NBA Big Devil: I rule the league with defense

No matter how powerful a big center is, lack of shooting range is still a flaw. Even if it is like Ewing who has a precise mid-range, if the entire court operates in the area above the free throw line, I am afraid that it will suit the opponent's wishes!

Therefore, if the big center wants to complete the offense, it is inseparable from the cooperation of the outside line!

O'Neal, when he was in the Lakers, with Kobe Bryant attracting outside defense, it would not be difficult to pass to O'Neal.

In the Heat, with Wade's breakthrough and scoring, it is not difficult for O'Neal to catch the ball!

But without Wade, it would be difficult for O'Neal to catch the ball!

The reason lies in the intergenerational difference in the quality of role players between the Heat and the 76ers!

The moment when Crawford, Korver, and Ariza really shined in the hands of the 76ers should have been after 2010, and they were the top role players in that era in 2010!

And Han Mo's predictive ability allowed them to get sufficient training in advance when they should have been leveling in obscurity, and completed a step-by-step progress in a short period of time!

Therefore, compared with their peak period, Crawford, Ariza, and Korver still have a clear gap, but they can already be regarded as excellent role players!

And the role players in the hands of the Heat are still in the 90s version!

This gap between generations is insurmountable!

The big difference between the 90s and the 2000s is not the difference in the level of superstars, but the difference in the quality of role players!

In whatever era Michael Jordan is in, after adapting to the current rules, he can become No. 1 in the league, because he is the god of basketball.

But if the role players of his generation travel through time and space, there will be a large number of unemployed in the 2000s. If time goes by, in 2010 and 2020, it is estimated that half of them will be forced to retire!

Because a major feature of the role players in the 90s version is that their functions are extremely single: those who are good at single defense are not good at assisting defense, and those who are good at singles with the ball can't do it when they catch the ball.

In such an offensive environment, although the role players are present in the deciding game or the key round, most of the time they only have the role of watching the show, and everything is left to the superstar to handle!

But in the new version of basketball, doing so is undoubtedly deadly!

Among the role players in the new era, there are a large number of compound role players. As long as the team gives him a chance, he can do everything. Of course, he can’t compare with a superstar, but if you treat him as nobody, then I’m sorry Yes, you must be in bad luck!

O'Neill is out of luck today!

Today's 76ers know that if O'Neal receives the ball, it will be cool, so they cut off O'Neal's connection with the outside line!

Double-teaming is not a serious physical confrontation, but mainly cutting the passing line!

It's okay if it's a layer!

After Tony Batty cuts, Ariza is still flying around in the sky following Han Mo!

What a crime!

However, thinking of using Ariza to replace Han Mo's role is probably nonsense!

O'Neill only needs a little attention, and it's not difficult to catch the ball in the high position!

O'Neal has no mid-range ability in the high position, leaning over and dribbling down!

Ariza still sacrificed his life to roll and steal!

This ball underestimated O'Neal's dribbling ability!

O'Neal's dribbling looks clumsy, but he actually has a dribbling ability above the league average. When he lowers his center of gravity, he is not so easy to break!

O'Neill has entered his attack range with a jump!

Press Malone for a layup!

"boom!"

Ma Long fell to the ground!

O'Neal puts the ball into the basket!

"2 plus 1!"

The referee whistles!

O'Neal goes to the free throw line, of course... no free throw!

Ma Long swung his iron elbow and grabbed the rebound!

Pass to Crawford, Crawford dribbles up the frontcourt, without any cooperation, pulls up and shoots!

"duang!"

The sound of striking iron is crisp and vivid!

O'Neal grabbed the rebound, but no one passed it, and the Sharks dunked through the court again!

"My God!" Barkley was dumbfounded: "The last time I saw O'Neal, a big fat man, grabbed a rebound and dribbled the ball and dunked the whole court was 10 years ago!"

"My God!" Smith was also shocked,

"If you want to fight like this, O'Neill ran over with a bang, it's like an armored vehicle! That old boy Malone was absolutely cowardly just now, did you see that? He could have come over to block O'Neill, but he just stood there Why? Because he doesn’t want to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life! Being hit by O’Neal, that’s already beyond the maximum limit of injuries on the court, it should be considered a traffic accident!!”

Unlike the American guests who only know how to yell and shout wonderful things, the guests from Huaxia Basketball have more profound insights!

Yang Yi frowned:

"It's not a good thing to let O'Neal, who weighs more than 300 pounds, run on the field like this. Now the Heat are facing the 76ers as a substitute! Facing the substitute, just play like this. The 76ers' All-Star starting lineup will come back to you How do you want to fight? How do you want to fight?"

"But O'Neill must be aware of this. Why did he do it like this? Because O'Neill has completely lost confidence in these own players who are on the field now. They can't even get the ball in. So what else can O'Neill ask them to do? They can only do it themselves. Dribble is the only way to score! Don’t look at the Eastern Conference finals, if you do this, the suspense will be completely lost!”

"Yes, as I said, if O'Neal plays like this, unless O'Neal can score 50 points, he won't be able to win!"

O'Neill may have heard Yang Yi's assertion on the other side of the ocean, and in the second quarter he played even more explosively than in the first quarter.

The reason for the explosion this time is not the high hit rate, but the difficulty. In terms of hit rate alone, it has dropped a bit compared to the first quarter, but the difficulty of each ball can be said to be that O'Neal played in the second quarter. It's O'Neill, but it's more like a dream possessed!

All kinds of back-up footsteps on the top of the penalty area, all kinds of mid-range throws, Karl Malone's defense does not exist here in O'Neal!

Han Mo couldn't help muttering in his mouth off the court:

"When you transform a powerful enemy into your own companion, you will find that he will become weaker inexplicably. What is the reason for this? When I saw him in the Lakers last season, his defense was much more fierce than this!"

Larry Brown watched very calmly as O'Neal blocked and killed God on the court. They couldn't really stop Shaquille O'Neal.

And rightfully so!

As long as Crawford can still keep the goal, and the ball can be held in stalemate, everything will be solved when the main force returns!

But Jamal Crawford is such a neurotic knife, you let him keep going, isn't this a bit high?