"It's not me, Hei, saying this, but time has already told us that O'Neal isn't as strong as people imagine!"

"Question for the uninformed: Is the player on the Lakers who averages 29.9 points per game the legendary 'Shaq' O'Neal?

But why does his full name on the NBA official website say Kobe Bryant?"

"Oh... Isn't that Shaquille O'Neal, nicknamed 'Superman'?

Why does he look shorter and thinner after not seeing him for a few days?

Oh, sorry, I was wrong. That 'Superman' is LeBron James!"

Online, the Shaq haters, who in Su Feng's previous life would have been hammered into silence by O'Neal's strength, were celebrating like it was New Year's.

And if you were to ask, in which year of this big-headed fish's career was his reputation most damaged...

In Su Feng's opinion, it would definitely be this year.

With the NBA prematurely abolishing the illegal defense rules, and the "post-illegal defense era" transition period ending these past two years, this season, the NBA's perimeter players have ushered in moments of explosive growth.

Meanwhile, the heavily targeted centers are still a group being treated differently.

Not only do they not enjoy the benefits of abolishing the illegal defense rules, but these big guys even have to face the opponent's blatant zone defense.

If their physical abilities were still at their peak, O'Neal wouldn't be ridiculed by these Shaq haters, no matter how fiercely they jumped.

However, compared to the "Behold my divine might, unbreakable" big-headed fish of the past...

At this moment, O'Neal, whose heart is completely occupied by the word "Ice," is in a "miserable" state, almost like "Ewing II."

Miami. After an unexpected home loss to the Lakers, Riley kept Su Feng behind that night.

"Su, I'm curious, what kind of player is Shaq in your mind?" Riley asked curiously, watching Su Feng constantly texting with McGrady.

As an important part of his high-stakes gamble this summer, Riley felt it was time to fully disclose his meticulously designed team-building strategy from last year to Su Feng.

Hearing this, Su Feng, who had already seen through Riley's intentions, put down his phone and smiled, "Shaq... he's still the best center in this league."

"Then... if you were Phil Jackson, how would you use Shaq?" Riley pressed.

"If I were Phil Jackson, I would first pair Shaq with an organizer who can hold the ball near the free-throw line.

This is the key to breaking the zone defense.

As long as you can have an organizer with shooting ability standing at the free-throw line, the zone defense will collapse.

Secondly, I would give Shaq at least two shooters with three-point shooting ability.

This way, as long as they are located on both 45-degree angles and the baseline, Shaq can get a good one-on-one environment on the court.

This season, Shaq, who seems to only be averaging 21.5 points, is no longer at his peak.

But in fact, this is also related to Phil Jackson's outdated tactics and the Lakers' roster configuration.

Look, let's take ourselves as an example...

On the surface, the Heat are also playing the 'triangle offense' this season...

But after your improvement, Pat, you don't really think the Lakers' 'triangle offense' can compare to ours, right?" Su Feng said after pondering for a few seconds, looking at Riley's wise eyes.

Pfft—!

In the Heat's locker room, Riley felt his life was worth living after hearing Su Feng's praise.

And as he expected...

Su Feng's understanding of basketball tactics was quite consistent with his own.

"Su, now that the season has progressed to this point, I won't hide it from you...

Regardless of the Heat's performance this season, I will definitely make a trade after this season.

Because you also know that building a dynasty in the NBA again has always been my life's ideal since I left the Lakers back then.

In addition, you, who are about to turn 26, are also in the prime of your career.

Whether it's technique or physical function...

I don't want to miss your theoretically strongest peak period." Riley said with a smile, patting Su Feng's shoulder.

"Pat... do you mean you plan to trade for Shaq back?" Su Feng asked knowingly after looking at Riley for two seconds.

Riley nodded and said, "I still have some connections in Los Angeles and Minnesota.

To be honest, since you joined the Heat, I have never considered building a team by slowly cultivating newcomers.

Therefore, I started planning as early as last summer.

It's a pity that my friend who works in Minnesota recently told me that Kevin Garnett has decided to stay with the team this summer because he has been getting along very well with the team's management these past two years.

But... my friend who works in Los Angeles told me that considering Shaq's continuous decline in form recently, from Jerry Buss above to the team's front office below, the Lakers have already made plans to trade Shaq this summer.

And based on my understanding of Jerry...

It's hard to impress him with ordinary chips.

Therefore, as long as we can show sincerity, then this summer, if nothing else happens, I will definitely bring Shaq to Miami."

Although Su Feng had already roughly known that Riley would choose to go all-in in the summer of '04, just like in his original timeline, when he chatted with Riley back then...

However, in this life, after personally experiencing Riley's entire team-building process, Su Feng felt that people like Riley would be called a "master strategist" no matter which era you put him in.

Before Su Feng was reborn, many people only saw that after Giba went to the Heat, the Heat became a top team in the East overnight.

But few people knew that through several consecutive years of drafts, the Heat had already selected Bam Adebayo, the "small Ade," who was even better on defense than the "big Ade."

As well as Tyler Herro, nicknamed Miami's "Stephen LaVine," who could dunk and shoot.

Including the undrafted Duncan Robinson, nicknamed "Klay without defense."

And in earlier years, even if James didn't win five, six, seven, or eight championships with Wade, Riley also successfully grasped Wade's peak career, adding two more championships to that Heat team.

In the NBA, if a coach or general manager has only proven himself once...

Then you can still say he's lucky.

But for people like Riley...

In Su Feng's memory, he's succeeded more than once or twice.

"Let's go according to your plan, Pat!

In my opinion, Shaq will definitely become my best helper." Su Feng said to Riley, squinting and smiling.

And now, before stepping onto the gambling table to make that high-stakes bet, Riley's last worry was swept away by Su Feng.

…

In late March, after revealing his entire plan to Su Feng, Riley began his "sao operation" in the past few days, in addition to leading the Heat to continue their regular season.

For example, when asked by the media about his views on this season's Lakers, Riley would often first praise Kobe without reservation.

And then, it would be his machine gun-like, crazy吐槽 of O'Neal.

"Shaq is already 32 years old this year, and I don't know why he still always argues with Kobe on and off the court like a child.

In terms of this season's form, in my eyes, Kobe is the leader of this Lakers team."

"Recently, many people attribute the Lakers' poor record to Karl and Gary's inability to integrate into the team...

But in my opinion, Shaq's failure to play his due role on the court is the root cause of the Lakers' inability to perform convincingly this season."

"You want me to evaluate the best center in the league today?

Of course, it's Yao Ming who plays for the Sixers.

He can shoot three-pointers on the court and is willing to set screens for Allen Iverson.

And you don't have to worry that after the game, he will complain to the media like a child that he didn't get everything he wanted in Los Angeles."

As we all know, since Riley led the Lakers to play the famous "show.time" in the 80s, Riley is nominally half a Lakers legend.

Therefore, when Riley bombarded O'Neal...

Where would O'Neal, who only led this Lakers team to one championship, dare to talk back?

Just...

After agreeing on everything with Riley, no matter how Su Feng looked at it...

Riley's move was more like a wet market auntie intentionally saying someone else's food is bad to get a better price before buying it.

Of course, as a smart person, Su Feng would naturally not only see this short-sighted surface.

Because he knew very well that in fact, Riley was also clearing the mines that might explode after the Heat acquired O'Neal in advance.

In Su Feng's original timeline, on the surface, it was Wade who used his strength to play out O'Neal's passive attribute of "all exes are scum, only the current one is the sweetest."

But in fact...

Based on Wade's shallow qualifications in his early years, how could O'Neal, who has always been very conceited, willingly say in interviews that he came to Miami to assist Wade if Riley hadn't arranged everything for him in advance?

It's just that Riley's "actions" now are more radical than in his memory.

Because Su Feng knew...

Riley didn't just want O'Neal to willingly assist him after coming to Miami!

This guy just wants to tell the world that even if O'Neal comes to the Heat, if the Heat really establishes a dynasty in the future, the credit will be his (Riley) and his own (Su Feng).

Since O'Neal only has one championship with the Lakers in this life, and his situation this season is quite bad, Su Feng has every reason to believe that...

If the Heat really uses Miličić and Odom to trade back for O'Neal according to Riley's script, then people might even describe this trade as "Riley made such a choice because he was out of his mind."

And for Riley's behavior without any fishing path...

Su Feng naturally chose to remain silent.

Because that's how the NBA is.

In Su Feng's view of himself as the master of this era, if he still considered the historical status of someone like a great philanthropist...

Then he can't write an autobiography in the future that is even more tragic than LeBron James, can he?

Wake up!

If he really wants to publish an autobiography in the future, then what Su Feng wants to come up with is definitely a爽novel, not a虐主novel!

As for the historical status of O'Neal and the others?

Hey...

Life has dreams, each is wonderful!

Since he came to this timeline, then just like when the Sixth Princess played the documentary of his first seven seasons...

————《I came, I saw, I conquered!》

…

April 4th, Miami. On his 26th birthday night, Su Feng led the Heat to defeat the Nets at home, resentfully being arranged by Stern to "work overtime."

And it is worth mentioning that because Su Feng scored his 32nd triple-double of the season in this game against the Nets, he officially surpassed Wilt Chamberlain and became the player with the second most triple-doubles in a single season in NBA history.

Currently, Oscar Robertson's 41 triple-doubles in a season still rank first on this list.

This season, because he has to take care of "taking care of children" while maintaining his record, Su Feng has always adopted the play style of only increasing the power of the sewers when he is sure of winning the game after turning on the "Finals Mode."

As for surpassing "Big O"?

Don't worry...

Although Su Feng is about to end his eighth season in the NBA, he is theoretically still a young player since he just celebrated his 26th birthday.

5th and 6th, after resting for two days with Britney's company...

7th, Su Feng, who just celebrated his 26th birthday, was "beaten up" by Duncan at the North Shore Garden Arena.

In this game, with Odom and Ginobili's "double ghosts knocking on the door," Su Feng suddenly began to miss the days of Carter on the left, McGrady on the right, and Jordan and Pippen in the middle.

This season, in the regular season, the Heat ended all 4 games with the Celtics with a record of 1 win and 3 losses.

And the only win...

It still relied on Su Feng's buzzer-beater at the last moment.

9th, in Philadelphia, the Heat also ended all 4 games with the Sixers this season with the same record.

After getting Mutombo last summer, the Sixers' interior strength can be said to be unprecedentedly terrifying.

Now, when Little Yao is off the court to rest, he not only has a reliable substitute, but also the Haplin, Salmons, and others on the Sixers' bench are all ruthless characters.

If you open Yao Ming and Iverson's technical statistics panels for this season, you will find that this season, in the regular season, these two people's playing time is 32 minutes for one and 36 minutes for the other.

In the past few seasons, since being hammered by the Raptors' second lineup, Carlisle has attached great importance to the construction of the bench in terms of signings in the past two years.

And thanks to the good rotation between the bench and the main players, with 4 games left in the regular season, the Sixers have already locked in the league's first place this year.

And from the game process, Su Feng felt that no team could pose any threat to this Sixers team this season.

In the regular season, the Sixers won all four of their games against the Celtics.

Faced with the interior line composed of Yao Ming, Ratliff, Mutombo, Coleman, etc., even Duncan is difficult to play a against-the-heaven performance.

And on the front line, Christie and Haplin are both the kind of players who can hold the ball and forcefully kill at critical moments.

If it were in previous years, before Marbury's mentality changed, the Celtics could still let these two people go one-on-one by switching Iverson to Marbury's face.

But this year, under the premise that Marbury's mind was corrupted by capitalism, when this Celtics team faces the Sixers, you can't always expect Ray Allen to turn on the掛吧?

To be reasonable...

Just the Sixers' original group of top-level off-ball killers and super lock defenses prepared for Su Feng...

No matter how capable Ray Allen is, he still has to pay attention to the 《Hanging Up Basic Law》.

And in the West...

The Suns are also a team that is being brutally countered by this Sixers team.

On the guard line, Iverson had already proved when he逆襲 the Bulls with Su Feng back then that if you don't prepare a mobile fortress in the interior, and you don't have a Lu 指導 outside, then your interior is this Philadelphia black lightning's ATM.

In addition, relying on the Great White Bear alone, the Suns can't solve this increasingly mature Little Yao.

Coupled with the fact that Ratliff is still brutally countering the Suns' perimeter front line group without encountering major injuries, as well as the pile of top lock defenses on the Sixers' perimeter...

In the regular season, the Suns also lost both games against the Sixers, suffering a season double kill.

As for the Lakers...

Seriously...

It's not that Su Feng is being negative about this Lakers team.

It's just that if this Lakers team really wants to break out of the West, they have to at least rely on Kobe to continuously turn on the掛for two rounds before it is possible.

This season, in the case of an extremely unreasonable lineup structure, in this era where zone defense is being used more and more maturely...

Expecting my Lakers' average of 12.1 three-point attempts per game to create space for O'Neal?

Then why don't you try letting O'Neal swim in a disposable cup filled with water?

10th, 12th, 13th, 15th, after leading the Heat to win two consecutive victories against the Pacers, Bucks, and Hornets, the Heat successfully ended their 03/04 season regular season journey with a record of 56 wins and 26 losses.

Because in the final game against the Hornets, as long as he could get 11 points and 14 assists, Su Feng could replicate the "season average of 30+ triple-doubles" record left by Oscar Robertson back then, so in this game, the Heat's players all competed to be Maple Emperor's 带刀侍卫.

In the end, Butler, who had become a transparent tool man in the Heat this season, was finally remembered by people on this night.

According to post-match statistics, in the 17 assists that Su Feng sent out in this game, Butler ate 9 cakes alone.

And so far, before O'Neal traveled east according to Riley's original plan, relying on O'Neal's divine assist after the All-Star Weekend, Su Feng also regained the scoring title that was occupied by Kobe for nearly two months in one fell swoop...

And, in the 03/04 season, Su Feng also successfully completed the great feat of the season average "30+ triple-doubles"!

In the 03/04 season, in addition to contributing an average of 31 points to the Heat, Su Feng could also hand over 11.5 rebounds, 10.1 assists, 2.0 steals, and 1.28 blocks per game. (Note 1)

And his high playing time of 44.8 per game is also a new career high.

In the East, after experiencing nearly 7 months of long厮杀, the Heat also announced the formal return of this team that was once built into an iron army by Riley in the 90s with a good record of third in the East this season.

On the standings, in the 03/04 season, the first to eighth in the East are as follows:

Sixers, Celtics, Heat, Pistons, Raptors, Nets, Pacers, Cavaliers.

In the regular season, after trading back Bosh and Joe Johnson, the Cavaliers finally caught up with the last train of the Eastern Conference playoffs with a record of 41 wins and 41 losses.

And because Su Feng also "led the team" to play the eighth record in the East in his rookie season...

Therefore, recently, many fanatical James fans have begun to look forward to whether My Emperor can lead the Cavaliers to complete a black eight against the Sixers in the playoffs.

Just...

As far as the Philadelphia fans who personally witnessed the Sixers逆襲the Bulls in that round of the playoffs back then...

They felt that these mentally handicapped fans were completely痴人说梦.

And after Su Feng left, the Raptors, who had been ranking in the upper reaches in the first half of the season, inexplicably suffered consecutive defeats in the second half.

When chatting with Davis on the phone, although his mentor did not say it directly, Su Feng always felt that Davis had been quite tired recently in dealing with the issue of who is the boss of this team, Little O'Neal and Carter...

In addition, the Pistons, who have gathered the Motor City f5, also have to rely on miracles if they want to replicate the so-called "civilian team miracle" in this life, in Su Feng's view.

Because according to the schedule, they will encounter the Sixers in the second round. Not only do they not have any advantage over the Sixers in defense, but even in the interior...

After gaining weight, Little Yao can still bully Big Ben in the low post.

And in addition to the teams that made the playoffs, in the case of the Hornets participating in the NBA as an Eastern Conference team in their last year, the ninth to fifteenth in the East this year are as follows:

Hornets, Hawks, Bulls, Bucks, Wizards, Knicks, Magic.

In the regular season, the Magic, who traded back Ricky Davis from the Cavaliers, were satisfied to get the ranking they wanted most.

And after being happy for N years, the Hawks are starting their road to recast Atlanta's glory under Wade's leadership.

With more ball rights than before, Wade is averaging 19.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 4.5 assists in the regular season, and is also one of the popular candidates for the NBA Rookie of the Year this season.

It's a pity that because Wade was also involved in the previous Gold Club incident, basically, the Chin Man has already withdrawn from this year's Rookie of the Year competition in advance.

And in the West, the rankings from first to fourteenth are as follows:

Suns, Mavericks, Lakers, Timberwolves, Grizzlies, Kings, Warriors, Nuggets, Jazz, Trail Blazers, SuperSonics, Clippers, Rockets, Spurs.

As the two main members of the "Texas Three Heroes" in Su Feng's memory, this year, because Houston and San Antonio are both拉胯, Dallas has become the last trump card of the Lone Star Republic.

It's a pity...

As if it was destined.

In this year's first round of the playoffs, the Mavericks happened to encounter the Warriors led by Nelson.

In the second half of the regular season, Oakland, who also felt that Stoudemire was very 香 under Nash's feeding, officially announced the establishment of the Su-style gang group's Golden State branch.

Based on Nelson's understanding of Nowitzki, Su Feng felt that if Little General Johnson still treats this team of offensive geniuses like the Pistons in the playoffs, then although black seven is not as heart-wrenching as black eight...

This little driver will probably be 手刃 by Nelson.

According to the schedule, the first round matchups of the Eastern and Western Conference playoffs are as follows.

East: Sixers vs Cavaliers, Celtics vs Pacers, Heat vs Nets, Raptors vs Pistons.

West: Suns vs Nuggets, Mavericks vs Warriors, Lakers vs Kings, Timberwolves vs Grizzlies.

In this year's first round of the Eastern and Western Conference playoffs, there are also many topics.

Whether it is the confrontation between the Sixers, who shocked the world with black eight back then, and the Maple Emperor's successor;

Or the master-disciple battle between Davis and Rivers;

Or the inextricably linked grievances and feuds between Nelson and the Mavericks, all made the fans look forward to this year's playoffs.

And this day...

Just as Su Feng was studying Pierce's game tapes and admiring his technical statistics after the end of the 03/04 season, Caron Butler, who had been a transparent person for the whole season...

Just knocked on Su Feng's door with his uneasy heart.

…

Note 1: This statistic is fictional and does not reflect the actual statistics of the 03/04 NBA season.