Less than four minutes into the game, Bosh, the Heat's main center, had to be substituted for two fouls. And their replacement of Chris Anderson is a player who is particularly prone to fouls by opponents, which also makes the on-site commentators at the American Airlines Center sweat for the Heat's interior line.

Sure enough, as soon as Birdman Anderson came on the court in his first defensive round, the Pacers decisively changed their strategy, no longer letting the outside player break through with the ball to make a kill, but hoisted the ball into the interior and handed it to Hibbert to play alone, and Hibbert also lived up to expectations, after receiving the ball in the low post, after hitting the back twice, a turning shooting feint directly shook Anderson up, and then leaned on the opponent, causing the opponent's substitute center to foul, although the first free throw did not hit, but after adjusting his breathing, Hibbert still hit the second free throw safely.

After that, James also saw some clues, so he also desperately attacked the Pacers' basket, but the Pacers' outside players directly complemented each other's defense and wrapping very quickly, which also made James very helpless, until the game was suspended on TV, except for David West, who was fouled on the first offense in the opening game, only Ye Xuan was deceived into a foul when defending Wade.

On the Heat side, because Bosh was replaced prematurely, the interior was under great pressure, not only Bosh had two fouls, Anderson had already committed two fouls, and Battier also had one foul. However, since Anderson should not have a lot of playing time, Spoelstra continued to put him on the field.

And due to frequent fouls and intermittent play, the Pacers have only scored 11 points so far, but compared to the Heat's 9 points, the Pacers still have a slight advantage.

After the TV timeout, the Heat made a change, bringing in the more offensive Lewis and Ray Allen on the court. At this time, the Heat have completely abandoned the control of the interior, and the highest on the team is actually the defensive black hole Rashad Lewis who has just been replaced. Then there's the forward line of Battier and James, and the guard line of Wade and Ray Allen.

Such a combination did play the advantages of his strong mobility and three-point shooting ability, as soon as he got on the court, he used two consecutive break-through shots to tear open the opponent's defense, and let Lewis, who ran out of the vacancy, successfully hit a three-pointer, directly overtaking the score.

However, when the Pacers attacked, their weaknesses were also fully revealed, and Hibbert's point was simply like the prehistoric monster O'Neal, after asking for the ball inside, he knocked Lewis away with two blows, and then shot the basket, although the poor hand Hibbert shot did not score.

But it doesn't matter, he threw himself and grabbed it, Hibbert grabbed the offensive rebound and shot again, the basketball swung around the basket and fell out, Hibbert jumped up again to grab the rebound, this time he got up and smashed the basketball into the basket. An offensive opportunity swiped two points and two rebounds in the frontcourt, which also made Hibbert's mouth smile crookedly.

However, on the defensive end, Hibbert did not keep up with the pace of the opponent, after two consecutive blocks, Lewis found another opportunity to run out of the open position, and James's pass was also passed immediately, but fortunately, Lewis did not feel good and failed to shoot the open three-point shot.

After Hibbert grabbed the defensive rebound, he handed the ball to Ye Xuan. After Ye Xuan advanced to the front court with the ball, he continued to hand the ball to Hibbert, who knocked Lewis away very easily on the inside, and smashed the basket with both hands again to score the ball.

Compared with Hibbert's continuous rampaging of the opponent's basket, the opponent uses his high mobility to pull the Pacers' defense away, and then the person who runs out of the open space shoots outside, if the opponent's shooting percentage is guaranteed, this style of play is actually very good, but unfortunately compared with the explosive feeling of the previous game, the shooting percentage of the Heat in this game is a bit insufficient.

After three consecutive rounds of iron, the Pacers also relied on Hibbert's inside singles to gradually widen the difference, until with less than 3 minutes left in the first quarter, the Pacers took the initiative to make personnel changes, replacing David West and Pickled Pepper, and then replacing Scola and Lance.

The Heat continued to use the original lineup to respond, wanting to rely on the opportunity of Pickled Pepper's absence to chase the score back, but they didn't expect the Pacers to still choose to put Hibbert on the court, and also specially left two players who can play point guard - Ye Xuan and Hill on the court to continue to feed him.

For a while, the Heat team was very eager to recover the score, but their hand was not as good as in the last game, so with the reasonable help of Ye Xuan and Hill, the Heat team not only failed to close the score, but was continued to pull the score away by the Pacers because the interior line could not limit Hibbert.

At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers relied on Hibbert's 14 points and 6 boards in the first quarter of the game to stretch the score to 26:18 in one fell swoop, temporarily leading the Heat by 8 points.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Pacers replaced several key players, then left Lance on the court and replaced them with Solomon Hill and Pickles. And Hibbert, the biggest contributor to the first quarter of the game, was also replaced by Masimmi to rest.

After Pickle Pepper came on the court, he took on the responsibility of controlling the ball, although on the surface it seems that three small forwards played together, but this lineup not only protects the rebounds very well, but also forms a restraint effect on the opponent's Bosh who has just been replaced on the court, and the five people in this lineup have good single defense ability, except for the relatively slow pace of Scola, the other four people can not fall behind when defending the opponent alone.

And the Heat, when all the main players played almost the full first quarter, chose to replace Wade and Battier, and then let James and Bosh play on the court with Lewis, Ray Allen and Chalmers.

As a result, in the face of the strange lineup on the Pacers' side, the Heat team was in a mess, and after Pickle Pepper dribbled past half court, Chalmers thought that the opponent was playing the point guard position and took the initiative to defend Pickle Pepper, but Ray Allen habitually thought that he was the Pickled Pepper counterpoint, so he directly leaked Solomon Hill.

Pickled pepper didn't think much about it, and directly passed the ball to the unguarded Solomon Hill, although the latter is known for his defense, but he also has a long shot, especially in the recent period of training with Ye Xuan, and he learned from Ye Xuan a vacant three-point shot, so after receiving the ball, he shot directly and threw the ball in.