Chapter 439: Psychological Warfare

"Meng and Shaq are going to collide!" Seeing that Meng Xu, who was still sprinting, was getting closer and closer to O'Neal, and there was no intention of slowing down and dodging, many fans on the sidelines, especially female fans, had already covered their faces with their hands, and couldn't bear to see what would happen next, Meng Xu's strength was very strong, and now among all the outside players in the league, one is counted as one, and there is no one who can compete with Meng Xu for strength, but after all, outside players are outside players, whether it is physical tonnage or strength talent, they are far from being comparable with interior players. Not to mention that he is tough and tough with a big guy like O'Neal, you can know the result without thinking, even if you are as strong as Jordan, you have to avoid Olajuwon, not to mention that Meng Xu is facing O'Neal who is bigger than Olajuwon at the moment, and even stronger than Olajuwon.

"Let's hope Meng doesn't let us down." Michaels, who has already stood up from his seat, although he is not optimistic about Meng Xu's offensive choice in his heart, and even thinks that Meng Xu's challenge to O'Neal is the worst way to attack, but with his trust in Meng Xu in the past few years, Michaels still hopes that Meng Xu can create a miracle in front of O'Neal.

"Meng, be careful, you must not be injured." Larry Bird, who was standing on the edge of the bench on the sidelines, was already nervous at the moment with his hands clenched tightly, and at the same time kept praying for Meng Xu in his heart. With Meng Xu's speed and impact, colliding with O'Neal is undoubtedly hitting a wall, this kind of violent impact, the degree of damage to the body, you don't need to think about it, you know, but now no one can stop Meng Xu in high-speed movement, and it is even more foolish to expect O'Neill to dodge, so Larry Bird can only pray secretly, hoping that Meng Xu can protect himself in this collision and not get hurt.

Just when Larry Bird was still secretly praying, Meng Xu rushed to a distance of less than a meter from O'Neal, directly made an emergency stop, grabbed the basketball in his right hand and jumped high, looking at this posture and the height of the jump, he was ready to fly over O'Neal.

"Boy, you're so arrogant." O'Neal, who had already stood in a good position, saw Meng Xu jumping high in front of him, and the first thing he thought of was that this bastard wanted to dunk in front of him, and it was very likely that he wanted to dunk himself. As the champion of last season's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, Meng Xu, who has been performing various flat frame dunks since he entered the league, has ridden a lot of big men, so when he thinks of Meng Xu wanting to dunk himself, O'Neal, who was already very angry, can only be described as tyrannical at the moment.

Without the slightest hesitation, O'Neill started directly, used his best strength, jumped up in the air, and at the same time waved his arms, leaning forward as much as possible, ready to use his strong body to block Meng Xu flying in the air.

With a bang, Meng Xu's body and O'Neal collided in the air, although Meng Xu's body began to drift to the left side in the air after taking off, trying to avoid O'Neal's block in the air, but Meng Xu finally collided with O'Neal. Meng Xu now also has a full value of strength attributes, which is why he can use his strength to crush almost all the outside lines of the alliance, but when Meng Xu encounters an inside line like O'Neill, he is still obviously in a slight position. The strength of O'Neill's strength was also greatly beyond Meng Xu's expectations, the moment they collided in the air, Meng Xu immediately felt that the part that had physical contact with O'Neill was as if it had been directly hit by a sledgehammer, painful and numb.

When the bodies of the two sides only touched in the air for 0.0 seconds, they quickly separated, and Meng Xu was directly knocked out by O'Neal, but Meng Xu, who was flying in the air, still showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, because of this attack, Meng Xu didn't think about dunking in front of O'Neal at all, from beginning to end, Meng Xu wanted to avoid O'Neal in the air and then go to the basket, if he could cheat a foul by the way, it would be better. Therefore, although Meng Xu was directly knocked out by O'Neal, but because after the jump, he drifted to the left side of his body for a distance in advance, so after making physical contact with O'Neal, Meng Xu's left side had already appeared in the shooting gap, and Meng Xu, who was flying in the air, tried to adjust his body posture, and before his body lost his balance, he threw the basketball in his hand from the left side of O'Neal's body in the direction of the basket.

As the referee's whistle sounded, the basketball thrown by Meng Xu went into the net, and Meng Xu also fell heavily to the ground and slid backwards for a long distance. The entire banker's life arena, after a short silence, was immediately detonated, 2+1, it turned out to be 2+1, Meng Xu was not only defeated by O'Neal in the hard confrontation with O'Neal, but instead played a 2+1 on O'Neal's body, an outside player, actually played a 2+1 on O'Neal's body! At this moment, the entire bankers life arena is crazy, and Meng Xu's success in single-handing off O'Neal is not only a few points for the team to move back, but more importantly, Meng Xu's offense has greatly boosted the morale and fighting spirit of the Pacers.

"I'm afraid the momentum that the Lakers have just ignited is going to be extinguished." Looking at the players of the Pacers who gathered together to celebrate and were full of fighting spirit, and the Lakers players who were still staying in place with an incredible expression on their faces, Michaels said excitedly and regretfully, excited that Meng Xu did not live up to his trust and once again created a miracle, but unfortunately the Lakers, who had just started and were about to play a wave of GC, were hit like this.

"No matter what, I just want to win this game!" When Meng Xu walked to the free throw line, O'Neal, who was standing not far away, looked at Meng Xu with his eyes, and he was breathing fire.

But Meng Xu doesn't care about these at all, Larry Bird's psychological war against the Lakers began as early as the middle of last season, the most important of which is to praise Kobe Bryant, step on O'Neal, and let their team have problems within themselves, in the finals last season, the Pacers benefited a lot, so this season, as the biggest opponent of the Pacers' title defense, Larry Bird's psychological warfare against the Lakers is still continuing, not only Meng Xu keeps claiming that Kobe Bryant is his most important opponent, but even Larry Bird is constantly in public, hyped Kobe Bryant, saying that Kobe was the most threatening player in the Lakers, as for O'Neal, Malone, the Pacers had enough means to limit them, and only Kobe Bryant was the player that the Pacers had never been able to restrict.

After the free throw was hit, Meng Xu didn't forget to look at O'Neill with a grin, and at the same time secretly said in his heart: "A little more anger, a little more anger." "No matter how strong you are, no matter how powerful your dominance is, you can't level the team behind you, you still can't win the final victory.

In the subsequent game, O'Neal's offensive desire was even stronger, even to the point of madness, 16 shots in a single quarter, and they were all completed in the face of Mutombo and Jermaine O'Neal's bag, if it wasn't for the physical exertion was too great, O'Neal could have made 20 shots in a single quarter in the third quarter.

"O'Neill in this game is crazy, it's been a long time since I've seen O'Neill like this." At the end of the third quarter, looking at the technical statistics sheet in his hand, Magic Johnson shook his head gently, 16 of 29 shots, 9 of 15 free throws, 41 points and 15 rebounds in the third quarter, 9 of 16 shots in a single quarter, 4 of 7 free throws, and 22 points in the third quarter. Although O'Neal's shooting percentage is already very good, for the current Lakers, O'Neal's style of play is very detrimental to the team. The team of four superstars needs everyone to make sacrifices to reduce their ball possession and the number of shots, so as to maximize the strength of the team, what O'Neal is doing on the court now is not only not conducive to the team, but also to the interests of several other giants, just look at Kobe and Malone who sat on the cold bench for the whole quarter in the third quarter, and in the long run, Phil Jackson will definitely not be able to control this team.

However, it is not without good aspects, at least under O'Neal's 22 points in a single quarter, the Lakers have narrowed the gap to only 4 points at the end of the third quarter, 74-78, such a score is acceptable for both the Pacers and the Lakers.