Garnett thought it was an accident when O'Neal defended like this in the last round.

It's O'Neal! How could a super big center do dirty and tiring work to assist in defense and repair?

It’s okay to assist in defense and make up for defense, but there is no problem in assisting defense and making up for defense at the basket.

But this is the auxiliary defense and supplementary defense of the medium-distance contraction and expansion, and this is the work that power forwards and small forwards should do. Garnett thinks that O'Neal will definitely not be able to do this, and it must have been an accident just now.

But in the second round, O'Neal and Zhang Hao's defense cooperation did not require training or negotiation, it was just so suitable...

Garnett felt that his team logo was about!

He avoided O'Neal but was unwilling to play center. O'Neal played against them Timberwolves and actually chose to play power forward... Garnett felt like he was targeted!

In fact, O'Neal was helpless. In the past, Hores Grant helped him to make up for defense and assist in defense. Now, he needs to help another "center" to make up for defense and assist in defense and mid-range!

But it's all like this, O'Neal has no choice but to have such a teammate. What else can he do?

Fortunately, he lost weight and spent nearly three weeks to control his weight between 131,133 kilograms. He became the Magic's super center with a running and jumping ability comparable to a small forward!

Otherwise, with the start of the first comeback, the defense this time would be impossible.

Anyway, after half a season of slacking off, O'Neal was about to start playing seriously after the All-Star Weekend.

Why... He was so upset that he was defeated by the All-Star. He wanted to compete for the best team!

There are two competitors, one is Olajuwon and the other is Ewing.

Although both of them are not as efficient as him, both of them are very healthy. His fat data and dominance are not great. Olajuwon recovered in form. After losing weight, Ewing played the best efficiency since he was selected for the first time in the 8990 season. After so many years, O'Neal knew that according to his current total number of appearances, he could not compete for these two people, so he could only compete with Mo Ning, who was missing for about 10 games due to injury in the same half season.

But he was unwilling to give up! Both of them were selected as All-Stars, and he wanted to compete with these two for the best team.

Then you have to fight hard.

At this time, he rarely thought about repaying his favor. Zhang Hao accommodated him on the offensive end, but he could only accommodate Zhang Hao on the defensive end.

Fortunately, although it was a helpless move, the coordination effect was pretty good.

The three-headed wolf is extremely compatible, but Garnett and Marbury are both young, one is 20 years old and the other is 19 years old. O'Neal took the initiative to change his defense style and cooperated with Zhang Hao, and there was a way to defend the opponent!

In addition, O'Neal changed his style of play on the offensive end, actively holding the ball to restrain Gugliotta, creating opportunities for his teammates to cut in. With Zhang Hao's second pass during the marching, Kenny Anderson made a three-pointer, Byron Scott made a two-pointer, and Zhang Hao failed to make a three-pointer to O'Neal scored two points... The Lakers played a 9-2 wave at the beginning of the second quarter, quickly widening the gap to 7 points!

When O'Neal put his companionship and took the initiative to adjust his playing style based on his teammates' style of play, the Lakers' defense in the first and second quarters changed qualitatively!

The fans at the scene thought they were hard to play with the Lakers tonight... They did play hard to play in the first quarter, but at the beginning of the second quarter, the gap in strength suddenly widened!

The balance was broken. The Timberwolves could not defend themselves before and could find ways to waste from the offensive end. Now, they can't do it!

In the second quarter, led by O'Neal's defensive end, the Lakers first made a 9-2 wave, 42-35, leading by 7 points.

The Timberwolves' next attack was only 7-5, chasing the score to 42-47.

In the second half of the second quarter, the Lakers played another 16-9. At the end of the half, the Lakers expanded their lead to 12 points!

In the second quarter, after O'Neal cooperated with Zhang Hao to protect the rim and make the mid-to-close and defense at the basket, the Timberwolves originally shot with two big strikers, Marbury broke through, and the role player cut-in style was not feasible, and they only scored 18 points in the second quarter!

Marbury scored 11 points and 4 assists in the first half, Garnett scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, Gugliotta scored 9 points and 2 assists in the first half, and the three of them had already played their strongest form.

If O'Neal still plays like before the All-Star weekend, with an enthusiasm for getting about twenty points, ten rebounds, and two or three assists per game, the Timberwolves do have the opportunity to keep a close eye on the Lakers, and it may not be necessary who loses or wins in the end. Who makes the Lakers unlucky and there is another lazy second fat man?

However, when O'Neal played seriously and took the initiative to cooperate, his advantage was so obvious! It was much stronger than when Barkley played seriously!

On the offensive end, Barkley may be able to perform similarly, but on the defensive end, Barkley won't be able to do anything O'Neal can do even if he fights his life!

In the third quarter, Zhang Hao, who was used as a restraining point by Kenny Anderson in the first half, got the opportunity to attack.

The Timberwolves are young and have no limits and full of fighting spirit. During the break, Philip Sanders, the talented young coach, arranged a very aggressive attack. Taking advantage of O'Neal's absence, it did have a very good effect, but the defensive problem arose! They made quick shots and felt good, and they did make good offenses, but the fast shots were raised!

Zhang Hao seized the opportunity and, under the guidance of the Magician and Brian Shaw, fought back continuously, and scored 11 points in half a quarter.

Although Zhang Hao had 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks in the whole first half, he only had 9 points. When the official timeout in the third quarter, he overtook Garnett's 17 points and scored 20 points the highest in the game!

16-17 in the half quarter, relying on Zhang Hao's 11 points in the half quarter, the Lakers steadily maintained the lead, leading 11 points 79-68. After the official timeout, O'Neal returned to the court, and Zhang Hao also sucked sweat... In 5 minutes and 22 seconds after the official timeout, Kenny Anderson, O'Neal, Zhang Hao, Byron Scott, and George Lynch's five-man team scored 22 points and scored a 22-11 wave!

Although the Timberwolves scored 28 points in the third quarter, the Lakers scored 38 points!

The Timberwolves played very hard, with 79 points in three quarters, which is higher than their average season. However, the Lakers can always score points at a certain stage while limiting the Timberwolves' offense, such as the second quarter, and the second half of the third quarter.

The Lakers' defense is not very good most of the time, but when Zhang Hao and O'Neal cooperate with the defense, the Timberwolves' offense encountered big trouble. Maybe two years later, when Gugliotta was still at its peak, Marbury and Garnett became more mature, they could deal with the head horse combination.

But now, Zhang Hao O'Neal is the Timberwolves' nightmare!

With Zhang Hao's 23 points in a single quarter, the Lakers expanded their lead to 22 points after three quarters!

With this game, Philip Sanders gave up very little choice.

What a big deal. They have not beaten the Lakers in the past two years, and they will lose if they lose.

Garnett and Gugliotta were replaced in the interior and rested, and the rookie Marbury came on the court to play in the fourth quarter.

Zhang Hao looked at Garnett's 20 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks in three quarters, and watched himself with 32 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks in three quarters, and breathed a sigh of relief. He rested after the game, and today he abused the "power forward's golden generation"!

Originally, when the half-time was over, he thought his mission was about to be ended tonight.

Of course, he is willing to cooperate with O'Neal when O'Neal plays actively. If he can have a better chemical reaction with O'Neal and continue, a star experience card for the other four major forwards in the 1995th, even a technical transformation medal supporting training card can be given up.

Zhang Hao is still clear about who is more important.

But unexpectedly, after O'Neal came on the court in the third quarter, he could still score 12 points in the second half of the quarter. Looking at O'Neal's performance of 16 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 blocks in three quarters... This is simply!

What is a superstar? That's it!

Zhang Hao finally understood what the diligent shark is!

In the last quarter, Zhang Hao watched Fisher and Ben Wallace go up and be abused by Marbury... Old Fei and Da Ben next door still need to be tempered...

In the end, relying on the lead in the first three quarters, although the Lakers lost 8 points 19-27 in the final quarter, they still beat the Timberwolves 120-106, winning their first victory after the All-Star Weekend!

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There are many fans watching the live broadcast of the Lakers and Timberwolves game, and the media attention is also very high.

It's not surprising that the Lakers won the game. The difference in the record between the two teams is quite large. After this game, the Lakers' record was 39 wins and 10 losses, while the Timberwolves had 26 wins and 24 losses.

But the process and media predictions, what fans think are very different!

The Timberwolves' performance at the beginning was amazing, much stronger than the talent impact brought to people by the Dallas 3j.

However, in the second quarter, the trio of Kenny Anderson, Zhang Hao and O'Neal made the Timberwolves understand that talent cannot beat strength.

That's all, the Lakers' trio is definitely better than the Timberwolves trio. Kenny Anderson and O'Neal both have their sixth season in their career and fifth season in their career, and their maturity is much different.

The key is that O'Neal played very hard tonight! He played for 28 minutes in the third quarter and got 14 rebounds and 3 blocks!

What makes people feel most incredible is that O'Neal actually took the initiative to play against the power forward on the defensive end and gave the center position to Zhang Hao...

This caused another wave of voices of "I feel sorry for O'Neal's sacrifice".

But O'Neal's hard work is even more incredible.

O'Neal has proven that he has the strength to win rebounds if he wants, but why did the Magic average a net loss of 2.6 rebounds in the past two seasons with him and Hores Grant's duo?

It is because O'Neal is lazy that his season with the highest rebounding average was a rookie year, with an average of 13.9 rebounds per game, and then began to fall sharply. In the past two seasons, he averaged about 11 rebounds per game.

He still averaged 3.5 blocks per game in his rookie season, but likewise, he began to decline sharply after his rookie season.

With Zhang Hao and Kenny Anderson on the Lakers, Magicians, Brian Shaw and Jason Williams supporting him, O'Neal has worked hard on the games he competed with Zhang Hao this season, and at other times, he is lazy.

Suddenly, O'Neal became diligent!

Moreover, the alternative defensive combination of O'Neal and Zhang Hao is really amazing!

O'Neal and the Timberwolves are free from grievances. Obviously, O'Neal did not work hard because of personal grudges...

This made the media and fans curious whether O'Neal played like this after being fucked tonight, or did it really change?

If O'Neal can really play such a defense every night, coupled with the Lakers' offense that is still unstoppable in this era...

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In the first game of the All-Star Weekend, the Lakers once again became the focus of the media and fans' eyes.

There was another popular game that night. After the All-Star Game, Jordan once again won a triple-double, with 21 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists, 3 steals and 1 block. He performed very well and led the team to end the Heat's winning streak and avenge a single shot.

However, Boss Qiao can only customize leather pants...

Under the gaze of everyone, the Lakers came to Denver. After the game against the Timberwolves, the Lakers ushered in a back-to-back away home court, playing against the Nuggets on the 15th and returning to Los Angeles on the 16th to play against the Cavaliers.

After a night off, at 6 p.m. on the 15th, the Lakers and Nuggets game started.

This time, the Lakers played an unprecedented first quarter defense this season, leading by 9 points in the first quarter, which is not a rare thing for the Lakers, but this time the Lakers relied on defense, leading by 9 points in the first quarter, and scored a 25-16 score in the first quarter!

After arriving in Denver yesterday, Del Harris held a team meeting to make tactical changes for O'Neal.

Although the direction of the change made O'Neal helpless, he liked to change the tactics for him...

Barkley was placed on the bench, Kenny Anderson, Doug Christie, George Lynch, O'Neal, and Zhang Hao.

The offense has been affected to a certain extent, but the strength on the defensive end has improved a lot!

The main thing is O'Neal's adjustment!

This lineup played for a whole quarter. Del Harris wanted to see the effect. He was really not very satisfied with the offensive end, but on the defensive end... Del Harris was a little annoyed by O'Neal...
To be continued...