Chapter 108: The referee spoils the situation
After such a small episode, the Pacers' offense returned to normal, Ye Xuan relied on his breakthroughs and passes to constantly create opportunities for his teammates, and on the defensive end, due to the decline in physical strength, the Heat team's hand feeling was gradually affected to a certain extent, and finally there were some vacant shots that could not be scored.
With six minutes left in the third quarter, the Pacers officially tied the score. Spoelstra had no choice but to call a timeout to appease his teammates and hope that his big three would be able to turn the tide.
After the timeout, James decisively stopped continuing to pass as the first goal, after bringing the ball to the front court, he chose to force a breakthrough, although he was a little uncomfortable by Lance, but with his strong body and excellent physical fitness, he still forced a shot after forcing past Lance, and the basketball turned twice on the basket and slowly slid into the basket.
However, the Pacers are slowly getting used to the opponent scoring such unreasonable goals, so they don't feel helpless or demoralized. On the contrary, because of this, after being led by the opponent again, everyone still chose to play steadily, and Ye Xuan took the ball to the front court and passed the ball to Hibbert, who asked for the ball inside.
After Hibbert got the ball inside, he first observed that there was no one else around him, and then he sank down and began to hit Bosh with his back, Bosh is a standard space power forward, and it is indeed difficult for him to defend Hibbert with such a black and hard, after being hit twice, Bosh was decisively pushed to the basket, and Hibbert scored the ball with a light turn hook.
Looking back, James handed the ball to Wade, Wade also held the ball to break through the pickled pepper, the pickled pepper was relatively close, who knew that he followed and crashed into a person's body, looked up, it was Bosh who had just pulled out of the inner line, Wade took the opportunity to take two more steps inward, and then scored the ball with a throw.
And after Ye Xuan came to the front court with the ball here, he hoisted the ball to Hibbert who asked for the ball on the inside again, Hibbert received the ball, so the trick was repeated, and he had to sink down to hit Bosh on his back, who knew that Hibbert just started dribbling, the referee's whistle sounded on the side, Ye Xuan thought that Bosh was humiliated and chose to foul directly, who knew that the referee's gesture turned out to be an offensive foul.
Now Hibbert blew up, he just received the ball and didn't start the official back play, where did the offensive foul come from, so he stepped forward to find the referee theory, but unfortunately the referee looked iron-faced and selfless, so Pickled Pepper could only step forward and bring Hiberta back.
After the Heat served on the sideline of the backcourt, James quickly advanced to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to Bosh who was waiting on the outside with a breakthrough point, Bosh received the ball and shot directly, but unfortunately the basketball smashed on the back edge of the basket and bounced high, and Hibbert and West were stuck in the position to compete for rebounds, but the referee's whistle sounded again, and it was actually a David West scramble for rebounding foul.
A group of people from the Pacers team didn't do it now, and immediately surrounded the referee to ask for an explanation, but the referee resolutely upheld the original verdict and didn't give any explanation, and Coach Frank couldn't stand it, so he stepped forward directly and asked the referee to study the video, who knew that the referee directly stuffed a T in Coach Frank's face.
As soon as this T came out, Ye Xuan suddenly realized that there was definitely something wrong with this referee, but he was also smart, and he didn't go to besiege the referee with his teammates, but stepped forward to comfort his teammates, and then pulled all his teammates away.
The Heat sent Ray Allen to execute a technical foul free throw and continued to serve in the frontcourt. Although the referee didn't make any trouble this time, the Heat also scored the ball with James forcing a breakthrough layup, and in one fell swoop stretched the score to a 5-point lead.
Ye Xuan already knew what he meant at this time, it was obvious that someone didn't want his team to take a three-0 lead so quickly, so he played some tricks and wanted to make the series go on a few more games, indeed, in such a fierce situation in the Eastern Conference Finals, if his team won all the first three games, the suspense would be over, after all, no team in the history of the league could turn the tables in a 0:3 situation.
Ye Xuan secretly cursed in his heart that Adam-Xiao Hua's whole family was dead, but he could only continue the game helplessly. Sure enough, in the following games, the Pacers not only encountered the stubborn resistance of the Heat, but the most terrible thing was that the referee put a trick on the side, and every time the Pacers wanted to catch up with the score, the Heat's forced breakthrough would cause a foul.
After a couple of fouls in a row, the Heat went into the bonus free throw phase and then easily pulled the score back into a safe position. And the game began to become intermittent, not in the first two quarters of the wonderful offensive battle, but into a boring free throw performance.
So, with three minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Pacers still trailed by six points. However, it is not known whether the referee was constraining him because of a detailed report of the final minutes of the game, or because he felt that the Heat had won now and there were no favoritism in the next few rounds.
And Ye Xuan seized the opportunity and quickly narrowed the gap to only two points with a throw-off after a forced breakthrough and a fast-break dunk after a steal. Suddenly, the suspense of the game rose again.
After being stolen by Ye Xuan and winning the fast attack, the Heat called a short timeout to replace their strongest lineup, and after the pause came back, James held the ball to face Lance and continued to choose to force a breakthrough, because he knew that the opponent had been blown into a frightened bird by the referee, and he should not dare to continue to defend himself with big moves.
Sure enough, Lance, who had 4 fouls on his back, did not dare to use his body to defend James, and James took this opportunity to directly take two big strides past Lance to kill the inside, and after a feint to deceive Hibbert, he leaned on the latter, and the whistle sounded again, but this time it was indeed a foul, and Hibbert raised his hand in despair, because he had committed the sixth foul.
In desperation, Coach Frank had no choice but to replace Masimmi with a top one. After James hit both free throws, the margin was still maintained at 4 points. A four-point difference means it takes two rounds to overtake or equalize.
After that, although the players of the Pacers tried their best to attack and defend desperately, the 4-point difference was placed in front of the Pacers like a trench, so that their efforts were in vain, and finally when there were 17 seconds left in the time, the Pacers used foul tactics in desperation, but unfortunately with Ye Xuan's three-point shooting not scored, Bosh grabbed the rebound, and the Pacers also lost hope of winning, and reluctantly swallowed the first defeat of this year's playoffs on the road.