On Feb. 23, the Pacers returned home with Kevin Garnett making his debut against the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors are still a devastated force in the league, but they lost a little more before and after the All-Star break.

However, this does not affect the Warriors' momentum of firmly holding the top spot in the league.

The games they won were still easy, with big wins of around 20 points.

Their system is unique in the league, and many people didn't expect that basketball could still be played like this.

With the entire NBA strategy trending toward "infinite pick-and-roll," Kerr raised the banner of pass-and-cut.

This tactical style of play has made many teams uncomfortable, and coupled with the Warriors' perverted three-point accuracy on the outside, many teams have surrendered early.

At present, there is no one in the West who can wrestle with the Pacers, and there are only Cavaliers and Pacers left in the East.

Among them, when the Pacers traded for Kevin Garnett, the expectations for the Pacers increased even further.

However, Bird knows that it would be unrealistic for the team to pin their hopes on a 39-year-old veteran, even if he is Garnett.

Of course, Garnett's arrival is still very significant, not only filling the void on the team's interior, but also bringing more changes to the team's starting lineup.

Li Liang can now return to the starting small forward position and let Garnett play the starting power forward.

However, the match was not needed, Li Liang still appeared as the starting No. 4, and the person he had to deal with was Draymond Green.

As night falls in Indianapolis, tonight's Conseco Arena is undoubtedly full.

Garnett's arrival has increased the ticket price for the Pacers' games quite a bit.

Tonight's pre-game ceremony was particularly spectacular, with a short promotional video shot after Garnett arrived at the Pacers on a big screen on the scene.

Garnett is indeed very popular, and it is also a sign of respect for a veteran who is about to retire.

Everyone knows that Garnett will only be with the Pacers for half a season, but their goal is to win a championship, so everyone is united and doesn't care what happens next.

After all, Li Liang is estimated to not stay long in the Pacers, so whatever.

Now that the season has just passed the halfway point, fans from all over the world have begun to "recruit" Li Liang.

For example, when I went to Philadelphia the day before yesterday, some local fans put up signs, hoping that Li Liang would come to the 76ers next season.

Li Liang's style of changing places with one shot has given hope to fans everywhere.

However, Li Liang's style is still very chicken thief, like some teams that are destined to rot for many years, he doesn't want to go at all.

If you want to go, you also want to go to a team that has a strong foundation itself, or the management is reliable and guaranteed.

Therefore, each team still has to look at themselves in the mirror, and if it is too bad, the black technology will not be able to save it.

Tonight's game between the Pacers and the Warriors should be said to have attracted a lot of attention.

However, there is a pity that Curry missed this game because he felt a sore ankle.

Curry has been suffering from injury problems in previous seasons and has missed a lot of games, which has led him to sign a cheap contract.

As a result, Curry has exploded this season and has not had any major injuries so far.

Once there is a small problem, the team immediately asks Curry to rest, minor injuries and major recuperation, to prevent problems.

And the opponent is the Pacers, so if you can't beat it, there's a reason why you can't beat it.

The Pacers' starting lineup remained unchanged, with McGee still starting at center and Li Liang starting at the No. 4 position.

On the Warriors' side, Livingston started in place of Curry, and the Warriors' starting center has stabilized as a big-mouthed Bogut.

Without Curry, the pressure on the Warriors' outside three-point line is on Thompson.

In the opening game, the Warriors jumped the ball, and Livingston blocked the mid-range jumper as soon as he came up and scored the first point.

Curry is gone, and the entire Warriors' tactical system has changed.

Passing and cutting tactics require plenty of space and require Curry to use his appeal to create opportunities for his teammates.

An important reason why the rather traditional academic tactics of passing and cutting are gradually abandoned in the NBA is that the court is "getting smaller and smaller".

The so-called getting smaller and smaller does not mean that the field has become smaller, but that the players are getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster, more explosive, more and more intense, and the offensive time is getting shorter and shorter.

In early professional basketball and NCAA college basketball, players can also get opportunities by running well, wrapping around piles, cutting in the air, and running back.

Because the players are generally physical, and the university has more offensive time, there is a lot of room for tactical play.

In the current NBA, you may run for a long time, pass and cut over, but it is not as effective as two players throwing directly from a block opportunity, because your running position is difficult to run out of the open space under the pressure of high-intensity defense.

And the Warriors subverted that because of the presence of Curry and Thompson.

Now without Curry, the Warriors' passing cut has collapsed and basically can't be played.

After Livingston hit the middle distance in the opening game, Li Liang blocked Hill's pass in the middle, went down, and forced Green to the basket, causing Green's foul.

Green reluctantly raised his hand.

Damn, this guy Bruce Lee is targeting Lao Tzu.

This game has just begun, just a foul on the head, who can afford this?

Li Liang doesn't care, he knows that to deal with people like Green, he must suppress him fiercely from the beginning, give him some color, let him know that this is Lao Tzu's territory, don't show off your biceps with your mouth wide open here, and then show your head out.

Both free throws were hit, and the Pacers were soon open.

The Warriors feel like a different team without Curry, and the style of play has suddenly become particularly "popular".

They tried to move the ball quickly and play a "wall-to-wall" match in the positional offense, only to miss under the Pacers' dense defense.

There is no space to pull, and with each extra pass, the risk of a mistake increases.

This is also where basketball is different from the past after it has developed to a certain extent, and passing more balls is not necessarily a good thing.

After that, the Warriors reduced the multi-pass offense of the past and switched to simpler small coordination.

Tactical maneuvers around Klay Thompson, making full use of Thompson's shots.

Thompson quickly scored four straight points, and the Pacers were steady, opening with every player giving a chance to play a dozen.

Lee Liang played, Hill played, JR Smith and Granger also tried to attack with the ball on their own.

Bird's offensive tactical system is expected to be almost comparable to Avery Johnson's, taking turns to play singles.

However, if your players have the ability to do so, taking turns is a very efficient way to score.

Not only is it efficient, but it is also labor-saving, and you can put more physical strength into defense by looking at it in one dozen or four.

Why is O'Neill so powerful, because when he attacks, he gives the ball to him, and other people can watch it, so that everyone has more physical strength, and of course it is easier to win the game.

The two sides quickly fought to an 8-8 draw.

It was at this point that the Pacers' offense began to have some problems.

The result of everyone's rotation with the ball is that the players who feel good are not continued, and the players who feel bad also come out to give it a try, and the result is even worse......

This is a stubborn problem that the Pacers have not solved so far this season, and that is that the offensive end will be dumb from time to time.

Especially when the outside line suddenly started to hit iron, JR-Smith and Finson felt as if they were contagious.

One iron, one iron.

The key is that they are not contagious, for example, they never infect a good shooting feel from Li Liang.

If you want to infect him, he will be poorly infected, and if you don't enter, I won't enter.

On the other hand, the Warriors seized the gap between the Pacers' dumb fire on the offensive end and consecutive misses on outside shots, and constantly launched rapid counterattacks.

Klay Thompson is a direct shot after receiving the ball on the counterattack, and he is not soft on three-point shots and mid-range.

He alone scored 13 points in the first half of the first quarter to help the Warriors tie the score to 24-12, leading the Pacers by as many as 12 points.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Bird immediately called a timeout, and then made a lineup adjustment.

He replaced McGee with Kevin Garnett.

The Wolf King ushered in his first appearance with the Pacers.