In the first quarter, the Jazz were able to lead the Clippers, except for Delon Brown. Williams bypassed the twin brothers' defense with successive throws from outside the box, and the biggest contributor was Matt. Halplin, a veteran, a football player, has a tough style of play and strong physical confrontation, and Coach Sloan sent Halplein as the team's starter today, against the Clippers' beast Artehit.

Ji Guoyi made two premature fouls, Artest shot zero in the first quarter under Harplin's defense, but Harprin himself scored eight points in a single quarter and became a wonder soldier for the Jazz team today.

After the game restarted, Haprin covered without the ball and helped Oku block Ji Guoqiu, and the Turk quickly moved to the outside to receive the ball and hit a three-pointer with a quick shot.

The Jazz's offensive end has changed a lot today, Sloan knew that his opponent in the semifinals was the Clippers, and he had a hunch that their best blocking and pick-and-roll tactics might not be useful against the twin brothers, but let him not really try, and abandon his best style of play, I believe that no one will be reconciled, and the same is true for Sloane.

In the first game, Sloan still let the team focus on blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, and the result was as he expected, the twins' ability to defend and pick and roll was the top level in the NBA, and when the two of them were on the same team, this team must be the least afraid of blocking and pick-and-roll offense in the league.

These two little guys who are less than 20 years old, their speed of assisting in the interior defense is too fast, Sloan now has a vague idea, against this kind of tacit cooperation of the interior partner, even a team with excellent tactical literacy like the Spurs is difficult to work, but players like Kobe, James, Wade, rely on their historical ability in different areas to attack. There may be unexpected effects.

That is to say, trying to use tacit cooperation and skillful tactics to deal with twin brothers will not have too good results, because no one is more tacit than their cooperation, and the flow of technology will not work in front of them. But attacking with a strong body, or rushing with lightning speed, or using Kobe-style singles to force the twins, may be overwhelming.

Sloan had that in mind. In the second game, the players were arranged to attack directly, and the style of play was more simple and rough, and they would still carry out some blocking and dismantling tactics, but the purpose had changed, just to create a one-on-one opportunity, and then shoot quickly when they had the opportunity. Reduce the passing and cutting coordination and increase the individual singles.

This style of play * Vicky will definitely be dismissive, this is no different from resigning to fate, whether you can win or not depends entirely on the individual performance of the star, it is too easy to be targeted. But Sloane could only come up with such an unsolvable solution for a short time.

Many of the Jazz players scored today because they were forced to shoot, but people just can score, and the Clippers players are not in a rut, so what can be done if they feel good?

Delong. Williams once again cooperated with Oku on the outside line, Ji Guoqiu ignored him at all, and the Clippers' rotation speed was not as fast as it was. Williams just burst to the free throw line, but was stopped by Ji Guosha's timely switch to his side. The little fat man wanted to pass the basketball to Mir at this time. Sapp. found that Ji Guoqiu had quickly filled his younger brother's position, and the two brothers exchanged defenses with a sharp heart, which made Jazz's blocking and dismantling cooperation ineffective.

"Oops. I should have just made a strong pitch. "Delong. Williams habitually tried to link up with his team-mates, but instead ended up surrounded in the box.

Ji Guoyi has been following Delong with his footsteps in the third position. Williams, the little fat man dribbled to the basket, all the passing routes had been blocked, and he could only jump up and play a time difference in the air, and changed the angle of the shot to try to avoid Ji Guosha's block.

This kind of shooting has always been the exclusive skill of Kobe Bryant and others. Like Delong. A player of Williams' size is destined not to stay in the air for long. I'm afraid his ability to stay in the air is not as good as his fox brother, so in order to avoid Ji Guo's shame. In the end, the ball didn't touch the basket at all, and the basketball hit the rebound and bounced directly to the other side, falling into the hands of Ji Guoqiu, who was guarding the basket.

Delong. Williams fell off the field, and in order to avoid the block, his body had lost his balance in the air, and finally rolled into the press area.

The Clippers immediately launched a fast-break counterattack, taking advantage of Delon. Williams rolled to the press area, they are playing more and less on the court now, there is no such thing as kicking the ball off the court on the basketball court, and this time he is unsteady on his feet, and it has nothing to do with the Clippers.

Ji Guoyi's side has just covered Delong. Williams once, turned his head, and the fox brother followed the team to play a fast break, and finally received a shot from Blavin. Knight scored two points on a passing layup.

It was his first point of the game, and it was a score that came off the court too early in the first quarter and missed two of his previous shots.

The Clippers players were confident before the game, and their confidence did not come out of nowhere, and their excellent defense allowed them not to despair about falling behind by 10 or even 20 points, believing that as long as they held on until their touch came, they could catch up with the score in a short period of time.

Ji Guosha's hand has come in the second quarter, the Clippers led by the Moxican Fox scored consecutive points, but the Jazz were used by the Clippers to use full-court tight defense, and after Oku hit a three-pointer in the second quarter, they did not score for five consecutive minutes.

The Jazz have been in such a long scoring drought, enough for the Clippers to fill the score, this is the source of their confidence, and in a short period of time, they can create a scoring drought for the opponent through the defense of the body, even if they can't make the opponent lose a point, they can greatly reduce the opponent's score in a short period of time, and then use their offense to narrow or even overtake the score as much as possible.

The first point of the Clippers' approach is to defend the opponent first, then to be able to penetrate the opponent's defense, and finally to have enough body to support them to grasp both offense and defense.

Of course, if they meet the Spurs or the Hus, it will not be so easy for them to close the double-digit gap in a short time. In the final analysis, the Jazz's offense is not first-class, and the defense is also not first-class, they can neither prevent the Clippers' offense, nor break through the Clippers' defense. This year's Jazz is not a team that can win championships, and even if Coach Sloan is a great coach, he can't do what even *Vic can't do.

At the end of the first half, the score was 50-48, and the Clippers closed the 12-point gap in one quarter. and ended the first half with a two-point lead.

The Clippers' explosive ability in the second quarter is amazing, this kind of team is the most difficult to deal with, they can play attack waves at any time, a bit like a combination of fighters and assassins, there is an outburst and can resist, and the average team encounters only a dead end.

Jazz fans at Energy Center Stadium lost their last game. Coupled with the depression of this half, and at this moment, there is no arrogance at the beginning, and their devil's home court was not lightly hit by the Clippers, or it was not lightly hit by the twins.

"I finally can't hear them yelling here, brother. You have to work hard in the second half, and I've scored 16 points in the first half, which is more than your average points per game. ”

"You stupid fork, I'm twice as good as you, and with your IQ, it's hard for me to explain to you why?"

Ji Guoyi listened to Brother Panda's words and immediately asked the assistant coach for the statistics of this game.

Ji Guoqiu had 5 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, Ji Guoqi had 16 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist, Billups had 6 points and 4 assists, Mobley had 10 points, and Artest had 5 points.

"Am you not mistaken? Why do you bastard always get triathlon? ”

"Because there's an idiot who has been helping me rebound. Sometimes they help me with assists. Ji Guoqiu handed over a cup of Gatorade and winked at him, Brother Panda was in a good mood today. The text message that Little Radish sent him before the game was very **, this guy was about to trick the underage girl into bed.

"Okay, count you awesome, I decided to devote all my energy to scoring in the future, anyway, the number jù is ours, I'll score. You get rebounds and assists. ”

After Ji Guozhi finished speaking, he saw that old Dunleavy had just walked into the locker room. The dead fox immediately raised the Gatorade in his hand and looked around. Learning the tone of old Dunleavy and shouting to his teammates: "Boys, I am very satisfied with your performance in the first half, don't let the underdog and carelessness that breed in your hearts spread to your hearts at this time, what did I say before?"

Billups was amused by him and chimed in: "Confidence is not the same as pride, we continued to kick their ass hard in the second half!"

Old Dunleavy was stunned for a moment, then smiled, picked up a glass of Gatorade, and held it high above his head: "Continue to kick their butts hard in the second half, we want to create the best record in the history of the Zào team, and aim for the Western Conference Finals!"

In the small visiting locker room, all the Clippers players raised their Gatorade as if they were a glass of fine wine, and shouted, "Kick them in the ass!" Western Conference Finals! ”

Charles. At halftime, Barkley mentioned the coach of the Clippers Dunleavy Sr: "Kenny, let me ask you a question, who do you think is the better coach of Dunleavy Sr. or Sloan?"

Kenny. Smith couldn't help but roll his eyes: "I said, can you not always ask me such questions?" What do you think of it yourself? ”

"You know, I'm a person who always likes to deny people, and I like to find fault with some of the so-called successful people, like I think Phil. Jackson's success is due to the fact that the players he coaches are all good players, just like the old Dunleavy now, he eliminated *Vic, who is more capable than he coached, and now he is likely to take out Sloan, which shows that a team has good players is far more important than a good coach. ”

"I'm going to raise objections as well, I think even if you count all the top coaches, Phil. Jackson will definitely not fall out of the top three or the top five, maybe others have different opinions, but he must be at the front, a long coaching career, a continuous coaching style, there are always people who say that he coaches the best players. But I would say that any championship coach has great team members, but what he does is he makes good players into championship team members. ”

Charles. Barkley nodded: "Well, I think you did convince me that maybe I would try my hand at coaching in the future, if only I could give me two twins like that."

In the second half of the game, the Clippers chose to stabilize their defense first, and they knew that the Jazz would definitely choose to launch a fierce attack on them at the beginning of the second half, and withstanding the opponent's round of offense could severely dampen the opponent's sharpness!

So at the beginning of the third quarter, the defensive end was the focus, the two brothers focused their energy on defense, and a mature team had to know what time and what to do.

The Jazz players really launched an onslaught in the second half, but under the Clippers' preparation, they did not break through the Clippers' defense, they wanted to get easy shooting opportunities, or they could only choose to shoot from the outside, the distance beyond eighteen feet is the area that the Clippers' defense cannot take into account, or this is the position that the Clippers voluntarily abandoned, anyway, this position is the most inefficient area on the court, and it is difficult to win the game with this kind of shooting.

Even if you can win, you can only win one or two games by luck, but there are seven games in the playoffs, and you can't win every game with luck.

Of course, there was one person in it, Kyle. Korver is still a key target for the Clippers, and they won't put a three-point shooter on the outside to shoot without hesitation and keep a firm eye on this guy.

Halfway through the third quarter, with a score of 60:59, the Clippers withstood the Jazz's counterattack at the beginning of the second half, so the next step was their turn to counterattack. (To be continued) R466