"Tuk-tuk-"

"Tuk-tuk-"

Early in the morning, he heard someone knocking on the door, and although Doon was a little upset, he got up and went to the door.

The hotel was arranged by the Lakers, and there are also NBA official people who settle in, and there may even be an FBI.

The upper and lower floors are full of Lakers players and staff, and ordinary people don't have the opportunity to come to Doon's side and knock on the door.

Of course, the heart of defense is indispensable, and Doon only opened the door a crack, and asked through the door, "Who?" ”

"Doon, it's me! You played so well last night that Shaq wanted to reward you by inviting you down for breakfast. ”

Hearing O'Neill's low, hoarse voice, Doon opened the door.

"Shaq, why do you get up so early? You're probably not here to invite me to dinner, are you? Let's just say something! ”

Nothing to do is not to go to the Three Treasures Palace! O'Neill knocked on the door early in the morning, saying that he had come to invite him to dinner, but in fact he must have something else to say.

Doon didn't have time to delay with O'Neill, and wanted to go back to bed early in the morning to catch up on sleep, so he brushed his hair and immediately asked O'Neill what he was doing.

"Hey, brother, you're right!

We should be more intimate, and we should kill the Sacramento Kings in the next game!

Gary is my good brother, he came to join me, but he was injured!

As the boss of the team, I have to stand up for him! Oh yes, now the Los Angeles Lakers are your team.

Shaq just wants to assist you and help Gary get his revenge! Doon, as the boss of the team, you shouldn't sit idly by, right? ”

O'Neill was still beating around the bush and making gags, but Doon had already understood.

The King's style of play made O'Neal very uncomfortable, whether it was to avenge Payton or to get back on the court, O'Neal made up his mind to play against Doon in the next game and win the game.

Obviously, when O'Neal really wants to give up the position of the team's boss, O'Neal is inevitably duplicitous and is not very willing to see Kobe Bryant go ahead of him.

As for giggling with Doon and letting Doon take advantage of it verbally, O'Neal acted very indifferent.

After all, in O'Neal's view, Doon is the central axis of the triangle attack, a passer, at most a strengthened version of Pippen, to assist him.

Kobe Bryant is different, also as the endpoint, in the two rounds of the playoffs this year, playing even better than him......

Although O'Neal has received a contract extension from the Lakers, he is still in his prime and does not want to hand over the ball so quickly and hand over his low-post offensive area.

In fact, in O'Neill's plan, after beating the king, he would not continue to come to Doon to block and dismantle unless he had to!

What he is best at doing is to be himself and continue to turn over the river and the sea in a low position!

is also because of the playing time in recent games, each game is less than one game, but Kobe Bryant's score is more than one game, which makes O'Neal's mentality a little unbalanced and difficult to accept for a while.

After weighing the pros and cons, O'Neal chose to cooperate with Doon, after all, Doon can also assist him and create easier scoring opportunities for him.

In other words, although Doon didn't know what kind of plan O'Neill had in mind, he could probably guess some.

Regarding O'Neal's idea of taking the initiative to practice blocking, Doon was not refused, but was extremely happy.

In Doon's opinion, O'Neal's willingness to cover for him is not a bad thing.

No matter what O'Neal has in mind, when it comes to the game, as long as Doon's tactical initiator disagrees, O'Neal is busy.

To put it bluntly, what kind of cake O'Neal eats, it doesn't depend on what O'Neill ordered, but on what stuffing Doon wraps for him!

"The ball is in my hand, even if Jordan comes, you have to listen to me!"

Considering O'Neal's quality of cover and ability to eat cakes, it will also help Doon to get stats in the playoffs and in the regular season next season.

Look at Stockton and Malone, and then look at Nash and Xiaosi, and you know that practicing blocking and dismantling with O'Neal more is absolutely only good and no harm.

is also because Lang has a concubine who has intentions, and everything is in plain sight.

After O'Neill had finished his breakfast, he quickly suggested going to the hotel's gym for a little exercise to digest his appetite.

Two hours later, Doon and O'Neal naturally arrived at the hotel's basketball court and began to work on the basic pick-and-roll.

In the afternoon, O'Neal even called Malone over to instruct him and Doon on how to effectively play the pick-and-roll in the game.

Malone came to the Lakers to win the championship, and since O'Neal is willing to leave his comfort zone and cooperate with Doon to play blocking and picking, then as a blocking expert, Malone has no intention of hiding it.

Throughout the afternoon, Malone was instructing O'Neal on how to improve his pick-and-roll skills, and even provided some useful advice to Doon for breaking through with cover and shooting with cover.

Two days flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the evening of May 12.

The Lakers' players want to avenge Payton, and the Kings' players don't want to be swept out, so tonight's fight to the death is undoubtedly inevitable.

In fact, after the G3 game, the Zen master got instructions from the Lakers management.

As for why not be prepared to play tacit ball before G3 starts?

That's because the strength of the Kings is also very strong, and if it wasn't for the early game point, the Lakers management would not dare to interfere at will.

However, tonight, the Zen master was ready to withstand the pressure of the management and hand over the game to the OK group and others.

After all, he is also a player! Zen masters know better than anyone when a coach should step in the locker room and control the game.

Sometimes the players have their own ideas, and the coach's wanton meddling will only backfire and the crowd will betray their relatives.

When people's hearts are scattered, the team will be difficult to lead!

The Zen master is also looking forward to leading the current Lakers to win the championship again!

Therefore, even if the management has a task to supervise it, the Zen master will go against the management for his own benefit.

The Lakers are already stronger, and their morale is particularly strong now.

After the Zen master kept the back-legged man out of the court, the Lakers quickly played the style of the championship favorite.

At the beginning, seeing O'Neal pull outside the three-point line to play with Doon, the Kings were a little dumbfounded, is this O'Neal?

While everyone was stunned, Doon used O'Neal's cover to get rid of Doug Christie's defense.

relied on a change of direction to pass Divac and burst directly to the basket to complete the dunk, and the king had to come back to his senses and deal with it calmly.

Although Doon and O'Neal's blocking and dismantling have only become one, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this move is extremely lethal to the king's joint defense.

O'Neal was pulled outside the three-point line, Divac had to be pulled to the high post, and because of O'Neal's quality of coverage, Doug Christie was almost a waste.

At the same time, Peja is unlikely to let Kobe go no matter what.

In this way, as long as Divac delays Doane and does not succeed, then the Lakers will form a local three-on-two situation in the area below the elbow zone.

Doon, O'Neal and Malone are the three, playing Bibby and Webb.

If Fisher had cut to the basket at the same time as Bibby let him go, the Lakers would have played 2 in 4.

Backed by Doon's masterful passing ability, the Lakers' offense simply doesn't take it too easy.

After talking about offense and defense, O'Neal, who runs without the ball, does not have as much physical contact, and his physical exertion is not as exaggerated as the first three games of the series.

Moreover, O'Neill discussed the issue of defense with Doon and Malone in advance.

As long as Doon breaks through with the ball and passes Divac or Brad Miller, then O'Neal can turn around.

If Bibby's pinch comes early and cooperates with the Kings' center to pinch Doane above the free throw line, then Doon passes the ball to O'Neal and lets O'Neal finish the basket.

At this time, it doesn't matter if O'Neill can't return to defense.

If the Kings switch offense and play fast enough, Doon will even make a long pass from the backcourt baseline, allowing O'Neal, who stays in the frontcourt, to eat directly under the basket.

also considered all aspects clearly, O'Neal covered for Doon, and he was also very hard-working.

There has never been a false cover to go down this kind of thing immediately, O'Neill just honestly made a wall for Doon before leaving.

Sure enough, Bibby still spontaneously cooperated with Divac and wrapped up Doon, the ball carrier.

Doon passed the ball to O'Neal who was on the downside, and before Divac could turn, O'Neill had already stepped into the box.

At the same time, Fisher also followed the empty basket.

Webb was faced with a situation where one person defended three, so he could only take a strong breath, hold his breath and rush into the penalty area, stopping in front of O'Neal.

Boom –

The three-hundred-pound O'Neill directly completed the buckle with the two-hundred-pound Weber!

"Have you ever been hit by a big truck?"

Seeing that Webb was overturned by him, but he didn't hear the whistle, O'Neill spewed a trash word, and immediately returned to defense.

Webb didn't mean to be annoyed at all when he heard O'Neill's trash talk, but continued to lie on the floor for a while.

waited for his teammates to step forward and pull him up, then got up, and then rubbed the faint pain in his chest that had been hit.

It was also because Webb fell to the ground before, and the king didn't have a chance to switch immediately.

Waiting for the battle to fall, Peja and Doug Christie were limited by Kobe and Doon, and O'Neal was under the basket, and the Kings could only think of a way to do it at the two points of Bibby and Webb.

Fisher's defensive speed can only be zama step, and defending Bibby, who is good at blocking and dismantling, can actually squeeze a cover and limit it.

So, after a circle, the king could only look for Weber.

Webb had scored in the face of Malone's defense before, but this time it seemed that because he had just been hit by O'Neal, his muscles were a little tense, and he turned over and hit an iron jumper.

By the time Malone protected the rebound, it was soon time for Webb to suffer.

Doon repeated the same trick with O'Neal, and then O'Neal took the ball and slammed into the basket.

As the leader of the team, Webber is alone under the basket, and it is impossible for Webber to let O'Neal attack the basket.

He held his breath again, went up again, was knocked away again, and lay on the ground again.

It seemed like the league wanted to get the series to play one or two more games, the whistle blew and O'Neal was blown off a good shot.

However, it didn't have much impact, and O'Neal seemed to want to knock Webb out before the six fouls left the game, or Brad Miller, the culprit who hurt Payton.

It is said that Mutombo topped O'Neill, who was close to 300 pounds, in a series, and had to be bandaged all over his body, and he was immediately admitted to the hospital after the fight.

Now Webb is facing O'Neill, who is more than 300 pounds and rushing up with a bag of explosives, this terrifying impact can be imagined!

Because of the constant blocking and pick-and-roll attacks, Webber really couldn't stand it, and Rick Adelman, although angry, felt that O'Neal was murdering, not playing.

But in the end, he could only replace Brad Miller on the field!

At this point, O'Neal can be regarded as getting what he wants, and he can directly attack Brad Miller and avenge Payton.

O'Neal has a grudge with Brad Miller for a long time, and O'Neal was annoyed by Brad Miller's small actions two years ago, and directly punched Brad Miller.

However, Brad Miller has a deep boxing background, even if O'Neal dragged Brad Miller's clothes, Brad Miller dodged all of O'Neal's fists.

In other words, if he does make it to the Octagon, O'Neal may be beaten to death by Brad Miller.

But on the court, Brad Miller had no way to avoid it and could only withstand O'Neal's tyrannical attacks.

With more than 8 minutes to play in the first quarter, O'Neal was content to receive a third offensive foul and went down to rest.

However, the king's three interior lines were all beaten by O'Neal.

It can only be said that the blocking and dismantling is cool for a while, and it is always cool to block and dismantle all the time.

O'Neal used to be a low-post single, but now he has found a new world, and he can beat people so well in blocking and dismantling.

Although this style of play is very physically demanding, it undoubtedly focuses everyone's attention on him.

In the low post, there are also cases where you go around the front to block and receive the ball, and you get caught after taking the ball.

Playing pick-and-roll makes it easier to get the ball, and more often than not, the opponent is like a punching bag, standing there to accept his impact, and then completing the dunk fiercely.

O'Neill thought to himself, if he could make an elbow to open the way like Malone, Marlon's elbow would be notorious.

So, in the future, will he be able to rely on this move to block and dismantle and score a lot of points more easily?

As for the low position? It's unfamiliar!

It is said that after O'Neal went off the court, Kobe Bryant finally got the ball and was able to fight alone.

The Lakers' high-post double screen, as well as Doon's passing, gave Bryant a lot of low-post singles opportunities.

Kobe Bryant also enjoyed it, this feeling of defeating the opponent on his own in the low position and leading the team to win points.

29-25, although the G4 Lakers' offense in the first quarter was fierce, O'Neal had three balls blown into offensive fouls, so in the end, the Lakers' lead was only 4 points.

In the second quarter, O'Neal continued to start with Doon.

The king noticed that O'Neal was carrying three fouls, so he blocked O'Neal as soon as possible and let O'Neal go down as early as possible.

The referee's intention was also clear that O'Neill was not fit to continue wreaking havoc on the pitch.

After just over 2 minutes in the second quarter, O'Neal accumulated four fouls and went off the court again.

However, Doon continued to play with Malone and Grant to challenge the Kings' interior line under the basket.

Relying on O'Neal's aftermath of the Kings' interior in the first quarter, Doon scored repeatedly from mid-range and near frame to help the Lakers stabilize the situation.

On the other hand, the Kings, even though the Lakers were weak in interior defense, did not take advantage of O'Neal's absence and continued to score in the low post.

On the contrary, because of the frequent iron plays, the Lakers seized the opportunity to play defensive counterattacks.

Peja and other Kings outside players were prevented by Kobe, Doon, and Fisher, and the Kings, whose scoring efficiency declined in the second quarter, also began to decline, which was obviously not as good as in the first quarter.

As for the Lakers' side, Doon is tired and Kobe Bryant, Kobe is tired, Malone can still top one, but Fisher can also shoot a three-point shot.

When the others couldn't move, Doon regained some strength and began to take over possession and take over the game.

Of course, it was mainly Doon and Kobe Bryant who were scoring, and it was also because Doon and Kobe Bryant combined for 21 points in the second quarter, and the Lakers further widened the difference, 57-47, exactly 10 points.

In the third quarter, O'Neal punched again, but this time he learned wisely and knew that he had to pass the ball to Malone after the pick-and-roll attracted the defense.

And on the defensive end, he squatted under the basket and couldn't come out, so he didn't carry the number of fouls too quickly.

It wasn't until more than seven minutes into the third quarter that O'Neal was saddled with a fifth foul.

However, by this time, the Lakers had widened the gap widely.

Even if the referee is on the side of the king, the king still has no power to turn defeat into victory.

At the end of the third quarter, 83-71, the Lakers entered the fourth quarter with a 12-point lead.

Even though O'Neal left the game early with six fouls after playing 3 minutes in the fourth quarter, the Lakers' morale was not damaged, but became more united and tougher.

In the fourth quarter, when everyone was running fast, Doon led the charge and made two sudden dunks in a row.

Immediately afterwards, Kobe Bryant's perfect low-post back play also helped the Lakers continue to stabilize the point difference.

There were about four or five minutes of play time left in the fourth quarter, and fans at the Golden No. 1 Arena continued to leave the game early because of disappointment.

In the end, as they guessed, the Lakers took the initiative to lower the pace of the game, relying on the ability of Doon and Kobe to digest the ball, and won the game steadily.

104-97, even if Lakers big man O'Neal left the game early with six fouls, even if tonight's home whistle was somewhat obvious.

The Lakers still relied on the three armies to play and won the G4 victory in the Western Conference semifinals with a 7-point advantage.

So far, the Lakers have also swept the Kings with 4 consecutive wins in the series, successfully advanced to the Western Conference Finals, and became the first team to advance to the Division Finals this season!

(End of chapter)