"Shaq, looks like you really are poison. At this rate, they might actually make it through a whole half."
Barkley laughed as he looked at O'Neal.
As a Tang fan who loved blindly hyping him up, O'Neal had jinxed the Pelicans more times than anyone could count.
This time was no different. The score had been rising back and forth, and they really might play through the half, or even longer.
It seemed the Playoffs really were different from the Regular Season.
The Pelicans might have won 80 Wins in the Regular Season, but they were having a tough time even in the first round.
O'Neal checked the clock and immediately shook his head.
"Only three minutes have passed. There are still two minutes left."
O'Neal said it with absolute certainty.
Even Smith started laughing after hearing that.
O'Neal really would not give up until the very end. With how things were going on the court, even if they did not make it to halftime, they could at least last half a quarter.
Two minutes meant only a few possessions.
Boom!
But just as he was thinking that, Tang Tian drove past Murray and, before Aldridge could rotate over to help, hammered the ball through the hoop with a tomahawk dunk.
Cheers exploded from the crowd, instantly blasting through their eardrums.
"Didn't you notice that Tang hadn't attacked at all since the opening tip?"
Once the cheers died down, O'Neal spoke with a smug look on his face.
That expression of his was practically begging to be punched.
Yet Barkley and Smith could not say anything, because what he said made sense!
Tang Tian had not attacked after the opening tip, but the moment he did, he threw down a monster dunk. The entire Pelicans team had a different energy