After Miami defeated the Heat, Wang Jiexi led the team to two more away games.

After defeating the Suns and Warriors respectively, Wang Jiexi returned to the home court with his tired team.

December 10, Staples Arena.

The Lakers host the Utah Jazz.

Since the 1980s, the Jazz have been a frequent visitor to the playoffs. From 1983 to 2002, their winning rate in the regular season exceeded 50% every year, and they entered the playoffs for 19 consecutive years.

In 1997 and 1998, under the leadership of the "Utah Shuangsha", he reached the finals twice, but lost to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls both times.

Jerry Sloan, the current head coach of the Jazz, has always been a well-known coach in the league and was once the mentor of the "Utah Twins".

At the beginning of this season, the results were not ideal.

Deron Williams is missing, power forward Carlos Boozer is involved in trade disputes, and Andrei Kirilenko has yet to recover from injury.

Various reasons are intertwined, resulting in the Jazz, who originally had good paper strength, barely maintaining a record of 50% this season.

Off the court, Wang Jiexi was venting his anger on the players. Without him, after the Lakers defeated the Jazz today, they would lead the league with 20 consecutive victories!

Everyone was very excited, including Yao Ming and Kobe, who were not as calm as usual.

Especially Kobe, I don’t know why I’m so excited today.

At the beginning of the game between the two sides, the Lakers maintained the five-man starting lineup of Stephen Curry, Kobe Bryant, and Artest from the previous game.

The starters for the Utah Jazz are guards Deron Williams and Ronnie Brewer, forwards Matt Halprin and Carlos Boozer, and center Memir Okur.

On the bench of the Jazz sat Kirilenko, who had brown hair, blue eyes and a suit, and Paul Millsap, the second-round pick in 2006 who was a model of counterattack.

This summer, Millsap received a four-year, $32 million offer from the Trail Blazers, and the Jazz eventually matched the Trail Blazers' offer.

Since the start of the season, Millsap's performance has been worthy of the salary given to him by the Jazz.

He became the core of the Jazz bench and the Jazz's super sixth man!

Jump ball in midfield from both sides.

Hayes habitually lost the jump ball. The Lakers quickly returned to defense and did not give the Jazz a chance to make a quick move.

Deron Williams of the Jazz dribbled the ball slowly to the frontcourt, and Carlos Boozer came out to pick and roll with great understanding.

Deron Williams used Boozer's pick-and-roll to get rid of Stephen Curry, and then faced Hayes and passed the ball to Boozer with his backhand.

Boozer faced Curry and made a long-range mid-range shot.

"Whoa!"

Entered.

Wang Jiexi couldn't help but admire the two of them as they cooperated tacitly and skillfully used pick-and-roll tactics!

In 2007, under the coaching of Sloan, the Utah Jazz team of Boozer and Deron emerged with their unique UCLA system. At the beginning of the 2007 season, they swept the league and became the league's king of reversals and pitfalls.

There was a slight dip in the middle of the season. In the playoffs, they played seven games with the Rockets and eliminated them. In the second round, they easily defeated the Black-8 Warriors. In the end, they lost to the Spurs and stopped in the Western Conference Finals.

I just didn’t expect that this would also be the best result achieved by the new Utah Shuangsha.

In the previous life, the New Twins lost to the Lakers led by the Western Conference hegemon Kobe Bryant's wife three times. In the end, Boozer moved to the Bulls, Sloan resigned, Deron was traded to the Nets, and the Utah Twins announced their disintegration.

It can’t help but feel a little emotional, and at the same time it also proves to everyone the greatness of the classic combination of Karl Malone and John Stockton!

After the Jazz scored the first goal, on the Lakers' side, Yao Ming immediately beat Okur in the paint.

Seeing Yao Ming succeed in beating Okur so easily, Jerry Sloan immediately stood up and made a gesture.

Obviously, Jerry Sloan had already made tactical arrangements before the game against the Lakers.

However, when the Jazz attacked, Deron and Boozer used pick-and-roll tactics and hit a long mid-range shot from the outside.

"Whoa!"

Seeing the ball go in, Deron and Boozer high-fived in celebration.

Wang Jiexi also shook his head and looked at Curry's depressed look. There was nothing he could do. Although the pick-and-roll tactic seemed simple, after the evolution of basketball techniques and tactics, it would also be very applicable to the NBA league 10 years later.

So now Deron and Boozer split up and shoot outside, or Stoudemire and Duncan split up and move down the inside, or in the future, the end point after the pick-and-roll in the league will mostly be a pick-and-roll tactic with the ball holder.

The strategy of defending the pick-and-roll has been changing, but in the end it was proved that unlimited switching of defense is already the best defensive strategy.

However, unlimited defense changes require extremely high abilities from inside players. Today's league insiders are not like future leagues, which require more agile footsteps and faster speed from inside players.

So Wang Jiexi doesn't have a good method for pick-and-roll at the moment. He can't replace Yao Ming, right?

Of course, everyone knows that Yao Ming cannot be replaced, so Wang Jiexi can only replace Hayes as the starter, hoping that a short center like Hayes will use his flexible footsteps and speed to limit the pick-and-roll as much as possible.

However, judging from the Jazz's first few goals, it seems that the effect of Hayes on the inside is not good. We can only expect that the Jazz will not feel good in the next game.

However, the first quarter of today's Jazz game seemed to be pretty good. Through the combination of Deron and Boozer, the score was firmly tied with the Lakers.

But at the same time, the Jazz couldn't defend Kobe and Yao Ming.

In particular, Yao Ming is very efficient in attacking inside. If he does not double-team, he will attack and score points. If he double-teams, he will assist and continue to score for the team.

With the tactical bonus, almost every pass Yao Ming makes has a high probability of turning into an assist.

The first quarter of the game ended quickly, and the score was even at 30-30!

This is the first time since Wang Jiexi coached the Lakers that he has seen a team tie with the Lakers in the first quarter.

You must know that even the rockets and suns encountered before cannot do it.

Maybe it's because the Jazz are feeling better now, but given the presence of Kobe and Yao Ming, they were able to tie the score in the first quarter, and Deron and Boozer lived up to their reputation as the new "Jazz duo."
Chapter completed!