I just want to play healthy basketball

Chapter 279
New problems have been exposed inside the Bucks, but fortunately they are not very serious.

Reid unilaterally hopes to increase the ball possession to collect data, at most it will be more sticky to the ball in the next period of time, and the defense will be worse.

While these problems occur, it is not that there is no benefit at all, that is, Reed is more active in hedging and rebounding.

Today's Bucks' lineup can generally overcome these problems and win the game.

However, it's hard to say when you meet an opponent like the Celtics.

Now that the Bucks are in the East, the two notable opponents are the Nets and Celtics.

The overall lineup of the Nets and Celtics in the new season has not changed much, but the Bucks have made a lot of adjustments.

Judging from the current situation, the overall strength of the Bucks is slightly lower than last season.

Originally, the Bucks had a big advantage against the Nets and Celtics, but now this advantage basically does not exist.

On December 12, the Bucks visited Boston TD North Shore Garden Arena.

Previously, the Bucks had an advantage against the Celtics on the outside, but with the departure of the three musketeers, this advantage disappeared.

But then again, in the past, the Bucks faced the Celtics with big sharks, and their weakness was inside.

Now that Karl Malone has joined, there is no need to be afraid of O'Neal.

When O'Neal first arrived at the Lakers, the Lakers had four All-Stars, but they were stopped by the Jazz in the Finals.

The main credit for this is naturally not that the Jazz have a white human shield like the Great Pyrenees, who can resist O'Neal's output.

The most important thing is Karl Malone, who can resist O'Neal head-on for several waves, and can also fight back against O'Neal, constantly scoring points on O'Neal.

Now Karl Malone is indeed old, but why is O'Neal not tired of injuries and his state has declined?
Today's O'Neal is faintly at the tail end of the peak, at least in the regular season, it is impossible for O'Neal to use his strength to beat Karl Malone.

Then, it is also possible that Karl Malone and O'Neal, who are mainly defensive, will reduce the possession of the ball when they arrive at the Bucks.

Even if Karl Malone can't do it, don't there still be Kwame Brown and Boozer in the Bucks?

Wheel of War, find out.

"Everyone in position, the game begins."

With the referee's order, the game officially began.

In the jump ball link, O'Neal and Kwame Brown both jumped from the ready state and rushed to the sky to fight for the right to start the ball.

The advantages of Kwame Brown's youth have been revealed. Originally, Kwame Brown's bullet speed was not slow, but because of his youth, his reaction was a little faster than O'Neal.

With the help of Kwame Brown who first dialed the ball and brought the ball back to the Bucks, the Bucks won the ball and launched the first wave of offensive.

He Li held the ball in the top arc, Reid and Karl Malone stood in two corners, Payton was at a 45-degree angle on the strong side, ready to support at any time, and Kwame Brown stood under the basket.

The five Bucks are fairly spread out. Although the Celtics adopted a zone defense, they had to spread out.

From He Li's point of view, there is great hope to break through with the ball and go all the way to the basket, challenging O'Neal to score a layup.

If O'Neill is not careful, he may be dunked by him, that's not sure.

"Double O'Neill?" It's exciting to think about it.

In retrospect, He Li didn't seem to have dunked O'Neal last season, that is to say, He Li hadn't done such an excessive thing to O'Neal for more than a year.

So, should you give it a try today?

O'Neill: Are you busy with manners?

It was too late to say it, but the Celtics were stunned when they saw He Li in the top arc, and they didn't react for a while when He Li suddenly held the ball and made a breakthrough.

This season, He Li did not continue to gain weight. He Li maintained his previous mobility. He dribbled the first step to the free throw line, then took the second step with the ball, and took the European step layup method to attack.

O'Neal couldn't figure out whether He Li should make a sudden stop and retreat to shoot a mid-range shot, or just use the European step to pass him, so he could only take a steady approach first, set up a defensive posture, and temporarily stop jumping.

I don't want to, but O'Neal is too steady, and He Li came up with a one-step take-off from the free throw line and a one-handed dunk.

O'Neill clearly saw that He Li was going to dunk in front of him, so he subconsciously followed the jump to block He Li's ball.

But it happened that the reaction was slow, and the timing of blocking the block was missed. As a result, He Li jumped up and was used as a live target by He Li, who directly smashed him head-on.

"Haha, Shaq, you are a good person. I only know it now. Thank you for sending me to the top ten goals!" After dunking O'Neal, He Li was immediately happy.

This is really what you want.

He Li was just trying to see if he could dunk O'Neal. In fact, He Li also thought about it, and in the end it was just a simple layup.

But I didn't expect O'Neal to cooperate so much, it seemed easier than dunking Duncan.

"He Li, why don't you guys stop shooting? Aren't you very good at shooting three-pointers?" O'Neal was naturally upset when he was dunked by He Li.

But He Li's status is different now. Like him, he has two championships and two FMVPs.

He Li was last year's All-Star vote champion, and now that O'Neal is in the Eastern Conference, he must cooperate with He Li in the All-Star Game.

In addition, O'Neill is also envious of the Chinese market behind He Li, so there is no need to get angry with He Li because of one or two unhappiness on the court.

There is no need for this. O'Neill's emotional intelligence is still worthy of recognition.

"Although I have a high grasp of the three-pointer, the three-pointer is one point more than the two-pointer.

But that doesn't mean I can only score with three-pointers? Isn't the two cents with a 100% hit rate much better than a 50.00% three-pointer?
Just like you, Shaq, you shot almost 100 percent on dunks around the rim, but you were also good at the small hook, the small rebound.

Can let you choose, are you a dunk or a small hook? "

After He Li was happy, he was more polite to O'Neill and complimented O'Neill instead.

But O'Neill was not happy. Instead, he felt that He Li was pissing him off, saying that he only used his body to score dunks, and He Li was the one who was good at playing skills.

Ever since, O'Neill quickly showed a posture that the shark was very angry and the consequences were serious.

With the current tonnage of Ao Pang, the inside attack is really fierce.

Even though the Bucks had Karl Malone and Kwame Brown two big guys fighting naked with O'Neal, men on top of men, O'Neal was not afraid.

In the first quarter, O'Neal was fully fired, scoring 9 points on 6 of 4 shots and 1 of 13 free throws.

If it weren't for Pierce's many shots in the first quarter, and O'Neal's free throw level is not online today, otherwise, it is not impossible for O'Neal to score 20+ in a single quarter.

Fortunately, O'Neal did not hit 20+ data in a single quarter after all. After the first quarter, the Bucks still gained a 2-point advantage, although this advantage is not great.

But the Bucks are not very worried. The consumption of O'Neal by the Bucks' inside players in the first quarter is visible to the naked eye.

In the second quarter, even if O'Neal has enough rest to play, the Bucks can still use a small lineup to run and speed up, allowing O'Neal to follow behind and eat ashes.

When O'Neal can't play in the second half, will the Bucks win the game and still have it?
It is said that the Bucks in the first quarter actually had a chance to speed up, but Karl Malone was able to get off quickly.

However, the Bucks played relatively steadily, and the first quarter also gave Payton and Karl Malone a chance to play tactics, so more offenses ended with positional battles.

The time soon came to more than 5 minutes into the second quarter. With the help of a timeout, the two teams deployed He Li and O'Neal at the same time.

Before the timeout ended, He Li gave Wade some pointers.

"Come and do a pick-and-roll with me later, and I'll give you the ball.

You run to the other side, and I will open up the space for you.

And what you have to do is fly over O'Neal and dunk the ball into the basket.

Do you understand? "

Wade seemed taken aback by He Li's proposal, his cheeks, which were not yet bulging, suddenly grew bigger because of his nervousness.

"Thank you boss, I will definitely not let you down." Wade understood what he was going to do next.

Wade's explosive power is quite good, jumping and dunking under the basket, this is what he is good at.

Next, He Li will help him remove some of the obstacles on the way to break through, so that he can better break through to the basket and challenge O'Neal.

Soon, He Li and Wade took action on the Bucks side.

He Li used Wade's pick-and-roll to rush to the left. Seeing He Li's sudden suddenness today, O'Neill felt that the situation was not good.

There is no way, in order to avoid being dunked again by He Li, who is too athletic, O'Neill's whole attention is on He Li, and his body also turns and shifts in the direction of He Li.

However, when He Li was two steps away from O'Neal, He Li passed the ball with a backhand.

At this time, the attention of the Celtic defensive players is almost all on He Li. While He Li is passing the ball, because he is still moving forward, the Celtics subconsciously follow He Li to continue their sight with confidence.

Unexpectedly, the ball had already left He Li's hand, bounced off the floor, and bounced into the hands of Wade who turned around and broke through.

"Once again, Bucks rookie Dwyane Wade dunks on Shaquille O'Neal.

A player who dunked Shaquille O'Neal once again appeared in the Bucks team!
Perhaps the vast majority of people can't believe that the time between the two players dunking Shaquille O'Neal was less than half an hour. "

O'Neal is the highlight of the game, and O'Neal who was dunked is even more of the highlight of the game.

Although the on-site commentary tends to favor the home team, but sometimes the unlucky kid like O'Neill is deflated, and the on-site commentary will not be partial, but will be thick and colorful.

Compared with the joy of live commentary, O'Neill is quite angry and annoyed.

After being dunked by Wade, Wade was still hanging on the basket, so O'Neal couldn't help but reached out and patted Wade, as if he wanted to take Wade off the basket.

Seeing such a dangerous move, the referee immediately blew his whistle.

While protecting the rights and interests of Wade and the Bucks, it also avoided the escalation of on-site conflicts.

After Wade made the free throw, O'Neal was also sober.

But he should be angry or angry. O'Neal, who played with anger, is indeed terrifying.

After the Bucks completed two free throws and one throw, the Celtics in the next round were murderous and menacing.

Pierce also saw that O'Neal was in an abnormal state, so he quickly lobbed the ball to O'Neal.

Immediately afterwards, O'Neal squeezed Kwame Brown away by a body distance with a back hit.

And just when Karl Malone came over to assist in the defense, O'Neal directly overwhelmed Kwame Brown, unreasonably knocking Kwame Brown a step away, and jumped to the tyrannical basket.

"Brutal, so fucking brutal! Shaquille O'Neal's shot is simply a model of violent aesthetics!"

"This is Shaquille O'Neal, this is the center of the Celtics! Big Mac, invincible!"

"No one can stop Shaquille O'Neal, not even another No. [-] center!"

"There is a kind of talent called Shaquille O'Neal, and there is a kind of strength called Shaquille!"

The on-site commentary was very excited. A dunk can mobilize the audience's emotions more than any offense, let alone O'Neal's dunk that is so powerful.

Today's O'Neal is still at his peak, because of the increase in tonnage, his low singles ability is even worse than that of winning the championship in 01.

These days, O'Neal receives the ball and starts to attack. He doesn't need the blessing of fantasy footsteps. He just has a back, a big butt, and a dunk dunk.

"Defend him, restrict him, consume him!"

George Karl, who was originally sitting on the bench, couldn't help standing up from his seat, walked to the sidelines, and shouted defense at the Bucks players on the field.

I have to say that O'Neal's voice on the offensive end is too loud today.

Even if George Karl knew that O'Neill could not be so brave in the second half, it was impossible to have the physical strength in the first half.

But George Karl just couldn't sit still, he just wanted to stand up and yell at his players.

This is O'Neal's influence on the court.

However, after He Li and Reed each scored a three-pointer, Celtics coach Jim O'Brien also shouted loudly from the sidelines.

"Defend, defend, double-team He Li hard for me, I don't want to see him shoot!"

Under the urging of the head coaches of both sides, the defensive intensity on the court was further improved.

Because He Li kept being double-teamed with the ball, he also had to pass the ball out, reducing his shots.

At this time, both Reid and Wade were very happy.

Reed just wanted more possession of the ball. At least [-]% of the ball passed by He Li fell into Reed's hands in this game.

However, due to the improvement of the overall defensive strength of the Celtics, although Reed scored points, the overall shooting percentage has dropped.

In short, Reid has not yet been able to increase his production while enhancing his possession.

Wade is simply because He Li was double-teamed, and he has a lot of balls in his hands. He can continue to try to enter the penalty area to find O'Neal's trouble.

Of course, after eating two blocks, Wade also tried to break through and score more, giving Payton and Karl Malone some opportunities.

"99 to 95! Congratulations to the Bucks for winning this game."

Because O'Neal was repeatedly dunked by He Li and Wade in the first half, O'Neal, who couldn't hold back his face, poured his firepower into the first half, resulting in a lack of physical strength in the second half.

However, under the defense of the Celtics, the Bucks' shooting percentage was greatly inaccurate, but fortunately they won the game in the end.

However, under the high-intensity defense, the Bucks failed to score 100 points, which is also a rare thing.

(End of this chapter)