Lone Rangers 102-77 Jazz, the real game ended in half-time.
In the seven-game, 4-game format of the playoffs, when the two sides fight to a 2-2 draw to fight for the crucial fifth set, we call it the "Battle of Tennozan" to highlight the importance of the game.
In the imagination of fans, Tianwangshan should be a hand-to-hand fight, the two sides fiercely confronted, alternately leading, eager to play until the last second to divide the winner and loser.
But after watching this Tianwang Mountain, I only have one feeling - just this?
It's like you burn incense and pray, bathe and change clothes, reach the realm of peace of mind, and forget both things, sit in front of the computer and double-click to open the D disk, find the familiar and unfamiliar hidden folder, enter the password that you may forget who you are but can't forget, and get ready to enjoy the video of the takahashi seiko and the sister flower contest that you got through the directions of the immortals when surfing the Internet a few days ago.
When the video opens, familiar music sounds: gourd baby, gourd baby, seven flowers on a vine... The sister flowers become brotherhood, and you break the defense in an instant.
The pants are all off, you show me this?
First, the beginning of the lone ranger
The Lone Ranger opened the first round, Doncic arced the ball and Powell blocked, Doncic burst in to attract a lot of defense, the weak side of O'Neal did not dare to let go of Bronson, Doncic passed to Powell empty pick- up.
The second round was still Tombo blocking, Doncic used the cover to enter the three-point line, jammed Bojan's position with his body, and then watched Gobert, if Gobert came up, he would pass to Powell who was down, if Gobert did not move, he could throw himself, and finally he threw the board hit.
Bronson then used Powell's cover to burst Locke to hit three-point shots; then Finney Smith picked up the frontcourt and hit three points himself, which is how the Lone Rangers' first 10 points came about.
With the exception of Smith shooting that three-pointer, all the rounds were related to Powell's cover. Giants spend more time on the field than small ones, so you must give him enough benefits to keep him in a positive mood. That's what the shark says, you want the big dog to take care of your home, you have to give it bones to eat.
So Doncic usually comes up to Powell in the first round, and then at 6 minutes and 40 seconds, Powell and Bronson hand over and then eat the cake empty, and the Lone Ranger stops the Jazz at the 12th point.
After the timeout returned, Powell handed over to Doncic again, Doncic fed him the cake for the first time, Doncic received the ball again, and the Lone Ranger scored the 14th point.
5 minutes and 30 seconds, East Bow blocked the launch of the sudden division of the outside line electric fan, the electric fan has a sample of hanging to Powell, the big white edge is in place in time, Powell did not eat the cake passed to the outside line Bullock, The Bullock electric fan Powell hit in, and it is fed twice in a row - do you want to go without eating the cake? Lone Ranger 16th point.
16 points in the half quarter, not much, but almost every round has something to do with Powell, who scored 8 points himself, half of the team.
But you look at Powell's momentum of covering on the offensive end, his footsteps moving on the defensive end, his willingness to protect the basket and protect his rebounds, that's probably something that the data doesn't show. But teammates can clearly perceive that people are emotional animals, and the player is first and foremost a person.
Gobert, on the other hand, scored his first point at 7:38, and Bojan threw a shot that missed Gobert himself and was fouled for steals from the front of the board, making one of two free throws.
The first athletic goal was with 2 minutes left in the first quarter, and Clarkson and Gobert blocked and then went down to eat a pie. It's hard to imagine that the first Jazz to pass gobert was Clarkson.
In fact, Powell only scored the 8 points at the beginning of the game, and Gobert had 6 of 7 shots, 17 points and 11 rebounds after the game, but who do you say will be the one who is more emotional and more willing to fight for the team?
The most emblematic of Gobert's mentality was the offensive jamming ball at the end of the second quarter, when Mitchell was clipped to O'Neal, who looked like he was about to throw in, but Gobert, who jumped up, touched the ball and eventually became an offensive jamming ball.
Why did Gobert touch the ball?
Because the ball bounced up and down the basket, it wasn't the first time to go in. Then he himself is also anxious, the defensive end has been beaten, the offensive end can not touch the ball, put you in a hurry.
There are always people who take Gobert's weak ability to attack independently under the basket as a reason not to give him a pass, but is Powell's independent offensive ability under the basket strong? Why is it that the Lone Ranger can feed Powell again and again, and you Jazz will only shoot three points?
Second, the Jazz's offense
The Jazz scored 77 points in the whole game, scored 18/18/19/22 in the fourth quarter, and did not have 20 points in a single quarter except for the garbage time in the last quarter.
Doncic scored 6-of-9 in the third quarter and scored 19 points alone, just as high as the Jazz's all-team score. In the face of such an unreasonable offense, how should the Jazz win?
But the Jazz hurt the most was not the third quarter, but the second quarter after 9 and a half minutes of the wave of 22-4, up to 8 minutes, the Jazz only scored 4 points, apparently they lost power again.
Of course, the Jazz power outage is not unusual, at the end of the season they lost the Clippers, lost the Warriors, lost the Suns are all big leads after the offensive power outage was overturned. And the offensive power outage is something that the three-point brigade will definitely experience.
The Jazz shot 2 of 17 from three-point range in the first half, shooting 11 percent, 3 out of 30, shooting 10 percent, so the Jazz can still win before they have a ghost.
When the Jazz couldn't shoot three points, they had only one choice left, Mitchell.
But in that year's series with the Rockets, Gordon proved that as long as he can keep up with Mitchell, the strength confrontation does not lose and then sticks to him, he will use his head iron to show you what is called "Iron Pot Stew Jazz". Coincidentally, the Lone Ranger also has such a person, the electric fan on the front line is fast enough, there is confrontation, and it is 10 cm higher than Mitchell.
So when he arrested Mitchell, Mitchell couldn't shoot on the outside, couldn't burst in the inside, didn't have the middle range, and he didn't have the option of passing at all. In the crucial second quarter, Mitchell scored 0 points on 4-of-15 shots, 9 points on 4-of-15 shooting, and there really is yours, Mikni!
In the first round of the 8-group series, I thought that the most chilling home team fans were undoubtedly the Nets, but seeing the Jazz's performance, I was vague...
The two teams put together actually have a sense of seeing each other and hating each other in the child period, if Durant, Irving and Mitchell are put on a team, the sourness is definitely more exciting than the original foot sauerkraut.
I have only six words for jazz: Destroy, hurry!
Lone Rangers scored 3-2 Jazz!
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