NBA history to play the whole game. In this game, Hardaway made 14 of 29 shots. He scored 39 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals, 3 blocks, and 6 turnovers.

After O'Neal was sent off, the Magic's leading outside player almost took on the team's offensive burden. Hardaway himself did not expect that he would have so many opportunities to play in the first playoffs, but at the end of the game, when he really had no physical strength, the Magic also lost in a wave.

Of course, if the Magic were upset by the Cavaliers at home, this is nothing. After all, this is a playoff game, especially the fifth-placed fourth-placed one, which is really common. For example, in the game the day before, the fifth-placed Warriors in the West also abused the fourth-placed Spurs in the West? The Warriors, who are super strong offensive and even everyone can score offensively, let the offense rely solely on David Robinson's Spurs know what it means to be smooth.

So for the NBA playoffs, fourth and fifth are the two teams with the closest strength. What's wrong with them is actually not surprising at all. The key is, what if such an accident does not just happen to the fourth and fifth teams?

For example, in the match between the third Bulls in the East and the sixth Pacers in the East, the Bulls led by Pippen also lost at home and suffered a crushing defeat at home. When the game was at the end, the Bulls were 15 points behind at home, even the Bulls fans in the game were shouting Jordan's name, especially when Reggie Miller ended in the fourth quarter. The defender who scored 36 points in the defense of Pippen in this game made a move with a middle finger in front of his lips, signaling the fans who shouted Jordan's name to shut up, almost the whole game was boiling. Reggie Miller was obviously humiliating Jordan, meaning that even Jordan would win.

Of course, the final conflict between the Bulls and Pacers Reggie Miller and Bulls fans only made this showdown more gunpowder-like. It was just the biggest player in this series. The Bulls' current player Pippen will definitely feel very uncomfortable, especially when Bulls fans shouted Jordan at home.

The third in the East lost against the sixth in the East, and the same is true in the West. The third in the West faced the sixth in the West, and also lost to the Suns who had already been in a defeat at home to the Suns who had been in a long time to be in a playoffs. 97-115, the Rockets lost to the Suns at home. If Compaq Center was not the Rockets' home court, the Rockets fans even felt that they had come to the wrong place.

Except for the third and fourth losses in the East and West, even the second-place Hawks in the East were not spared. The team also lost at home. Wilkens, the assistant coach of the Dream Team, faced the Nets led by Mengyi head coach Chuck Daly, and lost 96-99 at home. The game has been replaced. The Nets who got Jeff Malone from the Jazz at the last moment of the regular season, squeezed the Hornets out of the playoffs at the end of the regular season, and ranked seventh. Not only that, they also won in the first game of the playoffs. Jeff Malone scored 28 points in this game, which is the biggest contributor to the Nets' victory in this game.

So, when the first game of the first round of the East and West playoffs is over, when 5 of the eight seed teams lost, only the Jazz, Knicks and Supersonics can win, it would be strange if the public opinion of the NBA is not uproar.

You know, before the start of this year's playoffs, many experts and media did not predict this way.

Of course, the playoff situation in the east and west at this time was changing. The situation was extremely strange. But for Lin Han and the Jazz, there was no need to care about these things, after all, they did not lose.

On April 30, 1994, the second game between the Jazz and the Trail Blazers in the playoffs was still played at the Jazz's home court. Because the team defeated the Trail Blazers in the last game, at the beginning of this game, although the Trail Blazers players and coaches were still shouting that their team could defeat the Jazz.

But whether from the perspective of Jazz fans or coaches, they were not as nervous as last time in this game, especially the fans on the scene. Before the game started, Jazz fans on the scene were already making trouble, and it seemed that these fans were very relaxed.

Of course, even Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan was actually very relaxed. At least in this game, when setting tactics for the team in the locker room, there was no constant emphasis on letting the team concentrate and not relax at all.

So, at the beginning of the second game between the Jazz and the Trail Blazers, the Jazz was very relaxed from top to bottom, and they had never thought about how much impact the Trail Blazers could have on themselves in this game.

Therefore, the Jazz's starting lineup has changed in this game. PJ Brown, the young insider who was substituted in the last game, started in this game.

It’s just that in such a relaxed atmosphere before the game, when the game started, all the situations completely changed. In the past game, the Jazz, which still could easily win, did not have a complete advantage as soon as they came out.

Or in other words, no team can have the advantage under the Trail Blazers' style of play, because as soon as the game started, the Trail Blazers still had three inside tactics, and they still had to tie the inside out on the defensive end. However, on the offensive end, the team's playing style was simply crazy.

"Oh my god, what are the Trail Blazers doing? Are they preparing for normal games like this?"

When the Trail Blazers game started, even if the offense was dragged to 24 seconds several times, they would never do dangerous passes or dangerous attacks. The game was extremely slow from the beginning. The Trail Blazers are a team with five players on the court with very good singles ability, so the team's playing style can be discovered, reducing the transmission ball on the offensive end. Although singles are encouraged, they cannot be blindly thrown under the attack. If there is no chance, 24 seconds are acceptable.

In this case, the Trail Blazers' offense was indeed very bad, but because the pace of the game was too slow, the Jazz were not much better. Although the Trail Blazers still had no one to defend Lin Han, this became the Jazz's advantage and the reason why this team was able to lead the score from the beginning of the game, but the normal game was so big, not only the game was extremely dull, but even the situation on the court became extremely elusive.

Especially for Jerry Sloan and Jazz fans on the sidelines, it is simply a torture. Although this kind of team is leading, it is not very good at leading, and the situation on the court cannot be fully grasped, this feeling is definitely very tormenting.

So when the Jazz and the Trail Blazers were like meat grinders from the beginning of the game to the end of the game, the situation finally defeated the Trail Blazers 93-86 at home. If Lin Han hadn't locked in a three-pointer in the last moment, Jazz fans might have been struggling for a while.

However, it can be seen from this game that the Trail Blazers, who are not at a disadvantage in terms of personnel, especially the inside, do have the capital to hold the Jazz, and this team is indeed not the eighth-ranked team in the regular season in terms of strength.

However, although the two teams played very ugly in this game, Lin Han once again scored 12 of 22 shots, scored 32 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks. When he continued his extremely comprehensive performance, many people who supported Lin Han or Jazz fans were crazy.

Of course, no matter whether this game is exciting or not, the Jazz won the game 2-0, the Trail Blazers won the match point. (To be continued...)
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