The moment Wang Feng's entire body completely passed by Royce O'Neal, the latter turned around and chased Wang Feng in vain as if he was an afterthought.
As for the Jazz's inside line, Gobert seemed to have judged the outcome in advance and was already standing under the basket, waiting for it.
Gobert is 2.16 meters tall and has long arms. Although he will have some problems due to his slow footsteps when the defense is small, he is ultimately the top interior defender in the league.
Wang Feng was confident that he could overpower Gobert and score the ball by forcefully taking off from the basket, but such a choice was risky.
One is the risk of being defended by Gobert or even being blocked, and the other is the risk of injury under such intense physical confrontation.
Although Wang Feng has 99% endurance, he will try to avoid such intense physical contact attacks in fierce competitions such as the playoffs.
If he is a player like Giannis Antetokounmpo or Zion Williams who is not good at shooting and can only rely on rushing to the basket to score, his three-point and mid-to-long-range shooting abilities are obviously better.
It's higher than the basket, and most of the badges are shooting types, so there's no need for that at all.
Wang Feng, who quickly rushed to the free throw line, stopped suddenly, took off, and shot a jump shot.
Gobert was far away from him under the basket, while Royce O'Neal behind him moved a beat slower. He could only watch Wang Feng take the shot and hit it accurately.
"brush!"
The basketball swiped the net into the basket neatly.
Wang Feng's shooting ability after dribbling is 97, and his mid-range shooting ability is 96. Although the position he chooses to shoot is at the free throw line and is not within the scope of the badge hot zone hunter, his shooting with the blessing of super high attributes is still as stable as an old dog.
2:2.
Although it was just an attack, the head coach of the Jazz was already a little restless.
How should Wang Feng target him?
This is a question that the entire league is studying this season.
Super scoring ability, a rebounding sense that is not inferior to that of inside players, and a passing IQ and ability that is comparable to top point guards.
Wang Feng is like an impeccable machine on the court, unable to find any flaws.
When facing a double team, you can pass the ball and assist. When facing a single defense, if you stand a little further away and raise your hand, you can hit a pull-up three-pointer. If you stand too close, you can pass you.
This is also the reason why Wang Feng was able to exaggerately average a super triple-double of 40+13+11 per game in the regular season.
Putting aside the triple-double average, just averaging 40 points per game is shocking enough. This is a miracle that even the basketball god Jordan never achieved.
In the highest season of Jordan's career, he averaged 37.1 points per game and played 40 minutes per game. This was already the limit of his physical fitness.
With the blessing of three fatigue badges this season, Wang Feng averaged nearly 44 minutes per game. This is one of the main reasons why he was able to average 40 points per game.
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The Jazz's offense is still dominated by a lot of off-ball movement and pick-and-roll cooperation. Mitchell, the team's first core scoring point, does not have many suitable shooting opportunities under Wang Feng's defense.
It's not that the Jazz didn't arrange off-ball pick-and-roll screens for Mitchell.
However, the quality of the pick-and-roll without the ball is not as good as the pick-and-roll effect when standing still. For Wang Feng, who holds the Purple Hall of Fame badge as a pick-and-roll dodger, it cannot produce any blocking effect.
Often, after Mitchell had been running hard for a long time, he would look back and find that Wang Feng was still following him closely, not leaving even an inch.
This resulted in that in the entire first quarter, Mitchell only took 3 shots, hit 1 ball and scored 2 points.
As the Jazz's leading scorer, Mitchell averaged 26 points per game in the regular season. In the first round of the playoffs against the Mavericks, Mitchell averaged 31.8 points per game in 5 games, and his performance was not inferior at all.
Doncic on the Mavericks' side is the biggest contributor to the Jazz's ability to easily enter the second round.
But now, the strongest scoring point was only 2 points in the first quarter, which was restricted by Wang Feng's full coverage. Therefore, the Lakers established a lead in the first quarter, 31:27. Although it was only a 4-point advantage, it was already
A good start.
The game entered the second quarter, and the Jazz began to adjust their rotation. Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles came on the stage one after another to enhance the Jazz's offensive firepower.
The change of formation was indeed effective. At the beginning of the second quarter, the Jazz caught up and quickly tied the previous 4-point difference. However, the good times did not last long. With the Lakers' Wang Feng and Ingram,
Suddenly exerting force, the Lakers launched a 12:0 attack wave, and the point difference was widened from a tie to more than double digits in an instant.
Everything happened so suddenly that the Jazz couldn't react at all.
Wang Feng first used the pick-and-roll of his teammates to cover the three-point line and hit a pull-up shot. Then he stole Conley's pass and assisted Ingram to hit a mid-range shot. Then he hit a mid-range shot and two free throws in the two rounds.
The score difference was widened in this way.
The Jazz urgently called a timeout to adjust, but the gap that had been widened was only managed to reach single digits by the end of the third quarter thanks to the depth of the lineup during the substitute rotation.
But as the game entered the fourth quarter, the Jazz completely lost hope of a comeback.
Wang Feng’s title as the King of the Final Quarter is not unearned. 15 points in the final quarter is just a standard performance. Sometimes, if his hand feels better, it is not impossible to score 15 points in the last 2 minutes.
This game didn't even wait for Wang Feng to show off his power in the last two minutes. Halfway through the time, the point difference between the two teams returned to more than double digits again.
As the game time passed by, the Jazz, seeing no hope of reversal, could only replace all the main players and give up the game early.
The Jazz fans at home were a little disappointed.
They are obviously the team with the best record in the Western Conference, but why do the Lakers play more like the first team in the Western Conference?
The Jazz never took the lead throughout the game, and at best the score was even.
You must know that the Lakers are a retarded team, lacking an All-Star player like Jimmy Butler!
But that's where the Jazz are.
The first place record in the Western Conference is only superficial.
In another time and space, the Jazz, who were also No. 1 in the Western Conference, faced the Los Angeles Clippers, No. 4 in the Western Conference, in the second round. Facing the dual-core Clippers of Leonard and George, they also lost the game with a total score of 4:2.
It is really difficult for a team that does not have top stars in attack and relies on the team to win the championship. In the past many years in the league, only the Detroit Pistons have done it once.
Of course, Mitchell is a promising new star, but he is obviously still a bit too young. He felt huge pressure when facing Wang Feng, and many of his basic offensive moves were severely deformed. Plus, he is blessed with a purple Hall of Fame-level defensive shock badge.
, how is it possible to maintain a normal hit rate?
Throughout the game, Mitchell took a total of 14 shots and only hit 4 goals, with a shooting percentage of 28.5%. He scored 11 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, and made 4 turnovers. It was a completely negative performance.
The Jazz's highest scorer was Bojan Bogdanovic, who played the forward position, with 21 points, followed by Gobert's 18 points and 14 rebounds, Jordan Clarkson's 15 points...
On the Lakers side, under the targeted defense of the Jazz, Wang Feng still scored a near-triple-double with 37 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists, shooting 52% from the field and 44% from the three-point range.
In addition to Wang Feng, players such as Ingram also performed well.
The Jazz's defensive attention is mainly focused on Wang Feng, and they do not pay much attention to the prevention of Ingram and others. Ingram, who is 2.06 meters tall, is known as Little Durant, and his mid- and long-range shooting is very stable.
He had an advantage against strikers such as Bojan Bogdanovic and Joe Ingles, making 9 of 19 shots and scoring 24 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
The loss in the G1 game made many people more convinced that although the Jazz ranked first in the Western Conference in the regular season, they ultimately lacked the foundation to make a difference in the playoffs.
In fact, before the start of the playoffs, the Jazz were ruled out as favorites by most people in their predictions for this championship.
Leaving aside the Nets, Bucks, Clippers, Warriors and other favorite teams to win the championship, the Jazz's probability of winning is even lower than the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers who are missing Butler.
The current situation does not surprise anyone. People who have watched the whole process of the game can only sigh.
"It seems that compared with the league's top superstars like Wang Feng, Mitchell still has a big gap."
"Mitchell, who averaged 31 points per game in the last round, could only produce 11 points on 4-of-14 shooting when facing Wang Feng, which is obviously seriously unqualified. The Jazz want to go further in the playoffs in the future.
Far, the current lineup alone is very difficult..."
"However, we can also see from this game how strong Wang Feng is. The Jazz's defensive system is completely built for Wang Feng. Royce O'Neal, who can't defend against sudden shots on the outside, and Gobert, who is always ready to help defend inside, form two teams.
There is a line of defense, but it still can't stop Wang Feng's scoring. I'm afraid there are no players in the league today who can stop Wang Feng."
"How to limit Wang Feng's scoring will be a question that the Jazz, all opponents in the Western Conference Finals and even the Finals must think about!"
In this atmosphere, April passed, and the G2 series continued on May 1 at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, home of the Jazz.
After two days, the Jazz made some new adjustments to the tactical system and applied them in this game.
They used a double-team tactic against Wang Feng.
Once Wang Feng receives the ball from the outside, Bogdanovic and Royce O'Neal will immediately double-team, without giving Wang Feng any time to react.
Even while executing the double-teaming tactic on the outside, Gobert was already ready inside to prevent Wang Feng from using his strength to break through the double-team under physical confrontation.
It is not that other teams have never used such extreme defensive tactics, and there are even classic examples that prove that such defensive tactics are not successful.
Wang Feng is not afraid of double teams. His strong strength allows him to stabilize his body when faced with double teams, calmly find his teammates' open positions and pass the ball out.
The result of the double-teaming was that the rest of the Lakers blossomed more, and the point difference became wider and wider.
But even though they knew this truth, the Jazz still chose to take a risk. What they were fighting for was that the other Lakers players were not as abnormally accurate as Wang Feng.
Clearly the Jazz are overthinking this.
It is possible for other Lakers players to have poor touch, but Wang Feng has a badge specifically for this situation, a purple Hall of Fame-level ten cents.
The effect of the ten-cent badge is to increase the opponent's shooting percentage when passing the ball to an open player, and the lower the shooter's shooting ability value, the higher the bonus effect.
Just relying on this badge can forcibly upgrade everyone in the team to the level of a standard shooter. Of course, the premise here is that the players are in an open position.
Wang Feng knows this very well, and the Jazz's double-teaming tactic requires the cooperation of two outside players, which will inevitably lead to an open position.
The Lakers' five positions, even excluding Wang Feng, the other four starters all have the ability to shoot three-pointers, including Kuzma and Lopez in the paint.
Therefore, after the Jazz used the double-team tactic, Wang Feng immediately educated the Jazz management with exquisite passes.
In the first quarter of the game, Wang Feng only took 4 shots, hit 2 goals, and scored 6 points on 2 of 2 free throws. However, he sent out 7 assists in a single quarter.
The Lakers players who received the pass from Wang Feng seemed to have divine help and could shoot whatever they wanted.
In the first quarter alone, the entire Lakers team scored 39 points, while the Jazz only had 30 points, and the point difference was almost double digits.
In the second quarter, Wang Feng sent out 5 assists, and the point difference between the two teams officially reached double digits.
By this time, the Jazz had already sensed something was wrong and gave up the double-teaming tactic and instead strengthened their defense against other Lakers players, but it was already a bit late.
As soon as the pressure on Wang Feng's defense was reduced, he immediately started to attack with the ball. The Jazz were miserable with various scoring methods.
This is really incomprehensible.
The defense is unstoppable, and there is no sharp spear that can break the shield on the offensive end.
Mitchell's performance in this game was much better than in G1. He was slightly adapted to Wang Feng's aggressive defense, but he was only slightly adapted. His shooting rate was still below 40%, and he was unable to effectively help the team.
Score.
In the end, Wang Feng scored a huge triple-double with 26 points, 16 rebounds and 21 assists in a single game, setting a new playoff record and becoming the first player in history to score 25+15+20 in a single game in the playoffs.
It is not uncommon to exceed 20 assists in a single game in the league's playoffs. The current general manager of Wang Feng's Lakers team, Earvin Johnson, has done it 10 times in his career.
John Stockton, who ranks first in the history of assists, has also reached 20+ assists in a single game four times, and once scored an incredible 23 points and 24 assists.
But while scoring and assisting 20+ times, he can also rebound more than 15 times. Throughout the history of the league, no one has ever done this!
Wang Feng quietly set a new league record and gave the Utah Jazz a 0:2 score.