974 Closing the Coffin
Xiao Han didn't know what Delong was thinking. If he knew, he would have been very happy to make the little fat man unhappy.
There are two things that are the same when hating someone and loving someone. First, there is probably no reason for it. Secondly, if nothing special happens, it is generally difficult to change.
Xiao Han now only knows that he has got the best chance to finish the game, and there is only about one minute left, and it is time to make a decision for this game.
With the help of his chief assistant coach Phil Johnson, Sloan slowly sat back on the chair. He did not call for a timeout to arrange the defense. During the whole process, he did not even turn his face to look at the court.
There is no need. Xiao Han is one of the smartest players Sloan has ever seen in his life. This child must know how to seize the opportunity of his opponent. Who can imagine that it is what Sloan has most high expectations before the game, and that his disciple Delong Williams, who can be compared with Xiao Han, handed the butcher knife that slaughtered the Jazz to Xiao Han!
Johnson is not as despair as the old man. In his opinion, Deron made an unforgivable mistake, but the game has not yet reached an irreversible level, and the team still has hope. Although he has known each other for 40 years and has been with Sloan for 20 years, the two have been together with the Jazz since 1988, Johnson is not as forward-looking as Sloan when he looks at people and problems.
"I voted, he voted!" Johnson was a little incoherent, and shook Sloan's body a little disrespectfully.
This sentence is undoubtedly inconsistent, but a light flashed in Sloan's eyes. He knew what kind of things could make his assistant so excited. Could it be that things really have a turning point?
Just as Sloan was about to look up at the field for the last look today, Johnson beside him seemed to have been choked and his voice came to an abrupt end.
"Oh!" Sloan's head hung again, thinking to himself: "I knew that no matter what choice the child made, it would be the most reasonable. Now, there is no hope for the competition."
The three-pointer, just as Delong's unwilling to believe it, Xiao Han jumped up and shot this three-pointer that decided the victory and loss from the top of his head.
Delong did not jump. On the front, his body was still retreating. He did not expect Xiao Han to shoot this risky goal at this time. This was unreasonable, but he forgot that just now, he did something even more unreasonable, and even extremely stupid.
Delong raised his head slightly. He couldn't see Xiao Han's eyes, but he could see Xiao Han's hands. When he shot, the hands were so steady and didn't tremble at all.
Xiao Han's eyes were not hesitant at all, but only firmness was visible.
Now, his team is one point ahead, and even if this ball doesn't make it, it's okay. For the Rockets, this offense doesn't matter if it's two points or three points. All they need is a good opportunity and a high grasp. If it's limited to steady play, you must shoot two points. The idea is too narrow and easy to be seen by the opponent.
Did Delong think so before taking action just now? Xiao Han didn't want to guess. He only knew that falling behind is indeed different from leading by one point.
Xiao Han is really brave enough to vote!
Countless people sighed like this, but this is the right quality for players who have the opportunity to win the Hall of Fame in the future. They dare to do and act. If they dare not even take responsibility at critical moments of the game, then why are they talking about having great ambitions?
Xiao Han dares to shoot, and he has counted it himself. Under normal circumstances, the three-point shooting percentage of nearly 70% is the premise and guarantee. As for what is normal, it depends on what Xiao Han's own standards are. Anyway, it is completely different from the official statistics.
For one point, I struggled for a whole game and four-pointers, and it was undoubtedly a disaster at this moment.
There was no hope. Sloan was too lazy to speak. He reluctantly raised some strength and patted Johnson on the arm. Johnson knew how to stop and made simple arrangements for the players.
20 seconds was short, but it was very long for Deron. When he ended up, he tried not to make eye contact with Sloan. Later, he found that his mentor had not come to explain the tactics to them, and he felt even more panicked. So far, this team still belonged to Sloan completely. Although he had never brought a championship trophy to the city, he brought glory and pride to the people here.
You can even think that not only the team in Salt Lake City, but even the fans here were trained by Sloan. Now, after finding out that his actions are severely centrifuged with the old man, what should you do to Delong?
I don’t know if today’s crisis has caused Deron to completely betray Sloan. Perhaps he is really in a rebellious way, and the restless idea of escaping Sloan’s iron fist has long been sprouted, but from today on, Sloan has also had a crack with Deron in his relationship.
Johnson's arrangements are nothing new. In 20 years, how many times have he seen Sloan deal with this situation? Basically, it can be said that the tactics he spoke were exactly the same as what Sloan thought in his mind, and they are also familiar to the Jazz players.
But Delong was distracted again. He seemed to be preparing to make all the most important mistakes of his life tonight. When he dribbled, he didn't even do the ball protection. As a result, he was naturally cut off by Xiao Han's palm.
The Jazz players retreated like a tide, and the Rockets players rushed to the front court like a torrent, leaving Xiao Han, who slowly stumbled in the backcourt. At this time, he, who was born to know how to play the game, began to control the time again.
In fact, there is no need. Of course, Xiao Han didn't know that the Jazz's players had lost all their fighting spirit because of Sloan's giving up on them, and Delong's continuous mistakes made them lose their defensive spirit.
Deron Williams is a selfish guy. He only saw his growth in the past few years in NBA. He only saw his skills becoming more and more comprehensive. However, he even chose him at such a high ranking and brought him to Salt Lake City. He was almost forgotten when he was teaching carefully. He would not remember who injected him with a different soul than others in addition to technology.
Sloan is destined to fail and be sad, because Deron cannot compare with Stockton in terms of technology, psychology, character and other brothers. This gap is as big as Boozer's technical gap with Malone.
To put it inappropriately, after raising a precious loyal dog like Stockton, Deron, the replacement that Sloan later found, was actually just an ungrateful wolf.
Wolves are unfamiliar.
Xiao Han's style is unpredictable by Delong because their hearts are not the same. Delong is full of thought that Xiao Han will delay the time until 24 seconds is about to end before taking action, but he did not expect that when the attack time is still 9 seconds, Xiao Han hangs the ball high to the inside line, and Yao Ming directly dunks it.
Neither Oku nor Boozer responded. Now their minds are not on the game, especially Boozer. Deron's willful Hu Wei was regarded as distrust of himself by him, and the new "Utah Double Demons" also began to have discord factors.
Perhaps it will take a long time before people will find that such a game will be devastating. It completely exterminates the Jazz's hope of reviving Todron and Boozer, but some people are willing to study it. The question is, what is worth studying for a team that has not been successful in replicating the senior model? If someone wants to study Sloan and his model, just take the era of Malone and Stockton as a model.
Xiao Han's great achievements seem to be destined to be buried in the dust of history.
Tonight, Xiao Han will make a decision for the Sloan era of Jazz. Who can know that what he ended inadvertently is not a great and glorious era that is likely to enter in the future?
Chapter completed!