Training the Shark!

"How long has Shaq been like this?"

"Ever since he failed to hit that game-winner."

Looking at Shaquille O'Neal, who had his head covered and headphones on, ignoring everyone, Byron Scott had a headache.

Game 3 between the Lakers and Houston had already ended. In the final moments, Hakeem Olajuwon hit a crucial shot, and then the Lakers had one last possession.

At O'Neal's strong insistence, and with Kobe yielding to him, the final shot went to O'Neal.

Brimming with confidence, Shaquille O'Neal had seemed to see it already—the ecstatic expressions of his Lakers teammates and the fans after he hit the game-winner! He had seemed to see the praise in the newspapers and magazines the next day! He had seemed to see Hakeem Olajuwon's sigh!

But in the final second, Olajuwon's towering defense disrupted O'Neal's floater, sending it off the rim.

First came shock!

Then, seeing the celebrating Houston players and his disappointed Lakers teammates, came guilt.

O'Neal's emotions seemed to ride a roller coaster, plunging from the clouds into the abyss!

"Shaq, you only saw how glorious I looked when I hit game-winners. You never saw all the responsibility I carried when I took those shots." Kobe's words made O'Neal fall into deep thought.

O'Neal had indeed only seen Kobe's brilliance after making a game-winner. But what did it look like when he failed?

Now, O'Neal understood. The higher you climbed, the harder you fell.

That shot had made him the Lakers' sinner!

Not everyone was Kobe! Not everyone could fearlessly take game-winning shots like Kobe! Because they were afraid!

They were afraid of missing!

If you missed, you became the greatest sinner!

If you didn't shoot, you would never make a mistake!

But if you shot, you might be condemned by thousands!

Kobe had always silently borne