Grove Street Brothers

I was not a perfect person, not an easy teammate to get along with, and I could not even be considered a good person at all.
However, no one in this world could deny that I was the greatest basketball player, not even God!

Champion Creed

In '97, Karl Malone and Greg Ostertag managed to limit Shaq's shooting percentage to below 50% during the West semifinals.


So, it was predictable that Karl Malone and Mutombo made it extremely difficult for Shaq to get anywhere.


Of course, being inefficient isn't the same as destroying the game.


'Destroying the game,' as Magic put it, was when O'Neal kept making crazy shots despite struggling with his inside attacks.


Looking at the stats, O'Neal only shot 9 times because shots after being fouled aren't counted in the shooting statistics.


So, the actual situation was that O'Neal took a lot of inefficient low-post singles in the first half and was unwilling to pass the ball.


People remembered the third quarter of last year's finals in Game 4, when O'Neal also went crazy, shooting recklessly and ultimately allowing the SuperSonics to close the gap to single digits.


Luckily, O'Neal returned to normal in the fourth quarter, and Magic narrowly won the game.


179: This is really unfortunate (asking for monthly votes!)_3