Less than five minutes into the second half, Vogel's face next to the pitch was so gloomy that it was about to freeze!

He deliberately endured until the end of halftime, and had a heated discussion with the entire coaching staff at halftime, and came up with a tactic that he thought he could deal with, but he was declared bankrupt before he even played half a quarter of the game!

The Wizards' triangle offensive tactics, in Vogel's eyes, are simply bottomless, and whenever he thinks he has come up with a strategy to deal with it, the Wizards will be able to give a new response!

At this time, Vogel felt like he was climbing a staircase with no end in sight, and his steps never stopped, but when he looked up again and again, the end of the stairs was still deep into the clouds......

Unable to crack the Wizards' triangle offensive tactics, the Pacers naturally have no way to chase back the score behind, after all, the Pacers are a team that relies on defense to build a team, and Vogel is also a coach who defends more than offense.

Everyone has their own strengths, and if the Pacers and the Wizards are forced to play against each other, it is very likely that the Pacers will lose miserably!

The final result of the game was not surprising, the Wizards finally won the match point in the fourth game of the series, defeating the Pacers 109-88, rewriting the series to 3-1, and one victory away from advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Li Kaiming played 38 minutes, shooting 12 of 20, including 2 of 3 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and got 32 points, 17 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal.

Sure enough, team basketball is cool!

Today's Leonard performance is average, Paul George learned smart, after being robbed by Leonard in the first game, the subsequent games basically did not shoot against Leonard, which also reduced the latter's defensive effect a lot, played 36 minutes in this game, got 11 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.

Thompson's performance picked up tonight, hitting four three-pointers and finishing with 16 points and three rebounds.

The next game is back at mcI, and Li and his teammates are hoping to finish the game on their home court and wait for their opponents to qualify, after all, the Wizards have home-court advantage throughout the playoffs this year.

On May 16, Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals Wizards vs. Pacers officially kicked off at the mcI Center in Washington, D.C.!

At the beginning of the game, the Pacers showed their struggle before being eliminated, and Hibbert crushed Bradge in the jump ball stage, not to mention, the defensive intensity at the beginning was also very large.

The Wizards haven't adapted to this kind of defensive intensity at the beginning, and it just so happens that tonight's referee scale is also very large, except for that very obvious foul, even small actions don't blow people.

In the first quarter, the Wizards players did not perform very well, even Li Kaiming only scored 6 points on 2-of-5 shooting, and the team trailed the Pacers by 6 points 21-27.

So in the second quarter of the game, Sanders came directly out of the usual rotation, allowing Li Kaiming to appear again with a five-foreign lineup, and the Pacers were on the verge of fishing, Vogel naturally did not dare to relax, and the main players of the two sides appeared on the court in the second quarter at the same time.

The Wizards came up to serve, and after they got to the frontcourt, Hinrich ate on the outside, and the Wizards' five-out lineup began to run a triangle offensive tactic again.

Vogel, who was on the sidelines, immediately covered his head with a headache as soon as he saw the Wizards' starting move, and he didn't figure out how to limit this triangle offensive tactic for two days.

Because from the perspective of tactical restraint, if you want to prevent the triangle offense, you can't follow the opposite tactical changes to adjust the defensive targeting, because the changes of the triangle offense are almost endless, if the Wizards make every change of tactical coordination, Vogel has to call a timeout to arrange the defense, and 100 timeouts for the Pacers in that game are not enough.

So the problem is that if you want to prevent the triangle offense, you must start from its roots, as long as the possibility of the triangle offense is fundamentally destroyed, the Wizards' offensive system can be destroyed, so as to drag the game into a melee situation between the two sides again.

But after two days of research by Vogel and his coaching staff, they had no choice but to give up, because although they found the core of the triangle attack, there was no way to solve the problem!

This made Vogel and the Pacers' coaching staff despair!

The core of the triangle attack is not the cooperation of two people, or some kind of tactical running, but one person, this person is Li Kaiming!

Although the triangle offense is not Li Kaiming from the perspective of tactical running on the field, because it is the team's point guard Hinrich who dominates the ball, but after a deep study, it can be found that the Wizards' triangle offense is based on Li Kaiming's strong one-on-one and off-ball ability, and this result is a death sentence for the Pacers!

If the core of the strategy is personnel coordination or tactical positioning, then you can start from the defensive tactical aspect and disrupt the basic coordination of the triangle offense, so that the Wizards' offense can be destroyed.

But when the tactical core is a person, how can this be prevented? Can you still make Li Kaiming unable to play?

Although this is not impossible, but Vogel and this Pacers still can't do it with off-the-board tricks to get the opposite player off the court, not only can't they do it, but in the parallel world, they are even victims of this kind of operation!

Since there is no way to restrict, the Pacers can only defend according to their usual position.

The ball from the Wizards was given to Li Kaiming in the waist position, who faced David West's defense, turned around and rushed to the basket with a baseline turn, and then a black figure suddenly rushed out from the side.

Seeing that Li Kaiming was about to dunk, Lance Stephenson rushed over directly and hugged Li Kaiming, the referee blew the whistle, and Li Kaiming walked to the free throw line.

Standing on the free throw line, he took a deep breath, took the basketball from the referee's hand, Li Kaiming squatted slightly, and then made a move with his wrist and hit the free throw!

And just when Li Kaiming and the whole audience thought that it was just a mediocre two free throws, Stephenson, who was standing in the card position, stood up again, adding a touch of funny and disgusting atmosphere to this free throw.

He took the initiative to rush over and grab the basketball, and the referee thought that this guy was so active to give him the ball, but he didn't expect Stephenson to hold the ball directly with both hands, and rubbed it on his face and neck while spinning!

After seeing this scene, all the people on the scene were speechless!

Even the commentators at the mcI Center were stunned by Stephenson's actions!

"Well, Lance Stephenson, he chose to get the ball and smear his sweat all over the basketball, did he want to interfere with Li Kaiming's free throws......"

After wiping the sweat from his face with a basketball, Stephenson handed the ball to the referee on the baseline, who stood there for a moment, hesitating to take the ball.

After all, this is a basketball coated in the body fluids of a big black man, and it's disgusting to think about......

Tonight's referee's professional ethics are still very high, just hesitated for a moment, he took the ball, just look at the fly-like expression on his face, I know that he must not feel comfortable in his heart!

After the referee took the ball, he threw the ball directly to Li Kaiming, Li Kaiming of course also took Stephenson's actions into his eyes, after receiving the ball, although he was constantly doing psychological construction for himself, he could still feel the feeling of sticky and water coming from the basketball in his hand......

Well, it just feels terrible anyway!

At this time, Li Kaiming felt that what he was holding in his hand was not a basketball, but a piece of stool, he couldn't wait to throw the ball out quickly, this time he didn't even have the posture of squatting with the ball, and directly pulled his wrist to shoot!

Nation! A sound of striking iron sounded, and a smile appeared on Lance Stephenson's face!

Li Kaiming touched his nose, it's not that I don't want to score this goal, it's mainly that that guy is too disgusting......

However, this is only the beginning.

After a few rounds of competition between the two sides, the Wizards gradually chased the score to 3 points left, and the Wizards attacked, using the running position to let Li Kaiming cut in and get the ball.

And just when he was about to combine the ball and go directly to a layup, Lance Stephenson came out from the middle of the road, and then the whole person was directly attached to Li Kaiming's body!

It was not simply attached to his body, but he leaned his head on Li Kaiming's side, and Li Kaiming could even feel that the part where his arm touched Stephenson's face came from a slippery feeling......

I grass!

Li Kaiming felt sick to his stomach for a while, and directly protected the ball to push Stephenson away, but he didn't expect this guy to directly take advantage of the situation to fake a fall, and also made him an offensive foul!

God testify, today's match is definitely the most disgusting game of my career, not one of them!

Li Kaiming threw the ball to the referee and walked to his own backcourt without looking back.

Originally, Li Kaiming was still glad that he and Stephenson were not in the same position, this situation only happened occasionally, but I didn't expect this guy to taste the sweetness, and even took the initiative to switch to Li Kaiming when defending, and what was even more annoying was that he actually blew on Li Kaiming's face!

Help me! For the first time, Li Kaiming felt that a game was so long.

Fortunately, his adaptability is still very good, and he also began to shoot more decisively, so that Stephenson did not have time to help defend, and the Wizards gradually overtook the score under his leadership......

In the end, the game ended, the Wizards won the Pacers 99-89 at home, 4-1 to send the opponent home, although the game was won, but Li Kaiming was not happy at all, because this was the most aggrieved game he played, although he also adjusted later, but this adjustment method actually avoided playing against Stephenson.

When did he, Li Kaiming, ever be afraid of countering with others? But today he was really scared......

This ball will be a lingering shadow for Li Kaiming for a long time to come......