Chapter 103: The Heavenly Gods Descend to Earth (2-in-1)
No matter how brave he is, as long as he is still human, he can be stopped.
This has always been O'Neill's belief. Because he had seen the helper who stepped down from the altar, although he would soon return to the godhood, but that also gave O'Neill a great image, even if it was a god, as long as he became a man, he could be defeated.
What O'Neill has to do now is to pull Mo Xi down from the throne first.
The best way to do this is to strengthen his strength on the offensive end, so that Mo Xi has to allocate a greater part of his energy to defense, because Mo Xi's play is too good, the Knicks' ball is concentrated in Mo Xi's hands, which has led to a great reduction in other people's offensive opportunities, and the Lakers' OK has not actually been greatly affected, and the performance of the two people on the offensive end is still dominant, so the point difference between the two sides is not particularly large, and it has been stabilized within ten points by the Lakers.
At the start of the second half, O'Neal suddenly increased his offensive intensity, and it seemed that he was about to start a confrontation with Mo Xi, which made a group of neutral fans cheer. However, off the court, Van Gundy and some die-hard Knicks fans frowned a little, Mo Xi only rested for three minutes at the last moment in the first half, although Mo Xi is now full of hands, and has not missed a shot, but with the decline of physical strength, Mo Xi's movements will inevitably be deformed, so that at the last moment, the Knicks are likely to have a weak offense, O'Neal's current move is undoubtedly to accelerate this rhythm.
Although the physical strength consumed by both sides is basically the same, the problem is that there is still a Kobe Bryant on the Lakers' side that needs to be solved.
O'Neill resisted Mo Xi and rolled inward directly.
Mo Xi didn't dare to be careless, and forcibly pushed forward to resist O'Neill.
But at this time, O'Neill was at his peak, and he had the advantage of taking the initiative to attack, and Moxi's defense was like a window made of paper in front of O'Neal. O'Neill forcefully pressed Mo Xi under him, turned over directly, and buckled it with one hand.
However, afraid of Mo's lower body strength and defensive toughness, O'Neal's dunk completely lost the momentum of pulling out the mountain, and seemed a little cautious.
After being beaten by O'Neal, Mo Xi subconsciously wanted to return the other party, after a half-time break, Mo Xi felt that his physical strength was still very abundant, and this was the beginning of the second half, which was inevitable.
Seeing Mo Xi's move to take the initiative to ask for the ball to single O'Neal, O'Neal and Phil Jackson were secretly happy, and Van Gundy frowned, but now he couldn't call a timeout, and said to Mo Xi, hey, you save some effort, don't play like this, the other side is trying to trick you.
Mo Xi struggled to get the ball under O'Neal's push, this ball Mo Xi did not have to be too deep position, shallow stuck in a position, Mo Xi swayed left and right, as if he was going to feint and turn around, but after feeling the not much power from O'Neill's arm, Mo Xi had an idea, changed the way of attack, Mo Xi pushed back, O'Neill was still guarding against Mo Xi's turn, and after eating it, he reacted instantly, and the afterburner in his hand, the center of gravity dropped again, that is, after that, Mo Xi suddenly turned over and leaned back, and shot directly.
The ball hits the board into the frame.
Mo Xi has already shot eleven shots, plus four free throws, Mo Xi has scored 26 points, if it weren't for the Lakers in the second quarter to be a little uncomfortable, Mo Xi is likely to score nearly 30 points in the half with his excellent touch, which is really a terrifying efficiency for a center who only relies on two points and two points to dig in.
The two of them played three more with each other, and sometimes Kobe or other Knicks shot a few times in the middle, but more often these two people were clashing, Mo Xi felt that it was very difficult, if he couldn't defend O'Neal, how he played on the offensive end was in vain, maybe he should take advantage of the day between games to visit Willis Reed, ask about the problem of defense, although Ewing's defense is also very good, but Ewing's defense is more based on his own physical fitness, And Willis Reed's defense is undoubtedly stronger, and his era was even more fast-paced.
Mo Xi patted his face lightly and wiped his sweat with his jersey, although the jersey at this time was still very uncomfortable, but Mo Xi didn't have time to care about these, the next wave of the Lakers' offense came again, and O'Neal's body had already found Mo Xi.
Mo Xi took all the orders without saying a word, but secretly accumulated strength under his feet.
O'Neal began to push inside with the help of passing, O'Neal didn't pay much attention to offensive efficiency these balls, and her only purpose was to use her own strength to drag down Mo Xi's physical strength and make the Knicks lose this terrible offensive point.
This time, however, things seemed to turn out a little differently than O'Neill had in mind.
O'Neill held it on top, felt that the position was almost over, shook it, turned around as usual and bullied directly into the inner line, his legs were like a pair of huge springs, and the powerful compression brought huge power, directly sending this black fat man into the sky.
At this time, Mo Xi took half a step back, his eyes were fixed on O'Neal, and then he also sank his center of gravity, his body jumped up, and saw the opportunity to cut the ball that O'Neill was holding with one palm.
Mo Xi's ball was cut upward, just following O'Neal's strength.
This time, O'Neal's strength seemed to be in the air, and Mo Xi's cut ball directly took away all his strength.
Everyone, even the fans in New York, looked at this scene with their mouths wide open in disbelief, who is O'Neal? Even in ancient times, this is the best center, and now, Mo Xi actually hated O'Neal's best turning dunk.
Unbeknownst to New Yorkers, this scene would be played out again in the near future, and that the other protagonist who staged this scene was also a yellow man.
Although Murphy risked O'Neal, the Lakers' offense was not over, and Kobe Bryant grabbed this precious frontcourt rebound.
After Kobe grabbed the rebound, he directly dribbled a step, moved sideways, and stepped back for a jumper.
According to common sense, Kobe Bryant has gotten rid of the defender, and the closest Knicks defender to him is Mo Xi, who has just covered O'Neal's landing, and Kobe Bryant is in a theoretical absolute vacancy for this ball.
But a theory is a theory after all.
Before Mo Xi landed, he saw that the frontcourt rebound was in Kobe's hand, and after landing, he didn't want to take a step out of Kobe's direction and jump.
Because Kobe Bryant had a step-back jump shot in advance, the direction of Mo Xi's jump was actually a little crooked, but Mo Xi stiffly adjusted the orientation of his body in the air, and at the same time tried his best to stretch his arms, and finally touched Kobe's shot.
The shooting force that was wiped was obviously smaller, and it directly became a three-non-stick, and the white net was about to fall to the ground, and in that position, O'Neal, who had just been blocked, appeared at the right time.
O'Neal squeezed away Kurt Thomas, who was about to grab, and grabbed the rebound in the front court again, O'Neal was also careless, in order to save physical strength, O'Neal just squeezed Thomas away, and then didn't even pick it, shot directly under the basket, and wanted to hit the board to score the ball.
And at this time, the crazy Mo Xi came back with another arrow step, and slapped the basketball on the rebound before it hit it.
Quietly, Madison Square Garden suddenly resembled the New York Public Library. The whole world seemed to be silent for three seconds, and then a burst of enthusiastic cheers erupted.
The cheers of New York covered the entire East Coast, while the wails of Los Angeles spread throughout the West Coast, and even in countries across the ocean, people watching this transoceanic live broadcast let out all kinds of admiration.
"Tsk, this time, it's time to catch up with Yudong!"
"I think it's almost, you see that he was squeezed by that black fat man just now, and he can't stand it anymore."
"You can't look at it that way, it's the highest level of the league after all, and it's the finals."
"What's there, don't you think you're going too! I heard that Xiaoyao is going to go next year, but I don't know where to go, it would be nice if I was in the same team with this center. ”
"Don't think about it so much, if they are in the same team, who plays center, I heard that our little compatriot is already the number one center in New York."
"Your message is long outdated, do you see that black fat man who is covered? It is said that he and this black fat man are now the two best center forwards in the league over there, and it would be nice if Xiao Yao could play like them in the future. ”
No matter what others say, what kind of sound they make, concentrated, and the ink that sank into the game can't be heard, now, he only has the basketball in his eyes, and he has a faint feeling, or an illusion, that he sees another self in front of him.
It is said that this is called Zoom. (Definitely don't add too fantasy content, but this thing has been mentioned by both the old rascal and Bird, after all, we're not the kind of top players, maybe there really is!) ( ̄▽ ̄)~*)
Mo Xi began his own return gift.
However, this time the return gift may be too much etiquette, after all, the last defense has put the entire Lakers into a shocking scene, only two people have angry flames in their eyes, that is, the two people who were taken away, Kobe and O'Neal.
It is rare that these two people killed one person at the same time, and the two of them directly clamped him after receiving the ball, and almost no one has enjoyed this level of bag treatment.
Mo Xi, who was sandwiched, looked very calm, and did not see the panic of being sandwiched by two superstars, Mo Xi was bold, neither passing the ball nor planning to protect the ball firmly first, but went the opposite way, showing off a wave of dribbling in a small space formed by two people.
Mo Xi's dribbling is very basic, or he doesn't know what a fancy style is since he learned to dribble, but he simply dribbles back and forth left and right, relying on his strong shoulders to block the two hands that keep reaching up, and the most important thing is that Mo Xi is very good at using space, although it is two people in the bag, but Mo Xi never exposes himself to the defense of two people at the same time.
O'Neal and Kobe Bryant hated it so much at the moment, the two of them teamed up to wrap up, not to mention the result, they would definitely be ridiculed by the New York media after the game, but now, the bag of the two people did not have any good effect, which is mainly because these two people are too aggressive in defense, always thinking about revenge just now, of course, O'Neal is two.
Feeling that the bag clamp of the two people didn't seem to be in place, Mo Xi, who was too big, suddenly saw the dawn, squeezed Kobe Bryant with his shoulder, accelerated to O'Neal's side and forcibly overtook him, although Kobe was squeezed away, but O'Neal reacted, took a step back from the side, and blocked Mo Xi's offensive line.
Mo Xi continued to overtake on the outside, and seemed determined to force past O'Neill.
As a result, O'Neal once again appeared in advance of Moxi's offensive line, after all, O'Neal had a shorter route to move.
Seeing that Mo Xi was about to be forced to the bottom line, Mo Xi suddenly stopped.
A stop-and-go jumper under the basket?
O'Neill secretly guessed in his heart what kind of attack Mo Xi would use.
No, it's a feint, he's going to turn around, turn around and shoot.
O'Neill quickly moved sideways a step.
O'Neal guessed completely right, Mo Xi's emergency stop was a feint, Mo Xi had already turned around and threw it under the basket at this moment, but O'Neill had already blocked the route to the basket, and Mo Xi had to throw his body outside.
Seeing Mo Xi's movements, O'Neal sneered, and stepped on Mo Xi's middle line, O'Neal's position can be said to be just right, even if Mo Xi uses a backward jumper, bounce with O'Neal's height can also prevent this ball.
There is nothing wrong with that.
But Mo Xi saw that he made a move like this, so Mo Xi did so.
O'Neal jumped up and slapped forward with one palm, and then, when it was empty, O'Neill was stunned, what happened?
As soon as O'Neal looked up, he found that Moxi's shot was flying at a high and unbelievable height, O'Neal could swear that this was definitely the highest shooting arc he had ever seen, even George Gervin's throwing back then was probably such a height, but that one is a throw, and you are a shot! Shooting!
Mo Xi's shot was like a light butterfly, faintly slicing through the air, and then sat in the basket all of a sudden.
The ball is in!
Mo Xi turned around and ran towards his own half, at this moment, this fluttering No. 30 jersey has only one sentence in the eyes of many people to describe "God is here".
Mo Xi played the entire third quarter again, and Shengsheng cut 39 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists and five blocks, but the Knicks' lead was only thirteen points, and Mo Xi's strong scoring efficiency did not seem to win too much advantage for the Knicks.
But in the face of such a pity, Phil Jackson showed a slight smile.