Chapter 118: Only Victory and Love Shall Not Be Disappointed
Obviously, this is probably the best performance since Mo Xi entered the league, not to mention that this time it is still on the stage of the finals, although Mo Xi still seems a little unable to compete with O'Neal, but obviously, he has been able to create a lot of trouble for O'Neal on both offensive and defensive ends, at least O'Neal thinks that this is just a big trouble, as long as he gets serious and shows the momentum of the first two games, all this is not a problem. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the end of the half, the Knicks were slightly inferior, five points behind the Lakers, O'Neal's performance was very strong, but not so strong, maybe everyone after watching his first two games, O'Neal's performance was not very strong in the half of the 20+10. O'Neal scored 16 points and 7 rebounds in the half, and Kobe Bryant, who returned to the game, also played well, scoring 11 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, but the most surprising thing is that he unknowingly scored 15 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists in the first half.
O'Neal was very annoyed, although in fact Mo Xi only scored 6 points in front of him, but in his own opinion, this still seemed like something unforgivable, because this kind of performance was very unshak, and he should crush all centers.
Mo Xi didn't feel complacent because of his outstanding performance, he could feel that the Lakers, throughout the first half, seemed to be pulled by an invisible line, like a marionette, they played very well, but obviously, this is like a warm-up for the Lakers, Mo Xi felt very confused, the Lakers are like this, Van Gundy is like this, he doesn't know what's wrong.
Ewing walked over and patted Mo Xi's shoulder, and said, "You look preoccupied, you performed well in the first half, and you look a little ugly now!" ”
Mo Xi smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Have you ever seen a starting center who only grabbed three rebounds in the half?" Oh, I forgot, I played power forward. ”
Ewing was somewhat silent, and the two sat together, neither of them speaking.
Mo Xi suddenly said: "Today's performance is a bit like a brush, this is the coach's arrangement, but I don't understand, doing this, it seems, has nothing to do with winning, I mean, I think in order to win, we should do better, not like now, we have even run out of bullets, and on the other side, the Lakers their aircraft carrier is not in place!" (This is a meme of the US military, once there is any military action, the first sentence is where is the closest fleet to xxx)
Ewing seemed to know some, but not much, and said, "I think you'd better focus on the game for now, and everything else until the game is over." ”
Ewing stood up and said to Mo Xi in a very majestic and serious tone: "You must know that only victory and love cannot be disappointed. ”
This sentence of such a young man came out of Ewing's mouth and seemed so nondescript, even funny, as if a tall and straight beautiful man was playing Quasimodo.
But Mo Xi stared at his clear eyes, looking at Ewing, and he didn't want to laugh at all. This sentence is very familiar to him, from a place full of legends, Washington Georgetown University Marvel Team coach John Thompson Jr. often put this sentence on his lips, all the players who go out from here, almost all the ears are cocooned by this sentence, but this sentence did leave a deep impression on them, this is what they have always believed in playing. Georgetown's unique "triumphism".
Mo Xi dismissed the idea of asking Van Gundy, and Ewing's words woke him up to the fact that victory and love could not be disappointed compared to all other boring things.
After the start of the second half, both sides seemed to have changed people, the Lakers were more imposing, and the Knicks were a little weird, or rather, in fact, the Knicks side was weird all the time and the coach was alone, but O'Neal obviously felt that the thirty on the opposite side had a problem again.
MMP! How can this kid get weird every time he plays! O'Neill didn't just shudder in his heart.
After kicking off at halftime, Mo Xi directly found O'Neill, and in the rare case, he took the initiative to attack the ball directly in the position.
Ward hesitated, not daring to hand the ball to Murphy, but to Sprewell, who was beside him.
Sprewell took two steps forward and came to a halt just when everyone thought he was going to make a pull-and-go jumper or make a big change of direction to pull out space, but he actually hit the ball to the ground to Mo Xi, who was stuck in the position.
The ball wasn't very powerful, and Mo Xi didn't get any help from passing, but at least, he now had a chance to attack with the ball.
Just when Mo Xi was in the position to ask for the ball, O'Neill had already rubbed his legs back early, and the center of gravity was pressed down, he was not to prevent Mo Xi's back from advancing, but Mo Xi's back was really unguardable.
After receiving the ball, O'Neal suddenly straightened his back, O'Neal's heart tightened, and at this time, the prelude to the attack, O'Neill increased the strength of his hand and pushed Mo Xi out as much as possible.
The gap between Mo Xi's strength and O'Neal is still obvious, but Mo Xi does not intend to give O'Neill this opportunity to exert his strength offensive, Mo Xi suddenly hit O'Neill hard, but this is just to separate from O'Neal, after all, being stuck by O'Neal is easy to be forcibly defeated by the opponent's strength.
This impact gave Mo Xi a little room to turn, and Mo Xi quickly took a sigma step into a face frame, left or right, which is an eternal philosophical question on the basketball court.
Mo Xi chose the left side almost the moment he turned around, this is the outside of the basket, Mo Xi's first step is to lead O'Neal, but O'Neal's speed is not slow, he grabbed a step, blocked the side of Mo Xi, and Mo Xi's shot can be blocked at any time.
But obviously Mo Xi will not end the attack so simply, Mo Xi stopped suddenly, and O'Neill immediately stopped his body, the two of them seemed to be twins, of course, one of them was a little out of shape in size. Mo Xi's emergency stop did not shake off O'Neal, he did not dare to pull out, because he believed that O'Neal would definitely force him out of bounds directly, Mo Xi turned around and turned to the front of the basket, but obviously O'Neal's movements were much simpler than him, O'Neal just turned around and came to Mo Xi.
Feint to shoot, ink regret and then turn, it is another feint, hook hand shooting.
No, this time it's not a feint, and obviously O'Neill didn't react either, but O'Neill felt that it didn't matter, as long as you made a move, I could cover it.
But Mo Xi's hook hand still didn't make a move, Mo Xi actually went directly to O'Neill, this posture, it seems to be to block O'Neill?
O'Neal's eyes narrowed, no one had dared to be so presumptuous in front of him, of course, just as he was thinking so, far away in Houston, a player wearing the number 34 jersey snorted disdainfully.
Seeing that O'Neill's fan-like palm was about to fan Mo Xi's hand, Mo Xi suddenly shook his wrist, and the ball flew out of Mo Xi's fingertips, looking as if he was out of his hand. The ball flew high and high above the top edge of the rebound.
The DJ on the scene applauded, he had seen this ball, this was the "Iceman" George Gerwin's unique stunt, throwing, throwing stunt that could not be blocked.
O'Neal watched in amazement, past his fingertips, flying higher and higher, past the top edge of the rebound before it began to fall, slowly falling into the basket like the sun sinking into the West Coast.
Before returning to the defensive end, he rarely spoke on the basketball court, and he said to O'Neal, "Obviously, I really don't want to hit you, but I score more points than you." ”