Chapter 654

In the first quarter, the two sides played calmly, without any beautiful confrontation or offense.

The only thing that made the fans on the scene exclaimed might be JR-Smith's fast-break dunk, which turned out to be dunked, followed by McGee's sweet operation of making up the dunk and then dunking.

The television footage showed Bird who was present off the field, he was lowering his head and covering his face, which is really enough.

The chemical reaction produced by the three live treasures together is very scary.

The key point is that they are not like O'Neill or Howard. They just like to be funny, and when they are serious, they are very serious and make few mistakes.

Indiana Sambo thinks that they are normal people who can no longer be normal, but they will short circuit, overheat, load and then trip from time to time.

Fortunately, such situations are not too many, and their performance is still very stable.

Bird felt he made the right decision to bench Stephenson as the sixth man.

At the end of the first quarter, the scores of the two sides came to a 22:22 tie, and neither side scored high in the first quarter.

James and Li Liang each led the team to "mix" through the first quarter, and then went to the court to rest.

During the break between festivals, Conseco Arena held a very interesting lottery activity.

Choose a lucky viewer, there are four boxes to choose, which contains 50, 100, 250 and 500 dollars respectively.

After drawing a box, the host will let the audience choose to open two more boxes to see the amount inside.

In this way, there are still two boxes left, one is the one chosen by the audience at the beginning, and the other is left unselected.

The boxes that have been opened are $100 and $500, so the remaining two are $50 and $250.

The host asked the audience if they wanted to change their choices, exchanging the first choice with the remaining unselected ones.

After thinking for two seconds, the lucky viewer decided not to make the replacement.

Finally opened the box, unfortunately, the first one she chose was $50, and the one left on the field was $250.

Of course, the lucky viewers felt regretful on their faces, but they had no choice but to buy it and leave it.

Li Liang and McKee, who were sitting off the court, watched the whole lottery draw ceremony.

Li Liang asked McGee: "Boy, if it were you, would you change your choice?"

McKee thought for a while. "Yes, because the other one is $250."

Li Liang said: "But you didn't know which one you chose at the beginning, you should think about it carefully, whether you want to change, you think, you think carefully."

McGee really started to think, and then found that his mind was in a mess and he couldn't get out...

The second quarter of the game began soon.

Although the score was tied between the two sides, the situation was not good for the Cavaliers.

Because from the perspective of the lineup, the Cavaliers have an advantage in starting, but not as a substitute.

Therefore, it is best for the Cavaliers' starting lineup to give the bench a lead in score. After laying a solid foundation, the bench lineup will go up again, so as not to be beaten too badly.

Of course, the Cavaliers have the Big Three. During the rotation, it is basically guaranteed that there will always be two stars on the court.

This is also the reason why the Big Three teams are so powerful, and the corresponding requirements for substitutes may not be so high.

As for Li Liang on the Pacers side, it was Finsen who replaced him to command the team...

Finsen's performance, it's really a matter of fate, and it's still very good when it's good.

There is no limit to the brain damage. This guy became a father before he went to college, and then he was accused of molesting a 17-year-old girl.

Before the draft, the Pacers saw Stephenson but knew he was notorious, so they hired private investigators to investigate him.

Of course the survey results were a mess, but he was selected in the draft because of his outstanding talent.

After several years of training, it finally looks a little bit better now.

When Bird replaced him at the end of the first quarter, he reminded him, "Take it easy."

With Li Liang pressing on the field, Finsen is still relatively stable.

But when Li Liang is gone and Stephenson is in power, sometimes it is difficult to say.

Especially facing James' team, Stephenson will always be inexplicably excited, causing his brain to heat up, and occasionally doing some unthinkable things.

Fortunately, two minutes after the start of the second quarter, Finsen performed well.

After James left the field, the Cavaliers left George and Irving on the court. With them both, the Cavaliers' offensive framework is still there.

It is really a problem for Irving to lead the team alone. Anyway, after becoming the No. 1 pick, he still missed the playoffs every year in the Cavaliers for three years.

Not only missed the playoffs, but even the role players in the team could not be persuaded.

For example, Waiters dared to openly challenge Irving in the team, so George was traded at that time, and the Cavaliers sent Waiters away by the way.

To put it bluntly, Owen still lacks a bit of leadership.

Just look at Li Liang. What is a natural leader?

Dare not to listen? The hair dryer will kill you.

Owen also entered the league a year earlier than Li Liang, which is really a bit far behind.

Leaving aside the relatively imaginary things like leadership temperament, Irving's hard power is still very strong.

His superb dribbling skills and his historic combination of man and ball make his breakthrough one of the most entertaining offensive shots in the league.

After Irving took control of the ball in the second quarter, he relied on his personal ability to continuously kill the basket, or drop shots, or make emergency stop jump shots to score points.

One of the shots also drew a help foul from Stephenson, sending Irving to the free throw.

Irving scored 6 points in three rounds.

On the Pacers side, only West scored a goal in the low post.

This made Stephenson very unhappy, so you are allowed to show off?

Stephenson hated others to show off the most, and he must stand up to disrupt the situation at such a time.

As a result, it was always one's own game that was messed up.

Two forced breakthroughs under the basket with the ball missed.

Once scrambling for a backcourt rebound, he knocked his own man away, the ball flew to the basket, and was taken off by the Cavaliers for a layup.

At 22:28, the Pacers trailed by 6 points.

Originally, the Pacers should use the second team to pull points, but the Cavaliers were the first to find the feeling and seize the lead.

Bird didn't call a timeout, but he got up off the bench.

This is a signal from Bird, reminding Finsen not to play blindly.

Stephenson calmed down his mind, and then he first screened and rolled with Scola in the offense, and after hitting the ground, he assisted Scola for a layup.

Then the empty cut under the basket was successful, and West's pass was passed to the empty basket.

At 26:28, the Pacers approached the score.

After more than a minute, the two sides did not score.

The defensive intensity of both sides is very high, and this is the game of the Eastern Conference.

Regardless of how the league's winds change, in general, Eastern teams are good at defending, while Western teams are better at attacking.

When two Eastern Conference teams meet, sometimes the game will be ugly.

The two sides entangled until the official timeout, the score was only 33:34, and the Cavaliers still led by 1 point.

Irving and George led the second team to transition well in the second quarter.

Then, James replaced George on the field, and on the Pacers side, Li Liang and McGee will also be on the field.

Li Liang pushed McGee and said, "Hey boy, it's time to play."

McGee is still stuck in the topic just now.

In a daze, he followed Li Liang and appeared on the stage together.

As soon as Li Liang came on the field, he received West's pass from the outside, forced a 3-point shot at 45 degrees from the left side, made a hit, scored 3 points, and overtook the score.

As soon as Li Liang stepped on, the temperament and feeling of the entire Pacers were different.

The same goes for the knights.

James received the ball in the left corner, faced Li Liang one-on-one, and hit a mid-range jumper with a step back.

Then, Li Liang cooperated with McGee in the middle of the pick-and-roll, throwing the ball high, and McGee succeeded in the alley-oop!

The Cavaliers stepped up their offensive tempo.

James passed the ball quickly from the backcourt and found Irving in the bottom corner. Irving caught the ball and made a three-pointer and made it!

Li Liang continued to pick and roll with McGee in the middle. This move has now become a very useful move for the Pacers to score points.

As long as the opponent shrinks, Li Liang immediately takes a step in, and then makes a sudden stop to shoot a jump shot.

After preparing before the game, James knew that Li Liang would make an emergency stop for a jump shot, so he calculated the pace. If Li Liang dared to make a jump shot, he would directly serve him with a hat.

McGee walked in, TT Thompson followed back, Li Liang walked in with the ball by himself, and James waited for an opportunity.

As a result, Li Liang didn't make a sudden stop to shoot the jump shot, but suddenly accelerated and walked in, quickly took off and made a layup with his left hand!

Neither James nor Thompson could react, so they watched Li Liang make a layup.

He actually made a layup?

What the hell, this guy who might choose to shoot even when he got to the basket, actually chose to lay up with his left hand.

Li Liang is always so unexpected, which is also the most troublesome thing for James, a thing that can always come up with something new.