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Chapter 423 Visiting Salt Lake City

Time entered 1987.

This is a year that makes Louis feel emotional.

If you don't care about the month, then today is the tenth year he traveled through.

From 1977 to 1987, ten years passed in a flash.

In the first month of the new year, the Knicks were scheduled for a six-game streak.

The first away game of the Sixers is Salt Lake City, Utah.

The opponent is the Jazz, another team with an unpredictable future influenced by Louie.

The current Jazz team is also considered a strong team in the West, ranking fourth. They sent away Adrian Dantley in the summer and officially helped Karl Malone with great potential.

It's just that there is one less man named Stockton beside him, and there are a few more guys such as Vinier Johnson, Antoine Kyle, and Mark Price.

In terms of strength, Venier at this time and Price in a few years are not inferior to Stockton.Speaking of Price alone, he may have been stronger than Stockton in his prime.

But they may all be a little worse than Stockton.

That is Evergreen.

The special thing about Stockton is that he has maintained his competitive state at a high level for many consecutive years, which happens to match Malone, one of the oldest players in history.

It is precisely because of the pairing of Stockton and Malone that the Jazz have been able to maintain their competitiveness for so many years. Even during the period from 1995 to 1999, when they should have aged, they showed stronger competitiveness.

At noon, Nix entered the hotel.

Meetings, preparations, training, half a day has passed.

After sunset, it is necessary to seriously prepare for the game.

Salt Palace/Salt Lake City Stadium (Salt Palace), the Knicks arrived an hour early to adapt to the venue.

As the name suggests, the salt palace looks very "salty" with the color of the floor.

The staff of the arena adopts a light yellow floor color scheme, so that every guest who comes here is like a NetEase cloud user who is depressed on time at 0:[-] every day.

Unfortunately, the fans here are full of passion.

Because the Jazz are the only professional sports team they have.

Even with poor results in previous years, their love for the team has not diminished.

This love reached its peak after almost losing the Jazz.

Former Jazz owner Sam Battiston had suffered financially for the past few years before Larry Miller took over, but he still managed to keep the team in Salt Lake City.

Inside the league, there are many people who want the Jazz to move to Las Vegas.In fact, the Jazz played a lot of the regular season there in the years leading up to Miller's arrival.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's famous skyhook over Mark Eaton, which surpassed Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record, took place in Las Vegas.

It is the "second home court" of the Jazz.

In any case, the Jazz stayed, and the fans love them even more, no matter what the record is, as long as they are still there.

Louie went to midfield and shook hands with Jazz coach and general manager Frank Lydon.

The two powerful men meet in midfield.

Louie was very friendly: "I already feel the enthusiasm of Salt Lake City."

"There's still a lot you don't know about us here!" There are many old-school coaches who don't like Louie, and there are also many coaches who have a good personal relationship with Louie.

Lydon is one of them, he's an interesting guy.

But Layden is also an old-fashioned coach in Louis' impression. He not only regards himself as a coach, but also as a parent.

His coaching philosophy is not to make players great athletes, but to make them good people.

Just because Karl Malone never messed with underage girls after he came to the Jazz, at most he molested the wives of young teammates in the future, which fully proves that his work is fruitful.

Back on the court, tonight is another truce night for Dell Ellis.

He can't fight because of the Cleveland lawsuit.

The Jazz's starters are Vinier Johnson, Bob Hansen SG, Darrell Griffith, Karl Malone, Mark Eaton.

The Jazz also has some obvious problems with the lineup.

They started without a small forward, similar to the Celtics when Bird was absent, and started with a three-guard outside.

Every time he sees a back three, Louie suffers from stress disorder.

That's right, the memories of the 2019 World Cup come back again.

To deal with the Jazz's lineup, Louis is very relaxed. The Knicks' starting lineup is Stockton, Wilson, Tyrone Corbin, McHale, and Ewing.

At the jump ball, Eaton made Ewing look like a junior.

There was a problem with the Jazz's offense, and the ball could not be passed to the key person.

Griffith didn't open up the space. Vinier wanted to pass the ball to Malone, but the pass was wide.

The Knicks steal the ball and counterattack.

Wilson dunks one-stop.

2 is better than 0
"Dr. Dunk" Griffith made a three-pointer and hit the iron.

Louie was a witness to Griffith's ascent to the top of college and then years of struggling in Utah, where he took on more burdens too soon than he could bear.

Playing and playing, the spirituality of college has disappeared, and he has become a mediocre scorer who dunks a few shots every game to please the fans, and shoots a few shots to score 20 points.

The ball hit the iron, but the rebound rolled to the position with the most people.

Eaton shook off his possibly [-]-meter wingspan and hit the ball.

Malone caught the offensive rebound and went straight to the basket. His powerful muscles looked extremely beautiful, and McHale's defense was not enough to resist him.

2 is better than 2
The Jazz have a lot of defensive features. They know that the Knicks' N.UCLA system will have a lot of pick-and-rolls. Eaton's basket protection is the best in the league, but his movement is a shortcoming.

The pick-and-roll offense is naturally restrained by this kind of monster with inflexible feet.

So the Jazz lay flat, pick and roll whatever you want, Eaton's foot moves out of the penalty area and I lose.

They had Malone bluffing and jumping from the high post, which didn't work very well.

Wilson runs around the Exchange Ricky (high post dynamic offense), gets a chance at the top of the arc, catches a [-]-pointer.

"Shh!"

5 is better than 2
"Benj, don't patronize yourself." Louis reminded, "Pay attention to the position of your teammates."

Wilson nodded and quickly returned to defense.

The Jazz counterattacked extremely quickly, trying to take advantage of the chaos.

Griffith didn't look behind him, and wanted to dunk when he came over with the ball.

That's what Louie said, the Jazz killed Griffith's aura, he was a very smart and very aggressive offensive player in college.

Now, he only has aggression and no spirituality.

Griffith wanted to ignite the scene with a dunk, but Ewing's return was even faster.

His dunk was blocked by Ewing.

The ball hit the floor, was picked up by Stockton, and flung from the backcourt to the frontcourt.

Wilson made another dunk and scored 7 points in the opening game.

7 is better than 2
Malone under Layden's offense is very dependent on personal ability.

There is no comfortable pick-and-roll system, and even if there is, people like Vinier and Griffith are not players who can play pick-and-roll.

Malone flicked the ball and stopped suddenly with one step.

This kind of shot has a high degree of difficulty and is difficult to hit.

Stockton fed the ball to Corbin this time.

There was no defense ahead, and Corbin also played a fast break dunk.

9 is better than 2
Layden reluctantly asked for a timeout and replaced Vernier. He failed to meet the requirements and the offensive organization was a mess.

The man who replaced Vinier was Mark Price.

The Knicks lineup remains unchanged.

Price averaged 20 minutes per game in the Jazz, but he has not yet shown a sufficient level. His shooting percentage is only 5%. He is still adapting, but his assist numbers are very impressive, averaging [-] assists per game.

Unlike Vernier, who is a shooting guard and a point guard, Price is a natural organizer.

He made a good pass to Griffith.

Griffith dribbled to the hoop and evaded Ewing's blocked shot to score.

4 is better than 9
That one ball for Vernier wouldn't have made such an appropriate pass.

The same pass, changing the personal pass is very different.

The Knicks let McHale create a dislocation through 2 High Rip.

But the dislocation caused this time feels very ordinary. Originally, the matchup against Malone was good. After running the tactics, the one who came back to face up was Eaton, who didn't leave the penalty area at all.

Can McHale beat Eaton?
As Louie was thinking, McHale made the pass.

He passed the ball to Ewing at the basket, but Eaton turned around and blocked Ewing.

Ewing snatched the ball back by himself and attacked again.

This time, Eaton jumped and blocked the shot for the second time.

Ewing grabs another offensive rebound and Eaton hits it all.Ewing's golf quotient, who was capped twice, has been cleared, and his mind is only thinking about how to fuck Eaton.

He was thinking about it when he heard a whistle.

24 seconds offensive violation!
"What is it?" said Tomjanovich speechlessly.

Louie sneered loudly: "It's just that my brain is not working well. I'm so fucking god! Why didn't John Thompson teach him to watch his offense after four years of taking him with him?"

Ewing argued dissatisfiedly: "I didn't have a watch when I played games before!"

"Are you fucking making excuses? You were blocked by the opponent several times in a row. Don't you know that you don't have time? You're still thinking about life with your back on defense!" Louis Yitong's verbal mental attack made Ewing extremely angry.

Just in time, the Jazz's ball hit Eaton's hands.

Just now, he performed a standing hat.

This time, he made another terrible stop button.

Ewing was pressed down by him and couldn't get up, it was hard to resist.

Jazz gradually recovered, but Ewing knew that Louis was dissatisfied with him.

He looked at Louis's position, and found that there was a mockery on the other side's face, and he shook his head resentfully, as if he had become a parallel importer who disappointed everyone.

Ewing yelled.

"Give me the ball!"

When some people are angry, their combat value increases, but Ewing is not one of them.

He didn't run tactics and chose to rely on Eaton.

Seeing this scene, Louis was dumbfounded.

It’s as if Zhou Qi’s consciousness was blurred by Haddadi in 2016. In a certain round, he was in a low position. He wanted to use his weight, which had dropped to 94kg at the time, to back-hit Haddadi, who was at least 125kg⑴.
As expected, Ewing was hated again.

⑴If you think O'Neal's appearance of blasting Mutombo is very cruel, but in that round of the series, Zhou Qi was much worse in front of Haddadi.With Haddadi's stats of 30+20 per game, playing Zhou Qi is back hitting, hitting the basket casually, grabbing offensive rebounds if he doesn't score, and dunking in front of Zhou Qi (several times in a row).I can imagine that the worse thing than this is to let Zhou Qi in that state beat O'Neal
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