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Chapter 101 Uncle O'Neill is very angry, and he needs to pass the ball more to cure it

At the end of the first half, the substitute team quietly caught up with the score.

And O'Neal sat on the bench with a look of lovelessness. He scored 20 points in 20 minutes of the game, and his performance was quite good, but after D'Antoni changed the lineup, the soreness in his heart when defending was simply indescribable.

He stood up suddenly, and walked to Davis with a fierce look on his face. Davis was exchanging his passing and dribbling experience with Van Exel, and he was shocked when he saw O'Neill approaching aggressively.

"What's the matter Shaq, who owes you money?" Davis asked O'Neill wondering.

"It's not you!"

Davis had a question mark on Nick Young's face.

"What does it have to do with me?"

"Why do you have to bring the rhythm so fast? I have no experience in bullying Nick? It made me run all the time without stopping!"

Davis suddenly realized.

He explained to O'Neal: "Shaq, think about it carefully. If it is really in the game, then the one facing your current situation is the opposite forward?"

O'Neill nodded with a strange expression.

"If we play this tactic after you leave the field, won't the opposing center be as tired as you are today and want to stick out his tongue?"

O'Neill nodded again.

"Then you come back on the court after recharging your energy off the court, can you blow him up?"

"Of course, even if he didn't have this skill, Uncle O'Neill can still beat him!" O'Neill and Rodman partnered for a season, and he didn't learn anything else. Rodman's mantra was learned very quickly.

"Finally fooled..." Davis heaved a sigh of relief, but O'Neill is so easy to fool. .

"But what about today's matter? I obviously don't need to be on the court. This matter can't just be settled like this. How about it, you pass me 2 or 30 balls in a game, and this matter is over, how about it?"

DeWeese was crying. Although he wanted to refuse, he looked at O'Neill's size and his own small body, and accepted O'Neill's unequal treaty helplessly.

In the second half, D'Antoni arranged a variety of lineups, but after the whole game, D'Antoni found that no matter how he arranged the lineup, the team's most outstanding performance was always the two poles of the team. To be precise, O'Neal's 5th position and Davis' 1st position.

And what made D'Antoni a windfall was another lineup when neither of them was on the court.

Van Exel + Nick Anderson + Sprewell + Rodman + Mason's small lineup, this lineup's ability to fight is extremely strong, and even once suppressed the University of Florida lineup led by Davis and O'Neal.

A lineup similar to the 2019-20 Nuggets in DeWeese's space, of course, the castrated version of the poor, the inside organization, and the outside offense model make D'Antoni shine in his eyes.

At the end of October, the brand-new Magic team embarked on the journey of the preseason with a warehouse of cards.

In the first game of the preseason, facing the Charlotte Hornets led by Alonzo Mourning and "Aunt" Larry Johnson, the Magic suppressed the Hornets and did not give their opponents any chance.

奥尼尔和莫宁这92年第一中锋和第二中锋内线拼了个不分伯仲，奥尼尔拿下了25分13篮板，莫宁贡献了22分11篮板。

But Larry Johnson faced the alternating defense of Rodman and Mason. He only made 13 of 5 shots and scored 12 points and 5 rebounds.

The coolest thing was Davis, who was facing the 1.6-meter-tall "bug" Boggs. . . .

Throughout the game, Boggs could only watch in despair as Davis pulled on him again and again, unable to make any effective resistance at all. In the middle of the game, Hornets coach Alan Bristow tried to use the team's starting point guard Jose Hawkins to defend Davis, but. . .Boggs was immediately ravaged by Nick Anderson. . . .

Boggs' little quick-spirited style didn't play out at all, but instead became an out-and-out black hole for the team's defense.

迪威斯拿下了全队最高的29分，3分钟10中5，可是投了个爽，顺带还拿下了12次助攻和5个篮板。

DeWeese's excellent performance made the media full of praise. Although he was the No. [-] pick, his preseason debut performance far exceeded people's expectations.

DeWeese's preseason performance wasn't over yet, as they headed to Indiana two days later to challenge Reggie Miller's Pacers.

The basic rhythm of the game is. .Reggie Miller and Scott, the two super shooters, pinched each other on the outside, and Davis secretly fired black guns from the sidelines. .

Larry Brown, a well-known head coach who is good at using rookies, watched Reggie Miller and Scott, O'Neal and Schmitz play dimly on the field, and felt that he still had a chance in this game, but during the halftime break, Larry Brown looked at the scoreboard and was completely dumbfounded.

56-42, the Pacers fell behind by 14 points. . .

Larry Brown hurriedly brought the technical statistics and took a closer look!
O'Neal had 13 points and 6 rebounds, and Schmitz had 9 points and 4 rebounds.

Reggie Miller had 11 points and Scott had 8.

It's not a big problem, Larry Brown continued to look down in doubt.

Michael DeWeese, 18 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.

? ? ? ? ? ?Larry Brown had a question mark on his forehead.

How did this rookie score so many points in the first half without making any noise?Remember how many three-pointers he shot?
Larry Brown continued to look back.

7 of 6 overall shooting, 7 of 6 three-pointers, no more. . . .

And against him, whether it was Heywood Workman who started, or Poole Richardson who played later, the two combined to score six points. .

"Wow, Michael, how did you feel so good today?" During the intermission, Scott, Sprewell and others turned into little Davis fans, looked at the technical statistics, and asked Davis curiously, "How did you do it?"

Davis smiled embarrassedly, "You guys played too fiercely. You were all focused on Shaq and Scott. No one paid attention to me. The chances I got were basically open. When they came back to defend me, I already took shots. It's just that I felt good today and made all the shots that should be made."

D'Antoni looked at DeWeese with a smile. He knew what was going on and didn't point it out.

On the surface, the first half was a striker battle between the two teams, but it was all planned by Davis. He first assisted O'Neal to transfer the attraction of the opponent to the inside, and then let Scott hit Reggie Miller's answer-ball when Reggie Miller wanted to chase points, arousing Reggie Miller's competitive heart.

In this way, the offensive and defensive focus of the two teams has shifted to the front line, and he has become a pure shooter, creating opportunities through outside running positions.

What surprised D'Antoni the most was that every time Davis ran out of space, he happened to be within the line of sight of the player holding the ball. . .

O'Neal and Scott, who can't pass the ball, each contributed two assists to Davis.

With no organizational pressure, DeWeese put most of his attention on the defensive end. Although his defensive ability is not strong, the Pacers' outside line is not a strong player.

This is why it seems that O'Neal and Scott performed, but it was Davis who scored the most points in the end.

(End of this chapter)