"Troy, don't limit your range of movement to the interior anymore, I need you to do more outside offense now." O'Brien held the tactical board, his mouth running at full speed like a high-powered hair dryer.

"You need to block with the ballier, and after the pick-and-roll you don't cut inside, you have to run outside the three-point line. We're going to expand our offensive space, and since the Washingtonians want to focus on our interior, we're going to call them on the outside. ”

"Do you understand?"

"Understood, Coach." The players said in unison.

The game restarted, and the Pacers' offensive focus shifted completely to the perimeter, with Foster only responsible for grabbing rebounds and pinning down opponents under the basket. Murphy is very happy with O'Brien's arrangement, in fact, he has always wanted to be a player like Nowitzki. It's just that his Murphy skills are not up to Nowitzki's level, but his shooting is accurate, and he has never left the shooting skill behind, although most of the time he doesn't use it in the game. This time, though, his never-before-missed shot finally came into play.

This time the Pacers attacked, Li Cheng held the ball outside the three-point line, and Tinsley got into the opponent's defensive formation and made trouble.

Li Cheng dribbled under his crotch, slid his steps, and forced his way to the inside. Arenas was squeezed out of the way by Li Cheng with his height advantage, but he did not completely lose his defensive position, and he still followed Li Cheng's side.

Murphy hurriedly ran to block Li Cheng, who took a step forward and then pretended to shoot. Jamison and Arenas jumped for blocks. After Li Cheng finished the shooting action, the ball did not shoot, and he turned his waist hard. Threw the ball to Murphy, who was already outside the three-point line at this time.

Outside the three-point line, no one defends. Troy Murphy has a knife in his hand. The Indiana Pacers scored a three-pointer.

"Nice pick-and-roll fit!"

"It's a Utah Jazz tactic, a classic match between Deron Williams and Memet Oku. But now there seems to be some new changes in Indiana's hands. ”

Jamison hit a hook shot under the basket and the ball went back to the Pacers.

This time, the Pacers did exactly what the commentator said, and they played more together.

After Murphy gave Tinsley a pick-and-roll, Tinsley continued to break inside, while Murphy ran to the outside in search of an opportunity. Taking advantage of the change in the Wizards' defensive position, Li Cheng quickly increased the speed of his running in order to continue to break the Wizards' overall defense.

Murphy continued to cover for Li Cheng. Li Cheng slipped to the left of the free throw line in one step. Tinsley threw the ball out under the basket, and Li Cheng took the ball and made another gesture to throw. Li Cheng's shooting has become a big killer in the NBA, and its fame today makes it impossible to ignore its existence. attracted the defense, Li Cheng smiled slightly, this time he still faked the real pass. And the object of his pass is still Murphy.

"It's Murphy's three-pointer again...... Again! The Pacers scored two three-pointers in a row and played a different style. ”

"It's another feature of the Pacers' tactical variation, and it's perfectly fine to switch to Granger for the guy who passes the ball to Murphy here. For the Pacers, Li Cheng's role as a scoring weapon is only one of the roles, and his bigger role is the role of a lubricant. He can play a role in connecting the whole team. ”

"That's right, Li Cheng's running, his passing after attracting the defense, can give the Pacers a lot of tactical changes. What we've seen before is that he connects the Pacers' backcourt and frontcourt. Now he has one more person to bond. ”

"The Pacers' four-man fit is pretty much in shape, and it's up to us to see what kind of surprise O'Brien can bring us in the playoffs."

Murphy's two three-pointers caught Eddie Jordan by surprise, and he never paid attention to the Pacers' interior. The Pacers' interior line has always been presented as a weak image. With such a situation, Eddie Jordan naturally can't let the Pacers continue. He immediately called a timeout.

After the timeout, the Wizards still don't have many ways to deal with the Pacers on the defensive end. Simply. Eddie Jordan didn't bother thinking about it, he waved his hand and motioned for his team to start a battle with the Pacers.

The offensive battle is a rhythm that both teams love, there is nothing to say, just fast.

Washington can rush, Indiana Pacers can shoot. For a while, both teams played very lively.

"Both the Pacers and the Wizards are starting to pick up the pace, which is a good option for both teams. But it's even better news for the fans. ”

"The fast-paced battle is something that catches the eye of all the fans."

The Pacers and Wizards are playing more and more openly, and their offense tends to end within 10 seconds.

At halftime, the Pacers and Wizards went on a 66-63 run.

In the second half, the Pacers continued to slow down, and Li Cheng's ability to find open shots was brought into full play in this game.

Li Cheng's shot was like a boulder thrown by a trebuchet, and the Wizards were the target of the trebuchet.

Finally, in the ninth minute of the third quarter, Eddie Jordan couldn't stand it.

In fact, the two teams have been playing lively for a while, but there are no more tactical routines, and their core has only one word - "Quick!" ”

In fact, if it were any faster, the Pacers would have been dragged down. After all, with Arenas, the impact of the general can never be underestimated. It's a pity that Eddie Jordan only saw that his team was about to collapse no matter how soon it was, but he didn't see it, and if it had been faster, the Pacers would definitely collapse sooner than the Wizards.

Eddie Jordan didn't choose to continue to pick up the pace, but they couldn't stand Li Cheng's efficient projection at such a pace. So far in this game, Li Cheng has scored 30 points on 14-of-18 shooting. Such an astonishing shooting percentage is enough to make all the quarterbacks in the league sigh with admiration.

After this timeout, Eddie Jordan opted to slow down. The Wizards' slowdown slowed down the pacers, but they also lacked a way to gain an advantage after slowing down. They can only rely on the individual abilities of Arenas and Jamison to score points little by little.

The opponent's pursuit of points seems so hard, how can the Pacers let them catch up lightly?

The game eventually fell into a tug-of-war again, and at the beginning of the final quarter, Arenas scored a series of inside and outside shots, which once gave the Wizards hope.

But Murphy, who shot 3-of-5 from three-point range in this game, made another three-pointer to help the Pacers stabilize the situation.

Li Cheng and Granger then fired together, extending the margin to double digits.

In the end, the Pacers won 121-114 on the road against the Washington Wizards.

The Pacers won, and Lee scored a game-high 37 points, while Arenas' 35 points weren't weak. For such a result, many media present expressed great satisfaction.

This game was originally for the "collision of the super second-round show", but now it seems that such a collision has a result from the number of jù.

Journalists left the press booth to look for interviews with players in order to further refine the scripts they had already typed.

Arenas, as usual, took off his jersey and threw it into the stands. According to him, "Wouldn't it be nice to be able to get my fans to buy one less jersey every night after the game? ”

A reporter was approaching Arenas, apparently preparing to interview him. However, Arenas ignored the reporter's shouts and walked towards Li Cheng.

"Congratulations on your final victory." Arenas said.

"There's nothing to congratulate, it's just a normal game." Li Cheng said while turning the wristband in his hand.

Arenas stared at Li Cheng, that look made Li Cheng a little hairy, and after a while, Arenas spoke: "If you sign a big contract next season, will you still work as hard as you did in today's game every night?" ”

Li Cheng frowned, and then said firmly: "Yes, I will always be like this." ”

"If you're seriously injured and you're training really hard to get back to where you are, are you going to keep going?" Arenas stared at Li Cheng like that.

Li Cheng replied without thinking, "Yes." My goal is to be the best basketball player I can be, and now I'm nowhere near that! ”

"What's the best form of basketball?" Arenas muttered to himself, and then he seemed to think of something, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, "If one of the best players in the history of this league was just a questionable second-round pick when he entered the league, I think those who questioned him must have a good look on their faces!" ”

Arenas looked up at Li Cheng again and said, "Thank you!" ”

"What are you thanking for?"

"You've made me find a new purpose." Arenas said very sincerely.

"It's you who makes it your own new purpose." Li Cheng said casually that he didn't want to dwell on this issue, and then he changed the subject, "You throw your jersey to the stands after every game?" ”

"yes, it makes me feel like I'm helping people every night, and it's a great feeling. If you don't believe me, you can try. Arenas said as he turned to the stand where the Pacers fans were congregated, where the fans weren't quite gone.

Seeing that Arenas turned around, driving the tiger on his chest, Li Chengduo glanced at this man who was gentle on the outside and paranoid and crazy on the inside. (To be continued......)