At the beginning of the second quarter, the Magic still couldn't find the north, while the Pacers scored four straight points.

Probably because of the fact that the division was pulled apart, the substitutes on the Magic side finally had a hint of will to win and began to attack.

Although Nelson is injured, the lineup on the Magic side is still very strong, after all, it is also the existence of the first few to pay the luxury tax.

Anthony Johnson, J.J. Reddick, Ryan Anderson, Matt Barnes, Balsing Gortat.

In such a lineup, in addition to not having a main point of attack, it can even be compared with the starting lineup of some weak teams.

Gortat's existence, that is, in the Magic, the big Van Gundy is willing to use him as a substitute, and he is definitely the starter in other players.

Barnes is also a defensive striker, and although he is not very tall, his defensive skills are quite good.

JJ Redick can provide enough firepower support in the bench time, and may also have a good ability to string games and three-pointers, such a lineup, if you add an 89 or 90-plus All-Star or superstar player, you can compete with those bad teams, and the bench lineup on the Pacers' side is definitely not bad.

With Granger leading, the point guard is TJ Ford, the shooting guard is Brandon Rush, the power forward Taylor Hansbrough, and the center Jeff Foster are only stronger than the Magic's lineup.

So when the Magic's bench lineup began to fight back, the Pacers didn't mess up.

With 8:52 left in the second quarter, the Magic's bench scored five points in a row to narrow the score to just 12 points, at which point the Pacers replaced two starters, Troy Murphy replaced Jeff Foster and Mike Dunleavy replaced Brandon Rush.

Dunleavy hit a mid-range shot as soon as he came on the court, this old boy is very poor, but he is really well-rounded in terms of shooting, at least give him the ball when he needs to score, he always has a way to put the ball in the basket.

Zhang Kong was still on the bench at this time with Jim O'Brien and the offensive assistant coach next to him to study the tactics of the second half, they didn't care too much about the game on the court, and the remaining 13 points in the first quarter were enough for them to play for a while!

There is no movement on the Pacers' side, it doesn't mean that there is no movement on the Magic side, Stan Van Gundy looked at the situation on the court and couldn't help frowning, in his eyes, the Pacers didn't even look at the situation on the court, just buried their heads there.

It's a way to look down on himself, so he was angry and took advantage of a substitution opportunity, except for Jason Williams, the remaining four main players were all changed to the court, and he wanted to kill the other party directly.

But in the two spears of Granger and Dunleavy, although the other party has put away his fear of Zhang Kong, there is still no way to narrow the score, and the score has been dangling back and forth between 14, 12, and 11 points.

It was not until the middle of the second quarter that the Pacers took an official timeout, but the Pacers still led by as many as 11 points at 44-33.

Zhang Kong originally wanted to go on now, but after taking a look at the situation on the field, he didn't want to make trouble.

TJ Ford, who played half of the second quarter, has scored 6 points, and there is no need for him to go up and join him, to put it bluntly, at the beginning of the season, the Pacers did not have their own position, and they grabbed TJ Ford's position before they were on the starting list.

Now it's okay to let TJ-Ford fight for a while, but just after Zhang Kong's hesitation, TJ-Ford made a mistake.

On the first offense after the timeout, Howard received an assist from Anthony Johnson and scored a strong dunk, while TJ Ford next to him owed a little bit of his hand and pulled Howard like this, and was immediately whistled by the referee next to him for a foul.

This time, the Magic not only narrowed the score to nine points, but also won a chance to play 2+1, and the entire Magic audience stood up to cheer for their main team, even those Orlando Chinese wearing empty jerseys also stood up.

They are only here to support Zhang Kong, and now that Zhang Kong is not on the field, it is naturally more to support the home team.

At the time of Zhang Kong's hesitation, the Magic team launched a fierce counterattack, JJ Rekdy first made two free throws, and then Petrus hit a jumper, in just one and a half minutes, the original 11-point advantage instantly allowed the Magic to chase back to only 5 points, at this time Zhang Kong couldn't sit still anymore, and finally after determining the tactics with Pacers coach Jim O'Brien, Zhang Kong returned to the court, substituted TJ Ford, who had already committed two fouls, and saw Zhang Kong return to the court.

The Chinese on the sidelines applauded enthusiastically, and the pacers, who were originally chasing points, were also quiet.

"Give them back!" After Zhang Kong held the ball, the index finger of his right hand was raised high to motivate the players.

As soon as Zhang Kong passed the half, JJ Redick next to him ran over to defend Zhang Kong, and Zhang Kong looked at JJ Rekdi in front of him.

This old boy played quite well just now, and he already scored 8 points by this time, but that's what he did!

Zhang Kong dribbled the ball with his right hand, and rushed straight over without looking at JJ-Reddick in front of him, before rushing to JJ-Reddick, this kid was still standing there with his waist bent, ready to hard-top Zhang Kong, but when Zhang Kong was about to hit him, he suddenly dodged, his wish was so flashing, so that Zhang Kong lost his balance, and then he stole Zhang Kong's ball, but he underestimated Zhang Kong's flexible surname, just the moment JJ-Reddick dodged away, Zhang Kong did not lose his balance, nor did he lose his center of gravity, he made an emergency stop, stunned to pull his center of gravity back, looking at JJ-Redick behind him and the unguarded basket in front of him, Zhang Kong sneered, you and I can't shoot! Thinking of this, Zhang Kong jumped up directly at the free throw line.

Under the eyes of all the people, he gently sent the basketball into the basket, and seeing Zhang Kong's emergency stop jump shot, Stan Van Gundy jumped up from his seat at once, in his mind, Zhang Kong, this guy shouldn't be able to shoot.

Because Zhang Kong has played so far this season, he has no other offensive methods except for three-point shooting and layups.

Zhang Kong's offensive method is also one of his most criticized problems, pure three-point and layup, can not cause everyone's excitement, everyone wants to see the violent dunk, even if you can't dunk violently, the offensive means must be more, but Zhang Kong's offensive means have always been very few, and today Zhang Kong told everyone that he is not not going to shoot, but not to like.

46-39, after Zhang Kong hit two points, he immediately stopped the decline of the Pacers' side to collapse, but there was Zhang Kong here, and there was Howard over there, Howard once again took advantage of the emptiness under the basket and single-handedly beat Solomon Jones, Hibbert had already gone off the court to rest, not only dunked with both hands, but also caused the opponent's foul, and this time he scored the basketball.

46-42, the score was narrowed to 4 points again, and the Pacers here still didn't feel good, and the main point of attack turned to Zhang Kong's body again. And Zhang Kong did not disappoint everyone, a throw in front of Lewis after a breakthrough, scored again.

Feng Shui rotates, and the players on the Pacers' side feel cold again, while the players on the Magic side feel the same bad.

But they can always cheat each other into fouls, just like JJ Redick, and it is naturally impossible for him to force a gap.

However, after the pick-and-roll, he can always cheat the Pacers to foul inside, which is a headache for Jim O'Brien.

Fortunately, there was a strong Zhang Kong in the second quarter, Zhang Kong only played four minutes in the second quarter, shot a three-pointer and three two-pointers, and scored a total of 9 points, but nine points could not restore the decline on the Pacers' side, and the point difference was still slowly catching up.

This doesn't look like a good thing in Zhang Kong, and finally at the critical moment, Mike Dunleavy, who has rested enough off the court, returned to the court, and just returned to the court, Zhang Kong originally intended to try his touch, who knew that this kid hit three points directly after receiving the ball.

Then there was another backhand layup after a ground-and-pound pass with Zhang Kong, and at the same time deceived a foul on Rashad Lewis.

"Yay death!" Looking at Mike Dunleavy's performance, Zhang Kong couldn't help but wave his fist, this old boy is really not ambiguous, he used the recovery stone to save him is right, when the old injuries and new injuries are gone, Mike Dunleavy on the offensive end, can really give the Pacers considerable firepower output, with the addition of Mike Dunleavy, the Pacers finally held their advantage in the second quarter, and at the same time limited the Magic's counterattack, and the bench players, This year's rookie Tyler Hansbrough, who has a good relationship with Zhang Kong, also performed extremely eye-catching, and near the end of the game, they did a classic Hornets combination, Tyler Hansbrough pulled out of the three-point line to block Zhang Kong, and after Zhang Kong broke through, Tyler Hansbrough also rushed.

After Zhang Kong's side attracted Howard's defense, Zhang Kong passed the ball directly to Tyler Hansbrough, who received the ball and easily dunked it with both hands, directly freezing the score at 61 points! But in the end, Barnes, who replaced Lewis on the Magic side, hit a mid-range shot, and the score was not as big as expected, 61-53, and the Pacers still led by eight points!

(To be continued)