Maddy opened the game with various rushing baskets, and the Grizzlies gradually opened up the offense.

The Jazz's offense in this game also opened, mainly because the Grizzlies' opening defense was lax, and they were directly found a lot of vacancy by the Jazz's various blocking and dismantling cooperation, and the opening felt opened.

The Grizzlies started chasing points after opening the offense, and the Jazz also scored consecutive points to maintain the lead.

The game entered the second half of the first quarter, and the Jazz led by three points at 27-24.

Falling behind in the first quarter, this is something Qiao Hai didn't expect.

However, in the second quarter, Qiao Hai did not make adjustments and continued to rotate at his pace.

Billups on point guard, Ragabel at shooting guard, Maddy on the No. 3 spot, Sean Marion on the No. 4 spot, and Rasiunestrovic at center on the Grizzlies regular rotation in the second quarter.

On the Jazz side, Jerry Sloan replaced Karl Malone, and the outside duo John Stockton and Jeff Hornacek were in good shape, so they continued to stay on the court, and Brian Russell also continued to play, and his task in this game was to defend Maddy, Maddy played, and he also had to play.

So in the second quarter, the Jazz only made two interior changes, Greg Ostertag replaced Polines, and Almon Gilliam replaced Karl Malone.

At the start of the second quarter, Maddie broke out at the beginning.

First scored two points from a mid-range dry pull, then shot a three-pointer from the outside, plus a pull-up jump shot after covering, Maddie scored 7 points in a row in the second quarter, and Maddy, who had been impacting the basket in various ways throughout the first quarter, also found the feel to shoot in the second quarter, all three of which were jump shots, all hit.

On the Jazz side, the condition of the two elders on the outside is really good, and they also scored two goals after receiving and shooting after various small blocks and dismantling on the outside.

However, the margin was quickly erased by the Grizzlies.

In the fourth minute of the second quarter, on the court, the score of the two teams was 35:35, and it was tied.

The two teams returned to the same running line, and on the sidelines, Jerry Sloan called out to Karl Malone, who had just rested for four minutes: "Karl, you go up, go and replace Almon." ”

There's nothing to do, the Grizzlies have found their outside touch and continue to play, the Jazz will soon be at a disadvantage, Jerry Lone can only replace Karl Malone back, Karl Malone is the only player who can create a threat in Jazz alone, change back Karl Malone, create a threat on the offensive end, and Karl Malone on the defensive end can also make the Jazz harder.

With such a change, the Jazz still have a chance to fight back the advantage.

In addition to the substitution, Jerry Sloan also had to sigh that the young talent next to him was 24 years old, but he had already achieved success with the Lakers, and when he transferred to the Grizzlies, everyone was not optimistic about him, but he succeeded again, in just two or three months, Qiao Hai actually built the Grizzlies so strong.

Jerry Sloan thought about it, even if it was him, it would be difficult to do this.

The Grizzlies finished at the bottom last year, and let Jerry Sloan lead a team that is at the bottom without two or three seasons of effort, and Jerry Sloan can't even guarantee to bring the bottom team to the playoffs, let alone become a strong team that can compete for a championship in one season.

In fact, the situation of the Jazz in the past two years shows that Jerry Sloan does not have the ability to lead the weak team in a short period of time, the Utah Shuangsha is gradually aging, and the Jazz are slowly withdrawing from the championship competition.

On the other hand, the Grizzlies, in an offseason, Qiao Hai traded the superstar Maddie, selected the potential swingman Sean Marion, and some signing operations that no one will pay special attention to for the time being, each of which is a reinforcement to the Grizzlies, otherwise the Grizzlies will not complete their rise in a short period of time.

The Jazz replaced Karl Malone, while backup point guard Howard Easley replaced John Stockton, Quincy Lewis replaced Jeff Hornacek, the Jazz made three changes in a row, and the outside duo also went down to rest.

The Grizzlies made no substitutions, using their regular rotation lineup.

After the substitution, the Jazz's ball will be concentrated on Karl Malone, Jazz's backup point guard Howard Easley is their sixth man this season, with a similar style to Earlboy Hikins, good at scrambling, and playing at this time, just cooperating with Karl Malone to block and dismantle.

The Jazz's offense revived, and on the Grizzlies' side, Maddie and Karl Malone exchanged each other, playing for another three or four minutes, and with three or four minutes left before halftime, the Grizzlies took a five-point lead.

At this time, Maddie and Sean Marion played a one-and-a-half-quarter game and needed to rest.

Joe Hai thought about it, called Raheem and Earleboy Skins from the bench, and made substitutions.

Boykins was a little surprised, originally, Earl Boykins would only play in garbage time, and now the Grizzlies are only leading by 5 points, which is obviously not garbage time, under normal circumstances, at this time, Joe will replace Sammark, let Sammark play the third position, and Raheem will play the fourth position.

But this time, Qiao Hai wanted to play something different.

"Earl, you go on the court and play double control with Chauncey, and cooperate with the interior players who are responsible for the strategy to pass the ball."

Playing double control, this is something that Joe had in mind before the start of the season, when he asked Stu Jackson to sign Earlboy Skins and trade him to Billups.

The advantage of playing double control is that Princeton's offensive pass will be faster, after all, it is two point guards, plus two interior lines who can pass the ball, and four players who can pass the ball.

On the field, after the substitution, Rahim faced Karl Malone again.

In the first quarter, Raheem and Karl Malone were still at a disadvantage, and for this reason, Raheem summed up a lot of time without playing in the second quarter, and he felt that he had not done enough, and he had to be tougher.

So, after the substitution, Raheem had his first confrontation with Karl Malone.

The ball goes inside, Raheem singles in the low post, plus the attack and the other players run.

Karl Malone is single-defense, no pinching.

Raheem also did not pass the ball and insisted on singles.

Of course, Rahim also knows that when the real confrontation, he can't be blindly tough, his characteristic is good technique, so when it's time to avoid the confrontation, Rahim will also dodge the confrontation, and turn around flexibly under the basket, Rahim directly shook off Karl Malone with his footsteps, hooked his hand sideways, and the ball went in!

The Grizzlies led by 7 points, and the Jazz offense.

Karl Malone also singled, Raheem didn't give an inch, Karl Malone turned around and missed the jumper.

With a bang, the basketball popped out of the frame, and Rahim also turned around to take a look, and then, turning his head, he suddenly beat his chest and roared!

The energy plan arena booed, Karl Malone's face changed, Rahim's roar, in Karl Malone's view, was a provocation to him, turned his head to defend, and faced Rahim again, Karl Malone gritted his teeth: "Boy, it's just a defense, do you need to beat your chest and roar?" ”

Rahim ignored it, although at Qiao Hai's request, he changed a lot, many things he wouldn't have done originally, he has done it now, but he also wants to do trash talk, but he really can't do it, and he can't say it, so at this time, Rahim chose to shut up and not speak.

Raheem didn't respond, and Karl Malone became even angrier.

On the court, the two fought, Raheem singled, Karl Malone also singled, and the confrontation between the two became bigger and bigger......