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Chapter 324: Chapter 206 When Shaquille O’Neal’s Beastly Nature Unleashes_2
However, an accident occurred when Shaquille O’Neal landed; Pachulia “couldn’t in time” retract his foot, and by not being careful, by paying no attention, he actually stepped under O’Neal’s foot.
Shaquille O’Neal let out a cry of pain, and fell down.
When Yu Fei initially suggested that the team select Pachulia, he admittedly had some mischievous thoughts in mind–he figured this guy might just step under someone’s foot in a moment of desperation–but he never imagined his dream would so swiftly become reality, and moreover, that it would be under the feet of the despicable bastard, Shaquille O’Neal. Perfect, if he had “accidentally” stepped under Duncan, Yu Fei would have felt a little guilty.
But, it seemed Shaquille O’Neal wasn’t seriously hurt; after the pain subsided, he stood up furiously, seeking retribution from Pachulia.
But it was too late, Pachulia saw danger coming and hid behind others, while Mason and other pacifists stepped forward to break up the fight.
“Don’t be mad, he’s just a rookie, he really can’t defend.”
“!Y=#!Y=”
Mason, the referee, and Shaquille O’Neal’s teammates finally managed to calm him down.
Then Mason also scolded Pachulia, “You rookie, you really don’t learn! If you get traded later, don’t say I coached you! It’s not just your face you’re losing, Big Fei’s face is gone too!”
“Indeed, stepping under someone isn’t cool,” said Yu Fei, nodding his head, “Next time I’ll find some footage of Bruce Bowen for you, learn something good from him.”
Mason was speechless.
The conflict could be calmed with kind words, but as long as the game continued, the sparks that had already appeared would blaze into a fire.
Yu Fei did not show any admiration for Pachulia’s actions, since what he did was ultimately not admirable.
But someone has to do the dirty work.
Pachulia then found the password to rising up the ranks.
He realized the team leader had a grudge against Shaquille O’Neal; the more he provoked O’Neal, the more the leader appreciated him.
Although Shaquille O’Neal was great, he wasn’t Pachulia’s teammate, and the Lakers were the Bucks’ number one competitors on the road to defending their title. Given all these objective facts, he felt he could do more to O’Neal.
Yu Fei called for a pick-and-roll, targeting Shaquille O’Neal, and the Lakers easily let Karl Malone take care of it.
Moreover, they didn’t want Yu Fei to have the chance to mismatch on offense, so they often chose to double-team Fei without thinking whenever he ran the pick-and-roll.
This strategy did give them a breather.
Because Pachulia and Mason weren’t three-point threats.
Therefore, even if they left these two unguarded to double-team Fei, it was difficult for them to take advantage of their own opportunities to score reliably.
If Yu Fei insisted on picking on Shaquille O’Neal, without the threat of a three-point shot from his own frontcourt, indeed there was no solution against the Lakers’ double-teams. But there wasn’t just one way to attack Shaquille O’Neal.
Yu Fei moved into the second phase of targeting–shooting guard pick-and-roll tactics.
The pick-and-roll tactic between Yu Fei and Ray Allen was the Bucks’ weapon for breaking through.
When the Lakers tried leaving Ray Allen unguarded, and after being punished by threes, they chose to switch defense, which put Yu Fei against Kobe.
As one of the Lakers’ main defenders on the outside, switching Kobe to defend against Yu Fei was the best outcome for them.
Yu Fei immediately jumped up and took a jump shot in front of Kobe.
This completely disregarded Kobe’s defense.
Kobe had done his best to interfere, but Yu Fei had the advantage of being simply taller.
“Swish!”
After special training with Tim Grover, Yu Fei felt the most intuitive change in himself was a sense of lightness in his physique.
Previously, whenever Yu Fei made the same move, he would give his all, but now, he could afford to hold back.
In Grover’s words, for the same movement, he could harness much more power than before.
Being shot over right in his face, Kobe naturally wasn’t willing to let it go.
A few seconds later, the Lakers’ attack ended with a solo play from Kobe.
Encouragingly, though Kobe’s solo attempt was unreasonable, he made the shot.
Yu Fei and Kobe began their duel, and although it lasted less than two minutes, it was too much for the true core of the Lakers to endure.
Not to mention the waste of energy from pointless running back and forth, Kobe also had to deal with Pachulia’s annoying antics.
Shaquille O’Neal’s patience had reached its limit.
With Yu Fei’s pass after a pick-and-roll leading to Devean George nailing a three-pointer, Shaquille O’Neal unilaterally declared the end of one-on-one.
Kobe through his actions conveyed: You’ve finished, but I’m just getting started.
When Kobe again ignored the tactics for a solo shot and then missed, Shaquille O’Neal channeled all his fury into that one play.
He leaped, grabbed the offensive rebound, and then wanted to deliver an explosive dunk.
Just when he was gathering strength to jump, Pachulia, completely disregarding how others felt, uncontrollably swung at Shaquille O’Neal’s hand.
“Smack!!!!!”
Yu Fei thought, that must have hurt.
The sound was really crisp, Pachulia truly was a brave man!
The referee blew the whistle, Shaquille O’Neal lost the ball.
The Big Shark instantly went berserk, his reason evaporating in that moment; he swung a punch of justice at Pachulia. But in the soap operas, justice doesn’t always triumph over evil.
As the embodiment of evil, Pachulia had a premonition of the consequences of throwing a punch, so he reflexively dodged backward, avoiding the force of his opponent’s strike.
But how could Shaquille O’Neal, now with his wild nature aroused, be content to let him escape like this?
Mason thought to play peacemaker a second time.
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Yu Fei came over too, noticing Shaquille O’Neal in a feral state, unlikely to be restrained by Mason.
However, his arrival did nothing to cool down the situation, and the already infuriated Shaquille O’Neal suddenly thought that, compared to Pachulia, the rat, Yu Fei was even more detestable. This man, who had insulted him before even entering the League, had humiliated him severely last season, taking advantage of his recent recovery from injury. Now he dared to intervene in the fight?
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