On November 7, 1993, the Utah Jazz, who had just won two consecutive victories this season in the Minnesota Timberwolves, left Minnesota and came to Seattle.

The Seattle Supersonics are now one of the most powerful teams in the league. Last season was the third in the Western Conference regular season and finally reached the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs. Since the current Supersonics head coach George Carl, the former Warriors head coach, replaced KC Jones, the former head coach of the Supersonics head coach, this team seems to be improving every year.

KC Jones, a former Celtic legendary coach, is not an ordinary coach. Bill Russell and his teammate in college and Celtics, followed Russell as a player and won two NCAA championships and eight NBA championships. He is one of the Celtics' meritorious players in eight consecutive championships that year. This guy is also an Olympic basketball gold medalist. He can be said to be one of the very rare "Grand Slam" players in American basketball history.

And this guy has a great career as a player, but his coaching career is also very awesome. He not only led the Washington Bullets to the Finals, but also led the Celtics to the Finals and won two NBA championships at the same time. He led the Washington Bullets and the Celtics in 9 seasons. This guy has led the team to the Finals in a total of 5 Finals. If the total championships of the players and the head coach are combined, this guy has already had 10 championship rings. If the assistant coach is added, there are 12. This guy has also worked as an assistant coach in the Lakers and won the championship.

What about George Carl? This guy was coached by the Warriors and scored 16 wins and 48 losses in his last season, with a winning rate of only 25%. Before the season ended, this unlucky guy was kicked out by the Warriors. In the end, the current Warriors head coach Don Nelson took over his position.

A failed head coach took over the position of a very successful head coach, and this team is not an ordinary strong team. This Supersonic has been a regular player in the Western Conference since Bicks Duff became the team's head coach 10 years ago. What's more, the Supersonics just won the NBA championship not long ago in 1979. In this case, George Carl needs to face a lot of pressure to succeed here. In the end, this outstanding coach really made everyone fall out of glasses. This guy not only surpassed his two predecessors KC Jones and Bicks Duff, but also almost led the team to the finals again last season, replicating the team's grand glory.

And more importantly, the super gods of the SuperSonics in the playoffs last season were the Utah Jazz. In the first round of the Western Conference playoffs last season, the Utah Jazz ranked sixth. Under the five-game three-win match system, the Jazz defeated the SuperSonics away in the first three games, and the big score came 2-1. As long as they won the key fourth game, they would be able to blacklist six, and the fourth game was still the home game of the Jazz. At that time, Sloan and the Jazz were in high spirits. Although Stockton and Malone encountered trouble in the Olympics in the regular season, the team's regular season performance was not good, but as long as they could perform well in the playoffs, who cares about the regular season results?

But what made the Jazz extremely disappointed was that in the fourth home game, Stockton, the top three organizational guard in the league, was frozen by a young point guard named Gary Payton. Malone, perhaps the second best power forward in the league, was also embarrassed by a young power forward Shaun Kamp in this game. Shaun Kamp gave three steals and five blocks in a single game, while Malone made six mistakes in a single game. With both team leaders performing like this, how could the Jazz win? In the end, in the good situation, the team was reversed by the young Supersonics.

Last season's Western Conference playoffs, Gary Payton, who was once the third best point guard in the league and now the top three point guards in the league, won him a nickname like "Gloves", and also made Jerry Sloan look disgrace. It can be said that he and George Carl were completely defeated in the playoffs last season.

Therefore, when Lin Han followed the team to Seattle, he could clearly feel that the atmosphere of the entire team was different from before.

For example, whenever Lin Han saw Lin Han, he would sarcastically say a few words in the previous few days, the middle-aged players of the team became particularly honest today, and they were diligent and diligent. Finally, Lin Han found out that the team lost to the Supersonics last season, not only did the team's two leading players not reach their best at critical moments, but more importantly, these middle-level players of the team were completely defeated by the Supersonics. Although Payton and Sean Kemp were indeed very dazzling at home, no matter how dazzling the two young people were, they were still not as good as Stockton and Malone. Except for the key points in the fourth game, these two people lost their level, the other games were normal. However, these two people performed normally most of the time, while the others performed completely abnormally most of the time.

This is also the reason why the Jazz knew Lin Han's various shortcomings this season and were unwilling to give up Lin Han. Last season, Sloan was cheated by these players of the team. He was disappointed with the team's players who usually can follow the team to gain some data, but at the critical moment, he was actually very disappointed. Therefore, after getting Lin Han, he got a former All-Star offensive inside player Tom Chambers. It can be said that the two most important introductions of the Jazz this year were all sacrificed for defense to get offensive players. Lin Han wouldn't say it for now. Doesn't Sloan know that the team's retired center Mark Eaton is one of the best blockers in the history of the league and the winner of the best defensive player in the league? If such a player retires, if a counter-substitution, he naturally needs a defensive gate to make up for such a position, but in the end, Sloan's choice almost unexpectedly.

After failing last season and being defeated by George Carl, the Jazz's head coach has changed his previous coaching philosophy. Defence is of course very important, but there is no final victory without offensive defense. Last season with the Supersonics, the Jazz only scored more than 90 points in 2 games in five games, and more than 85 points in three games. It's really miserable. You know, the Jazz's average score in the regular season last season exceeded 106 points, from 106 regular season average score to nearly 86 average score in the playoffs. This gap is enough to make a team's head coach despair of many players in the team.

Of course, Jerry Sloan wanted to take revenge in this game. The strength of the Jazz has made great progress this season compared to last season. The firepower of the previous two games was simply crazy with the support of Lin Han, which also gave Sloan a lot of confidence. Lin Han, the player he advocated to introduce, was really too good to him. Although he didn't know how long Lin Han could last, no matter what, at this time, Lin Han's position in his mind had even surpassed the team's third leader Jeff Malone. Many times, even if Sloan wanted to add a defensive outside line in the team's starting lineup, he began to wonder whether to remove Jeff Malone from the starting lineup instead of Lin Han from the starting lineup.

"Jerry, I think I shouldn't create any separate tactics for Lin now, right?"

At this time, Jerry Sloan looked at the Jazz players on the training ground and was a little dazed, and the assistant coach Fier Johnson, who had been watching the team's training, had really let him suggest it.

After Lin Han broke out, the Jazz naturally gave him some treatment as a star. In the NBA, the so-called star means that the team will arrange tactics for him separately. In the execution of this tactic, the whole team will cooperate with him, which can be said to be a very good treatment.

However, after this treatment came to Lin Han, the Chinese boy could not understand the complex tactics that required several people to cooperate. The running position on the court was terrible. It seemed that this Asian boy would not have anything except singles and simple pick-and-roll. Even if it was a pick-and-roll, although this guy's jump shot after pick-and-roll was still picturesque, his shooting percentage was outrageous.

According to Feier and Johnson's evaluation of Lin Han, this rookie will probably keep playing singles to the end in the future, and it is almost impossible for other players to cooperate with him to complete the task.

But this guy's success rate in the first two games was really good, and he also won two rookies, Mashburn and Ledel, but what about next? He can win Payton and Pippen alone? Besides these guys, which team in NBA does not have a dedicated outside defender?

In this case, even Jordan had a one-on-one fight at the beginning, and was finally hit and bleeding. He finally met Feier and Jackson, the coach who is the best at playing single-challenging skills. Isn’t his triangle offense just to let other players in the team cooperate with Jordan’s single-challenging skills?

It's just obvious that although there are tactics for single-handed fights, Fier Jackson does, and Jerry Sloan doesn't. And let Stockton and Malone cooperate with Lin Han to play single-handed fights. One or two games are OK. Can they be willing to do it if they have too many? Although these two are not young, they have not achieved success and fame. They have not yet won the MVP and the championship. They will not sacrifice their own data for Lin Han.

So, Jerry Sloan, who had been thinking about revenge on George Carl for a moment, suddenly discovered that the team had such a big crisis and problem.

If Malone and Stockton remain at their peak for a long time and Lin Han is a basketball that can only play cancerously, then the team will have a fight sooner or later.
Chapter completed!