"Why is this pause so long?"

"yes, I can't wait to see our team beat up the hillbillies in Indiana."

The bench lineup led by Josh Howard and Jerry Stillhouse played an offensive climax at the beginning of the third quarter, helping the Mavericks successfully overtake the score, especially when Jerry Stackhouse shot the overtaking three-pointer, many spectators jumped up from their seats excitedly, and the Mavericks players on and off the court also climbed their momentum to the top with this three-point shot, and this three-point shot also strengthened their confidence in defeating the Pacers.

Obviously, with the score overtaking, the Mavericks have enough confidence at this time that they can beat the Pacers in this game!

And these Maverick fans at the American Airlines Center are all in a high mood now, expecting the Mavericks to make persistent efforts to defeat the Pacers in one fell swoop, but on the Pacers' side, Rick Carlisle called a long timeout as soon as the score was overtaken, interrupting their expectations very facelessly.

"Alright, guys, it's time for you to play again." Unlike the elated Mavericks bench, on the Pacers' side, almost all the players had no expression after the timeout, and the substitute players who came off the court were overtaken because they were overtaken, and it would be good not to blame themselves, and a few main players who were used to seeing strong winds and waves did not take the score to heart at all, isn't it just a two-point difference, and it was pulled back in one round.

"Meng, I'll beat you!" After the game restarted, Dirk Nowitzki, who was standing not far from Meng Xu, swung his fist at Meng Xu fiercely, from a maximum of 8 points to a current 2-point overtake, bringing the Mavericks not only the joy of overtaking the score, but also high morale and firm confidence in defeating the Pacers.

"Dirk, the game is just getting started." Meng Xu, who seemed to sense that Dirk Nowitzki was demonstrating to him, turned his gaze to the direction where Nowitzki was, and smiled at Dirk Nowitzki.

For Meng Xu, this game has only really started now, and the previous game is just a prelude, what Meng Xu wants is to knock them off from the peak when the confidence of the Mavericks is at its peak.

Meng's expression was so indifferent, he didn't seem to take the score behind to heart at all. Looking at Meng Xu, who was standing near the middle circle with a calm face, Magic Johnson felt more and more that Meng Xu was too abnormal.

"Am I thinking a little too much?" Magic Johnson himself felt that he was a little nervous, isn't it just a finals, how can there be so many intrigues and tricks in his mind, making it like two countries at war.

Just when Magic Johnson was still in the complex emotions of guessing, denying, and guessing, the game on the court had already begun, Jermaine O'Neal threw the sideline ball, and after winning the ball, James Posey did not hand over the basketball to Tony Allen, but directly handed the basketball to Meng Xu on the right side of the court.

Because the Mavericks were very resolute in Meng Xu's bagging, so in the entire first half, Meng Xu did not hold the ball too much, let alone force a shot in the case of the opponent's bagging, so after Meng Xu received James Posey's pass, Josh Howard and Adrian Griffin wrapped Meng Xu again, and while wrapping Meng Xu, Adrian Griffin also observed Tony Allen and Tayshawn Prince behind him with the corner of his eye, when the Mavericks began to pack Meng Xu, the two guards of the Pacers, Tony Allen and Tyshawn Prince will certainly have one of them unguarded, and Meng Xu's six assists in the first half all came from that.

However, this time, after encountering the bag, Meng Xu did not immediately distribute the basketball to the unguarded Tyshawn Prince, but leaned sideways on Josh Howard, one arm blocked Adrian Griffin who came to the bag, and then an extremely quick back turn broke through, directly bypassing Josh Howard's side.

"Turning your back so quickly?" Josh Howard, who has played against Meng Xu several times, still has a thorough understanding of Meng Xu's physical fitness and technical characteristics, and at the same time, under the guidance of Avery Johnson, Josh Howard also practiced many methods and strategies to defend Meng Xu in advance, but in this defense, Josh Howard was still easily gotten rid of Meng Xu's back by Meng Xu, and Josh Howard, who had lost his position, is now full of Meng Xu's lightning-fast back turn and breakthrough.

Because Meng Xu passed the ball in the bag throughout the first half, and out of trust in his teammates, after Josh Howard and Adrian Griffin began to pack Meng Xu, the remaining Mavericks players on the court focused their defensive attention on the other side of the court, that is, the left court where Jermaine O'Neal, James Posey and others were located.

The Mavericks' defensive arrangement led to Meng Xu's lack of time to make up for the defense after breaking through Josh Howard and Adrian Griffin's defense, and Meng Xu instantly picked up the speed after getting rid of Josh Howard and Adrian Griffin, and when Desaguena Diop, who was taken to the left side of the court by Jermaine O'Neal, returned to the basket, Meng Xu was already hanging on the basket.

"It looks like Meng is finally no longer pretending to be dead." Before the pause, Magic Johnson was still thinking about when Meng Xu would be willing to stand up, but he didn't expect that as soon as the game started, Meng Xu used a dunk to announce his existence.

And when the Pacers' offense was completed, Desagana Diop just sent the baseline ball, the Pacers once again sacrificed the full-court pressing tactics, because the Pacers have a number of excellent defense and strong physical players, so the full-court pressing tactics have become a near-perfect defensive tactic in the hands of the Pacers, but the full-court pressing tactics are very physically demanding, which is why the Pacers will use full-court pressing in only one quarter of a game, but in today's game, After the Pacers used full-court pressing on the Mavericks in the first quarter, they began to press the Mavericks full-court in the third quarter.

"Jason Terry missed the dribble and the Pacers launched a fast break."

Heaven and hell are sometimes only a thin line, before the pause was full of confidence in the Mavericks, and the fans on the scene, in this offense and defense after the pause, the confidence has been consumed by most of the time, an offense and a defense, the Pacers once again overtook the score, the Mavericks' main force and substitutes, from the second quarter, tried their best, gritted their teeth, and it took almost a quarter and a half to smooth out this big hole and overtake the score, but a pause, less than 30 seconds of game time, The situation on the field was reversed again.

Although the difference of two points is nothing for a game with nearly 20 minutes to go, the atmosphere of coming back from the lead as soon as you are ahead is undoubtedly very shocking.