At halftime, the third quarter began, and the two sides continued to take the starting lineup, the Pacers point guard DJ Augustin, point guard Lance Stephenson, small forward Paul George, power forward David West, center Roy Hibbert.

The Wizards served the baseline ball, Hinrich dribbled the ball over half the court, and after arriving in the front court, Thompson and Li Kaiming ran around Blatch and Leonard, Hinrich was ready to pass the ball on the outside, and the Pacers obviously adjusted their defensive layout at halftime.

In this case, Li Kaiming naturally wanted to open up space for Thompson, and Hinrich dribbled and found that Thompson bypassed the cover and cut into the basket, so he directly gave a high pass to Thompson.

Clay dribbled after receiving the ball, and then went straight to the basket with three steps to layup, but Hibbert under the basket was too tall, like a wall blocking the restricted area, Klay's layup was affected, Hibbert grabbed the rebound and passed to dJ Augustin.

The Pacers dribbled past half court, Hibbert went up to block Hinrich tightly, Augustin broke through to the free throw line with the help of cover, met Blatche's defense, Augustin accelerated with a hesitation, and then leaned on Blanche for a layup, but did not hit under Blanche's interference.

But Blatche's help defense made him lose the rebounding position, Li Kaiming did not return to the defense in time to shrink the basket this time, and Hibbert, who rushed in, jumped high to grab the rebound in the front court, and then scored a layup, 45-56.

The Wizards served to the frontcourt, and the Pacers still chose one person to top Li Kaiming, and the other person to help defend at any time, Li Kaiming received a pass from Hinrich without the ball, and at this time David West and George both pounced to force him to play the ball.

Leonard, who was let go by George, was cutting to the basket, Li Kaiming hit the ball to the robot, and the latter made a decisive shot in the middle range, and hit a cricket ball!

Fortunately, Leonard's shooting has improved a lot this season, otherwise if this situation puts two points on the court that drags space, the Pacers will be able to wrap up Li Kaiming without scruples.

The Pacers offense gave Paul George, and George also learned smartly, borrowing Hibbert's cover, a dashing body change of direction to break through Leonard's defense, and then an acceleration broke through Brackey's defense, and went to the basket to prepare for a rebound that changed hands.

But this time Li Kaiming was ready to help defend the basket, and when he saw Bradge being broken through, Li Kaiming rushed directly over, and a pegboard hat taught Page's younger brother to be a man, and the subsequent rebounding ball was also protected by Li Kaiming with his height and arm span, and then given to Xin Liqi.

Vogel's adjustment to the defense is very good, this game has been played so far, basically Li Kaiming has not been able to successfully get a backcourt rebound, and then push the counterattack fast break by himself, everyone in the Pacers after seeing Li Kaiming take off the rebound, they all ran to the backcourt without looking back, for fear of being played by Li Kaiming to play a fast attack.

The fast break can't be played, Li Kaiming can only pass the ball to the team's point guard, after halftime, Li Kaiming went up to Hinrich to block and dismantle, when Li Kaiming as a cover man mentioned the top of the arc, the Pacers players directly chose two people to defend Li Kaiming's catch and down, completely empty Hinrich.

In this case, Hinrich directly changed direction with a low-handed dribble and broke through to near the free throw line, the Pacers had Hibbert under the basket, and it was not easy to challenge this guy with a height of 216, Hinrich tried to break through a few times before, but he was either interfered with or ate hot pot, so this time Hinrich chose to throw directly in the free throw line.

Hibbert came out to interfere, Hinrich's throw missed, but the basket helped the team grab the rebound, which was the only bright spot of Bradge in this game so far.

Hibbert is a pillar under the basket, except for Li Kaiming, the rest of the Wizards are very inefficient at attacking the basket, and Brackey's interior singles are not very graspable, so he can only do some dirty work of defense and rebounding.

Bracy grabbed the rebound, but Hibbert quickly returned to the basket, and Bracch didn't have the confidence to challenge Hibbert, so he passed the ball out again.

At this time, Li Kaiming started from the bottom line, went around in a big circle along the three-point line, and then rushed to the waist three-point line on the opposite side, and raised his hands at Xinrich to signal for the ball.

Hinrich sent the ball comfortably to Li Kaiming's hands with a direct pass, the latter pulled up the middle distance after receiving the ball and threw it directly, David West followed behind Li Kaiming, at this time it was too late to jump, and he could only watch Li Kaiming shoot hollow into the net!

45-58, Li Kaiming completed the first score of the second half, and a small range of cheers rang out in the center of mcI.

The Pacers sent the baseline ball, and after coming to the frontcourt, Paul George received a pass from dJ Augustin with the help of covering the off-ball run, and at the same time threw Leonard behind him, George accelerated after receiving the ball, and went straight into the Wizards' restricted area from a 45-degree direction.

But the Pacers' offensive thinking in the second half has also become more aggressive, and several balls are trying to score directly in the Wizards' restricted area, which is simply insulting the Wizards' defense under the basket!

So Li Kaiming and Blatch worked together, one assisted in the past to interfere with George's shot, and the other tried to compete with Hibbert to grab the rebound, under Li Kaiming's assistance, George missed the layup again, although Blatch did not grab the rebound, but successfully stuck Hibbert out of the basket, and the rebound was grabbed by Leonard, who rushed in with George!

After observing the Pacers' defense for a few rounds, Sanders finally saw the opponent's defensive rotation rules, so he shouted at Li Kaiming and gestured to Hinrich, who was dribbling.

The Wizards' players knew that when they got to the frontcourt, they started to play more complicated off-ball running, and Li Kaiming began to settle in the waist position like those traditional interior players.

In this case, the Pacers' previous one-man defense strategy is a little inapplicable, because Li Kaiming is very close to the basket, and the rest of the Wizards team is constantly running outside the three-point line, creating opportunities for Li Kaiming.

So this time it can only be David West's own single defense, he also thought that if Li Kaiming could make a few more moves after receiving the ball, his teammates would be able to come over to help him help defend it, but he didn't expect Li Kaiming in front of him to receive the ball is a decisive turn, and then take a step to pull it up and throw it, simply and neatly, even David West did not react, he could only subconsciously stretch out his hand.

Li Kaiming's turnaround shot was hollow hit, and I don't know why, David West felt a hint of Jordan's demeanor from Li Kaiming's style of play.

And Vogel, who was standing on the side of the court, also frowned after seeing this scene, if Li Kaiming shot so quickly, then the defensive tactics he prepared during the halftime break would basically be GG......

Soon Vogel knew that what he was thinking was completely right, after the Pacers began to attack Li Kaiming's ball-holding attack, under Sanders's active adjustment, Li Kaiming handed the ball to his teammates, and his teammates opened up space for him while running around the outside line, and he directly chose to shoot quickly, and he had to shoot within 2 seconds of receiving the ball, in this case, the Pacers' bag must be too late.

The Wizards changed an offensive style of play less than two rounds, Vogel had to be forced to call a timeout to adjust, one of these two rounds Li Kaiming hit his own shot, and the other time was a three-point shot by Thompson on the outside, which suddenly stretched the difference to more than 15 points.

After the pause, the Wizards took the initiative to make lineup adjustments, and the five-outside lineup was once again placed on the court, which made the Wizards' offensive space bigger.

The Pacers, on the other hand, changed their defensive strategy and began to defend Li Kaiming's catch in advance, and it seems that Vogel prepared more than one set of defensive tactics for Li Kaiming before the series, and now he has only come up with three sets in the first game.

After the Pacers came up, they played an inside and outside blocking tactic, and then Hibbert went down to catch the ball, used his height to make a foul on Li Kaiming, walked to the free throw line and made two free throws, and the Wizards sent the baseline ball, and after arriving in the frontcourt, Hinrich found that the Pacers were defending Li Kaiming from receiving the ball, but instead left him plenty of space outside the three-point line, so he shot directly, plus the opposite dJ Augustin is a short man, Hinrich can completely shoot against his defense.

It's a pity that Hinrich didn't take the opportunity in this ball, Pacer Hibbert grabbed the rebound and passed to George, who received the ball and launched a fast break, dribbled to the frontcourt, and a dashing turn wiped over Leonard, who was blocked, and then hit directly outside the three-point line!

But the Wizards' counterattack also came quite quickly, although Li Kaiming still had no chance to catch the ball, but this time the other four Wizards passed the opportunity on the outside, and finally Lewis hit a three-point shot in the bottom corner!

Vogel's face on the sidelines is almost green, how can this special be prevented? The single defense Li Kaiming will be blown up, the bag will be shot by his teammates, and the Wizards' lineup is simply prepared, directly placing a five-shooter lineup on the court, and the Pacers don't know whether to help defend or not!

At this time, Vogel, the coach who started defense, felt a kind of helplessness from the bottom of his heart, although defense is important, but offense is obviously the more important one, after all, basketball is a project that scores higher than whom, and who can send the ball to the basket more, and strong defense is of course very useful, but it is impossible to prevent every ball of the opponent......

But the problem is that there seems to be a guy on the opposing team who can help the team get the ball in anyway......

This is simply the truest portrayal of offense over defense!

At the end of the game, the Wizards defeated the Indiana Pacers 114-102 and won the first victory of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Li Kaiming played 34 minutes, shooting 10 of 19, including 5 of 10 three-pointers and 5 of 7 free throws, and got 30 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks.

Leonard's main focus was on the defensive end throughout the game, cutting 9 points, 6 rebounds, 4 steals and 1 block, and these 4 steals are also thanks to George's head iron in the first quarter.

Klay hit six three-pointers and finished with 23 points and three rebounds, another boring Wizards-style victory.