(The third update is delivered)

On June 1, 1994, the third game of the Jazz and Rockets in the Western Conference Finals. This game was also the first game for the Rockets to return to home, and of course it was the first game for the Jazz away.》.

There is a lot of information to be pondered about before the game, especially when both teams' outside cores are suspended. This is a game that is very difficult to determine how it will run.

Because of Lin Han's absence and Drexler's poor performance in the first two games, for many Rockets fans, they expect their team to be able to play a turnaround battle without Lin Han's absence.

For Jazz fans, because the team's tactics in the first two games were correct, even if Lin Han was not there, and Drexler, the Rockets' strongest point on the outside, Jazz fans did not think that Lin Han's absence would tactically affect the Jazz.

Since it cannot influence the Jazz in tactical terms, it means that the Jazz still has tactical advantages. Having a tactical advantage will naturally make Jazz fans more confident that their team can defeat the Rockets away. Some Jazz fans have even swept the Rockets 4-0, and then swept the Knicks in the finals to win the team's first championship in history with a record of complete playoff wins.

The Jazz won the championship in the playoffs. With the terrifying dominance of this team in the regular season, it is true that only by winning the playoffs and winning the championship can we deserve the first record in the history of the Jazz in the regular season. However, the playoffs and the regular season are different after all. The Jazz fans' ideas are extremely arrogant, but it is very surprising that there are not many fans with such ideas at all. There are even many!

A game, especially a playoff, can make fans of both teams more optimistic, which is an incredible thing. After all, in the playoffs, the two teams always have to separate the top and bottom. If the two teams are clearly distinguished, one side will naturally have a fan of confidence and the other side will not be optimistic, and if the two sides have similar strengths, then in such a key series, the fans of both teams will not be optimistic.

But this is the fact now. Because Lin Han and Drexler are absent, no one can predict what the game will be. Since no one can predict what the game will be. No one knows who is stronger and weaker than these two teams, it is not surprising that fans of both sides think about the benefits or both sides think about the benefits.

But no matter what the idea is, when the game starts and the two sides really exchange fire, the answer will come out, and the answer to this game is just unimaginable!

"Incredible, really incredible!"

"It's really incredible that the Rockets actually found all the decline in this home game?!"

"Is our opponent really the Jazz that is simply invincible in this game? Is it really the Jazz that suffocates?"

"12 points. 12 points. We actually led the Jazz 12 points shortly after the fourth quarter! This is 12 points!"

Before the start of this game, the Rockets fans were very optimistic because they would not be optimistic. If they lose in this game, the Rockets will fall behind 0-3 to the Jazz. With Lin Han absent, the team lost. Then Lin Han comes back and Drexler comes back. With Lin Han suppression of Drexler, it would be strange if the team can win. The most likely situation is that after losing in this game, the team was swept directly by the Jazz!

Although the Rockets' playoff results for the best seasons are lukewarm, they have already reached the Western Conference Finals. And finally, with Jordan missing, everyone competed for the championship. There are not many opportunities. In this case, the team's championship won't be won, and in the end they were swept by the Jazz. It's really hard to get the face.

So, even if the Rockets are really not optimistic in this game, the Rockets fans must not really think so much. So after Lin Han was suspended, their mentality was good, it was really good, and they were full of hope for this game.

But no matter how optimistic the Rockets fans are, they may not be able to imagine that the Rockets will play like this at home in this game!

The Jazz were beaten by the Rockets in the whole game! There was almost no fight back, and the Rockets led from the beginning of the game until the fourth quarter, and it seemed that they were likely to lead until the end of the game, because after the start of the fourth quarter, the Jazz now, just like the Rockets in the previous two games, there was no hope of the team winning!

With the strength of the Jazz, even if this team does not have Lin Han, they will not be suppressed by the Rockets in the whole game. After all, the strength of this team is really not weak. Even without Lin Han, the strength of the Jazz is still in the Western Conference Finals. However, this game was shocked by the Rockets from the beginning. This is not because the strength of the Jazz players is not good, but they did not expect that in the first two games, they would have been so desperate, and the speed of failure would be incredible!

Although Lin Han was absent in this game, the Jazz, which had a tactical advantage in the first two games, naturally could not change their tactics. Since Lin Han is gone, let Elliott start.

Although Elliott is not as strong as Lin Han, this former Spurs All-Star player is a player of the same type as Lin Han. He can attack, defend, break through, speed and shoot, and his ball-holding attack is also very good. It can be said that he is a completely weakened version of Lin Han in addition to his height. Jerry Sloan mentioned him from the substitute to the starting lineup, which did not destroy the Jazz's overall tactical style.

With Elliott's strength, although he cannot completely replace Lin Han, Elliott has absolutely no problem facing a rookie defender Kassel. After all, in the NBA, not every rookie is from Lin Han or Hardaway and Weber, and there will not be many young people with big hearts. The Jazz will definitely not be so unlucky to meet a rookie with a big heart with a low pick, so letting Elliot press Kassel can be said to be a strategy that seems to be without any omissions.

In this case, even without Lin Han, the Jazz are not afraid of the Rockets at all.

What Jerry Sloan or the Jazz didn't expect was that all the results they predicted before the game did not predict that Elliott could not press down on Cassel. This was not because Elliott's overall strength was not enough. In fact, Elliott's strength was very strong and indeed comprehensive. But what he was stronger was offense. Although his defense was good, he did not reach the level that could force Cassel to death. Especially the Jazz really underestimated the strength of this rookie!

For teams that play tight, one pointing out a problem is a very big problem. If the Jazz team does not have a player who has strong assisting defense capabilities like Mutombo. One pointing out a problem is likely to collapse directly, and in fact, how could the Jazz team have only one pointing out a problem in this game!

When the Jazz are playing pressing, they can't kill Kassel. Although this rookie is indeed not experienced enough, he can fight and rush. The Rockets don't need much experience. As long as he can break up the Jazz's defense line, it's enough. As for offense, it can be handed over to Olajuwon!

In this game, the Jazz players were playing tight pressing. Not only were they hit hard by Cassel, but Olajuwon was also like the previous games. He kept eating Polynis alone. However, what was different from the previous games was that when Olajuwon was forced to eat Polynis, there was no player in the Jazz who could play fast break like Lin Han and respond to Olajuwon!

Elliott was originally expected, and this player is indeed excellent in offense. He is a full-round player, a full-scale player with better off offense than defense.

But what makes the Jazz speechless is that his impact is indeed very good, but compared with Lin Han's impact, he is not at the same level. Although Elliot's offense is very strong, his offense is strong in his comprehensiveness, and all his offense and defense have reached a very good level. However, if he only takes out his impact to bombard the Rockets' defense line, he has not yet achieved the strength to be able to hit the Rockets' defense line with a single person!

This is also the second accident of the Jazz in this game. When they pressed, when the Rockets used Olajuwon to play, they could not find a player to respond to Olajuwon, which made the Jazz's offensive efficiency much lower than the Rockets' offensive efficiency.

After all, pressing and defense is a tactic to let go of the opponent's strongest points in disguise. If the offensive efficiency is not as good as that of others, then this tactic will fail completely.

In this game, the Jazz's pressing tactics failed from the beginning, and it was terrible. They couldn't make the attack and their defense were full of loopholes!

I'm afraid that Jerry Sloan and the Jazz have never thought that Lin Han would bring so many problems. When the pressure defense cannot be played, the Jazz can naturally play conventional tactics. For conventional tactics, because Lin Han is not there, this team can play pick-and-roll calmly, but the Rockets can also play the combination of internal and external lines calmly. Originally, xjbd (Battle Chicken [Battle]) Rockets could not play the Jazz, but now the two teams are competing for the team, so this is completely trapped in the Rockets' rhythm. In this case, the Jazz, who was fooled from the beginning, will perform well in the future in the future!

Although Karl Malone was indeed extremely active in this game. When facing Robert Hawley, the Jazz player almost played him anyway when he wanted to play him one-on-one. After all, although Robert Hawley is now a guest player, he is a player with the third position. Although he is stronger than Malone in height, the level of the two sides is too different in terms of strength. Therefore, Robert Hawley's defense against Malone alone was basically a failure in this game. However, facing Malone, a point that cannot be defended, the Rockets didn't care at all, because in addition to bullying Robert Hawley, Malone scored several times in this game and fought Olajuwon and was attacked by Olajuwon twice and became honest.

Without Lin Han, even Malone can't play in the inside now. How could other Jazz players hit the Rockets' inside to fight Olajuwon one-on-one? So, in the end of this game, the Jazz, who started playing pick-and-roll offense, slowly shot more and more and more and more, and when the Jazz's shooting more and more and more and more, the Rockets' defense also rose.

After all, when the Jazz can't hit the basket and the impact is completely insufficient, the Rockets' defensive players are really relaxed. Just force them to hold on to the Jazz players and don't give them any chance to shoot.

In this case, when the Rockets in turn use tight close-fitting defense against the Jazz, I'm afraid the Jazz would not have thought that this game would be like this!

Not to mention that Jazz players and coaches could not have imagined it, even Rockets head coach Tom Janovic, who caused this result in this game, could not have imagined it.

At the press conference after the game the day before yesterday, the reason why he was considered stupid to make trouble through the conflict between Lin Han and Drexler was definitely not just to let the team players find reasons to fail and not lose confidence in future games.

It is very important to prevent Rockets players from losing confidence in the game because of losing, but more importantly, he is really helpless about the Jazz's pressing tactics or Lin Han. Sometimes things are so helpless.

The Rockets are the same as the Jazz back then. The Jazz back then had a pick-and-roll mid-range shooting of thousands of years. The same is true for this Rockets. It has a thousand-year internal and external tactics of thousands of years of shooting on the outside, and its tactical style is extremely single. When the team encounters tactical problems, it is basically impossible to have other adjustment methods except for substitution adjustments.

Since he has to make a substitution adjustment, he is just going to do a big one. He really wants to try out what changes the Jazz and Rockets would have happened without Lin Han's influence?

When implementing this plan, Tomjanovic was really powerless, and this was the only way he could think of. He had thought about the many changes that Lin Han would bring about, but he never thought that Lin Han's absence would cause the entire offensive and defensive system of the Jazz!

"It seems that kid is more important to the Jazz than he thought."

Looking at the Jazz who were struggling on the court and looking at Malone who had no choice but to go to the basket and keep killing one-on-one with Olajuwon, Tom Janovic smiled playfully, and this was the first time he smiled after the start of the game.

Because after almost no hope was seen in the first two games, he finally saw a glimmer of hope that the team could win this round of the series!

Of course, at this time, Shuai Tang had found that the team might win this round of the series, but at this time Jerry Sloan felt that it was extremely bad.

The Jazz head coach is indeed not able to adapt to the game. Although the reputation he lost was finally recovered after the first two games was successfully "drawing from" the Nuggets' tactical style. However, although the reputation he lost was found, it was not realistic to give Jerry Sloan a qualitative leap in strength in such a short time. After all, conservative and radical are just styles. Jerry Sloan is indeed no longer so conservative, but this does not mean that he has become a godfather-level head coach such as Pat Riley, Chuck Daly and Cardinal in an instant.

Therefore, after he had no room for adjustment in personnel and no room for tactical changes, he was indeed a little confused!

"The Jazz's defense lacks a real outside leader and defensive player after the absence of Lin Han, and no aggression. Although Russell, Stockton and Elliott are not defensive loopholes, the lack of physical talent and defensive oppressiveness of the three make it difficult for them to play an effective press."

When the game was getting closer and closer, looking at the performance of the players on both sides of the court, Larry Bird also sighed and said, sometimes the NBA is very realistic, the tight defense should be played well, the defensive skills are not the first priority, the physical talent of the defensive players is the most important, especially the physical quality and oppressiveness of the leading players must be extremely strong, so that they can suppress the opponent in momentum. Among all the outside lines in the league, Lin Han's oppressive defense is the strongest!

Without Lin Han, the Jazz's pressing has no efficiency. Although many people did not expect this before the game, this is something that must have happened.

Because Elliot could not suppress Cassel in terms of talent, he could not force Cassel at all. And Elliot could not force Cassel, Cassel could help Kenny Smith and Maxville. In this way, Stockton and Russell not only had a leader who could help them. Instead, their opponents also had more helpers. In this case, their pressing holes were everywhere.

This is a defensive issue. Lin Han's outside defense, assisted defense and lead defense are indeed extremely important to the Jazz, and what is more important is not just defense, but also on the offensive end!

The reason why the Jazz have changed from a team that averages only 5 three-pointers per game in a season to one of the best three-pointers in the league is because Lin Han, whose three-pointers are the Jazz's strategic weapon. His outside shooting is the biggest weapon to open up the attacking space for the Jazz. In addition to his three-pointers, his impact is also very important to restrain Olajuwon. Without the pressure Ma Long faces, it is not at the same level at all.

So, when the game was finally over, Malone, who wanted to prove himself in this game, found that he had encountered a more difficult problem than Lin Han led the team alone to face Olajuwon. This Jazz player who originally wanted to prove himself in this game was a little confused. Especially when he finally overcame some fear of Olajuwon and rushed to the basket again and again to fight Olajuwon alone, the results he got were also very disappointing.
Chapter completed!