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"Calm down, calm, we need calm now!"

"The progress of this game exceeded all of us expectations. The Jazz's forced play is very aggressive. We all need higher attention and more calm and calm!"

In the first game of the Western Conference Finals between the Jazz and the Rockets, the Rockets fell 15 points in the first half. When the Rockets returned to the visiting team's locker room, as the team's head coach Tom Janovic, facing Olajuwon, who looked very ugly at this time and some other Rockets players who were a little panicked, they almost roared directly.

Although he knew that these somewhat panicked Rockets players were not afraid of their opponents, after all, most of the Rockets players were not young people, but whether they were older or young players, when they were originally a match that they thought was evenly matched or even dominated in the first half, and they were almost hanging by their opponents, especially in the last period of the second quarter, the Jazz pressed tightly when they wanted to. If they wanted to let them go, they let them go of their extremely powerful advantage, so that they could not see any hope of winning in this game.

In this case, these Rockets players were a little confused at this time, so Tomjanovic roared directly after returning to the locker room. This was not because he had any dissatisfaction with his players, but because he hoped to pull the players back from the bottom of the loss through his own roar!

And it seems that his approach is correct. After Tom Janovic roared for a while, the Rockets' somewhat confused player also came to his senses at this time.

But after seeing the players of his team return to normal, one of the very difficult things that Tom Janovic is how he can crack the Jazz's tactics with a very strategic playing style.

Although he broke the Nuggets' pressing defense in the last round, can the Jazz's pressing and the Nuggets' pressing be on the same level? Not to mention that the defensive skills of Nuggets' head coaches Iser and Jerry Sloan are not on the same level, and the defensive strength of the Jazz's outside players is not on the same level as the Nuggets'.

"Are you really going to let Drexler play without the ball? But who can replace his main control position?"

When Tomjanovic thought about this, he really didn't know what to do.

It's all that guy. If it weren't for that guy, the Rockets wouldn't have encountered such a problem!

Thinking of the Jazz No. 8 player, Tom Janovic almost gritted his teeth at this time. Before this game, he never thought that a player would lock Drexler, a superstar player, just by himself. If the Nuggets' pressing would be a failure for the Rockets in normal circumstances, because they were unable to force the Rockets to death, and gave Drexler, the strongest ability in the league in the past, so many opportunities to attack the basket. If Mutombo hadn't played super well, the Nuggets would have kneeled long ago.

Therefore, Tom Janovic's pressure breaking the Nuggets is more not because of how outstanding his tactical ability is, but because Drexler and Olajuwon have found a tacit understanding by themselves, so the Nuggets' press failed.

But the current situation of the Jazz is completely different from that of the Nuggets. The Jazz's pressing defense is no longer something that Drexler and Olajuwon can solve. If he can't find a way, then he will really kneel down in this game.

For teams playing away, the first away game is both a very difficult game and a game full of opportunities, because the first away game will make your team unacceptable, and the opponent's team will not adapt much. Therefore, if you want to defeat the Jazz who has a home advantage, as the Rockets with a strength of the Jazz, the first game is very important. If you can win this game and regain your home advantage, the Rockets' chance of advancing will definitely increase to more than 70%. If you lose this game, then there is a very likely problem in the next game. At that time, you will be behind 0-2. Although who has not lost at home, the score of 0-2 is enough to put huge pressure on any team.

Confusing, headache, this is the current situation of Tomjanovic. In fact, every team will have an extremely headache when encountering his situation. Just like the Jazz team without Lin Han, when facing Stockton, the only point that can handle the ball on the outside, was strangled by the opponent, the whole team was basically ruined, especially when the player who strangled the team's outside dealing with the ball on the outside was only using one person.

It is impossible to let Drexler continue to handle the ball. This is something Tom Janovic is very clear about. Even other Rockets players and Drexler himself are very clear. But the key is who can replace Drexler's ability to handle the ball from the outside. If the Rockets have a Stockton at this time, he will not be so entangled.

The key is that the Rockets do not have such a player. Kenny Smith doesn't have a vision for a long time and can easily play alone like before. Especially under such intensity defense, his teammates don't have many opportunities. He has insufficient ability to find opportunities for his teammates. At that time, it is very likely that he will just throw it alone. Maxville, Maxville is indeed a candidate in normal times, but in this situation, if Kenny Smith can use his height to attack forcibly, Maxville will face Russell, let alone get rid of his opponent, will he not even have the chance to attack by himself?

The Rockets, which had an excellent lineup, had problems with Drexler holding the ball due to Lin Han, and the Rockets' too many functional players were exposed. At this time, the Rockets' excessive shooting problems were the same as the Jazz's mid-range shooting players before, and lacked tactical adaptability. When the team encountered difficulties, when the head coach wanted to change the tactics, looking back at the surroundings, Jerry Sloan saw No. 1, CNY 2 and CNY 3, and now Tom Janovic saw similar, that is Spotter 1, SNY 2, and SNY 3. When he was about to let these shooters do other things, he was full of doubts and distrust about whether these shooters could do other things well.

If Jerry Sloan knew that Tom Janovic's dilemma was like this at this time, the Jazz head coach would have laughed three times, but from this it can be seen that although the Rockets abandoned Thorpe for Drexler because they did see this reason, knowing that the lack of changes in their team's tactics would become the team's shortcoming in the playoffs, they did not expect that even if Drexler was exchanged for Drexler, when the former leader of the Trail Blazers faced Lin Han and was locked by Lin Han, they could not help the team in holding the ball.

At this time, the Rockets' locker room was really full of entanglement. The team's head coach was worried about the team's playing style in the second half, but at this time the Jazz were much better.

Even as the head coach of the team, Jerry Sloan, who made extremely risky moves in this game, was unstoppable when he saw his decision bringing such huge changes and gains to the team. After all, this is the playoffs, this is not the regular season. In the regular season, Jerry Sloan would not have too much worries even if he played some adventures. After all, the regular season is just the regular season. Apart from some major games, Jerry Sloan really doesn't need to take too much risk. Now it is in the playoffs and the most important first game of the Western Conference Finals.

In this game, he changed his coaching ideas and played such a move and directly suppressed Tomjanovic's Rockets. He could imagine that after the end of this game, if the Jazz won, the media and fans who had been crazy about him a while ago would definitely worship him.

When I thought of this, the Jazz head coach was even trembling with excitement.

Of course, the team's head coach was very happy and excited at this time. As a player, the same is true. The Jazz players probably never expected this game to be like this in the first half of the game. After all, the Rockets did leave a lot of shadows on them. This team has won their team three times in the regular season!

Therefore, the atmosphere in the Jazz's locker room was extremely relaxed at this time. As Lin Han, who performed extremely well in the first half, was holding a technical statistics sent in by the team staff. When Lin Han saw the technical statistics in his hand, his eyes almost narrowed directly, and his face was full of smiles.

"The Rockets now need a high-quality ball control point other than Drexler. I wonder if Tomjanovic has found a suitable candidate. They must solve this weakness as soon as possible, and there is not much time left for them."

When Jazz players and Rockets players walked out of the player channel again after this break and walked towards the stadium, looking at the players who walked towards the stadium with different expressions, Larry Bird also said with a smile on his face.

"Larry, do you think Kassel will get more playing time in the second half of this game? He has a better overall view than Kenny Smith, and is also better than Maxville's ball-handling ability. He is a young player that the Rockets focus on this season."

"If I were Tom Janovic, I would make this choice, but Tom Janovic needs to take into account the feelings of some veteran players of the team. If it is not at the end of the day, let a rookie player replace Kenny Smith or Maxville in such a savior attitude, I'm afraid there will be some problems within the Rockets."

After Collins finished speaking, Larry Bird also said with a smile that letting Cassel play to replace Kenny Smith or Maxville is not a tactically wrong choice, but a feasible change, but at the non-tactical level, this choice is just like when he coached this year's All-Star rookie game, but chose to let Lin Han control the ball, so that those talented rookies of the All-Stars revolve around a high school student like Iverson? Unless he is crazy, the Rockets are the same now. You should know that replacing Drexler becomes

The Rockets' external main control has become the team's tactical core. Not to mention whether Cassel has enough big hearts to be ordered. Even if Cassel has such a big heart, it depends on whether Drexler, Maxville or Kenny Smith can run tactics around this rookie. For Maxville, his replacement by Drexler is because he is not strong enough. He admits it, but why should Cassel be replaced? At such a critical moment in the playoffs, if the Rockets have such a problem, it would be an unimaginable nightmare.

This is not to say that the Rockets cannot let Cassel go to the top, but the timing of going to go to the top is very important. The Rockets are indeed facing a crisis now, but this crisis is not enough to make all of them think that their team is dead without Cassel, a rookie player. At this time, at least Kenny Smith and Maxville still hope that they can gain more trust from the head coach and want to replace Drexler's main control position to try.

Even though Tomjanovic knew that these two people had various flaws, because of their status, they would give them a chance to give it a try.

So Larry Bird is even sure that Tom Janovic never even thought about the candidate Kassel!

"Lin, why are you so excited?"

When the Jazz players came out of the player channel amid the cheers of fans throughout the court, when Lin Han and his teammates walked towards the stadium, Karl Malone saw Lin Han's expression at this time. Although this game was like this, they were really happy, especially Malone, who was slightly phobic to O'Neal. He was really happy because the pressure on Olajuwon in this game was limited in this game, but no matter how happy he was, he was not like Lin Han. He didn't know what he was thinking when he walked on the court, but he actually smiled foolishly.

So after Kal Malone finished speaking, the other Jazz players also looked at Lin Han with curiosity, which made Lin Han feel a little embarrassed after he came to his senses.

After all, at this time, his teammates were thinking about how to defeat the Rockets more easily in this game, but at this time he was thinking about how to play big data in this game, a big data that made Olajuwon and the Rockets extremely embarrassed.

Although Lin Han wants to play big data and how other Jazz players want to defeat the Rockets more clearly, Lin Han’s goal is a bit suspicious of being a little "distance".

"It's nothing, I just thought about what kind of face these guys will have after winning these arrogant guys in this game."

After Lin Han finished speaking, the other Jazz players were as excited as Lin Han. After all, these Jazz players were not very interested in the remarks of many Rockets players before the game.

In this game, the team that successfully jumped the ball was the Rockets, so the Rockets had the right to attack in the first and fourth quarters, while the team that failed to jumped the ball was the right to kick off in the second and third quarters, so at the beginning of the second half, the Jazz were the first to attack.

With the Jazz's momentum like the first half of the game, how could the team's momentum be weak after the second half of the game begin? Even if Stockton wants to slowly control the ball to the frontcourt, the Jazz fans on the scene will not agree. After the Jazz's appearance again in the second half, the cheers of Jazz fans on the scene have never stopped, and the huge sound is simply deafening.

In this case, after Stockton received a baseline pass from Polynis, the Jazz point guard had already dribbled the ball and passed the first half before Polynis could catch up.

After Stockton dribbled the ball through half, he saw Lin Han waiting for him in the middle circle. With Stockton's understanding of Lin Han, this guy was going to play singles directly with the ball this time, so Stockton sighed a little and handed the ball to Lin Han and ran away. After Lin Han received the ball, he had almost no hesitation against Drexler's close-fitting defense. After a step back dribble opened a step away, he immediately turned a connecting change of direction and threw Drexler beside him. Although Drexler's reaction and speed were indeed excellent, Lin Han was unable to completely shake off the Rockets' defensive player.

However, Lin Han's defense against Drexler still broke through a gap on the side of Drexler. After breaking through this gap, Lin Han directly dribbled the ball and killed the Rockets' three-point line with all his strength. Drexler gritted his teeth and pressed against Lin Han. When Lin Han broke through in a straight line at high speed, although Drexler could keep up with speed, every time he touched Lin Han, he would feel a huge force from Lin Han. Although he was prepared for Lin Han's impact, he would still be slightly shaken away by Lin Han every time he touched Lin Han, which made Drexler's face look very bad.

What embarrassed Drexler even more was that when Lin Han dribbled the ball from the middle circle and broke through to a step outside the three-point line, when he tried to lean on Lin Han to defend closely, Lin Han bounced a little. At the moment he was bounced away, Lin Han actually jumped up from that position. This was a long-distance emergency stop three-pointer!

And this is also the first time Lin Han has made such a long-distance three-pointer!

Although Lin Han scored a lot in the first half, most of Lin Han's scores were scored without the ball, that is, some mid- and long-distance mid-range shots and some relatively open three-pointers.

Because Olajuwon's deterrence against Lin Han's ball possession attack is still very strong. If it is not necessary, Lin Han generally does not need to risk injury to fight Olajuwon alone. Therefore, in the first half, although Lin Han has a strong ability to hold the ball, he does not have much offense with the ball. This is also the reason why Lin Han can put a lot of energy on defense Drexler and can defend Drexler.

Lin Han was originally better in possession of the ball, but he played without the ball in this game, while Drexler is now better in possession of the ball, but he played with the ball in this game. Whether it was Lin Han or Drexler, the performance of both of them in the first half was not the best.

This time, Lin Han took the ball for the first time after the start of the second half. He bounced away Drexler from outside the three-point line and made a forced move, which made the already very critical Rockets' score even more critical at this time. After Lin Han hit the ball 40 to 58, the Rockets were already 18 points behind! After Lin Han's extremely excited three-pointer hit, the Delta Heart once again rang out Lin Han's name!

"Lin Han's ball-holding offense is full of a sense of domineeringness, which is very easy to drive the atmosphere of the fans on the scene. Drexler cannot defend this ball. He has tried his best, but this is Lin Han!"

"I think the Rockets should change their defensive strategy now. They need to hit Lin Han, but Thorpe is no longer here. With Lin Han's passing method, they cannot let Olajuwon, the only inside line, come out to assist in the defense and hit, probably this is why Drexler will assume the responsibility of defending Lin Han in this game."

"It appeared, it appeared. Lin Han's iconic long-distance three-pointer. This kind of shooting looks really cool. In the last round of the game against the Warriors, Lin Han rarely attacked like this."

"I originally thought Lin Han was a little scared because of the playoffs, but now it seems that I was wrong."

"Lin, continue to throw a few more, I support you! Throw that arrogant Houstonian to death!"

After Lin Han entered the second round of the playoffs, Jazz fans have never seen much. That's because facing a team like the Warriors with a strong offensive, even if Lin Han is cancerous, he would not dare to throw it like this. If he is not good, he will be killed by the Warriors' counterattack and attack. However, facing inside players like the Rockets or the Knicks, although the offense is also good, it is far worse than the Warriors, especially when he is already leading by more than 10 points at this time, Lin Han doesn't have much scruples.

"It seems that Lin Han wants to harvest this game at this time!"

When Lin Han started the third quarter and fired from a long distance from the three-point line, the TV broadcasting camera quickly met Olajuwon, because at this time the meaning of Lin Han was already very obvious. If his offense was still closed in the first half, then there was no need to close at this time. If the Rockets did not respond better, then the Jazz were preparing to deal with the Rockets in the third quarter of this game, which was definitely a humiliation for the Rockets Olajuwon.

Therefore, when the TV broadcast camera was aimed at Olajuwon and the Rockets player looked calm, many TV viewers were surprised.

Soon, when the Rockets' offense began, when the Jazz were preparing to continue the second half as pressing in half to interrupt the Rockets' offensive rhythm and widen the score gap again, although there was a change in tactical terms, Drexler no longer held the ball, but played without the ball, but Kenny Smith's possession was crazily pressed by Stockton and could not find any offensive opportunities, the team was still a little embarrassed.

Just as all the Jazz fans were about to watch their team use their pressing to force the Rockets to death, Olajuwon, who had been in the basket in the first half, came out of the basket directly when Stockton forced Kenny Smith to dribble. What was even more shocking was that after Olajuwon pulled out from the inside, he directly asked Kenny Smith for the ball from the top of the arc. Stockton, who was more loved by his height, forced him to not even be very lucky. Kenny Smith, who saw Olajuwon's request for the ball, almost threw the ball into Olajuwon's hand like a bag!

After he threw the ball into Olajuwon's hand, he immediately ran to the side. When Olajuwon held the ball at the three-point line facing Polynis one step away, almost everyone at the scene was a little suffocated!

Because they saw with their own eyes that a center player actually pulled out of the inside, like a shooting guard or a small forward dribbling at the top of the arc!

"This is indeed a good way to break the press! Olajuwon brought up the ball and attacked, which is indeed a very good way!"

When Olajuwon lifted up and pulled out of the three-point line to prepare for the attack, not to mention Collins on the sidelines, hesitated on the court whether to go up to double-team the Jazz players shouted loudly, even Tom Janovic on the sidelines was also stunned at this time.

How long has it been since Olajuwon played like this? Since Olajuwon got rid of the second round of the middle and no longer thought that his shooting percentage was higher than his teammates, so all the offenses should be played by themselves, he rarely attacked with the ball on the outside!

This Rockets player, who was forcibly considered a small forward by Jordan, finally came to the three-point line unbearable in this game. His move was undoubtedly telling everyone that he was already dissatisfied with the other players of the team and that he was about to do it alone!

So, at this time, he saw Olajuwon who was about to work alone, as the Jazz center player Polynis, and at this time he felt a little Alexander.

Because the outside teammates performed very well in this game, he did not have many opportunities to be bombarded by Olajuwon, which was relatively leisurely and relaxed. But now, when he saw Olajuwon, who was still calm, he looked at other Jazz teammates who had been pulled far away by other outside players of the Rockets. At this time, he suddenly felt that he and Olajuwon were left in the whole world!

This feeling even made him a little suffocated, especially when he saw the basketball that was constantly beating up and down on Olajuwon's hand, he suddenly felt that every time the basketball in Olajuwon's hand beat up and down, his heart beat faster. When he subconsciously took another step back to the inside, Olajuwon had already dribbled the ball and broke through!

What made Polynis a little bitter was that Olajuwon's breakthrough was not a speed flow, or that he did not accelerate at all, but walked towards him step by step!

That's right, I just walked over!

Polynis knew that his speed could not be compared with Olajuwon, so every time Olajuwon took a step inside, he would take a step inside. If he had the speed of Lin Han, he would stick it on it, but he knew that sticking it on himself would be like failure!

Olajuwon's way of breaking through is almost challenging his spiritual limits, or deliberately torture his nerves, especially when Polinis retreated to the free throw line and had no choice but to retreat, Olajuwon had really touched it up. In the end, when Polinis gritted his teeth and stuck it on Olajuwon's body, the Rockets center did not give Polinis a chance at all. He changed direction directly and then turned around suddenly accelerated and threw Polinis behind him. He easily broke through to the basket and then completed the dunk!

This is the iconic Olajuwon's face-frame offense! It is even more iconic than the so-called fantasy footsteps, because most inside players in the league have already failed when he completes this series of actions. If Olajuwon's back turns around and breaks through, the next series of actions will be Olajuwon's various complex basket steps that turn back to the opponent, and this is the so-called fantasy footsteps!

If you are simply fantastic footsteps, Olajuwon doesn't use much in the game, because there are not many people in the league who can make him fail to break through the entangled frame. After all, David Robinson is the best defense in the center forward frame in the league.

Polynis is naturally not a player of David Robinson, so after Lin Han watched Olajuwon's extremely relaxed breakthrough dunk, there was no expression on his face, as if it was taken for granted.

"Olajuwon is indeed preparing to take over the game!"

When Larry Bird saw the Jazz's huge defensive gap caused by the tight half-time tightening, Olajuwon completed an alternative "misplaced" attack with the offensive method of the outside line, he also laughed.

Because this is Olajuwon's response to Lin Han that he had predicted before, the Rockets' leading player will never allow his team to lose in this shameful way in the first game, and at least he cannot surrender at the end of three quarters!

Although it is difficult for Olajuwon to stick to the whole game with his outside style, and he may not be able to stick to the whole game, at least in this quarter, he will not allow the team to fail so much.

However, Olajuwon's offensive method is to test whether the Jazz continues to stick to their pressing defense. If they continue to defend like this, Olajuwon will definitely attack like this. At that time, Olajuwon and the Jazz will have physical problems. If the Jazz no longer insist on pressing at halftime, Olajuwon will naturally not choose such an offensive method. Although his technical ability is still there, he is no longer young after all!

However, no matter what, the Rockets found an alternative way to win in this game, so at this time, Tom Janovic on the sidelines was almost ecstatic after being a little stunned!

Although Olajuwon's approach was to slap Hong Guoguo, the head coach of the team, because the head coach was incompetent and could not find a solution, he used this way of playing to solve the problem. Just like when Jerry Sloan wanted to make Lin Han more team, but in the end the team was in danger of losing and he could not find a way to win, Lin Han also used his unique way of playing to solve the problem.
To be continued...