The Bucks are not a team that is good at defense, or their perimeter is not good at defense, and the interior of Thomas and Johnson is still very intimidating for the small men of the 76ers, not to mention that Thomas himself can pull outside the three-point line to defend. But now they're in trouble on the perimeter, with a horde of outside defenders like Bell, Snow and Lynch besieging them brutally, and Ray Allen can't remember the last time he took a shot in stride.

Although the 76ers' perimeter players do not regard blocking as their first choice, they often use physical contact to destroy the center of gravity of the Bucks players. Perhaps Ray Allen, the future all-time top shooter, can still shoot and score in such an environment, and Cassel and Robinson can only sigh.

After the start of the second quarter, the game entered a rhythm that others couldn't understand at all, and some fans even thought that they had seen the iron-blooded defensive battle between the Knicks and the Heat. Of course, the intensity of the game is not strong, but the offense on both sides is not very smooth, especially the Bucks, they give fans the impression of elegance, but in the face of the 76ers' stubborn defense, no matter how elegant the players are, it is true that they are embarrassed.

The 76ers' own offense was also limited, and that was the price they had to pay. After removing Iverson, the only scoring point in the lineup was Lewis, but he just met Thomas, a strange power forward who was also trained by Chang Wei, unless Mutombola went to the high post to cover him, otherwise it was difficult for him to find a chance to shoot under Thomas's harassment. The main way for both sides to score is only to force the shot, which is not only a test of the players' shooting base, but also a test of their luck.

Both sides are reluctant to let their opponents score, but the difference is that the Bucks' defense is passive, while the 76ers' defense is active, and they have long considered such a situation, so at least psychologically the 76ers' players are prepared. And they have another advantage that hasn't been shown for the time being - their bench players are much better than the Bucks.

With more than six minutes left in the second quarter, Brown directly replaced Iverson and Reed to replace Snow and Lynch, and Bell took the No. 3 spot. The previous physical confrontation completely disrupted the rhythm of the Bucks players, and it also greatly consumed their physical strength, although Carl also wanted to replace the bench players, but he also knew that the gap between the two sides in this regard was quite large, and it would be good to send the bench directly without being abused, didn't you see that everyone directly put Iverson on the court?

But if you don't replace the substitutes, the main players are already exhausted again. The Bucks' players have always been very good runners, but this game they spent more effort on every offensive round than before, as evidenced by their declining shooting percentage. Karl paced back and forth on the sidelines, like an ant on a hot pot, he didn't know whether to continue to let the main force stay on the field or let them come down to rest, these two roads looked like a dead end!

Brown's substitution was the straw that broke the camel's back, and Iverson and Reed showed strong offensive firepower as soon as they came up, quickly overtaking the score. If it weren't for Ray Allen's gritted teeth and insisting on scoring, the Bucks would have collapsed by now. In his previous life, when Chang Wei first started watching the game, Ray Allen had already formed a double gun with Lewis in the SuperSonics, and the scoring method was mainly shooting, but in fact, he was also a guy who could fly and dunk when he was young, such as now.

Although he is a key defender for the 76ers, Ray Allen is still stubbornly scoring, and he knows that it is impossible for opponents to let him shoot from the outside, so scoring directly becomes the only option. The backcourt combination of Reed and Iverson can't stop him, after all, the two are not defensive giants themselves, and can only watch him kill inside. Originally, Mutombo wanted to come up and block, but Ray Allen used the least cost-effective way to score in the face of his big hand - a mid-range jumper, which instead allowed the basketball to pass over Mutombo's fingertips and fall directly into the basket.

Bell slapped his thigh hard, annoyed that he hadn't been able to go up and stop Ray Allen. In fact, he has nothing to be annoyed about, he broke through Reed directly head-on, and he didn't summon a pick-and-roll, and he couldn't change the defense if he wanted to, and if he went to defend Ray Allen, wouldn't Robinson be let go? It's better to lose two points than to lose three, right?

Because Ray Allen continued to hit mid-range jumpers, the Bucks would not be quickly opened up by the 76ers, but they were really not happy, and now the 76ers have a lot more scoring points than before, and the scoring efficiency is also higher. In many cases, as long as Lewis pulls to the outside to make a cover, both Iverson and Reed can get an open shot, and no matter how bad it is, he can attract the defense and pass the ball to other teammates, which is a treatment that the lone Ray Allen does not enjoy.

Now Brown doesn't bother to bother with Ray Allen, if you like to score, go score, anyway, you are the only one in the whole team who can score, as long as everyone else can't score, no matter how tough you are, you can't win the game.

Ray Allen scored 15 points in the second quarter, the second-highest score in a single quarter since he joined the NBA in 1996, but the Bucks scored a total of ...... in the quarter 20 points, in other words, everyone else only contributed 5 points in total. What about the 76ers? None of them scored in double figures in the quarter, but eight players scored in 12 minutes of the quarter to score 32 points and force the gap to double digits.

The whistle at the end of halftime undoubtedly saved the Bucks, who were in a dilemma, and both the players on the court and those sitting on the court breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly returned to the locker room through the players' tunnel under the urging of the coaching staff. They had an initial advantage in the first half, but were quickly lost in the physical confrontation of the 76ers, who never expected to meet such a familiar and unfamiliar team.

Between the clash of muscles and the splash of sweat, who can maintain the elegance that has always been there? So some people say that the playoffs are a meat grinder, and that makes sense, and the intensity of the game is really not comparable to the regular season.