Basketball: Beginning with a double-kill high school James

Chapter 52 Battle Jazz Luxurious Defensive Group

The Jazz lost to the Mavericks on October 10, but it was an away game, and they desperately needed a victory to stop the bleeding when they returned home.

The Utah Jazz is the saddest team in the NBA90s. They entered the finals twice and became Jordan’s background board. But this can’t be blamed on others, because everything is doomed off the court.

This led to the Jazz's tragedy. Of course, apart from off-court factors, Jerry Sloan's stubbornness was also one of the reasons why they couldn't win the championship. He was too obsessed with the pick-and-roll tactic.

And this season, Malone wants to take advantage of the last bit of heat to go to the Lakers to form the F4 team, but the cloud of the Kobe Eagle County case over the City of Angels has not dissipated. The Lakers opened against the Mavericks. Kobe didn't play, and he didn't even make the roster.

The Utah Jazz's other core NBA historical assist leader has officially retired. Today's Jazz point guard is Puerto Rican Carlos Arroyo, who was the first guard in the Dream Team in the 04 Olympics in that historical space, and Ginobili took the second blood.

In the last game against the Mavericks, Sloan used the Spaniard Raul Lopez, but Nash beat him to scum. So in this game, the Spaniard was kicked back to the bench to watch the drinking fountain. Sloan wanted to use Arroyo's impact to have a certain impact on Li Qi.

When entering the Delta Center, home of the Jazz, Rich met Salt Lake City reporter Alema Harrington for an interview, "Rich, come to Salt Lake City again, how does it feel?"

The last time was the summer league, and Li Qi still won the summer league MVP trophy here.This is Li Qi's second visit to Salt Lake City. For this city where Mormons are everywhere, Li Qi really doesn't want to come once. If he was selected by the Jazz before, he would definitely refuse to report like Francis. Besides, in the 80s, when Wilkins, the essence of human movies, was selected by the Jazz, he had already rejected it. Then the Eagles used a bunch of rotten fish and rotten shrimps plus some cash to get the first superstar in team history.

"It feels good." Li Qi's answer was very perfunctory. Alema Harrington wanted to ask some other questions, but the former didn't give him a chance at all, so he could only let the other party go.

The Jazz's locker room is two levels compared to Portland. After all, the Larry Miller family cannot be compared with Paul Allen in terms of assets. It is really not easy for them to operate for many years without selling to others.

In addition to the Jazz replacing Carlos Arroyo today, the other four players are the four from the previous game: DeShawn Stevenson, Andre Kirilenko, Matt Harprin and Greg Ostertag.

The only good thing is that among the five Jazz starters, only Arroyo is capable of three-pointers, but Sloan, like Larry Brown, is the most disgusted by players who shoot three-pointers casually. Back then, the peak Jazz had a super shooter like the death ray gun, and they had to honestly hit two-point pick-and-rolls.

Esloan's basketball IQ would definitely not allow Arroyo to match him on the defensive end. After Li Qi started the game, he got the ball and dribbled forward. When he came to the top of the arc, he saw player No. 15. This person was Li Qi's first hurdle tonight——Matt Halprin.

This guy was the same height as Li Qi, and weighed five kilograms heavier than the latter, so it was not without reason that the Blazers' trainers made Li Qi gain weight every day, but no player around 201 weighed less than 105 kg.Li Qi's 100 kilograms still seemed too light.

Naturally, Sloan would not make the stupid mistake of Paul Silas. Before the game, he gave Harprin, who was born in rugby, an order to stick close to Li Qi, don't let him open the space to shoot, breakthrough is fine, there is Kirilenko inside, shooting is absolutely impossible.

"Matt played against the No. [-] pick at the beginning. The No. [-] pick in the last game played well. He completely suppressed LeBron James. I wonder if he can continue to be efficient in the face of Matt and Andre's defensive connection tonight?" Rod Huntley, as the Jazz's home announcer, still favors the Jazz, and this game against the Jazz was not broadcast on CCTV, because the Jazz's games are usually very slow, not good-looking at all, and the ratings are not high.

Li Qi still dribbled the ball with his left hand. After a tentative step, he chose to break forward. Harprin lowered his center of gravity. His eyes were on Li Qi's ball. Seeing that Li Qi was about to break through, the opponent also reached out to the ball.

"Steal, is this going to be a steal?" Michael Smith also began to yell. Matt Harprin is best at stealing fast breaks when he is close to you. His stealing ability is not much inferior to the Russians.

Li Qi's attention was very concentrated. At the moment of Halprin's shot, he took the ball back, pulled back, and lightly switched the ball to his right hand. He started from the right side and passed Harprin.

After Li Qi's speed increased by 7 points, it was really reflected. Kirilenko ran over from the inside and covered Li Qi like a big spider.

An attack passed two of the Jazz's best defenders in a row. Sloan's expression on the sidelines was very gloomy. He had watched the video of Li Qi many times in the last game, and he always thought that he had overestimated the opponent, but he still underestimated it. This guy's speed seemed to have reached a new level after one game.

The Jazz attacked, and Li Qi would naturally not face off against Harprin again. The Puerto Rican came in front of Li Qi. Li Qi saw him coming and stepped forward to lean on him. Arroyo was a little confused. This was just the first time he and Li Qi had fought against each other.

Arroyo took a step back and wanted to attack again, but he shuddered when he met the cold gaze of the coach on the sidelines, and chose to pass the ball to Kirilenko outside the inside elbow.When Kirilenko got the ball, Randolph retreated directly into the restricted area. He knew that the Russian could only lay up.

(End of this chapter)