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Chapter 11 On the Right Path
子弹队首发中锋佩维斯-埃里森是1989年的选秀状元，身高206公分，去年打出了职业生涯最好的一个赛季，场均20分11.2篮板2.2助攻2.8盖帽。

This is the first and only time in his career that he has entered the 20+10 club.

He stuck to O'Neal confidently, ready to say to O'Neal after defending O'Neal's offense: "Rookie, welcome to the NBA."

To be honest, he was a little jealous that O'Neal could become the leader of the team after entering the league. He is also the No. [-] pick, who is worse than the other?

Just as he was imagining how to deal with O'Neal in this game, a huge force came, and then he sat down on the ground.

After completing the dunk, O'Neal didn't even look at him, and ran to the backcourt shaking his big butt.

"Damn! I must have been careless!" Pervis Ellison stood up with the help of his teammates. He was very dissatisfied with his performance, but Rex Chapman on the side said to him: "Be careful, O'Neal is not as simple as you think."

"Don't worry, give me the ball later, and I will definitely teach him a lesson!" Pervis Ellison finished speaking and ran to the frontcourt.

Pervis Ellison struggled to hold his position up front, then asked Michael Adams for the ball, and Adams handed it to him immediately.

"Come on, I'm going to dunk you with this ball, you fat ball." Pervis Ellison said to O'Neal behind him as he squeezed in against O'Neal.

"What? I'm not fat, I'm just too strong." O'Neill withstood Pervis-Ellison's attack very easily, and took the time to reply him.

Pervis Ellison squeezed left and right but couldn't get in. Seeing the attack time go by little by little, he was in a hurry, and suddenly the force behind him suddenly disappeared.

Pervis-Ellison was overjoyed, and before he had time to think about it, he was about to dunk with a turn.

"careful!"

"What?" Just as Pervis Ellison jumped up, a big hand blocked the sky and patted him.

"Nice job!" Scott controlled the basketball, gave O'Neal a thumbs up, and handed the ball to Skiles.

O'Neal shook his head with a smile, and ran to the frontcourt to prepare for the next attack.

The second offense was still played by O'Neal. After receiving the ball, he made a small hook with a turn and jump, but the ball hit the neck of the basket under the interference of Pervis-Ellison.

"My rebound!" Pervis Ellison yelled, jumping to his feet to control the backboard.But someone is faster than him.

"Bang!" O'Neal made a dunk, hung on the basket, and rode on Pervis Ellison.

Less than 1 minute into the game, O'Neal had 4 points, 1 rebound and 1 block, stunning the audience.

第一节就在这么你来我往中慢慢进行着，奥尼尔单节拿下了9分，5投4中，罚球2中1，拿下了9分4篮板1助攻1盖帽的数据。子弹队23-15落后八分。

In the second quarter, the two sides replaced the bench lineup, but O'Neal continued to stay on the court.

Jeff Turner came on for Dennis Rodman, Donald Loyer for Scott, Sprewell for Nick Anderson, and Steve Kerr for Skiles.

The bench lineup is still dominated by O'Neal, and the outside scoring points are replaced by Sprewell.

But in this quarter, O'Neal's offensive desire is not strong, which is also the reason why Cole's passing ability is not as good as Skiles, but he is more focused on the defense of the basket, and the offense is handed over to Cole and Sprewell.

With O'Neal as a monster at the basket, the rest of the Magic played very comfortably, and the players on the court all had certain shooting skills, so the Magic's tactics in the second quarter were mainly INSIDE-OUT.

After O'Neal catches the ball, someone from the Bullet team must come up to double-team, or else it will be a dunk with a ground gun, and no one will be able to defend alone.

If you double-team O'Neal, you can easily distribute the ball to unguarded players on the outside, and the receiving player can choose to shoot or pass the ball according to the defense situation.

In this way, 5 minutes into the second quarter, Cole made 3 of 2 three-pointers from the outside, Sprewell made 3 of 2 shots, Donald Loyer and Jeff Turner each scored 2 points, O'Neal made 4 of 3 shots, and the Magic played a 20-10 spurt.

But off the court, Michael DeWeese was communicating with Guokas.

"I think after the main force goes down, our scoring points from the bench are still a little less."

Both Jeff Turner and Loyer are unknown bench players, and they can get some shots with O'Neal, but if O'Neal is not on the court, they basically won't get any chances.

"Do you have any suggestions? Michael." Guokas is also kind, and he wants to hear what suggestions Michael DeWeese has.

"Substitute time, give Sprewell unlimited firing rights."

"what?"

"I think Latt will give us a surprise. When O'Neal is not on the court, the main scoring points will be handed over to Lart, and then the others will be mainly responsible for defense. Play a few games to try the effect."

"Hmm..Okay" Michael DeWeese said so much, what else can Guucas say?
At halftime, the Magic had led the Bullets by 58 points 40-18, and the game lost its suspense early.

In the end, the Magic beat the Bullets 113-98 on the road.

Technical statistics after the game, O'Neal 30 points, 15 rebounds, 4 blocks and 3 assists.

Rodman had 8 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block.

Scott had 15 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

Anderson had 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

Skiles had 18 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists.

Sprewell had 16 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.

Cole also scored 12 points and made 8 of 4 three-pointers. The Magic scored in all ten players.

In the post-match press conference, Guskas highly praised O'Neill who attended the conference with him, calling him the No. [-] center in the future.O'Neal was also unambiguous, he said: "My goal is to lead the Magic to the Finals within three years!"

The reporters off the field were stunned.

O'Neal's remarks at the post-match press conference caused waves to be temporarily ignored, and Michael DeWeese returned to the locker room with the players after the game.There was a happy atmosphere in the locker room.

After O'Neal came back from the press conference, he reached a climax, because everyone saw something called hope during these few games.

And what brought them this hope was the big man in front of them, and Michael DeWeese, who brought qualitative changes to the team in an almost robbery way during the offseason.

But on the second day, the newspapers were full of O'Neal's words in the post-game press conference.

"After surpassing Jordan in three years, the rookie No. [-] pick speaks wild words."

"Hope for the Magic?"

"The strongest magic in history?"

"O'Neal dominated his first game."

"30+15 debut, will he be the next Olajuwon?"

"The league's fourth-largest center?"

These newspapers have both praise and criticism, but because the Magic won the ball yesterday, most of the media are still optimistic about the Magic.

This made the Magic very happy, and they worked harder on the training ground. Even Rodman participated in the training on time.

Three days later, on November 11, the Magic played an away game against the Charlotte Hornets.

In the original time and space, the Magic lost the game. O'Neal scored 25 points and 15 rebounds on 35 of 13 shots from the field, blowing up the inside of the Hornets led by "Aunt" Larry Johnson.

But the Tigers couldn't hold back the wolves. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of six Hornets scoring in double figures, the Magic still lost by four points 112-108.

But in this game, the Magic won easily. With Rodman inside, Larry Johnson couldn't spare to defend O'Neal. As a result, Hornets center Kenny Gattisson, a short center with only 203 centimeters, was directly sieved by O'Neal.

奥尼尔比原时空表现更加出色，25投18中，罚球8中5，砍下41分11个篮板的惊人数据。

And "Auntie" Larry Johnson was lost in Rodman's iron-blooded defense, scoring only 15 points and 10 rebounds in the game.

Even worse is Kenny Gattisson, who averaged 12.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per game last season and is a very good inside starter.But this time, in the matchup with O'Neal, he only made 7 of 2 shots, scored 5 points and 5 rebounds, and also made 4 turnovers and 4 fouls.

In the end, the Magic easily won the victory with a 115-103, 12-point difference.

在魔术队其他人方面，丹尼斯罗德曼11分16篮板，斯科特15分7篮板3助攻，尼克安德森12分5篮板5助攻，斯凯尔斯12分12助攻。

Sprewell also performed well off the bench. He made 13 of 6 shots, 5 of 3 three-pointers, and 8 of 7 free throws. He scored 22 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.

It looks like the Magic are on the right track now.

　At noon, I found an Internet cafe and coded a chapter. My God, I have never seen such a dirty Internet cafe, like a kitchen that has not been cleaned for ten years, with oil everywhere and mice!The table, keyboard, and mouse are full of oil and dust. After coding this chapter, I can finally leave this ghost place.I feel like I will have a psychological shadow if I stay any longer.

　　
　
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