<< who cares if Shaq had to work hard for what he got? He still got it. >>
Not the finest hour for argument here at D-mavs.com.
If you'll go back and look at the box scores for the Lakers-Blazers series (I have, you can too), you'll notice that in some of the games where O'Neal put up the biggest stats, the Lakers lost. Making O'Neal work harder for his points disrupted the Lakers' offense, and prevented them from establishing any continuity.
Sabonis did a very strong job against O'Neal, and with Wallace and or J. O'Neal (and the following year D.Davis) coming over to harass O'Neal from the weakside, the Blazers provided a virtual blueprint for how to defend O'Neal platoon-style.
And for the record, that wasn't O'Neal's series...it was Kobe's.
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