In the first quarter, the Cavaliers had already faintly revealed the location of their ultimate move.

Blatt made a small adjustment in the personnel rotation. James played less than five minutes in the first quarter. .

Blatter intentionally staggered the playing time of James and Li Liang, and Bird still followed the normal rotation of personnel, letting Li Liang play until the end of the first quarter to rest.

And James continued to stay on the court to lead the team after the start of the second quarter.

This is an advantage for the Cavaliers in the backcourt, because James is not there, and George can match up with Li Liang, so that Li Liang will not be left alone.

And when Li Liang is not on the court, who will James deal with? JR-Smith? Or Danny Granger?

Without Li Liang's response, James can obviously play more calmly.

Blatter's second adjustment is to start playing one big and four small players on the court.

Mozgov rested, Thompson went to the center position, and James came to the fourth position, facing David West.

This is an offensive lineup, and Blatt also believes that James can hold off West.

With these two adjustments, the Cavaliers began to reverse the situation on the court a few minutes before the second quarter.

The Cavaliers started to play fast. After two rounds of ironing each other, James and Dellavedova picked and rolled at the top of the arc. As a result, James went down and Dellavedova's pass was intercepted by Granger.

It was a good steal, and then Granger was a little anxious, and the pass to Stephenson was too casual, and was intercepted by James again. James broke through the center with the ball and passed the ball to Dellavedova on the wing.

Dellavedova's fake shot swayed Stephenson, and then hit a 45-degree three-pointer from the right!

The Cavaliers struggled and finally made a three-pointer.

Then, West caught the ball in a low post and beat James hard, but he didn't move, and he missed the throw after turning around.

In the counterattack, James took the ball to the basket and gave the ball to Thompson. Thompson caused McGee's defensive foul and wanted a free throw.

The Cavaliers had a chance to overtake, but unfortunately, Thompson missed two free throws, which instead gave the Pacers a chance to counterattack.

Shumpert's right wing received a pass from Stephenson and made a direct three-pointer.

But James immediately retaliated and went to the basket to attack McGee. While making a layup, he also caused McGee to foul.

McGee's third foul, and he's going to rest.

This kind of foul is the most meaningless and hurtful. If the opponent scores a free throw, you will pay a foul yourself.

According to Bird's rotation, Li Liang is not yet on the court at this time, he has to rest and rest, and then squeeze him out in the second half.

But in this situation on the court, after James made a free throw, the difference between the two sides was only 1 point, and Li Liang had to appear.

After replacing McGee on the field, Li Liang went to the center position again...

"I'm willing to be a silly McGee, Li Liang, and I want me to be your center forward, what the fuck..."

Li Liang had nothing to do. The small forward played well in the first quarter, but was automatically sucked into the center position in the second quarter.

You can't let Granger play center, can you?

And this is exactly what Blatter and James want to see.

Li Liang didn't foul yet in the first quarter.

As soon as Li Liang came on the court, he tried to shoot a three-pointer from the outside and missed a three-pointer.

And James counterattacked with the ball in the high position, rushed to the basket, turned around continuously, found a gap, scored two points with his right hand in the three-second zone, and overtook it!

Obviously, James rested for two minutes in the middle, and then fought continuously, which made his state on the court even better.

Li Liang still needs to heat up a little bit.

The Cavaliers' defense was a little loose at this time. Stephenson seized the opportunity and gave David West a lob.

The two sides started a tug of war with a difference of 1 point.

At this time, Blatter started another offensive adjustment - using the pick-and-roll to attack Li Liang crazily.

The Cavaliers obviously benefited from Li Liang's foul trouble in the last game. Li Liang is too important to the Pacers' offensive and defensive system.

It is equivalent to a single-engine fighter, once the engine is damaged, it will be over.

Therefore, it is necessary to stare at their engine and try to stop it.

After Li Liang replaced McGee, the Cavaliers tried every means to use pick-and-rolls and substitutions, allowing James and Paul George to take turns hitting the basket with breakthroughs.

In the end, the foul was not caused, and Li Liang was given two blocks...

After Li Liang came on the court in the second quarter, he did not rush to get angry. Instead, he patiently defended the basket first and handed over the offensive end to Stephenson, West and Granger.

Since I am asked to play center forward, I naturally have to do a good job as a center forward.

Li Liang's level of basket protection has reached a good level after repeated training in the regular season and improvement in the system.

It takes a lot of energy to defend this thing.

Many players, especially offensive players, seem to have poor defense and direct traffic. In fact, the main reason is that too much energy is consumed in offense and there is no way to evenly distribute it to defense.

If he temporarily hand over the offensive affairs, there is no guarantee that he will not be able to perform at the best defensive level on the defensive end.

In the middle of the second quarter, Li Liang contributed the best defensive player-level interior rim defense. Under the impact of James and George in turn, he only fouled once, blocked shots twice, and interfered with the opponent's successful layup twice.

Of course, because Li Liang didn't make any gains in the attack, the scores of the two sides rose alternately. The Cavaliers failed to completely turn around, and the Pacers had no way to widen the point difference. Instead, they had to be careful of being overtaken by the Cavaliers.

Li Liang's excellent performance on the defensive end surprised the Cavaliers.

The score between the two sides came to 38:37, and the Cavaliers had overtaken the Pacers by 1 point, but Blatter still called a timeout.

The Cavaliers are leading, but there are too few leading, and James is going to rest.

Of course, James can rest assured, because without James, there are two people on the court, Irving and George.

The triple-core processor is awesome.

James Jones replaced James, Mozgov replaced Thompson, and Irving returned to the court to dominate.

The Pacers' starting lineup is also coming back. Kevin Garnett replaced Danny Granger, and Hill and JR Smith returned to the field.

Li Liang returned to the third position, and the center forward in the past few minutes finally let him push through.

Fortunately, there is [Russell's Three-Second Zone Fear], without this passive skill, Li Liang would definitely be more passive.

Now he's back at small forward and he's thinking, it's my turn to fight back, right?

So far, Li Liang scored a three-pointer and scored 5 points. There are 5 minutes left in the second quarter.

Back from the timeout, Irving held the ball from the outside, and switched defenses after the pick-and-roll. Irving used continuous changes in his footsteps, and after reaching the basket, he hit the board with a high throw and a small angle.

The whole process was done in one go, and both West and Garnett's footsteps seemed a bit too old and too slow in front of Irving's dribble.

This is why Bird sometimes has to use Li Liang as a center forward.

McGee will be stupid, Garnett and West are old, and he has to fill the vacancy.

At 40:37, the point difference was widened to three points.

Just when the Cavaliers fans were cheering for this beautiful goal and the commentator was amazed at Irving's dribbling skills, Li Liang counterattacked.

He also dribbled in from the middle, then made a clever dribble behind the back, crossed the crotch and easily passed Mozgov, and then succeeded in picking the basket with his right hand.

The whole movement was done in one go, and the smoothness made people feel dumbfounded. Is this Bruce Lee?

So fast, so smooth.

Of course, he was catching the Cavaliers defensive inattention gap, yes, it must be.

However, Li Liang's performance is not over yet.

Owen attacked with the ball again, but his jump shot was interfered with. Li Liang, who was about to be blocked by the defense, twisted and dodged in the air and passed the ball.

In the end, George was given an open three-pointer, but he missed it...

George's three-pointer really hindered the Cavaliers, and he couldn't make many good opportunities.

Li Liang caught the long rebound. He held the ball again and accelerated his counterattack. First, he dribbled the ball under his crotch and passed Jones, then turned back and passed George, and finally faced Mozgov with a sudden stop jump shot!

Mozgov rushed forward and knocked Li Liang down, and the referee called a foul!

And the ball hit the backboard, bounced into the basket, and hit a three-pointer!

Li Liang's series of operations is amazing.

Is this still Bruce Lee?

This is obviously the big Owen.

When did he learn this again?

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