Bishop of the Devil

When the Pistons ran out of fouls, Richard replaced Yao Ming on the court without saying a word.

The next step was to chop the shark, which made O'Neal completely lose his temper...

Of course, Yao Ming cannot be used to cut the shark tactic. Richard will put on the team's fringe players at the right time to execute the shark cut tactic.

The previous transactions all required salary balancing, so Richard now has a few cannon fodder players who can be used to do the dirty work of chopping up sharks.

…

Kobe Bryant's hand felt a little better in the second quarter, but it was just a regular performance. Gerald Wallace may also want to prove his strength tonight, so he worked very hard on the defensive end.

By the time the first half was over, the Lakers were defeated by fourteen points.

Judging from the match between the two sides, the Pistons can really stabilize the Lakers.

The strength of the Lakers' lineup is indeed quite strong. They have the league's No. 1 center and the league's No. 1 shooting guard. You can't find such a combination in the entire NBA history.

But while they are strong in one area, they are a bit scummy in other areas. At least when facing a lineup like the Pistons with five All-Star starters on the field, they are somewhat stretched.

Fisher was directly beaten by Nash, and Fisher was completely beaten on both offense and defense.

Rick Fox is now the Lakers' starting small forward and had no presence at all throughout the game.

…

The Lakers fans in the field sighed secretly, the Lakers were going to be in trouble.

At least the current lineup is definitely going to be cool.

Originally, they thought that the Eastern Conference was full of weaklings. This game would give them a good beating on the Pistons, and then in the Western Conference playoffs, they might be able to reach the Finals if they performed exceptionally well...

Once they enter the finals, wouldn't it be a sure thing to beat the weak teams in the Eastern Conference?

But now the strong performance of the Pistons has made the Lakers completely give up this idea.

This season, or before this season until the Bulls dynasty disintegrated, the Eastern Conference was indeed a weak team, because for so many years, the Eastern Conference teams had never won a championship.

But with Richard coaching the Pistons, no one dares to say that the Eastern Conference is weak anymore, at least no one dares to say that the Pistons are weak.

Although the Pistons cannot be called the strongest team in the league at the moment, they have always been among the top three in the league's strength rankings in recent periods.

With such strength, who dares to say that he is a weakling...

…

"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle to end the game.

The Pistons finally defeated the home team Lakers at Staples Center with a 19-point margin.

Although the Lakers lost miserably tonight, the statistics of the two superstars on their team are quite luxurious.

O'Neal scored 32 points, 22 rebounds, 4 blocks, 3 assists and 1 steal in this game. A super luxurious 30+20 data, which is enough to prove that he is still the most formidable inside monster in the league.

You know, in tonight's game, O'Neal only played 29 minutes!

In less than thirty minutes of playing time, he managed to achieve such extremely luxurious statistics, which is really terrifying.

The only thing is that the free throw shooting rate is a bit messy. O'Neal made 24 free throws tonight, but only made 10 of them. He didn't even have a 50% free throw shooting rate...

If he can maintain a free throw shooting percentage of more than 80%, then I am afraid he will definitely not only score 30+ points tonight...

If there is no free throw trouble, then he can stay on the court all the time. With O'Neal at full strength, even if he scores 60 points, Richard will not be too surprised.

Kobe was not in particularly good condition tonight, and there must be a reason why Gerrard was so good at defense.

Richard feels that Gerrard's defense may be better than that of Leonard, the Spurs' young master in later generations...

This is not a joke, this is what Richard really thinks.

In a sense, Gerrard and Leonard really have a lot in common.

For example, the defense is quite top-notch, and although the offensive ability is also good, it is not particularly top-notch.

If we really want to talk about the difference between the two, I'm afraid Leonard's basket is better than Gerrard's...

Under such intense defense, it makes perfect sense for Kobe to be in poor condition tonight.

However, even in poor condition, Kobe relied on a high number of shots and finally scored 29 points.

Kobe Bryant is the Lakers' scoring leader this season. He has occupied the team's scoring leader position for three consecutive years.

The scoring average of 30.5 points per game is higher than O'Neal's 27.5 points per game.

Apart from these two people, there is only one little fish in the Lakers, Fisher, who averages double figures per game, but he only averages 10.5 points per game...

From this we can see the shortcomings of the Lakers' lineup, which is too lacking in mid-range players.

…

Yao Ming played 34 minutes tonight, more playing time than O'Neal, but his statistics are not as good as O'Neal's.

With 35 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block, although he scored more points than O'Neal, other statistics can be said to be surpassed by O'Neal...

There is nothing that can be done about it. After all, Yao Ming is only in his rookie season. Richard is already quite satisfied with being able to produce such data against O'Neal.

What satisfied Richard the most was Clark's performance tonight...

Clark didn't score much tonight, only 10 points, and he didn't have many rebounds. He had 9 rebounds, but he only blocked a lot of shots...

He recorded 8 blocks in a single game and almost had a triple-double in blocks tonight!

Horry alone contributed 5 blocks to Clark!

Richard praised Clark fiercely. If nothing else, Clark has a good chance of winning the best defensive player award this year.

Currently, Clark is averaging 3.1 blocks per game.

In the past few years, Mourning and Daben almost dominated the DPOY awards. The DPOY awards in previous years were all divided between these two people.

But as Mourning developed kidney disease, he was no longer able to compete for this honor with a big team.

This also led to Ben winning DPOY three times in a row...

Richard estimated that it would be impossible to continue giving this award to Ben this year no matter what. He estimated that it might be given to Clark, whose defensive performance was second only to Ben.

Of course, there’s no way of saying this. If those judges just want to give the big money, then Richard can’t do anything.

However, there is still a lot of time before the end of the regular season. Richard can take advantage of the remaining time to let Clark work hard on the defensive end.

Ben's current average blocks per game is only 0.1 more than Clark's. If he works hard in the future, Clark may not be able to catch up with Ben.

The reason why Richard cares so much about this matter is actually mainly because there was a mission about Clark before.

"Defending the Center's Last Glory", the goal of this mission is to get Clark to get rid of bad habits, and then win a block champion, an All-Star and a DPOY.

Although this mission goal does not require that he must play under Richard, Richard estimates that if Clark goes to other teams in the future, it will be much more difficult to win the block title and DPOY. …

So while Clark was still under his control, he tried his best to complete this task first.

Now Clark has given up the bad habit of drinking, and has already played in the All-Star game once, and was still a starter.

Next, you only need to get a shot-blocking king and a DPOY to complete this task. Basically, the two are the same thing.

If he wins the shot-blocking title, Clark will almost certainly get the DPOY after Ben has already won three DPOYs in a row.

The reason why Richard is so concerned about this task is actually because the rewards of this task are too generous!

Three celebrity points, three coaching attributes including lucky points, a high-level injury scroll, and a Zeon Clark hotpot prop.

It’s simply ridiculously rich!

Fame points are definitely a good thing, but Richard spent six of his previous 10 on Yao Ming, and now only has four left. Completing this task can just replenish a wave of fame points.

When Charlotte builds a new team in the future, it will be his own team in name, and he will definitely have to put in more effort.

…

As soon as the game ended, frantic reporters rushed onto the court and began interviewing players from both sides.

O'Neal's voice was not quiet, and he may have said it deliberately to Richard and Yao Ming.

"Yao Ming is not my opponent. You should have seen the situation on the court."

"It's no exaggeration at all. I'm afraid the two Yao Mings tied together can be my opponent."

"My data completely blew him away!"

O'Neill shouted at the top of his lungs.

Before Richard and the others left the stage, there were also a group of reporters surrounding them, wanting to interview Richard and Yao Ming...

As a result, when Richard heard O'Neal's shouting, he immediately got angry and started scolding O'Neal through the crowd.

"The fat guy who lost actually dares to talk so shamelessly!"

"Do you think you lost too few points? You have to lose more than 20 points to feel comfortable? Then next time I will let you lose 20 points!"

"Yao Ming scored more points than you. You fat guy is so shameless. You are telling lies!"

I'm afraid the entire alliance knows Richard's temper, and he must not suffer a loss.

Being scolded by Richard at the top of his lungs, O'Neill's anger suddenly surged. He pushed aside the reporters around him and headed towards Richard.

The reporters were going crazy because they were laughing so hard. They didn’t expect that there would be such excitement tonight.

Are O'Neal and Richard going to fight...

But before they were happy, the troublesome guy appeared.

I saw Kobe holding O'Neal firmly, and then the Pistons quickly walked up to Richard, surrounded Richard behind them, and looked at O'Neal coldly.

"Richard, if you have the ability to fight in a duel!" O'Neill was furious...

"You, fat man, have no idea. You want to challenge me to a duel. You are not worthy!" Richard curled his lips and said.

He's not stupid. If he were to challenge O'Neal in a one-on-one fight, even ten of him tied together wouldn't be O'Neal's opponent.

This is really not an exaggeration. It is really possible that ten Richards cannot beat one O'Neal with bare hands.

…

Kobe was speechless and about to faint. Although his relationship with O'Neal was not harmonious, he did not want to see O'Neal suffer.

Didn't you see that the Pistons generals were already in full formation? If O'Neal rushed over so rashly, he would probably beat the Pistons villain into a pig's head.

…

In the end, it was Zen Master who came forward and pulled O'Neal back to the locker room passage, which finally settled the matter.

The reporters were naturally extremely disappointed. It would have been wonderful if there had been a fight just now, and the news for the next week would have been settled.