The NBA's Absolute Dominance

Chapter 27 Tai Chi Turn + Brutal Slam
"Mourning is double-teaming on the left, so I'll turn right."

In the next instant, Tang Bei used his right foot as a pivot and suddenly performed a Tai Chi turn towards the baseline.

In the instant of turning, from the feet to the legs, then to the waist, back, shoulders, elbows, and hands, every joint and part participates in the power generation process in an orderly manner.

Just like dominoes, one link leads to another, and the power flows together to form a complete chain of power, ultimately creating a combined force for turning around.

At the same time, when turning around, the low horse stance of Tai Chi makes his lower body as stable as Mount Tai. By squatting his legs and gripping the ground with his feet, he firmly stabilizes his body's center of gravity.

By turning around, the body's strength is gathered into a single point, forming a steady and profound power, just like the earth's boundless energy. At the moment of turning and exerting force, this power erupts like a volcano.

At the same time, this force is not a completely rigid force, but rather a combination of strength and flexibility.

During the turn, use gentle force to guide the movement, like water flowing around rocks, going with the flow to neutralize the defender's blocking force while accumulating one's own power, and finally unleash it at the moment of the turn, like a steel whip lashing out, strong and swift.

It was this volcanic power that gave Tang Bei, who was already very agile and quick to turn, even greater turning speed and power than before.

In a split second, he broke through O'Neal's powerful defense and completed the turn.

At the same time, the Tai Chi turn also served as a center of gravity disruption technique. As he suddenly turned, his right elbow bumped O'Neal's lower back.

This force combined with O'Neal's defensive power, instantly disrupting his balance and causing him to suddenly lunge forward.

Fortunately, after this stumble, O'Neal managed to stand up and didn't fall to the ground again.

"call!"

Seeing that O'Neal had stopped, Leonard breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that O'Neal would fall at the feet of that Chinese man again.

As O'Neal stumbled forward, Tang Bei, who turned and charged toward the basket, felt a wide-open view before him. Mourning was still a step away on the upper side, with no obstruction between him and the basket.

This was the first time he had performed a Tai Chi spin while attacking from a position far from the basket, and it felt great; the entire technique was very smooth.

"Let me in!"

With his second step after turning around, he leaped up with a quick step with his right foot, grabbed the ball with both hands, and slammed it wildly towards the basket.

He didn't hold back at all on this play; instead, he gave it his all and attacked the basket with all his might.

"boom!"

The extremely loud banging of the basket made everyone's mind and eyelids tremble instantly.

Under the terrifying explosive force, and pulled by the 135-kilogram weight and powerful force, the basketball hoop sank violently downwards.

Then, as Tang Bei's body swung forward, the downward momentum of the basketball hoop suddenly intensified, finally exceeding the critical point of load-bearing capacity.

"Crack, click, click..."

The reporters realized something was wrong and immediately started snapping photos frantically.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaoyan was very excited and, like the other reporters, quickly pressed the shutter.

"Wow!"

The rim was pulled violently, breaking the connection between it and the backboard. The transparent backboard flashed for a moment and then turned into countless particles.

"Oh!"

A unified gasp of surprise erupted from the Chicago stadium.

"Oh!"

With Tang Beiji's brutal two-handed slam, the basketball hoop finally collapsed onto the floor, as if its head had been severed by a giant axe of a god.

"ah!"

"Tang, you're the best one! You are!"

Eric Fleischer clenched his fists and roared excitedly.

"Damn Chinaman, I can take him down too." O'Neal muttered defiantly as he witnessed the astonishing scene before him.

"What a beast! The league should start reinforcing the backboards right now." Jordan said with a smile, surprised that his own backboard had been knocked down.

"Sigh, Shaq is in the background again. Is today his day of reckoning?" Shaq's agent, Leonard Amoto, muttered.

David Falk was somewhat relieved because the main defender against Tang Bei was O'Neal, not Mourning.

Mourning's last defensive assist was successful, but this time it failed. The Chinese team's performance in the defensive assist wasn't bad; a 50% success rate is still respectable.

He developed a liking for O'Neal; the young man took the initiative to defend the Chinese player, showing some responsibility, and didn't pass the task to Mourning.

Only heaven knows that Tang Bei actually wanted to take on Mourning, but unfortunately, O'Neal was always the one guarding him on offense, and Mourning was only responsible for help defense.

When Tang Bei left the field after the match was interrupted, a group of reporters surrounded him.

"Tang Bei, is your hand injured?" Lin Xiaoyan asked.

"No."

Tang Bei raised his wrist and shook his head.

"Tang, how does it feel to smash the opponent's backboard and collapse their basket?" a New York Times reporter asked eagerly.

After John Liu translated, Tang Bei thought for a moment and said, "It gives me the illusion that I can blow everything up."

"The illusion of blasting everything away?" the reporter pressed.

"I really hope that one day I can turn this illusion into reality," Tang Bei said frankly, expressing his wish.

"Explode everything? That's a misconception. Even Chamberlain wouldn't dare say that."

"Regardless of whether he's a big mouth or not, he shouldn't fall out of the top five, and he might even enter the top three."

"Tang's main problem is that he has too little competition experience, and his basic skills and offensive techniques are not good. These are his weaknesses."

"Although he is talented, his future is still uncertain. His playing style is too physically demanding, just like Shawn Kemp, the Rain Man."

"Although Kemp plays brilliantly, based on his current performance, his ranking is not actually underestimated by much. If he were to be re-selected, he should be able to enter the Lotto zone, around tenth place."

"I think Tang's draft position should be around tenth in the first round."

The media reporters, general managers, scouts, and rookies at the scene all had their own opinions, some true and some false, but no one believed that Tang Bei could blow everything away.

Meanwhile, Shaquille O'Neal, who fell twice to Tang Bei's feet, was also a key topic of their discussion.

"O'Neal had problems today, falling to the ground twice during contact, and almost falling again later."

"That's right, O'Neal's lower body is not very stable, while Tang's lower body is more stable, and his thighs are much thicker than O'Neal's."

"No, I would say it's because Tang's strength and explosiveness are too great, not because O'Neal's lower body strength is insufficient."

"But O'Neal still performed well on offense, and you could say he dominated Tang. Tang just made two good defensive plays."

The backboards and rims all needed to be replaced, and it might not even be possible to fix it in an hour. Vice President Maurice Shears decided to move the game to the stadium's training court and reschedule the match.

After moving to another location, there were no seats in the training field, so Tang Bei took two bottles of water, sat down against the wall, and thought about the match he had just played.

He applied the techniques of using minimal force to deflect a great weight, disrupting the center of gravity, and Tai Chi turning to his low-post backhand attack, with good results, which shows that he applied them correctly.

In his view, whether it is martial arts, combat sports, or basketball, it is all about controlling the body, using physical strength, and using one's own body and strength to control the opponent's strength. If you master one method, you can master all methods.

In the following games, he didn't get another chance, and neither did O'Neal and Mourning.

He was somewhat disappointed that Christine Lightner hadn't shown up again.

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