Legendary star

Chapter 706 A New Generation Gives the Old Ones Off (2)

"FUCK, this kid beat Shaq!"

When the referee who whistled the focus of this game threw the basketball in his hand into the air at the moment of blowing the whistle, after seeing the result of the jump ball, almost all the Heat players on and off the court were secretly thinking about it. curse.

As the strongest center in the NBA, although Shaquille O'Neal is no longer at his peak, as long as O'Neal is still on the court, it will bring an invisible huge pressure to the opponent, especially when face-to-face. So, countless young and strong jumpers lost the jump ball inexplicably because they were shocked by O'Neill's momentum when they jumped the ball with O'Neill, but today this childish-looking kid, but Unaffected in the slightest, and won this jump ball with absolute advantage.

"Dako, great job." After Darko Milicic won the jump ball, the rotation players sitting on the side bench all stood up to applaud Darko Milicic, while several Pacers players on the field , and also praised a few words in the gap of advancement.

Since the Heat retreated relatively quickly, and the Pacers had two big insiders, the Pacers' advance speed was not fast in the first offense at the beginning of the game. Basically, O'Neal had already retreated to the basket. , Tony Allen took the ball near the top of the arc and handed the basketball to Meng Xu.

On the first attack, Meng Xu called Darko Milicic's pick-and-roll. When the team with O'Neal defended at the basket, it undoubtedly had a very large advantage, but in defending the pick-and-roll, it was O'Neal's. The short board, the Pacers must take advantage of such an obvious short board as the Heat.

"Asshole, this is the trick again." Seeing Darko Milicic who left the basket and ran towards the top of the arc, O'Neal cursed fiercely. O'Neal's disgust for defensive pick-and-rolls is far behind Meng Above Xu, as long as it is a team that likes to play pick-and-roll, O'Neal will sneer at them, calling them a bunch of sissies without exception.

Just after O'Neal followed Darko Milicic to the top of the arc, Meng Xu, who moved the ball laterally, arrived. Through the pick-and-roll with Darko Milicic, Meng Xu got a chance to play O'Neal in a dislocated single, but Meng Xu did not He didn't use his speed to force O'Neal, but after continuing to move two steps laterally, he passed the basketball in his hand behind O'Neal with a through pass.

Turning around and looking around, Darko Milicic, who was in the pick-and-roll with Meng Xu just now, has already appeared in the paint area of ​​the Heat, and received Meng Xu's pass very comfortably. Before he could make any reaction, O'Neal saw Darko Milicic, driving into the paint, hangs on the rim.

With a simple pick-and-roll, the Heat's defensive system was destroyed. Seeing this situation, Pat Riley on the sidelines could only shake his head helplessly. An O'Neal cannot support the Heat's defensive system, let alone the defensive system. It wasn't O'Neill's specialty.

Originally, after selecting the talented Dwyane Wade and trading for Shaq O'Neal, a nearly invincible killer at the basket, Pat Riley thought with joy that he ushered in another The opportunity to win the championship, but the sky did not come true. For two consecutive seasons in the playoffs, the Heat encountered the Pistons who were very restrained in their style of play and lineup. Finally, last season, because of the competition system, the Heat finally won. There is no need to fight the Pistons in the playoffs, but after entering the Eastern Conference Finals, Pat Riley was surprised to find that the Pacers restrained the Heat more powerfully than the Pistons. In the last three games of the Eastern Conference Finals, The Heat lost to the Pacers by more than 20 points per game. For three consecutive games, the Heat could not see any hope of winning at all.

"It's all about that guy!" Staring at Meng Xu who was slowly retreating on the court, Pat Riley once again thought of Jordan's suppression of his team. In front of these two people, he seemed to have no Every time he thinks about the chance of winning the championship, Pat Riley will sigh in his heart, what kind of evil did he do to meet Jordan and Meng Xu successively, if it were not for the existence of these two obstacles, His hands can already be filled with championship rings.

Just when Pat Riley was already wandering, thinking about every opponent in his career, there was a huge booing in the American Airlines Arena. In the Heat's attack just now, Meng Xu directly cut off Jason Williams to pass the ball to O'Neal, and then launched a fast break, and the white boy wearing the Pacers' No. 31 jersey followed Meng Xu and rushed directly to the basket of the Heat. , and Meng Xu came to an alley-oop, and ended the fast break with a flying dunk.

"It's so arrogant!" Looking at Darko Milicic, who came down from the basket and slapped his chest and roared towards the cameras on the sidelines, the surrounding Heat audience immediately scolded the white villain.As for the Heat bench not far away, almost all the Heat players are in the same mood as those spectators who have already scolded. What about Madison?

"If only we could have such an insider." Pat Riley felt a headache when he thought of the Heat's insiders except O'Neal. Haslem is too short and Mourning is sick. After playing for a few minutes, the Heat have nothing to use inside. On the other hand, the Pacers have always been equipped with four insides. Mutombo, the four-time best defensive player, has now become The Pacers' third center.

"Jerry, give me the ball!" In the opening game, he was beaten 4-0 by the Pacers, and there were two dunks in a row. How could O'Neal bear it, so after the Heat launched an attack again, O'Neal moved towards being cautious. Jerry Williams, who was dribbling, reached out for the ball. As the core of this team and the "owner" of this arena, O'Neal must show his presence at this time.

O'Neal, who received the ball below the free throw line, pushed Darko Milicic to the basket, but NN-Hilario quickly rushed over to double-team O'Neal, facing the Pacers Double-teamed, O'Neal didn't give the ball out immediately, but chose to attack forcefully under the double-team.

Pushing Darko Milicic behind him with his butt, and blocking NN Hilario who rushed to double-team with a thick arm, O'Neal tried to push his back again, then turned around quickly, adjusted his body posture in the air, Immediately afterwards, he threw the basketball in his hand towards the basket.

If it was in the past, when O'Neal used this kind of defense to shoot the basketball, there would only be two results, one is to make a shot, and the other is not to make a shot. It is almost impossible to have a third result, but this time, let O'Neill was a little annoyed that the third situation that O'Neill didn't want to see appeared.

The basketball thrown by O'Neal was slapped away by Darko Milicic behind O'Neal while it was still on the rise.

(End of this chapter)