After falling behind in the opening game, Qiao Hai's expression was serious, but the situation was not so urgent, so he did not make adjustments, but waited for the players on the field to make self-adjustments.

Then, the Bobcats' offense, after continuous passing and cutting on the strong side, Michael Reed got the ball, and there was a fleeting opportunity at the top of the arc three-point line, Michael Reed got the ball and raised his hand to shoot directly.

"Huh!"

The hand is up and down, and the ball is in!

Michael Reid also returned a three-pointer, which was actually a small chance, but Michael Reid seized this small opportunity and scored directly.

After Michael Reed's three-point shot, the two teams were tied.

Then, the two teams played another wave of iron, showing the main theme of the game - this is a defensive battle, under the Pistons' high-intensity defense, the Bobcats' offense is slightly difficult.

After a wave of iron, it was the Pistons who scored first.

After a pick-and-roll at the top of the arc, Rashid Wallace received the ball and faced Iguodala with another turnaround jumper and hit again.

Scoring two goals in a row, Rashid Wallace's form is already a bit explosive.

Bobcats' offense, they continued to focus on the outside of the pass and cut cooperation, Paul attracted the help defense and then gave the ball to Andre Iguodala, Iguodala broke through again, diagonally into the restricted area, forcing the Pistons to help defend again.

Then, he scored the weak side of the ball, Michael Reid made a resolute shot, and returned another mid-range shot, and the score continued to tie.

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At the beginning, the two teams continued to score in waves, and then hit iron, and overall, the scores of the two teams were tied, and at the beginning of the game, the Pistons had some advantages.

But after the fight, the Bobcats gradually relied on the outbursts of Michael Reed and Chris Paul to gradually turn the situation back.

At the end of the first quarter, the Bobcats led the Pistons by three points at 28:25.

The three-point margin was negligible, so in the second quarter, the two teams started the game almost in a tie.

When the Bobcats' lineup appeared on the court in the second quarter, Reggie Miller was slightly surprised: "Didn't the Bobcats play with a five-small lineup? They played Rivra Frenz, who had failed to get playing time in regulation time in the previous two playoff rounds, only in garbage time. ”

"This time he suddenly got the opportunity to play in the second quarter, and it looks like the Bobcats have made some changes."

Qiao Hai made this adjustment because their matchup with the Pistons in the regular season showed that the Pistons can put on multiple small lineups and can beat the Bobcats' offense on the defensive end.

The Bobcats' five-small lineup is not dominant in front of the Pistons' small lineup.

Therefore, Qiao Hai is also very simple, in this round of the series, he is not ready to use the five-small lineup, he is ready to use the regular lineup to deal with this Pistons, or in other words, he is ready to use offense to open the situation, and finally use defense to win the game.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the two teams played another wave of iron, until Chris Paul on the Bobcats side broke through and scored an outside three-pointer, scoring five points in a row, the Pistons really opened up, and the substitute Morris Evans received a pass from Richard Hamilton and hit a shot.

But by this time, the difference had already been widened to 6 points by the Bobcats.

Then, the Bobcats' offense hit the iron, and on the Pistons' side, Richard Hamilton's perimeter shot also missed, but Big Ben grabbed the offensive rebound and hit the rebound.

The margin was further reduced to 4 points.

In the Bobcats' offensive round, they started scoring again, Chris Paul received the ball again after two passes, covered from mid-range, and made a close-range jumper in the box to score two points, and the lead was stretched to six points.

In the next game, the Pistons' defense made great efforts, and the offensive end also found a good opportunity, playing a wave of 7:1, directly narrowing the gap to 2 points.

The score difference is negligible again.

The next two teams were a two-minute streak of iron, and the defensive intensity of this game was reflected at this time, and both the Bobcats and the Pistons increased their defensive intensity in this game.

By the end of the half, the Bobcats had a 48-44 Pistons ahead of the Pistons.

The halftime lead was not huge, and the Bobcats scored only 48 points in the half, and Magic Johnson and Reggie Miller on the commentary bench both believed that the Bobcats had completely fallen into the Pistons' rhythm in this game.

"With only 48 points in the half, is this still the Bobcat we are familiar with?" Reggie Miller asked rhetorically, and Magic Johnson quickly gave a set of statistics: "In the past two series, the Bobcats have played a total of 9 games, most of which have scored more than 100 points, and even the one they lost, they scored 116 points!" ”

"It can be said that in this game, only 48 points were scored at halftime, and the Bobcat is not a normal Bobcat!"

At halftime, facing a bobcat who was crazy in the first half, Qiao Hai was not ready to make adjustments to the attack, and his focus was instead on the defensive end.

"In the second half, we need to increase the intensity of our defense and help Steve Francis to make up for the gap on the strong side by rotating the defense faster."

Qiao Hai decided to sacrifice a defensive strategy against James in the second round, after all, Francis's style type is very similar to James, and there is a common ground between the two.

If Steve Francis can be killed, the Pistons' defense will be completely dumb.

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At the start of the second half, the Bobcats were still a regular lineup, with Perkins on the inside, Gerald Wallace and Josh Smith on the outside, and Morsera Williams and Michael Reed on the outside.

After the game restarted, on the Bobcats' side, Michael Reed immediately hit a mid-range shot, Mo Williams also scored 2 points through a layup after covering, and the Pistons opened directly and frantically hit the iron and did not score.

The Bobcats played a wave of 4:0, and the lead was stretched to 8 points.

But then, it played a wave of 7:0 in turn, and the difference was only 1 point.

The two teams went back and forth, and by the end of the third quarter, the score was 66:61, and the Bobcats led by 5 points into the fourth quarter!

Before the start of the fourth quarter, Qiao Hai decided to make a change, and the lineup he changed to the court was still a regular lineup, unchanged.

But offensively, he made demands: "Chris, and Michael. ”

He looked at Paul and Michael Reed: "I need you to be more determined in your singles, the fourth quarter is very important, you should know that, we need to use your singles to win this game, understand?" ”

Paul and Reed nodded, Qiao Hai's idea is very simple, the pass and cut offense is paired with the superstar's singles, the Bobcats can ensure a certain offensive success rate, and finally maintain the defensive intensity of the first three quarters, just open up the point difference, and the Bobcats will be able to win this game!