Chapter 182 Off the Field Again

“NBA Dynasty Sniper ()”

At this time, the Jazz, who also just arrived in Salt Lake City, accepted media interviews.

"Marlon, do you have anything to say about Feilong's opinion of you?"

Of course, Karl Malone is the focus of the media's attention. He is missing two front teeth and roared angrily: "He is too shameful. If he wants to use this method to damage our morale, he will not succeed."

"He thinks you're a fake superstar, what do you think?" the reporter asked more specifically.

"What's my career scoring total? What's my career field goal percentage? What's my career rebounding total? A rookie, how can he judge me?" the postman growled.

"He said you don't have the ability to attack with the ball, you don't have the ability to attract double-teams, what do you say?" a reporter asked.

"This is a tactical requirement. John Stockton is our ball holder. The tactical requirement is that I don't need to attack with the ball at all. I don't have the ball in my hand. How can I attract double-teams? He is slandering!" Malone roared angrily. .

"So in Game 3, will you attack with the ball?" Another reporter asked.

"It's the coach's business. The coach arranges the tactics, and I just need to execute the tactics."

Malone has not lost his mind yet, maintaining his final calmness, and did not boast that he will use the ball to attack to prove himself.

In fact, he knows that if the ball is in his hands, with the defensive ability of Feilong, he can block him ten times in a single game, and he can't hold the ball ten times. He doesn't have that ability at all. The coach is crazy They won't let him hold the ball.

This afternoon, the Jazz held a tactical meeting, and the atmosphere of the meeting was very heavy.

"Jerry, tell me, do we still have a chance to tie?" team owner Larry Miller asked seriously.

He is a native of Salt Lake City and started out as a car dealership. In 1985, he spent 20 million dollars to buy the Jazz team, which has continued to this day.

Jerry Sloan was a little silent and didn't immediately answer the question. What does this mean? Larry Miller knew very well that he was very disappointed.

At this time, Jerry Sloan said very seriously: "There is only one key to the victory of the game, and we cannot limit the flying dragon.

When we double-team him, he can pass the ball. We double-teamed him in the paint and he blasted us on the outside. We double-teamed him on the perimeter, and the Knicks played pass and cut, and they still killed us.

Boss, unless we use unconventional means to get Feilong down, we can't restrain him. However, I actually do not advocate the use of these methods. The Chinese are not easy to mess with, and Karl has already suffered a lot. "

"I won't give up easily, I am willing to fight once." Karl Malone said in a muffled voice at this time.

In the evening, the G3 battle began.

Jazz: Greg Ostertag, Karl Malone, Brian Russell, Jeff Horacek, John Stokes

Knicks: Zhao Dong, Oakley, Larry Johnson, John Starks, Charlie Ward.

"Bill, the lineups of both sides remain unchanged. I wonder what tactical changes the Jazz will make in this game?" Matt asked in the TNT live broadcast.

Bill Walton said with a smile: "The offensive tactics have not changed. The Jazz mainly rely on pick-and-roll tactics. And with Malone's technical characteristics, it is only possible to play this kind of tactics."

Matt laughed and said, "What do you mean, you agree with Feilong's evaluation of Malone?"

Bill Wharton also laughed and said, "I think Feilong's words are more about attacking the Jazz and the postman from a psychological level. This is a psychological tactic."

"So do you think he'd still be a superstar on both ends of the floor without the Mailman using his elbow?" Matt asked.

"this?"

Bill Wharton was a little embarrassed, thought for a while and said: "The deterrent power will definitely drop a notch or two..."

Before he finished speaking, Matt interjected: "The player level will also be dropped by one or two grades?"

Bill Walton scolded his partner for digging holes for him, and grunted, "At least at the superstar level."

"OK, the super giant of the historical level,

Ordinary super giant, superstar, this is two grades dropped. ’ Matt laughed.

"I……"

Bill Wharton wanted to kick it over.

This is the first time to play.

Oakley was the first to play, and Zhao Dong was the finale. When he appeared in the spot, the boos of the Delta Center Arena were too intense.

The entire arena was shaking, the floor was trembling, and the atmosphere at home was so terrifying that it had surpassed the United Center arena.

"Feilong, you idiot!"

"Damn Chinese, don't try to sweep us, you idiot!"

"If you can't get out of here, the postman will retaliate against you. You will see blood tonight, you will see blood!"

Countless people pointed at Zhao Dong with their middle fingers and began to abuse, threaten, intimidate and so on.

"That's it?"

Zhao Dong admired the ferocious faces of those fans with disdain, and walked in front of them with his head held high.

The Jazz's home court is obviously not as star-studded as Madison Square Garden. It has never been a place that celebrities like.

Fifteen minutes later, the game started.

The Jazz still can't limit Zhao Dong, he still performs well on both offense and defense.

But today Ma Long started the elbow fight from the very beginning, and there was a tendency to stop fighting after this round, which affected Zhao Dong's hand feeling, and his efficiency was not as good as the previous game.

After halftime, 42:48, the Jazz trailed by 6 points.

Zhao Dong made 7 of 13 shots and 5 of 6 free throws in the half. He scored 19 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks, 1 turnover and 2 fouls.

Although the efficiency is not as good as the previous game, and the point difference is not big, but on the basis of restricting Malone, they still firmly suppress the Jazz and always have the upper hand.

"It can't go on like this." Karl Malone said in a muffled voice in the locker room of the home team.

Jerry Sloan glanced at Malone, but did not speak.

The other players didn't speak either. Stockton glanced at Malone and nodded.

The second half begins.

Just two minutes later, in a jump shot, Charlie Ward, who landed, let out a cry of pain and fell to the floor.

"Damn it, he stepped!" Alan Houston yelled, pointing at Stockton.

"I come!"

Larry Johnson rushed over immediately.

Stockton ducked behind Malone, then retreated behind his teammates.

"Beep beep..."

The referee's whistle blew urgently, but no one paid any attention to him.

"Security? Security..."

He immediately began calling for security forces to intervene.

"It's over, it's over!"

Van Gundy on the sidelines had a big head like a bucket.

Thibodeau is pressing the bench to prevent people from rushing in. Otherwise, there will not be enough five players to play later, and he will directly admit defeat.

Jerry Sloan next to him looked stern, even a little numb.

According to Zhao Dong's original countermeasures, one person will attack, and the others will cover.

But when Larry Johnson rushed over, he was immediately kicked, and he was tripped by someone, and fell to the ground, and then a Jazz substitute player rushed up, pressed him on the body, and wrestled stand up.

Larry Johnson is good at boxing. If he is under the pressure, he can't play his strengths. He is a little passive and takes several blows at once.

"Good fight!"

"Fuck the Knicks!"

Jazz fans began to cheer.

"What the hell, get on!"

Seeing such a situation, the Jazz must have come prepared and wanted to anger the Knicks, but Zhao Dong didn't want to fight. He definitely couldn't watch Larry Johnson being mobbed, even if he lost the championship.

"Feilong, what do you want to do?" Seeing Zhao Dong rushing up, Ma Long wanted to stop him.

"Go away!"

Zhao Dong flew straight up, kicked Ma Long two meters away with a scud, hit the floor and couldn't get up again.

This kick directly silenced the Triangle Center Arena.

"Grass mud horse!"

After overthrowing Malone, Zhao Dong didn't stop doing anything, and then rushed over and kicked the Jazz substitute who was pressing down on Larry Johnson.

"boom!"

The player was kicked in the shoulder and was kicked over directly.

Larry Johnson found an opportunity now, got up and jumped up, punching and punching, the name of a boxer really lived up to his reputation, and he directly stunned the opponent with a few blows.

Alan Houston is not easy to mess with, and he found Stockton, the culprit, and the two scuffled together.

At this time, Oakley also overturned the Jazz's big center, but a team of security rushed up and couldn't continue.

Under the cooperation of the fighting trio, of the five Jazz players, only one was left, Stockton, who was wrestling with Houston, and the other four all lay down.

For the Knicks, Larry Johnson was bruised and swollen, but he was not out of combat. Everyone else was fine, but Charlie Ward injured his ankle and was still sitting on the floor.

"This is the finals, the finals, the whole world is watching, what did you do?"

Among the VIPs, Lanier Provo, vice president of the league, was furious.

Apart from him, the VIP room is the boss and general manager of the two teams.

"The Jazz are too low-handed. If they can't win the game, they start playing tricks. It's not that easy to set us up for the Knicks!"

Neil Grant said angrily.

The boss and general manager of the Jazz were very upset. The team couldn't win the game, and they couldn't win the fight. They were not in the mood to argue with Grant.

They also didn't expect that Nix's fighting power was so strong that the postman couldn't even block the flying dragon's kick.

On the field, the team doctors of both teams have already entered the field.

Charlie Ward was helped down, and Larry Johnson applied medicine on the sidelines.

On the Jazz side, Karl Malone sat up holding his chest, his face pale.

After a preliminary physical examination, he should have no major problems. Zhao Dong stepped on his stomach, and his abdominal muscles were too thick to carry the foot.

The others, the substitute player who was kicked over by Zhao Dong was unlucky, his right arm was kicked off, and then he was punched by Larry Johnson into a concussion.

The referee group began to add up, and finally gave a penalty.

On the Jazz side, Stockton made a defensive foul, and the concussed backup small forward Chris Morris made a second-level malicious foul.

On the Knicks side, Zhao Dong, Larry Johnson, and Oakley made second-level malicious fouls.

Four people from both sides were expelled from the field. When leaving the field, Chris Morris, who left the Jazz, received heroic applause, while Zhao Dong and the other three were booed skyrocketingly.

"My championship is over!"

At this time in the hospital in New York, Ewing was already full of despair.

Originally, after the second consecutive victories, he was still very upset, because if he won the championship, he would be considered as a casualty, and it had nothing to do with him. It belonged to Zhao Dong's single-core championship.

But there is always a ring, but now, this ring is probably about to run away.

"Damn it, we were still fooled! The postman didn't fight back after being kicked over by me. They planned it." After walking into the passage, Zhao Dong was very annoyed.

"What should we do now?"

Oakley and Larry Johnson are also unwilling to say.

"It depends on what the league will do. If there are not many suspensions and we separate the suspensions, there is still a chance. Don't be discouraged." Zhao Dong said in a deep voice.

The two nodded, not in the mood to talk anymore.

This time it was really designed by the Jazz, using Larry Johnson to lure all of them. If they don't do it, Larry Johnson will definitely be injured, and the Jazz will still take advantage of replacing a main player with a substitute.

In the live broadcast of CCTV, Zhang Lili sighed: "Now the Knicks are annoyed. The three main players are gone, and even the core Zhao Dong is gone. Next, they will face suspension. The Jazz is too ruthless!"

"Charlie Ward is injured, so the four main players can't play." Sun Zhenping said.

"Yes, four, and there is only one Alan Houston. He drew with Stockton and was not punished." Zhang Lili said.

In the TNT live broadcast seat, Bill Walton analyzed: "It is foreseeable that the G3 game against the Jazz will get back a game, and the G4 game against the Knicks is very likely to continue to lose.

The key is how the league will suspend the game, and whether the Knicks' main force will come back in the G4 game.

If the suspension continues in the G4 game, the Knicks are likely to fall behind by a big score of two to three, so there is still a chance.

But I'm very surprised, why didn't Jazz go for the dragon? "

Matt said suddenly: "The Jazz played well. Coach Van Gundy thought he had the chance to win, but he was still too bad, not as good as Coach Sloan. Now there is suspense in the finals. I think the league should be very happy, because the finals at least We can make it to G6."

"Ha ha……"

Bill Wharton glanced at Matt, and the two burst out laughing at the same time.

In the end, the Knicks lost the G3 battle without any suspense.

After the game, the press conference of both sides was a complaint meeting, and the media got melons from it.

"A team like the Jazz doesn't deserve a championship at all."

At the press conference, Zhao Dong unabashedly fired at the Jazz and Stockton.

"If the championship is won by the Jazz, it will tell people all over the world that NBA basketball is like this. If you can't win, you can play tricks, and you can find a way to kill the opponent's main players. The Jazz is telling the world , in the NBA, you can become a superstar as long as you can secretly cripple your opponent, and you can win a championship..."

His words were extremely inflammatory and offensive, and they made the headlines of the world's most influential media the next day.

Stern reacted quickly, and held a press conference in New York at noon on the 7th to announce the follow-up punishment.

Jazz side.

The Jazz were fined $1 million.

Chris Morris was suspended for two games, unable to participate in G4G5 games, and fined $10,000.

Stockton was fined $20,000 for an additional first-degree flagrant foul.

Knicks side.

Larry Johnson was fined $10,000.

Oakley was suspended for one game, unable to participate in Game 4 and fined $10,000.

Zhao Dong was fined $10,000.

This follow-up punishment was slightly biased towards the Knicks, and Zhao Dong was not punished additionally.

But the additional penalty for Stockton is just a formality, there is no suspension, and the fine is useless.

During the interview, Magician analyzed the situation of the G4 game and said: "The main lineup of the Jazz has not been affected, and the Knicks have lost two main players.

Charlie Ward has been reimbursed for the finals, and then Oakley cannot participate in this game. The loss of these two main players will put the Knicks at a disadvantage. The Jazz still took advantage, and they have a chance to tie the big score.

The Knicks are not bad either. Flying Dragon has not received additional penalties. With him, the combat effectiveness is there. It is still very difficult for the Jazz to win. I judge that the G4 game will not be a one-sided game. "

On the 8th, the final G4 match day.

In the league headquarters in New York, in Stern's office, he was pinching the ratings record and looking at it.

The viewership of the G2 game was 17.8 million, an increase of 800,000 from the G1 game, which made him happy.

But in the G3 game, the highest reached 18 million in the first half, and the situation looked good, but after the fight in the second half, it dropped sharply by several million, and the lowest dropped to 11.2 million. This was a cliff-like plunge, and he almost died of anger.

This is also the reason why he fined the Jazz one million dollars, because the Jazz caused trouble, and he is very aware of this.

Frustrated, he picked up a stack of newspapers on his desk and flipped through them. The first one was the New York Times.

"If Dirty Jazz Win Championship, League's Future Is Dark and Dirty." The New York Times.

He felt his head ache. The New York Times is not a local newspaper. It is a world newspaper, and its global influence is 10,000 times greater than that of the New York Sports News.

He picked up the receiver decisively and dialed Lanier Prova's cell phone.

"Mr. President?"

"Lanier, let them take a closer look at the Jazz, I don't want any more problems in the finals." Stern said.

"I will, Mr. President."

"Um."

...

At 8:00 p.m., the first rounds of the two sides were announced.

Knicks: Zhao Dong, Larry Johnson, Alan Houston, John Starks, Chris Childs.

Jazz: Greg Ostertag, Karl Malone, Brian Russell, Jeff Horacek, John Stokes

When the starter was about to leave the stage, Bill Walton asked the director: "Hey, White, what are the ratings?"

"Not bad, 16.5 million." Said over there.

Bill Wharton was relieved, this statistic was pretty normal, and the fight on the field didn't have much impact.

"If the dragon is suspended, I think this number will drop significantly." Matt laughed.

"Yes, not many people are willing to watch the postman's unattractive pick-and-roll mid-range shot. Black and white double evil has never been a super giant that fans like." Bill Walton laughed.

"So the dragon was not suspended, just like Jordan chasing Reggie Miller all over the court, and it was fine." Matt laughed.

In the hallway inside the exit, the two teams meet.

Zhao Dong looked at Karl Malone expressionlessly, whose face was cold.

"hehe!"

Zhao Dong smiled, and suddenly punched him. With a bang, Ma Long was knocked back two steps.

"asshole!"

Malone growled.

"Boom!"

Zhao Dong kicked fiercely again, and Ma Long fell down with a crash.

"Fuck them!"

Larry Johnson and John Starks and others rushed forward.

The Knicks were prepared for this, but the Jazz were not prepared, and they suffered a loss as soon as they came into contact.

"Stop! Stop!"

A team of security guards next to him rushed up immediately.

"Karl Malone, dare to trick us? See you in the ring, if I don't blow your head off, I'll give you the championship."

After being separated by security, Zhao Dong pointed at Ma Long and shouted sharply.

"asshole!"

Ma Long, whose nose was bleeding from the blow, growled.

"Calm down, Carl, we're going to get another game back, and we've got to win this time."

Stockton was also punched by Larry Johnson, blood was seen on the corner of his mouth, he quickly hugged Malone, and urged him urgently.

"Feilong, we're not finished, we're not finished!" Ma Long roared.

The referee can't control the off-court. If they continue to play at this time, they can't beat the Knicks. It's just a loss for nothing. For the sake of the overall championship, he endured it.

"It's Lao Tzu who is not finished with you. Let's go!"

Zhao Dong waved his hand and walked out with his teammates.