Chapter 140: Shaq's Old Lord
Jessica and I were lying on the grass all afternoon, to be honest, the feeling on the grass was really good, of course, in this very comfortable situation, we always couldn't help but feel that time passed very fast, and when time passed so fast, we couldn't help but feel like we wanted to do something else.
The day passed like that, the next day Jessica and I went home again, and then later our Lakers were going to play against the Magic, the Magic is a relatively weak team, there is not much threat to our Lakers, and today Shaq should be back on the lineup, I would love to see Shaq's expression, especially after he knew that our Lakers beat the Jazz in the last game.
Shaq was a member of the Magic team before this season, but now he has joined our Lakers, and this game is also the first time he has faced his old club since leaving the Magic team. Shaq's arrival also made the Lakers a strong contender for the championship immediately.
Of course, Jerry West's other trick is to use the No. 13 pick to draft Kobe, which is me now, and now I and Shaq form an OK combination, and we will sweep the entire league in the future, and no one can stop me and Shaq from moving forward, there is no doubt about that.
I'll skip the things before the start of this game, and then let's focus on this game with the Magic, after the game started, Shaq jumped to the ball very easily, and the center of the Magic team opposite him was a full circle smaller than him, and in fact, Shaq, who had a game off, was really energetic when facing his old club today.
From his crazy position after the opening, in fact, he has a few players in the Magic team who are very familiar with him, but now Shaq doesn't seem to have any interest in chatting with them, and he only seems to have the intention of completely defeating the Magic team in his eyes, and today is still the home of our Lakers, from a certain point of view, our Lakers' home court can be regarded as the home court of the devil, because we don't seem to have lost at home this season, which is a pretty good record.
Shaq showed great offense after asking for the ball inside, he is not an ordinary Big Mac player, but the kind of scary guy who can completely rely on one person to destroy a team's interior defense, and the Magic team really can't find a player who can match him.
I actually don't understand why they would be willing to give up Shaq, the inside giant, and choose Hardaway, because in fact, no matter from which point of view, Hardaway's strength is not at the same level as Shaq, Shaq's data this season is close to averaging 30 points, 12 rebounds, 3 blocks and 3 assists per game, while Hardaway's data this season is only 20 points and 5 assists, can such a player really be compared with Shaq in terms of dominance? Even my rookie season seems to be better than Hardaway's.
Because of the crazy performance at the Jazz's home court last time, my average of points per game was actually close to 20 points, which is a pretty good score, considering that this is only my first season, and anyway, Kobe's first season in my time and space was actually less than 10 points, which is a big achievement for me, but I can't be satisfied with that, or I can't be complacent. Because there are many, many more challenges ahead of me, and I have to keep myself in this way.
A lot of rookie players will have a period of ups and downs in a month to three months after entering the league, which is usually called the rookie wall, and I obviously don't want to fall into this rookie wall, so I will do crazy training whenever I have the opportunity, the purpose is to maximize my physical and technical adaptation to the intensity of the NBA, which is not only a very big test for my body, but also a very big test for my psyche.
Of course, I think all my hard work and dedication is worth it, and it will pay off for me now and in the future, not just because I believe it, but because it's true, basketball is actually a fairly fair game, and if you put in enough effort, it will pay you back.
Of course, this is based on the strength you have, as long as you have enough strength, then every effort you make will make you go more smoothly on the road to the top, of course, there is never an absolute thing in this world, sometimes the efforts you put in may not be so fast for you to get the harvest, but you must not feel sad because of this, because these gains may be late, but they will come after all, of course, the premise is that you really put in enough effort.
Some people like to make some effort and then put
Abandon, this is actually very bad, you either don't work hard, or stick to the end, the road to success is full of thorns, so we can not be intimidated by the difficulties in front of us, we must persevere in our efforts, only when your efforts are enough, your strength will really show, you have suffered before, the efforts you have made will not be in vain.
And the more critical the moment you are facing, the greater the pressure, and the more this kind of pressure moment, the more important, as long as you withstand enough pressure, then you will get a very huge growth, and this growth is destined to make you different from your previous self, in the process you can slowly experience it.
In the first five minutes of the first quarter, Shaq scored 12 points alone, and our Lakers team only scored 12 points, which means that he took all the points in the first 12 points of our Lakers, of course, I actually think this is not very good, after all, Shaq's state today is a little too crazy, I wonder if our other Lakers players should really watch him Shaq beat the Magic team alone, If so, is it the Magic players or our Lakers players who should be embarrassed?
Regardless, our Lakers players still did some pretty good work, at least to provide some support for Shaq's outburst.
Of course, the Magic team is actually desperate to stop Shaq's crazy scoring, but they finally find that it seems difficult to stop Shaq, can it be that they didn't find this fat man so terrifying when they had Shaq before?
Maybe they knew it at the time, maybe they just wanted to press Shak's price, maybe they just felt that Shaq was unlikely to go to other teams, but when our Lakers offered Shaq a contract of more than seven years and 100 million, they didn't choose to match the contract, maybe they really felt that Shaq was not worth the price, maybe they felt that Shak's performance against Olajuwon in the Finals was really not worth the price, anyway, this has become a fact, Shaq is indeed a member of our Lakers team now, and the Magic team will regret it.
However, there is no regret medicine in this world, this season our Lakers have a chance to hit the championship, and their Magic team is likely to not enter the playoffs, such a contrast still fully shows the importance of Shaq to our Lakers or the Magic team.
Of course, although our Lakers team won the Jazz in the last game in back-to-back games on the road, without the help of Shaq, but after all, it was based on my complete outburst of supergod, and I also fainted directly after the game because of prostration, I don't want to be tired to the point of collapse every game, so this also shows the importance of Shaq to our Lakers team, and the other players on our Lakers team who have Shaq may really be able to win the game without scoring so many points.
In fact, many times things are like this, when we have some things, we don't know how to cherish them, only when we lose them, will we understand how worthy of our cherishing, but there is indeed no regret medicine in the world to eat, since we have made a choice, then we can only accept such an ending.
At this time, the head coach of the Magic team called a timeout, probably because Shaq was a little too invincible, which made him feel a little pressure, so what kind of adjustments will the Magic team make in terms of tactics after this timeout, this is not too easy to say, but how to say, I think that the teams in the league that can really effectively target Shaq now actually add up to a total of only a few, and most of the tricks used are almost the same, And there aren't many teams that can really pose a threat to Shaq.
When Shaq faces this kind of crazy defense of these teams, he often likes to play a few alone, which is a bit similar to me, it seems that if there are not many people to wrap me, I will feel that the opponent does not pay much attention to me, the more I defend my players, the more I feel that I have a strong sense of existence, this kind of psychology may also have Shaq, of course, I think this psychology is good to some extent, but from another aspect it is relatively bad.
Now when the time is suspended, head coach Silver Fox Harris fully praised Shaq's performance, as if to encourage him to continue to play in this way, after all, this game Shaq is a game against the old master, and it is quite normal for Shaq to play more up, and our Lakers players are too tired in the previous games, so it seems to be a good choice to let Shaq play more.
In this way, the tactical strategy of our Lakers team basically did not make too many adjustments, or let Shaq as the main point of attack, and the other players of our Lakers team tried their best to cooperate with Shaq to attack, which of course was to let our other Lakers players open up space on the court, so that Shaq could get better opportunities to play singles inside.
After the timeout, the Magic's defense of Shaq finally adjusted, and they now take forward rounds, packs, shrinks, fouls, etc
It seems that the Magic team really doesn't want Shaq to continue to score like crazy, because the more Shaq scores, the more their Magic team can't hold their heads up in front of the world, and the more their decisions will be questioned by Magic fans, which will have a greater psychological impact on their management and players, and this impact may exist for a long time.
Shaq didn't show any discomfort in the face of such a defense, after all, this kind of defense is actually commonplace for Shaq, no matter which team's defensive strategy against Shaq is basically the same, and some teams will even use more excessive ways to defend Shaq.
And today's Shaq is indeed a little different, first of all, the attitude of the game is completely different, in fact, Shaq is really the kind of player who sometimes likes to be lazy in the regular season, he often shows a more powerful side in the playoffs, and in the regular season, he generally tries to paddle as much as possible, which is already a habit for him, so in fact, many times in many games, although Shaq is very ferocious, but in fact he is not the most ferocious, The most ferocious of him often doesn't really show it until some special moments.
Shaq was still very decisive in the face of the Magic's shrinking defense, only to see him turn around and enter the Magic team's inside penalty area, and then there were about three people around him, one of them in front of him, and the other two were on his side, in the face of the opponent's defense, Shaq was also a heart, directly above the heads of the Magic team players began to perform a violent dunk performance, Shaq's dunk is extremely powerful, it is the kind of dunk that can have a great impact on the hearts of the defenders.
How to say that Shak's violent buckle also has a lot of body movements and expressions attached to it, which makes those who defend him or those who are blocked by him have a lot of psychological pressure psychologically, and some people will also have a lot of dissatisfaction with Shak's body movements or expressions, and some people will even have a direct conflict with Shak.
Of course, ordinary people don't dare to engage in a head-on confrontation with the huge Shaq, which causes Shaq to become more and more presumptuous, using some more murderous and terrifying actions to deal blows to opponents.
In the past, when Shaq was in the Magic team, these players who were hit were from other teams, but now these former teammates of the Magic team have to be treated the same way when facing Shaq, which can really be regarded as feng shui rotation!
In the past, Shaq's old partner Hardaway actually performed quite strongly in this game, but unfortunately the defensive player he was going to face was me, and I didn't get the ball much on the offensive end at the beginning today, because I knew that today was Shak's day, so I tried not to snatch the ball from Shaq, but put a large part of my energy on the defense of the opposing players, especially for the defense of the player I was against.
Hardaway's physical fitness is actually not as good as mine, but Hardaway's luck and skills are very good, but after playing with Iverson, I have greatly improved the defensive ability and defensive awareness of this kind of player who is particularly good at dribbling, which leads to me not being afraid of Hardaway's offense at all, because I know that I have a way to defend him.
Hardaway was very uncomfortable with my defense, since the last game against Stockton, I have learned some new knowledge, or experience, on the defensive end, which has made me further improve my competitive form, and today I applied this experience against Hardaway, and I believe that some of these experiences can help me improve even more.
Sure enough, although Hardaway shot crazy in the face of my defense, because my defense is very targeted, his efficiency when attacking is relatively low, which can be seen from Hardaway's shooting percentage, and another point can also be seen from Hardaway's shooting distance.
Because I forced Hardaway to some places where his offense was weaker, and he was choking his breath, seeing Shaq scoring like crazy, he didn't want to be left behind by Shaq, after all, the Magic team chose him instead of Shaq, if his performance was too much worse than Shaq, then there is no doubt that the management of the Magic team is very discerning.
However, Hardaway was also quite unlucky, he really didn't have much opportunity to play his offensive talent when facing my defense, my defensive enthusiasm itself is relatively high, and then I have recently gained some defensive skills, which makes my actual impact on the defensive end much greater than before.
The more Hardaway tried to attack, the more he couldn't break through my defense, which had a huge psychological impact on him, and now I understand that the best defense on the court is not to make the opponent have no chance to attack at all, but to try to let them attack in positions that they are not good at.