Li Liangjia hit a free throw and scored four points, and the score between the two sides came to 14:6.

The Cavaliers actually played well, but Li Liang was in too good shape, and he fell behind by 8 points all of a sudden.

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

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

The rune system allows him to maintain a good and consistent competitive state at all times.

Props and skills give him a strong explosive power on the field.

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

This makes Li Liang feel that he is not mature enough in some techniques, but his performance on the field always feels like "every game".

Like the average role player, there will be times when the form of a certain game breaks out, such as Brewer, who can score 50 points on Deng's head.

However, this is a small probability event and occasionally occurs.

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

After two rounds of the series, he was in excellent shape on both the offensive and defensive ends.

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

After James made a block with Thompson in the high post, he passed the ball to Thompson who was down.

As a result, Thompson's throw missed, and Mozgov desperately scrambled for the frontcourt rebound.

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

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

Granger grabbed the backcourt rebound and dribbled himself to push the counterattack.

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

Hill catches the ball and makes a three-point shot, but unfortunately misses.

James got the rebound, pushed quickly, and went to Irving on the left wing after the middle to attract the defense.

Irving hit a three-pointer to make it 14:9, and Irving hit a big three-pointer.

If Hill had scored this goal and the Cavaliers didn't get this counter-attack opportunity, the difference between the two sides would have widened further.

However, Hill responded immediately, emptying the right side to give him a one-on-one single Owen, and Hill directly changed direction to a strong burst, and Owen was swept clean.

Hill made a layup straight away, and Mozgov covered the ball, but it was clear that he interfered with the ball.

Hill, who was not in good form in the last series, can finally make a difference in this series against Irving's defense.

The general idea of the Pacers is indeed different from the last series.

Playing with the Bulls, except for the two games at home, it is all about Li Liang's personal performance to win the game on the road.

Playing with the Cavaliers, Bird believes that several other points must have enough play on the offensive end, like Hill, he must no longer be a fixed-point pitcher, otherwise Li Liang will be too difficult to face the Cavaliers' luxurious backcourt configuration alone.

After that, Mozgov missed a high jumper.

Li Liang passed the ball to Granger, and after Granger stumbled and burst into the basket with the ball, he still hit the ball with a difficult throw of his right hand.

At 18:9, the Pacers continued to extend their advantage.

Irving was knocked out by Hill in the offense, and Granger had another chance, holding the ball quickly across the halfcourt, and it looked like a dunk.

As a result, Paul George, who followed up from behind, knocked out Granger's ball and went off the line.

Granger misses an easy-ball opportunity.

The two used to grow together at the Pacers, but time has changed too much.

In the middle and late stages of the first quarter, Li Liang and James looked a little silent, and they gave up opportunities to their teammates to play more.

James: It's a regular operation, every time he gets his strength.

And Li Liang is to implement Bird's pre-game deployment, strive to play a good foundation at the beginning, and then let his teammates find their form.

Obviously, Bird is a strong man with this idea, everything is based on me, and the Pacers have this qualification to face the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers quickly realized that it was the best strategy to fight with the Pacers at the Consec Arena, and the two sides were fighting each other, and the Cavaliers were not opponents.

The Cavaliers still have to start defensively, drag the game into a slow pace, and then use the advantage of the outside triumvirate to crush the Pacers in the final moments.

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

The two sides went into an attacking drought of about three minutes, and both sides began to run out of goals.

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

The competition under the basket is becoming more and more intense, and at the same time, passing and dribbling from the outside have become difficult.

Every time you play the ball, every pass, you get in the way.

Li Liang, as always, was strictly defended by his opponent.

George doesn't care much about others anymore, just stares at Li Liang.

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

Li Liang didn't rush either, he knew that now was not the time, and when it was time to avoid his edge, he had to hide.

Both sides eased up in the score, but the Pacers were the lead and they maintained the advantage.

And with four minutes left in the first quarter, a situation happened that was very bad for the Cavaliers.

James forced a layup and missed a shot under Li Liang's interference.

Thompson grabbed the rebound in the front court and forced it to go up again, but was interfered with by Li Liang again and still didn't score.

However, Thompson was really able to grab it, and grabbed the rebound again, but this time he didn't dare to go up and passed the ball to James.

If this ball is replaced by Li Liang, the board jumper will be over.

James No, I'm going to make a layup.

Okay, if you go to the basket, then I'll stop in front of you.

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

The referee blew the whistle and made a gesture to hit the man with the ball, awarding James a foul.

James had already had one defensive foul before, and now there is another offensive foul, accumulating two fouls, and he must be rested.

That's not good for the Cavaliers, but it's certainly good news for the Pacers.

However, the Pacers were not happy for long, and immediately Li Liang was also whistled for a foul during the offense.

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

Moving to cover this kind of foul is, to put it bluntly, a gray area where the referee can maneuver the foul.

He doesn't want to blow you for a foul, you are the master of the shadow stream when you are covering, and the shadow clones are all moved out, and the referee may not blow you.

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

Because when blocking people and covering, it is basically impossible to really be a stake and not move, there will definitely be some small movements.

Whether the referee catches these small actions or not depends on his judgment of the situation and even his mood.

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

This move cover foul, plus a previous rebounding foul, Li Liang also fouled twice in the first quarter.

Li Liang is not angry, Lao Tzu just made an offensive foul on the opponent and was knocked out.

Now I'm on the offensive end, and I'm bumped again, and then Lao Tzu is fouled again?

Anyway, I was the one who was hit?

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

James on the bench was still unhappy, but when he saw Li Liang also going down, he couldn't hold back his laughter.

Seeing this, Bird thought about it for a while and replaced Li Liang with David West.

West still had a little more gas on the offensive end than Garnett's tank.

Soon, the rotation of the substitute lineup began on both sides.

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

The Pacers clearly had a more lucrative rotation, with Sloan, Stephenson, and Shambaught coming on together to replace the starting backcourt trio.

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

I just don't know if it will be able to continue like this as the series goes on.

In the final minutes of the first quarter, the fouls on both sides arrived, and free throws began to increase.

You make two free throws, I make two free throws.

At the end of the first quarter, the game was tied at 27:20, with the Pacers leading the Cavaliers by seven points.