At the beginning of the second half, the Pacers were as morale-friendly as they had shown, and Jermaine O'Neal forced Garnett on the inside and caused Garnett's foul. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

O'Neal was very suppressed by Garnett throughout the first half, and basically did not bargain for anything in the one-on-one situation, while Garnett attacked farther and shot more accurately, and several hard meals were successful. However, this did not cause enough damage to O'Neal, who only had one foul in the first half, which was enough to see that Garnett's lethality in the low post was still not enough.

Now, after adjusting and preparing for the midfield, the Pacers have decided to start from the inside, starting with O'Neal, to try to have the advantage in the matchup with Kevin Garnett to turn the tide on the court.

With O'Nealgar's free throw, the difference between the two sides was suddenly reduced to 1 point. After that, Pierce rushed to the basket and missed the layup, but PJ Brown grabbed the rebound in the front court again and hit a rebound, and the difference became three points again.

In the confrontation with Foster, the experienced Brown still has the advantage, with him, Leon and Celtics players have the bottom in the defensive center, and his frontcourt rebounding is also a must, often can give the team important help.

However, the momentum of the Pacers did not wane, and this time Jermaine O'Neal pulled to the top of the arc and made a block with Tinsley, who cleverly used his body to push Arenas from behind and drill inside, and then made a return pass to O'Neal, who received the ball and hit a mid-range jumper at the top of the arc.

"It looks like the Pacers are feeling pretty good offensively, O'Neal has scored five straight points at the start of the second half, and it looks like they've built confidence at halftime. It's up to the Celtics to respond, as they've always been good at hitting opponents in the third quarter. "Stockton can see that the Pacers are very aggressive, and it is very wise to start from O'Neal, as the core player of the team, O'Neal Jr. can open up and can build solid confidence for his teammates, and at the same time, the continuous closing score will also put a lot of pressure on Garnett and Celtic.

"That's right, it's up to Leon and Celtic to respond, I don't think their change is yet to come, just wait, wait for Leon's first timeout in the second half." As a veteran of the Celtics, Kerr has a deep understanding of Leon's coaching rhythm, and he is a coach who is very good at calculating and stepping on the timing.

"Fox Leon has always had a 2-3 principle when he was coaching, which means that if the time on the court is used as a pause, in each period of game time, about 2/5 of the time, the players can still implement the tactics according to the coach's pause arrangement, and the remaining 3/5 often depends on the player's individual performance and the tacit understanding formed by the usual training and games. Therefore, León will make good use of 2/5 of the time, so that the players can maximize the tactical intent of the coach to change the situation on the field. I don't think that point in time has yet come. Cole explained in detail some of Leon's principles when coaching.

"Well, I've heard something like that, it's true that coaches can't fully control the players in the game, some coaches simply shout at the players on the sidelines, strengthen defense, grab more rebounds, and run!" Stockton is well-informed, and by the way, mocks some of the chicken soup coaches.

"Haha, that's right, but Fawkes isn't that kind of person."

As Kerr spoke, Arenas was blocked by Jermaine O'Neal on the breakaway, but PJ Brown grabbed the rebound again and gave the ball to Ragabel in the bottom corner, and Bell hit a mid-range jumper, which was also Bale's first score of the game. These were undoubtedly the two important points, and after Reed left the starting lineup, the Pacers clearly shifted their defensive focus towards Pierce, especially Pierce's big impact in the second quarter, which made Bell seem very unpresentable.

Now that Bale can also score, it certainly serves as a wake-up call to the Pacers' defense not to ignore any of the Celtics' players.

The stalemate lasted for about four minutes, and the Pacers' ferocious momentum in the second half gradually wore away from the Celtics' tenacious defense and versatile play on the offensive end. The difference between the two sides has been maintained at about 1 point, 2 points, 3 points, and the original idea that the Pacers wanted to start the second half to recover the disadvantage in one fell swoop gradually fell through.

When Ron Artest fouled Pierce in defense, Fox Leon called a timeout, and the score was 60-58 and the Celtics led the Pacers by two points.

It was a long timeout, and Leon lifted the tactics board and handed it to Rick Carlisle, asking Carlisle to lay out the next tactics for the players; Leon, on the other hand, pulled Michael Reed and muttered a few words in his ear, then beckoned to the rotation players that he was about to make a move.

Looking up at the timer, the third quarter of the game was 4 minutes and 15 seconds, almost at the point, the Pacers' morale in the middle of the game was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and now it was the Celtics' turn to blow their own storm.

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"At the end of the timeout, the Celtics made substitutions, replacing PJ Brown with James Posey, Ragabel with Michael Reed, and Garnett stayed on the court, and it looked like they were going to play a big four lineup." Stockton glanced at the Celtic substitution and said with some surprise.

Indeed, the Celtics suddenly switched to one big and four small, this lineup was not used frequently in the regular season games of the Celtics, and only appeared a few times in the second half of the regular season when Leon experimented with various tactics and lineups, and the effect was relatively average. The strength of this lineup lies in the strong outside projection ability, and the weakness is of course in the fourth position, Posey is not good at playing the fourth position, and if Pierce plays the fourth position, he will have too much pressure on both offensive and defensive ends.

At the same time, Kevin Garnett has always been known for not liking the No. 5 position, and it is not easy to get him in the center position. Therefore, after a limited number of experiments, this lineup basically did not appear in the tactical routines that the Celtics were studied, so O'Brien and Vogel were also a little blind when they saw such a lineup, and they didn't know what Celtics were going to sell.

At this time, the Celtics sent the sideline ball, Arenas served on the outside, Posey ambushed the bottom corner, Garnett responded to the high post, Pierce sank to the low post, at this time Reed suddenly swam away from the inside line in an S-shape, around to the right 45 degrees, Arias passed, Reed jumped directly before receiving the ball, and when the ball flew into the air, Reed's hand was also raised under the ball.

Reed jumped to the top point, and the ball was also held in his hand, and Jackson, who was following the defense, was still looking up at Reed, who had already shot.

"It's too fast...... The ball went in. Stockton also wanted to say that the tactic was too fast and too fast, and the ball flew into the basket.

"Wow! It's Michael's stunt! Beautiful, I thought he was just practicing and playing in training, but I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. Kerr couldn't help but open his mouth wide and shouted, but he didn't expect that Reed's skill of catching and shooting the ball in the take-off jump was practiced with Siegfried last season, and he would occasionally use it in games, mainly at critical moments, when the time was almost up.

I didn't expect Reed to use such a shot when there was a lot of time.

Reid looked very calm after the goal, he ran back into the half court and started to defend, but his heart began to surge, because he could feel that his shot was burning and spreading like a flame. He was looking for the feeling for the whole first half, looking for the feeling of shooting, looking for the feeling of running, being a substitute, and the feeling of being a starter was still very different.

Although it was a lot of practice in training, it was completely different when it came to the real game, but Leon told him to give him half time to adjust and adapt, and in the second half he had to play.

So, he took the risk of making a difficult shot just now, but he had confidence, Fox Leon had confidence, Carlisle had confidence, and his teammates with the Celtics had confidence.

Soon, Jackson missed a mid-range jumper on the Pacers' side, Garnett got a backcourt rebound, Arenas ran crazy with the ball, and Reed was almost down to the bottom right corner, Arenas split the ball, Reed received the ball and fell, a three-point quick shot, and the ball went in.

Two three-pointers in a row! The North Shore Garden Arena began to slowly become agitated.

O'Brien smelled a hint of danger, and he immediately called a timeout, hoping to stabilize the situation.

But Reed knew in his heart that it was a little late for the Pacers, and that the storm was already brewing. (To be continued.) )