The Bulls had a game where they were dragged to death by a five-point deficit.

Five points is the most uncomfortable gap for the lagging side.

The gap is small, and you can catch it back in one round, and you are full of energy.

The gap is bigger, and we can't catch up in one or two rounds anyway, so we calm down and play slowly.

Five points is very uncomfortable, the players are uncomfortable, and the fans are uncomfortable to watch.

After Kerr's timeout ended, the Warriors' offense came back to rely on Thompson.

Got rid of J.R. Smith's defense, received Green's pass in the high post, and hit a mid-range jumper.

On this offense, Curry almost ran around the half court several times, holding the ball, passing, and giving Thompson a pick-and-roll screen.

Curry has two defenders around him at all times, which gives Thompson room to shoot offensively.

According to Kerr's thinking, if the Pacers continue to insist on defending Curry like this, then simply let Thompson kill the Pacers.

But the Pacers responded immediately, and after receiving a pass from Li Liang, Danny Granger broke through with the ball in the middle and hit a pull-up jump shot at the free throw line.

The Pacers' offensive routine is very simple, with Li Liang as the core, Li Liang attracts the defense as much as possible, and then the other players take the ball and attack themselves when they have the opportunity.

There are not too many routines to cooperate, holding the ball, breaking, passing, and then breaking through with the ball, and making an emergency stop, which constitute the main scenery of the Pacers' offense.

The downside is that the routine is really monotonous, and it feels like the whole team is not very smart.

The advantage is that even if you are not very smart, you can still score goals, and you can save energy and devote more energy to defense.

The Warriors are also not very smart, Green took the ball in the middle and forced himself to burst, but he encountered the problem he had encountered before - he was too short, and he threw it indiscriminately as soon as he was covered after breaking in.

This time he threw it to Barnes in the bottom left corner, but Barnes almost missed the ball, and it was easy to stabilize, and there was no chance for Turan, and then he threw the pot to Curry.

Curry's tight defense of Hill, repeated dodges, feints, and missed the final three-point shot......

In the regular season, Curry's three-point shooting percentage was comparable to that of Li Liang.

In the playoffs, the finals, the gap between the two was revealed.

It's not because Curry doesn't shoot well, but there is a natural gap in physical fitness, and Curry has too many actions to get rid of when shooting.

This ball was changed to Li Lianglai, and he threw it directly when he got it, and what kind of feints to dodge and get rid of were all things that affected the feel.

The Pacers' counterattack came quickly, Li Liang held the ball in the middle, and the Warriors still contracted their defense.

This time, Li Liang quickly distributed the ball to Danny Granger, who was about to go down to the bottom corner, and Granger received the ball and threw it in the right bottom corner for three points, and then hit!

Danny Granger scored 5 points in a row!

This three-point shot widened the gap to 8 points.

Li Liang also knew that Granger had a good hand, so he fed him the ball continuously.

After the goal, the two high-fived, and in the Clippers, Granger basically didn't get any chance to play in the finals, and this year's return to the Pacers is really the second spring.

Warriors fans need to worry.

Then, the Warriors' offense missed.

And after Li Liang held the ball in a high position, he passed it to McGee, and McGee actually received the ball and turned around with a hook shot!

Abdul-McGee's hook hand, ball in, two points!

10 points, the difference is 10 points again.

Sure enough, as Li Liang thought, this was a critical node, Curry on the Warriors' side still didn't find the offensive feeling, and the Pacers became more and more relaxed the more they played, found an opportunity, and opened up the difference again.

At 40:30, the Oracle Arena fell silent again.

"The Warriors need to find their feel for the game, and the situation and the pace of the game right now is all in the hands of the Pacers. Curry has to step up. ”

Jeff Van Gundy sensed that something was wrong with the Warriors, and Thompson could score and would score, but his scoring was just scoring, not rejuvenating the team like Curry did.

But the problem is that Curry just couldn't step up, and the Pacers didn't let up on his defense in the slightest.

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, Curry missed a three-point shot, Li Liang got a backcourt rebound, counterattacked and killed the basket to cause Iguodala's foul, hit both free throws, and the difference was stretched to 12 points.

The fans at the scene wondered, could it be that the whole season was watching the fake Warriors?

Destroying and decaying, three points like rain, and three sections open, are they all fake?

Also, Why are the Pacers so strong? Will they be able to pin the warrior to the ground and rub it?

Of course, the game is far from over.

But it must be admitted that the Pacers' targeting of the Warriors is quite good, that is, they have targeted the two most critical points of the Warriors - Curry and Green.

These two people are the soul of the Warriors who are now the Warriors, the two of them do not play, with the thickness and depth of the Warriors, they are still a strong team, but they are not a strong team that can destroy the withering and decaying in the game.

On the contrary, the Pacers are playing normally, as long as Li Liang is normal, this team is normal.

This may be one of the advantages of a single-core team, one person is normal and the whole family is fine.

After the margin stretched to 12 points, the Warriors stepped up their defense, and Thompson hit another mid-range jumper.

Then under the basket, McGee received a pass from Li Liang and was blocked by Aizeli, and in the counterattack, Thompson made a long pass across the majority of the court, Iguodala jumped high, and the air relay was smashed with both hands!

This goal makes people feel as if they are back in the 76ers period, the connection between the big AI and the small AI, but that was a long time ago.

After chasing four points in a row and narrowing the gap to eight points, Bird called a timeout to make adjustments.

There were less than three minutes left until the end of the second quarter.

After Li Liang received the ball, the three-point shot on the outside did not hit, and the scene can be said to be greatly relieved, Li Liang could hear the sound of the fans panting, thinking that Lao Tzu is not a hundred shots, do you need to be so afraid?

Next, the Pacers fouled Curry on defense.

Hill defended, and Smith rushed over to help defend, but the intensity was so great that he almost overturned Curry.

The TV station gave Curry's shooting chart tonight - he hasn't scored a single three-point shot so far, and the feeling is quite poor.

Kerr's idea of using Thompson to free Curry may be going bankrupt, and Bird doesn't take it.

Curry went to the free throw line and scored two points on both free throws to chase six points.

Then, after JR Smith dribbled on the right side, he missed a mid-range step-back jumper.

Curry seized the opportunity, got a backcourt rebound over the half, used the double cover of Azeli and Green, dribbled all the way from the left side to the right side 45 degrees, and finally found a great opportunity to shoot, hitting a three-point shot!

Curry made his first three-pointer tonight!

At 42:39, I finally got three points again!

The good times didn't last long, and Li Liang came again.

The same high post ball, the same double screen, he dribbled from the right side to the left, another feint to shoot, and then dodged inside and hit a two-point jumper.

Li Liang's three-point threat was so great that as soon as the defender saw that he might be about to shoot a three-pointer, his body's center of gravity moved, and he wanted to go up to pounce, and the result was to be deceived.

Li Liang knew in his heart that his three-point hand was not so hot tonight, and the Warriors were so tightly marked, so he still had to take it easy and play smarter.

The margin returned to the nasty 5 points.

The first half is coming to an end.

Iguodala made a foul on offense and hit one of two free throws to reach a four-point deficit.

At this point, Bird made a substitution, replacing Granger with West to strengthen the interior line.

And Granger has been playing for a bit of a long time.

West played an immediate role as soon as he got on the pitch.

Li Liang got the backcourt rebound and advanced to the frontcourt, West cut in the middle, Li Liang plugged straight to West, West received the ball with his back and forced Green, and after continuous turns, a board throw in his left hand hit.

Green's series is the fate of being bullied in all kinds.

But Curry immediately showed his value in the Warriors' offense.

The continuous dribbling of the high post got rid of it, and one person attracted the defense of Hill and Li Liang.

As a result, there was an emptiness on the inside of the Pacers, Curry split the ball to Green, Green gave it to Iguodala, and Iguodala passed to Barnes on the other side.

A few times to pass the ball, the Pacers players just put on their wings, and the ball will not fly fast.

In the end, Barnes made a big empty space under the basket, and he dunked with both hands!

It's only when Curry starts hitting three-pointers that the Warriors' fluid offense can really work.

It's a pity that the first half of the game is coming to an end, and there is no chance for Curry to play like this.

When Li Liang took the ball over half court in the last ten seconds, almost all the Warriors players converged towards his defense—......

On the one hand, because I was really afraid that Li Liang would come up with another ultra-long three-point in the end, he started to defend before halftime.

On the other hand, because Li Liang has a gravitational wooden fish on his body.

Of course, Li Liang's performance continued like this, and it was only a matter of time before the wooden fish was digested by him one day - when he was bald.

Li Liang saw this opportunity, [one shot into the soul] shot, a long-distance ground-hitting pass to the hands of West, who received the ball and made a layup easily!

The score of the first half was fixed at 48-42, and the Pacers led by six points.

With a smart smile, Li Liang left the court and went back to the locker room.

In the first half, he contributed eight assists and played with the Warriors' defense.