Duke fans can be forgiven for never worrying too much about Shaquille O’Neal: Christian Laettner exposed a big weakness of O’Neal’s - he couldn’t defend a jump shooter away from the basket - and so Duke never had much trouble against the legendary LSU big man.
People today have gotten used to him as a big, genial TV host and pitch man. But there’s no doubt the guy was a handful. Consider this video against Tennessee from the 1992 SEC tournament.
Shaq was being double-teamed and was getting pushed around, or at least as much as you can push a man of his size around, and when Carlus Groves simply wrapped his arms around O’Neal as he tried to shoot and pulled him down, the big guy had had enough.