Chapter 106: Fighting Harder (Part II)
The Knicks relied on a beautiful team offense to score, which is also a rare two points in this game for the Knicks, taking advantage of the morale brought by this goal, as long as it can block the Lakers, or O'Neal's next shot, then there is no doubt that at least the Knicks lost, but retained the hearts and minds. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Lakers offense, Lakers' offense doesn't have so many routines, although Phil Jackson has always emphasized the triangle offense, but in fact, the triangle offense, how can it be practiced in a season The Lakers still rely more on O'Neal's excellent individual ability.
O'Neill gets stuck in position and receives the ball at 45 degrees. With his back to Mo Xi, it seems that he is planning to do it again, and this game has been repeated countless times.
At this time, many players of the Knicks also began to move closer to O'Neal's direction, ready to help Mo Xi at any time, and defend O'Neal, although the effect is not great, but at least it is better than nothing.
O'Neal ignored the people around him who were going to trap him, if he was so easy to guard, would he still need so many coaches to think about it one by one? O'Neal directly pushed Mo Xi to the body, and at the same time turned to the basket, one step, two steps, O'Neal directly pushed Mo Xi to the basket.
In the face of O'Neill's offensive, Mo Xi can be said to be extremely familiar, but it is very rare to be familiar with O'Neill's combo. Thomas around him was already faintly unable to hold back, and was going to step forward to help the defense.
O'Neal suddenly shook his body, and with a burst of force, he crushed straight towards Mo Xi.
Thomas and Sprewell hurriedly stepped forward, intending to foul O'Neal's offense to the ground.
It's a pity that the two of them moved a little slowly, not because O'Neill was too fast, but because Mo Xi's reaction and performance were too fast. Mo Xi suddenly let go, took a step back with his left foot, stuck his foot, followed the side, and pressed O'Neal's shoulders directly with both hands, O'Neal was originally coming towards him, this time, Mo Xi guided the situation, directly pulled O'Neal down and pushed it to the basket post.
Mo regretted this set of fouls, it was fast enough, ruthless enough, O'Neal didn't react at all, and hit the basket directly, shaking the basket to the ground.
O'Neill had never suffered such a big loss, as soon as he turned around, he had to directly scold Mo Xi, and he didn't hesitate to simply stage an all-martial arts, but when he turned around, Sprewell and Thomas had already rushed over from left to right, and what he didn't expect was that Mo Xi, a guy who looked polite, was actually like an old rascal, and he greeted him head-on, and the three of them surrounded O'Neill together.
Although O'Neal's strength is really not small, but if it is a fight, O'Neal really hasn't won a few times, otherwise earlier this year, Kobe Bryant was blinded by Charles's two hooks in a game with the Knicks. ”
Fortunately, at this moment, the three of them just surrounded O'Neal, and the referee quickly followed, separated the four, avoided the conflict, and directly gave Mo Xi a defensive foul, and O'Neal walked to the free throw line.
Sprewell walked past him and said lightly: "We beat Barkley." Before O'Neill could react, Sprewell had already left him.
O'Neal endured the anger and made free throws, the strength was greater, two free throws missed, the angry O'Neal stepped forward to rush to grab the frontcourt rebound, but was blocked by Thomas and Mo Xi, and Mo Xi simply didn't do two endless, and pushed O'Neal back, O'Neal pushed it directly, Mo Xi fell to the ground, the referee whistled directly, and O'Neal grabbed the rebound and fouled.
At this time, the heat of the game was a little bit higher, but the Knicks were quite restrained, because they were losing too much now, and now they really didn't take advantage of it.
The thin fire on the offensive end is naturally to be returned on the defensive end, and O'Neal returned to the backcourt with a menacing attitude, ready to shred the Knicks on the defensive end.
The Knicks seemed to have opened the door, and on the offensive end, Mo Xi suddenly became a playmaker, and everyone began to run around Mo Xi, so that O'Neal had to withdraw from the restricted area, and O'Neal's huge size did some blocking and dismantling work for the Knicks in a sense.
O'Neill should have been annoyed at this time, but not only did he not, but he became vigilant, this kind of play, not just déjà vu, isn't this the way Sabonis played with him before!
For this old European center, O'Neal also doesn't know what to say, even in the twilight of his career, even if two knees are no longer able to support the body, but Sabonis's performance is difficult to make O'Neal feel that he has beaten him, this is also the first time since Duncan that he feels that someone is so slippery and difficult to deal with, although, Duncan still went to the big forward in order to avoid him.
O'Neal already knows a thing or two about this offensive strategy, and is even more familiar with this offensive pattern than Moxi in his half-baked state, and Moxi is still too young compared to Sabonis.
Mo Xi and Houston ran to catch the ball twice in a row, but they always couldn't get rid of O'Neal, every time they got rid of the opposing defender, but they could always see O'Neal by their side, Sprewell imagined that he came over to help like that last time, but he was discovered by O'Neal in advance and directly pushed his ass to the side.
Mo Xi's passing skills are still not top-notch, and it is difficult to play in the face of such a situation, but at this time, Mo Xi made a bold decision, he wants to single O'Neill again.
Prior to this match, Mo Xi had singled O'Neill five times and hit only one goal, which was a long-range hook. So now, how is Mo Xi going to attack?
Mo Xi really leaned on O'Neill this time, and this goal will probably be the most exciting and difficult goal he scored this season! As Mo Xi's experience gradually improved, he watched more and more games, and he knew what kind of attack was the most deadly, that is, the simplest action. Don't think about any feints, just use the most suitable and fastest means to get rid of the defender and score directly, this kind of attack is the most deadly, but in the final analysis, all this must be put into practice.
For Mo Xi, the sharpest means of passing people is nothing more than that
The back man divides the ball.
Mo Xi boldly and cautiously used this trick again on the stage of the finals, which can be regarded as a signature skill, Mo Xi's turning speed is faster than this time last year, O'Neill didn't check for a while, but he was broken into half a step by Mo Xi, seeing that Mo Xi was about to pass O'Neill and get the ball in his hand, when the time came, Rao is O'Neal is not very easy to defend ah.
O'Neill made a decision immediately, and his body forcibly blocked Mo Xi's way, and released the ball without letting go.
Mo Xi seemed to have expected it, but he rushed straight and straight according to O'Neill, in the surprised eyes of everyone, Mo Xi stood up and rushed forward without fear, his shoulders slived, squeezed O'Neill's body, staggered to the ground to scoop up the ball, pulled the bow and buckled it.
O'Neill was passed by someone, and then detained in front of him, this kind of thing is simply fantastic in the eyes of Los Angeles people!
However, if there were Orlandians here, they would have told them that, no, we had seen it then, more than once.
In contrast, the Angelenos don't know if they were lucky or unlucky, and they never saw anything like it again in this game.
In the end, the Knicks still lost, 104:87, a full count of fourteen points, O'Neal alone cut 41 points, 19 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks, in fact, O'Neal had a chance to cut 40 + 20 in this game, but, the twentieth rebound was dragged by Thomas's faceless and skinless dead, dragging the ball to the ground, and it was a jump ball, not O'Neal's twentieth rebound, O'Neal looked at Thomas with a hippie smile on the side, and couldn't wait to go up and punch him, But when he saw Larry Johnson on the bench who was looking at him with slanted eyes, he couldn't help but shudder, he couldn't even beat Barkley, not to mention that none of them were bad people here in New York.
On the Knicks' side, the sparks hidden under this huge loss are Houston's eleven points, Sprewell's sixteen points, and Moxi's ten points and six boards, at least, the Knicks lost as Van Gundy hoped, but at least retained the desire to win.