466: 175: No Ga 7 this year!
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(Requesting monthly passes!)_5 Then, like a madman, he tossed everything from his locker all over the place.
The locker room was in chaos almost imdiately, and O’Neal went into the shower area, barehandedly tearing down a shower partition and a urinal.
Most of the Magic players tried to restrain Shaq, fearing that he’d hurt himself in his rampage.
Roger, the only one, sat in front of his locker, utterly indifferent.
What’s the use?
Has this guy ever changed?
When Roger first arrived in Orlando three years ago, Shaq was a giant baby.
Now, he was still a giant baby.
The mont O’Neal punched the television stand, Roger knew this idiot had never changed.
He had never considered the consequences of injuring himself, just like he never thought about the consequences of opening fire on the team during a nationwide live TV broadcast.
This motherfucker is my great teammate, Shaquille O’Neal.
At this mont, Brian Hill returned to the locker room, and the sight of the ss shocked him, “What happened?
Did Godzilla just rampage through the locker room?”
Roger smiled helplessly, “Don’t you have kids, Brian?
Hos with little babies are all this ssy.
Don’t you rember?
We also have a baby over twenty years old and nearly three hundred pounds in our locker room.”
Twenty minutes later, the team doctor did a full body checkup on O’Neal.
Thankfully, the dumbass didn’t hurt his hand or anything else.
Just a minor scratch on his thigh, but that wouldn’t affect him playing.
At the post-ga press conference, O’Neal and Roger were still in a state where, despite being only a ter apart, they needed reporters to relay their ssages.
“Tell Shaq he didn’t do anything wrong at the last mont, no need for any psychological burden.”
“Shaq, Roger says you didn’t do anything wrong in the final monts and not to feel any psychological burden, what do you think?”
“Tell that bastard, don’t patronize with his high-and-mighty attitude!
What psychological burden?
Why should I feel a psychological burden?
He was shut down at the end too, so why doesn’t he feel a psychological burden?
It’s like the loss is all my fault!”
“Roger, Shaq wants you not to patronize him and points out that you were also shut down at the end, what do you think?”
“I don’t care much, let him bla his teammates if he likes; anyway, I’m not close with him.”
“Shaq, Roger says…”
O’Neal angrily left the press conference before the reporter could finish.
Weird press conference, isn’t it?
Quite strange, as the reporters simply beca mouthpieces for Roger and Shaq.
However, this had beco the norm for Magic Team press conferences this season.
Roger and O’Neal refused any form of direct communication.
Although Magic’s show was terrible, so things he said were correct, like when he said: Shaq longs to prove that he can win a championship without Roger, and that Roger can’t win one without him, certainly what he wanted to do most after the three-peat.
Regardless, the series score was now tied 2-2, and the fierce competition would continue.
In G1 and G2, Jordan and Roger traded scores.
In G3 and G4, Roger and Jordan both showcased their versatility.
This competition, with no winner yet, was entering a white-hot stage.
G5 was back in Orlando, and everyone was speculating on how Jordan and Roger would continue their battle.
As it turned out, both n pulled up today.
After the last ga, Zen Master refined the “Hack-a-Shaq” strategy.
He found that fouling Shaq in the final two minutes when he received the ball was the most efficient way to employ the tactic.
If you foul him constantly, even when he’s without the ball, it’s just impossible to control the foul count.
If not managed well, it could get the team in trouble instead.
But fouling Shaq once he gets the ball in the final two minutes could disrupt most of Magic’s key plays without having to worry about excessive fouling.
Of course, this relies on one condition: Magic would definitely pass the ball to Shaq a lot in the final two minutes.
To make Magic do this, you have to lock down their periter in the first three quarters and exhaust them.
When they lost their touch in the fourth quarter, the ball would naturally end up in Shaq’s hands.
That’s exactly what the Knicks did in this ga.
In the first three quarters, the Knicks used Ewing to defend O’Neal one-on-one, while the rest took care of the periter.
To be more precise, everyone was targeting Roger.
Roger struggled offensively, so he vented his frustration on defense, being even more ferocious in his help defense and double teams on Jordan.
As a result, Jordan’s shooting percentage was a ss.
Roger and Jordan hurt each other, while Shaq inflicted damage on Ewing in the paint.
But Ewing, after all, was one of the four great centers and still at the tail end of his pri.
He couldn’t stop O’Neal, but he didn’t let O’Neal dominate him either.
And Ewing, with his mid-range jump shots after picks, also managed to match Shaq at tis.
Until the final two minutes, when Zen Master blew a whistle, and the Knicks cast their giant net for Shaq-trapping.
As soon as the ball reached O’Neal, Ewing or Oakley would imdiately commit a foul on Shaq.
And this wasn’t so light touch; they were really throwing O’Neal to the ground.
Shaq’s free throws didn’t disappoint the New Yorkers, and Magic’s key plays were disrupted ti and again.
Luckily, the Knicks’ own offense was also lackluster, which kept them from widening the gap.
In the final monts of the fourth quarter, the two teams played extrely ugly basketball.
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