Shaq is being taken care of more and more by the Celtics on the inside, and I am quite anxious to look at it on the outside, it seems that I can't let Shaq play the Celtics' inside line alone, first, the tactics are too single, and it is easy to be restrained, and secondly, if Shaq continues like this, he is afraid that he will run out of energy if he doesn't hold on to the fourth quarter, and in fact, if we can't win the game in the first half, we still need Shaq to exert his power in the second half.

I desperately yelled at Shaq to let him pass the ball, and I had a good opportunity on the outside at this time, but this guy was like he had a lid on his ear, completely ignoring my shouting, and still taking care of himself on the inside of the Celtics, but it was clear that the effect of his strong attack was not very good.

The Celtics saw that Shaq didn't pass the ball, and decisively rushed into the inside line of four or five people at once, but at this time Shaq was also crazy, directly carrying the bag of four or five people, jumping up and down, knocking two of the Celtics' interior players out, but the final dunk may be because there are too many people hanging on the body, and finally failed to dunk the ball into the basket, but rebounded.

I was quick to take advantage of the fact that the Celtics players were shrinking inside, and the basketball was bouncing a little far, so I received the rebound, and then took advantage of the situation to retreat outside the three-point line and make a decisive three-point shot.

However, I still seem to be continuing the poor three-point feel I had in practice this afternoon, and the moment the ball is shot, I can already feel that the ball is probably not going to go into the basket.

Sure enough, this three-point shot was directly thrown crooked, and suddenly the ball returned to the hands of the Celtics, I could only shake my head, and then immediately quickly returned to the defense, these Celtics players played a fast attack counterattack is also very powerful, especially when Shaq in order to save physical energy when he returns to defense, he walks slowly, and runs fast when attacking.

After the Celtics got the rebound, they were immediately ready to launch a fast-break counterattack, their counterattack speed was quite fast, in fact, because they lacked absolute core players in the team, so they were more evenly distributed with each other in terms of ball possession, and the advantage of this is that team basketball is more likely to appear, and it will not be a team of Iverson alone like the 76ers.

The advantage of a team with a superstar is that someone can stand up and score at a critical moment, and although this kind of civilian team will have an advantage in tactical execution in regular time, if the game is not open at the last critical moment, then it will be difficult for the team lacking superstars to find a more reliable scoring point, and it is still necessary to watch the superstar perform at this moment.

However, at this time, the advantages of the Celtics are fully exerted, and the level of tacit understanding between their players is indeed higher than that of our Lakers, although most of their players are functional players, and there are no all-round players who can do anything.

But each of them can do what they are good at, such as the center protects the rebound, the guard passes the ball more, guides his teammates more, and directs his teammates to run on the court, while the outside pitcher runs out of the tactical position accurately, but makes decisive shots after receiving the pass.

Although the Celtics' overall record does not seem to be very good, I suspect that they have been completely deliberately messing up these seasons, because there will be a dull Tim Duncan in the draft next year, and the Celtics are actually in a semi-bad state this season in order to compete for the top pick.

However, when it comes to an old rival team like our Lakers, the Celtics immediately stopped playing badly, stopped pretending all of a sudden, and fully showed their true strength, which made us a little uncomfortable with back-to-back away games.

Of course, before the game, I actually expected that this game would not be too easy to play, but the terrifying momentum that erupted from the Celtics and North Shore Garden home fans after the opening game still made our Lakers players a little empty.

It's not necessarily that we don't have enough strength to make them worthwhile, but the strong sense of competition they show on the court will make you feel like you're facing a group of wild wolves that are very well coordinated, and if you relax a little, you will be torn apart by these wild wolves.

So the fact is that we have to be 100 percent committed to the game, and even play this game as a playoff game to have a chance to win.

It's just that now our Lakers starters are generally a little tired physically and mentally after yesterday's fierce battle, and it is inevitable that they will not feel weak when they meet the wolf-like Celtics at this time.

This time, the Celtics' fast break also took advantage of the gap that Shaq had no way to return to defense in time, first using the forward players to impact the inside, and then the pitcher went directly to the empty space outside the three-point line to wait, and our Lakers will give priority to shrinking the interior because they are less defensive and more, so that there will be two or even three empty shooting opportunities on the outside at the same time.

The Celtics' tactical coordination is extremely tacit, as long as the outside players are in place, or even before they are in position, the players who impact the inside line can already pass the ball.

In this way, our Lakers players simply didn't have time to pounce on the Celtics players who defended the perimeter, and we could only watch them shoot, and then the result was to watch the Celtics shoot three points, and then the entire North Shore Garden Arena was boiling, and the sound of the fans completely drowned out the voice of head coach Silver Fox Harris who was standing on the sidelines and kept roaring.

In desperation, head coach Silver Fox Harris could only call a timeout, and it was only more than four minutes before the start of the first quarter of the game, but it was clear that the way our Lakers showed on the court was a bit unbearable for him, even though the score at this time was only two points behind the Celtics.

During the timeout, Shaq was quite irritable, and head coach Silver Fox Harris has always been more on Shak's side, so even if it is Shak's problem many times, he will choose not to blame Shaq directly, but to say that other players are not performing well.

Now it's the same, Shaq looks a bit pitted at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, although he blew up the Celtics' interior before, but then the Celtics took a very strong bag defense against him, but he only cared about his own strong inside, and he was unwilling to pass the ball to the outside in the face of four or five people's defense, and he was not willing to quickly return to the defense, as if he was walking slowly and leisurely, which led to the Celtics easily playing a fast offensive counterattack.

However, head coach Silver Fox Harris didn't mention these two points at all, instead accusing us of being too loose on the Celtics' perimeter defense and allowing them to get shots too easily.

I stood aside and shook my head helplessly, and I didn't bother to refute the words of Silver Fox Harris, anyone with a discerning eye can see that when the Celtics are on a fast attack, we are obviously in a situation of less defense and more defense, and the outside line will always be missed, because the opponent will give priority to impacting our empty interior line, and in the absence of Shaq frame, we often need more people to defend the interior line, so that the outside line will naturally leave more gaps.

In the end, it's not that Shaq is overpowering on the offensive end, resulting in no strength to defend.

Then head coach Silver Fox Harris simply arranged some tactics, but at this time, the outside players of the Lakers, including me, were actually holding their breath in their hearts, but they couldn't show it, which was really uncomfortable.

With a nameless fire, I decided to return this anger to the Celtics and let them see how good our Lakers team is.

Let them know that there is someone else in our squad besides Shaq who can step up and score.

The next few offenses on the Lakers' perimeter players were deliberately not going to pass the ball to Shaq, and even though Shaq was still frantically asking for the ball and asking for the ball, we still didn't want to pass him.

I asked Shaq to come out to block and dismantle for me, and Shaq was also quite reluctant, but he couldn't get the ball on the inside, so he had to obediently come out to block and dismantle for me, but he was very sloppy when blocking and dismantling, and the quality of the block and dismantling was very poor.

I wouldn't have chosen to pass the ball against Shaq who was cutting inside quickly, this guy was too bad today, he didn't have a sense of teamwork at all, I had to show my own quality.

I dribbled sideways to the right and then waited for the Celtics defenders to fill in on my breakaway path, and then I just took a spot turn, went straight around the defender to my left, and then broke down the middle of the court.

There are actually many benefits to breaking along the left-hand side, because in most cases, if you are a right-handed player, then the player who defends you will default to defending your right-hand breakthrough, and if you suddenly break through along the left-hand side, the defender will be caught off guard, and the center of gravity of the body will easily not turn, and this reaction time of a few tenths of a second is enough for you to get an excellent breakthrough space.

The other defenders on the other side will not expect you to break through to the left hand, so it will not be so timely when helping to defend, so the middle of these two defenders is actually the easiest place to break through.

I followed this gap and drove straight in, but at this time, Shaq's huge body was in front of me, he was going to go down, where did I think that I would also rush in along his inward route.

But I didn't rush any further, because in fact Shaq completely blocked my way, which was actually expected by me, and I wanted to use Shaq's huge body as a cover.

Shaq's body also blocked the body of the opposing post player, and I threw the ball directly in front of Shaq with a small throw and easily hit the basket.

Shaq looked at me a little speechlessly, with a very mixed emotion in his eyes, and seemed a little dissatisfied with my use of him as a shield.

But I just spread my hands helplessly, and then a smile appeared on the corner of my mouth.

In the next few defensive rounds, our Lakers team changed its defensive strategy slightly, and also used man-to-man defense, after all, the opposing player's individual strength is not strong, and in general, it is to use the tactic of letting go and not letting go, completely strangling the opponent's outside projection opportunities.

However, the Celtics' tactical literacy is indeed a bit powerful, after seeing that our defense has expanded a lot, they immediately changed their offensive tactics, switching to the style of play of high blocking and pick-and-roll, and then using inside-cutting and multiple blocks to find suitable shooting opportunities, and our Lakers' defensive toughness is still a little lacking in general.

Because we are in the second game of a back-to-back after all, so the Celtics have seized on this, and on the offensive end, the players are constantly blocking, passing, and running, making our defenders a little tired, in this case, our defense is quite good at the beginning, but as they have more rounds, our Lakers players began to feel extremely tired, in addition to physical exhaustion, more of a psychological exhaustion.

And once we relax on the defensive end, the Celtics can quickly seize these small open opportunities to find players in the open position or the best shooting position, their ball speed is too fast, plus their outside shooters have a three-point shooting rate of more than 35%, and the shooting rate of the open position is only afraid that it will be above 40%, so our Lakers are in big trouble on the defensive end.

Thankfully, when Shaq's stamina dropped, my form picked up, and even though I missed both three-pointers in this game, I was shooting very well from inside layups and mid-range, as if I hit four of five shots.

Seeing that my state is relatively hot, Shaq no longer only thinks about hitting the inside line as before, maybe he is really tired and starts to follow me in the high position to block and dismantle tactics.

And when Shaq blocks a good opportunity and then cuts inside, I will hoist the ball to his interior at the best time, so that our Lakers finally have an inside connection on the offensive end.

When Shaq regained his offensive rationality, he also began to take the initiative to pass the ball like an outsider, Robert Horry received Shak's pass and shot a three-pointer in the bottom corner, which made our Lakers bite the score tightly, and even once the score rose alternately, and the leading side was quickly overtaken, and then the next round was overtaken by the opponent again.

The game was quite tense and intense, and the fans at the North Shore Garden Arena responded with their enthusiasm to the players who were playing on the field at this time.

I even had the illusion that the North Shore Gardens fans were even more enthusiastic than the fans at Staples Arena, the home of our Lakers, but I dismissed that idea in the blink of an eye, thinking how could there be a team with more home fans than our lovely Los Angeles fans.

However, this game does reflect the Celtics' giants, the team's tactical literacy and style of play are actually quite powerful, I think the reason why their record in recent seasons is not very good, because they are in the transition of the old and the new, the old players have gone, and the new young players have just entered the league, but in fact, the ceiling of their team may not be particularly high, but in fact, the lower limit should also be able to enter the playoffs.

Maybe it's really to hoard young potential players, just like later leagues often have a lot of bad teams in the season before the draft year, but this is also a very normal thing, after all, isn't the purpose of the draft to balance the strength of the teams?

There are a lot of teams that can't go up for a long time and they are actually quite injured, and every year they can make the playoffs, and then every year it is the fate of a round of play, giving the fans some hope, and then sending the fans into despair.

The most important thing is that getting into the playoffs means not getting a high draft pick, and in the long run there will be a lack of players with high potential and high talent in the team, and the team may be doing well in terms of operations, and the coach is also very good, and can always achieve a good record, and then the team's ceiling is difficult to improve because there is a lack of a superstar who can really make the difference in the course of the game.

To be honest, the first thing I thought of such a team was the Spurs, who had been in the playoffs for more than 20 years in a row and won five championships in my previous life.

Their team has always been a playoff team under legendary head coach Popovich, but with the aging of legendary superstar Tim Duncan and other Hall of Fame caliber players like Parker and Ginobili, the team that makes the playoffs every year lacks the addition of high-pick players.

Although they always seem to be able to find a treasure in the low pick, the odds of a superstar in the low pick are very low, and the fact that the Spurs have single-handedly developed a superstar-caliber player like Kawaii from the low pick and finally parted ways with the team is indeed a very heavy blow to that Spurs team.

So it's hard to say which team building plan will be better, in fact, the rise of the Spurs depends on the current 9697 season's mess, and then got the top pick to select Tim Duncan, which has nearly 20 years of glory, and later facts have proved that Popovich, who lacks a pit, is no longer magical, and it is difficult to go far in the playoffs.

So in the end, whether Popovich made Duncan, or Duncan made Popovich, in the final analysis, they are still interdependent, and coaches and good players achieve each other.

With about five minutes left in the first quarter, the Celtics called a second timeout of the game and seemed ready to make some changes to the lineup.

At this time, the score of the two sides on the court is still not open at all, our Lakers team is still one point behind the Celtics at this time, just one point, sometimes it seems very little, but it always can't catch up, or just caught up, and the next round is chased back.

One of the big problems of our Lakers this season is that although the offensive end is crushed by talent, it will not be too bad, but on the defensive end, it can't stop the opponent, so it can't pull the score.

This is also the reason why we will play very anxious when facing some weak teams this season, after all, even the weak teams are NBA-level players, they are all quite talented players, no matter how good our offense is, it is impossible to score every goal, if we can not effectively limit the opponent on the defensive end, then our offensive advantage will not be reflected, because the opponent's shooting rate will also be very high.

However, it is obvious that there is no way to fundamentally change the status quo by relying on my efforts alone, and Shaq's characteristics and game habits have doomed him to become a huge hole on the defensive end when he defends the pick-and-roll and perimeter-oriented teams, but it is impossible for the head coach to put him on the bench without Shaq.

After all, Shaq's deterrent power on the offensive end is too great, no matter how you change the offensive tactics, the most important tactical initiation point of our Lakers team is always Shaq, he is the most stable scoring point of our Lakers team, so our Lakers team can only tolerate Shaq's problems on the defensive end.

However, Shaq is still extremely effective on the inside defense, averaging nearly two blocks per game, and as long as he stands in the inside box, he can cause a huge psychological deterrent to the opposing breaking players.

And there are really not many players who dare to impact our Lakers' interior like Iverson, and now the aging Michael Jordan will not hit the interior without fear in the face of Shaq's defensive restricted area, but more choose to play with a low back and then turn over and jump shots, which are relatively easier offensive methods.

And the opposing team's outside shooting rate cannot always be high in a game, another advantage of Shaq sitting on the inside is that the defensive rebounds are guaranteed, as long as he is on the court, it is quite difficult for the opposing player to grab offensive rebounds, his huge body occupies a very large space, height, arm span, bounce height, and bounce speed are extremely good Shaq, as long as he focuses on the gun version, I think even Zhang Dashuai Chamberlain may not be able to grab Shaq when he was young.

If the opposing team opens up from the outside, then they may take the lead, but if they have a dip from the outside, then they will soon be pulled away by our Lakers.

This is also an important reason why Shaq has such a big defensive flaw, and our Lakers record this season is still in the top three in the league, because of our stability on the offensive end and the fact that we have superstars who can play key shots in the game, our Lakers have played to the final stalemate and then won the game most of the times this season.

Therefore, our Lakers players also have a bottom in their hearts, believing that even if there is no way to open the score in the fourth quarter, the final winner will still be our Lakers team.

It's a powerful mental advantage and a mental cue that can go some way up the morale and momentum of our Lakers team.

No matter what kind of predicament we fall into, a strong heart can help us get out of the predicament, defeat the opponent, and win the final game.

During this timeout, head coach Silver Fox Harris made a slight adjustment to our defensive alignment and defensive strategy on the court, and he estimated that the Celtics would also make a substitution after this timeout, and we actually had time to rotate the lineup, with Eddie Jones and Byron Scott taking three other benches to play the remaining four minutes of the first quarter.

In fact, our Lakers' bench lineup is weaker than the starters on the defensive end, but relatively speaking, the bench players will not be as physical as the starters when playing back-to-back games, so overall, in the second game of a back-to-back like this road, the play of the bench players is very crucial.

After the timeout, our Lakers changed to a bench lineup, and the Celtics basically changed to a full bench lineup, it seems that their roster depth is indeed quite deep, as mentioned in the pre-game scouting report, this season the Celtics team can average more than 7 points per game There are as many as ten, and there are eight players who average double figures per game.

This fully shows that this Celtics team has played team basketball to the extreme, not only the rotation of ten people, but also the ability of these ten people to make their own contributions in the game, which is really a very scary thing, I admire the head coach of the Celtics a little.

However, in this era, with a lineup like the Celtics, it is too difficult to go further in the playoffs, and the Bulls with Jordan in the East, no matter how well they play team basketball, it is impossible to break out of the East, and Jordan has been frantically suppressing the teams in the East for most of the nineties, making the players and management of these teams feel very afraid and desperate.

Even two years after Jordan's first retirement, they still failed to win the championship, and there are strong teams such as the Houston Rockets and the Utah Jazz in the West, and even if the Eastern team rushes out of the East, there is still no chance of winning the championship.

So in the past few seasons, many teams in the East have actually been forced to swing, which is a bit like the time and space in my previous life, LeBron James's team won the Eastern Conference championship for eight consecutive years and rushed to the Finals, although he only won three of the eight Finals, and two of them were difficult to win by a miraculous reversal, and it is obvious that the overall strength of the team is not as good as that of the Western team.

But he is still like Jordan in the nineties to suppress the Eastern teams and the stars of these teams, making them feel desperate, and in fact, the pattern of the West is strong and the East is weak may also be related to the fact that these Eastern teams have no hope and are rotten, after all, many times the teams that have achieved the first record in the league in the regular season have been swept by the team led by LeBron in the playoffs, a typical example of which is the 2015 season of the Hawks, when the Hawks had five All-Star players, And the record is also the first in the league, but it was swept by the Cavaliers led by LeBron in the playoffs.

It's really hard for a team basketball team like the Celtics to succeed in the playoffs, and there are civilian teams like them in every era, and many times even if they have a good record in the regular season, but in the playoffs, it is difficult to win with a higher intensity defense alone.

Even if the Golden State Warriors, who set a regular season record in 2016, have a 73-win record, surpassing the Chicago Bulls' 72-win regular-season record in 9596, they still have a tough time in the playoffs.

In the Western Conference Finals, they even fell behind the Thunder team led by Durant and Westbrook 1-3 at that time, but then relying on Klay Thompson's magical performance and Durant's lack of physical fitness in the second half, the Golden State Warriors actually miraculously reversed the Thunder and entered the Finals.

The Finals are also full of drama, the Warriors who reversed the Thunder 1-3 in the Western Conference Finals have become the target of reversal at this time, relying on the magical performances of LeBron James and Kyrie Irving to score 40 points in a row, and the reversal was successful.

After the end of this season, the Warriors, who have completely played team basketball to the extreme, will even go crazy to pursue Kevin Durant, who has just expired his contract.

Looking at history, even Michael Jordan may not have Durant's great single-player scoring ability, after all, Durant's nearly seven-foot height has excellent dribbling and speed, as well as extremely terrifying mid-range shooting stability and three-point range, which makes him misplaced when facing anyone's defense, and there is almost no one in the league who can defend Kevin Durant one-on-one.

The only thing that will limit his performance is fitness, and he has a little too much to do when he is with the Thunder, so in the second half of the game, Durant's offensive efficiency tends to drop dramatically, and when he arrives with the Warriors, he only needs to do a good job of scoring alone.

And because of the presence of the Splash Brothers Curry and Thompson, he can maintain his fitness until the most critical moment of the game before taking over the game, and when he is on the court at the same time as the Splash Brothers, he can also get easier singles opportunities, and even open shots.

Because almost all teams prefer to wrap Stephen Curry instead of him Durant, because Curry's three-point scoring explosiveness is too terrifying, and it is likely that a few consecutive three-point shots will directly knock the game away, but Curry is a little too unstable, and he is indeed invincible when he is super-god, but there are actually many times when he is super-ghost.

The addition of Durant is actually to give Curry a bottom and play superstar at key moments in the game, and Curry's physical fitness determines that he can't score as consistently as Durant.

The same can be said for this Celtics team, who could be title contenders if they add a superstar to their current roster, but unfortunately no one on their current roster has that potential.

Even Anthony. Walker is still far from becoming a superstar.

Eddie Jones and Byron Scott are still in good shape after coming up today, especially Byron Scott, an old boy, who didn't know where he ran in the last quarter against the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday, and it seems that he has not encountered any injuries today.

Byron Scott is generally quite spiritual today, maybe he has been teammates with Magic Johnson for a long time, and he has also learned some of Magic Johnson's coquettish passing skills, and after coming on the court, he passed two good balls in a row that were quite ornamental.

One of the balls was passed to the center who cut inside and completed a violent dunk in the air relay, while the other ball was a long eye in the back of the head, and directly passed the ball to Eddie Jones outside the three-point line with a no-look pass without seeing Eddie Jones.

Eddie Jones was a little confused when he received this pass, because from his point of view, it was unlikely that Byron Scott would pass the ball to him in that state, and this ball was not only passed quickly, but also worn accurately, passed steadily, and passed very well, and he could shoot directly after receiving Byron Scott's pass.

And Eddie Jones did not live up to Byron Scott's very subtle pass, and hit the Celtics' momentum on the court with a hollow three-pointer.

However, the Celtics are not to be outdone, and with our Lakers side playing good shots in a row, their bench players have also shown a good sense of offensive tactics that are not inferior to the starters.

The best thing about the Celtics players is that they have a very good sense of space and individual tactical position when they are on the court, which brings a very terrible result, that is, the five people on the court of the Celtics feel like they are so tacit together, no matter how our Lakers' defensive position changes, they can make changes very easily and quickly.

It's just that the shooting accuracy of the Celtics' bench players is indeed worse than that of their starters, and even if they have a fairly good open shooting opportunity, their finishing ability is still a lot worse after all.

But even so, our Lakers' bench and the Celtics' bench were still evenly matched on the court, and no one could quickly pull away the score, and the two sides were completely caught in a difficult struggle.

In this case, the comparison and test is more about the psychological quality and willpower of the players, the more in this evenly matched situation, the more we must maintain the stability of the mentality, to ensure that every attack and defense can be done as much as possible, so as not to leave too many loopholes and flaws for the opponent.

In fact, the Celtics' bench players are basically the kind of players whose offensive ability is stronger than their defensive ability, and they have always been able to make achievements on the offensive end, mainly due to the depth of their own lineup and the balance of players in various positions, whether it is inside or outside, whether it is a breakthrough layup or an outside projection and a pull-up jump shot.

The Celtics' bench players seem to have used all kinds of offensive means, while our Lakers bench players have no way to prevent it, I found this problem in the last game, although on the surface, these Lakers bench players have no problems with defensive enthusiasm at all, and the running and switching defenses are still relatively timely, but the final defensive effect is always not very good.

Fortunately, these Celtics bench players, the talent on the defensive end is really poor, they will always be substitute players for a reason, although physical talent can not decide everything, but it is indeed very important and key influencing factors, like the talent of these Celtics bench players, if it is not for good tactical literacy, I feel that at most they can be mixed in the NBA's development league.

You don't even have to be a star or starter in the Development League, because if you don't have athletic talent, you have a lot of room for growth, or potential.

As a result, the head coach and the team's top management are often not willing to give you too much playing time and opportunities, and even if you are not bad on the fly, there is a very high chance that you will lose the competition against players with more potential and talent.

Of course, in fact, defense often relies not entirely on talent, but more on acquired hard work and fighting spirit on the court, but as a substitute player, and a team that is not aiming to enter the playoffs, they must think more about relying on offense to get better statistics, so that they have a greater chance of staying in the rotation, and even have a chance to sign a bigger contract.

For the fringe players of these teams, even a minimum base salary contract is very precious, because the base salary contract is also a formal contract, at least it can give them some security, and there are many temporary players in the NBA who can't even get a base salary, and in order to continue to stay in the NBA to pursue their dreams, they will cherish their limited playing time very much.

And defense is a thankless task a lot of the time, which is true for both the Celtics bench players and our Lakers bench players, so when both sides are on the court, they really focus on offense, and don't put much energy into the defensive end at all.

The two sides are so happy on the field, you score a goal, I score a goal, and the development continues.

So much so that when the first quarter ended, our Lakers and Celtics both scored more than 25 points in a single quarter, our Lakers scored 27 points, and the Celtics scored 28 points, and the weird thing is that we always trailed them by one point, when the main team was on the court, and it was the same when the bench was on the court.

For this era, such a single quarter score is already relatively high, in fact, there are not many teams in this era that can average 100 points per game.

It seems that the Celtics team today is a bit difficult, and the game is likely to remain so deadlocked until the second half or even the fourth quarter that the winner will be truly decided.

I just hope that by then, our Lakers' overall fitness will be able to hold on, and as long as the score hasn't opened up in the second half of the fourth quarter, it's time for our Lakers' superstars to take over the game.

Shaq and I both have the ability to dictate the direction of the game.