NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

Chapter 105: Appearance is perfect but soul is different!Lin Tian who fanned the flames!

You know, this is O'Neal's fourth year and the last year of his rookie contract.

This is his contract year!

Mourning, Westpenser, and Laettner, who were in the same year as him and were pinned to the ground by O'Neal and rubbed casually, all got their contracts extended in advance!
But it's the Magic. They were unlucky and reluctant in giving O'Neal a new contract!

Several times, O'Neal and his agent wanted to talk to the Magic about O'Neal's contract extension, but the Magic just avoided talking and always tried to push the matter away.

It wasn't until a few days before the start of the playoffs that O'Neal, who was extremely unhappy with the management, pushed out of the Magic's general manager's office and asked in an almost roaring voice whether they were prepared to renew his contract. The general manager finally relented.

After saying a lot of things to appease O'Neal, the Magic's general manager also quietly gave O'Neal some words.

A multi-year contract with an annual salary exceeding tens of millions is absolutely no problem!

They will never let O'Neal down!

But when O'Neal excitedly expressed when he could sign the contract, the Magic's general manager expressed his embarrassment and insisted on waiting until the end of the season!
At first, O'Neal didn't know why. It wasn't until he passed by the general manager's office during the playoffs and heard the conversation inside that he understood why!
The Magic are indeed willing to give themselves a big contract, and they are indeed willing to keep themselves.

But the premise of all this is: Hardaway will not be angry!
What O'Neal heard was that the Magic general manager was asking Hardaway whether he would be angry if O'Neal got a big contract, and whether he would be jealous that O'Neal got a big contract a year earlier than him.

Listen, is this human talk?

I entered the league one year earlier than Hardaway, so of course I have to get a big contract one year earlier than him!Can I still wait for him to do this kind of thing?

That time, O'Neal did not push in the door and confront Hardaway with the team executives, but his mind has changed since that time!

O'Neal, who originally planned to live in Orlando, the Disney city, wanted to change his environment!
Find a place that truly respects him and regards him as the cornerstone, trump card and first core!
This is why O'Neal is so happy every time Lin Tian praises O'Neal as the number one center!

You Orlando don't like me, but you like me in many ways and think I'm great!
As for the team coach Hill, he watched as the words between O'Neal and Hardaway became less and less. The two people went from being close at the beginning to communicating only on the court, but they turned a blind eye to it and did not proceed from it at all. mediate.

He feels that the team has already won 60 games, so the remaining small problems cannot be considered a problem at all!

As long as you can win, you can cover up everything!
Hill thought so and did so, but he never thought about what he would do once the Magic started losing!
As the person who may be the person in the world who knows the conflict between O'Neal and Hardaway best, Lin Tian knew that his words to sow discord before the game would definitely have an effect and would definitely cause a little problem between O'Neal and Hardaway.

But he really didn't expect that the effect would be so good!

When the two sides were warming up, Lin Tian noticed that, let alone talking to each other, O'Neal and Hardaway had no contact with each other at all, let alone any interaction with each other!

The problems and grudges between these two people may have already reached the point of incompatibility!

Two equally confident geniuses, both with sensitive and fragile personalities, and neither of them the kind of people who would take the initiative to give in or resolve misunderstandings with each other, then of course the problems between them will only get bigger and bigger!

As the warm-up ended, the starting players from both sides also took to the court one after another!
For the Bulls, due to previous good performance and matchup issues, Lin Tian became the team's starting point guard for the second consecutive game. Coupled with the Bulls' Iron Triangle and Longley, this set has always been considered by the outside world to be the strongest of the Bulls. The most reasonable five-man combination finally started together!

On the Magic team, in addition to the twin stars Hardaway and O'Neal, there are also Grant, the hero of the Bulls' last three consecutive championships, sharpshooters Nick Anderson and Denise Scott!
These five people are also the five people with the highest scoring average per game for the Magic in the playoffs this season!As for the entire Magic team, only these five people averaged more than 10 points per game!The only player left who ranks sixth in points per game is Brooks Thompson, who only averages 5 points per game!

In addition to averaging high points per game, the average playing time of these five people is also very high!

All five players played more than 37 minutes!

O'Neal and Hardaway even exceeded 40 minutes!

It can be said that if the Bulls' lineup and rotation number reflect a large number of available players and a deep bench, then the Magic will be a team that relies on its main five to conquer the world!
As long as they can withstand the offensive of the Magic's starting five, then their bench can be said to be lackluster, with almost no trustworthy and reliable players!

The bench is too weak, which is also a shortcoming that the Magic has always been criticized for!
And now, they are about to face the most powerful enemy this season!

As the referee blew the whistle, the basketball was thrown directly into the air. O'Neal's terrifying physical fitness completely crushed the ground-based Longley, easily getting the first wave of offensive opportunities for the team!

"Be careful Shaq! Luke, get back to the basket!" As soon as Lin Tian saw Hardaway holding the ball, he immediately opened his mouth and shouted instructions, reminding his teammates to pay attention to defending O'Neal.

Well, it’s actually all nonsense. Langley is not stupid, and of course he won’t stand in the middle circle in a daze!
Lin Tian's words were meant for O'Neal and Hardaway!

He wants this series to become the last series for the two stars to work together!

They must be broken up!

Facing Jordan, who was stalking him from the very beginning, Hardaway showed his top talent in controlling movement. Facing this former best defensive player, Hardaway easily defeated him. The ball was dribbled into the frontcourt.

"Ball!" O'Neal suddenly stepped out and reached for the ball outside the 3-second zone, hoping to get one first in the low post.

But Hardaway ignored O'Neal, who was already in position. Instead, he called Grant's pick-and-roll, went straight to the mid-range, and forced a pull-out shot!

"Shh!"

There was also a crisp sound, Hardaway scored the first 2 points for the team!
"It's okay, let him shoot! He can't kill us! No need to help defend, especially inside, no need to help defend! Just let him shoot!" Lin Tian received the pass from his teammate on the baseline, and he was also unhurried. Command, while pushing forward, there is no need to rush in today’s game!
The Bulls' first offense was also handed over to Jordan. Jordan, who was unable to perform well in two consecutive games because of the flu, was already holding back his breath!

Not to mention that this time he encountered Hardaway, who had been very disrespectful to him and provoked him several times. How could Jordan endure it?He is destined to be on full fire tonight!
Therefore, Jordan entered the state as soon as the game started, very tough and proactive in asking for the ball in the low post. Facing Hardaway's defense, he even pushed inwards to compress the space and then suddenly turned around and completed a shot!
"Shh!"

2: 2!

In the next attack, Hardaway, who was beaten hard by Jordan, was anxious to get back on the court. He once again ignored O'Neal's important position and dribbled to the basket. Facing Longley, he also hit a 2-pointer!
After this hit, Lin Tian quickly came to the baseline, grabbed the basketball and made another signature quarterback-style long pass. The basketball instantly turned into lightning and flew straight to Pippen's hands in the frontcourt!
Facing Scott, Pippen didn't need to hesitate at all. He dribbled the ball and rushed towards the basket, and easily pushed away Scott and succeeded in a layup!
"Boy, do you deserve to be called Scott?" After scoring the goal, Pippen gave Scott a trash talk!

In the next few minutes, the two sides launched a wonderful and beautiful attack on the court!

Jordan singled out Hardaway several times, and Hardaway was always able to respond on the offensive end. The Magic had Scott hit a 3-pointer on the weak side, and Lin Tian immediately caught the ball and forced a charge to the basket for a layup!
After almost 5 minutes of the game, the score between the two sides reached 14:16!

The Magic are currently 2 points behind the Bulls!
It is worth mentioning that Hardaway scored 14 of the 7 points and also recorded 2 assists!It can be said that he is the Magic's most important and best player in this half of the game!

But Hardaway playing so well means that O'Neal has no performance!
In the first 5 minutes of the game, O'Neal didn't even touch the ball. He only took one shot in total and failed to hit. He made 1 of 0 shots without scoring, and only grabbed two backcourt rebounds!

This feeling of being completely ignored on the offensive end is of course very unpleasant!But the offensive end couldn't be opened, and O'Neal also started to get lazy on the defensive end!

Especially when he once again asked for the ball in the low post and failed to get the basketball, Hardaway passed the ball to Anderson on the far end, but Anderson failed to hit a 3-pointer!

O'Neal, who was once again ignored, did not directly participate in the defense this time, but slowly watched Lin Tian's fast break and one-stop layup!Then, O'Neal, who was still near the midfield, turned around and continued walking toward the frontcourt.

Then again, although he stood under the basket, he almost watched Lin Tian rush into the inside to complete the layup, but he did not make any effective defensive moves!

In the blink of an eye, as Lin Tian scored 4 points in a row, the score difference between the two sides reached 20:14.

Bulls, start to open up the score!
The Magic's head coach responded very quickly. He immediately called the first timeout of the game to let the team slow down a little and regain its feeling.

After all, this is against the Bulls, and any carelessness and relaxation may lead to a rout!

"Good job." Jackson on the sidelines high-fived every Bulls player who came to him. After everyone sat on the bench, Jackson slowly said: "We did a good job in the warm-up period. 6 points." The advantage is great! Now, the warm-up time is over! It’s time to come out with something real!”

"Scott, prepare to double-team Hardaway. As soon as he enters the 3-point line, rush over and double-team him!"

"Lin, attack O'Neal with pick-and-rolls! Consume him! I'm going to make this shark unable to perform in any form tonight!"

The Bulls team here is united and everyone is working hard, just waiting to teach the Magic team a lesson, but there is a little problem with the Magic team over there!

"Shaq! You can't stand still! You need to protect the basket, you need to be dominant under the basket and knock over all the opponents who rush in! You are the last barrier to the basket, but your first two goals What are you doing? Watching a show? Can't you just stretch out your damn arm and interfere with the Bulls' layup?"

Hardaway looked at O'Neal with an unhappy look on his face.

He was extremely unhappy with O'Neal's defensive attitude.

O'Neal shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said: "I'm watching the show on the offensive end, and I'm also watching the show on the defensive end. Isn't that normal? Let's take a look at the statistics? The great Mr. Penny has already taken 5 shots! And What about me? I touched the basketball once in total!"

"When attacking, why don't you think that I am actually watching the show?"

O'Neal's sudden questioning made Hardaway stunned for a moment. In fact, O'Neal was right. Hardaway's refusal to pass the ball to O'Neal was more or less intentional.

Those remarks made by the Bulls before the game still affected him!
O'Neal is unhappy, and so is Hardaway!

Two geniuses who are unwilling to bow their heads are neither convinced by the other, nor do they think they are inferior to each other. This is the problem that will arise!

"That's enough! Shaq! Anfernee, shut up, both of you!" Hill frowned and said dissatisfied: "We are in a game now, are you two crazy? You actually said this in the game? Shaq, Anfernee is right, you really paid too little on the defensive end!"

"And Anfernee, you should make more use of Shaq's dominance on the offensive end, give him the ball, and let him destroy the Bulls' interior!"

"Both of you are right, but you are both wrong! Do you understand? But those things are not important now! Our goal is to win, to kill the Bulls! Instead of this meaningless internal strife, wait until the timeout ends, I want both of you to change and become more selfless!"

Hill is worthy of being the top water-handling master in the league. When he opens his mouth, he will hit [-] big shots each and talk a lot of meaningless nonsense. Just looking at the expressions of O'Neal and Hardaway, you can tell that neither of these two guys has taken Hill seriously. Listen to what you say.

The two of them have very similar thoughts now.

"Unless this bastard changes his style of play first, I will never change!"

As the timeout ended, ten players from both sides took to the court again!

"In the first attack, Hardaway will definitely give the ball to O'Neal! Dennis!" Lin Tian walked onto the court, observing the expressions of the Magic players while arranging tactics: "Dennis, you are always ready to double-team O'Neal and take him Break the ball in your hand! It’s not impossible to foul if necessary!”

"Scott, Michael, as long as Hardaway passes the ball, you are always ready to take it down quickly. The basketball will definitely fly to your two hands accurately, so just run!"

"When did this kid start arranging tactics for us?" Pippen looked at Lin Tian, ​​who immediately ran to find Langley after giving orders to the three of them, and couldn't help but said: "Does he still remember that he is a rookie? "

"If you score 60 points in the seventh game, you can also command all of us, Scott." Jordan chewed gum, nuzzled at Pippen and said: "Now we just listen to him. , when the game is over, the two of us will give him a good 'strength'! Instructing me to play? Is it that easy?"

Hearing Jordan's words, Pippen also let out a bad smile and said: "No problem! I recently learned two new tricks. After the game is over, let Lin experience it!"

In the Magic's offense, Hardaway still dribbled the ball into the frontcourt. Then, he saw O'Neal blocking Longley with his back and reaching for the ball!

After a slight hesitation, Hardaway immediately passed the ball out, and it was passed to O'Neal, who was already in position on the inside!
But O'Neal just grabbed the ball and before he could put it down, Rodman came out of the blind spot of his sight and slapped the basketball!
Then Rodman quickly hugged the basketball and found Lin Tian immediately. Lin Tian caught the basketball, observed it, took the ball with one hand, and threw it toward the frontcourt!
"Whoosh!"

"boom!"

The sound of a basketball breaking the wind!

Then there was a loud noise after Jordan took the ball and hit the basket with his arms!

The Bulls score another 2 points!
"Shaq! Protect the ball!" Hardaway was a little anxious. While dribbling the ball, he gave orders to O'Neal again.

"Can't any of you remind me? Are you all blind or mute?" O'Neal clapped his hands in frustration and looked at his teammates in displeasure.

O'Neal really can't be blamed for Rodman's steal just now. A person suddenly appeared in the blind spot of his vision. Even if it was Olajuwon or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he couldn't see it!
Then, O'Neal once again demanded the ball very resolutely in the low post. This time Hardaway first observed the situation on the court, and after making sure that no one was going to double-team O'Neal, he wanted to give the ball to him.

But as soon as he lifted the basketball, Jordan rushed up!The moment Hardaway collected the ball and wanted to pass it out, Jordan suddenly increased his defensive intensity!

Even Hardaway was somewhat unprepared for Jordan's sudden increase in defensive intensity. To make matters worse, he could no longer dribble. Hardaway turned around to protect the basketball and waited for his teammates to come to respond. At that time, the first person to come to the rescue was Pippen!
Pippen jumped in front of Hardaway in two steps, and Jordan was one behind the other, wrapping Hardaway in the middle!

At this time, the referee's whistle suddenly sounded!
"Shaquille O'Neal, 3-second offensive violation!"

"FUXX! Pass the ball! Or tell me if you don't pass the ball!" O'Neal roared in dissatisfaction. The team had just decided to attack with him as the core, and immediately made two mistakes in a row. No matter who encountered this In this situation, there is definitely only a lot of dissatisfaction!
"Can't you see for yourself? I'm being double-teamed! Can't you see?" Hardaway also helplessly spread his hands and looked at O'Neal with eyes full of impatience.

Why haven't I noticed before that this fat man is so annoying?

"If you had an excellent point guard instead of a so-called combo guard, you would definitely be able to play better." Lin Tian's voice suddenly rang in O'Neal's ears: "But, for us, this is It's a good thing! The most dominant center in history has no use. We are too relaxed!" After Lin Tian finished speaking, he didn't even wait for O'Neal to react, and quickly dribbled the ball past him, all the way to the goal. After the frontcourt, Lin Tian slowed down again and passed two consecutive screens, allowing Hardaway to face him.

"Boy, do you think you can beat me?" Hardaway had just been embarrassed by Jordan and Pippen. He was furious at the moment. When he saw Lin Tian actually taking the initiative to beat him through the screen, he immediately became aggressive. He straightened his stance and said, "Or do you think I'm the same level of trash as Starks or Derek Hubble?"

"I didn't mean that." Lin Tian grinned, showing his sunny and innocent side and said: "You are very powerful Anfernee, really powerful, but you are not scary at all now, and we are not afraid at all! You know Why?"

"Because you don't have a partner that is really suitable for you! A big man who can only play in isolation in the three-second zone but will not give you a screen or open up a breakthrough space sounds very powerful, but he will only waste your talent! "

At this point, Lin Tian suddenly waved his hand and summoned Longley from the inside. After setting a tight screen for himself, Lin Tian's speed exploded again, and he passed Hardaway in one step and headed towards the basket. Rushed over!
Just when O'Neal moved to help defend Lin Tian, ​​the basketball in Lin Tian's hand suddenly flew out again and flew towards the top of the basket.

"boom!"

This time, it was Pippen who saw the right opportunity and completed the alley-oop dunk!

After this wonderful cooperation, Lin Tian and Pippen were so excited that they high-fived each other. Then Lin Tian quickly turned around. When passing by Hardaway, he whispered: "Look, although Longley is not as good as O'Neal, but He is willing to cover for me! I can use him to break through at any time!"

"What about you? How many times has O'Neal screened you this season?"

How many times have you done cover?

Hardaway said, just do whatever you want!

I have never enjoyed O'Neal's protection in my life!
He never leaves the three-second zone and never sets a cover for anyone on the team!
In O'Neal's words: That's something only blue-collar workers do. I'm a super center and I will never do such a thing!
In the next Magic team's offense, Hardaway once again dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and O'Neal once again asked for the ball very strongly in the interior!
This time, Hardaway no longer hesitated!

Go to Nima’s Big Shark!

I won't pass the ball to you!
Thinking of this, Hardaway suddenly exerted force on his feet and started to force a breakthrough against Jordan!

However, although Jordan is in his 30s, his footsteps, movement and confrontation are still at the top level in the league. Even if Hardaway has extraordinary talent and is known as a peerless genius, it is extremely difficult to easily break through Jordan's defense!

What's more, in addition to Jordan, the Bulls also have two annual first-defensive team players in Pippen and Rodman!

As soon as Hardaway reached the mid-range, another figure suddenly appeared beside him.

Pippen is here again!
Hardaway's reaction was extremely fast. The moment Pippen rushed over, he had already seen Scott whose baseline was empty. Hardaway immediately passed the ball with one hand and threw the ball toward the baseline. .

But the basketball still failed to reach the designated position. Just halfway through the flight, Lin Tian was cut off by Lin Tian who stabbed out from an angle. He took the basketball in his hand and launched another wave of counterattacks!

The Magic players had no time to react. When Lin Tian rushed to the basket to complete the dunk, neither Anderson nor Scott even ran into their own 3-point line, let alone defended Lin Tian for a layup.

They could only watch, and they could only watch as Lin Tian succeeded in a layup.

At this point, Hill had no choice but to call a timeout again.

In several consecutive rounds, the Bulls scored easily, and then the Magic made consecutive mistakes. The gap was only 6 points just now, but it exceeded 10 points in the blink of an eye!
If we play like this for two more rounds, I'm afraid this game won't be played!
The score difference in the first quarter was 20 points!

Everyone is relaxed here on the Bulls side. The Magic won 60 games in the regular season and were considered a strong team that advanced all the way before the Eastern Conference Finals. They don't seem to be that strong!
Especially the only two players on the team who can play, but there are conflicts, and they start talking trash to each other right on the court!
"The first shortcoming of the Magic is that there are too few available players! Except for the starting five, their substitute strength is almost negligible!"

During the timeout, Jackson sat on the bench and began his analysis with a confident look.

"The second thing is that although their two stars are both very good, apart from these two, or in other words, apart from Hardaway, the team does not have a second reliable ball-handling point. Scott and Anderson is a shooter, and Brian Shaw who came on the bench is not worth mentioning."

"So, as long as Hardaway is held down and he cannot organize the team's offense, the Magic can only fall into the situation of Hardaway's unlimited singles. But, compared to unlimited singles? In this league, there is only one, and there is no ball. The team is our opponent!”

"So, let's continue to target Hardaway and increase his intensity so that he can't organize the offense and pass the ball to his teammates, especially O'Neal!"

"Secondly, Lin, you come down to rest first and conserve your energy. When Hardaway goes down to rest, it's time for you to go on the field and kill everyone, completely killing the suspense of the game! Everyone, if everything goes well, in today's game, we will have halftime It will completely eliminate the suspense! You can clock out at halftime!"

"get off work!"

"get off work!"

"get off work!"

The Bulls players let out bursts of excited shouts. Like Jackson, they all smelled the victory in this game!
Jackson replaced Lin Tian with Ron Harbaugh. This former star guard of the Cavaliers has degraded to the level of only averaging 5 points per game, but his defense and experience are still there. It is definitely the best choice to replace Lin Tian and harass the connection between Hardaway and O'Neal!

Lin Tian, ​​who was substituted, lay comfortably on the chair and watched the game calmly!

The Bulls are missing Lin Tian now. Although those signature fast breaks and quarterback-style passes are completely impossible to play, with Jordan and Pippen here, the basics of the team's offense are there!

They no longer play fast, but stay in position, playing ball after ball steadily!

On the offensive end, Jordan and Pippen took turns holding the ball to attack, while on the defensive end, the entire team targeted Hardaway. Longley began to move forward, and Rodman wandered around to steal the ball. The Bulls gathered the strength of the entire team and completely cut off Hardaway and Hardaway. The O’Neal connection!

Of course, this kind of defense of the Bulls is also a kind of gamble. They put almost all their defensive forces on these two people, leaving out the Magic's role players.

At this time, once Anderson or Scott find the shooting touch, the Magic can set off a counterattack in minutes!

but……

Obviously, no matter which player on the Magic team is tonight, they can't find their feeling at all!
Open shot?Blacksmithing!
Cutting layup?Missed due to interference!

In the rest of the first quarter, the Magic could only rely on Hardaway's piecemeal shooting and breakthroughs to slowly increase their points.

In the entire first quarter, O'Neal only got 3 shot opportunities, only hit one ball and scored 2 points!
The Bulls' defensive strategy worked!

When the Bulls' strategy led to a complete victory, the score of tonight's game was naturally enough to make the fans at the United Center cheer wildly.

35: 20!

In the first quarter, the Bulls relied on dividing the connection between Hardaway and O'Neal, forcing Hardaway to keep playing singles, and successfully gained a 15-point lead!

In the second quarter of the game, Hardaway, who had been pestered by Jordan and Pippen for the whole quarter, had to go down to rest. He was so physically exhausted from being crazily targeted. Looking at his appearance now, he looked like he had only played one quarter. He was out of breath and His whole body was soaked with sweat, and some people believed him even if he said he had just played the entire game!
Hardaway is out, so the Magic will naturally let O'Neal play the game as the absolute core!

On the Bulls side, Lin Tian, ​​Wennington, Kukoc, Cole and Pippen were on the court together.

After seeing that the Magic only played O'Neal, Lin Tian once again called his teammates together and said: "Next, there is no need to guard O'Neal so tightly! Let him score as many goals as possible. Score some points!”

"Why Lin? I can try to defend him!" Wennington didn't understand what Lin Tian meant by this.

"I mean, it is absolutely beneficial to us to let O'Neal score some points while Hardaway is away! Not to mention that we are already 15 points ahead and have a lot of advantages to squander. More importantly, The most important thing is, do you think that with O'Neal's character, when he discovers that Hardaway is not present, he will be able to score consecutively immediately, what will he think?"

"Will he feel that he has regained his form and become an invincible shark again, or will he feel that Hardaway is playing him and deliberately not passing the ball to him?"

"Of course I think Hardaway is playing him!"

The other four members of the Bulls team expressed their opinions in unison.

So, the rest of the second quarter became O'Neal's show!
After catching the ball inside, he turned around and went to the basket for a dunk!Use your shoulder to push away Wennington's one-arm buckle!Facing Wennington, he quickly turned around and then hit a small hook...

In less than 5 minutes, O'Neal, who only scored 3 points in the first quarter, went on a rampage. In addition to only making 4 of 1 free throws, which was really disappointing, he made 5 of 5 shots from the basket and scored 11 points!
In the second quarter, O'Neal really started to look like a truly terrifying shark!
However, the Magic only had one strong point on the court: O'Neal. Even though he was invincible by himself, he failed to help the team narrow the point difference too much.

Although the Bulls deliberately let O'Neal go on defense and did not double-team him specifically, on the offensive end, whether it was Lin Tian's breakthrough pass or fast break, or Pippen's high post support. , the Bulls all played vigorously!

Although no one played as brilliantly as O'Neal during this period, the Bulls maintained their lead!
By the time the men led by Jordan and Hardaway came on the stage again, the Bulls still had a 14-point lead!

In other words, O'Neal's violent output helped the team recover 1 point!
But even if only 1 point is recovered, it can be regarded as narrowing the point difference.

But when Hardaway played again, the Bulls' defense changed again. They once again increased their defensive intensity, with crazy double-teaming, bypassing, assisting defense, high-intensity physical confrontation and constant harassment and targeting!

In this case, Hardaway was once again in great pain by Jordan and Pippen. Not to mention giving the ball to O'Neal, it was difficult for him to even dribble the ball, organize the offense, and observe the situation on the court!

The Bulls' oppressive defense is definitely the top level in the league today!

Of course O'Neal couldn't feel Hardaway's embarrassment and discomfort!
He doesn't care who Hardaway is targeting, I don't have time to think about that!
O'Neal knew that in the half quarter of the game when Hardaway was away, he scored 11 points. A few minutes after Hardaway came back, O'Neal could not get the basketball again and only scored 2 points!
Hardaway!He definitely didn’t pass the ball to me on purpose!
Once this idea appears, whether it is a personal conjecture or a fact, it can only mean one thing -

The combination of O'Neal and Hardaway has come to an end. The two began to distrust and dislike each other.

Especially when the first half ended and the Bulls entered the tunnel with a 24-point lead to take a break, Lin Tian's words aroused the grievance and annoyance in O'Neal's stomach.

"Fortunately, the Magic don't have a truly selfless and reliable point guard! Otherwise, we would have been badly beaten by O'Neal! Apart from foul tactics, I think the only people in this world who can stop O'Neal are his teammates. !”

O'Neal almost burst into tears when he heard Lin Tian's words. He wanted to hold Lin Tian's face and take a bite!
Look!This is the person who understands football!
This is the person who really knows how to play basketball, this is the person who really understands the game!

When you get the ball, don't shoot it, give it to the shark!
After saying this, Lin Tian happened to look back and met O'Neal's eyes.

In an instant, the performance soul in Lin Tian's body suddenly rose. In just 2 seconds at most, expressions such as shock, regret, sadness, melancholy, apology, pity, etc. flashed across Lin Tian's face one by one. Finally, End with a relieved and relaxed smile!
Lin Tian felt that his performance at this moment was definitely enough to win an Oscar for Best Actor!

There are no flaws, it’s completely natural!

With his performance, the Magic team's locker room was probably extremely lively during halftime!

Maybe...the brains can be knocked out directly?

"Anfernee, why can I get the ball easily when you are not here, but when you are on the court, why can't I even touch the ball?" In the locker room, O'Neal sat there angrily, looking at Hardaway issued a soul question.

"What do you mean?" Hardaway has never been a good-tempered owner. He looked at O'Neal and said, "You mean, I deliberately didn't pass the ball to you?"

"You admitted it, right?" O'Neal snorted, sitting there holding his arms and staring at Hardaway.

"Do you want to try what it's like to be double-teamed by Jordan and Pippen? Otherwise you won't know how difficult it is to pass the ball to you!" Hardaway said angrily: "If you want to catch more balls, then come out and give it to me. Make two covers and get down! I promise to feed you!"

"But if you still stay inside and can't come out, I'm sorry, I can't pass the ball to you! I'm being guarded too tightly!"

"Why should I set a screen for you? That's a job only blue-collar players do! I'm O'Neal! Shaquille O'Neal! Do you understand? O'Neal never sets a pick-and-roll for anyone!" O'Neal was even more unceremonious and said directly, He will never leave the three-second zone.

"You don't have to leave the 3-second zone, or you can live in the [-]-second zone for the rest of your life! This is indeed your right, but if you choose this way, then you can't blame me if you can't catch the ball! Who do I want to pass the ball to? I have the freedom to pass the ball to whoever I want!"

Hardaway and O'Neal were tit for tat, neither giving in to the other. As soon as Hardaway's last words came out, the two stood up from the bench almost at the same time, staring at each other, as if they were ready to take action at any time.

"That's enough! What's going on with you two? You started fighting among yourself before the game was over? Do you want to call the reporters in? Let them report on the conflict between you?"

Grant, the only veteran in the team and the hero of the Bulls' first three consecutive seasons, finally stood up. He stood between the two people and continued: "With the strength of internal strife, think about how to break the Bulls' poor defense." Is that so? Their tactics are to divide us and make us fight among ourselves!"

"I played under Phil. I know him very well. I know how dirty his heart is. He will definitely use a lot of psychological warfare! Otherwise, how do you think he got the name 'Zen Master'? Don’t be fooled, keep calm, and only then can we have hope of winning!”

After Grant's remarks, O'Neal and Hardaway finally did not escalate the conflict again. Instead, they snorted at each other and sat back in their seats angrily.

Head coach Hill only appeared at this time, spread his hands and said: "Shaq, their tactics are indeed aimed at you and Anfernee. I hope you can think about it carefully and think about Anfernee. The right conundrum, think of how many traps and obstacles the Bulls have put between the two of you!”

"And Anfernee, you really should find a way to get more of the ball to Shaq! His destructive power and offensive certainty are what we urgently need! Only Shaq opens up, and we Only then can we turn defeat into victory in the second half! Do you understand?"

"Understood." Hardaway and O'Neal both nodded, but everyone could see the perfunctory look in the eyes and movements of these two guys.

The conflict between these two guys is becoming increasingly difficult to resolve.

(End of this chapter)