At the start of the game, Jermaine O'Neal won the jump ball, and Jamal Tinsley took the ball and advanced to the frontcourt.

In the opening game, Jermaine O'Neal received the ball near the free throw line, singled Josh Smith, and other players ran up, which is also one of the regular play styles of the Pacers.

However, obviously, Josh Smith is also a striker with excellent running and jumping ability, and there is not much disadvantage to O'Neal Jr.

Therefore, from beginning to end, the Bobcats did not assist in defense, and O'Neal Jr. naturally failed to find too good passing opportunities.

After stopping the ball, O'Neal Jr. had no choice but to break short, but Josh Smith followed closely.

In the end, O'Neal Jr. forced himself to the basket and raised his hand to the basket, but was directly interfered with by Josh Smith, missed the layup, and the rebound was also taken down by Perkins.

"Jermaine O'Neal's layup was deflected wide and the rebound was taken by the Bobcats, are they going to fight back?"

O'Neal Jr. missed a shot, the Bobcats grabbed the rebound, and their first reaction was obviously to fight back, but the Pacers reacted quickly, and they immediately retreated after O'Neal Jr.'s layup missed.

In the playoffs, the defensive intensity of all teams has increased, and the Pacers are no exception, and Rick Carlisle is well aware of the Bobcats' style, so they have been wary of the Bobcats' counterattack.

The Bobcat's fast attack failed, so it could only switch to a positional attack.

At the top of the arc, Paul and Kendrick Perkins blocked the pick-and-roll, and after the split, Paul went inside, and Perkins also went down and into the basket.

Paul rushed to the free throw line and quickly met the defending Jeff Foster, which was a misplaced opportunity, Paul resolutely hit in, and after speeding up, he went straight past the Jeff Foster who was flowing on the floor.

In the end, Paul ran into the last link of the Pacers' defense - Jermaine O'Neal, in the face of O'Neal Jr.'s supplemental defense, Paul passed directly to the basket, Perkins received the ball, a heavy dunk, and scored two points!

"The Bobcats scored first, Chris Paul broke through the Pacers' defense alone, and in the face of Jermaine O'Neal's cover-up defense, he directly used a pass to find Kendrick Perkins under the basket, Perkins directly made a heavy dunk, and successfully scored 2 points, the score was 2:0!"

The Pacers' offense, the ball was given to Stephen Jackson, Jackson held the ball to find Jermaine O'Neal, after a cover cooperation, directly into the three-point line, after a pull-up jump shot, bang, did not score.

The reason why it didn't go in was that the Bobcats' defense was not out of position, and they switched defenses after covering, and Stephen Jackson faced Josh Smith, and Josh Smith's speed was not slow at all and kept up with Stephen Jackson directly.

Therefore, Stephen Jackson was not able to get a comfortable shot, and it was only natural that the goal was not scored.

The Bobcats got the backcourt rebound, played to the frontcourt again, and continued to cooperate with various passes, Michael Reed joined them, although the Pacers' defense increased its intensity, but compared to the Pistons in the regular season, it was still a little worse.

The same is true for this ball, where the Bobcats pulled out opportunities from the outside, forcing the Pacers to stretch out the defense, and in the end, the basket was empty again.

Andre Iguodala received the ball and scored another dunk.

The Pacers' offense, they became more and more desperate to score, but Stephen Jackson once again found Jermaine O'Neal to cooperate, and after the block, the Bobcats changed defenses again.

Stephen Jackson gives the ball to Jermaine O'Neal.

Jermaine O'Neal misplaced the single Andre Iguodala, which looked like a big hit small, and Jermaine O'Neal thought that the opportunity had come, so he forced his back inside.

Then he was about to turn and break through, but at that moment, Iguoda stretched his hand and sliced a sudden chip.

With a snap, Iguodala's black thick hand hit the center of the basketball, and he didn't touch Jermaine O'Neal's hand at all, and the cut ball was successful!

The basketball fell to the floor, and it was Iguodala who reacted the fastest, and he threw the basketball directly to the ground, and it went directly into Paul's hands.

Paul received the ball, counterattacked directly, the front court hit zero, Paul made a basket, 6:0!

At the beginning, the Bobcats immediately took the advantage, through continuous outside passing, patient passing, and at the beginning, the Bobcats beat the Pacers with a wave of 14:6, directly establishing an 8-point lead.

Then, Rick Carlisle called a timeout and made adjustments.

He replaced Jeff Foster, who didn't play much on the court, and brought on Austin Crohill, starting on the offensive end and looking for opportunities.

But obviously, the difference in strength between the two teams is huge, especially when the Bobcats have already played their own offense in the opening game, the Pacers have no chance at all, and they can only try to make up for the gap between them and the Bobcats by constantly attacking.

At the end of the first quarter, the Bobcats led the Pacers by 11 points, 32-21.

Then in the second quarter, both teams went on a rotational lineup.

In the playoffs, Qiao Hai also adjusted the rotation order of the Bobcats, except for the starting five, only Mo Williams, Gerard Wallace and Danny Granger can enter the rotation on the bench, unless the game is played, the other substitutes on the bench will not get playing time.

This is also a trend in the playoffs, generally teams that will play a rotation of about 10 players in the regular season will reduce the rotation, and some teams will even play a terrifying 7-man rotation in the playoffs.

Qiao Hai is not so scary, in the regular season, he will sometimes even play a 12-man rotation, that is, except for the inactive players, all other players can get playing time.

Normally, the Bobcats usually have a rotation of 10 to 11 people, and in the playoffs, Qiao Hai also felt that the Bobcats were going to increase their intensity, so he set an 8-man rotation.

In the rotation lineup in the second quarter, Joe Sea brought up point guard Mo Williams, scoring guard Andre Iguodala, small forward Danny Granger, power forward Gerard Wallace, and center Josh Smith.

In this lineup, Xiao Mo can play alone, Iguodala can advance with the ball, and organize the offense at the top of the arc, plus Gerard Wallace and Josh Smith complement the defense, this rotating lineup is very perfect in offense and defense.

In the second quarter, the Bobcats extended their lead further, and in the second half of the quarter, Qiao Hai continued to make rotations, Michael Reid for Iguodala, Chris Paul for Mo Williams and so on.

Then in the second half, Qiao Hai switched to a regular lineup, with Paul Gared as a backcourt combination, plus Gerard Wallace and Granger as a front, and center Perkins.

The regular lineup achieved a certain advantage again, and in the second half of the third quarter, Qiao Hai changed to a small lineup, Iguodala replaced Reed, and Josh Smith replaced Perkins.

After another rush, the Bobcats sealed the victory.

In this way, the Bobcats used a high-intensity eight-man rotation to directly lead by 23 points in the third quarter.

In the end, the Bobcats easily defeated the Pacers 108-90 and won the first game of the series.

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