Chapter 746: Powerful Coconut Shark Showdown!

"Yes, 42 points at halftime!"

"Shaquille O'Neal had 20 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists in half the game!"

"Another exciting coconut shark showdown!"

When the halftime game between the Sonics and the Cavaliers ended, the audience in front of the TV, who had been shocked by the first half of the game between the Sonics and the Cavaliers, finally came back to their senses amidst the excitement of the commentators from various countries!

Looking at the half-time statistics of Yes and O'Neal played on the TV, the shocked expressions that had just dissipated on the faces of the spectators who had just come back to their senses reappeared on their faces again.

"This data!"

"It's incredible!"

Oden and Gasol, Carter, Battier, Lowry and others around him looked at the half-time statistics played on TV and it was really incredible.

"We have known before that the Cavaliers are very strong. The Cavaliers' tactics almost did not waste any of O'Neal's energy and time on the court. O'Neal scored 20 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists in just 13 minutes in the first half. The data!"

"O'Neal in this game is stronger than when he played against us, both offensively and defensively!"

Gasol was praising, really praising, that they lost the game against the Cavaliers this season.

The almost invincible inside combination between him and Oden was destroyed by O'Neal in Cleveland.

As the Grizzlies, who along with the Lakers are considered one of the strongest teams in the Western Conference this season, they know what their own strength is.

This game against the Cavaliers was not an unexpected loss. The Cavaliers did not defeat them upset due to some accidental circumstances.

They can feel that if the Cavaliers play 10 games with them, they will win at most five games. In other words, their strength is 50-50 with that of the Cavaliers!

Normally, the Cavaliers' strength is 50-50 with them, but in this game, O'Neal and the Cavaliers are not in their usual state!

However, the current score on the court is that the SuperSonics are in the lead. The SuperSonics, which is considered to have fallen by the way around the world, actually leads by 2 points, 66 to 64!

The reason why this situation occurs is entirely because Yes!

When playing against them, neither Carter nor Oden nor himself could defeat the Shark. In the first half, Yes was outscored by at least 30 points!

"Yes's 42-point halftime performance was shocking, but what's even more shocking than these 42 points is that most of his points were consciously looking for O'Neal!"

"Most of Yes's points were scored against O'Neal, and they were extremely difficult points."

"Yes knows that O'Neal is the core of the Cavaliers' offense and defense, just like Howard of the Magic. As long as they defeat O'Neal like they defeated Howard, the SuperSonics can win this game!"

"Tactically, no one, whether it's the Seattle SuperSonics or other teams in the league, can defend O'Neal when the Cavaliers stopped him. O'Neal is now invincible on the offensive end, and the Cavaliers' tactics rely on O'Neal's offensive invincibility. Up."

"Tactically, the Cavaliers and O'Neal are invincible, but psychologically, that may not be the case."

"Yes wants to find the psychological loopholes of the Cavaliers, just!"

"O'Neal is not Howard!"

"So Yes and O'Neal gave us a wonderful 'Coconut Shark Showdown' in the first half!"

The atmosphere in the Grizzlies locker room is very lively now.

This season, Oden, who has been vaguely regarded as the number one center in the future, was listening to the discussion among his teammates at this time.

Watching the scene on TV of Pippen beaming and praising his teacher, he felt fascinated for a moment.

In the first half, he saw O'Neal's invincible defense. He could defend every attack of his master. At the same time, he also saw his teacher's invincible offense. No matter how strong O'Neal's defense was, he could hit the ball with very high efficiency. Go in, and the Sonics, who should definitely lose, won by 2 points in the final half!

The first half was a duel between an outside player and an inside player!

"On the basketball court, when a player's strength is really strong to a certain extent, the difference between the inside and outside is not so obvious. At that time, the position is not the difference between the two players, but the strength is the real difference. the difference!"

This is what Pippen is saying now, and Oden thinks it is very correct.

Because the past half of the game between the Cavaliers and the SuperSonics was a direct duel between the teacher and O'Neal!

And the final result looks like there is no winner!

In this world, the only person in this world who can compete directly with his teacher without deciding the outcome is probably O'Neal.

And similarly, the only person who can compete with O'Neal in such a direct duel is the teacher!

At the very least, he, Gasol, and Yao couldn't defeat the invincible O'Neal who was not lazy in the game and went all out. Even fighting against each other was a bit reluctant.

Recalling the wonderful duel between O'Neal and the teacher in the first half, and listening to the heated discussion between his teammates and the TNT team, Oden really wanted to join such a duel!

He now has the upper hand in the competition with Howard to be the future No. 1 center.

But he knows very well that his current strength is still not enough to compete with O'Neal and his teachers.

These two people are his future goals!

"Coconut Shark Showdown!"

This is what every Cavaliers player and Sonics player in the locker rooms on both sides was thinking about during the halftime break.

O'Neal's invincibility in the first half left a very deep impression on all Sonics players.

Sonics' inside players, Milicic, Millsap, and Gasol were really blown up by O'Neal in turn!

The team's inside group, which has performed very well this season, was so fragile in front of O'Neal's invincible power in this game!

And in the first half, Yes's continuous dry pull-ups and continuous hits in front of O'Neal also shocked the Cavaliers players to incredible horror.

They could feel more than the audience next to them or the audience in front of the TV that Yes was deliberately looking for O'Neal.

"The statistics show that Yes scored 32 points against Shaq out of his 42 points in the first half!"

"Shaq played for 13 minutes in the first half and Yes played for 20 minutes. It can almost be concluded that Yes almost didn't want to score without playing Shaq!"

Hearing the team's assistant coach say this, O'Neal's expression was quite uncomfortable.

Yes, this guy really doesn't give him any face!

He was like this when he was in the Heat, and he was still like this when he was in the Cavaliers. He just wanted to grab him!

Didn't Yes watch the games of the great Shaq this season?

Didn't Yes know how low the shooting percentage of Carter, Iverson and other outside strongmen who broke through the Cavaliers' outside defense and came to the great Shaq was this season?

Yes must know the miserable situation of Carter and others when facing the great Shaq, but he actually dared to challenge this shark like this. This kid is so stubborn!

However!

This kid is not only stubborn, but also really strong!

If he didn't know it was impossible, when he saw Yes's shooting percentage in the first half, he even doubted whether he was Yes's undercover, cooperating with Yes in the game. Damn, facing his help defense that could force Carter to a shooting percentage of less than 35%, Yes could actually hit 80% against him in the first half!

Damn, this shooting percentage is even higher than his efficiency against the Sonics' inside group!

Coconut shark duel!

It really is a coconut shark duel!

In the current NBA, the only one who can compete with the current Shaq is Yes!

His overall strength now is certainly not comparable to that of his peak period.

But he can clearly feel that his destructive power under the basket is stronger than that of his peak period!

He has been stimulated by Yes in recent years, and his training volume has not decreased much. His physical condition is also good. Although his speed and athletic ability are not as good as that of 2004, which he always likes to talk about in the media, his athletic ability and physical ability are not much different from those of 2004.

His destructive power under the basket is stronger, and his physical function has not completely degenerated, which allows him to reach a career peak again this season.

If it weren't for the irreversible physical strength, O'Neal even felt that the 2008-2009 Shaq with sufficient physical strength could blow up the 1998-1999 Shaq!

This is absolutely not an exaggeration!

Now he can prevent the 1998-1999 Shaq from passing the ball under the basket!

And the 1998-1999 Shaq can never defend the current Shaq!

As for the strongest athletic ability and agility of the Big Shark in 1998-1999, it may be very useful in the Lakers, but in the Cavaliers, when Mike Brown's other players cooperated with him to surround him and interfere with the opponent's defense, it can be ignored.

It can be said that under Mike Brown's hands, his advantages were maximized and his disadvantages were minimized.

His dominance on the court was naturally maximized.

Mike Brown's specific tactical ability is not that strong, or even very weak, but this guy is really very good at using stars and maximizing the data and energy of stars.

So, now he is really like what he often says outside, he is back to the peak!

But at his peak, he still couldn't control Yes!

Not only did he fail to control Yes, but he also let Yes score 42 points in the first half, and he might get 100 points in the whole game!

"Shaq, do you want to change the defense against Yes in this game?"

"No!"

Mike Brown asked O'Neal for his opinion, and O'Neal directly refused.

Change the defense, double-team Yes on the outside, and don't let him break through to the basket?

This can indeed reduce his pressure, but the Cavaliers' perimeter defense will collapse and be full of holes, and his current athletic ability is simply not enough to fill those holes like Howard.

The Cavaliers' perimeter players do not need to defend the opponent's breakthrough or shooting. The role of the Cavaliers' perimeter players on the defensive end is to allow him to not have to fill those holes. The opponent's offensive players will complete all their attacks in front of him, so he can use his height, weight and body width to limit the opponent.

In the first half, the Cavaliers' defense was successful, and most of Yes's attacks were against his attacks, but Yes made most of them in the end!

"I am the great Shark, don't worry, I will never Yes score 100 points in the game, and he will never have such a high hit rate all the time!"

"The protagonist of this season is the great Shaq, and the protagonist of this game is also the great Shaq!"

As the most showman, O'Neal is always showing off and pretending to be great. If the Cavaliers had Kobe at this time, many people would be disdainful. This fat guy likes to brag.

But now these players in the Cavaliers can really be stunned by O'Neal!

Even the Cavaliers' head coach Mike Brown now has an expression of excitement and admiration on his face.

In the current league, there are not many people who can say such words in the face of Yes's threat, and O'Neal is definitely one of them!

"Even if he really becomes a background board again and is scored 100 points by Yes, the great Shaq will never be scared!"

"The winner of this coconut shark duel must be the big shark!"

In the Cavaliers' locker room, O'Neal inspired the morale of the Cavaliers players to the extreme.

And Yes in the Sonics locker room, he is not as showy as O'Neal. This game with the Cavaliers actually gave him the opportunity to score 100 points again, which is a real surprise.

He really likes the Cavaliers' defense. The Cavaliers' zone-filling defense may be one of the few defenses in the league that will not double-team him.

This defense designed specifically for O'Neal may be very powerful for others. Carter, Iverson and even Arenas have suffered from this. It is not easy for small players to play against O'Neal in the inside area, but he is indeed the only surprise in the league.

The key to whether he can get 100 points in this game now becomes whether O'Neal can accept him getting 100 points!

Can O'Neal let him get 100 points for the victory of this game?

Does O'Neal have such a big grudge against defeating him?

This is the question that Yes is thinking about now, especially thinking that O'Neal seems to have never defeated him in his career, which makes Yes look forward to it.

The halftime break is over and the second half of the game continues.

"Neither the Cavaliers nor the Supersonics changed their tactics during the halftime break!"

"The Coconut Shark Showdown is still going on!"

After the second half of the game started, many viewers at the scene and in front of the TV were stunned again when they saw O'Neal still abusing the inside line of the Supersonics on the court, while Yes seemed to be avenging the inside line of the Supersonics and abusing O'Neal!

Even the two TNT commentators at the scene were stunned at this time.

"Both the Supersonics and the Cavaliers have excellent other players, but in this game, everyone is not in the same world as Yes and the Big Shark, not even in the same dimension!"

"Coconut Shark Showdown!"

"These two are too strong!"

Are Yes and O'Neal so strong?

Watching the rising score on TV and the increasingly crazy performance of the two on TV, James in front of the TV even doubted his life!

This must be fake!

This must have been added with special effects!

How could Yes score 70 points in three quarters against O'Neal's terrifying defense!

How could O'Neal have the ability to score 30 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists in just 20 minutes in three quarters!

If this is true, if this is not a stunt, was he really like those people who disparaged him said when he was in the Cavaliers last season?

So bad that even O'Neal couldn't lead him? !

Damn bad!