Chapter 746: Tough Coconut Shark Duel!
"Yes, 42 points in the half!"
"Shaq O'Neal had 20 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists in the half!"
"Another great coconut shark showdown!"
When the halftime game between the SuperSonics and the Cavaliers ended, the audience in front of the TV that was shocked by the first half of the game between the SuperSonics and the Cavaliers finally came back to the excitement of the commentators from various countries!
Looking at the half-time data of Yes and O'Neal played on TV, the shocked look on the faces of these retrospective audiences that had just dissipated appeared on their faces again.
"This data!"
"It's incredible!"
Oden and his big Gasol, Carter, Battier, Lowry and others watched the half-time stats played on TV really incredible.
"The Cavaliers are very strong, we know before, the Cavaliers' tactics almost did not waste any physical strength and time on the court, O'Neal only took 13 minutes in the first half to get 20 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists!"
"O'Neal is stronger in this game both offensively and defensively than against us!"
Big Gasol is admiring, really admiring, that game against the Cavaliers this season, they lost.
He and Oden were almost invincible inside combinations that were blown up by O'Neal in Cleveland.
As the Grizzlies, who are considered one of the strongest teams in the West this season along with the Lakers, they know what their own strength is.
This game against the Cavaliers was not an accidental loss, and the Cavaliers did not beat them because of some fortuitous situation.
They can feel that if the Cavaliers play 10 games against them, they will win five games at most, that is, their strength and the strength of the Cavaliers are five to five!
Normally, the strength of the Cavaliers is to play with them, but this game O'Neal and the Cavaliers are not in the usual state!
However, now the score on the court is supersonic ahead, and the supersonic speed, which is considered to have fallen by the whole world, actually has a slight lead of 2 points from 66 to 64!
The reason for this is that Yes!
When playing against them, neither Carter, Oden, nor the big shark that he himself could beat, in the first half, was swiped by Yes by at least 30 points!
"Yes's 42-point performance in the half was shocking, but what was even more shocking than these 42 points was that most of his scoring was consciously looking for O'Neal!"
'Most of Yes's points came against O'Neal, and they were some extremely tough points.
"Yes knows that O'Neal is the offensive and defensive core of the Cavaliers, just like Howard of the Magic team, as long as he defeats O'Neal like Howard, the SuperSonics can win this game!"
"Tactically, no one in the Seattle SuperSonics or any other team in the league can defend the Cavaliers to stop O'Neal, O'Neal is now invincible on the offensive end, and the Cavaliers' tactics are based on O'Neal's offensive invincibility."
"Tactically, the Cavaliers and O'Neal are invincible, but psychologically, they may not be."
"Yes wants to find the Cavaliers' psychological holes, just!"
"O'Neill is not Howard!"
"So Yes and O'Neal gave us a fantastic 'Coconut Shark Showdown' in the first half!"
The Grizzlies' locker room is very lively right now.
Oden, who has faintly been the future No. 1 center this season, listened to the discussion of his teammates at this time, and watched the picture of Pippen dancing on TV touting his teacher, and he was a little fascinated for a while.
In the first half, he saw O'Neal's invincible defense, and every attack of the master could be defended in place, and at the same time, he also saw the invincible attack of the teacher, no matter how strong O'Neal's defense was, he could also score the ball with very high efficiency, and won 2 points in the final half with the supersonic speed that should have been a sure loss!
The first half was a duel between an outside player and an inside player!
"On the basketball court, when the strength of the players is really strong to a certain extent, the difference between the inside and the outside is not so obvious, at that time the position is not the difference between the two players, the strength is the real difference!"
That's what Pippen said now, and Auden felt very right.
Because the half of the game between the Cavaliers and the SuperSonics was a direct confrontation between the teacher and O'Neal!
And the end result looks like a win-or-loser!
In this world, the only person who can directly face off with a teacher is O'Neill.
And in the same way, the only person who can win or lose in such a direct confrontation with O'Neill is probably the teacher!
At the very least, he, Gasol, and Yao couldn't defeat the invincible O'Neal who was not lazy in the game and went all out, and even fought a little reluctantly.
Thinking back to the wonderful duel between O'Neill and his teacher in the first half, listening to the lively discussion between his teammates and the TNT team, Oden really wanted to join such a duel!
He now has the upper hand in the race against Howard's future No. 1 center.
But he knows very well that his current strength is still not to the point where he can compete with O'Neill and the teacher.
These two people are his future goals!
"Coconut Shark Showdown!"
That's what was on the minds of every Cavaliers and SuperSonics player in the locker room on either side at halftime.
O'Neal's invincibility in the first half left a very deep impression on all the SuperSonics players.
The supersonic inside, Milicic, Millsap, and Gasol Jr. really took turns to be blown up by O'Neal!
The team's interior group, which has performed very well this season, is so vulnerable in front of O'Neal's invincible power in this game!
In the first half, Yes's continuous dry pulls and continuous hits in front of O'Neal also shocked the Cavaliers players incredibly fearful.
They could sense more than the audience next to them or the audience in front of the TV that Yes was deliberately looking for O'Neill.
"The statistics are out, Yes scored 42 points in the half, and 32 of them were scored against Shaq!"
"In the first half, Shaq played 13 minutes, Yes played 20 minutes, and it's almost certain that Yes doesn't play Shaq, and almost doesn't want to score!"
Hearing the team's assistant coach say this, O'Neal looked quite uncomfortable on his face.
Yes, this guy really doesn't give him any face!
This is the case when he was with the Heat, and he was still like this when he was with the Cavaliers, just to catch him!
Didn't Yes watch the great Shaq this season?
Don't you know how low the shooting percentage of Carter, Iverson, and other outside strongmen who broke through the Cavaliers' outside defense to come to the great Shaq this season?
Yes must know Carter's tragic situation when they faced the great Shaq, but they still dare to challenge this shark like this, this kid is simply iron-headed!
But!
This kid is not only a head iron, but his strength is also really hard!
If he hadn't known that it was impossible, when he saw Yes's shooting rate in the first half, he even wondered if he was Yes's undercover agent, cooperating with Yes in the game, Nima's, in the face of his kind of defense that could force Carter to a shooting rate of less than 35%, Yes could actually hit him with an 80% shooting rate in the half!
This Nima, this hit rate is even higher than the efficiency of his supersonic interior group!
Coconut Shark Showdown!
Sure enough, it's a coconut shark showdown!
In the current NBA, the only one who can play against the current shark is Yes!
Of course, his current comprehensive strength cannot be compared with his peak.
But he can clearly feel that his destructive power under the basket is stronger than when he was at his peak!
In the past few years, he has been stimulated by Yes, his training volume is not much less, his physical condition is also good, although the speed and athleticism are not as good as what he always likes to say in the media in 2004, but his athleticism and physical ability are not much worse than in 2004.
The destructive power under the basket is stronger, and his physical function is not completely degraded, which has allowed him to reach a career peak again and again this season.
If it weren't for the fact that the physical strength was already irreversible, O'Neill even felt that the big shark in the 2008-2009 season with sufficient physical strength could blow up the big shark in 1998-1999!
This is definitely not an exaggeration!
Now he can defend the 1998-1999 sharks under the basket!
And the big sharks of 1998-1999 definitely can't prevent the big sharks of today!
As for the 1998-1999 Sharks' greatest athleticism and dexterity, it may have been very useful for the Lakers, but it can be ignored in the Cavaliers, where Mike Brown's other players are cooperating with him to interfere with the opponent's defense around him.
It can be said that under Mike Brown, the strengths in him were maximized and the weaknesses were minimized.
His dominance on the pitch was naturally maximized.
Mike Brown's specific tactical ability is not so strong, or even weak, but this guy is really very accomplished in the use of stars, maximizing the data and energy of stars.
So, now he is really back to the top, as he often says outside!
But at his peak, he still couldn't restrain Yes!
Not only did it not contain Yes, but it also allowed Yes to score 42 points in the half, and it is possible to score 100 points in the whole game!
"Shaq, do you want to change your defense against Yes this game?"
"No!"
Mike Brown was asking O'Neal for advice, and O'Neal simply refused.
Changing the defense, right to Yes on the outside, not letting him break to the basket?
It would certainly reduce the pressure on him, but the Cavaliers' perimeter defense would collapse and be full of holes, and his current athleticism simply can't fill those holes like Howard did.
The Cavaliers perimeter players don't need to defend the opponent's breakout or shooting, the role of the Cavaliers perimeter players on the defensive end is to allow him not to fill in those holes, and the opponent's offensive players end up with all the offense in front of him, so that he can use his height, weight and body width to limit the opponent.
In the first half, the Cavaliers' defense was successful, and most of Yes's offense was against him, but Yes ended up shooting most of it!
"I'm a great shark, don't worry, I'm never going to score 100 points in a game, and he can't always hit that high!"
"The protagonist of the league this season is the great Shaq, and the protagonist of the league in this game is also the great Shaq!"
As the most capable player, O'Neal is showing off almost all the time, pretending to be 13, if the Cavaliers have Kobe Bryant at this time, many of them are disdainful, and this dead fat man likes to blow.
But now these players in the Cavaliers can really be stunned by O'Neal!
Even the head coach of the Cavaliers, Mike Brown, now has an expression of excitement and adoration on his face.
In the current alliance, there are not many people who can say such things in the face of the threat of Yes, and O'Neill is definitely one of them!
"Even if it really becomes a background board again and is scored 100 points by Yes, the great Shaq will definitely not be cowardly!"
"The winner of this coconut shark duel must be the big shark!"
O'Neal was in the Cavaliers' locker room and boosted the morale of the Cavaliers' players to the extreme.
And Ye Si in the supersonic locker room, he is not as capable as O'Neal, and this game with the Cavaliers can actually let him see the opportunity to score 100 points again, which is a real surprise.
He likes the Cavaliers' defense very, very much, and the Cavaliers' area-filling defense is probably one of the few defenses in the league that won't cover him.
This kind of defense designed specifically for O'Neal may be very powerful for others, Carter, Iverson and even Arenas have all suffered from this, and it is not easy for a small player to play O'Neal in the interior area, but he is really the only surprise in the league.
The key to whether he can score 100 points in this game has now become whether O'Neal can accept him to score 100 points!
Can O'Neal let him score 100 points for the sake of winning this game?
Is O'Neal so resentful of defeating him?
That's what yes is thinking about right now, especially when it comes to the fact that O'Neal doesn't seem to have beaten him in his career, which makes yes look forward to it.
The half-time break ended, and the second half continued.
"Neither the Cavaliers nor the supersonic halftime have changed their tactics!"
"The Coconut Shark Showdown continues!"
After the start of the second half of the game, seeing that O'Neal was still abusing the supersonic inside line on the court, and Yes seemed to be avenging the supersonic inside line and abusing O'Neal, many viewers on the scene and in front of the TV were stunned again!
Even the two TNT commentators on the scene were sluggish at this time.
"The SuperSonics and the Cavaliers have other players on both sides of the team, but in this game, everyone is not in the same world as Yes and Big Sharks, not even in the same dimension!"
"Coconut Shark Showdown!"
"These two are too strong!"
Are Yes and O'Neill that strong?
Looking at the rising scores on TV, watching the increasingly crazy performance of the two on TV, James in front of the TV even doubted his life!
This must be fake!
This must be a stunt added!
Yes, how could it be that in the face of such a terrifying defense of O'Neal, he scored 70 points in the third quarter!
How could O'Neal have the ability to get 30 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists after only playing 20 minutes in the third quarter!
If this is true, if it weren't for the stunts, he was really what the people who hacked him last season in the Cavaliers said.
The dish is so bad that even O'Neill can't take it?!
Rinima's dish!