Build a Dream Dynasty

On December 18, the Nets continued to stay at the Barclays Center and ushered in the Utah Jazz who had quietly completed the lineup reconstruction this season.

The Jazz have made very big adjustments to the team lineup this season. Millsap, Al Jefferson, and Monta Ellis will leave the team at the same time in the summer. The team will renew Favors, Hayward, Thompson, Kanter and others for the next two seasons. At the same time, the team offered a four-year 36 million contract to snatch the Chinese point guard Jeremy Lin from the Thunder. The combination of Jeremy Lin, Thompson, Hayward, Favors, and Kanter seems to have a good future. The future, meanwhile, isn't too bad for the present. So far this season, the Jazz has not experienced the big decline that many people expected. On the contrary, relying on this group of young people, the team's performance has been maintained in the top eight in the Western Conference. Although it is only hovering between seventh and eighth, but think about it. Four of the five starters are still on rookie contracts. It is conceivable that they are the strongest opponents of the Thunder in the West in the future.

Jiang Mingliang's thoughts have always been pure. In addition to being strong, he must consume his opponents as much as possible in order to improve the Nets' chances of winning the championship. So he is happy to see that there is a team in the West that can threaten the Thunder, which is stronger than the previous life.

After three years as a substitute, Jeremy Lin, who came to the Jazz, finally became a main point guard. This season, he averaged 13 points and 6 assists in 36 minutes per game. It's not bad to have such numbers on a team as balanced as the Jazz. After all, Hayward needs the ball and Thompson needs the shot.

And after Ray Allen's playing time dropped sharply due to his age, Jiang Mingliang was looking forward to the duel between the two strongest three-point shooters in the league, Curry and Thompson, the Splash Brothers. It can be said that if you want to choose a player in the league who most wants to be traded to the Nets, Jiang Mingliang's first choice will be Durant, the second choice is Thompson, and the third choice is Davis. Thompson's pick is above Brother Nongmei. In fact, Jiang Mingliang also tried to talk to the Jazz about Thompson's trade many times, but the final result was nothing.

Whether the Jazz can hit the Thunder in the future is still unknown, but it is true that this team's style of play makes the Nets a little uncomfortable. Looking at the few games the Nets have had trouble with this season, their opponents have the characteristics of excellent outside defenders, excellent inside help defenders, inside low-post attackers, and high-quality outside scorers. Just right, the Jazz have everything they should have.

In the first two seasons of his career, Kanter was only the fourth overall pick in the paint. His potential is rarely overlooked. His single-handed low-post ability is considered to be the leader of the new generation of centers. He has both strength and technology. After the opening, Kanter One point became the main attack point for the Jazz to attack the Nets, and they played Lopez and West quite embarrassingly.

Attack the kaleidoscope, defend ten thousand pokes. This attribute of Kanter is comparable to that of Anthony. Especially in the technology of anti-pick-and-roll, Kanter's judgment and position selection can be called a disaster, but the Nets are one of the best teams in the league for off-ball pick-and-rolls. At this time, the scoring efficiency is also brutal. The good thing is that the Jazz's defense against other Nets players was fairly successful, coupled with their own offensive efficiency, at the end of the first quarter, Curry, who scored 23 points in a single quarter, led the team behind the Jazz by 3 points.

If Leonard is there, the Nets still have an advantage over the Jazz. Although he is a white man, Hayward's style of play is very tough, and he has the prestige of "White James" who has sent dunk performances many times. However, when facing Leonard, Hayward's performance has always been relatively average, and his strength advantage is completely gone. In fact, he is not the kind of player who shoots the ball particularly stably. However, facing the obviously weaker Barnes, Hayward Ward's performance is relatively good. This is also an inevitable problem for the Nets after losing a general. The team's defense has dropped to a level outside the 20th in the league.

Jeremy Lin's impact on the team's interior has become another difficult point for the Nets to deal with. The Jazz have many offensive ends. Even Favors can rely on his superior physical fitness to force his way into the basket to score. After the hand feeling declined, the Jazz quietly opened up the point difference with the Nets in the second quarter, and successfully expanded the point difference to double digits before the end of the second quarter.

"The Jazz are really good." Jiang Mingliang said with emotion.

Just looking at the team's lineup, you may not think it, but in terms of the actual combat effectiveness displayed, the Western teams have put more pressure on the Nets than the Eastern teams. How many times the Nets have encountered danger in the West.

A team with an inside single point will always make the Nets a little difficult to deal with, but in the third quarter, Stevens adjusted the lineup again, replacing Barnes with McCollum, Green, and Yi Jianlian. Ster, Lopez served as the starter, and once again used a confrontational battle to fight the Jazz recklessly. Although the Jazz are somewhat unstoppable on the defensive end, but on the offensive end, the Jazz are also constantly rotated by the Nets to create a small chance to play big, and then Curry or McCollum will punish Kanter or Favors .

Another not-so-obvious weakness of the Jazz is that power forward Favors' free throw percentage is only about 63%. For an inside player, this is enough to deter opponents from easily adopting "shark-cutting tactics" against him. , but when the Nets used this tactic against Favors unexpectedly, Favors did not give the opponent enough response. He made 2 of 4 free throws, which can only be said to be average.

The Nets' offensive tactics helped them score 35:24 in the third quarter, pulling the scores of both sides back to the same starting line in one fell swoop. However, it is clear that this tactic is not easy to use continuously. In fact, in the last two minutes of the third quarter, when the Jazz came on the field as a substitute insider Gobert, the Nets' offensive has been stopped a lot. This backup center has big arms and long legs, and he still has great potential on the defensive end.

The game came to the fourth quarter and entered the superlative part. Curry, who had scored 41 points in the first three quarters, switched to the "Kuritian" state, scoring frequently from inside and outside, while Thompson on the opposite side was even more terrifying. The team caught up! As long as you give him a little shooting space, Thompson can throw a three-pointer with his hand. In this state, Thompson can't be defended by Jordan, unless you don't let him catch the ball.

He made 7 of 7 three-pointers in a single quarter, and scored 33 points from inside and outside, directly tying the NBA record created by Anthony when he played for the Nuggets. Thompson made Jiang Mingliang speechless and made the fans of Barclays Center lose Afterwards, the winner was given applause, which drove the fans on the forum into a frenzy, and made it rare for Curry to lose to his opponent alive after he entered the state.

Curry's career-high scoring record of 63 points! Just like that, Thompson stole the limelight.