In the past, the Jazz used rough fouls to affect the opponent's rhythm.

Not only do they not think this is wrong, but they think it is glorious and a tough performance.

The opponents don’t understand them. Teams that have the strength to defeat them rely on strength, calm response, and more accurate shooting... etc., relatively common ways to defeat the Jazz.

Normally, as an opponent, he is born with disgusting the Jazz's behavior.

Just like the bad boys army back then, the opponents were thinking about how to defeat them from the perspective of strength, and no one wanted to deal with them from the perspective of violence against violence.

The direct reason is that the other party has a villain.

Needless to say, the people from the Bad Boys Army, Malone of the Jazz is a famous villain, and there are many scenes of malicious fouls that make people deeply influential.

But the Lakers chose to go from another perspective. They don’t think they are using violence to defeat violence. In Zhang Hao’s words, we are implementing justice!

The defensive players of top teams actively defended Malone, because limiting Malone would be equivalent to half of the Jazz team.

But there are only a few top teams. Even for a team like the Spurs, David Robinson is unwilling to defend Malone anymore, and even unwilling to compete with him.

For stars of a team that are not that strong, they can’t win the championship and don’t have to consider the matchup in the playoffs. It’s good to be able to enter the playoffs. Losing one or two games in the regular season doesn’t matter if they lose one or two games - this is how most team players face the infamous team.

But tonight, the Lakers players have been very active and enthusiastically "implementing justice" since Zhang Hao's rough defense.

They believe that their rough actions are not to fight violence with violence, but to implement their justice!

This made the Jazz stunned...

Even Malone had never encountered such a situation. Thinking about the bad boys era, he did not play many times with the Pistons, but also quite a few times. In that era, the Jazz and the Pistons fought 17 times, with mixed results, and almost no major conflicts occurred. There were few skirmishes because both sides were afraid of each other.

Even the Bad Boys Army dared not deal with him like this, but the Lakers in front of him dared!

This made Ma Long not know whether he should do it if he wanted to find an opportunity.

Judging from the Lakers' posture, he believes that as long as he moves his elbow, the Lakers will dare to come up and beat him up!

Ma Long is not afraid of fighting, but it also depends on who the opponent is and at what time.

In this middle of the season, it would be just a win or loss in the regular season game; the opponent is the Lakers, a team that seems to play well in the regular season, but that's it.

Everyone in the Jazz thinks they are tigers who want to win the championship, and meet the Lakers who transform into evil dogs... For the Jazz who aims to win the championship, the Lakers are equivalent to a group of evil dogs.

This situation instead made Malone and Jazz players afraid to make big moves on the defensive end.

If there is a conflict, if there is really a fight, they will obviously suffer even more!

The older the world, the less courageous it is. It is not that they have lost their courage, but that they have more concerns.

Malone began to fear the Lakers' crazy mania, and Jazz players were also affected.

So, from the scene, the Lakers began to have the advantage! The score also confirmed this!

In the second half of the third quarter, Zhang Hao made a mid-range jump shot from the bottom line, and the Lakers led the Jazz 67-63 by 4 points!

The number of shots is getting fewer and fewer shots at the beginning. When the Lakers want to attack around him, his number of shots is limited by the opponent. Many shots are tactical and cannot be passed to him for a strong shot. From more than 3 minutes in the first quarter to now, Zhang Hao's shot frequency has been decreasing.

Especially after his big move foul at the beginning of the third quarter, igniting the flames of their Lakers' "implementation of justice", the defense he encountered became tighter and tighter, but he felt that the opponent's movements were not that rough.

On the other hand, their Lakers are the ones who are getting more and more rude!

However, the more this happens, the more Zhang Hao cherishes every time he goes out on his phone, and is very focused every time... What he lacks the most is concentration!

It was the Jazz's offense again. Malone received the ball after pick-and-roll and hit Zhang Hao's backward jump shot!

In the past half a quarter, in terms of mid-range, Zhang Hao, the Magician, Tang Yell Marshall and Jason Williams, who came on as the bench, both fiercely fought against Malone. When Malone got to the basket, Campbell rudely took it. It didn't matter if the foul was made, it was just to fight against Malone and consume Malone's touch.

Malone missed the shot, Campbell blocked Spencer, Donyere Marshall passed the ball to Van Exel, and Zhang Hao counterattacked!

Ma Long put up his elbows, but he didn't wave it out in the end...

The Jazz's outside line had already been ready to retreat from defense. In the first half of the third quarter, Zhang Hao took advantage of their Jazz's missed the shot and made a counterattack, and the Jazz kept him from counterattacking.

Van Exel made a quick push by himself, passing it to George Lynch who followed up, and George Lynch cut into a layup!

69 to 63, the Lakers led by more than 5 points for the first time tonight!

Sometimes, when you get used to one situation and another situation occurs, it still seems to be "cowardly", which is a big blow to the morale of a team.

Usually, in this case, Ma Long is next to the opponent's counterattack arrow to guard against the opponent's counterattack. If the speed can keep up, he will be suppressed by a rough body and cannot keep up. When the score is behind, he will be forced to reverse the situation, and will bribe and interrupt the opponent's counterattack with a rough foul.

But this time, Malone didn’t!

On the other hand, the Lakers have a rainbow of morale!

Zhang Hao learned something in this game - in addition to using dunks to stimulate the morale of the players, he seemed to be very good at speaking...

Rough and fierce, it is really a good defensive strategy. The Lakers actually restricted the Jazz's pick-and-roll offense in the third quarter!

In the last few minutes, the Lakers defended quite well. After three quarters, the Lakers led the Jazz 78 to 68 and 10 points!

In the third quarter, the Lakers only allowed the Jazz to score 14 points. On the other hand, they scored 26 points and had a net victory of 12 points in a single quarter!

Finally, in the final quarter, the Jazz's movements became rough after resting between the festivals.

After suppressing all quarters, the Jazz finally began to explode.

When both teams' movements became rough, what was the result?

After playing more than 8 minutes, the Lakers got 11 free throws and the Jazz got 10 free throws. The rough defense of both sides brought a lot of free throws.

At 8 minutes and 22 seconds in the fourth quarter, Zhang Hao got his sixth foul in this game and ran into it when he switched to Ma Long... Hearing the foul, Zhang Hao immediately remembered that he had already had the sixth foul and was about to be sent off, so he slapped Ma Long on the arm of the shooting.

This time, Ma Long was completely annoyed and pushed Zhang Hao into the chest, then pushed him up to Zhang Hao. After Zhang Hao stood firm, he also pushed back to him...

These two people were together and didn't let go of water, and the people on both sides couldn't hold on!

But the two didn't fight, and pushed each other with their foreheads for a while, and then they were pulled away by their teammates.

The so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, but is afraid of being stunned. It is fully reflected at this moment. When the young and smart one take the initiative to take advantage of this, the vicious tiger will avoid it... Both sides suffer, and he cannot afford to lose!

The referee warned the players on the field again, signaling Zhang Hao to commit a 6th foul and send Zhang Hao off.

The Lakers' bench was restless and cheered wildly to welcome Zhang Hao, who was sent off by the referee.

93 to 84, the Lakers are still 9 points ahead!

When he returned to the bench and sat down, Zhang Hao felt that he was exhausted. He just made up for the defense of Ma Long, so he couldn't even control his body, otherwise he wouldn't have pressed up and ate the sixth foul. He remembered clearly the number of fouls.

However, in the end, slapping Ma Long's arm seemed to have an effect. Ma Long stood on the free throw line and had two free throws again! This is M Long's second free throw tonight!

The importance of a top pitcher was reflected in the first attack after Zhang Hao was sent off.

The Magician replaced Zhang Hao and returned to the court, and the offensive running of the entire Lakers team stagnated!

Although the morale is very high, the running position is still not smooth.

Van Exel missed a strong mid-range shot!

At critical moments, he had no frame protection and no scoring ability. The team is not playing pick-and-roll at present. Jason Williams was replaced after the official timeout in the fourth quarter. Currently, it is a combination of Van Exel, Doug Christie, George Lynch, Magic, and Campbell, playing defense.

Jason Williams sat next to Zhang Hao and asked worriedly: "Aix, can we win?"

After playing for half a season with Zhang Hao, Jason Williams was gradually infected, and his enjoyment of the joy of winning and his desire for victory became increasingly deeper.

With a little change, Zhang Hao felt it from Jason Williams' question this time.

Zhang Hao had no choice now, and he didn't know what the result would be. He wanted to go up and play, and was very upset that time he failed to stop the rest of the defense and hit him... But now that thing has come to this, he has no choice but to look forward to his teammates winning the game.

However, looking at Jason Williams' expectant eyes, Zhang Hao was silent for a moment and said, "Jason, you must believe in the existence of light."

Jason Williams thought about the game that has been playing tonight until now, and he thought about playing for 27 minutes, 5 fouls, 7 points, 13 rebounds and 1 steal... What is the purpose? Why did he fight irritably until now in the second half?

For justice!

Jason Williams regarded the "light" that Zhang Hao said as justice.

Unlike Zhang Hao who likes to sit quietly on the bench, Jason Williams got the answer he wanted, stood up and cheered for his teammates loudly, and also led other teammates who were uneasy after Zhang Hao was replaced, all cheered for his teammates loudly.

The Jazz team is strong and seized the opportunity after Zhang Hao was replaced and scored a 7-2 wave!

Seeing that the score reached 91 to 96, only 5 points away, the Jazz's defense was more focused!

No matter what the process is, no matter what difficulties you encounter in the middle, as long as you win in the end, they will be the winner! The other party is the clown!

In the fourth quarter, Stockton made a three-pointer at a critical moment, and the Jazz chased the score to 94-96, with only two points left!

Defend, then score the last goal, drag it into overtime, and the Jazz will win!

At this critical moment, the Magician stood up! He leaned against Malone in the low post to ask for the ball!

With a very beautiful turn, the magician turned around and stuck the bottom line's shooting space, grabbed the ball, raised it, fixed the wrist, exerted force with his palm, and followed the upward jumping action. The magician's close hook hand threw the ball out...

The moment the Magician threw the ball into the basket, the Lakers bench was in full swing!

The sound of the Lakers booing as long as the offense started from the second half also quieted down at this moment.

The Jazz called a timeout! The players on the Lakers' court and players on the bench rushed towards the Magician.

After Zhang Hao was sent off for six fouls at 8 minutes and 22 seconds in the fourth quarter, the Lakers scored no goal in a sports game in three minutes. The only two points before the Magician scored was Van Exel's 3 free throws and 2 of them were won by van Exel.

At the most critical moment, the Magician turned around and scored at a close-range hook, and the Lakers finally scored! With 17 seconds left, the Lakers led the Jazz 98 to 94 and 4 points!

Although Zhang Hao did not rush up, he also stood up and applauded the magician. This ball was so critical!

The Jazz chased after wave of impact in the fourth quarter, and finally narrowed the gap to two points at the last moment. They were about to turn around at the last moment, but they were defeated by the Magician Xiaotian Gou this time!
To be continued...