On June 1, the first battle between the two sides began at Madison Square Garden. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

David Stern didn't show up to watch the game, watching the live stream at home, waiting for the assistant to report on the ratings.

The bad news came when the players warmed up, and as Stern expected, the ratings were really not high, only 10.7, although it will rise after the game starts, but it is sad to 13, which is completely incomparable with the overall 16.7 and 16.8 in the Finals in the previous two years.

That's the charisma of superstardom, the value of Michael Jordan, who has had a record 17.9 in 1993.

Assistant Adam Silva asked: "David, which team do you fancy to win?" ”

"I want the Knicks to win because they play well offensively, and if the Knicks can hold the offensive banner high next season, I want them to build a dynasty." Stern said two hopes in a row, and obviously didn't like the Jazz.

This is the sadness of the Salt Lake City team, the Jazz can only be regarded as a fourth-tier city in the NBA in terms of geographical location, and even Toronto, where the Raptors are located.

In addition, Salt Lake City is the center of Mormonism, and Mormons are fanatics. This place is definitely in the bottom five of the league, if not the worst.

CCTV5 broadcast live, Zhang reasonably introduced the players. "Today the Knicks changed lineup again, Oakley returned to the starting lineup and partnered Ben Wallace, the point guard is Starkes cameo, Houston point guard, small forward Bowen."

Sun Zhengping said: "Oakley and Ma Long are old rivals, Ma Long elbowed many people, and he has to restrain himself against Oakley, otherwise the two are likely to fight." ”

Some media have voted the dirtiest player in the league, and the second place is Ma Long.

Malone once knocked "Assassin" Thomas directly to the ground from the air and fainted, and in this playoffs, Malone also put "Admiral" Robinson into elbow shock.

The wicked still need the wicked, and the number one on this list is none other than Oakley.

Oakley is never afraid of vicious fouls, never afraid of fighting, what he is good at is avoiding the eyes of the referee, using small foul moves, big moves to prevent opponents from scoring.

Jazz starters: Stockton, Hornacek, Russell, Malone, Foster.

Starks' cameo appearance as point guard is the result of discussions between Yang Rui and Van Gundy, and he intends to win by surprise.

THE 36-YEAR-OLD STOCKTON HAS STARTED PLAYING HEALTH BASKETBALL THIS SEASON, AND HE IS ORIGINALLY IN POOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, WITH A HEIGHT OF 185CM AND WEIGHS ONLY 77KG.

Yang Rui was very curious about the level of Stockton's defense in his previous life, because many people said that this naturally thin guy was extremely tough, top defensively, and he was about to boast about it, and he also made five times in the best defensive second team.

Yang Rui watched a lot of videos because of this, and found that Stockton had a good consciousness and many small movements, but there was basically no way to do it after the dislocation, and it was easy to be eaten hard by people's backs, relying on the big man on the inside to assist in defense; In addition, he will be ****** a big man who can shoot after the pick-and-roll, and Stockton's defensive honor is too watery.

Going to Starks, in order to let him directly take on Stockton, this is a good opportunity.

Oakley flanked Houston for off-ball coverage, and Houston attracted interior defenders who could go heads-up, or pass Oakley to the ball, and he could shoot when there was space.

Foster jumped the ball and the game began.

The Knicks guard is man-marking, and the position is relatively inside. Just play the Jazz and shrink as much as you want, Sloan doesn't allow players to shoot more threes at all, unless it's a particularly good opportunity, wait to be scolded.

Heading into the playoffs, the Jazz also shot the fewest three-pointers of any team, averaging 9.1 shots per game.

Malone blocked Stockton in the high post, Oakley immediately switched defenses, and Stockton took two steps horizontally and passed to Malone who squeezed away Starks' air cut in the middle.

As soon as Malone took a step, he was blocked by a retracting Ben Wallace, and Foster was let go. Oakley also let go of the Stockton retraction, forming a bag clip.

Ma Long is 206CM tall, and he can't squeeze into the basket to force his shot, and his efficiency is limited, so he divides the ball to the left bottom line.

Foster took the ball in the open space, stood still and waited for his teammates to pick it up, and passed the ball out.

This white center, who was selected by the Bullets with the 8th pick in the second round in '90, has outrageously bad offensive ability, and he relies on defense to eat. This season, he averaged 5.7 points per game to be the peak of his career, scoring all by picking up leaks under the basket, and shooting only 44.5%. It's hard to find blue-collar workers in the league who are bluer than that.

The Jazz players passed back and forth, blocked and ran away, and there was no pass for 24 seconds, and Russell's pull-up jump shot was deflected under Bowen's interference, and Big Ben protected the rebound.

The Knicks attacked, Starks dribbled to the front court and was close to Stockton, who waited for Houston to get rid of the off-ball cover and pass the ball.

Malone switched defenses quickly, and Houston didn't have a direct chance to make a direct shot, giving the ball to Oakley.

Oakley took the ball and gave it to Starks, who ran to the left baseline, who caught the ball and missed a pull-up jumper. The opportunity was already out, Starks received the ball and made a quick shot, but Stockton couldn't cover it.

Big Ben got stuck on the other side, grabbed the rebound and passed the ball out. Houston ran to the free-throw line to catch the ball and hit it with Hornacek interference. 2 to 0.

The players don't have any fancy moves on offense, and the Knicks' main practice in the past two days is to catch and shoot, use the height advantage and rhythm to shoot quickly, and then fight for the rebounds in the frontcourt, aiming at the weakness of the Jazz who only has Malone as a rebounder.

Jazz offense, the restricted area was blocked by Knicks players, put the perimeter mid-range shot, 24 seconds were coming, Malone's mid-range shot was deflected under the interference of Starks, and Big Ben grabbed the rebound.

In the Knicks positional battle, Malone changed to defend the basket in order to protect the backcourt rebounds, Foster played an average of 18.5 minutes per game, only 3.5 rebounds, and was weak.

Houston relied on Oakley to cover to get rid of Hornacek, received the ball to get a misplaced heads-up opportunity, accelerated and moved two steps sideways to get rid of Foster, and scored a high-post pullup jump shot.

It's about the same as the position just now, Houston feels extremely soft, two hollows. 4 to 0.

The Jazz attacked, the players passed back and forth, blocked and dismantled, but every time the Knicks changed defenses in time, there was no space.

Hornacek broke through on the right and missed the basket with Oakley's interference, and Big Ben grabbed the rebound.

The Knicks played very simply, Starks took to the frontcourt to single-handedly Stockton, and missed the pullup jumper.

Jazz positional battles, the pick-and-roll was limited by the Knicks' compression defense.

Obviously the opponent blocked the restricted area, and the Jazz still tried hard to hit the basket, and shot close to the basket according to Sloan's arrangement, which was a mistake in strategy.

As soon as Stockton breaks through, he will sink into the pile, and the ball will be distributed, and Malone can only choose to shoot in the high post and can't get into the basket.

Hornacek also couldn't run away with Foster's cover, the Knicks players changed their defenses resolutely, and some people rotated to make up for the defense, anyway, Foster didn't have to pay attention to the periphery.

Yang Rui watched the game on the sidelines and had a peculiar feeling, he felt that the biggest weakness of this Jazz team was the recognized famous coach - Jerry Sloan.