When pride still matters

Chapter 317 Emptiness

Before Yu Fei officially played the penny card against O'Neal, O'Neal's mentality was somewhat broken by Pence's performance.

In terms of performance, Pence wasn't that good, just enough to put pressure on O'Neal.

In the remaining minutes of the first quarter, Penny made 3 of 2 shots, and the two goals he scored were all small hits after the 1-5 pick-and-roll. When he scored the second goal, the Heat replaced O'Neal.

O'Neal was not present, and Pence's energy seemed to be drained. After that, he only took one shot and ended the matter hastily.

The Heat, who thoughtlessly played inside, trailed the Bucks by 13 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Wade came out with full firepower. While single-point offense was unsolvable, he was also taken care of by the referee in the away game. He scored 9 points in a row, narrowing the difference between the two sides from 13 points to 7 points, allowing the Bucks to advance ahead of schedule. In exchange for Yu Fei.

Then, the Heat also replaced O'Neal.

All the main players versus all the main players, but for the Heat, all the main players do not mean that they can exert their full strength, because O'Neal is always unwilling to give up his tactical position.

As soon as he came up, he disrupted Wade's rhythm.

Wade, who had scored consecutively before, was forced to pass to him.

O'Neal also rarely found a singles opportunity, relying on Pachulia, and then scored with a hook.

At that moment, O'Neal felt refreshed and couldn't help but think that if every attack was so simple, the game would be so interesting.

This idea is undoubtedly naive. Once anything involves work and professionalism, it is difficult to associate it with fun.

Yu Fei, who originally regarded Wade as a serious problem, felt that there was a problem with the Heat's game thinking.

They should have let Wade play against them, but they focused the scene on O'Neal.

Isn't the Lakers' failure not enough for the Heat to learn a lesson?

Yu Fei is not Riley's tapeworm. He doesn't know what the other party is thinking, but since the Heat decided to do this, it would be a self-destruction.

Yu Fei no longer took Wade seriously and began to concentrate on torturing O'Neal.

Needless to say, the defensive end assists, double-teams, steals the ball, and commits fouls.

The most terrible thing is the offensive end. The center of the Bucks is Robert Horry. How easy it is for a defensive end to be smashed by O'Neal, and how easy it is to restrain O'Neal's space-based long man on the offensive end.

O'Neal was named again and again and was insulted by Yu Fei's trash talk. His anger was building up little by little, but what could he do?

His offense couldn't respond and his defense did nothing.

Halfway through the second quarter, O'Neal lost his mind and ran to the high post to defend Yu Fei.

Then, Yu Fei used some tricks to quickly change direction, pull the ball, and move laterally, destroying O'Neal's center of gravity, causing this giant who weighed nearly 300 kilograms to collapse like an overturned building in front of him.

"As a loser who was abandoned by the team twice, how dare you say that the two winners who kicked you away were Fredo and Sonny?" Yu Fei said sarcastically, "Is there a possibility that Penny is The failed Michael, Kobe is the paranoid Michael, and you are the Fredo who succeeded by luck in this disgusting world?"

Shameless and angry, O'Neal roared excitedly: "I'll shut you up! You bastard, I'll shut you up forever! @#! #￥"

"Shut me up? For what?" Yu Fei humiliated, "Use your dog barking? I think you should lick Dwayne's soles quickly, lest he ask the team to trade you this summer. "

"Even if you are a disgusting idiot like you, you won't be abandoned by the team three times, right?"

The most helpless thing about O'Neal is that Yu Fei basically grasped his pain points firmly, and he didn't have any handle on Yu Fei.

Although Yu Fei has some black material for refusing to join the American team, what can this black material do against him? On the other hand, O'Neal is at the end of his career and has experienced all kinds of ups and downs. In other words, his black spots are all written on his resume.

As long as Yu Fei gains an advantage in the game, O'Neal will never be able to breathe a good breath.

The quarrel finally led to the referee's intervention, and they were awarded fouls without any pain.

Then what? Yu Fei continued to name O'Neal, continued to spout trash talk, and continued to target every black spot on O'Neal's body to launch disgusting attacks.

Before the half ended, O'Neal committed four fouls and committed a technical foul on Horry, and was replaced by Riley.

As for the competition? Although the first half is not over yet, no one will believe that the Heat have the possibility of a comeback tonight.

The disparity is dire.

At halftime, 59 to 40.

The gap of nearly 20 points was enough for the Heat to start thinking about the next game when there was still half-time left in the game.

In the second half, Riley deliberately staggered the playing time of O'Neal and Yu Fei.

This is to allow O'Neal to calm down and think about what is right, and then give Wade room to play.

But these things are all set up for the next game, and Riley has no thoughts about this game.

In the end, 115 to 101, the Bucks defeated the Heat at home and got a good start in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Yu Fei was elected the best of the game with 35 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists. So far in the playoffs, he has averaged a triple-double just like in the regular season. But tonight, his grudge against O'Neal is far greater than his failure to win. A triple-double attracts more attention.

"I don't know why this has become a topic." Yu Fei said with an upright face. "As one of the few Asians in the league, I feel that I am a representative in many aspects. When I face someone who is blatantly targeting all Asians, Do you expect me to be friendly to an American bastard who makes racist remarks? Why can he still represent the NBA with dignity? Why can he still be selected as an All-Star? Why do so many people support a racist? If you can answer these Question, I can tell you why I won't let this Bichi go." Those who complained about O'Neal could not resist Yu Fei's logic.

Because O'Neal is racist against Asians, Yu Fei can insult him at will. Because O'Neal is racist against Asians, Yu Fei can retaliate arbitrarily. What kind of revenge is not allowed? Of course it was Yu Fei who used words starting with N to insult O'Neal.

If he did, an apology wouldn't be enough.

But O'Neal was unaffected by his apology.

So, why did Yu Fei let him go?

Grudges on the field can be resolved, but if you dare to touch the bottom line of personality, dignity, and ethnic discrimination, I will be incompatible with you. This is what Yu Fei thinks.

Due to the grievances between Yu Fei and O'Neal, the attention of the game itself has decreased.

So Wade's complaints about the team's emphasis on low-post offense were ignored.

But it was the audience that ignored it, Riley was wide awake.

He doesn't care at all how the feud between Yu Fei and O'Neill develops. He only cares about one thing: when O'Neill will wake up.

Is this game enough tonight?

The next day, the Heat conducted a video review at the hotel.

Riley has repeatedly emphasized that the team's interior offense is not working.

"Should we change our thinking, or continue to play inside?" Riley stared at O'Neal, "Let's talk about it."

Many people have expressed their opinions.

The contents of these opinions are basically the same. We do not want to focus solely on the outside or inside. A good offense should be both internal and external.

Only Wade wanted to focus on outside offense, because the Bucks, who did not rely on inside singles at all, had the league's first offensive efficiency in the playoffs, which was higher than the "SSOL" Suns.

O'Neill had no comment.

So Riley adopted the advice of most people. In the next game, their internal and external offensive should be balanced.

Does this solve the problem? No, it's not that simple.

Riley believed that O'Neal's heart had been shaken. He began to realize that he could not defeat Yu Fei with his own strength, but he still needed one game, so the script for the second game was the same as the previous one.

The Heat's opening offense is indeed both inside and outside, but as it continues, the ball will be concentrated inside.

The only good thing about the previous game was that O'Neal was so stimulated by Yu Fei that he frantically asked for the ball until the second half.

This allowed Wade to display an unstoppable all-round attack. He scored a game-high 50 points with unstoppable breakthroughs, 14% of three-pointers, and 39 free throws in a single game.

However, O'Neal slowed down the Heat's offensive rhythm in the second half.

This caused them to miss a night when the Bucks had poor outside shooting. Wade's 39-point performance in a single game was meaningless in front of Fei Fei's comprehensive 35 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists.

109 is better than 99

The Bucks won two games in a row and took a 2-0 lead.

After the game, the Bucks began talking about the possibility of returning to the Finals.

Riley said the team needs change.

Wade no longer expects the team to make any changes at the tactical level. He is satisfied with his performance tonight, but he is not satisfied with the result.

"I need to do better." Wade said, "I don't care how many points I score, I don't care if Frye gets a triple-double, I don't care whose team this is, I just know I have to do better. good."

O'Neal, who scored 20+10 in two consecutive games but was increasingly questioned, refused to be interviewed after the game. He locked himself in the locker room and dismantled almost everything that could be disassembled until Riley entered the room and said with a face Reproachfully: "Shaq, are you crazy? This is an away game, what are you doing?"

"Can't you see? I'm fucking pissed!" O'Neal yelled, "I hate fucking Frye Yu, I hate the fucking Bucks, I hate Bradley Center, I hate Milwaukee everything of!"

Riley gave him a long look. "If you really hate them enough, you know what to do."

"Okay, I know, I've always fucking known it! You win! Kobe wins! That Bitch wins!" O'Neal yelled as if he was giving up on himself, "From now on, I'm going to be like stupid Lowe Play like Na! If this can help us win, are you satisfied?"

Riley's tense face revealed an imperceptible smile: "I'm satisfied."

"But the team won't help you pay for tearing up the visiting team's dressing room."

Hearing this, O'Neal suddenly wanted to blow up the Bradley Center, but after thinking about it carefully, forget it.

He can't afford the compensation and will go to jail.

From the perspective of venting anger, it is more economical and economical to dismantle the dressing room.

so.

O'Neal's eyes glanced around the locker room again. Is there anything else that can be broken down here?

But no more, everything is gone.

Just like a person who is dizzy after watching a good movie, no matter how enjoyable the process is and how comfortable the ending is, all that is left in the end is emptiness.

(End of this chapter)