One of our concerns has been, and probably always will be - unless you have a (Tim) Duncan or a Shaq (O'Neal) - having enough depth at the center position with enough flexibility so you can match up with all the different teams, because teams give you different looks, ... That was a strength last year, and it will be another strength for us this year. We have the strength with Vitaly, versatility and talent with a guy like Nick Collison, a low-post game. You have some length now and running ability in Mikki and some youth in Petro and Robert and some toughness and bulk in Danny.
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The fear that O'Neal probably has is complacency. He's sending a message that as hard as it is to do, they've got to step it up.
In America, nobody has any idea what Wayne is. If you took Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Derek Jeter, Brett Favre and kind of put them all into one, that type of following would almost be the same as what Wayne has in Canada.
We still need to look forward. The way Miami will miss Shaq (O'Neal), they'll still need to play. Well, the league is not waiting for us or for Tracy to come back. We've got to hang in there. We can do better than that.
O'Neal didn't let the rebuke go unnoticed. He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball, ... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.
He was brought into my office and so badly wanted to meet Shaquille O'Neal. I arranged that the next time Shaq was here. I befriended him then. He and Shaq are so much a like. Their games are not all that similar ... but as far as them being likeable and smiling, they are very much alike.
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.
Vince isn't settling. That play when he took it to the basket and avoided the charge against O'Neal -- only he could do that. For him to turn his body and take the lead from three to five, that just shows where he's at right now.
Shaquille O'Neal, ... has signed a five-year, 100-million contract extension with the Miami Heat. ...Actually, they offered him 200 million if he would practice his free throws, but he said no.
Glen Davis is to college basketball and to this league what Shaquille O'Neal is to the NBA. There's nobody quite like him.
I don't care how many of these things I can inject into my body, am I going to be able to compete with Shaquille O'Neal on the basketball court No. Or would he be able to compete with me on the skating surface No. So there's a lot to just basic genetics, body style, physical stature, and then the mental capability, too. There's more to sports than just being big and strong and quick.
O'Neal has a good sense of where the business focus should be. He's been able to take advantage of a good business environment.
It's a 50-plus win team with two of the top 10 players in the league (O'Neal, Dwayne Wade). With Shaq, we'll try to collapse on him when he catches it and then make him play inside-out. With Dwayne, we'll just do our best to get help and make him play in a crowd.
Officer O'Neal is very considerate toward the other officers, and he was afraid if he was there he would have taken away from that moment for other officers. This is a very special time for them and their families.
Shaquille O'Neal, when asked about his terrible free-throw shooting, says he makes them when they count. This strikes me as a bad answer in basketball and in law, because they all count.