"Jermaine, I need you to take the initiative to attack Doon at the beginning of the second quarter."

During the intermission, Carlisle gave O'Neill Jr. a heavy responsibility.

Carlisle's idea was clear, Doon played the first quarter, and according to the habit of the previous two games, Doon must have followed the second quarter.

Even if Doon didn't have much independent offense in the first quarter, with the intensity of tonight's game, Doon must have a very large consumption in terms of physical strength.

It is precisely for this reason that at the beginning of the second quarter, O'Neal Jr. looked for Doon to play alone, and there will only be two situations in the next Doon.

Either they noticed a physical problem and went off the second quarter early.

Either misestimate the intensity of tonight's game, and then the physical strength is not enough to support the critical moment, but choose to force a single game, which ultimately leads to inefficient scoring.

In short, whatever happens, it's good for the walker.

Of course, there is also a situation that Doon at the beginning of the second quarter did not continue to play as he used to.

In this way, O'Neal Jr. went up and punched hard, which is also good for the Pacers to overtake the score.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of Doon!"

As the boss of the team, O'Neill Jr. also seems to be full of confidence.

Even with the Battle of Auburn Hills Palace, the Pacers' goal this year is still to win the championship!

O'Neal Jr. knew that Doon was strong, but he didn't feel that if he lost two games in the opening game, he couldn't win the whole series.

In O'Neal Jr.'s view, as long as he wins two games in a row at home and breaks the morale of the Bulls, he will be able to easily take advantage of the Bulls at that time!

Coincidentally, Doon also thought that if he could win tonight, the Pacers' morale should be shattered by them.

So, at the beginning of the second quarter, Doon will definitely continue to play!

There was a short break between the first and second quarters, and the second quarter was a short break for the players on both teams to drink a few sips of water and the head coach to feed them a few sips of chicken soup, and the second quarter of the game began again.

Seeing Doon play again, O'Neal Jr.'s eyes lit up.

However, the team that got the first offense in the second quarter was the Bulls.

Without waiting for O'Neal Jr. to find trouble with Doon, Doon looked for Ben Gordon from outside the three-point line to play cross-cover.

The Pacers still chose to pinch Doon hard, draining Doon's stamina.

Doon didn't have the idea of incarnating Kobe Bryant and continued to pass the ball to Ben Gordon.

Ben Gordon hit 4-of-7 three-pointers in the first quarter and scored 12 points in the first quarter.

I rested below for more than ten minutes before, but now I am very energetic and in good shape.

Brush –

Another three-pointer, and if it continues like this, maybe Ben Gordon will break the playoff three-point record.

In this regard, the Pacers can only ignore Ben Gordon for the first time and continue to carry out the plan to consume Doon.

Doon felt the power of O'Neal Jr.'s back hit, and found that O'Neal Jr. didn't play a reasonable ball and team ball this time, but moved seriously, and he was a little more cautious in his heart.

However, the nature of the country is easy to change.

O'Neal Jr. also hit the basket with his back at the beginning, forcing him to eat Doon by tonnage and height.

But because of Antonio Davis's help and Doon's dark elbow during the defense, he finally chose to shoot with his back dangling.

Although O'Neal Jr.'s mid-range shot is very handsome, it is slightly more accurate than Garnett's iron-blooded jumper.

And under the intensity of the game with a lot of hands and a lot of confrontation tonight, O'Neal Jr. naturally couldn't stabilize the shooting rate, and in the second quarter, under Doon's defense, he only shot 3 of 7.

And, before Doon could take a break and needed to take a break, little O'Neal, who was sweating profusely, couldn't stand it first.

Of course, Doon wasn't much better than O'Neal Jr., and almost two minutes later, Doon also went off the break early.

It can only be said that the intensity of tonight's game is really high, but fortunately, Doon is not Kobe Bryant, and he did not force the ball to play alone.

Because of this, Doon, who only had 7 shots in the first half, has not scored a double for the time being.

However, the Bulls are missing Doane's offense and are no less scoring.

At the end of the first half, 57-48, the Bulls, who were playing away, had already established a 9-point lead with the excellent performance of the whole team.

Although this point difference is still easy to catch up with by the Pacers, but playing away, the Pacers have a home whistle, and the Bulls can still play such a performance, which is already very good.

Wait until the second half starts, because Dio has withstood the test and has six assists in the first half.

Doon didn't have to worry about the Bulls not combing the offense, but finally took out the posture of the team's big man and began to attack with the ball.

This time, instead of continuing to attack in the high post, Doon took the initiative to drop the ball in the low post.

In this case, the Pacers can only let O'Neal Jr. defend Doon alone, and there is no way to get on the bag.

The problem is that Doon is a lot faster than O'Neal Jr.

Although Doon has not learned from Olajuwon about his dream steps, Doon has multiple interior star templates superimposed, and his low-post back play skills have long been shortcoming.

It's like Yao Ming said – I can do all the moves of Olajuwon, but I will never be as fast as him.

Olajuwon, a bad old man, disguised his talent as a skill, and kept looking for juniors to collect tuition.

Therefore, even if it is a talent of the level of James and Howard, the speed is not at all and there is no way to use the dream step.

Kobe, as a scoring guard second only to Jordan, relied on his talent to replicate his dream footsteps.

As for Doon, he can also rely on his talent to do whatever he wants.

When Doon broke through O'Neal Jr.'s defense again and again, burst to the basket or feed Tyson Chandler, tonight's game quickly lost its suspense.

In fact, tonight's referee seems to have the idea of controlling the field.

In the third quarter, the Pacers had five free throw line attempts, including three free throws by Reggie Miller on Miller's kick.

However, Doon's strong singles broke down the Pacers' vaunted defense.

In the third quarter, the Pacers relied on free throws on 9-of-11 shooting to stabilize the situation, but did not close the gap.

At 84-72, the Bulls entered the fourth quarter with a 12-point lead.

And Doon, who continued to play in the fourth quarter, was still looking for trouble for O'Neal Jr. in the low post.

It was also because of Doon's heavy attack in the low post that O'Neal Jr. was forced to mobilize more defense to limit Doon's offense.

As a result, O'Neal Jr. only had 13 shots in the whole game, and finally only scored 15 points, no longer the 20+ scenery in the previous two games.

On the other hand, Doon only scored 8 points in the first half, and by the time the whole game was over, the scoring data had risen to 31 points.

In fact, Doon can still score a little more points, but considering that the winner has been scored, there is no need to continue to score points in the remaining garbage time.

Plus, 31 is also Doon's jersey number.

I usually can't brush it out if I want to score 31 points, but I happened to hit it tonight, so it's good to keep it at this number.

106-95, the Bulls won the third game of the series by a huge margin of 11 points.

After the game, another No. 31 player on the field also had to come to Doon to ask for face.

"Doon, congratulations on winning again!

Your energy is beyond our imagination, and it seems that we have really picked the wrong opponent.

Also, I would like to welcome you to Indianapolis.

It's a friendly city and we hope you enjoy playing here. ”

Reggie Miller gave in to the Bulls on behalf of the Pacers players, mainly because he was worried that the Bulls youth army did not understand the rules and did not talk about the fight at all.

Reggie Miller was unwilling to let the Pacers' morale be crushed by the Bulls' youth team and fell out of the championship team.

In order to be able to rally the fighting spirit of his teammates, fight for another year, and continue to compete for the championship, Reggie Miller naturally hopes that the Bulls led by Doane can show mercy and not sweep them.

"We've done everything we can to defeat you!

Don't worry, I'm human too, and I'll be tired.

I don't push myself too hard and my teammates need more rest too.

Also, we are a young team and I and my team-mates have a lot of shortcomings.

It's not a bad thing for us to be able to play a little bit more and gain playoff experience. ”

As the boss of the team, Doon gave a promise to play tacit ball.

Although Doon doesn't know the plans of the Bulls management yet, he thinks that Bulls owner Jerry Rainsdorf should not give up the opportunity to earn one more playoff ticket.

As for whether you're worried about being chased by the Pacers?

At least not before that, this hasn't happened in the NBA, and in Doon's memory, there is no such accident in NBA history.

So, with the Bulls getting the series point early, as the boss of the Bulls, Doon can already say that pretending to be forced out loud......

I'm already working on my opponents for the next round!

(End of chapter)