Chapter 193: Lin Han and O'Neill
(It was cold yesterday.,I've been having diarrhea this morning.,This update is a little late.,There's a little mistake in yesterday's one.,Dell Curry's team is the Charlotte Hornets.,The fisherman wrote it like a lynx by mistake for a while.,I'm really sorry.,The last thing is to ask for a monthly pass.,Now the monthly pass is not optimistic)
After the slam dunk contest and three-point contest of All-Star Weekend, the focus of the entire All-Star Game is now on the All-Star Game, which starts at 8 o'clock in the evening on February 13.
Originally, there were only three centers in the NBA, why is there a fourth center all of a sudden now? The fourth big center is naturally the flexible fat man O'Neal of the Magic team, after being rotated by the three centers last season because he was too arrogant, O'Neal is very good this season, and is second only to Lin Han and Admiral David Robinson in the scoring list, and in addition to scoring, it seems to be the most important defense as a center, whether it is rebounding or blocking, this rookie sophomore player is quite good this year.
Although at the beginning of the season, the Magic team met the Knicks, the Spurs and the Rockets to lose in turn, and O'Neal was once again coached by the three centers, but I have to say that the flexible fat man of the Magic team does not know whether he is nervous or really has the qualifications to become more and more courageous, although the Magic team's record has now been ...... The literary cow counterattack has long since fallen from second in the East to fourth in the East, but this Magic's leading center is even better in terms of appearance. It's nothing short of a miracle.
And because of his natural popularity, the league sophomore became an All-Star and a player for two years in a row, last season. O'Neal has not been able to stand with Olajuwon, and this season, although O'Neill still has fewer wins and more losses in direct confrontation, it has to be said that in terms of numbers, he is no worse than any of the three major centers, even because of age. It's impossible for the three centers to be dead in the regular season, and O'Neill's number is even the best among the center players.
Coupled with the fact that he has the popularity of almost three centers, O'Neal is now known as the fourth most powerful center in the league. I have to say that O'Neal is now much higher than Doherty, a player of the Cavaliers who was previously considered the most likely to become the fourth most likely center, in terms of popularity or strength or numbers, and after the media released this setting, neither the fans nor Admiral Olajuwon and the gorilla seem to be too dissatisfied. It looks like after repairing O'Neill, who wasn't very good at being a man last season. The three of them also realized that this guy did have the strength to stand with them.
And more importantly, before this All-Star Game, the whole country was talking about Jordan's absence, Barkley's absence, and other football kings such as Thomas Larry Bird and Magic were also absent, this time the All-Star is a reshuffled All-Star or the three centers have finally become the league's most prestigious and powerful deposits, so before this All-Star Game, the media played the slogan of the three centers matchup. In this case, Ewing is one-on-two. No matter how you look at it, it's not like that, so for these people, they quickly reached a consensus that O'Neal becomes another big center and Ewing is combined, can't it become 2 against 2? Exactly two in the east and two in the west.
Although this group of reporters is for convenience, O'Neal is now pushed to the position of the four major centers, but it can also be seen from this that the luck of this leading player of the Magic is really good after entering the league, and even better than Lin Han in luck.
How many sophomores in the history of the league have held such a status? Can you be on the All-Star stage without being bound by qualifications, and you can legitimately strive for MVP? Even Jordan can't do it, and O'Neal is now the fourth of the four centers, so he has such qualifications.
So after the All-Star Three-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest ended, on the second day, after Lin Han saw a lot of O'Neal news from the predictions and reports of major media in the United States for this year's All-Star Game, he was almost really a little envious and jealous, because there was really no way not to envy and hate.
is also a player with a mocking face as soon as he enters the league, O'Neal was whitewashed in just one season, and it was the national media who helped him whitewash, but what about Lin Han? Now it looks like I'm going to get to O'Neill, and I don't know how long I'll have to wait.
And Lin Han is now thinking about how to destroy Olajuwon and the admiral's natural way to get the MVP, but O'Neill can now compete fairly with Olajuwon and others without thinking about it at all.
In Lin Han's opinion, O'Neill is really a player with his own template for the protagonist of a knight's novel, which is simply a typical example of someone giving clothes when it's cold and someone giving food when you're hungry.
Of course, although he is really envious and jealous of O'Neill Lin Han now, he also knows that this kind of thing is really not enviable, and, although it is not justifiable, in Lin Han's thoughts, at this time, the east is probably not a monolith like the west, at least one of Lin Han's most familiar opponents, the second master of Pippen of the Bulls, this uncle will definitely not watch himself play for Ewing or Olajuwon.
You know, when Jordan was there before, he went to give Jordan a hand, this is no way, no matter how crazy he is, he doesn't think he can steal Jordan's limelight on the All-Star Game, last season's All-Star Game, Jordan vs. Utah is the main body, and he is standing next to Jordan to fight, although everyone gives him face, and the good thing to say is that the Bulls vs. Utah Shuangsha, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as Jordan is there, he can't become Jordan's equal.
In this case, this season is arguably Pippen's best chance to prove himself, and Pippen's hunger for honor has never been stronger than this season, but even if he led the Bulls to a great performance before. The best of the month and the best of the week basically didn't have anything to do with him, because he always stood in front of him the mountain of Lynham and Jazz, and even the MVP of the regular season. From the current point of view, as long as the Jazz don't die, this honor can only be one of the three of Malone, Linhan and Stockton, and he has nothing to do with him, in this case, All-Star MVP. Lin Han didn't think Pippen would fight.
Just like the situation in the west, Lin Han is a spoiler who is uneasy about the status quo and does not want to be arranged. And Pippen is also a madman who is uneasy about the status quo and unwilling to help others, in this case, Lin Han is not without a chance.
Just like Lin Han said. Olajuwon and others are not Thomas or Dr. J and Larry Bird and others. Their prestige is not so high, the same group of ball kings and quasi-ball kings in the east that year, there are also Magic and Abdul-Jabbar and others in the west, even Olajuwon, who also participated in the All-Star for the first time, has to see if he has the opportunity to watch Xiàn.
Similarly, when Magic and Abdul-Jabbar and Thomas and Larry Bird were able to press the formation, it does not mean that Olajuwon and others, who are also seniors, can also suppress the formation, at least for now, there is still a gap between the two sides.
If the All-Stars in the West are replaced by Thomas or Larry Bird at this time, they want to suppress Lynham. Or Magic and Abdul-Jabbar want to suppress Lin Han, no matter how arrogant Lin Han is, the final result must be the same as Jordan. Therefore, in Lin Han's opinion, although Jordan's strength was stronger than himself back then, the opportunities he encountered were too poor.
Therefore, although he was isolated by these bigwigs in the west, Lin Han knew that he was not without a chance even if he was angry again, and the current situation was still very complicated, and no one knew what the situation was until the last moment.
So on the afternoon of February 13, when the All-Star Game players practiced together, Lin Han always looked relaxed.
This not only surprised Lin Han's two teammates, Stockton and Ma Long, but even Olajuwon and other bigwigs were stunned, they really didn't expect Lin Han to have such a good mentality now.
Although the team practice is nominally a joint practice for the East and West All-Stars, it is actually a pre-game press conference, the training is public, and before the start of the training, the media from all over the world will be qualified to interview the players they want to interview.
So at this time, many All-Star players are more embarrassed, such as Western All-Star Clifford Robinson and Sprewell, etc., there are basically no reporters around them, as an All-Star player, when they see other players who are also All-Stars in the arena but are surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and their own side is crowded, how can they not be embarrassed.
And at this time, they can't go if they want to, which can also see the reality of the NBA, no way, this is a commercial league, so at this time, not only Sprewell and others are a little embarrassed, even Olajuwon and others are also the same, although they are much better than Sprewell or Payton and Robinson, but compared with Lin Han, they are also unable to take it.
It's just the posture around Lin Han, I'm afraid that almost half of the on-site reporters are around Lin Han, from this point of view, Lin Han is now the most popular player in the NBA without any doubt.
"Hakim, just let this kid be proud for a while, he won't be able to laugh in tonight's game"
Two years ago, when he came to the NBA All-Star Game, two years ago, when he went to the Finals against Jordan, he was on the same level as Jordan, East Flyer, West Glider, this is not just talking.
And now, because of the failure two years ago and the injury in the last two years, this has led to an extremely severe decline in his popularity, not only is he no longer the No. 1 scoring guard in the West, but even worse than Richmond, who he didn't look down on at all, how can Drexler be able to bear it?
Originally, according to the idea of Rockets head coach Tom Janovic, Drexler, who has taken injury care as his first priority in recent times, cannot play more than 2o minutes in this game, and can just go up and play, but now Drexler is now, he definitely can't just play now.
Of course, although Olajuwon also dislikes Lin Han, the leading player of the Rockets is quite restrained. Just glared fiercely at Lin Han, who was completely surrounded by reporters not far away, and turned around and went to practice.
And after the on-site interview, the all-star players of the two teams in the east and west got together in twos and threes and began to practice. Even if Jerry Sloan is really a perfect genius manager, it is impossible for him to change a makeshift patchwork team with a training session and equip the team with tactical ability.
So at the NBA All-Star Game. It's not that the players don't want to play like they did in the regular season, but obviously, it's hard to really work together. If you don't cooperate, and you play real games, it is likely to be one-on-one, which will not only consume physical energy. And it's hard to say whether they can hold on to the whole audience. In this case, the All-Star score has been very high, not only because everyone has excellent offensive talent, but also because everyone basically doesn't play really on the defensive end.
Of course, if the game is played at the last moment, the winner will be decided, even if there is no tactical system, it must be really played. After all, when the game is played at such a time, there is no need to think about physical fitness.
So. Now should have been the time for Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan and Hawks head coach Wilkens, but these two head coaches stood aside very interestingly and did not make any tactical arrangements, as the NBA's old fritters, although Jerry Sloan is also the first time to coach an All-Star, but he has not participated in the All-Star when he was a player, and he knows the rules very well.
Generally speaking, the NBA All-Star head coach is a decoration, the rotation of players is fixed, when to play, when to go on the bench, these have been designed before the game, they generally say that unless the players give them face, it is difficult for them to make any changes to the personnel, not to mention the tactics, when commanding on the spot, it is estimated that "everyone calm down", "we have to defend", "beat them" and so on, and they will not be said until the last moment of the game.
Therefore, these two head coaches are very clear about their position in the team, as long as the team bosses on the field are unwilling, they can't control it, so these two simply stood aside and chatted, and the players on the field also did not practice any tactical cooperation, but played heads-up.
Especially O'Neal, a living treasure, he actually found Lin Han and asked for a one-on-one heads-up with Lin Han, and he attacked, Lin Han could only defend, of course, O'Neill said that he would not attack Lin Han with his back attack, but would only use the outside line to deal with Lin Han.
In this case, Lin Han, who was originally isolated and a little bored, also agreed to the request of the eastern center, originally Lin Han just casually played with O'Neal, although he defended, but if O'Neal did not use the offensive method of the inside, but played the breakthrough and shooting of the outside, Lin Han would not be afraid of him at all.
Could it be that O'Neill can really play a big stride on the outside?
Lin Han wanted to think so, but to Lin Han's great surprise, the head of the Magic team really played a change of direction breakthrough against Lin Han when he was one-on-one with Lin Han, and it was not a big stride to change the direction of the breakthrough, but a butterfly similar to Iverson's flower step, changing direction in front of Lin Han in front of the two bodies, facing Lin Han who pounced and was ready to steal, this magic big center turned around with a light back and directly passed Lin Han, this guy did not use his own strength to turn his back, Even Lin Han didn't even get O'Neill's body to be given by this guy.
After passing Lin Han, O'Neal completed a one-handed dunk directly under the basket.
When this was born, the cameramen, photographers and text reporters at the scene were all stunned when they saw this scene, and even the other players on the field were stunned, although they could see that Lin Han did not use all his strength at all, and even did not bend his waist when defending.
But with O'Neal's height and weight, this guy can actually play the back turn and break through with the change of direction in front of the body, this Nima is not even as agile as Ewing the gorilla, except for Olajuwon and Admiral in the league, I am afraid that no center can play better than O'Neal.
"The four centers are really the four centers, O'Neal didn't expect to have the same ball-handling skills as an outside player, it's incredible"
Of course, at this time, the group of reporters from all over the world on the sidelines were full of amazement by O'Neill's defeat of Lin Han's goal, in their impressions. That's not the case with basketball.
"Shaq, you walked just now"
Just a Magic player Hardaway who stood aside and watched Lin Han and O'Neal go head-to-head, after O'Neal's dunk was completed. said with a cold face, and after Hardaway finished speaking, some childlike O'Neill directly touched his head and laughed.
Just now, in order to be able to turn his back and pass Lin Han without having physical contact with Lin Han, he did steal a step, which can be regarded as a step, but after his big man used this trick, everyone else was still surprised. Didn't notice, it's just that Hardaway was indeed very calm and kept a high level of concentration all the time. You know, even O'Neill's opponent Lin Han didn't notice this.
"Hahaha, Perry, am I your teammate or is this kid your teammate. You're actually going to help an outsider."
O'Neill, who was smiling a little embarrassed, looked at Hardaway with a cold face and then at Lin Han with a surprised face. Some pretended to be angry and said, but after O'Neill finished speaking, Hardaway was stunned for a moment, and after glaring at Lin Han secretly, he turned his head and left with a snort.
Finally, looking at the back of Hardaway leaving, Lin Han was also a little speechless, he didn't seem to have done anything, why was Hardaway dissatisfied with him.
"Huh. Lin, how's that. I'm very good at my skills."
Although Lin Han was really speechless about Hardaway's character at this time, at this time, O'Neill had already put his right hand on Lin Han's right shoulder, and said proudly.
"Well, your skills are indeed better than mine, compared to walking."
In the end, Lin Han also glanced at O'Neill angrily and said, but after Lin Han finished speaking, he saw that his head was ravaged by Olajuwon.
At this time, it was supposed to be the time for the East and West All-Stars to practice together, but because everyone didn't want to practice any tactics, everyone was looking for a few familiar players to play, Lin Han, who didn't have much to do with O'Neal, really didn't expect that he would be able to play with this big fat man.
Just looked at Lin Han and O'Neal, who were extremely eye-catching on the court, and at this time, Olajuwon and Drexler and others didn't look very good.
Olajuwon, in particular, is not so right when the Rockets center forward looks at O'Neal, and it is clear that the young center who is his rival in this game is now being targeted by him.
After the afternoon practice of the All-Star Game, Lin Han didn't think that he would have become very embarrassed to be able to mix with O'Neal, which made Lin Han not embarrassed in front of the world's media, which was a thing that made Lin Han happy.
It's just that now it's obvious that the methods of these bigwigs in the west against him have become more and more open, and Stockton and Malone can't help Lin Han because of their previous friendship, and now Lin Han's situation is indeed very dangerous.
This is not only something that Lin Han can see, but even O'Neal, who played well with Lin Han in this joint practice, can see it.
"Perry, I really didn't expect that you, a cold guy, would beg me one day, how about it, my cousin will satisfy you."
Looking at Lin Han's back after the end of training, O'Neal looked at his teammates with a smile and said a little cheaply, but after O'Neal finished speaking, Hardaway didn't pay attention to the big fat man at all, just glared at O'Neill fiercely and then walked to the player tunnel.
"It seems that it is really not easy to subdue this kid"
Looking at Hardaway's back, O'Neill also touched his nose and said with a smile, as a teammate, he admires Hardaway's type of teammate very much, selfless, responsible, and strong enough, but as the boss of the team, he is very helpless to such teammates, because in front of Hardaway, he does not have any majesty of the boss, or that he does not have the temperament of being the boss, and Hardaway does not have the temperament of the second of the team. Similarly, the Magic team didn't think about separating O'Neal and Hardaway, so now O'Neal feels quite embarrassed.
Although Hardaway never thought of usurping power, O'Neill always wanted Hardaway to convince him, but Hardaway's personality was indeed a little too cold, which made him completely unable to find a chance to start, but he didn't expect such a cold guy to ask for help for his biggest enemy, which had to be said to make O'Neill very surprised.
"This year's rookie is really a fun bunch"
When I think of this. O'Neal also followed Hardaway into the players' tunnel with a smile on his face.
At 8 p.m. on February 13, 1994, the Minnesota Timberwolves' home target center was filled to capacity. As an NBA All-Star Weekend, although this year's All-Star Rookie Game is very eye-catching, the All-Star Rookie Game is only an All-Star Rookie Game after all, and the biggest meal of the All-Star Weekend is the All-Star Game.
So at this time, when the players from the east took the lead and the players from the west began to play at the ceremony, the whole stadium was almost boiling.
After all, this year's All-Star Game is considered the home of the West, although the East players play. There were a lot of cheers, but it was still a lot worse than the western side, especially Lin Han, who played as the second player in the west. It directly made the target center almost have a feeling of being overturned.
"Hahaha, Lin's appearance ceremony is so decent, he just lowered his head and stretched out his right hand to greet the fans at the scene, he should learn from the camp in front of him"
When Lin Han came out in the midst of the almost tsunami cheers of the fans. At this time, almost all the fans around the world who watched this game were focused on Lin Han.
Although today's theme is the two major centers in the west vs. the two major centers in the east. But obviously, many fans still hope that Lin Han can make a difference in this game.
After all, Lin Han's popularity and attention are here.
"Maybe the more cold Lin Han is, the more fans like it, isn't it a popular word called 'cool' now, maybe Lin Han gives people a cool feeling now"
In the commentary booth of this game, Larry Bird, who is the head coach of the All-Star rookie game, said with a smile on his face.
As one of the parties to Jordan's all-star lesson, Larry Bird is certainly aware of Lin Han's situation now, and even people who are a little more well-informed know what is happening now. So he also knew very well why Lin Han didn't have a smile on his face at this time, because it was the beginning of the All-Star Game.
Because if Lin Han can laugh at this time, it will really be extremely admirable. For Lin Han, this game is not a feast of revelry, but a real battle, even more brutal than in the regular season.
Of course, at this time, Larry Bird couldn't really go to the court to support Lin Han, all he could do was to beat the side drum for Lin Han on the side, and indirectly support this young man who is now the target of public criticism.
"Judging from the lineup in this game, it seems that there are some difficulties on the eastern side, and the western side has a great advantage"
At this time, after the players on both sides played, when the players of the two teams came to the court to warm up, Collins on the sidelines said with a thoughtful look at this time, this game is Stockton, Linhan, Camp and Malone and Olajuwon on the west side, except for Camp's slightly smaller card, everyone else is all superstars, even Camp, now he is also one of the hottest players in the league, known as the league's all-inside bitter master, and the same as Chambers of the year, are all players who go wherever they go.
And on the eastern side, because of the troubles of Jordan fans, the lineup is more worrying, the guards are BJ Armstrong, Kenny Anderson, the forwards are Pippen and Coleman, and the center is O'Neal, in addition to O'Neal and Pippen, the Nets double star Anderson and Coleman are just ordinary star players, not superstars at all, as for Armstrong, he is completely a role player.
You know, the Nets' table this season is not very good, Anderson and Coleman can become, not because of how good their numbers are, how good the team table is, basically all of them are the result of Jordan fans making trouble, Jordan said that his most respected head coach is the current head coach of the Nets Daley, plus Daley was the head coach of the Dream Team at the beginning, so under the love house and Wu, Anderson and Coleman received a lot of votes from non-Nets fans.
Or a team that can't even make it into the top eight teams in the East has two All-Stars? Isn't that a joke, you know, there is a forward like Dominique Wilkins and a guard like Mark Price sitting on the bench in the East.
Of course, because of the troublemaking of Jordan fans, many people are indeed worried that the Eastern All-Stars are not the opponents of the Western All-Stars at all in this game, especially the gap between the players of the two sides is too big.
If this game is too big at the beginning, it will not be easy to chase later.
And when this game started, when Lin Han and the other Western players stood on the court, Collins's worries were actually a little unnecessary.
Because when the two teams stood on the court, when Olajuwon jumped the ball to beat O'Neal, the first offense of the Western All-Star did not attack the weakest point in the East, and did not hand the ball to Lin Han, as the organizing point guard, Stockton handed the ball directly to Olajuwon after Olajuwon came to the inside to ask for the ball.
The first offense in the West began with Olajuwon, the Rockets' leading player who ran into O'Neal as if he had met an enemy, and the basket shook O'Neal away with two extremely complicated steps in a row.
And at this time, looking at Olajuwon, who left directly after the successful attack, O'Neal, who was beaten by Olajuwon at the beginning, was a little overwhelmed at this time, he really didn't think about when he offended the Rocket's leading player.
In this game, as soon as the Western All-Stars came up, Olajuwon frantically asked for the ball, and the target was directed at O'Neal, which made Collins on the side have a feeling of instant slap in the face, and the West actually used Olajuwon to attack O'Neal instead of Lin Han attacking Anderson, which is indeed very unreasonable, but this is the NBA, and it is impossible to explain it with reason.
However, Olajuwon stormed O'Neal at the beginning, which was a good thing for a lot of people, because the big four center battle they were looking forward to really started from the beginning.
But what may also disappoint these people is that when the battle of the four centers began, O'Neal, who was the latest to enter the list of the four centers, was directly beaten by Olajuwon at the beginning.
Just 3 minutes after the opening, O'Neal opened 1 of 5, Olajuwon was 4 of 6, and even the leading players of the Magic were directly covered by Olajuwon 2 as soon as they opened!
And when this qiē was born, not only O'Neal on the field was a little confused, but even the fans and the two commentators on the sidelines were also a little confused, originally Olajuwon played O'Neal, which was a good thing for the East, but no one thought that the final outcome would be like this.
O'Neill was actually defeated directly under Olajuwon's sudden attack, and at this time, Lin Han, who had been observing the situation after the start of the game, saw Olajuwon's crazy attack on O'Neal, Lin Han's eyes also narrowed.
Clearly, Olajuwon's revenge has already begun, and O'Neill has been targeted by the Western bigwig for his reasons.
O'Neill probably never dreamed that he had just been named the fourth big center, and he was beaten as soon as he came up in this game.
And now, looking at O'Neill, who was a little helpless, Lin Han felt that he now needed to help this fat man who had been beaten up before he could gain a firm foothold.
Although Lin Han and O'Neill are not teammates, he can also help.
For example, if Olajuwon, who is a little crazy now, doesn't have the ball in his hands and can't go crazy, then isn't it okay? (To be continued......)
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