A very simple arithmetic problem: It is also an offensive opportunity. A three-pointer is scored three points, and a two-pointer is scored two points. Who gets more points?
The answer is that even kindergarten children know that three points are more than two points, and it is more cost-effective to score with three-pointers.
But the reality is that before the advent of the small ball era, there was no special three-pointer tactic in the league, and everyone chose two points.
Why is this so?
Naturally, the answer cannot be that everyone is a fool. There is a question of scoring rate involved.
Is it easier to score a 3-pointer or a 2-pointer?
Of course, the latter is easier, because the closer you are to the basket, the higher the accuracy.
The three-point shot is very far from the basket when it is opened, and it is difficult to guarantee the shooting percentage. In an era full of confrontation, rather than sacrificing its competitiveness for the viewing of the game, the three-point shot really cannot be played efficiently.
Without high enough efficiency, naturally no team will choose it.
This is why, even though Xu Ang has made many three-pointers this season, including many of them far, many people in the league are still questioning him.
Who makes the defensive intensity of the playoffs completely different from the regular season.
Taking Xu Ang as an example, in order to prevent him from making three-pointers, the Lakers defended him with a lot of action. His entire body was attached, and he kept hitting Xu Ang with his body, trying to destroy Xu Ang's sense of balance. At the same time, the Lakers also waved their arms, interfering with Xu Ang's dribbling, and constantly looking for stealing opportunities.
If his defensive method was used in the body hair whistle era of later generations, he would have been punished long ago, but in this era when everyone is a real man, it is a regular operation in the playoffs.
It's no wonder that people have the notion that if you're not physically strong enough, you can't become a superstar, and even the NBA can't adapt.
Just imagine, if you were knocked away or fell to the ground as soon as you were physically confronted by someone, how would you play well?
If you can't even protect the ball, how can you score?
"Listen, if I were you, I wouldn't do that."
As soon as Xu Ang finished speaking, he held the ball in both hands, and he was a back to the Lakers player.
As soon as the two sides made physical contact, Xu Ang was fine, but the other side couldn't keep his pace, staggering back two steps in a row, if Xu Ang didn't use too much strength, the Lakers player defending him would have to fall to the ground.
He easily broke the opponent's defense, Xu Ang had plenty of room to shoot, he pulled the ball in place, and he sent the basketball into the basket neatly.
Seeing Xu Ang scoring again, O'Neal angrily shouted to his teammates: "Stick to him, follow him closely, you soft bastard."
From O'Neal's point of view, the teammates who defended Xu Ang and Xu Ang both played on the outside. Even if there was a gap in strength between the two sides, they would not lose their position if Xu Ang leaned on him lightly.
Either this guy was careless, or he didn't pay attention to defending.
If you dare to be careless in the playoffs, this teammate is also useless. You can't even yell at him.
The Lakers player who was yelled at was very aggrieved. It wasn't because he was incompetent, it was because the opponent was too strong. When Xu Ang physically confronted him, he found the feeling of fighting against O'Neal from Xu Ang.
That power, attacking like an overwhelming force, directly knocked people away, giving you no chance to fight at all.
They are all perimeter players, and the other party is still a yellow race. Shouldn't it be me, the black and tough, who is stronger and more powerful than him?
The Lakers player, who was puzzled like Zhang Er King Kong, was very depressed at first, but when Xu Ang used the same method three times in a row—to eat hard with his strength, it was simple and rude, and he was simply smashed away three times, and he became numb. , also confessed.
Even if O'Neal roared, he would go in from his left ear and go out from his right ear.
Even when O'Neal yelled at him for the fourth time, he impatiently replied: "You can go ahead, don't beep if you don't."
With O'Neal's temper, he can bear it?
Of course that's impossible.
O'Neal is also violent: "I'll go, I'll go, let's see Uncle Shaquille make a sample for you, jerk."
When the Clippers attacked the next time, O'Neal really got out.
Seeing this big guy come out of the paint area, Xu Ang couldn't help but ask, "You're not in the basket, so you won't worry about me passing it in directly?"
Of course worried.
But this cannot be said.
O'Neal tried to provoke Xu Ang: "Let's have a showdown between men, whoever passes the ball will be soft."
Xu Ang pouted: "I'm dribbling and you tell me this, it's obviously taking advantage of me. But for the sake of you being accidentally hit with a concussion, I'll give you a chance."
"Bastard, don't mention this."
O'Neal shot rough air from his nostrils.
"Are you ready? I'm going to start."
"You don't need to remind me, come on, I'll wait."
"A kind heart is always regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs. I remind you so that you won't be too ugly in the future. Since you don't appreciate it, then I'll come."
The hand that slapped the ball added a little strength, Xu Ang dribbled the ball, lowered his center of gravity, his shoulders sank, and facing O'Neal was a physical confrontation.
boom!
The collision of muscle and muscle burst out a blood-boiled cry.
O'Neal only felt a strong force hit him, causing his body to shake, and it took him a long time to stabilize.
Such great power!
O'Neal was taken aback. He didn't expect that Xu Ang, who didn't seem to be a big man, was so tyrannical that he almost didn't make him embarrassed.
Without knocking O'Neal away, Xu Ang's eyes lit up, and he praised: "Okay, Shaquille O'Neal's response was: "Come again! "
Come again, come again, when I'm afraid you won't succeed.
Once, twice, three times... The 30,000 spectators who watched the entire Treasure Ship Arena held their breaths, and only the sound of the collision of muscles echoed throughout the arena.
boom! boom! boom! ...
One more time, one more time.
That is the purest collision of forces, the most primitive way of wrestling, and the most ignited way of igniting the primitive passion in the depths of human genes.
One more time, one more time.
The 30,000 spectators in the entire arena, plus the players of the two teams on the court, were all waiting for the two men with human appearances, but in reality the core of behemoths, to decide the winner in the most masculine way.
The referee who enforced the game had the intention to blow the whistle and brushed off his sense of presence, but he was worried that he would provoke public anger and could not even get out of the arena. In the end, he acquiesced to the wrestling.
He had to be thankful that he made the right choice, otherwise he would have to be strangled to death by Stern.
You must know that this scene is a famous scene that can be recorded in NBA history. It can be brought out decades later to amaze the fans. Whoever dares to destroy Stern has to blow his dog's head.
There is a saying that it is difficult to ride a tiger. Xu Ang and O'Neal were originally just a simple physical confrontation, but they didn't expect it to become like this. Under the successive collisions, one of them had shoulder pain and the other had chest pain. Xu Ang could hear the groan of his shoulder blades every time they collided, and O'Neal, who was hit by him, could feel the overwhelm of his sternum.
The two of them wanted to withdraw their hands, but they found that they had become the focus in the arena, and they were unwilling to retreat first.
So, this wrestling can only continue with a bit of a scalp.