Chapter 19 End of regular season, championship championship
The news that O'Neal would have free throws and mid-range shots was tested in the next regular season game.
This game was a away game against the University of Florida, and the opponent's inside line was a meat shield. During the previous seasons of the confrontation, Florida's head coaches would use this trick to limit O'Neal. As a result, they became O'Neal's stepping stone today. O'Neal scored 40 points in the whole game, of which 13 points were scored in the mid-range shot, which was really a huge encouragement for him personally.
The regular season is still in progress. After playing Duke, the strong enemy, the Tigers welcomed teams from other divisions, such as South Carolina and other teams. These games were basically easily won by the Tigers. They ended the entire regular season with an 18-game winning streak. After the regular season, it was the SEC championship. The championship means that the Tigers will participate in the next NCAA Classic Tournament.
After O'Neal's mid-range shot, the Tiger's tactics have changed more, which makes the opponent even more unbearable.
On March 13, the Tigers came to the Jefferson Convention Center in Birmingham, Alabama, where they played the SEC League Championship, against the eighth-ranked University of Georgia Bulldogs, who eliminated the University of Mississippi in the first round of the tournament.
The game went smoothly. Although it was a championship, the intensity of defense increased a lot, the team's strength gap could not be smeared by defense alone. Except for point guard Letrio Green, the others of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, all performed poorly. The Tigers easily advanced to the next round.
The opponent in the next round is the Alabama Red Tide Storm. In this game, Horry and Sprerell still performed well on the Red Tide Storm, but in the No. 1 position, Flying Strokes still suppressed James Robinson. Flying Strokes are really playing better and better. Judging from this performance, after the end of this season, the pick in the draft will definitely not be low. Wang Lin remembers that the most famous person in this draft is those big men, and the point guard is really nothing good.
Flying Squirrels suppressed James Robinson, scoring 30 points and 8 assists and 2 steals, while O'Neal scored 25 points and 4 blocks in the inside.
The Tigers still entered the final without any resistance, and the opponent in the final was the Kentucky Wildcats.
Compared to Wang Lin's pride, Rick Pitino's mood these days is similar to that of Lao K. They are very unbeautiful. After losing to the Tigers, both teams were greatly affected, but Kentucky finally slowly adjusted, but he didn't expect to meet the Tigers again in this sec division championship. Is this a fateful encounter?
For the final of this championship, Rick Pitino was worried that he didn't sleep well all night. For Wildcats who had been suspended for two seasons, it was too important for them to get a ticket to the NCAA Classic, but the tiger opposite is no longer the tiger in my memory. They are now the entire SEC and even the NCAA league that is terrifying - the Demon Legion. If the opponent can hold on to the first half in each game, they can't hold on to the second half. They are either beaten by the outside or by the inside. This team has too many ways to win games than ordinary teams.
Especially O'Neal seemed to have suddenly become aware of the second half of the regular season. Not only could he shoot away from the paint area, but he could even pass a few good balls at the high position. With his already terrifying low-post back-playing ability, O'Neal has now become a more difficult existence in NCAA than Leitner.
Rick Pitino would rather play with Duke ten times in a row than play with the Tigers again, but to say that, the game still needs to be played. In order to win the Tigers, Pitino decided to substitute the team's No. 2 scorer, and also the defensive black hole John Perfrey, replaced the first-year forward Aminutin Black.
The division final was broadcast by Thunderstorm Sports, but Wang Lin didn't know either of the two announcers, Tim Brando and Steve Martin, but the two guys praised him fiercely.
"This year's Lsu Tigers are really terrifying. They have not lost a single game since the regular season. It is time to trace their losses to the warm-up match. At that time, Wang was debugging the lineup, so he lost a few games. But unexpectedly, after the regular season, the entire Tigers were completely upgraded to the Demon Legion. "Tim Brando and blew Wang Lin a bit, but Wang Lin didn't know who he was. If it were Marlon Brando, Wang Lin might know him.
Steve Martin was not idle either. "But in this game, the Kentucky Wildcats made a change in the team. They replaced the first-year freshman Aminutin Black to play against Michael Finley. It seems that Rick Pitino is a little afraid of Michael's shooting. However, compared to Michael's shooting, I am actually more curious about how Shaq completed his transformation in the second half of the regular season. If he would shoot mid-range in the NCAA Classic last year, the ending of the game was completely different."
As a professional basketball commentator, Steve Martin is very puzzled by O'Neal's sudden shooting, of course he is not the only one who is puzzled.
Tim Brando joked beside him, "Maybe it's the Eastern Magic of the mask devil, you have to know that he came from that mysterious country."
Aminutinbrak? Wang Lin looked at the guy on the other party's list and was a little stunned. If Wang Lin knew all of this name, he would know each other, but Wang Lin really didn't know who the other party was, but the system quickly gave an answer. This guy defended Latner alone in the quarterfinals of the 1992 Elite Championship in his previous life and was irritated by the latter. However, Latner just took a technical foul and was not expelled. He also made a countdown that Kentucky fans would always be worried about.
Isn't it a bit extravagant to let such a defensive player compete with Finley? Finley is not invincible, and the most invincible person on the Tigers is O'Neal.
Pitino was thinking too much, and he actually used Finley as a breakthrough. Hey, the game started, Aminutinbrac's physical fitness was not enough. Finley was completely at a disadvantage in the confrontation with him. Even the poor version of Jordan was not good, but thinking about this guy being able to defend Leitner alone, that was a center and inside, it was understandable. However, because of this, his lateral movement speed was still not enough to face a forward like Finley.
Sure enough, on the next attack, Finley received a pass from the Flying Squirrel, grabbed the ball behind him with one hand, then shook it, and added a light turn, passing Aminutinbrac in one step, flew to the inside, jumped high, and smashed the ball into the basket.
Jamalma, who was on the wing, was very unaware of the head coach's substitution adjustment. He changed John Perfry's No. 2 scorer to the bench and replaced with this first-year grade who only appeared in garbage time? What are you doing? Training new players and changing places, it's the final of the SEC Division Championship.
Aminutinbrook, a forward line, technically like most current forwards, has shots all rely on blur and scores all rely on breakthroughs. Although he broke through Finley's defense, O'Neal and Ratliff were stationed in the inside. The two men gave two hot pots one by one, and after four hot pots, Aminutinbrook would not have to have dinner today.
Chapter completed!