Li Liangjia made a free throw, and the Pacers gave the Bulls a 16:2 luxury gift package at the beginning.

Obviously, after a victory was stolen by the Bulls at home in the last game, the entire Pacers team held their breath and wanted to vent it in this game.

And Li Liang played an excellent role model, and every point of the Pacers has something to do with him.

The Bulls have fallen into a terrible scoring drought, and they must have someone stand up, at least two more points will do.

After Li Liang made a free throw, the Bulls chose to give Gasol the ball in a positional battle.

Gasol was in a good position in the low post on the left, but McGee interfered with the turnaround shot after receiving the ball and missed.

The ball hit the neck of the basket, Li Liang blocked Noah, passed the ball to Granger, and protected the backboard.

Granger missed a mid-range jumper on the counterattack.

The Bulls counterattacked with a rebound in the backcourt. After the screen, it was given to Dunleavy on the wing, but he still missed an open three-pointer.

But the ball bounced far away, Rose grabbed the offensive rebound, and after breaking through, he stopped and shot a jumper, but he missed the hit even under the interference of Li Liang's defense.

The Bulls' basket seemed to have a cover, and they didn't shoot no matter what.

Fortunately, the ball collapsed into Dunleavy's hands. Dunleavy didn't dare to shoot anymore, forced to break through the basket, succeeded in a layup with his left hand, and caused McGee's foul, which required an additional penalty!

The Bulls finally scored again, and it was still a chance to hit a three-pointer.

Thibodeau on the sidelines breathed a sigh of relief.

But look at the score again...the difference is still more than 10 points.

And in this state of the bull, can it really stand up to the Pacers' cavalry?

To be honest, I can't stop it.

The morale of the Pacers is getting higher and higher.

Don't you grab offensive rebounds? I will grab it too.

Li Liang missed a three-pointer from the outside, but George Hill rushed to the basket to grab an offensive rebound and gave the ball to McGee.

McGee missed a defensive layup against four people at the basket, but he used his long arms to grab and make up again!

"Hook!" Li Liang yelled outside, motioning for McGee to hook.

So, McGee lightly stretched his long arm, made a small hook shot, and hit!

In fact, McGee's hook can still be used, but if you want to use it in the game, you often can't use it.

Today he seems to have a feeling that he has already hit two hooks, which is worthy of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar McGee.

Li Liang's encouragement and reminder are undoubtedly very important.

When McGee started to hit the hook, it shows how good the Pacers' offensive state is tonight.

Not only offense, the Pacers' defense is also at its best.

Derrick Rose wants to play a chase with speed.

The Bulls quickly served the ball from the backcourt. Rose took the ball and went straight to the basket. After using his strength to squeeze Hill out, he rushed into the basket for a layup with his left hand!

As a result, under the interference of McGee and Li Liang, they failed!

On the contrary, Li Liang seized this opportunity to counterattack with the ball alone, and rushed to the basket causing Noah's defensive foul.

At the free throw line again.

Li Liang played very aggressively tonight, like a running bull on the offensive end.

He really didn't play well in the last game, so he has to get back in this game, and he has to find his own state in the semifinals.

In the past with the Lakers and Clippers, he had a high fault tolerance rate. If he didn't perform well in a certain game and felt unstable, someone else would stand up.

It's difficult in the Pacers, he is really the only core, he has to function normally.

And his opponents also know this, which is why it is so difficult for a single-core team to win the NBA championship, and it has become more and more difficult in recent years.

After making two free throws, the score came to 20:5, a 15-point advantage.

Jimmy Butler then turned over from the baseline and missed a jumper.

The Bulls' offense has been completely messed up, and now they can only rely on the individual abilities of the players.

As a result, neither Rose nor Butler worked well.

Li Liang once again took the backcourt rebound, advanced to the frontcourt, left wing, and all opened up one-on-one to face Jimmy Butler.

Li Liang rushed to the basket like a bulldozer. At the moment when the Bulls surrounded him, Li Liang jumped up and passed the ball to JR-Smith, who was ambushing in the corner.

The Pacers played an overwhelming offense, crazy, completely crazy.

The first half of the game is not yet over, the Pacers are already 23:5, leading the Bulls by 18 points.

The Bulls really have to wonder if their own basket has been covered with a transparent cover, or the players have covered their hands with ice cubes before the game, and the offensive end is as cold as steel ingots in Los Angeles.

And Thibodeau doesn't seem to want to call a timeout.

He may also know that this is not a problem of tactics, but a problem of players' psychology and state.

Subsequently, Jimmy Butler caused McGee's foul on the offensive end and went to the free throw line.

McGee fouled twice in the first quarter and had to rest.

Bird was replaced by Kevin Garnett.

To be honest, Butler's killing is better than not killing. You killed a McGee and killed a Garnett?

A physical Kevin Garnett will only be more valuable on the defensive end.

Under the high-intensity confrontation, Butler only made one of two free throws. The situation for the Bulls was extremely difficult.

Subsequently, George Hill rushed to the basket and was blocked by Butler, and the Pacers made a sideline ball.

Li Liang served to Granger. Granger made a sudden stop for a jumper and caused a foul by Dunleavy. He went to the free throw line and made two free throws.

25:6, 1 point away and 20 points left.

The referee's whistle began to tighten gradually, probably because he realized that the intensity of the two sides was getting higher and higher, and at the same time the point difference was getting bigger and bigger, and they might get angry, so they had to control the situation.

But Dunleavy and the Bulls players who blew the referee's whistle were very unconvinced.

Dunleavy felt that he came from the side to block the shot, and his hand touched the ball, and he didn't touch Granger's hand at all.

The mentality of the Bulls is really a bit broken.

Then they made another mistake in the offense, Gasol's pass to Li Liang was cut off!

Li Liang pushed forward with the ball again. Tonight, he was like a running back on a football field, running all the time, hardly stopping!

The Bulls pushed hard all the way, advanced in the middle, and entered the three-second zone against the chasing and interception of three Bulls players, causing a foul by Kirk Hinrich.

Li Liang stepped to the free throw line and made one of two free throws, which is very rare.

Obviously, his muscles were overexcited, and with the influence of [Man of Steel], his hands shook a little.

But even with just 1 point, the difference between the two sides has come to 20 points.

On the Bulls' side, Thibodeau feels that he has given up treatment, and the entire team is completely out of shape.

After Li Liang made a free throw, Ross sent a turnover on the offensive end...

A very low-level pass error. Butler asked for the ball at the waist, and Rose ran to the bottom corner to pass. As a result, the ball touched Butler's hand and flew out of the baseline.

It could be seen that both of them were numb.

Can this be numb? You are also numb if you stomp.

Butler then tried to go around the front to defend Li Liang in defense, but Hill lobbed a pass, but Butler failed to grab the front. After Li Liang received the ball, he hit the board at 45 degrees on the left and made an emergency stop jump shot.

In order to ensure the hit rate, Li Liang showed an ugly smile, which scared Gasol in the three-second zone and did not dare to come out to help defend.

"What's the matter with you Bruce?"

After the goal, Gasol yelled at Li Liang.

Li Liang didn't answer, and ran back to retreat in embarrassment.

I can't answer this, the image has been destroyed.

But destroying the image is just a trivial matter. Li Liang played really happily on the field.

The Bulls no longer know how to play.

Rose broke through the middle and was assisted by Li Liang, passing the ball to Gasol who was pulled out.

Gasol caught the ball and made a mid-range jumper, but missed!

Li Liang got the backcourt rebound and replied to Gasol, "Fuck! What's wrong with you!"

Gasol doesn't know what's going on, he's gone wrong.

The game went on, and there were less than 4 minutes left in the first quarter, and the Bulls only scored 6 points?

In other words, in 8 minutes, the Bulls actually scored three goals.

This goal efficiency, if you change to another football team, if they try their best to score goals, it is not a dream to score three goals in 8 minutes.

Thibodeau finally lost his head, called a timeout, and replaced Gibson.

After the timeout ended, finally, on the Pacers side, Granger missed a jumper after receiving a pass from Li Liang.

Then Rose counterattacked quickly, broke through and scored Gibson on the bottom line.

Gibson replaced Noah on the stage, and his role on the offensive end is still a little bigger than Noah.

Noah reached the peak of his career with the Bulls in 2013 and 2014, and was selected to the All-Defensive Team twice.

With Rose injured, Noah once became the backbone of the Bulls' offensive and defensive ends. Last season, he even averaged 5.4 assists per game, almost becoming Sabonis.

But this season, Noah has also been troubled by injuries, the number of appearances has been greatly reduced, and various statistics have also declined in an all-round way.

His scoring and rebounding have not reached double digits, and his role in the team is not as good as before.

The upsurge of the Pacers' offense cooled down slightly, and the Bulls seized the opportunity to counterattack again, and the score caught up to 26:10.

However, Li Liang immediately fought back. He played one-on-one in the high position and tried to beat Butler with a strong step.

After a stab, he made a mid-range emergency stop jumper and hit another 45-degree hit.

Even Tim Duncan rarely uses this skill now, maybe Wade and Nowitzki are still playing it.

However, Li Liang used it with ease, and became a well-known jumper in the current league.

Anyway, he thinks that at a mid-range distance of 45 degrees, the hitting rate of hitting the board is much higher than that of direct hollow shots.

Li Liang scored 14 points in the first quarter.

And he didn't shoot 3s much.

The various three-point defense strategies the Bulls arranged for him were useless at all.

For the Bulls, Gibson's appearance did have an effect.

He misplaced the ball in the low post and beat Granger hard, and scored two points with the hook after turning over.

Gibson has scored 6 points after playing, and the Bulls seem to have stabilized the situation a bit.

The Bulls want to slow down the pace, anyway, there is still enough time, and slowing down is beneficial to them.

But the Pacers weren't about to slow down, and they continued to attack the Bulls like mad dogs.

When Kevin Garnett served from the baseline, he smelled an opportunity in the frontcourt. He threw a long pass from the baseline directly to the frontcourt. The ball flew into Stephenson's hands accurately like a guided missile.

Finsen took the ball and took a big stride to the basket, then was blown for a walk.

Conseco lamented, such a good pass, such a wonderful long pass!

Stephenson was not ready because he saw someone under the opponent's basket, so his steps slowed down.

Garnett stepped forward and touched Finsen's dog's head, reminding him to concentrate.

Stephenson quickly made up for it. The Bulls still wanted to hit Gibson, but this time Stephenson took the ball from behind!

Stephenson launched a fast break. This time Garnett inserted in the middle. After halftime, Stephenson threw a high pass to Garnett. Garnett rushed into the three-second zone and jumped high. Take off, put the ball into the hoop with a light flick!

If this ball makes Garnett 10 years younger, he will be playing a flight attendant.

Time is not forgiving, I can't play anymore, but the effect is the same.

At 30:10, the Pacers went crazy in the first quarter, biting the bull and bruising him all over.

In the next two minutes, the Pacers successfully rushed the score to 40 points!

At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers led the Bulls by 25 points at 40:15.

58 in sight, 58 in sight!

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