After John Lucas took the basket, the Pelicans' space gap was very pulled, and after there was a gap, Hamilton came in from a rapid air cut outside, Li Feng followed Hamilton closely behind, but when Hamilton squeezed between Tygibson and Synrich, Li Feng actually showed that he was tall and had a shortcoming, that is, he couldn't drill through a small gap, so he could only watch Hamilton run, but he was stuck in Tygibson and couldn't get by.

Hamilton, who seems to be a swimming fish, once he gets free, jumps into the Pelicans' interior line, at this time John Lucas timely passes the basketball to Hamilton's hands, Hamilton received the ball and didn't have time to go to the basket, and he came to a horse archery shot, and the basketball easily entered the basket.

Hamilton scored, Phil Li Feng nodded with satisfaction, and Hinrich discussed with Hamilton in the past that the next time the basketball must be passed to his hands.

When Li Feng received the basketball from Oladipo's hand, he knew that the Bulls had changed their strategy, and these guys did not have a suitable assistant defender when they were on the bench, so when they were connecting the interior and the outside, they did not do a good job, which would produce a lot of loopholes.

Li Feng dribbled to press John Lucas, he met Li Feng and it was enough for him to be depressed, Li Feng dribbled up here, Caron Butler and Oladipo moved around the three-point line, Li Feng waited here for a while, and then suddenly began to rush towards the Bulls' inside.

As soon as Li Feng rushed like this, Hamilton knew that it was bad, this was not something he could defend, only sticking to Li Feng's side and keeping Li Feng into the inside, Phil Li Feng's bulls did not train in the past two days in order to deal with Li Feng's suddenness.

As soon as Li Feng broke through, Hamilton couldn't block the front and protected one side, and then sent Li Feng into the inside. After entering the inside line, Tajibson immediately came up to block the front, and Tejibson was able to withstand Li Feng on the front, so Li Feng got into the Bull's encirclement at once.

The bull was about to fight a war of annihilation against Li Feng, so he saw that Li Feng threw his hand into the hands of Kaloon Butler in the bottom corner.

Kalon Butler raised his hand to shoot a three-point shot, and then the Bulls tasted the power of the Pelicans' two-shooter and hit a three-point shot.

The Bulls' bench came up with only two points, the first of which was to catch the defense. Don't let the Pelicans and their gang of robbers steal points, and another point is to catch the weaknesses of the Pelicans' uncoordinated defense inside and outside, desperately cut in and change the law, and let John Lucas torture Henson's ankle.

The Pelicans did turn the score over again, and the Pelicans took the lead, but it was definitely not too much ahead, because you just came to a beautiful long shot, or a break, and the Bulls were going to have an open cut, or a half-volley.

Van Gundy called a timeout and began the substitution. The first one to be replaced was also Li Feng, and Li Feng began to be depressed when he was replaced, but when he saw Li Feng walking back with a disgraced face, Howard began to laugh secretly over there.

The Pelicans, Li Feng, encountered a lot of defensive pressure. But when Li Feng was under great defensive pressure, he also had a vested interest, that is, Oladipo and Kalombbutler, who were oppressed by Li Feng. When they were squeezed, the two fired in a series on the outside, which made the Pelicans' score hold down the Bulls.

Oladipo walked near the edge of the three-point line like a ghost. I don't know where he is going to float next, and at this time, Sinrich, who is following Oladipo, hates Oladipo very much, but he hates Phil Li Feng even more, why should he defend this guy by himself.

I'd rather defend Li Feng than defend this guy, saying that you are a shooter, you run back and forth, you run, back and forth for a while, left and right, you make yourself the same as a child hide and seek, hide and seek, but you are still fast for a while, slow for a while, these are understandable, but this rookie has too many small actions.

Pushing yourself and hitting your own balls is simply depressing.

When Xinrich was bored here, he saw Oladipo there and suddenly accelerated to the bottom line, you can't chase it, you can only chase this guy, Xinrich spread his legs and chased Oladipo behind.

But after running two steps, something that made him angry appeared, only to see Oladipo stop again, and look back towards the upper line, maybe to do another switchback run, Stephenson was ready to turn back and run, but this guy just paused and ran to the bottom line again.

At the same time, Henson's basketball slipped into Oladipo's hand, and Oladipo stepped over to catch the ball and shoot.

At this time, Synrich couldn't stand it anymore, Oladipo's torture, he pounced on Oladipo fiercely, directly crashed into Oladipo's body, and knocked Oladipo to the ground.

This time Oladipo did not score, but got three free throws, Oladipo walked to the free throw line, with a good free throw feel, easily shot three free throws, this time the Pelicans expanded the results.

Oladipo made a steady free throw, and Kenny Smith, who had watched the game for several minutes, was a little surprised at this time and said to Barkley: "Charles, I believe you have noticed, this rookie of the Pelicans is really good." ”

"Yes, yes, I did."

Charles Barkley nodded there and said:

"Oladipo has a lot of running positions today, it seems that every step he runs is a feint, and Hinrich who followed him has suffered a lot, and he doesn't know whether he should run fast or jog, whether he should follow closely or loosely, if I had followed such a shooter, I would have done it as if Hinrich did,"

The Pelicans and Bulls fought quickly on the court, and the Pelicans still struggled with the Bulls even after switching back to the main force.

At halftime, the Pelicans and Bulls were tied at 51-55, and the difference between the two sides was not big.

At this time, Charles Barkley said in the commentary seat:

"I don't know if the Pelicans want to push in the third quarter or in the fourth, but now they're doing a very good job of controlling the tempo, like a long-distance runner, just following you at first, and then trying to win the championship at the end."

Kenny Smith smiled, and suddenly he wanted to embarrass Charles Barkley. So he said:

"Charles, are you really sure that the Pelicans are leaving room for space, not simply not being able to pull the distance?"

Hearing such a question, Charles Barkley glanced at Kenny Smith in a little surprise, and in a blink of an eye he knew why Kenny Smith said this, so he smiled:

"You old thing, don't you know the current form, don't you really know."

Li Feng, who returned to the locker room, wiped all the sweat on his head with a towel, and then heard that Al Jefferson was proudly reporting his work to Van Gundy there.

"Howard has already committed three fouls in the first half. He really can't play as freely as he did at the Union Center, and today's scale is fair, Mr. Van Gundy, I've achieved the goal you've set for me. ”

Van Gundy nodded in satisfaction, and then glanced at his teammates, Charles Barkley was right just now, Van Gundy clearly knew that the game was like a race, we didn't have to use all our strength when the gun went off, as long as we could ensure that our team won in the end.

So Van Gundy cleared his throat. He coughed twice to silence his teammates before he said:

"My lads, today we should be proud of the Bulls. They kept up with us. ”

"But then, I'm going to have an unwelcome dance for them in the third quarter, and we're going to change the tempo, not just on the offensive end. At the same time, when defending the ground, we need to make changes, we need to be more sticky. I need each and every one of you to stick to them like glue, not give them a chance, not give any chance to attack, and then on the offensive end, I will just have more offensive weapons for you. ”

"Cuarón and Al, we're going to give you more touches and I think you know how to do it, you're a smart guy."

Van Gundy arranged the Pelicans' offensive strategy for the third quarter, and then Caron Butler entered the lineup at the start of the third quarter.

The Pelicans only played tepid in the first two quarters, thanks to the home-court advantage in the center of the New Orleans arena, and whenever Howard moved under the basket, the referees would contain Howard from dominating under the basket, so that even if the Bulls had Paul and Nick Young, they could not bring damage to the Pelicans.

But now that the Pelicans are about to start the third quarter, it's a completely different story.

At the beginning of the game, the Bulls had the right to the earth, and as soon as Jimmy Butler received the basketball and dribbled, Charles Barkley began to shout:

"Van Gundy sent Carrow Butler in, and that's a sign that the Pelicans might be coming for real."

As Charles Barkley's voice landed, Paul had entered the half of the Pelicans, and he immediately felt the pressure that Rose gave himself, Rose's center of gravity was very low, lying low in front of Paul, and then his arms shook back and forth very quickly, moving in small steps, shaking in front of Paul, Rose's sticky defense made Paul feel very uncomfortable, and he wanted to break through Rose.

But when he looked up, he looked at the position that the Bulls could have run out of the first half, and in the third quarter, they couldn't run out at all, and the Pelicans put a lot of pressure on the Bulls' defense, even if they were without the ball, they didn't want to run easily, and the scene in front of Jimmy Butler's eyes was not the Bulls' staggered run, but a man on his back, and every Bulls player had a Pelican player hanging in front of or behind him.

The Pelican is like this, and it still has a strong sense of protection in the paint area, leaving the trail for Paul to break through is only half a foot wide, Paul thought about it himself, if he drilled through it in one step, he would have to tell the Pelican to close the door and beat the dog.

For a while, Paul and the entire Bulls team couldn't get used to it, the Pelicans suddenly tightened up this defense, and Paul finally reluctantly passed the ball to Nick Young, and Nick Young forced a layup to make a foul.

But to make a foul, you have to be able to kill under the basket to form a kill, this Nick Yang just cut out in one step, and Li Feng, who was assisting in defense from the side, pasted Nick Yang from the other side.

The two sides of the attack, Nick Young saw that the opposite corner of Okafor was a big vacancy at this time, but he had no angle here, and there was no way to break forward, so Nick Young wanted to turn back and take the lead.

But since Nick Young got into the Pelicans' big lineup, he didn't want to leave lightly, and Caron Butler knocked off the basketball in Nick Young's hand with a paw in the back.

The basketball landed, and the Pelicans, who were already crowded, immediately turned on their backs, and the Pelicans' Li Feng and Caron Butler fell to the ground at the same time, and the Bulls' players couldn't catch up at this point.

Li Feng threw himself to the ground. Passed the basketball to the hands of Rose, who was startled and began to run fast, Rose ran forward with Jimmy Butler, Rose's size and style of play are not very suitable for bombardment, because his three-point shooting is not very accurate, and the breakthrough relies on skill, not speed.

In this way, although Rose has been very desperate, but in the Bulls' half, the Bulls' people still came back to defense, and this time the old Rose hurriedly pulled himself to the side, waiting for his teammates to cut in from the middle.

Ross pulled like this. There was really a Pelican player in the back who cut up, and Rose quickly didn't think much about it, so he stuffed the basketball over, and when Rose completed this pass, he was also a little stupid.

He actually passed the ball to Al Jefferson, which allowed Al Jefferson to impact Howard on the Bulls' inside, and Rose felt unreliable when he imagined it, but the more unreliable it is, the more evil it is.

Al Jefferson received a pass from Rose and rushed towards Howard in one step. Howard was nervous, so he stared at Al Jefferson to make a move, and then gave him a big hot pot.

At this moment, Al Jefferson rushed in front of Howard. Just as Howard was about to activate his gunpowder-filled calf, Al Jefferson flipped his wrist and the basketball went straight behind him.

At this time, the camera shifted from the three-second zone where Al Jefferson and Howard were about to make contact, outside the three-point line. Calon Butler, who got up here and rushed over, saw that Nick Young, who had rushed past him, hurriedly turned back to take care of his defender.

But by this time it was too late. Caron Butler shot a three-pointer from a stand-up, and the slightly diminutive Nick Young had no power to return to the sky and could only watch the basketball creep into the Bulls' basket.

This was only a three-point point, but it let Phil Li Feng stand up, because he clearly knew:

"The meaning of this ball is definitely different, and that's when the pelicans really start to show their man-eating fangs."

Sure enough, the Bulls got the ball again, but the Pelicans here are completely different in terms of defensive intensity and momentum, although there is no full-court pressing and leading defense, but once they enter the Pelicans' half, the Pelicans' defense is very fast.

And even if Paul and Howard frequently make covers, the Pelicans can still make good transitions here, replacing defenders back, and the entire Pelicans' defensive line is like flowing water, one after another, without giving the Bulls any outside shots.

The Pelicans' tight and aggressive defense made the Bulls helpless here, and in the end, they couldn't shoot from the outside, and hurriedly transferred the basketball to Howard's hands.

Howard is a strongman, but he's not a superman, it's easy for a guard to hit an urgent ball, an improvisation ball, but it's a little too much for you to let a center shoot in the last four seconds.

Howard now wants a position without a position, without space without these things, even if Howard has a body of horizontal kung fu, there is nothing to do, he can only shoot in the Pelicans crowd, and in the end he will not score a two-point.

The ball bounced in Howard's favor, but the Pelicans were so outnumbered that Millsap pulled up the basketball and snatched it in his hand.

Then turned his head and stuffed the basketball into Rose's hands, at this time the New Orleans Arena also felt that the home team's momentum had changed absolutely, so they also cheered wildly, in the cheers of the New Orleans Arena, Rose quickly killed the Bulls' half, this time he is now killing himself faster, even if it is not a fast attack, it can also make the Bulls' defensive formation chaotic, so why not do it.

Rose came up like this, and the Bulls' defense really began to disrupt, and after coming over, Al Jefferson grabbed a good position again, and suddenly got stuck in the waist of the Bulls' three-second zone.

Al Jefferson took the position, and Rose knew that even if Al Jefferson couldn't score, he still had a lot of containment, and the basketball was delivered to Al Jefferson.

Al Jefferson received the ball and thought about sending it to the left, making a passing action, and Howard, who was behind Al Jefferson, habitually attracted attention and passed the ball again, but Al Jefferson suddenly turned over and gently hooked his hand.

"Huh!"

The basketball fluttered over Howard's head and into the basket behind him.

At this time, the New Orleans Arena was noisy, but Howard's face changed, he was actually teased by Al Jefferson, which is really a funny thing, he was actually played by Al Jefferson.

The pelican suddenly tightened the chain here, and if the bull wanted to break free, he had to tear off the pelican's chain first, but the pelican's chain seemed to be a defense made of steel, and once the bull fell into it, he couldn't break free.

The Pelicans scored one after another here, and the Bulls immediately began to organize offense in the Pelicans' half after they came back, but at this time the Bulls' offense couldn't score, and finally Paul shot under Rose's high-intensity defense.

Such a basketball was thrown in from the outside, thanks to the Bulls' inside line is the monster Howard, Howard jumped up ferociously and took the frontcourt rebound into his hands, and then he got up directly under the basket and went to the basket, but was photographed by a large pile of meat and eggs under the Pelican basket. (To be continued......)