On January 22, the Clippers played against the Utah Jazz at home. This was the second time the two teams met this season. The last time they lost 3 points away.

Before this game, the Clippers had lost five consecutive times, falling to eighth place in the Western Conference, and their playoff spots were shaking again. Today, the Clippers were only allowed to win but not lose. Their stingy boss Sterling rarely promised the players before the game that as long as they win, they would give the team a prize of 100,000 US dollars as a reward.

Sterling, an old man, had a rare hair removal, but the prize was only 100,000 yuan, and it didn't cost much to the twelve players. The Clippers players said that even if they got the prize, they would donate it with collective reputation. However, even their Grandet boss was willing to make a blood to win, which can already illustrate the importance of this game. In order to enter the playoffs, they must win.

The game was about to begin in a while. In the Clippers' locker room, Ji Guochou held his breath and was focused and dazed.

Ji Guomeng looked at him from time to time with a ** look, and occasionally showed a wretched smile. Looking back at this moment, his brother was really amazing yesterday. Today, Christine couldn't come to watch the football scene. The Twilight Girl couldn't get out of bed in the morning, so she could only lie in the bed to support this giant panda who had entered the wrong hole last night.

"I said, you didn't mean it, did you like the back? I really can't tell that you are so perverted!" Ji Guomo said in his heart.

"You can't spit out ivory with your mouth. You are a pervert who is voyeuristic and obscene, and you are a pervert!" Ji Guochou was furious. But when he mentioned this, he naturally thought of yesterday's scene and was stunned again.

Ji Guomo smiled in his heart: "I think you are happy and happy. The competition is about to begin. What are you still thinking about? Don't fall into the gentle country. You taught me this way before. But if you think about it carefully, that Twilight girl might be like this. I didn't see her resist yesterday, so just laugh secretly."

The little fox said the same thing, and Ji Guochou's mouth moved, and it was obvious that the bastard was holding his smile. After a while, he spoke in Chinese: "What is soft jade warm fragrance? Just envy it. Now you are dead!"

"What's so great? Yesterday I was like a car shocked... Don't glar at me, at least I won't turn off the lights like you in the future!"

Back to the game, their opponent, the Utah Jazz, has had a good record in recent days. If the Rockets had not had a more abnormal record recently, the winning streak has expanded the winning streak to 12 games. The Utahs were originally ranked fourth in the West, but now they are ridden by the Houstonians. They can only rank fifth.

The Utah Jazz have been a strong team in the Western Conference in recent seasons and are also a team that domestic fans are very familiar with. The reason is that in the playoffs last season, the Utahs kicked the Rockets out in the first round. The Jazz have become the second team that Rockets fans hate after the Mavericks.

The Jazz last season led by Carlos Boozer, and achieved an excellent record of 51 wins in the regular season. After the Stockton Malone era ended, they led the team back to the Western Conference Finals for the first time and competed with the champion Spurs.

Of course, in addition to Boozer at the quasi-MVP level, they also found a qualified replacement for Stockton, Deron Williams, who has become the All-Star guard, and he and another new point guard star, Chris Paul of the Hornets are both the leading figures in the new generation of point guards in the United States. Among these two, Deron Williams, who has a better figure and white-skinned Deron Williams is even more favored than Paul. Many experts believe that he will become the next Jason Kidd, who is in this position the hope for American basketball in the next ten years.

The Utah Jazz are currently ranked fifth in the West, with a record of 25 wins and 11 losses. They only have two fewer wins than the Rockets, who have won 12 consecutive games. However, this record is still far from being safe enough to ensure that they enter the playoffs. The next few balls are very close, and the Lakers are ranked behind the Jazz with 25 wins and 12 losses, with a slim gap. Once the Jazz loses today, they may be overtaken by another Los Angeles team immediately.

Before the game, Sloan and Dunleavy both sighed when they looked at the Western Conference rankings. This year, the competition in the Western Conference is more than tragic. They may not be able to enter the playoffs. Who should they make sense to?

"Okay, the game is about to begin. The importance of today's game is self-evident. We must win with all our might."

Old Dunleavy looked at the time and clapped his hands to start speaking before the game.

"Everyone already knows that the Jazz rarely shoot three-pointers, and they send more balls to the inside. The proportion of three-pointers to the total number of shots is only 26th in the league. We must defend their low-post offense, shrink the defense line, and play two- and three-way defense forces them to shoot three-pointers that they are not good at. Secondly, we must pay attention to rebounding. The Jazz's defensive rebounds and offensive rebounds are at the forefront of the league. We must defeat them where they are best! As long as we do these two points today, we can defeat them, low-post defense + rebounding, this is the key to our victory!"

Old Dunleavy continued to use mixed defense against the Jazz on the defensive end today, the twin brothers replaced defense, Panda brothers were close to Boozer, and the other four were defending the ball, and they played half-joint defense and half-marked.

The Clippers have been playing in the joint defense for a lot of time recently. Sometimes a game will last more than half, and even the entire game will be playing in the joint defense. This ratio is even more crazy than the Celtics!

There is no distinction between people-to-people and joint defense, but we have to take medicine according to the prescription and choose which defensive method to use based on the player ability of our team, the opponent's lineup, and the on-court situation.

Joint defense is not omnipotent, and there are many disadvantages. For example, joint defense always leaves a blind spot in defense, and requires extremely high mobility of players. Once a person is missed, the players need to use speed and agility to make up for the loopholes; joint defense also requires a tacit understanding between players, especially in the inside line, most black people do not have such a good sense of assisting and repairing leaks; after the joint defense and offense and defense are converted, the time required to set up a joint defense line is longer than that of a person-to-people. Simply put, since you are setting up a formation, it always takes time, and this gives players like Wade or teams like the Suns an opportunity to take advantage of the attack speed. If the attack speed is fast enough, you can use the speed to break through to the basket before you set up the formation.

There are only a handful of teams or players that the league can achieve. There is no Duncan or Garnett-level player in the team. Under the rules of the NBA, most of these requirements are not a problem for the Clippers. For example, the most important tacit understanding is that they have the most tacit understanding of the inside team in the league and have amazing athletic ability. In addition, Artest and Percy are both players who are good at defense, with rich experience, and such a good innate advantage is there. The Clippers should be struck by lightning if they don’t play in the joint defense!

Clippers players appeared, and today the "Steples" stadium was not only full, but it was simply crowded!

The two brothers always think that Sterling's bastard boss, in order to recover the loss of winning the winning prize, put hundreds of people in today. This kind of boss is also considered the best. If he is discovered by the league, he will not punish this Grandet to death!

Christine didn't come to watch the football scene today because she couldn't get out of bed.

Emma Roberts accidentally tore the ticket in half yesterday and threw it into the toilet. He regretted it early this morning but had no regrets to take medicine. He could only sit at home and watch the game dejectedly, calling Isabella a bitch while watching!

Taylor Swift and his parents came to the scene. After seeing Ji Guomeng appear, he immediately waved to the fox brother.

In this game, the Clippers' starting lineup is still: Black Parker, James Percy, Ron Artest, Ji Guohuo, and Ji Guoqie.

Jazz starting lineup: Deron Williams, Ronnie Brewer, Andre Kirilenko, Carlos Boozer, Memit Oku.

Today, Ji Guochou was under great pressure when facing the opponent Yao Ming wanted to kill with a gun. However, when he thought that he had just recovered his blood yesterday, Ji Guochou was not only not weak, but also full of energy and spirit. His condition was no different from being stimulant.

"Boss, are you sure you see blood? It was pitch black yesterday. How could you still see blood when you look at your eyes? Why didn't I believe it?"

"Nonsense, can't I feel that plastic wrap if I can't see the blood?"

"I heard that it is artificial now..."

Ji Guochou immediately interrupted him and threatened with a dark face: "If you want to say it again, don't expect to receive my pass today!"

The game begins soon. Today's espn live broadcast. In addition to Jeff Van Gundy, Bill Walton and Mark Jackson were invited to partner together today.

Jeff Van Gundy said slowly before the game started: "The Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller has so much patience that the team has said goodbye to John Stockton and Karl Malone, and has been unable to enter the playoffs for three consecutive years, but he has incredible patience. Head coach Sloan has profound insight and knows that his team will get better. As long as they maintain the good momentum last season, they will still have the strength to reach the finals this year.

Mark Jackson was good at communicating and immediately took over the conversation, saying: "Of course, looking back at Sloan's super long coaching career as the Jazz, he is the coach with the longest coaching time in the entire sports world. He has been in the same team for almost 20 years. He has a steady style and has achieved many successes, which reflects the importance of trust and patience to the final result."

Bill Walton smiled and said, "He's just that ring away now. I think they have a chance to play to the Finals this season. The Jazz's lineup is reasonable and the defense is excellent. But this team is very strange. They are the team with the most fouls this season, but they are also the team with the most steals."
Chapter completed!