At the end of the first half, the score was fixed at 51:57, and in the final moments of the second quarter, Li Liang assisted J.R. Smith to hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer that gave the Pacers a six-point lead at halftime.

The goal relieved the psychological pressure on the Pacers players.

But a six-point lead is really not safe at all.

At halftime, Li Liang was ready to fight the bayonets with the Cavaliers tonight.

In the fourth game, he had to win it no matter what, so he didn't want to go back to his home stadium to fight the battle of Tianwang Mountain.

For Li Liang, if it can end early, it will end early, and there are many dreams at night.

It was fair for the referees to blow the penalty tonight, but sending Garnett off the court at the end of the second quarter had a considerable impact on the entire Pacers rotation.

In the locker room, Garnett yelled at every player on his team to tear the Clevelands apart in the second half.

As he did in 2010, "Let them despair, make them despair!" ”

Garnett and the Celtics once made James desperate, which directly led James to make the most important decision of his career.

This time, the desperate responsibility came to Li Liang's shoulders.

The halftime break ended quickly, the two sides returned to the court, and the third quarter began.

The knights were the first to attack.

Because Garnett was sent off, David West started in place of Garnett at the start of the second half.

It should be said that the Pacers are still very thick at the No. 4 position, and without Garnett, West can go up to the top.

In the first ball at the beginning of the second half, James held the ball on the left side, singled Li Liang in the basket, and after forcing a breakthrough, he overthrew Li Liang with an elbow.

The referee blew the whistle and blew for James' offensive foul.

Li Liang nodded, and his teammates pulled him up from the ground, it seems that the referee has not lost his conscience, and he still knows that he has blown James offensive foul and did not give Lao Tzu a defensive foul.

If Li Liang fouled this ball, he would really be unable to play in the second half of the game.

Bird, meanwhile, made a clearer offensive request at halftime – attacking Kyrie Irving.

Didn't you knights hide Owen? I just won't hide it for you.

Bird doesn't believe it, Paul George has three heads and six arms, and can defend several on the outside.

Irving switched to George Hill, and Hill passed the ball to J.R. Smith, who forced Irving with the ball and drew a foul on Thompson after getting to the basket.

The biggest weakness of the Cavaliers' defense is Irving's point, and what's even worse is that the Pacers have the ability to attack with the ball at every point except for the center position, so is it difficult for Irving to defend McGee?

Like the Cavaliers fighting the Hawks, and allowing Irving to go with Korver, the Pacers are now seeing that you can't defend alone, and they just want to eat you.

JR-Smith stepped to the free-throw line and hit both free throws to extend the lead at 51-59.

But right away, James hit the ball on the offensive end to Mozgov, who cut inside, and a layup caused a foul on West.

The Pacers inside was McGee and West to help defend together, and after the referee blew the whistle, West immediately raised his hand to receive the foul, for fear that the referee would blow the foul on McGee.

Now the Pacers have to protect McGee, who has already committed three fouls, and if he fouls again in the third quarter, he will have to go down and rest.

When he rested, Li Liang was going to go to the center position again.

So, now the Cavaliers and Pacers each have a weakness.

The Cavaliers are Irving's defensive colanders, and the Pacers are McGee in foul danger.

So, a game of hide and seek began on both sides.

The Cavaliers tried to hide Irving on the weak side, and at the same time strengthened the interference with the Pacers' transfer of the ball, blocking and dismantling easily without changing defenses, and Mozgov and Thompson on the inside tried their best to help defend and supplement the defense, and wipe Irving's ass.

For the Pacers, West and Li Liang assisted McGee on interior defense, helping to lead fouls when needed.

Li Liang made two offensive fouls in a row in the third quarter, one to James and one to Mozgov, fully demonstrating his acting skills as an actor under the basket.

However, looking at the scores of the two sides, the Cavaliers are slowly approaching.

Li Liang failed to hit three three-point shots in the third quarter, George, James, and James Jones launched a wheel battle against Li Liang, and began to use physical confrontation to consume Li Liang, and even did not hesitate to foul Li Liang to give Li Liang an easy opportunity to shoot three points.

The battle became more and more intense, and in the middle of the third quarter, James went off the court again.

At this time, it was Dellavedova who replaced James, he just got rid of Garnett in the first half, and he came on the second half with a mission, and Blatter actually asked him to defend Li Liang.

If he opened the normal defense one-on-one, how could he be able to prevent Li Liang.

He used an abnormal method to deal with Li Liang - the mad dog entanglement method.

As soon as he came up, before Li Liang got the ball, he began to pester Li Liang, his two hands clamped Li Liang's torso like crabs, and his body leaned up like a teddy.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fear of being punished for a foul, Li Liang really wanted to kick him out of the sideline.

But that would be in the hands of the opponent, Li Liang couldn't mess up, he could only scold.

As soon as the hair dryer was turned on, there was a beep at Dellavedova, starting from the history of exile in Australia, crazy milk Australia.

Dellavedova came up to provoke Li Liang and interfere with him with a mad dog-style defense.

How do you know that Li Liang is really ...... when he scolds people Dellavedova was scolded for two rounds and finally couldn't hold back and began to elbow Li Liang.

Of course, Li Liang will not fight back, and continue to breastfeed, Li Liang is a famous college student after all, rich in historical knowledge, proficient in allusions, and scolded Dellavedova in smoke, and finally the defense was also unguarded, and began to scold Li Liang.

The Pacers were about to attack, but the two erupted near the halfway, and Dellavedova looked like "I'm going to jump up and hit you in the knee."

The referee blew the whistle again at the right time and separated the two, for fear that the two would bite.

As a result, the three referees gathered around for a while and gave Li Liang and Dellavedova a technical foul.

Li Liang was speechless, and gave a technical foul again?

Garnett was sent off in the first half, and Della didn't do anything.

In the second half, he played 50 boards each, and his backup point guard card was really big.

The good news, of course, is that he was sent off because Della also had a technical foul in the first half.

And Li Liang has a technical foul on his back, and there is still more than a quarter of time to play, so he has to be careful.

Li Liang ran to the referee Moore to defend himself, but Moore just comforted Li Liang, "Play well and put your energy into the game." ”

Li Liang really wants to take a sip of the referee, and Lao Tzu also wants to play well, do you see that the defense on the Cavaliers' side wants to play well?

But that's the way the playoffs are, and a lot of times it's not the game itself that determines the final outcome of the game, but something outside the game, or in other words, it's part of the game.

Dellavedova's mission was done, and in the two minutes of James' break, he managed to drag Li Liang and make Li Liang pay a technical foul, and then left the court from the players' tunnel to the locker room to rest amid the applause and cheers of the fans.

Just in time, the Pacers called a timeout.

The score was 61-65, and the Pacers still led by four points.

Bird is a little worried right now, as the entire Pacers, including Leung, are starting to have some inattention.

Not only because of the away game, but also because of some non-basketball factors that interfere with the players' mood of play.

In away games, the mental state is very important, and once you mess up the mentality, the game will be very difficult to play.

Bird called a timeout at the right time, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

As soon as the timeout ended, the Pacers served a sideline ball, which was tackled by James.

Hill couldn't catch up with James and had to foul, and the sideline ball tactics set up during the timeout were completely lost.

Immediately afterwards, when Li Liang was defending James from receiving the ball, he was blown a defensive foul by the referee, the third foul of the whole team and the third foul of Li Liang.

If you foul again, you'll have to make a free throw.

Li Liang didn't dare to scold the referee casually at this time, and if he scolded the referee for a T, he would go back to rest, and the game would be explained.

It's so aggrieved.

James continued to ask for the ball in the low post, he knew that Li Liang didn't dare to exert his strength, so he desperately pushed back, and then turned his back to the bottom line and made a layup with both hands!

At this moment, McGee came from the flank, a big cap with a pegboard, and covered the ball!

However, before McGee could hit the ground, the referee blew the whistle to indicate that it was a jamming ball.

McGee jumps straight to his feet, how is this a disturbance ball?

However, according to the slow-motion replay, James did touch the rebound first, and McGee took the ball down again.

At 63:65, the difference between the two sides was only 2 points.