Chapter 697

Li Liang made a free throw and scored four points. The score of the two sides came to 14:6.

The Cavaliers actually played well, but Li Liang was in such a good state that he fell behind by 8 points.

Blatter called a timeout, hoping that this timeout would cool down Li Liang's condition.

Compared with James, Li Liang is indeed a pioneer of firepower.

The rune system allows him to always maintain a good and stable competitive state.

Props and skills allow him to have a strong explosive power on the field.

Of course, everything is based on his constantly improving six-dimensional ability.

This makes Li Liang feel immature in some techniques, but his performance on the field is always "explosive".

Like ordinary role players, there will be times when the state of a certain game explodes. For example, Brewer can score 50 points on Deng Ge.

However, this kind of event is a small probability event and happens occasionally.

Li Liang is different, he always has a high probability of exploding, especially in the playoffs.

After the two rounds of the series, he has adjusted to an excellent state, both offensively and defensively.

A short timeout ended and the two sides returned to the field.

After James made a pick-and-roll with Thompson in the high post, he passed the ball to Thompson who was rolling down.

As a result, Thompson missed his throw, and Mozgov desperately fought for the offensive rebound under the basket.

But this time, the Pacers Granger, Li Liang, and Smith all rushed to the basket for rebounds.

In the last series, the Pacers really suffered a lot in rebounding, otherwise the game against the Bulls might have been easier.

Granger caught the backboard, dribbled and pushed back.

After reaching the three-second zone, the ball was returned to George Hill at the top of the arc.

Hill caught the ball and made a three-pointer, but unfortunately missed.

James got the rebound, pushed forward quickly, reached the center to attract the defense and gave it to Irving on the left wing.

Irving received the ball and hit a three-pointer, 14:9, Irving hit a very important three-pointer.

If Hill scores the goal and the Cavaliers do not get this chance to counterattack, the point difference between the two sides will be further widened.

However, Hill responded immediately, and the right side was cleared to give him one-on-one singles against Owen. Hill directly changed direction and made a strong attack, and Owen was completely out of the way.

Hill made a layup directly. Although Mozgov blocked the ball, he obviously interfered with the ball.

Hill, who was in poor form in the last series, can finally make a difference in this series against Irving's defense.

The overall thinking of the Pacers is indeed different from the previous series.

In the fight against the Bulls, except for the two games at home, Li Liang's personal performance was the only way to win the away game.

Playing against the Cavaliers, Bird believes that the other points must be sufficiently developed on the offensive end. Hill must not be a spot-up shooter anymore, otherwise Li Liang will be too difficult to face the luxurious backcourt configuration of the Cavaliers alone.

After that, Mozgov missed a high jumper.

Li Liang passed the ball to Granger, Granger staggered into the basket with the ball, made a difficult throw with his right hand, and still hit the ball.

18:9, the Pacers continued to expand their advantage.

Irving was knocked off by Hill again during the attack, and Granger got another chance, holding the ball quickly across the half court, and it was a slam dunk.

As a result, Paul George, who was following up defensively, knocked Granger's ball off the baseline.

Granger missed an easy-ball chance.

The two once grew up together in the Pacers, but time has changed too much.

In the middle and late part of the first quarter, Li Liang and James seemed a little quiet, and they gave their teammates the opportunity to play more.

This is a routine operation for James, every time he exerts his strength.

And Li Liang is implementing Bird's pre-match deployment, trying to lay a good foundation at the beginning, and then let his teammates find their status.

Obviously Bird is thinking of the strong, everything is up to me, and the Pacers are qualified to face the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers quickly realized that it was a bad idea to fight the Pacers in the Conseco Arena. The two sides clashed, and the Cavaliers were not opponents.

The Cavaliers still have to start defensively, drag the game into a slow pace, and then at the last moment, use the advantage of the Big Three outside to defeat the Pacers.

Blatter's general idea is still correct, it depends on the execution ability of the players.

The two sides entered an offensive drought for about three minutes, and both sides began to fail to score.

The speed of the game is slowly decreasing, and the intensity of the game is rising rapidly.

The competition for the basket has become more and more intense, and at the same time, it has become difficult to pass and dribble outside.

Every cooperation and pass will be hindered.

Li Liang, as always, was strictly guarded by his opponents.

George didn't care about others much anymore, he just stared at Li Liang.

And James is to assist Li Liang in defense at any time, and this defensive treatment is no one else.

Li Liang didn't charge too hard, he knew that now was not the time, and when it was time to avoid the sharp edge, he had to hide.

Both sides' scores have slowed down, but the Pacers are leading and they maintain their advantage.

And when there were four minutes left in the first quarter of the game, a situation that was very unfavorable to the Cavaliers happened.

James rushed to the basket for a layup, but missed under the interference of Li Liang.

Thompson grabbed the offensive rebound and forced another shot, but was interfered by Li Liang again and still missed.

But Thompson was really able to grab the rebound and grabbed the rebound. This time he didn't dare to go up and passed the ball to James.

If the ball was replaced by Li Liang, the jumper would be over.

James no, I'm going to layup.

Okay, you layup, then I will stop in front of you.

Li Liang stood in front of James, was bumped firmly by James, and fell to the ground.

The referee blew his whistle, made a gesture of dribbling the ball, and sentenced James to a foul.

James already had a defensive foul before, and now he has another offensive foul. He has accumulated two fouls and must rest.

This is quite unfavorable for the Cavaliers, but of course it is good news for the Pacers.

However, the Pacers were not happy for long, and immediately Li Liang was called a foul during the attack.

He was blown to a moving screen when he screened for JR-Smith in the high post...

To put it bluntly, this kind of foul by moving to cover is a gray area where referees can manipulate fouls.

When he doesn't want to call you a foul, you move into the shadow stream master when you are covering, and the shadow clones are all moved out, and the referee may not call you.

If he wants to blow you, you move a little and he can give you a foul.

Because it is basically impossible to be a wooden stake and remain motionless when blocking people for cover, there will definitely be some small movements.

Whether or not the referee catches these little tricks depends entirely on his judgment of the situation, and even his mood.

The referee probably felt that it was unfair to let James go down so early, so he simply blown Li Liang down.

This mobile screen foul, plus the previous rebound foul, Li Liang also fouled twice in the first quarter.

Li Liang is so angry, I just made an offensive foul by my opponent and got bumped.

Now I'm on the offensive end, and I get hit again, and I foul again?

Anyway, I was the one who got hit?

Li Liang had to reason with the referee again, the referee was easy to talk and persuade, and persuaded Li Liang to go down.

James, who was on the bench, was still unhappy, but when he saw Li Liang also went down, he couldn't help laughing.

Bird saw this, thought about it, and replaced Li Liang with David West.

West still has a little more fuel in the tank offensively than Garnett.

Soon, the two sides began the rotation of the substitute lineup.

The Cavaliers' rotation is relatively conservative, and at least one of the Big Three will definitely stay on the court.

The Pacers' rotation is obviously more generous. Sloan, Stephenson, and Shumpert appeared together, replacing the starting three in the backcourt.

From the first round to the present, the Pacers are still able to maintain a 10-man rotation.

I just don't know if it can continue like this as the series progresses.

In the last few minutes of the first quarter, the foul count on both sides was up, and the free throws began to increase.

You get two free throws, I get two free throws.

At the end of the first quarter, the two sides battled to 27:20, and the Pacers led the Cavaliers by 7 points.