Basketball League of Legends

Chapter 77 Brian Russell
Although the Jazz fell on the floor of the Western Conference Finals last season, they seem to be stronger than last season this season. Karl Malone was in excellent form at the beginning of this season and currently ranks first in the league in points per game Third, after Michael Jordan and Jonny.And John Stockton's assists also rank first in the league, and even the Jazz's record is currently firmly ranked first in the West.

Faced with such an opponent, it is definitely impossible for the Magic to guarantee that they will win. Of course, it is impossible for them to surrender before the game has started. The Magic is well prepared for this game, not only Jonny took a game off, and even Anfernee Hardaway didn't play in the last game, and he still had a little injury.

But before the game started, the Magic got bad news. The team's vice-captain and starting small forward Dennis Scott was injured again, and this time the injury was not serious, at least he had to rest of the month.This makes the Magic feel helpless. Although Dennis Scott is not as important on the offensive end because of the appearance of Jonny, the injury of the starting small forward will still have some impact on the Magic.

And Dennis Scott started, and the top one can only be Nick Anderson, so the Magic's starting lineup in this game became the starting point guard Anfernee Hardaway, the starting shooting guard Jonny Lee, and the starting small forward Nick Anderson, starting power forward Horris Grant, and starting center Ronnie Secali.

Nick Anderson is very excited. He knows that as long as his offense and defense show a good state, he can sit in the starting position for at least a month. The defensive role of the team, maybe he can also snatch the starter from Dennis Scott, so that even if he can't play the starting shooting guard, it is not bad to play the starting small forward.

But what Nick Anderson didn't know was that after Dennis Scott was injured and John Gabriel, who was far away in Orlando, got the news, the pace of his trade was accelerated.John Gabriel decided to keep Dennis Scott after careful consideration. In his opinion, the Magic's bench lineup is equally important, and Dennis Scott can leave the team's bench lineup to lead the team.And sending away a Nick Anderson in exchange for a purely defensive player is enough. He doesn't want to make too much damage to the current team.

The game against the Jazz, especially the home game against the Jazz, is a thrilling feeling. The Energy Solution Arena is the most terrifying away game in the United States. The fans here are very fanatical. After a game, the coach wants to Arranging tactics, the voice can be hoarse.

Under such circumstances, Jonny walked into the arena in fear.

The Jazz's starting lineup is also their regular starting lineup. The starting point guard is John Stockton, the starting shooting guard Jeff Hornacek, the starting small forward Brian Russell, the starting power forward is Karl Malone, and the starting center Greg Ostertag.In this game, Jonny's opponent was not Jeff Hornacek, but Brian Russell.

In this game, the Jazz switched defenses against Johnny, and the outside single-defense player Brian Russell defended Johnny alone.The Magic also switched defenses against Jeff Hornacek, and Nick Anderson switched defenses against Jeff Hornacek.So although Jonny played as a shooting guard, his opponents on both ends of the offense and defense were Brian Russell.And for such a player without any offensive ability on the offensive end, all Jonny needs to worry about is that his offense is blocked by Brian Russell.

"Jonnie Lee, I'm Brian Russell, I'll guard you in this game!" Before the game started, Brian Russell said to Jonny solemnly.

But Jonny had a strange expression on Brian Russell's ruthless words, tilted his head, and said, "Just guard me? Then I can guard you too!"

As soon as Johnny finished speaking, teammates around him laughed. Everyone knew that Brian Russell had no offensive ability at all, and Jonny was actually going to compete with Brian Russell on who could defend whom. It makes people feel speechless, which is beneficial to Johnny in any way, because Johnny can be invincible from the very beginning.

And hearing what Jonny said, Brian Russell's facial expression was also very painful. When he thought about it, after he let out the cruel words just now, Jonny's response should be: "You won't guard against it!" Mine!" But he didn't expect that Johnny would compete with him to defend whom, which made Brian Russell very painful, so he had no choice but to speak again, and let out another cruel sentence: "Don't you have the confidence to break through? My defense?"

When Johnny heard this, his face suddenly turned cold: "Of course I have confidence, so you can take care of it. You can't guard against me in this game!"

"The game started, the Jazz got the ball, and they started the first wave of offense, Kevin, who do you think will win this game?" The commentary combination sent by NBC for this game is still Kevin Harlan and Craig Sager's combination.

"From the perspective of strength and status, of course the Jazz are the most likely to win, but the Magic is not without a chance. Whether the Magic can win or not depends on Johnny. It may surprise people that he is the only one in the Magic lineup. Therefore, I think that if the Magic wants to win this game, Rich Adubatu has to give Jonny more opportunities." Kevin Harlan roughly analyzed it, and for the Magic to win, is he right? Very promising.

On the court, in the Jazz's first wave of offense, John Stockton hit the ground and passed the ball, and Karl Malone ran back and took the ball and directly dunked.The Jazz's tactics are all kinds of pick-and-rolls, and the pick-and-rolls of John Stockton and Karl Malone are the most skilled ones.

After the Magic's offense, Anfernee Hardaway broke through and scored the ball. Johnny received the ball from outside the three-point line, but Brian Russell defended Johnny very closely. The point has already been brought to attention, Brian Russell is marking Jonny like marking an All-Star player.

After Jonny got the ball, he found that Brian Russell was marking him very tightly, and he didn't pass the ball immediately. Like Anfernee Hardaway, Jonny knew that he could still pose a great threat to the opponent's defense now Yes, you might get a better opportunity to attack with the ball, so Jonny took the ball, faced Brian Russell's defense, and rushed towards the three-point line.

Then he stopped suddenly, holding the ball with both hands as if he was about to make an emergency stop jump shot. Brian Russell was shocked when he saw this, and then jumped up to interfere with Jonny's attack.

But Jonny just feinted, took the ball and took another step towards the inside, and shot without defense.

"Jony's breakthrough, he made a shot! No, it was just a fake move, Brian Russell was completely deceived, and Johnny took another step, shot! Go in!"

With a swish, the goal was scored, and Jonny waved his hand and smiled at Brian Russell. This smile obviously meant to say: You didn't guard me!This annoyed Brian Russell a little.However, he had no choice but to secretly make up his mind to guard Johnny in the next attack.

The game continued, and both sides hit a 2-pointer at the beginning. It seemed that both sides were in very good condition.

(End of this chapter)