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Chapter 330 Victory in the first battle!
As a result, after coming to the Cavaliers, LeBron James, who had been touted by the league for many years, suddenly regarded him as a 35-year-old veteran. This made O'Neal look down on LeBron James from the very beginning. up.

In addition, after O'Neal won his fourth championship with the Heat, he has completed the staged task of winning one more championship than Kobe Bryant, which made O'Neal even less eager to fight.

After all, the championship already exists, the historical status already exists, the money has already been made, and in the end he overwhelmed his former younger brother Kobe.

O'Neill feels that he can already start to think about the next retirement life.

Of course, if he can get another pension contract with a good salary before retirement, O'Neal will definitely be happier.

This is also an important reason why O'Neal chose to cooperate with LeBron James to send the Cavaliers into the playoffs at the end of the regular season this season.

But at the same time, after O'Neal entered the playoffs and saw that the Cavaliers' opponent was the Eagles, he immediately and decisively chose to start preparing for his own playoff data.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Cavaliers have no hope of winning against the Eagles.

And for O'Neal who is already at this age, at this weight, and has such a bad physical reserve.

There is no doubt that the low-post offense is more able to obtain more offensive space and offensive opportunities than the pick-and-roll offense.

O'Neal playing like this may make the Cavaliers' game data very bad, but for his personal offensive data, playing like this will definitely look a lot better.

So even during the intermission, Mike Brown and LeBron James both directly or implicitly expressed their dissatisfaction with O'Neal's first-quarter game.

But in the second quarter, after O'Neal came back on the court, he didn't mean to change his style of play.

As soon as the second quarter came up, O'Neal was still firmly rooted in the low positions on the left and right sides, and began to turn his back to ask for the ball.

Basically, I want to help LeBron James complete the pick-and-roll, and there is no point in creating offensive space!

Of course, LeBron James, once the favorite of heaven, also has a temper. Although LeBron James did not have a violent conflict with O'Neal verbally, in terms of offensive selection, LeBron James, who holds the Cavaliers' possession of the ball, has a temper. James, decisively chose to attack hard with the ball.

But as I said before, although LeBron James has improved his shooting ability after a season, it is obvious that the weapon of shooting has not yet become one of LeBron James' regular weapons.

Especially when facing opponents like the Hawks who can play high defensive intensity, LeBron James's offense is often directly blocked by the Hawks outside the three-second zone without O'Neal's containment.

Xu Lang's help defense, Szczerbiak's top defense, and Tony Allen's flanking from time to time all made it difficult for LeBron James to get a good offensive opportunity.

Normally, when LeBron James is flanked like this, he can pass the ball out and give it to other teammates to complete relatively easy shooting tasks.

But this season's Cavaliers have already traded away several high-quality pitchers in their team in order to trade for O'Neal.

This leads to the fact that even if LeBron James can pass the ball steadily at this time, the Cavaliers players who receive the basketball may not be able to send the ball steadily to the basket.

What's more, with the help of Xu Lang, a top passer, many of LeBron James' passes will be directly destroyed.

Then, at the end of the half, LeBron James led the Cavaliers into the second half with an 18-point deficit after helping Xu Lang add three steals.

And after the game entered the second half, all members of the Cavaliers felt more and more collapsed!

On the other hand, the Eagles, through constant rhythm adjustments, the offensive state and shooting feel began to get better and better!

In the first half of the game, the Eagles' three-point shooting percentage was less than [-]%, and by the third quarter, the Eagles' three-point shooting percentage had risen to more than [-]%!

Then the three quarters ended, and the Eagles extended their lead to more than 25 points without much surprise.

Although this is a playoff game, at this point, the game has entered garbage time without any surprises!

And the Cavaliers didn't struggle. Just 2 minutes into the fourth quarter, when the Cavaliers trailed by 30 points, Mike Brown didn't put O'Neal and LeBron James on the court again!

With the Cavaliers already giving up this game, the Eagles will naturally not be aggressive.

Finally, as the opening station of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the last quarter of the game between the Cavaliers and the Eagles has become a carnival of the two teams' bench lineups!
No, perhaps more accurately, became the carnival of the Hawks bench.

Especially for Aaron Brooks, who has never played in the NBA playoffs, he never thought that he would be able to play more than 10 minutes in the Hawks' first playoff game.

At the same time, Aaron Brooks is also a player with a big heart.

When Mike Woodson gave him a chance to play, he scored 12 points, two rebounds, and two assists in 12 minutes, and returned to Mike Woodson's trust.

It can only be said that this Cavaliers team spent too much to trade O'Neal, causing this Cavaliers team to become the team with the weakest bench lineup among the 16 playoff teams in the East and West this season!

At the end of the whole game, the Eagles made a good start in their playoff journey with 31 points, a rare lead in the playoffs!

Just looking at Mike Woodson and Mike Brown, who kept emphasizing how the Eagles did not do well in this game and played poorly in the interview after the game, Mike Brown's teeth itch with hatred!

As for the head star of the Cavaliers, LeBron James, the No. 2003 pick in the [-] class and the son of destiny who was once highly praised by the league, did not appear in the post-game interview scene at all.

The official reason given by the Cavaliers is that LeBron James is not feeling well.

On the contrary, O'Neal, who scored 23 points and eight rebounds in 15 minutes, appeared in the post-match interview happily.

Moreover, O'Neal praised himself in the interview after the game, saying that his performance in this game was already very good.

O'Neal also secretly stated that if it weren't for the reasons of some players, his performance in this game could be even better.

Maybe the Cavaliers won't lose that many points, and they may even win a game under his leadership.

Just listening to what O'Neill said, Xu Lang, who had been silent on the sidelines, almost couldn't hold back.

To be honest, O'Neal is definitely the biggest contributor to the Cavaliers' loss in this game.

On the defensive end, O'Neal has become the most willing defender for every player on the Eagles.

After the pick-and-roll, he didn't change defenses, rushed to the inside, prepared to grab rebounds, let the Eagles' outside shooters complete the shots, and slowly developed his own shooting touch.

Facing the Eagles' bottom-line offense, O'Neal avoided it as soon as he saw that he couldn't defend it, so as to avoid becoming a background version of the defensive end.

And what's more terrible is that O'Neal, who is submissive on the defensive end, is extremely active on the offensive end.

Constant low request, wanting to single Marc Gasol.

After grabbing the rebound, no matter whether it is a good offensive opportunity or not, O'Neal will also force himself to launch an offense. He has no intention of passing the ball and re-organizing the Cavaliers' offense.

Then, O'Neal took 15 shots and only scored 15 points, and of the 15 points, three of them were obtained by making three of six free throws.

Just over [-]% shooting rate, which made O'Neal the biggest war criminal for the Cavaliers' loss in this game, both in terms of game performance and statistical performance!
Therefore, Xu Lang still gave a certain amount of respect to LeBron James, who still hadn't exploded after the game.

After all, if it was him, he really couldn't hold back O'Neill's reckless behavior.

Similarly, LeBron James' performance made O'Neal look down on LeBron James even more.

But O'Neal also knew very clearly that although LeBron James hadn't exploded, he must have been very dissatisfied with himself.

Therefore, after the end of this season, O'Neal estimates that it is impossible for him to stay in the Cavaliers, and 100% will be traded away!

This made O'Neal feel even more that he doesn't need to care about the opinions of LeBron James and the Cavaliers, but only needs to show better data performance, hoping to cheat a pretty good pension contract from his new club!

It is also because O'Neal has this kind of thinking, so even after the first game, Mike Browns is still doing O'Neal's work, hoping that O'Neal can help LeBron more on the field. James runs the pick and roll.

But in the second game of this round of the series, O'Neal still did not change the way he played in the first game.

It's just that after the poor performance in the first game, although O'Neal still asked for the ball in the low post at the beginning of the second game.

But LeBron James ignored O'Neal from the very beginning of the game this time, and instead of handing over the challenge to him once more, he continued to perform individual singles from the very beginning of the game.

The only problem is that O'Neal is not a player who just gives up when he asks for the ball and refuses to give it.

When he failed to get the ball, O'Neal didn't say anything, but just stayed within the three-second zone.

This has led to LeBron James, a talented man who relies on his body to play, can only be limited to outside the three-second zone every single!

After all, with a center player of O'Neal's tonnage crowded inside, coupled with the Eagles' inside twin towers also crowded inside, it directly led to a significant increase in the congestion of the penalty area throughout the game!

As for LeBron James, if he can't get enough space to attack and accelerate when he enters the penalty area, and if he can't give full play to his physical advantages, entering the penalty area is actually no different from courting death!

After all, LeBron James has always been a player who relies on physical fitness, finishing skills inside, various offensive steps and other offensive methods. Although most of LeBron James knows it, most of them are not good at it.

Therefore, when LeBron James enters the three-second zone, there is no way to give full play to his physical advantages.

Then LeBron James' offensive efficiency in the penalty area may not be as good as his offensive efficiency in shooting against the defense outside the three-second zone.

Fortunately, although on the offensive end, because of O'Neal, LeBron James still played very hard in this game, and it might not even be as good as the first game.

But on the defensive end, having such a high-tonnage center stay in the penalty area is a plus for LeBron James' defense.

After all, for O'Neal, he may face an obviously unstoppable dunk or lob without hesitation.

But if he can get a chance to brush up the defensive data, O'Neal will naturally not let it go.

In addition, Mike Brown, as a defensive coach, can only persuade LeBron James after finding out that he cannot persuade O'Neal!

Facts have proved that LeBron James, who actively cooperated with O'Neal on defense, still helped the Cavaliers bring a wave of good defensive performance.

Therefore, although the Cavaliers' offense still hasn't improved much in this game, their defense has changed a lot.

Especially at the end of the first quarter, after LeBron James had obtained two blocked shots, the Eagles experienced a scoring shortage inside in just a few minutes.

That's right, it's just a lack of scoring inside. With O'Neal in good physical condition, the inside defense combined with LeBron James is quite powerful.

But, conversely, when LeBron James put more defensive attention on the inside, it also naturally caused the Cavaliers' defensive strength on the outside to drop a lot.

In addition, the Eagles in this game are not as cold as iron outside the three-point line like in the first game!
At the end of the first quarter, the Eagles made four of nine shots from beyond the three-point line, and most importantly.

Because LeBron James concentrated more defensive energy in the three-second zone.

As a result, Xu Lang gained a great shooting space in the mid-to-long distance outside the three-second zone.

Then, in the first quarter of the game, Xu Lang directly turned into the little prince of mid-range shots. He made 6 of 6 shots in a single quarter and scored 12 points just by relying on mid-range shots.

Relying on the accuracy from beyond the three-point line, coupled with Xu Lang's terrifying mid-range shooting percentage, the Eagles still scored 31 points at the end of the first quarter.

The Cavaliers, like the first game, scored 24 points in the first quarter.

Judging from the score gap, the performance of the Cavaliers at the end of the first quarter of this game seems to be slightly better than the previous game.

But it is obvious that this game is about to develop in the direction of the Eagles clocking out of get off work in three quarters!
In fact, the development trend of this game is indeed what everyone thinks.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the two teams changed into rotations at the same time.

Although the Cavaliers still left LeBron James to lead the team, the Cavaliers still did not take advantage of the strong rotation of the Hawks.

It's just that although in the first half of the second quarter, LeBron James failed to take advantage of the Hawks' bench.

But LeBron James felt a kind of freedom in less than half a quarter of the game, a kind of freedom that can give full play to all his advantages.

Without O'Neal to block the inside line, LeBron James has become able to shoot suddenly, and the offensive end has become smoother and more comfortable.

Throughout the first quarter, LeBron James scored six points in total, but in the first half of the second quarter, LeBron James scored as many as 11 points alone.

It's just that this freedom of play and smoothness on the offensive end completely disappeared again after O'Neal returned to the game in the second half of the second quarter.

Like the first quarter, after O'Neal came on the court in the second half of the second quarter, he still only moved back and forth next to the three-second zone.

No high pick-and-rolls, no offensive moves to open up the paint.

Only a pile of meat piled up in the three-second zone, and then tried to grab rebounds and completed 2 offenses.

O'Neal continued to combine with Marc Gasol and Darko Milicic to completely block the three-second zone, and LeBron James could only complete the attack outside the three-second zone again.

Then in the first half of the second quarter, LeBron James, who scored less than 11 points in the half, scored a total of four points and made two turnovers in the second half of the second quarter.

Then, LeBron James exploded.