The Lakers have been claiming that they have a good center against O'Neal, which is not a waste of time. They have really cultivated a good player against O'Neal... to deal with O'Neal now, and even, they can be said to be the best player in the league's front-line single defense.

The comprehensive defense against O'Neal is definitely not as good as Olajuwon last year. He is very quick to defend, but he is definitely not as good as David Robinson. However, he has a head-on defense, enough tonnage, strong sense of interference, and strong psychological quality. He will not be defeated... No one can compare with Campbell at the moment.

This has been recognized after last season. Public opinion generally believes that Campbell is a product used by the Lakers to attract big-name stars to join.

In the 28 cities where 29 teams in the league are located, it is estimated that 27 cities and the media believe that O'Neal will be the first center in the future, and will definitely become the biggest opponent of all superstars in the future, just like Magic, Big Bird, Jordan, Olajuwon, and the Bad Boys Army.

In order to deal with O'Neal's stockpiling of meat shield centers, the Lakers got it done early. When some superstars were willing to enter the free market, the Lakers had already taken the lead.

The Lakers' successful creation of Campbell has been well received since last season, which depends on who the Lakers can hook up when many superstar contracts expire in the next few years.

The Magic were naturally prepared, so at the beginning O'Neal chose to pull out to the outside of the three-second zone. This was the arrangement of the Magic's head coach, who was very well-trained and used big centers.

But O'Neal played a round according to the tactics, and then he was like being angry, insisting on playing singles all the time, and he had to play on the court, and he still had to be tired of playing.

That's all, the Magic have a strategy to deal with this situation.

It is impossible for an opponent to lock O'Neal, and Olajuwon can't come, so he can only limit it to the maximum extent.

Campbell can limit O'Neal, but it's just a limit. O'Neal's singles success rate will not be too bad, and the shooting rate of about 50% can still be maintained.

Let O'Neal save his physical strength and use Tian Ji's horse racing style to play is the most preferred for the Magic team, but if O'Neal doesn't want to implement this strategy, it doesn't matter. Let O'Neal chisel first, and the efficiency will not be bad.

It's better than O'Neal asking for the ball or not giving him the ball, he's not happy and becomes lazy.

Just as the Magic thought, even if O'Neal's physical strength declined, as long as he still had physical strength to play singles, their Magic's offense would not lose to the Lakers.

Just now, O'Neal made 3 of 6 shots, scored 7 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 turnovers, the Magic still led the Lakers by two points 18-16.

When O'Neal couldn't stop the singles, the Lakers were behind in the offense. After O'Neal began to make mistakes, the Lakers also found it difficult for them to quickly overtake the score.

At this time, O'Neal had almost 10 consecutive rounds with the ball. Even if O'Neal was talented, the 132 kilograms of Pangda's weight was so bad that it was really hard to chisel 10 rounds at a low post.

O'Neal did not ask for a single shot anymore and let the ball go.

At this time, although the Magic players unexpectedly made two mistakes in three rounds, they were released when it was time to release the ball.

After O'Neal finished chiseling, it was Anfini Hardaway's turn to play singles. O'Neal just stayed close at close range and squatted under the basket with a huge block threat.

But the premise is that O'Neal has to be honest.

However, in the eyes of Magic players, O'Neal was making trouble for some reason tonight!

Although I often make trouble, I am particularly dishonest tonight.

When defending, if you don’t protect the frame properly, Zhang Hao just needs to go inward and then he will follow Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao is at close range, and his attention is on Zhang Hao.

The inside defense threat is secondly. There is no O'Neal's position, and Hores Grant did not defend the basket and set the position, but expanded the defense mid-range distance. The Magic's average rebounding average was a loss. After entering the rotation time, the Lakers sent Jason Williams and Campbell to partner with the inside, the Magic's defensive rebounding collapsed!

He didn't listen to it. Brian Hill is a good man who doesn't speak harshly. He won't even fight for the management's decision that makes him dissatisfied. He doesn't dare to say anything except Anthony Hardaway and Horeth Grant.

But O'Neal was particularly disliked by these two people tonight. He said something, and he was even more reluctant to pay attention to them.

The rebellious psychology is coming!

This has already caused the Magic players and coaching staff to collapse, but there are even more things that have broken them down.

If O'Neal recovers a little bit of physical strength and thinks he can play, he will ask for the ball. He is not as good as his teammates think, and he wants to play singles.

Originally, the Lakers used Campbell to consume O'Neal. As they fought, they seemed to have become the Magic using O'Neal, the top four big center in the league, to consume Campbell's flesh shield blue-collar worker!

Facing Campbell, O'Neal's performance was just an ordinary All-Star performance, or a kind of mistakes.

This is a devastating blow to the Magic’s style of playing!

Although Denis Scott and Nick Anderson averaged 5.5 three-pointers per game, they are the strongest forward and guard combinations in the league with the strongest three-point ability, Hores Grant made the highest in the league's inside-line shooting percentage of 41% long-range mid-range shooting percentage and 46% middle-range shooting percentage and 47% close-range jump shots outside the three-second zone.

Such a shooting percentage is really entirely due to O'Neal and Anthony Hardaway's two-way shooting. It is almost recognized that as long as you leave this pair of super giant duo, the performance of the Magic team's pitchers will decline sharply.

When O'Neal, one of the two, showed suicide style, the Magic's offensive efficiency dropped a lot, and they could not defend the defensive rebounds on the defensive end...

In this game, the Magic, like last season, had to play against the Lakers, and it was a disadvantageous attack!

The Magic are eager to guard against the Lakers using the shark-cutting tactic when they are behind or are anxious about the score and the fouls are coming, and they are very afraid of this.

As a result, the Lakers didn't even think about playing this!

Maybe they thought about it, but the Magic themselves are not good enough. Before they finished playing, they are already 14 points behind the Lakers 70-84! The opponent doesn't need to chop the sharks at all!

It was the Magic's offense again. Anthony Hardaway, who had a somewhat collapsed mentality, actually faced Doug Christie's defense outside the three-point line. He couldn't even get rid of the confrontation and wanted to make a foul. He made a mistake! He shot directly and Zhang Hao took it back and grabbed the defensive rebound!

O'Neal just ran to the free throw line and threw it away. Seeing Zhang Hao grab the defensive rebound, he quickly retreated.

O'Neal, who was about to collapse in physical strength, ran very fast at this moment, almost retreating back to the three-point line with Anthony Hardaway, and then immediately ran back to the basket to prevent the Lakers from taking a fast attack from the outside.

But as soon as he returned to the reasonable collision zone, a big "8" flew towards him... O'Neal couldn't even pull the other party down!

"Clang"

Amid the screams and cheers of the fans at the scene, Zhang Hao counterattacked quickly, rushed through the halftime by his teammates, and pushed Anthony Hardaway from the outside of the three-point line to catch the ball and smashed into the basket through O'Neal!

When Zhang Hao smashed the ball into the basket, O'Neal pulled Zhang Hao down in anger, and Zhang Hao fell to the ground again...

"Beep"

The referee whistle sounded!

Another whistle sounded, and Magic coach Brian Hill quickly called for a timeout... Fortunately, he didn't fight, so Zhang Hao got up by himself and stopped his teammates who were rushing over.

Brian Hill quickly replaced O'Neal to avoid something. There were only more than 50 seconds left in the third quarter. O'Neal played 29 minutes in the first three quarters, made 10 of 24 shots, made 3 of 7 free throws, scored 23 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block. The data was just ordinary All-Star data, and the physical exhaustion was still huge! Almost as tired as the blue-collar Campbell who also played for 29 minutes on the opposite side.

O'Neal pulled the person down after the opponent scored a goal... he only took an ordinary foul, but Zhang Hao was fine, and the injury potion did not respond. His butt hurt a little, but it was just a flaw... O'Neal! Zhang Hao was so excited! His teammates were also so excited!

And he also defeated O'Neal!

After Zhang Hao gave the iron with a calm look on his face, the Lakers did not allow the Magic, which had a light lineup, to counterattack. Instead, taking advantage of the excitement of O'Neal to beat O'Neal, he scored 5 points in the last 50 seconds! A 5-0 shot!

After the third quarter, the Lakers led the Magic 91-70 21 points into the final quarter!

The Magic were looking forward to struggling in the final quarter, and Anfenny Hardaway led the team to see if the score difference could be narrowed, and O'Neal had a rest, so that he could continue to use it at critical moments.

However, the Lakers are in a hot mood, O'Neal will stop playing, Van Exel and the Magic led Zhang Hao, Anthony Pierre, and Donyere Marshall to play the offense.

Although the Magic scored 31 points in the last quarter, the Lakers also scored 29 points.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Magic 120-101! The record was improved to 52 wins and 13 losses, and reached the second in the league!

...

Zhang Hao didn't score much tonight, mainly because the free throws were not accurate. O'Neal gave him 7 free throws alone. He scored 3 of these 7 free throws, which is not the end. The other people who were in trouble gave him 8 free throws in total, but he actually scored only 4!

7 of 15 free throws, the worst free throw record in his career.

His shooting performance on 6 of 11 shots was actually pretty good. Although he didn't score three points, his shooting percentage was over 50% and he scored 12 points. However, with 15 free throws and his shooting percentage was pretty good, Zhang only scored 19 points in the whole game!

19 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks. Finally, he rebounded and scored twice but failed to score 20, losing a rare 20+10.

Fortunately, I won!

He didn't expect O'Neal's little heart to be so fragile...

Seeing O'Neal walking back to the player's passage after the game was over, she was not happy at all... Zhang Hao was very happy for some reason, thinking that this was a sign that something good happened.

This feeling is inexplicable, but it just appears.

The Lakers players were extremely excited after winning the game smoothly.

It can't be described as smooth, it can be described as weird. Tonight, O'Neal started playing singles when Campbell was most physically strong at the beginning of the game. The Magic had almost 30 attacks. O'Neal started playing at this point. After Campbell ended the game, he collapsed on the bench like mud...

O'Neal's choice is weird!

Only Campbell, who was like mud, knew that he was not only tired in body but also in heart!

During the game, Campbell once did not want to appear alone in a small space with O'Neal, because as long as there was no one around O'Neal, an evil gentleman wearing a No. 8 jersey would appear.

In the end, Campbell felt that O'Neal was almost crazy!

"I must wear earplugs next time I fight O'Neal... I'll just poke my eardrums out. I heard that the eardrums will be repaired automatically?"

O'Neal made a fuck, Zhang Hao sprayed, O'Neal scored a goal, and he could find a point shot. O'Neal couldn't grab the rebound and made a mistake. Zhang Hao definitely appeared. Even O'Neal sent an assist and completed the block. Zhang Hao could find some strange points to stimulate O'Neal...

It's simply!

...

The media thought that the Lakers and Magic would be a wonderful game, and it would be a night when O'Neal came to Los Angeles to rage.

Because the Lakers have a rookie who created the shark-cutting tactic.

No matter how bad it is, it may be a happy day to watch O'Neal's free throw.

O'Neal's strange free throw and iron-shot posture can already make a very long highlight in just over a month.

I also successfully saw various free throws and iron shots tonight, but they were not much the same as people expected.

O'Neal only had 7 free throws tonight, but the rookie on the opposite side actually got 15 free throws.

Zhang Hao went to the inside tonight if he had anything to do, and encountered several rough fouls. It was not surprising that there were too many free throws.

But the hit rate of 7 free throws... After the game, the editor of the newspaper who was preparing to write news with data saw Zhang Hao's free throw, and thought that the Magic used the shark-cutting tactic against Zhang Hao...

"Hey? Or just write it like this! Yes, just put a question mark on the title!"

So, the next morning, when Zhang Hao got up for breakfast, he saw the Los Angeles Times sports headline - "The inventor of the Shark-cutting Tactics was cut off by a Shark, and he suffered from it?"
To be continued...