Speaking of blocking, the top two blocking masters in the league are now on the court, since the ball just now, after the two exchanged blocks, the two seem to be on the same page, in the following offense, Howard blocked Murphy again, and after coming back, Petrus's jump shot was also covered by Zhang Kong, and after Granger received Zhang Kong's pass, he deliberately bypassed Howard and made a layup! And Howard's side is in the air relay, and there is no way to do this, and the power in the air is not an absolute factor.

In terms of height and weight, Howard has an absolute advantage over Zhang Kong, as Howard shouted, he directly dunked the basketball into the basket, and Zhang Kongbian was not polite, after shaking off Williams, he directly jumped and hit three points.

The scores on both sides continued to rise alternately, and the scene was also in a state of stalemate, although there were a lot of blocks, but the scores on both sides were steadily improving, Zhang Kong and Howard were eye-to-eye, and both of them showed their perverted blocking ability.

Howard showed his advantage in height and bounce, while Zhang Kong relied on his strength to predict a second, and constantly blocked the opponent's time ball, after the Magic played a wave of 9-4 attack small **, the main players of the Pacers all appeared on the court, directly contributed a wave of 10-5 counter-attack wave, chased the score back, and at the last moment Zhang Kong and Granger scored four points in a row.

And Howard was still unstoppable on the inside, dunked, Nelson made a layup on the last offense, and was blocked again by Zhang Kong, the second quarter of the game ended under such a chaotic battle, the Pacers tied with the Magic 53-53, won the opponent by two points in a single quarter, and put the suspense of the game into the second half, at the end of the half, Zhang Kong's blocks reached 6, and Howard's blocks also had 5, the two of them can be described as half a catty, and the Magic outside line has no way to take Zhang Kong, And the Pacers can't do anything about Howard inside, the thing is that in every game of the playoffs, no one wants to lose, especially the first game.

Both the Pacers and the Magic have reasons why they don't want to lose, the Magic reached the Finals last year, and today they are going to be ashamed, while the Pacers are entering the playoffs for the first time this year, and they also hope to create a miracle of the year and go further and further.

Now the configuration of the Pacers is definitely not worse than that of the Magic, which is why the two sides have not yet decided the winner.

In the third quarter of the game, Jim O'Brien also discovered that there was really no way to compete with the Magic with his own interior line.

So after thinking about it for a while, he put the focus of the offense on the outside, and replaced Milicic, the coolie in his eyes, to keep an eye on Howard, in fact, it seems to him that there is a reason for letting the big worm defend Howard, the first Milicic is not very important in this offensive system, can be used as a coolie, and can be used to foul at critical moments.

Second, Milicic had played as a substitute for the Magic for several seasons, so he still knows Howard well.

Although Milicic looks good defensively in the open air, he can only be abused against Howard in the same way...... As soon as the game was completed in the third quarter, Howard received a pass from Nelson's blind cat to a dead mouse and staged an aerial relay.

And in the next round of swamp, he successfully scored three points on the inside, Milicic just came on the court, and gave Howard five points, but Zhang Kong here is not welcome, after dribbling over half court, he directly pulled out three points, and chased the score back, Carter also broke out at this time, hitting three points on the outside, Duntai Jones defended Carter very well, and he didn't let Carter score many points so far, this ball is obviously a dribble, but who cares?

Today, Lady Luck obviously opened her skirt to the Magic, and the sturdy Chinese man obviously didn't attract her attention, but fortunately, Zhang Kong was still there, and on the next offense, Zhang Kong broke through and caused Nelson to foul and make two free throws, and then handed the ball to Granger, who staged a breakthrough dunk...... And Howard on the Magic's side hit a hook shot...... The situation on the court is also slowly moving in the direction of the Magic team, looking at this situation, Zhang Kong can't help but scratch his head.

"It's not easy to do!" Jim O'Brien's head was spinning fast off the court, and now he had to figure out a solution.

The inside line can't be opened because of Howard's pressure, and the outside line is not high because of the opponent's tight defense.

So far in the game, the Pacers have only made a total of three three-pointers, two of which were air-dropped, one of which was Grangermon's, and the rest, whether they were the main force or the bench, did not score any three-pointers on the outside, and Van Gundy's outside defense was really sharp.

"If you don't open the offensive ball on the outside, it will collapse sooner or later!" Jim O'Brien had a good idea.

There is an old saying in the alliance that whoever gets the inside line wins the world, and this sentence is not given for nothing. The shooting rate of the interior line is definitely higher than that of the outside line, Howard is now alone on the outside, and he has already forced the Pacers to be in a hurry, as long as Howard is willing, his offense on the inside line can completely contain the Pacers enough energy, if Howard is clamped, then the outside line will definitely be free.

At that time, the three-point masters of the Magic team will not give the Pacers too many opportunities, and when the sharpness of their side is lost, that is the beginning of the collapse rhythm, just when Jim O'Brien is thinking about this, in fact, the collapse rhythm on the court has begun, Granger dribbled and passed the ball to Murphy, but let Lewis steal, and after the long pass to Carter, Carter dunked.

Then Dundee Jones made the same mistake, breaking through and smashing the ball to Milicic on the inside, and then Lewis, as if he was specifically working against the outside of the Pacers, he actually blocked the offensive lane and stealed the basketball.

Then handed it to Carter, who made an easy layup, after hitting four points in a row, the Magic had pulled the score from the flat to 8 points, at this time they had forced the Pacers to a dead end, Big Van Gundy looked at the situation and couldn't help laughing, the original face of bitterness and hatred also changed, changed into a smile, but in the next ball, Zhang Kong made him unable to laugh, after Zhang Kong dribbled the ball past half court, facing Nelson, suddenly an acceleration, and rushed towards Nelson's left, Nelson was also not polite and immediately posted it, but Zhang Kong was waiting for him to move, and saw that Nelson moved.

Zhang Kong immediately retracted his foot, forcibly changed his center of gravity, and then jumped high and hit the basketball directly.

"Three points!" The referee and Zhang Kong put up three fingers together, telling everyone that their ball was three points!

The eight-point gap instantly became five points, but fortunately, the players on the inside were really powerful, and Howard hit a hook shot again.

Then it was Zhang Kong, dribbling to the three-point line again, this time he didn't even break through, he pulled it out directly, with his bounce and height, he really didn't have to do any feints to hit Nelson, and just now he did that feint just to pull away the defense, Zhang Kong's three-point shot, 8 shots and 3 shots, I tried it just now, then the remaining two three-pointers, as long as Meng is accurate, will definitely score, Zhang Kong's fourth three-pointer in this game, in the call of the audience, brushed into the basket again.

scored six points in a row, and Zhang Kong narrowed the score again to four points! And this time the ball on the Magic's side was a little inaccurate.

Nelson, who had a hot brain, shot three points in front of Zhang Kong, so that Zhang Kong was covered solidly, which was also his eighth block in this game, and Zhang Kong received three points after landing, and went straight to the opponent's half again, originally there was no one to defend the Magic team's half court, if it was other players, they would go to the basket or dunk, and it would be more stable, and Zhang Kong didn't!

He was still outside the three-point line, and suddenly there was an emergency stop, and after stopping outside the three-point line, Zhang Kong threw the ball directly.

"No, it won't!" Seeing Zhang Kong throw the ball out again, even Big Van Gundy's heart couldn't help but thump.

"Brush ......" Zhang Kong told him, yes! scored three three-pointers in a row, and Zhang Kong scored six points in a row at the end of the third quarter to turn the tide.

"Pause!" This time Big Van Gundy couldn't sit still, and immediately called a timeout, after Nelson dribbled past half court, he returned to the bench, after the timeout came back, Barnes broke through to the inside, causing Granger's foul, two free throws and two hits, the score became 85-82, the Magic also led the Pacers by 3 points, and at this time there were only 7 seconds left before the end of the game, Zhang Kong They didn't call a timeout, Murphy sent the ball directly to Zhang Kong on the outside, Zhang Kong was marked by Nelson's full-court defense as soon as he received the ball, and when it came to death, The Magic didn't allow Zhang Kong to score this ball in front of him! So now they have to guard against the next open.

However, a Nelson is obviously not Zhang Kong's opponent, a light bump, Nelson was knocked away, Zhang Kong continued to hold the ball towards the opponent's half of the court, saw Zhang Kong burst over, just after the half, Carter came out, dead stuck Zhang Kong's offensive line, and together with Nelson behind Zhang Kong, Zhang Kong implemented a bag policy!

But Zhang Kong's body suddenly shook, and a huge impact instantly poured out from Zhang Kong's body!

'James? Seeing the momentum on Zhang Kong's body, Carter couldn't help but be stunned, of course, Zhang Kong couldn't be James, but it didn't prevent him from using James's nirvana, bulldozer-style layup! A barbarian-style collision caused Zhang Kong to directly crash into Carter.

But the opponent's Petrus has also returned to the defense in place, with Petrus in front, Nelson in the back, Carter on the left, and Zhang Kong immediately fell into a one-man bag! After a glance at the time of the third quarter of the game, there was no time to hesitate!

"Fight!" Zhang Kong shouted, and under the bag of these three people, he jumped up high and threw the basketball out before the red light came on! Looking at the high-flying basketball, everyone can only raise their heads and look up at the trajectory of the basketball's flight......

(To be continued)