At halftime, the Wizards' locker room was very depressed, after all, it was a big score behind, and no one was upset.

There is one exception, Hu Qingniu.

"Guys, the plan was quite successful, we all pulled ourselves together, and the third quarter was when we counterattacked. They play more time than you, and they are already at the end of their power, and in this state, once people rest, their muscles become lazy. ”

Hu Qingniu's words seemed to have some truth, and the wizards were angry.

"Let's arrange the counteroffensive operation in the third quarter, I want to give him the code name 'Kill the Horse', how about it?"

Everyone laughed, and the two living treasures, Barkley and Rodman, were even more exaggerated and laughed to the ground.

"Coach, let me ask you a question, is the third quarter going to be a movie? I don't know how much box office there is, but I look forward to surpassing "Titanic". Barkley asked.

"Okay, it's just a code name, there will be a huge theater with 20,000 spectators, and it's all your performance time. To be serious, the gap between the strong team and the weak team is often reflected in the third quarter, and I have analyzed the data, and the first few minutes of the third and fourth quarters are the easiest time to widen the difference, which is commonly known as the wave of time period. ”

"But we picked up speed in the second quarter, huh?" Jordan asked, puzzled.

"Increasing speed doesn't mean that the offense is stronger, and we don't have to speed up to mean that the offense is stronger. In terms of attacking power, there are few teams in the league that can match us. In the third quarter, we played the starting lineup, Patrick, Dennis, Charles, Michael, Thiem, we didn't grasp the outside line well in this game, so we tried to play inside. We play high block and dismantle, pay attention to the outside line from both sides of the air cut, and go inside after the block and dismantle. After shooting, try to grab the rebound, and the opponent does not have the physical strength to play fast break at this time. ”

Hu Qingniu suddenly thought of something and continued.

"Dennis!"

"Coach, what do you command?" Rodman replied loudly.

"You've got to keep an eye on Jermaine O'Neal, he's the biggest threat to the Pacers right now, he can open up space and he can make a layup for singles. Don't let him catch the ball as much as possible, without him to open up the situation, the Pacers will collapse in the third quarter. ”

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Due to Ewing's strange loss of the jump ball, the third quarter was still the Wizards' serve.

Tim Hardaway cautiously controlled the ball in his hands, although Coach Hu Qingniu optimistically analyzed a wave, but after all, it was backward, so it was better to be careful.

Ewing mentioned that Tim Hardaway was blocked in the high post, and while Brad was pulled out of the box, Barkley and Jordan cut left and right to the heart of the heart.

It was time for Tim Hardaway to pull to the right and with a flick of his arm, the ball flew into the box.

The ball arrived before the man, but after a month of cooperation, Tim Hardaway had this confidence.

Barkley and Jordan got to the penalty area with their front and back feet and jumped towards the basketball at the same time!

Little O'Neill was stuck behind Rodman, who was 7 centimeters shorter than himself, and did nothing.

In the end, Jordan got the basketball, and Barkley just made a catch-and-catch gesture, took an air and pretended to dunk.

Two majestic bodies shrouded the Pacers' restricted area at the same time, one left and one right, like two ghosts slamming the door.

"Bang!"

After the goal, Barkley roared and rushed back into his own half, more excited than he was to score himself. was pressed and played for more than ten minutes, and as soon as it came to the second half, it was a feeling of raising eyebrows.

Jordan, a scheming man, is not so easy to let go of Miller, who has been BB for a day, and he specially walked in front of this old opponent to provoke.

"Well, my ability is okay."

Miller responded coldly: "It's just a ball, you're still nine points behind, think about your situation." ”

Jordan laughed: "Don't you know where the gap between the strong team and the weak team is?" Right in the third quarter! ”

"Huh?!" Miller has a question mark on his head, what does this mean.

But then Miller probably knew why the gap between the strong team and the weak team was in the third quarter.

The Pacers once again showed a shrinking strategy and put on a bucket formation, hoping to hold on to the basket, and the Wizards barely hit the outside line today anyway.

Jordan and Barkley's three-point ratio is indeed inconsistent, Tim Hardaway usually has a solid three-point shot, and today it was also a failure.

But can't you crack the bucket formation without three points, as a fan who has watched the growth of the rocket ball, Hu Qingniu realized for the first time that the method of breaking the joint defense or the iron bucket formation in the restricted area is actually a mid-range shot, not a three-point shot, because the early three-point shooting rate is really not high.

Miller was two steps away, and a little closer, he knew that with his physicality, he would probably be crushed by Jordan.

But this distance is ...... for Jordan

It's so far away.

Jordan got off the ball quickly, took a step forward, and pulled up and shot. With Miller's speed of bullets, he can only be a close-up spectator.

"Huh!"

The ball was scored, and the audience was silent!

It was a big mid-range shot with his heel almost next to the three-point line, and in more than 10 years the league, that shot was almost extinct. Because according to the principle of data analysis, three-point and basket are the most efficient places to score, while one step inside the three-point line is the least efficient.

But "mid-range shooting kills the game" is never a lie, and Jordan's last three consecutive championships are almost like this. During that time, he had a shooting rate of more than 50%, which was the strongest killer move in the league at that time.

It's also strange to say that Jordan's three-point grasp is not very good, but as soon as he steps into the three-point line, his feeling comes. Jordan is not alone, many basketball lovers are the same in life, the range is moved out little by little, some people are the king of mid-range shooting inside the three-point line, and the iron is a dog outside the three-point line.

Jordan hit a long-range shot, but the Pacers weren't giving up. When the next round comes, the defense line is still contracted and the iron bucket formation is put on.

"When a road goes to the dark, you need someone to stand up and go to the Pacers to doubt life." Hu Qingniu said secretly on the sidelines.

Is there such a person as a wizard, there is, and there are two.

Barkley also stepped up, and his fat body could also be explosively 80 centimeters off the ground, and he hit a jumper in a standard position.

As a short forward, but averaging 28 points per game, Barkley is also the most proficient in his arsenal.

"Damn it!" Miller was a little hesitant about what to do, the two-man pick-and-roll tactics were cracked, and the bucket defense was cracked.

The tactical duel in the basketball game is to fight whose weakness is caught and cannot turn over.

The opposing side has seen through your weaknesses and caught your sore spots, and it's up to you to come up with players who can crack the opposing strategy. The Pacers took advantage of the Wizards' three-point inconsistency and put on a bucket formation, but the Wizards were surprisingly able to respond to this strategy with ultra-long-range shots.

Whether or not to stick to the established bucket formation strategy, whether to prevent the Wizards from infinitely attacking the basket, the Pacers are in a dilemma.