The Dribble: Shaq says gimme five

At the end of last year's championship run with the Miami Heat, his fourth title, Shaq said:

"We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it.
Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year."

Well now here's the Diesel again in an interview with the Associated Press as he sums up the eastern conference offseason and what to expect

"Five, for me, the motivation's five."

"We have a formula and we're going to stick to that formula.
A lot of guys are getting better,
but I'm not impressed by what anybody else has done.
I've seen it all before. We know what we have to do.
We already know teams, when they come play us,
they play extra hard. We`ll be ready."

"It's all about winning more titles
The first three championships that I won, I won them.
I had big numbers and I won them, and last year,
the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy.
Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league
who can say they've got great numbers.
But they can't say they`ve got four rings in the last six years."

If the Miami Heat won the championship for Shaquille O'Neal does he feel like he owes the rest of the team something in return now? How motivated is he gonna be? At the age of 33 how much can he really contribute?

Lots of questions, the answers will come in an 82 game format and then some.

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Monday, October 02, 2006

Shaq says gimme five

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