You know, this is O'Neal's fourth year and the last year of his rookie contract.

This year is his contract year!

Mourning, Westponse, and Leitner, who was pressed on the ground by O'Neal and rubbed casually, all got early contract extensions!

But it's the Magic team, they call it a disadvantage and a reluctance in the matter of giving O'Neal a new contract!

Several times, O'Neal and his agent wanted to talk to the Magic about O'Neal's contract extension, but the Magic team just avoided talking about it, and they always wanted to prevaricate about it.

It wasn't until a few days before the start of the playoffs that O'Neal, who was so upset by management, pushed open the office of the general manager of the Magic team and asked them in an almost roaring voice if they were ready to renew their contract with him, that the general manager of the Magic team finally relented.

After saying a lot of things to appease O'Neal, the general manager of the Magic team also quietly revealed a little bit to O'Neal.

A multi-year contract with an annual salary of more than 10 million is absolutely fine!

They definitely won't let O'Neill down!

But when O'Neal excitedly said when he could sign the contract, the general manager of the Magic team said that he was embarrassed and had to wait until the end of the season!

At first, O'Neal didn't know why, until he passed by the general manager's office during the playoffs and heard the conversation inside, and he understood why!

The Magic team is indeed willing to give themselves a big contract, and they are indeed willing to keep themselves.

But the premise of all this is: Hardaway will not be angry!

What O'Neal heard was that the general manager of the Magic team was asking Hardaway if he would be angry if O'Neal got a big contract, and if he would be jealous that O'Neal got a big contract a year before him.

Listen, is this human?

Lao Tzu entered the league a year earlier than Hardaway, and of course he got a big contract a year earlier! Can I still wait for him to do this?

That time, O'Neal didn't push the door in and confronted Hardaway with the team executives, but his mind has changed since that time!

O'Neal, who originally planned to live in Orlando, the Disney city, wants to change the environment!

Change to a place that truly respects him and treats him as a cornerstone, an ace, and the first core!

This is also the reason why O'Neill is so happy every time Lin Tianqua O'Neal is the first center!

You Orlando don't look down on me, some places like Lao Tzu, and I think Lao Tzu is amazing!

As for the team's coach Hill, he saw that O'Neill and Hardaway had less and less words, and the two men had changed from intimacy at the beginning to only communicate on the court, but he ignored this and did not mediate at all.

He thinks that the team has already won 60 games, so the remaining little problems can't be considered a problem at all!

As long as you can win, you can cover it up!

Hill thinks so and does so, but he never thinks about what he will do once the Magic start losing!

As probably the person in the world who knows the conflict between O'Neal and Hardaway best, Lin Tian knows that his words before the game will definitely have an effect and will definitely make a little trouble between O'Neal and Hardaway.

But he really didn't expect that the effect would be so good!

From the time the two sides warmed up, Lin Tian noticed that O'Neill and Hardaway didn't talk anymore, and the two of them didn't have any contact with each other at all, let alone any interaction with each other!

The problems and grievances between these two people are likely to have reached the point of incompatibility!

Two equally confident geniuses, both of whom are sensitive and fragile personalities, and neither of them are the kind of people who will take the initiative to give in or take the initiative to resolve misunderstandings with each other, then the problem between them, of course, will only get bigger and bigger!

As the warm-up ended, the starters of both sides also took to the court!

On the Bulls' side, because of the previous good performance and the problem of alignment, Lin Tian became the team's starting organization guard for the second game in a row, plus the Bulls Iron Triangle and Longley, this set of five-person combinations that the outside world has always considered to be the strongest and most reasonable for the Bulls finally started together!

On the Magic team's side, in addition to the twin stars Hardaway and O'Neal, there are also Grant, the Bulls' last three-time champion, Nick Anderson, and Dennis Scott!

These five are also the five highest scoring averages per game for the Magic in the playoffs this season! And in the entire Magic team, in fact, only these five people average more than 10 points per game! The sixth player left with the sixth average points per game is Brooks Thompson, who averages only 5 points per game!

In addition to the high average points per game, the average playing time of these five people is also very high!

All five players played more than 37 minutes!

O'Neill and Hardaway were over 40 minutes!

It can be said that if the Bulls' lineup and rotation reflect a very large number of available people and a deep bench, then the Magic team is the main team of dead grass and relies on the main five-man team to win the world!

As long as they can withstand the offensive of the Magic's starting five, then their bench can be said to be lackluster, and there are almost no trustworthy and reliable players!

The bench is too weak, which is also a shortcoming that the Magic team has always been criticized for!

And now, they're about to face one of the most formidable enemies of the season!

As the referee blew the whistle, the basketball was thrown directly into the air, and O'Neal's terrifying physical fitness completely crushed the ground-based Longley, easily getting the first wave of offensive opportunities for the team!

"Watch out for Shaq! Luke, get back to the basket! As soon as Lin Tian saw Hardaway holding the ball, he immediately opened his mouth and shouted to command, reminding his teammates to pay attention to defending O'Neal.

Well, it's all nonsense, and Longley is not stupid, so of course he won't stand in the middle circle in a daze!

Lin Tian's words are meant for O'Neill and Hardaway!

He's going to make this series the last series for the twins!

They must be torn apart!

Hardaway showed his top talent in controlling dribbling against Jordan, who was stalking him tightly as soon as he came up, and in the face of the former best defensive player, Hardaway easily dribbled the ball to the frontcourt.

"Ball!" O'Neal suddenly dodged out and reached for the ball from outside the 3-second zone, wanting to take a low post first.

But Hardaway didn't care about O'Neal, who was already in the position, but called Grant's blocking, and after hitting the middle range, he forcibly pulled out his hand to shoot!

"Huh!"

It was also a crisp sound, and Hardaway scored 2 points for the team first!

"It's okay, let him vote! He can't kill us! No need to assist in defense, especially in the inner line, no need to assist in defense! Just let him vote! Lin Tian received a pass from his teammates at the bottom line, and he was not in a hurry to command while advancing ahead, today's game, don't worry!

The first offense on the Bulls' side was also handed over to Jordan, because Jordan, who had no strength and couldn't play a wonderful performance in two consecutive games because of the flu, had already held his breath!

Not to mention that this time he met Hardaway, who was very disrespectful to himself before and provoked him several times, how could Jordan endure it? He's destined to fire all night ahead!

So, Jordan entered the state as soon as he started, very tough and active in the low post to ask for the ball, and in the face of Hardaway's defense, he even pushed the top to compress the space inward, and then suddenly turned around and completed a shot!

"Huh!"

2：2！

In the next offense, Hardaway, who was beaten by Jordan, was in a hurry to get back to the court, and once again ignored O'Neal's important position, dribbled into the basket himself, faced Longley, and hit a 2-point shot!

After hitting this time, Lin Tian quickly came to the bottom line, and holding the basketball was another signature quarterback-style long pass, and the basketball turned into lightning in an instant and flew straight to Pippen's hand in the front court!

In the face of Scott, Pippen didn't need to hesitate at all, dribbled the ball and forced it to the basket, and easily pushed Scott away and made a layup!

"Boy, you deserve to be called Scott too?" Pippen after the goal is a trash talk at Scott!

In the next few minutes, the two sides launched a wonderful and beautiful attack on the court!

Jordan singled Hardaway several times, and Hardaway always responded on the offensive end, and the Magic team had Scott hit a 3-pointer on the weak side, and Lin Tian immediately received the ball and forced the basket to make a layup!

After almost 5 minutes of play, the score came to 14:16!

The Magic team is temporarily 2 points behind the Bulls!

It is worth mentioning that Hardaway scored 7 of 14 points and added 2 assists! It can be said that he is the most important and best player of the Magic team in this half of the game!

But Hardaway played so well, it meant that O'Neal didn't show anything!

In the first 5 minutes of the game, O'Neal didn't even touch the skin of the ball, only one shot in total, and he didn't hit it, and he didn't score on 0 of 1 shots, and only grabbed two backcourt rebounds!

This feeling of being completely ignored on the offensive end is of course very unpleasant! And the offensive end can't be opened, and O'Neal is also starting to be lazy on the defensive end!

Especially when he failed to get the basketball again in the low post, Hardaway passed the ball to Anderson on the far end, but Anderson's 3-pointer missed!

O'Neal, who was once again ignored, did not directly participate in the defense this time, but slowly watched Lin Tian quickly attack a dragon layup! Then, O'Neill, who was still near the midfield, turned around and continued to walk towards the front.

Then again, although he was standing under the basket, he almost watched Lin Tian rush into the interior to complete the layup, but he didn't make any effective defensive moves!

In the blink of an eye, with Lin Tian scoring 4 points in a row, the difference between the two sides came to 20:14.

The Bulls, it's time to open the score!

The head coach of the Magic team reacted very quickly, and he immediately called the first timeout of the game to let the team take a little time and regain its senses.

After all, this is against the Bulls, and any carelessness and relaxation may lead to a rout!

"Well done." Jackson on the sidelines high-fived every Bulls player who walked up to him, and after everyone sat on the bench, Jackson said slowly: "We did a good job in the warm-up stage, and the 6-point advantage is very good!" Then, the warm-up time is over! It's time to get something real out! ”

"Scott, get ready to pack Hardaway, as soon as he gets to the 3-point line, rush over and cover him!"

"Lin, attack O'Neill with a pick-and-roll! Consume him! I'm going to make this shark out of shape tonight! ”

The Bulls here are united, everyone is brave, just waiting to teach the Magic team a good lesson, but there is a little problem with the Magic team over there!

"Shaq! You can't stand still there! You need to protect the basket, you need to play dominance under the basket and knock over all the opponents who rush in! You're the last barrier under the basket, but what are you doing with the first two balls? Watching a play? Can't you just stretch out your damn arm and interfere with the Bulls' layup? ”

Hardaway looked at O'Neill with an unhappy expression.

His defensive attitude towards O'Neill's eyes was extremely unhappy.

O'Neal shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "I'm watching the play on the offensive end, and I'm watching the play on the defensive end, isn't that normal?" Let's see how about the stats? Great 'penny' sir, has shot 5 times! And me? I've touched the basketball once in total! ”

"When you're attacking, why don't you want to think I'm actually watching a play?"

O'Neill's sudden outburst of questioning made Hardaway stunned for a moment, in fact, O'Neal was right, Hardaway didn't pass the ball to O'Neal, more or less deliberately meant it.

The Bulls' pre-game remarks still affected him!

O'Neill is not happy, and he Hardaway is not happy!

Two geniuses who are unwilling to bow their heads will not accept the other, and neither of them will feel that they are worse than the other, this kind of problem will occur!

"Enough! Sark! Anferne, you both shut up! Hill frowned and said, "It's a game now, are you two crazy?" Actually said this in the game? Shaq, Anfernee was right, you did give too little on the defensive end! ”

"And you Anfernee, you should use Shaq's dominance more on the offensive end, give him the ball, and let him destroy the Bulls' interior!"

"Both of you are right, but both are wrong! Got it? But none of those things matter now! Our goal is to win, to take out the bulls! Instead of this meaningless infighting, wait for the pause to end, I want both of you to change, both more selfless! ”

Hill is worthy of being the top water master in the league, and when he opened his mouth, he played fifty boards each, and said a meaningless nonsense, just looking at the expressions of O'Neal and Hardaway, he knew that neither of these two guys listened to Hill's words.

The two of them now have the same thoughts.

"Unless this bastard changes his style of play first, I will never change it!"

With the sound of the end of the timeout, ten players from both sides took to the court again!

"On the first offense, Hardaway will definitely give the ball to O'Neal! Dennis! Lin Tian walked onto the court, observing the expressions of the Magic players, and arranged tactics at the same time: "Dennis, you are ready to wrap O'Neal at any time and break the ball in his hand!" It's not impossible to foul when necessary! ”

"Scott, Michael, as long as Hardaway passes, you are ready to go fast, and the basketball will definitely fly to the hands of the two of you, so just run!"

"When did this kid start laying out tactics for us?" Pippen looked at Lin Tian, who immediately ran to find Longley after ordering the three of them, and couldn't help but say, "Does he still remember that he is a rookie?" ”

"If you're going to score 60 points in a tie-break, you can command all of us, Scott." Jordan chewed gum and said to Pippen: "Now we just listen to him, and when the game is over, the two of us will give him a good 'intensity'!" Command me to play? Is it that easy? ”

Hearing Jordan's words, Pippen also leaked a wicked smile and said, "No problem!" I've recently learned two new tricks, and when the competition is over, I'll let Lin experience it! ”

The Magic's offense was still Hardaway dribbling to the frontcourt, and then, he saw O'Neal stuck with his back to Longley and reached out for the ball!

After a slight hesitation, Hardaway immediately passed the ball out, and it was passed to O'Neal, who was already in the position on the inside!

But O'Neal just grabbed the ball, and before he could put it down, Rodman got out of his blind spot and slapped it on the basketball!

Then Rodman quickly hugged the basketball, and found Lin Tian for the first time, Lin Tian caught the basketball, and after observing it, he took the ball with one hand and threw it towards the front court!

"Whoosh!"

"Boom!"

A basketball sounds!

This was followed by a loud bang after Jordan took the ball and smashed the basket with both arms!

The Bulls score 2 more points!

"Shaq! Watch out for the ball! Hardaway was a little anxious, dribbling the ball while giving O'Neal another command.

"None of you can remind me, can you? Are you all blind or dumb? O'Neal slapped his teammates in frustration and looked at his teammates in displeasure.

Rodman's steal just now, you really can't blame O'Neal, a person suddenly came out of the blind spot, even if it was Olajuwon or Jabbar, he couldn't see it!

Then, O'Neal once again asked for the ball in the low post very resolutely, and Hardaway first observed the situation on the court this time, and after making sure that no one was going to cover O'Neal, he wanted to give the ball over.

But as soon as he lifted the basketball, Jordan rushed up! Jordan suddenly increased his defensive intensity at the moment when Hardaway received the ball and wanted to pass it out!

Even Hardaway, in the face of Jordan's sudden increase in defensive intensity, was somewhat caught off guard, and even worse, he couldn't dribble the ball, just when Hardaway turned around with difficulty to protect the basketball and waited for his teammates to come to answer, the first person to come to answer was Pippen!

Pippen jumped in front of Hardaway in two steps, and one after the other with Jordan, wrapped Hardaway in the middle!

At this time, the referee's whistle suddenly sounded!

"Shaq O'Neal, 3 seconds offense!"

“FUXX！ You pass the ball! Or don't pass it on to you! O'Neill roared dissatisfied, the team had just decided to attack with him as the core, and immediately made two mistakes in a row, no matter who encountered this situation, it must have been full of unhappiness!

"Won't you see for yourself? I've been caught in the trap! Can't you see? Hardaway also spread his hands helplessly, and looked at O'Neill's eyes full of impatience.

Why didn't you find out before that this fat man was so annoying?

"If you had a good playmaker, instead of a two-way guard, you would have been able to play better." Lin Tian's voice suddenly sounded in O'Neill's ears: "However, for us, this is a good thing!" The most dominant center in history has no place for us, we are too easy! ”

After Lin Tian finished speaking, he didn't wait for O'Neal to react, he quickly dribbled the ball to overtake him, and after killing all the way to the front court, Lin Tian slowed down again, and through two covers in a row, let Hardaway face him.

"Boy, do you think you can beat me?" Hardaway had just been forced to be extremely embarrassed by Jordan and Pippen, and he was angry at this moment, as soon as he saw that Lin Tian actually took the initiative to single him through cover, he immediately opened his posture and said: "Or do you think I am a level of waste with what Starks and Derek Hubble?" ”

"I didn't mean that." Lin Tian grinned, revealing a sunny and innocent side and said: "You are very powerful Anferne, really powerful, but now you are not terrible at all, we are not afraid at all!" Do you know why? ”

"Because you don't have a partner who really suits you! A big guy who can only play in the three-second zone and doesn't give you cover and open up space to break through sounds great, but he will only waste your talent! ”

Speaking of which, Lin Tian suddenly waved his hand, summoned Longley from the inside, and after strictly covering himself, Lin Tian's speed exploded again, and a step flashed past Hardaway's side, rushing towards the basket!

Just when O'Neal just moved his steps and wanted to help defend Lin Tian, the basketball in Lin Tian's hand suddenly flew out and flew towards the top of the basket.

"Boom!"

This time, it was Pippen who saw the opportunity to go down and complete the empty catch!

Lin Tian and Pippen were so excited that they clapped their hands after this wonderful cooperation, and then Lin Tian quickly turned around, and when he passed by Hardaway, he said softly: "Look, although Longley is not as good as O'Neill, he is willing to cover me!" I can use him to make a breakthrough at any time! ”

"What about you? How many times has O'Neill covered for you this season? ”

How many times have you covered up?

Hardaway said, do a fart!

In my life, I have never enjoyed O'Neill's cover!

He never leaves the three-second zone and never covers for anyone on the team!

In O'Neill's words: That's what only blue-collar workers do, I'm a super center, and I would never do this kind of thing!

Next, the Magic team's offense, Hardaway once again dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and O'Neal once again asked for the ball on the inside!

This time, Hardaway didn't hesitate anymore!

Go to Nima's Big Shark!

Lao Tzu won't pass the ball to you!

Thinking of this, Hardaway suddenly exerted force under his feet, and began to force a breakthrough against Jordan!

It's just that although Jordan is in his 30s, his footsteps, movement and confrontation are still at the top level of the league, even if Hardaway's talent is extraordinary, known as a peerless genius, it is extremely difficult to easily break through Jordan's defense!

What's more, in addition to Jordan, the Bulls also have Pippen and Rodman, two players at the level of the year's No. 1 defensive lineup!

Hardaway had barely reached the middle distance when another figure suddenly appeared on his side.

Pippen is here again!

Hardaway's reaction was already extremely fast, and at the moment when Pippen rushed over, he had already seen Scott who was empty on the baseline, and Hardaway immediately made a one-handed pass and threw the ball towards the baseline.

But the basketball still failed to reach the designated position, and just halfway through the flight, it was cut off by Lin Tianyi, who was killed in the oblique stab, and copied the basketball in his hand and launched another wave of counterattacks!

The players of the Magic team didn't have time to react at all, and when Lin Tian rushed to the basket to complete the dunk, neither Anderson nor Scott even ran into their own 3-point line, let alone defend Lin Tian for a layup.

They could only watch, and they could only watch Lin Tian make a layup.

At this point, Hill had no choice but to reluctantly call a timeout again.

In a few rounds in a row, the Bulls scored easily, and then the Magic team made mistakes one after another, and the gap was only 6 points just now, and it was more than 10 points in the blink of an eye!

If you play two more rounds like this, I'm afraid you won't have to play this game!

In the first quarter, the difference was 20 points!

On the Bulls' side, everyone is easy, and the Magic team won 60 wins in the regular season, and it can be called a strong team that destroys the withering and decaying all the way to the promotion before the Eastern Conference Finals, and it doesn't seem to be very strong!

Especially the only two people in the team who can play, there are still contradictions, and they start to spew trash talk to each other directly on the court!

"The shortcomings of the Magic team, the first is that there are too few people who can use it! Aside from the starting five, their bench strength is almost negligible! ”

In the interval between the timeouts, Jackson sat down on the bench and began his analysis with a confident look.

"The second is that although both of their stars are awesome, there is no second reliable point of possession other than these two, or other than Hardaway, Scott and Anderson are both goalscorers, and the substitute Brian Shaw is not worth mentioning."

So, as long as you hold Hardaway and make him unable to organize the team's offense, the Magic will only be stuck in a situation where Hardaway has unlimited singles. Just, than infinite singles? There is one in this league and no team is our opponent! ”

"So, let's continue to target Hardaway, give him intensity, so that he can't organize the attack, so that he can't pass the ball to his teammates, especially O'Neal!"

"Secondly, Lin, you go down to rest first, save your strength, and when Hardaway goes down to rest, it will be the time when you go on the field to kill all sides and completely kill the suspense of the game! Everyone, if everything goes well, in today's game, we can completely break the suspense in half the time! You can clock out at half time! ”

"Get off work!"

"Get off work!"

"Get off work!"

The players of the Bulls let out one shout after another of excitement, and they, like Jackson, have already smelled the victory of this game!

Jackson replaced Lin Tian with Ron Hubble, the former star guard of the Cavaliers, although he has now degraded to the level of only 5 points per game, but his defense and experience are still there, and it is definitely the best choice for him to replace Lin Tian and harass the connection between Hardaway and O'Neal!

Lin Tian, who was substituted, lay comfortably on the chair and watched the game without hurrying!

The Bulls are missing Lin Tian at this time, although those signature fast breaks and quarterback-style passes are completely unplayable, but with Jordan and Pippen, the team's offensive fundamentals are there!

They no longer play fast, but fall into position, ball by ball!

On the offensive end, Jordan and Pippen took turns to attack with the ball, while on the defensive end, the whole team was aimed at Hardaway, Longley began to circle forward, Rodman wandered around to break the ball, and the Bulls gathered the strength of the whole team to completely cut off the connection between him and O'Neal!

Of course, this kind of defense of the Bulls is also a gamble, and they put almost all of their defensive strength on these two guys, leaving out the role players of the Magic.

At this time, once Anderson or Scott finds the touch of shooting, the Magic team can set off a wave of counterattacks in minutes!

But......

Obviously, no matter which player on the Magic team tonight, they can't find their feeling at all!

Open shots? Strike iron!

Empty cut layup? Missed by interference!

For the rest of the first quarter, the Magic could only rely on Hardaway's piecemeal shots and breakaways to slowly grow their scores.

And O'Neal only got 3 shots in total in the entire first quarter, and only hit one shot to score 2 points!

The Bulls' defensive strategy worked!

When the Bulls' strategy won a big victory, the score of tonight's game was naturally enough to make the fans at the United Center cheer wildly.

35：20！

In the first quarter, the Bulls relied on dividing the connection between Hardaway and O'Neal to force Hardaway to keep playing singles and successfully gained a 15-point lead!

In the second quarter of the game, Hardaway, who was entangled by Jordan and Pippen for a whole quarter, had to go down to rest, and he was crazy to target, his physical exertion was huge, looking at his current appearance, where it was like only playing one game, panting and sweating all over his body, saying that he had just played the whole game and some people believed it!

Hardaway is gone, so the Magic team naturally wants to let O'Neal play as the absolute core!

On the Bulls' side, Lin Tian, Winnington, Kukoc, Kerr and Pippen are on the court together.

After seeing that O'Neal was the only one on the Magic team, Lin Tian once again gathered his teammates together and said, "Next, don't be so tight about O'Neal!" Let him score a few points appropriately, let him score a few points! ”

"Why Lin? I can try to defend him! Wen Nington didn't understand what Lin Tian meant by this.

"I mean, while Hardaway isn't there, it's definitely good for us to let O'Neill score as many points as he wants! Not to mention that now that we have a 15-point lead, there are a lot of advantages to squander, and more importantly, what do you think O'Neal's personality will think when he finds out that Hardaway is not on the field, he can immediately score consecutive points? ”

"Will he feel like he's regained his form and become an invincible shark again, or will he feel that Hardaway is playing him and deliberately not giving him a good pass?"

"Of course I think Hardaway is playing him!"

The other four members of the Bulls, that one spoke in unison, expressed their opinions.

So, the next game in the second quarter became O'Neal's show!

Catch the ball inside and turn directly to the basket and dunk it! Use your shoulders to open the Winnington one-arm spacer! In the face of Winnington, he quickly turned around and then took a small hook and hit again......

In less than 5 minutes, O'Neal, who only scored 3 points in the first quarter, killed all sides, except for only 1 of 4 free throws, he shot 5 of 5 under the basket and scored 11 points!

O'Neill in the second quarter really began to look like a truly terrifying shark!

It's just that O'Neal is the only strong Magic team on the court, and even though he is invincible alone, he has not been able to help the team narrow the gap too much.

Although the Bulls deliberately put a few O'Neal on defense and did not specifically target him, but on the offensive end, whether it was Lin Tian's breakthrough or fast attack, or Pippen's high-position strategy, the Bulls played all well!

While no one has played as well as O'Neal in that time, the Bulls have maintained their lead!

By the time Jordan and Hardaway reappeared, the Bulls still had a 14-point lead!

In other words, O'Neal's furious output helped the team recover 1 point when he was full!

But even if only 1 point is recovered, it can be regarded as narrowing the point difference.

But when Hardaway came on the court again, the Bulls' defense changed again, and they once again raised their defensive intensity, crazy packing, going around, assisting defense, high-intensity physical confrontation and constant harassment and targeting!

In this case, Hardaway was once again extremely painful to be targeted by Jordan and Pippen, let alone give the ball to O'Neal, he couldn't even dribble well, organize an attack, and observe the situation on the court!

The Bulls' oppressive defense is definitely the top presence in the first gear of the league today!

Hardaway's embarrassment and discomfort, of course, O'Neill can't feel it!

He didn't care who Hardaway was targeted, Lao Tzu didn't have time to think about that!

O'Neal knew that in the half quarter of the game when Hardaway was away, he scored 11 points, and a few minutes after Hardaway came back, O'Neal couldn't get the basketball again, and only scored 2 points!

Hardaway! Definitely deliberately not giving me the ball!

Once this idea appears, whether it is a personal conjecture or a real thing, it can only say one thing -

The combination of O'Neill and Hardaway has come to an end, and the two have begun to distrust each other and begin to dislike each other.

In particular, when the first half of the game ended, the Bulls entered the players' tunnel with a full 24-point lead and prepared to rest, Lin Tian's words aroused the grievances and annoyance in O'Neal's stomach.

"Thankfully, the Magic don't have a really selfless and reliable playmaker! Otherwise, we're going to be badly by O'Neill! In addition to foul tactics, I think the only person in this world who can stop O'Neal is his teammates! ”

Lin Tian's words, O'Neill almost burst into tears when he heard it, and he couldn't wait to hold Lin Tian's face and bite it twice!

And voila! This is the person who knows the ball!

This is the person who really knows how to play basketball, and this is the person who really understands the ball!

Get the ball, don't throw, give the ball to the shark!

After saying this, Lin Tian happened to look back at this moment, and was meeting O'Neill's gaze.

In an instant, the soul of performance in Lin Tian's body suddenly rose, and it was only a maximum of 2 seconds, and expressions such as shock, regret, sadness, melancholy, apology, and pity flashed from Lin Tian's face one by one, and finally, it ended with a relieved and relaxed smile!

Lin Tian felt that his performance at this moment was definitely enough to win an Oscar for Best Actor!

There are no flaws, it's just natural!

Under his own set of performances, the locker room of the magic team at halftime is probably extremely lively!

Maybe...... Can the brain pulp be typed out directly?

"Anferne, why can I easily get the ball when you're away, and when you're on the court, why can't I even touch the skin?" In the locker room, O'Neill sat there huffing, looking at Hardaway and questioning his soul.

"What do you mean?" Hardaway, who has never been a good-natured master, looked at O'Neill and said, "You mean, I deliberately didn't pass the ball to you?" ”

"You admit it, don't you?" O'Neill snorted, and sat there with his arms folded, staring at Hardaway.

"Do you want to try what it's like to be caught by Jordan and Pippen? Otherwise, you wouldn't know how hard it is to pass you the ball! Hardaway said angrily: "If you want to catch the ball more, then you can come out and make two covers for me and go down!" I promise to feed you! ”

"But if you still can't get out on the inside, I'm sorry, I can't pass the ball to you! I'm being guarded too closely! ”

"Why should I be covering for you? That's the work that only blue-collar players do! I'm O'Neill! Shaq O'Neill! Got it? O'Neill never gives anyone a stop! O'Neill was even more unceremonious, directly saying that he would never leave the three-second zone.

"You can live in the 3-second zone without leaving the 3-second zone, and you can live in the 3-second zone for the rest of your life! It's really your right, but if you choose that and you can't catch the ball, you can't blame me! Lao Tzu can pass the ball to whomever he wants, this is also my freedom! ”

Hardaway and O'Neill were-for-tat, neither of them would let anyone, and as soon as Hardaway's last sentence came out, the two stood up from the bench almost at the same time, staring at each other, looking ready to make a move at any time.

"Enough! You two, what have you become? Before you finished a game, you started to fight? Do you want to call all the reporters in? Let them report on the contradictions between you? ”

Grant, the only veteran of the team, the Bulls' first three consecutive years of meritorious service, finally stood up, he stood between the two and continued: "With the strength of this infighting, isn't it good to think about how to break the Bulls' defense?" Their tactics are to divide us, to make us infighting! ”

"I've played under Phil and I know him very well, I know how dirty his heart is and he's going to use a lot of psychological warfare! Otherwise, how do you think he got the name of 'Zen Master'? Don't be fooled, calm down so we can hope to win! ”

After Grant's remarks, O'Neill and Hardaway finally did not let the conflict escalate again, but snorted at each other and sat back in their seats.

Head coach Hill didn't appear until this time, spread his hands and said: "Shaq, their tactics are indeed aimed at you and Anferne, I hope you can think carefully, think about the problems Anfernee faces, and think about how many traps and obstacles the Bulls have set up between the two of you!" ”

"And you Anferne, you really should find a way to give more of the ball to Shaq! His destructive power and offensive grasp are what we desperately need! Only if Shaq opens up will we be able to come back from defeat in the second half! Got it? ”

"Understood." Hardaway and O'Neill both nodded, but everyone could see the perfunctory look in their eyes and movements.

The contradiction between these two guys is becoming more and more difficult to resolve.

(End of chapter)