Chapter 873
Chapter 873
On April 4th, Salt Lake City rarely had a clear sky. You must know that only a month ago, there was a heavy snowfall here at the end of March.
Since Salt Lake City will have a rainy season until July, people here want to take advantage of the rare good weather and want to go out for a walk, and the best place is undoubtedly to go to the Triangle Center Arena to watch the ball.
Tonight, the Jazz will face their first playoff opponent, the Golden State Warriors, at home.
Mentioning the Jazz's opponents makes Jazz fans can't help but want to scold their mothers.
As the so-called shadow of a famous tree, it took the Warriors ten years to establish a great reputation. Even if they performed poorly this season, they still made Jazz fans feel scared, for fear that their team would work hard to squeeze into the front of the Western Conference. Four, as a result, he was eliminated in the first round and went home to fish.
However, regardless of whether their mentality has collapsed or not, they can no longer change this situation. Today, they can only hope that the Warriors will continue to be in a slump, or their own team will show off its power and kill the Warriors in one fell swoop.
With such a mood, Jazz fans walked into the arena to watch this game that was advanced in their planning.
The starting lineups of the two teams have not changed much compared to the regular season. The only thing that has changed is the Warriors. Rodman is absent again, so Horry can only be promoted to the starting position again.
Since the beginning of this season, Rodman's injuries have never been broken, and the iron can't resist the consumption of time after all. Although he may still be in bed now, subduing Madonna and Carmen, but on the court, it is obvious. It's better to be fierce on the bed.
The starting lineup of the Warriors is: Li Weisi, Richmond, Finley, Horry and Divac.
Since Finley was put on the starting lineup after the All-Star Game, he has gradually stabilized his starting position. In comparison, both Jaylen Rose and Kukoc have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they cannot fully satisfy the Warriors' starting position. Lineup needs.
In contrast, the Jazz's lineup is much more stable. Tonight's starting lineup is exactly the same as when the two teams played for the first time at the beginning of the season. They are: John Stockton, Jeff Hornacek , David Benwall, Karl Malone and Felton Spencer.
With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.
Divac rarely won the jump ball for the Warriors, but it was too unexpected, which caused everyone to be stunned. When they were about to launch a fast break, the Jazz still returned to defense.
As a result, the best fast break opportunity at the beginning was missed, and the Warriors' first offensive round was about to be played in a positional battle.
Although such an offensive method is much more difficult than a fast break, in the eyes of the Jazz, the Warriors' first positional battle also caused them a headache.
Sure enough, shortly after coming to the frontcourt, Divac took the initiative to come forward and play a pick-and-roll with Li Weisi.
Picking and rolling with two tactical axes is very troublesome for the defender, especially since these two not only have the ability to dominate the ball, but also have the ability to shoot from a distance. This makes it difficult for the defender to switch or not to switch Hesitant, and that gave the Warriors a chance.
No, Stockton and Spencer disagreed over whether to switch defenses or to flank Li Weisi, which led to Divac being vacated.
Divac, who had a shooting opportunity, naturally would not miss it. He raised his hand and made the Warriors' first shot.
However, the basketball did not hit as expected. After hitting the basket, it actually bounced out.
The Warriors players, who are used to playing at home in the first game of the playoffs, are obviously still a little uncomfortable facing the away game this time.
The rebound was accepted by Malone under the basket, and the Jazz immediately launched a counterattack.
During the fast break, Hornacek advanced the ball to the frontcourt and handed it to David Benwer who was running down. The latter made a direct layup and opened the scoring for the Jazz, 2:0.
In the face of missing the first offense, the Warriors were more cautious in the second offense.
Li Weisi did not choose to pick and roll with Divac this time, but gave the ball to Richmond when he came to the frontcourt.
After Richmond got the ball, he took a tentative step and then began to break through Hornacek.
Although Hornacek's defense has improved over the years, Hornacek is still a bit overwhelmed in the face of Richmond who is fully fired.
After passing Hornacek, Richmond broke into the penalty area and was assisted by Malone. Richmond was not afraid at all, and immediately chose an emergency stop jumper and forced a shot.
However, after being interfered by Malone, the basketball still went wide and missed.
Due to the lack of Rodman, the Warriors' inside rebounding ability is no longer at the forefront of the league. Therefore, the rebounds were accepted by Spencer this time, and the Warriors returned without success again.
Fortunately, although the offense missed, the Warriors retreated quickly and did not allow the Jazz to fight back again.
However, the Jazz have always been a team that has been forcing fast breaks. After they saw that there was no fast break opportunity, they immediately stabilized, and then Stockton and Malone played a pick-and-roll.
During the pick-and-roll, Malone feinted after receiving a pass from Stockton, and then directly chose a dry pull on the spot, but unlike Richmond, Malone made the ball, 4: 0.
After Li Weisi brought the ball to the frontcourt again, he did not hand it over this time, but directly chose to come by himself.
It's a pity that even Li Weisi was not immune, and basketball hit the iron again.
Fortunately, this time, Finley tried his best to lay down an offensive rebound for the Warriors and returned the ball to Li Weisi.
After Li Weisi swayed Stockton with a shooting fake, he went inside and caused a foul by Spencer when he made a layup.
Although this offense still failed to score in the sports game, there is still a chance for the Warriors to break zero by making fouls.
However, not long after, people were dumbfounded, and Li Weisi missed the first free throw.
Seeing this scene, the audience cheered and felt happier than Christmas.
However, at this moment, Li Weisi, who missed the first shot, frowned and said to the referee Jia Wei: "No! This basket is not right! He is too tall!"
"What... what?" The Jiawei people who were going to give him the ball were dumbfounded, thinking they heard it wrong.
"This basket is 2.4 to 2.6 centimeters higher, which is not the standard basket height!" Li Weisi repeated his words again.
After confirming that he heard correctly, Jia Wei was full of disbelief, thinking that Li Weisi couldn't afford to lose, so he wanted to settle the matter.
However, Li Weisi did not listen to Jia Wei's persuasion at all, and bluntly asked the staff to measure the basket and make adjustments to the basket.
For a while, the fans in the entire arena started booing one after another after they figured out what happened on the scene. In their view, Li Weisi was just making trouble for no reason, relying on his fame to play big names, and the basket was all passed by the staff. After measuring with a ruler and adjusting, can it be worse than what you measured with your naked eyes?
It's just making trouble out of no reason!
(End of this chapter)