Bulldozer of the NBA’s Restricted Area

After a storm, the second round of the East and West got back on track.

The Heat still finished first, but they lost the second game against the Pacers by 6 points and tied with the score 1:1, and the next day was the game between the Celtics and the Lakers...

The Celtics game starts first.

Because the situation was unclear and the tactics were uncertain, there was nothing special at the beginning of the game. O'Neal, Garnett, and Pierce led the team all the way until the last 2 minutes of the first quarter...the Hawks were directly penetrated and lost by 10 in 10 minutes. point.

I really can’t hold it in any longer!

So, the Eagles' coach Lenny Wilkens gave an order, and the entire team immediately took action. When they had time, they touched O'Neal and asked O'Neal to take a free throw.

You know, O'Neal is the big dad when he gets to the basket, and he is a ferocious offensive team.

As the core of the Green Kais, O'Neal will be on the court for a long time, so Wilkens has no choice but to go up and cut... turning O'Neal's unsolvable basket into a messy free throw to stabilize the situation, and The whole game was like this.

As for O'Neal?

The on-site camera recorded the changes in his expression...from the wildness of leading by 10 points at the beginning, to the confusion when he started cutting the shark, to the anger of consecutive free throws, to the despair of consecutive missed free throws.

The joys and sorrows of life?

It’s really quite exciting!

Until the end of the game, when the Celtics lost, even the fans felt sorry for this fat man, because he was harassed countless times by his opponents for 43 minutes of the game, and he only made 13 of 31 free throws.

41.9% free throw shooting?

Maybe a 70% hit wouldn't let the opponent be so unscrupulous.

But in fact... O'Neal is very generous. From the beginning, the free throws have been downward fluctuations at the normal level, and the Hawks are not polite at all. In the past, they only committed the penalty when they held the ball to the basket, but in the last few minutes, they committed it without the ball.

Calculated at 70%, 31 free throws are rounded to 22.

But now O'Neal only hit 13, a difference of 9, one point for each, and O'Neal lost 9 points in free throws alone.

9 points is already a lot!

What's more serious is... O'Neal shot 10 of 12 at the basket in this game, with an efficiency of 83.3%.

The previous calculation was still 9 points based on 70%, but if one extra penalty is removed and calculated based on 83.3% shooting and 30 free throws converted into 15 attacks, O'Neal should have scored 25 points, but now he only has 13 points.

This means that the shark-cutting tactic directly reduced the Celtics by... 12 points.

Not to mention that under this rhythm, the Celtics were in complete chaos. They couldn't come up with any tactics or execute them, so in the end they lost to the Hawks by 5 points and ended the second game.

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As soon as the news came out, the entire league was excited again.

Because of repeated experiments, combined with Nelson's tactical theory, shark-cutting seems to have become the standard against Kai. This tactic, which is higher than the conventional defensive effect, basically... has zero threshold, as long as it is like the Eagles with multiple people and full fouls. Same thing, just prepare an army of salty knuckles.

Fortunately, this does not mean that uncontrolled shark cutting will definitely work.

Because O'Neal's free throws fluctuate, 31 free throws in a single game is the first time, but he has shot 11% of 9 in a single game, and 100% of 12 of 12 in a single game. The result of cutting down may be It's a trap for the opponent, and the real meaning of cutting the shark is to break the stalemate. Otherwise, O'Neal would have been able to average 20+ free throws per game.

So this is a watershed moment.

The bottom team cannot break out of the stalemate, and the top teams only need to make choices at critical moments. What really worries the Celtics is that the teams in the playoffs are all above the watershed.

As for the Eagles' choice in this game...

In essence, they were not optimistic about the situation in the next few games, which led to the madness in this game. However, the crazy coach Wilkens remained rational and spent the first 10 minutes of the game observing O'Neal's state before deciding on tactics. .

The first choice is to commit fouls under the basket, and the later choice is to commit fouls without the ball.

So, with O'Neal's field goal average lower than the average, the Hawks advanced all the way and won the second game of the second round.

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31 free throws in a single game, this is simply crazy, it is simply unscrupulous. O'Neal, who made 13 of 31 free throws, was stunned after the game, and then came the Lakers game...

At the beginning of the game, Dunleavy was also observing Li Shengli's status.

It's just that this time was longer than Wilkens observed, and when he saw Li Shengli once again playing explosive output, hitting 6 of 7 in the first quarter, Dunleavy immediately called a timeout and started making tactical arrangements.

It's the same as the Celtics' game against the Hawks.

Li Shengli continued his previous super state, and his current efficiency is invincible, and 6 of 7 is 85%. This is with Sabonis on the court. If Sabonis can't stand it anymore and lets the offense go, it will be close to 90%. It is possible.

Can it be converted into free throws?

Li Shengli averaged 70% of his free throws per game?

It seems that there is no need to consider how to choose between 90% and 70%, because essentially... the innocent Li Shengli has met the requirements of the shark-killing tactic to a certain extent, that is, normal efficiency, which is much higher than free throw efficiency.

Not to mention that specifically for the Lakers, the 'shark-killing tactic' was mutated by Dunleavy. He directly targeted Ben and Rodman, combining Li Shengli's efficiency and Ben Rodman's free throws into a An 'O'Neal' himself.

Shark-killing tactics?

Has he evolved on horseback?

The previous game was called Shark Lee Tactics, which refers to the tactics used against O'Neal and Li Shengli. But in this game, the on-site media smelled something different and directly shouted out Kill Lee Tactics or Kill Teammate Tactics.

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O'Neal?

Did you lure the enemy to the village?

You are such a pest, you can hurt me from a distance?

Before, it was O'Neal who cursed Li Shengli alone, but this time Li Shengli took Ben and Rodman, who were sitting on the bench and stared at him, and the three of them cursed O'Neal in their hearts.

But despite the criticism, the Lakers' situation is still much better than the Celtics.

Because the Lakers have many choices, Ben and Rodman will be finished if they don't play, but the Celtics don't have any, because it is absolutely impossible not to play O'Neal, and O'Neal is not willing to sit on the bench.

As a result, the Lakers steadily suppressed the Trail Blazers and did not let the Trail Blazers stand up.

Until the end of the game, Li Shengli's free throw data was also released...

He made 12 of 18 free throws in the game, and his 66.6% free throw shooting rate was a bit low, but it couldn't stand up to the large amount of free throws. Looking at the limited free throws alone, the overall single-round score reached a terrifying 1.33. Not only did he not suffer a loss, he also made a profit. Quite a few.

Of course, the Trail Blazers are not stupid either.

It's different from O'Neal being beaten one by one by the entire Hawks team.

Most of Li Shengli was fouled at the basket, and even his efficiency of 1.33 in a single round made the Blazers chuckle. Because he did not foul and played openly, Li Shengli, who was like a god of war, could start at 1.6 in a single round, and he finally The data is 40 points, 15 rebounds, 1 assist and 4 blocks.

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As for the second game of gambling.

The Heat lost, Mourning was out, the Celtics lost, and O'Neal was also out, so no matter what data Li Shengli played, it was a win, let alone 40+15 data.

For Li Shengli, this result basically means...the happy time of collecting money has arrived again.