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Chapter 398 Big Three Vs Utah Shuangsha
After O'Neal entered the Celtics, because of his absolute tactical status in the team, he relaxed a lot of requirements on himself.

Whether it's the team's players or head coach Rick Pitino, they don't care much about him.

This also made him gain weight again.

O'Neal played only 65 games in the regular season, and missed the remaining 17 games due to various "injuries".

His weight also skyrocketed to 310 catties.

However, this did not cause too much trouble for him who is very talented. He still has the speed and agility that do not match his own reminders. On the contrary, the power brought by his weight gain has made his dominance in the interior further.

It turns out that O'Neal in time and space also reached his true peak state after going to the Lakers, but he never had full attendance in a season with unlimited physical strength like the Magic. . .

On the first ball, O'Neal ran over Duncan behind him and dunked the ball into the basket with one hand.

Duncan shook his head helplessly, not because he couldn't defend himself, but because the gap in physical fitness was too great.

Davis also saw O'Neal's rough attack on Duncan this time. He considered letting Da Ben come up to beat O'Neal, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it.

Because Duncan's role on the offensive end is much stronger than that of Big Ben.

Davis dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and first called Duncan's pick-and-roll to observe.

O'Neal was very excited in the first game, so he pulled it out directly.

Davis handed the ball to Duncan, and Duncan singled O'Neal with the ball in the high post.

Although O'Neal's agility is historical, but why not Duncan?

Duncan's face-up singles are also the top in history in the interior, and he scored a shot above O'Neal.

A very typical Duncan-style score, swaying a few times, relying on changes in rhythm to shoot directly over O'Neal's head, it was too late for O'Neal to react.

The ball hits the board at a perfect 45-degree angle.

At the beginning of the game, DeWeese deliberately relied on Duncan to launch the offense. He and O'Neal were on equal footing in the inside offense.

As a last resort, O'Neal spent a lot of energy defending Duncan.

This is exactly what DeWeese wants to see, because under his defense, Kidd, who has basically no offensive ability, is a transparent person on the offensive end, and Mashburn and Houston are also extremely entangled in the defense of Kobe and Clay.

But even so, the Celtics led the Magic by 5 points in the first quarter.

O'Neal scored 15 goals in 11 shots in the first quarter and scored 22 points.

Duncan's restrictions on O'Neal are not good, but he didn't get a single foul.

In the second quarter, Davis led Iverson and Ray Allen to chase points.

Pitino took O'Neal off the court for a while because of too many shots in the first quarter. There was nothing he could do about it. The fat man's physical strength was not as abnormal as it was during the Magic period.

In the second quarter, in the absence of O'Neal, the Magic beat the Celtics to an 18-5 spurt, overtaking the Celtics by eight points.

In the third quarter, O'Neal played again. This time he didn't plan to leave the game after playing. After all, it was already the Eastern Conference Finals. If he wanted to save his energy now, it would be a fool's job.

But in the third quarter, the situation for the Celtics was not so optimistic. The Magic, which held the advantage, replaced O'Neal with Ben and Duncan to help defend.

Although O'Neill has an advantage over Duncan's strength, but facing the famous devil's muscular man, the bench press is even more perverted than O'Neill's big Ben, his offensive efficiency suddenly dropped.

He was even attacked by Duncan from the side and gave him a big hat.

Without O'Neal, the most stable offensive point, the point difference in the third quarter was opened up by 5 points, and the two teams entered the decisive battle in the fourth quarter with a point difference of 13 points.

O'Neal, who was fully fired, once led the team to narrow the point difference to only five points in the fourth quarter, but Davis resorted to a tactic that was tried and tested against O'Neal.

"Shark hacking tactics" appeared in front of everyone for the first time.

Poor O'Neill, the more he is cut, the worse his mentality is, and the worse his mentality is, the more he can't score a penalty.

He got a full 15 free throw opportunities in the fourth quarter and only scored five goals.

The dark-faced O'Neal sat helplessly on the sidelines with only 3 minutes left in the game. At this time, the point difference has been re-opened by the Magic to 15 points. When facing the Magic, they chased 3 points in 15 minutes. No team in this world can do it.

so. . . . . .

The Magic easily defeated the Celtics at home and got off to a good start.

O'Neal suffered a lot of on-ball and off-ball fouls in the fourth quarter, which sparked heated discussions after the game.

But the rules cannot be changed, at least in this series, it is impossible for the league to respond effectively to this kind of thing.

So, in the second game, O'Neal got 27 free throw opportunities and scored 12 free throws.

In the third game, O'Neal got 25 free throw opportunities and scored 7 free throws. . . . . .

The big shark, which was about to collapse, applied for two technical fouls in the fourth game, and walked back to the locker room without looking back.

Poor O'Neill, was beaten and collapsed. . .

Without O'Neal, the Celtics did not make any effective resistance in the fourth game, and were easily defeated by the Magic.

The Magic once again swept their opponents 4-0 and advanced to the finals with a total record of 12-0.

In the West, the game between the Rockets and the Jazz was extremely anxious.

The Rockets with Olajuwon, Barkley, Drexler and Cassel tied the Utah Shuangsha and the Jazz led by Hornacek 2-2 in the first four games.

In the fifth game of Tianwangshan, Olajuwon and Barkley both broke out. One of them scored a triple-double of 21 points, 15 rebounds and 11 blocks, and the other scored a super high score of 47 points and 9 rebounds, helping the team win this crucial game.

The sixth game was played in Salt Lake City. The Utah team did not allow the Rockets to focus on the front. Malone scored 38 points and 13 rebounds, and Stockton scored 20 points and 20 assists. The Jazz defeated the Rockets at home and dragged the game into the tiebreaker.

The tiebreaker moved to Houston, and the Jazz turned away from home. In the first quarter, they unexpectedly led the Rockets by 12 points in the away game.
Just when everyone thought that the Jazz had a chance to win this game on the road, in the fourth quarter, facing a 15-point deficit, the Rockets used their lives.

Barkley made three consecutive three-pointers from the outside, and Olajuwon sent three consecutive blocks, and the point difference instantly reached 3 points.

And the most low-key of the Rockets' Big Three took over the game at this time.

Glider Drexler scored eight points in a row with a 4% shooting rate in the last 11 minutes, and even scored a quasi-lore in the last [-] seconds.

With Malone's missed shot, the Jazz, which had led the entire game, was overtaken by the Rockets in the last 11 seconds and lost the final tie-break.

(End of this chapter)