Chapter 52: The Unbearable Lin Han
"Perry, you are particularly imposing today. I really like you like this. The Hardaway before was like a prisoner imprisoned in a cage. Although it is reasonable everywhere, it lacks sharpness. It seems that our opponent today is indeed very special."
The Magic have performed very well recently. As the current player of this team, O'Neal is really happy. Last season, because he showed his strength, he was repaired by Olajuwon, Admiral and the three top centers in the league, one after another, which made O'Neal feel full of anger.
It's just obvious that O'Neal still doesn't think he was wrong last season, and in his opinion, he was fixed by those three old guys not because of his lack of strength, but because of experience. In O'Neal's heart, he is the protagonist of the Cavaliers novel. As soon as he appears, he is full of his level and has the strongest skills. Although he will encounter setbacks for some reasons on the way to save the princess, these setbacks will eventually become his stepping stones. So this season, he is preparing to make a comeback. What big dreams, gorillas, and admirals will all be swept into the garbage dump by him, and he is full of confidence.
In his opinion, Hardaway should be like this. He is really satisfied with his teammate. In terms of strength and ability, he is almost like the omnipotent Robin next to Batman. Even in many team competitions of the Magic, the team led by Hardaway can defeat the team led by him. Perhaps the only thing Robin next to Batman is that this guy is too restrained and has a too boring personality, which he doesn't like.
"Perry, you can go and play this game with confidence. Do whatever you want. Today, you are the only king of this team."
After O'Neal finished speaking, he patted Hardaway on the shoulder and walked towards the center circle to jump the ball. Although his personality is very childish, the more childish the guy is, the stronger the desire is. As long as it is the toy they like, others don't want to grab it. The position of the team's boss is of course the best toy for O'Neal. If it were in the past, if anyone dared to touch his favorite toy, O'Neal would definitely kill him. He was childish, but he was not stupid. But he knew that Hardaway didn't care about the toy he was in his hand at all, so he didn't mind sharing these with Hardaway. This fat man really liked Hardaway.
It’s just a pity that Hardaway really doesn’t seem to have any feelings for him, which makes this fat man who always thought he was the protagonist of the universe very hurt. This is not what the Knight novel says.
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"Lin, are you ready for this game? Magic is a very interesting opponent. I didn't see that young fat man. Last season, I was hung up and beaten by John and I."
Before the start of this game, O'Neal saw Hardaway's momentum change drastically when facing the Jazz, so he was very happy and wanted to play support for Hardaway in this game. The Jazz Malone on the opposite side saw him walking in the middle circle and preparing to jump the ball. O'Neal was also very happy, constantly muttering in Lin Han's ears that he and Stockton joined forces to play Guan Rongwei in O'Neal last year.
"Carl, where is your superstar dignity? What about your integrity? And you actually lost one game."
After hearing Ma Long's self-promotion, Lin Han felt chills. Since he joined the Jazz team, he knew that the two players in this team were not "good people", especially on the court. However, he did not expect that these two guys were still a rookie last season, and O'Neal, who was a "child", was so cruel.
Damn, in front of an inside line with a height of 2.18 meters and weight over 300 kilograms, they keep playing high pick-and-roll. Just play pick-and-roll. The Jazz's strongest move is this, but it is necessary to deliberately provoke O'Neal first, and then deliberately lure the opponent to defend, and let such a fat man do pick-and-roll defense back and forth in the inside line. It feels cruel to think about it.
"Haha, Lin, it's not my fault. It's all Carl's fault. The touch of this guy Carl's game was simply terrible, and that little fat guy is really strong. You don't know that last season's starting center Mark Eaton was made to retire by that kid, and Eaton really retired."
Although the focus of the whole United States was on the showdown between Hardaway and Lin Han before this game, the attention of this game was very high, but Jazz players were emotionally relaxed except Lin Han. Because of the experience of last season, the Jazz did not think that the magic was difficult to play. For a team dominated by pick-and-roll, the Jazz was not afraid of a team with a tall and big center. At worst, O'Neal could beat his inside line. They could also use the pick-and-roll to kill O'Neal. For the Jazz, they were most afraid of O'Neal.
It's like the Rockets' Olajuwon and the Supersonics' Sean Kamp, especially Olajuwon, who is not as talented as a center, but he is better at practicing as a center than many small forwards in the league. What should he prepare for? Last season, the Jazz won only one game in five games of the regular season, and in one game, Olajuwon made 8 blocks on them. In five games, Olajuwon averaged 4.5 blocks per game. It's just as bad as he is.
O'Neal is very strong, Lin Han didn't know much about this before, but after seeing this jump, he felt a little pitiful in his heart, the starting center Spencer of the team in this game.
Felton Spencer is 2.13 meters tall and weighs 250 kilograms. He is also the No. 6 rookie in 1900. He is the best in weight and defense. When he and O'Neal stood together, Lin Han could feel the guy trembling. When he jumped, he jumped half a beat slower and was easily defeated by O'Neal.
As the starting point guard of the Magic in this game, although Skeles was not very willing, after getting O'Neal's jump ball, he still handed the basketball in his hand to Hardaway. Now he has changed from a league's first-class point guard who can contribute about 10 assists per game to a pseudo point guard. It has to be said that this is a kind of sadness. When a team's shooting guard or small forward reaches the level of Jordan or Hardaway, the point guard is basically all arranged. From this aspect, it can be seen that Hardaway's strength is indeed amazing enough, so it is so amazing that the Magic have to destroy a point guard who can contribute about 15+10 per game in order to him.
Although he was very unhappy about his situation, Skyles did not complain too much. He also highly recognized Hardaway's strength. This young player did not steal his ball rights for other reasons, but he was really inferior to Hardaway in all aspects.
The Jazz are very clear that the team's starting center Felton Spencer is not O'Neal's opponent at all, so the defense line is well arranged after the jump.
Today, after getting the ball, Hardaway did not start organizing the offense after pushing to halftime as usual, or handing the ball to O'Neal in the inside, but directly faced Lin Han who was facing him.
"It seems like a good show is going to happen!"
When he saw Hardaway taking the initiative to come to Lin Han, the group of the most unconventional media reporters on the sidelines were all excited. Today, Hardaway is not as restrained as before.
Lin Han faced Hardaway in this game, which was a very difficult task, and at least for Lin Han, he was completely unsure.
So seeing Hardaway dribbling slowly in front of him, Lin Han could only take a little step away like he had defended Payton before and stretched his hand forward, but was not ready to stretch forward. After seeing Hardaway's fierce eyes, Lin Han hesitated for a moment, did not play the method of eye-blocking, but made a very standard defensive posture.
"Is this your defense? It doesn't seem to be any progress, it's still so loose."
Hardaway has been paying attention to Lin Han's changes. After seeing Lin Han put on a defensive posture, he said with some disdain.
Seeing his former teammate showing such disdainful expression, Lin Han was really angry. He didn't want to play tricks like he was in the face of Payton. Everyone was former teammates at least. Lin Han also thanked Hardaway for his help in the genius training camp. If Hardaway hadn't sacrificed his data to help him and Van Eksel score, he and Van Eksel wouldn't have made any progress.
But before Lin Han could react, Hardaway, who had been dribbling quietly, finally moved.
"So fast!"
One step, just one step, Lin Han's loose defense was swept away by Hardaway like the wind. Lin Han, who had lost his center of gravity, split his legs and fell to the ground.
"Lin, you're defeated too quickly, right?"
Seeing Lin Han being taken by Hardaway, Malone, who was behind Lin Han, was speechless. Jerry Sloan on the sidelines also smiled bitterly and kept shaking his head. Although Lin Han's defensive posture now seems to be good, he is always a slut. There is no way, no matter how talented a player is, he can't make progress so quickly.
"Karl, pay attention to making up for defense!"
Just as Malone was about to mock Lin Han, Stockton, not far away, shouted hurriedly, he could see how fast Hardaway was from behind.
"Don't worry, John, no problem"
Malone, who had no confidence in Lin Han's defense, had already prepared to make up for the position, so he had already stood in advance and just waited for Hardaway to come.
But just after Ma Long finished speaking confidently, he suddenly felt a flash in front of his eyes. Hardaway slowed down, then accelerated and then turned around and disappeared directly in front of Ma Long.
"Fvck, got tricked!"
When Malone realized that he was being played with by Hardaway, when he was about to turn around, he had already seen Hardaway's extremely elegant and picturesque figure raging in the basket.
Hardaway turned around and passed Malone with a fake fax, and then directly hit the first two points of the game with one hand.
"If you are still at this level, you won't have any chance in this game."
When Hardaway completed the attack and walked past Lin Han, he whispered in contempt and really made Lin Han angry.
"Damn, what's the point?"
Lin Han was very angry at this time. This guy had been unhappy with him since he was a long time ago. Lin Han had never been so tolerant of someone since he was a child. In recent years, Lin Han, who has been very selfish in the past few years, wanted to make friends for the first time, but inexplicably, he was rejected by Hardaway. It would be fine if he refused. In the end, this guy treated him again and again.
Lin Han has never felt sorry for him. Isn’t it just that he didn’t defend in training camp, didn’t grab rebounds, didn’t compete for ground balls, and didn’t save off the off-field balls? Is it necessary to hold a grudge for so long?
"Ali, I burned my remaining 20% of my character."
Lin Han gritted his teeth and shouted to Aly in the space inside as he looked at Hardaway's back as he left, saying that he had really fought for this game.
"You're not going to keep it just in case?"
Chapter completed!