Chapter five hundred and fifteen: force split Huashan
Lin Sen watched his teammates in the third quarter being completely suppressed by the opponent. In fact, he was also very anxious, but he also had no regrets. Whether the team could win this game when he was not present was also a test for other Pacers players!
In the playoffs, it is completely different from the regular season. Lin Sen will be targeted in future games, will not perform well, and will be troubled by fouls. At this time, he needs his players to fight against the opponent's main force when he can't play.
After a few minutes of rest in the middle of the fourth quarter, the Pacers players obviously adjusted their mentality. The current score is 92:92, and no one has an advantage, so there is no need to worry.
However, not being in a hurry does not mean that you are going to fight the position with the Wizards. The Pacers' positional battle is Lin Sen. It is precisely because of Lin Sen that the Pacers' offense and defense in positional battles are the top level in the league. It must be admitted that the Wizards' outside defense is still good. The Pacers' other Oladipo, who relies on pick-and-roll to hit the position, played very ordinary in the past few rounds. Of course, it may be because the fall was too heavy and he had not completely recovered.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, after both sides attacked and defended each other for two rounds, the Pacers finally showed his fangs on the offensive end. On this side, Gotat's turn-around hook in the inside was interfered by Turner. Turner was never afraid of such a player who had never had any advantage in confrontation.
After the ball bounced out, Turner took the rebound and passed the ball to Collison's hand. The latter quickly advanced and started to counterattack. His direct push was very fast and the dribble was also very good. He quickly advanced to the other side. Then he paused at the three-point line, and a fake shot shaking Wall, hitting the ground and thrusting it straight to Turner, who was the fastest running.
Turner is indeed a little soft on both the offensive and defensive end this season and doesn't like to attack the inside, but after this pass, Turner faces the empty Wizards' penalty area. Gotat? He just missed the move and has just run to the near-three-point line. In this long-distance race, Turner obviously crushed Gotat!
Collison performed well on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, he obviously became a weakness. Wall was also determined to break through. Oladipo's defensive replacement was quick. When the first point guard in the Eastern Conference was preparing to pass the ball, he found that the Pacers' entire defensive end was running, so the gap he thought he had appeared did not appear.
"Beautiful job! These guys can finally run out of their position without me shouting." Lin Sen watched the Pacers quickly rotate and help Corrison adjust the defensive position with satisfaction. The Wizards' attack failed again.
This time, they retreated quickly, but the Pacers were able to seize opportunities faster, and the Wizards quickly retreated, and then everyone quickly found the player closest to them to defend. This is a good way to defend. The problem is that you can easily become misaligned. Scott, a substitute, came to prepare for a few minutes, and met Oladipo at this time.
"Victor's rushing fiercely at this step! He seemed to have not relaxed his invasion of the opponent's inside because of the malicious foul just now." Van Gundy was a little surprised when he saw Oladipo grabbing and facing a forward with an average speed and accelerated the attack.
Generally speaking, a player was almost injured and suffered a malicious foul, and there was no trace of his shadow, but Oladipo's impact force now could not tell that he had any shadow at all. When he arrived at the inside, he directly pressed Gotat's defense to complete a dunk.
Are you afraid of being injured? Of course you are afraid! But Oladipo didn't want to lose this game. He had to play if he had the chance, and he had no chance, and he had to create the chance.
The Pacers' towel team had all stood up and started waving the towel. Lin Sen did not forget his mission in the locker room alone - swinging the towel: "Today's first place in the five best goals, let's see Oladipo ride alone and cross the level and break through Huashan."
Anyway, Lin Sen happily imitated the Chinese commentary.
After this goal, the Pacers' offensive desire was finally full, and they seemed to have recovered them when they were not Lin Sen in the last game.
The intermittent cuts of Collison and Sadies Young were in a match, Oladipo and Garlinari played in a pick-and-roll match, and Turner pulled out the ball and received a three-pointer after being picked-and-roll, and the speed of attacking Gott was not enough. In general, they played in the first game where Linson was paddling under the court for 8 minutes.
However, the Wizards at home are also very tough. After Bill returned to the court, the attacks between the two sides also played very quickly. The Wizards' Wall was also the number one point guard in the East and performed around 2010 years. When the pace was driven by the Pacers as a whole, he could also play fast-paced with the Wizards and the Pacers.
But his problem also has problems with this fast pace. Wall likes to hold the ball very much and relies on holding the ball very much. And like LeBron James in the early days, he likes to stop the ball and find people while transporting the ball, rather than being with top passers like Nash and Kidd. When he stops the ball, it means that he has found the target of passing the ball.
As long as you stop the ball and don't find the pass target as soon as you stop, then immediately, the Pacers' defense will make you lose this pass opportunity. This is why there is a point guard who is averaging doubles per game, but the Wizards play very average in fast pace. At this point, there are still many places for this point guard to learn from the top point guards in history.
But Bill played well in a fast pace. His offense and defense were replaced by Turner's pull-up, and he caught up with Wall's pass without any adjustment. He forced himself to break through the Pacers' forward gate Grant's layup. These operations can be seen with this guard's full talent, plus the Wizards' own advantage of the home audience.
One of the two teams has a tactical advantage, the other has a home advantage, and Bill's explosive performance, the two sides have tied several times in the fourth quarter, making the score difference difficult to widen to more than 5 points.
Lin Sen was so tickle in the visiting team's locker room that he wanted to play by himself, but there was no way, not only that he couldn't play, but he didn't even have the full strength to swing a towel on the sidelines.
Chapter completed!