NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

On the court, the atmosphere was tense and enthusiastic, with the audience cheering one after another.

I saw Huamichi rushing towards the basket quickly like a nimble cheetah.

Jazz substitute Antoine Carr followed closely behind, but Hanamichi easily circumvented the opponent's defense with his excellent physical coordination and sharp reaction speed.

Just then, the tall Greg Ostertag stood in front of Hanamichi, trying to prevent him from scoring.

However, Hanamichi seemed to have expected this.

He held the ball with both hands, squatted slightly, and then made a simple and neat hook shot in the blink of an eye.

The basketball drew a beautiful arc in the air and fell into the basket accurately!

Instantly, the whole audience erupted in thunderous applause and cheers, and teammates ran over to high-five Hanamichi to celebrate.

Hanamichi had a pretty good touch in this game. In order to maintain the lethality of his jump shot, he tried not to use violent dunks that would destroy his touch.

Instead, he used more hook shots and layups.

Karl Malone's backup, 36-year-old Antoine Carr, was no match for Hanamichi.

Not only are they not as tall or as heavy as the others, the most serious problem is that they can't keep up with the others, and are fooled by the flowers swaying around.

Seeing this, Jerry Sloan decisively replaced Antoine Carr with 29-year-old Greg Foster after two rounds.

This slightly stopped Hanamichi's unbridled offensive.

But at this moment, the Jazz are already doomed.

Before the end of the third quarter, they were already 16 points behind the Raptors.

Even though the Jazz recovered a lot of points in the confrontational half-court positional battle and endless pick-and-roll offense.

But in the end, the Jazz lost to the Raptors 79:87.

After the game, media reporters flocked into the Jazz's player tunnel, intending to get first-hand information on Karl Malone's injury from the Jazz.

His small action of applying ice packs on the court attracted the attention of some people.

The truth cannot be hidden. That night, a reporter got first-hand information from the wife of the Jazz team doctor, the sister of his son's teacher's aunt:

Karl Malone's shooting hand is indeed injured, but it will not affect his subsequent games.

The Raptors were disappointed when the news came.

There is no doubt that a severely injured Jazz core will be much more beneficial to them.

After all, we have come this far, who wouldn’t want to fight for the O’Brien Cup?

And Karl Malone wanted the same thing.

So in the second game, he desperately attacked the Raptors' inside line and caused damage.

In order to cooperate with him, head coach Jerry Sloan even replaced Greg Ostertag with Greg Foster, who had a relatively good defensive effect on Hanamichi in the previous game.

Greg Foster is also a second-round pick who is good at interior defense and sudden attacks.

As a substitute player for the Jazz, he was able to suppress his offensive desire to an average of 3 points per game.

As an inside player, he has been able to maintain a 66.7% three-point shooting percentage and 83.1% free throw shooting percentage this season.

Hua Dao didn't expect that there was such a magical player. He kept chasing him after making one three-pointer throughout the game.

Once he was entangled with him, Karl Malone would definitely come over to double-team him, which made Hanamichi a little uncomfortable.

In addition, the touch in this game may have been borrowed from the previous game, so Hanamichi's outside jump shot percentage was not particularly accurate.

So Hanamichi also increased the number of times he went inside.

But I don't know what's wrong with the referee today, he was too harsh.

Hanamichi's three consecutive [explosive layups] did not result in a foul.

Instead, it was Karl Malone's strong attack on the inside that caused Ben Wallace to foul out early, putting the Raptors in a passive position.

In the end, the Jazz narrowly defeated the Raptors 85:81 and regained a point.

The bad news is that the Raptors lost a home game;

The good news is that Karl Malone's injury seems to be more serious!

In this game, because he kept attacking the inside, he had a lot more layups and even dunks.

This resulted in an aggravated injury to his dominant wrist.

Things seem to be moving in the Raptors' favor.

But in the third game of the finals, facing the Jazz at home, the Raptors performed poorly.

Except for Hanamichi and Doug Christie who remain stable, other players have been affected to varying degrees.

花道出手22次，命中9球，以53.7%的真实命中率拿下了26分15篮板6助攻2盖帽1抢断的全面数据。

道格·克里斯蒂出手12次，命中7球，以60.1%的真实命中率拿下16分4篮板3助攻1抢断1盖帽的数据。

其他球员，达蒙·斯塔德迈尔拿下16分6助；沃尔特-威廉姆斯8分6篮板2助攻；普奥珀耶-琼斯7分8篮板。

Other substitute players such as Carlos Rogers and Reggie Slater all scored in double digits.

Under the Jazz's iron-blooded defense, the Raptors scored the lowest score of the season, 81 points!

The Jazz, on the other hand, scored an astonishing 104 points, with the injured Karl Malone being the biggest contributor.

Just when all the media predicted that the Jazz would adjust their offensive spearhead in G3, Jerry Sloan, Karl Malone and the team doctor reached an agreement.

That is to let Karl Malone go all out in the next two home games.

Of course, this requires that the injury is under control, and Karl Malone is required to reduce actions such as dunking with the ball as much as possible.

If the team doctor or head coach finds that Karl Malone's injury is uncontrollable, he will be asked to receive treatment immediately and give up the next game.

The O'Brien Trophy is indeed very attractive, especially in the last decade of the 20th century when it was almost monopolized by the Bulls.

Many superstars are crazy about it but cannot get it.

People like [Admiral], [Flying Pig] and [Black and White Devils] in his own team are all eager to obtain this honor.

For this reason, Jerry Sloan bet the victory or defeat on these two home courts.

If they can successfully win both of their home games, the Jazz will have a 100% chance of winning the championship with a 3:1 victory.

This is not a prediction, it is a fact.

In the history of the NBA playoffs, there have been 3 times when a team was leading 1:13 but was overturned, including only one time in the finals.

That happened in the 2016 Western Conference Finals, when the Warriors reversed a 3:1 lead against the Thunder;

But when they were leading 3:1 in the finals, they were reversed by the Cavaliers led by James.

So, when Jerry Sloan's team won a home game against the Raptors, his crazy idea prompted him to discuss this idea with the team doctor, Karl Malone and a group of assistant coaches as soon as he returned to Salt Lake City.

In the end, it was Karl Malone who made up his mind to agree, and Jerry Sloan made the final decision.

That's why they had such a crazy idea. Now, the Jazz, who are leading the Raptors 2:1, have a home-court advantage, and they are only one step away from the finals championship!