The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 62 When You Are Old
Since entering the NBA in 1992, O'Neal has gone through 18 seasons in the league.

In the past 18 years, he has seen countless talented players, but only a handful of them can truly grow into league superstars.

These superstars have different personalities and different technical styles, but they all have one common feature, that is, they can stand up and save the team with everything they have when the team is most difficult.

He is so, Kobe is so, Duncan is so, and so is Wade!

Today, O'Neill seems to have one more!
The energy in him made O'Neill smell the same kind.

Compared with his kind of bullying people with strength and skill and pure talent, although Li Pu's talent is also overwhelming, but he has a little more dexterity.

But what they have in common is that they have the courage to move forward.

Just now, there were obviously two people blocking, but Li Pu scored the ball with the risk of injury and his soft touch.

"You're good!" Coming to the frontcourt, O'Neill returned to Li Pu's side and said to him.

"Huh?" Facing O'Neill's inexplicable praise, Li Pu was taken aback for a moment, thinking it was some trash talk, and subconsciously said: "Why does your wife tell you everything?"

"..."

Almost instantly, Li Pu saw O'Neill's dark cheeks, with red in the black and white in the red. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Li Pu would never have believed it. Can be so rich?

"What are you..."

Seeing O'Neill's angry appearance, Li Pu said weakly: "If I said that I was joking with you just now, would you believe it?"

"Very good, you have successfully irritated me!" O'Neill looked at Li Pu viciously at this time, then turned his head and reached out for the ball.

Seeing this scene, Li Pu wished he could slap himself two big mouths.

If you talk about yourself, you don't know what to say, so why mess with this fool?
Now O'Neal's tactical status in the Celtics is already very low.

No way, his very physical style of play prevents him from being able to extend his peak career like a star with a range.

O'Neal's peak is indeed very strong, meeting gods and killing gods, meeting Buddhas and Buddhas, but unfortunately the peak period is too short, and now he has been reduced to a role player.

Logically speaking, even if such a player wants the ball, the point guard will not give it to him, but who made him O'Neal?His splendid resume made Rondo, the league's famous thorn, had to give him the ball.

After getting the ball, O'Neal started to play Li Pu in the low post again.

I have to say that even though he is old, O'Neill is still old and full of energy, especially Li Pu's trash talk, which has too much stamina!

Once, twice!

Li Pu kept losing the line of defense and retreated backwards, and O'Neal easily came to the basket.

Twisting the hips, turning around, taking off, and lifting the ball, everything is as elegant as it was back then.

However, it wasn't until the moment he dunked that he realized that he had been covered by Li Pu's hands. His strength may not have regressed, but his bounce and speed were far worse.

In this way, the basketball in Mingming's hand is only less than ten centimeters away from the basket, but it is like a moat, like a lost youth.

Li Pu worked hard with both hands, and once again blocked O'Neal!

This time it was O'Neill's turn to fall to the floor. Compared to Li Pu's weight, O'Neill's weight was much heavier than Li Pu's. When he fell to the ground, Li Pu thought there was an earthquake.

O'Neill, who fell to the ground, felt like staring at his eyes. If he was careless in the block in the first half, then this time, he clearly tried his best, but he was still blocked.

O'Neill raised his head with difficulty, and saw that everyone had already run to his own half.

Li Pu even jumped high, received an alley-oop from Westbrook, and dunked with both hands.

With that appearance, O'Neill gradually looked like he was 20 years old.

That year, I was still very thin!

Logically speaking, at this time, Celtics coach Doug Rivers would not call a timeout.

Only after chasing a mere three points, isn't it an overtake by thirty points?

This time-out opportunity, if I don't keep it until 2058 to wander the earth, I will be disrespectful! (You really don’t have a surname!)

The reason why Rivers called a timeout this time was mainly to replace O'Neal.

After all, the old man is 38, (he is not as old as you!) With such a heavy weight, who knows what is good and what is bad after such a fall?

When O'Neill walked down the court lonely, a sense of sadness suddenly rose in his heart, maybe he was really old, and it was time to leave the arena!
Back from the timeout, O'Neal didn't play again, and the Celtics replaced the big baby Glenn Davis.

At this time, he is equivalent to O'Neal who is one size smaller, no matter in height, weight or ability.

Oh no, ability is not a size smaller.

When he came up, Li Pu, who was used to O'Neill's intensity, suddenly felt very relaxed.

Sure enough, on the offensive end of the Celtics, Davis missed a layup due to Li Pu's interference. The Thunder counterattacked again, and Westbrook caused Rondo to "2+1".

With this goal scored, the two teams drew again.

Throughout the second half of the third quarter, the Celtics only scored 5 points in more than five minutes.

Although the Thunder also did not score much, they also managed to overtake the Celtics.

At the end of the third quarter, the score had reached 67:59, and the Thunder led by 8 points.

This is the biggest difference tonight.

After the start of the fourth quarter, O'Neal went into battle again, and the Celtics also regained their defense.

The two teams continued to grind their positions, grind their defense, keep grinding and grinding!

The difference of 8 points, usually, may be recovered in three or four rounds.

But for tonight's score, every point has to be done with all strength, and it may not be possible to get it yet.

In this way, until the end of the game, the Celtics failed to catch up with the score again.

The final score was fixed at 89:84. After losing the team boss Durant, the Thunder defeated the Celtics, the No. 5 Celtics in the East, with a -point advantage .

Can't help but won the first five-game winning streak, and also allowed the team to win a wave of 6 consecutive victories.

Du Lei is showing his fangs!
Westbrook is undoubtedly the best player on the field. He scored 31 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists. Although he made 21 of 9 shots, Westbrook digested a lot of possessions after Durant was unable to play. up.

Li Pu is undoubtedly the second hero of the Thunder team tonight. He scored 13 points, 14 rebounds and 6 blocks. He is an absolute inside star.

After the game, Li Pu took the initiative to find O'Neill and apologized to him: "I'm sorry, the trash talking on the field was a bit misunderstanding."

Unexpectedly, O'Neill waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are actually wrong, that is my ex-wife, and it has nothing to do with me!"

Then O'Neal got up on his own initiative, shook hands with Li Pu, and smiled when they met.

"Ah!" After class, Wang Xing went crazy when he saw the strings of vivid data.

What kind of game did I miss?

(End of this chapter)