Chapter 38: Sloan's headache

　　On November 7, 1993, the Utah Jazz, who had just won two straight games this season in the Minnesota Timberwolves, left Minnesota and came to Seattle.
Seattle SuperSonics is now one of the league's most powerful teams. Last season was the third in the Western Conference regular season. The playoffs finally reached the Western Conference finals. Since the current Supersonics coach George Karl is the former Warriors' head. After the coach replaced the former supersonic coach kc-jones and came to this team, this team seems to be improving every year.
kc Jones, the legendary former Celtic coach, is not an ordinary coach. The teammate of Bill Russell and the Celtics in college but followed Russell as a player and won 2 ncaa championships. With the eight-time NBA champion, he was one of the Celtics' eight-time champions. The same guy is also the Olympic basketball gold medalist. It can be said that it is an extremely rare "slam" player in the history of American basketball.
And this guy's player career is even a fortune. The coaching career is also bullish, not only leading the Washington Bullets to the Finals, but also leading the Celtics to the Finals and winning two NBA championships. In the 9 seasons between the Washington Bullets and the Celtics, this guy led the team to five finals. If the total number of championships for players and coaches is added, this guy has 10 championship rings. If there are 12 assistant coaches, this guy is still an assistant coach and won the championship.
　　 And what about George Karl? This guy was originally coached by the Warriors. In the last season, he played 16 wins and 48 losses. The winning rate was only 25%. The unlucky guy was kicked out by the Warriors without ending the season. Finally, the current Warriors coach Don Nelson took his place. .
A failed head coach succeeds a very successful head coach, and this team is not an ordinary strong team. This supersonic has been the coach since Bixduff became the team coach 10 years ago. Is a regular playoff player in the West, not to mention, the Supersonics just won the NBA championship in 1979, in this case, George Karl wants to succeed here, he needs to face a lot of pressure Yes, and in the end, this excellent coach really made everyone fall through the glasses. This guy not only surpassed his two predecessors kc Jones and Bixduff, but also almost led the team again last season. The finals, copy the team's heyday glory.
And more importantly, the supersonics in the playoffs last season were stepped on the Utah Jazz. In the first round of the Western Conference playoffs last season, the Utah Jazz ranked sixth and won five games. Under the system, the Jazz defeated the Supersonics one game in the previous three games, and the big score came to 2 to 1. As long as they won the crucial fourth game, they will be able to black six, and the fourth game is the home of the Jazz. At that time, Sloan and the Jazz were full of enthusiasm. Although the regular season because of Stockton and Malone encountered the trouble of the Olympics, the team's regular season performance is not good, but as long as the playoffs can perform well, who cares about the regular season results.
But in the end, the Jazz were extremely disappointed. The key fourth game of the home game, Stockton, the top three point guard of the league was actually frozen by a young point guard named Gary Peton. The league may be the second best. Power forward Malone was also embarrassed by a young power forward Sean Camp in this game. Sean Camp sent three steals and five blocks in a single game, while Malone sent six turnovers in a single game. How can the Jazz win the game when the two heads of the team are performing like this? In the end, in a good situation, this team was reversed by the young supersonic.
In the Western Conference playoffs last season, he successfully challenged Stockton and Kevin Johnson, who were once the third-best point guard in the league, and Gary Paton, who is now the top three point guard in the league, let him reap the'gloves' Such a nickname also made Jeris long face, it can be said that he and George Karl's showdown in the playoffs last season was completely defeated.
　　 Therefore, when Lin Han came to Seattle with the team, he could clearly feel that the atmosphere of the whole team was not the same as before.
For example, in the past few days, every time I saw Lin Han, he would sneer a few words. The Mesozoic players of the team such as Humphries became extraordinarily honest today. The hard work and diligence are simply not ridiculous. Finally, Lin Han asked to find out, It turned out that the team’s loss to the Supersonics in the playoffs last season was not only that the team’s two players did not reach the best at the critical moment, but more importantly, the team’s middle-level players were completely exploded by the Supersonics. Dunton and Sean Camp are really dazzling as the sun rises, but these two young men are still not as good as Stockton and Malone. The two men lost their standard except for the fourth key match point. In addition, other games are normal, except that the two of them play normally for most of the time, and the others play completely abnormal for most of the time.
This is also the reason why the Jazz did not want to give up Lin Han even if he knew Lin Han’s various shortcomings this season. Sloan was pitted by these role players last season. For the team, these are usually able to follow. The team got some statistics, but the players who were totally unreliable at the critical moment were actually very disappointed, so it was only after Lin Han was brought in that, another former All-Star offensive insider Tom Chambers was made. It can be said Jazz’s two most important introductions this year were all offensive players at the expense of defense. Lin Han didn’t say that. Sloan didn’t know that the team’s retired center Mark Eaton was one of the best blockers in league history and the best in the league. Defensive player winner? Such a player retires, if it is a substitution, it naturally needs a gate that is also defensive to make up for such a position, but in the end Sloan's choice almost made everyone unexpected.
After defeating last season and being defeated and reversed by George Karl, the Jazz coach has changed his previous coaching philosophy. Although defense is very important, there is no final victory without an offensive defense. Last season and In the supersonic playoffs, the Jazz only scored more than 90 points in two of the five games, and three of them exceeded 85 points, which is really terrible. You know, the average Jazz scored more than 106 in the regular season last season. Points, ranging from 106 points per game in the regular season to almost 86 points per game in the playoffs, such a drop is enough to make a team's head coach desperate for many players in the team.
Of course, Jerry Sloan wanted revenge in this game. The strength of the Jazz this season has made great progress compared to last season. The firepower of the first two games was under the blessing of Lin Han until the point of frustration, which was also given Sloan has a lot of confidence. Lin Han, the player he advocated for introducing, really gave him a long face. Although he does not know how long Lin Han's hot state can last, no matter how, Lin Han's position in his mind at this time Even more than the team's three head Jeff Malone, even when Sloan even wants to add a defensive line to the team's starting line, he is beginning to wonder if he will take Jeff Malone from the starting position instead of Lin Han was removed from the starting position.
　　 "Jerry, I don't think I should make any separate tactics for Lin now?"
　　 At this time, Jerry Sloan looked at the jazz players on the training ground a little, and kept watching the team's assistant coach Phil Johnson, who was indeed very helpless at this time.
After the outbreak of Lin Han, the Jazz naturally treated him like a star. In NBA, the so-called star is that the team will give him a separate tactic. The team will cooperate with him in the execution of this tactic. It can be said that it is a very good Treatment.
However, this treatment has changed since he came to Lin Han. This Chinese kid couldn’t understand the complicated tactics that required several people to cooperate. The running position on the court was terrible. It seems that this Asian kid except singles and Other than simple pick-and-roll, it won’t happen at all, UU reading www. Even if uukanshu.com is a pick-and-roll, this guy's jumper after the pick-and-roll is still picturesque, but the low hit rate is awesome.
　　According to Mayfair Johnson's evaluation of Lin Han, I am afraid that this rookie will continue to play singles in the end, let other players cooperate with him is almost impossible to complete the task.
　　 It's just that this guy's success rate in the first two singles is really good, and he singled out the two rookies of Marshburn and Leder, but what next? Can he single-handedly win Payton, can he single-handedly win Pippen? And besides these guys, which nba team does not have a dedicated outside defender?
Under this circumstance, even when Jordan was head-to-head in the past, he was finally hit by a broken head. Finally, he met Mayer Jackson, the coach who can play single challenge. Isn't triangle's offense just let other players of the team cooperate with Jordan's single challenge?
It's just obvious that although heads-up also has tactics, Mayfair Jackson will, he will not Jerry Sloan, and let Stockton and Malone play heads-up with Lin Han. Can they be willing? Although these two are not too young, they haven't achieved success yet. MVPs and championships have not yet been completed. They will not sacrifice their data for Lin Han.
　　 Therefore, for a time, Jerry Sloan, who was thinking of revenge against George Karl, suddenly discovered that the team actually had such a big crisis and problem.
　　If Malone and Stockton remain at their peak for a long time, and Lin Han is only able to play tumor basketball, then the team will have a battle sooner or later.
　　 headache, this time Sloan's headache.