After the Jazz were eliminated by the Lone Ranger, Gobert finally ushered in enough rest time, and the idle Gobert did not choose to go to the nightclub like Durant, but chose to fight with O'Neal online. Earlier, when O'Neal was on a TV show, host Anthony Adams said that Gobert could prevent O'Neill from scoring only 12 points in a game. In this regard, O'Neill, who has always been dissatisfied with no one, naturally could not bear it, and he directly replied to the host: "12 points? That's right, it was in the first 3 minutes." After that, open-air sports posted O'Neill's words online, and Gobert commented: "I will prevent him from dying." O'Neill later responded to Gobert: "I was wondering what French roast chicken tasted like, it must have tasted good." Like I said, I wouldn't jump up and hook his hands, I would hit him on the back against his little ribs and then face him. ”
The verbal battle between Gobert and O'Neill has aroused the attention of many fans, but the vast majority of fans still choose to support O'Neill, they believe that O'Neill will destroy Gobert, and also gave several reasons, let's take a look.
The first is the comparison of the physical talents of the two people, O'Neill reached 216 centimeters tall, weighed more than 300 pounds, reached 231 centimeters in arm span, and reached 287 points in standing height. Although O'Neal is called O'Fat by the fans, he is not clumsy at all, and the bounce reaches 91 points, and the previous NBA touch was created by O'Neal. In contrast, although Gobert is also 216 cm tall, his arm span is 235 cm long, and his standing height is 292 cm, he is not outstanding in bouncing, plus his weight is only 110 kg. From the physical point of view, there is no doubt that O'Neill is more outstanding. As long as O'Neill arched his ass, Gobert would probably fall out.
O'Neal is the most dominant center in NBA history, he is also the top ten stars in NBA history, winning 4 championships, 3 FMVPs, 1 MVP, 8 times in the best team, 2 times the leading scorer, 15 times in the All-Star team. And Gobert, he can get his hands on 3 times the best defensive player, 1 rebound king, 1 block king, 5 times selected for the best team, 3 times selected for the All-Star team. In terms of honors, O'Neill can be said to have dumped Gobert 18 streets.
Finally, Gobert thinks he can defend O'Neal, which is actually based on his three-time best defensive player. O'Neal's career has been paired with many of the best defensive players, Olajuwon, David Robinson, Mutombo, Ben Wallace, Howard are the NBA's famous defensive champions. Among them, Olajuwon is regarded as the NBA's best defensive center, but in the 1995 NBA Finals, Olajuwon could not limit O'Neal's score, and O'Neal, who was still on a rookie contract that year, averaged 28 points per game, shooting nearly 60%.
And Mutombo, who has won 4 times the best defensive player, 3 block kings, 2 rebounding kings, his height, arm span, weight is also similar to Gobert, the famous A Smith is bluntly said that Gobert is the modern version of Mutombo. But Mutombo, when he faced O'Neal, was almost helpless. In the 2001 Finals, O'Neal faced Mutombo, averaging 33 points, 15.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 3.4 blocks per game, shooting 57.3% from the field, while Mutombo averaged only 16.8 points, 12.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game. In that year's finals, O'Neill's picture of Mutombo was even more impressive to the fans.
In the history of the NBA, it is estimated that no one other than Chamberlain can defend O'Neal in a one-on-one situation, and obviously Gobert is not. It is worth mentioning that next year's NBA All-Star Game will be held in Salt Lake City, and it is hoped that Gobert will be able to play against O'Neal, who has been retired for many years.