The Basketball Court Swordsman

In the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Paul George scored 9 points and shot just 30%. In today's second game, at the end of the first quarter, George's personal scoring has become 12 points, 6 of 7 shots.

In addition to the initial mistakes and hesitation, George's performance in the first quarter was perfect. Thiboduna has nothing to do with George. That guy's scoring ability is no longer the same as the previous two seasons. Thibodeau even believes that George has reached the level of a first-line star!

A mere award for the fastest progress is not enough to explain the guy's excellence.

After the first quarter of the game, the score became 30 to 21. The loss of Noah has a huge impact on the public team. The Pacers scored 30 points in a single quarter, which is not the level of the Bulls defense.

But no way, Thibodeau can't let the old Nazr Mohammed play the level of Joakim Noah. Under normal circumstances, when a player is troubled by a foul, the head coach will definitely ask him to pay more attention on the defensive end and avoid excessive physical contact.

But Thibodeau couldn't say this to Noah. What the Bulls needs now is just a tough defense. Not only can Noah can't avoid physical contact, but on the contrary, he has to take the initiative to confront.

In this regard, Thibodeau’s solution is to let Carlos Boozer share part of the responsibility for protecting the basket. To put it bluntly, Thibodeau needs to split the fouls equally between two people to avoid being passive.

As a result, after the start of the second quarter, Henson was the first to strengthen the defense!

"This...the full court press!? Coach Henson, at the beginning of the second quarter, let the players press the defensive Bulls all the time! It seems that he intends to fight the two sides. The intensity is further upgraded!"

Reggie Miller made a good analysis. Henson's purpose for the team to press the team was to further upgrade the intensity of physical confrontation! Doesn't Thibodeau like to defend with strong confrontation? Then let him taste the power of strong confrontation! But there is one thing that neither Miller nor Van Gundy understood.

Since it is to strengthen the defense, why did Henson replace Danny Green with Ray Allen in the second quarter?

With the first goal of the opening game, Nate Robinson was knocked out of the boundary by Paul before he even passed midfield. Although he had a foul on his back, Paul also sent a message to "Little Tudou": Don't play hard with me today!

Subsequently, Belinelli's breakthrough was also roughly intercepted by George. Of course, this gave the Italian a chance to get to the free throw line. But the toughness of the Pacers has begun to make the Bulls' hearts lingering.

Subsequently, the Bulls' defense continued to shrink. Because obviously, the Pacers' strategy today is to play inside and make fouls. And George's 12-point impact in a single quarter made the Bulls have to pay attention to the protection of the basket.

But when the game came up in the second quarter, the Pacers' offense came from Ray Allen!

Paul breaks through to attract the defense, and George runs without the ball to take the defender away. When Paul sent the ball into the hands of Ray Allen with a brilliant pass, people suddenly discovered that Ray Allen's weak side was left unattended at all!

Facing this big vacancy, Ray Allen would naturally not be merciful. Thibodeau wants to shrink defense to protect the rim? Then I will hit you hard from beyond the three-point line! When Thibodeau made the decision to protect the basket, Henson had already moved ahead! The third step of the plan is officially started!

The "white waves" appeared in the Nets, followed by waves of people in the stands of the Banker's Life Arena. Ray Allen's three-pointer gave the Pacers a double-digit lead from the start of the second quarter!

Thibodeau and Henson fought so many times, he knew very well. In a game against the Pacers, whether the point difference reaches double digits is a watershed. If the Pacers pulls the difference to double digits, then you will only be like Henson's marionette, getting deeper and deeper in his strategy...

The intense physical confrontation and tense atmosphere brought the Bulls' offense to a standstill. The Pacers' offense has always been very stable. Ray Allen's performance in the second quarter, in the words of Reggie Miller, is: returning to the peak of fantasy.

Not only can he create threats from outside the three-point line, he even repeatedly hits his opponents and breaks into the penalty area, causing fouls.

For a legendary shooter like Ray Allen, free throws are no different from sending points.

When the Bulls put their defensive focus on Ray Allen, Paul George will step forward and continue the firepower.

In the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of the game, Henson sent in the hungry Danny Green. As a result, Green made two three-pointers, so the Bulls could not find North. Under the suffocating defense of the Pacers' coercive confrontation, the lovely Chicago Bulls did not score a point in 2 minutes and 10 seconds!

After the half-time, the live score has become 55 to 41! The Pacers lead the Bulls by 13 points, and the Bulls show no signs of recovery.

Before the intermission, Thibodeau was interviewed by reporters on the sidelines. I saw that the defensive master looks solemn today, not the style of a few days ago.

"Coach Henson used our method to contain us... the game is very difficult. I must go back to the locker room to make a plan for the second half."

Thibodeau was right. Henson used the bulls' best way to contain them in turn. For any team, this situation is extremely difficult.

However, Thibodeau now has so many people in his hands, not to mention that Boozer and Noah are now carrying 2 and 3 fouls respectively. He wants to counter-attack a 14-point disadvantage in the second half of the game, but it will be even harder.

Sure enough, the Bulls still couldn't find a way to score in the second half. On defense, there is nothing to do with the Pacers. The gap between the two sides widened. With 4 minutes and 27 seconds left in this quarter, Livingston made two free throws. The Pacers led the Bulls by 28 points, 75 to 47! In the past five minutes, the Bulls failed to make a goal, and they were completely choked by the Pacers' defense!

It wasn't until 3 minutes and 41 seconds left in this quarter that the Bulls broke the scoring drought by Ty Gibson in the shot. But the recovery of the Bulls came too late and too late. Paul still has a strong desire to score in the first half, but since awakening George and the team took a big lead, he has reduced the number of shots, but has assisted his teammates many times.

With 2 minutes and 02 seconds left in this section, Paul turned his back to the basket and hit the ground to pass the ball. Allen received the ball and easily layup and caused a foul. With 34 seconds left in this section, Paul broke the ball and still chose to pass the ball to Allen in the right corner. The latter made a three-pointer. This time the Pacers led the Bulls by 31 points with 85 to 54. After three quarters, the Pacers were far ahead and the Chicagoans almost collapsed!

"Once the defending champion with a neat lineup wakes up, the Chicagoans won't have a chance! Those who imagine that the Bulls can eliminate the Pacers, don't deceive themselves!"

In the fourth quarter, people found Paul sitting directly on the sidelines watching the game. After all, the gap of 30 points upwards, if nothing happens, the entire fourth quarter will become garbage time. The Bulls are offensively weak. Even if the Pacers do not score a goal in the fourth quarter, the Bulls may not be able to score 30 points in one game. Want to regain the game, only theoretically possible.

The Pacers completely lost the suspense in the fourth quarter in just one minute, and even the theoretical possibility was completely stifled. George and Ray Allen made three-pointers one after another, and Ray Allen, who was on the rise, also broke through for a layup and caused a foul. Noah, who had already fouled 4 times, yelled at the referee, but was expelled from the field early...

After the complete loss of Noah, the Bulls were not only offensive, but also unable to defend. At this time, even Thibodeau admitted his failure, he even sent in Vladimir Radmanovic, who rarely played, and officially announced that the game had entered garbage time.

The Pacers started the fourth quarter with a wave of 18 to 2, and with 8 minutes and 28 seconds left in the game, they led the Bulls 104 to 58...46 points! Paul George had 25 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. Ray Allen scored 4 of 4 three-pointers, plus multiple free throws, effectively scoring 21 points in 22 minutes. Seven Pacers scored in double figures throughout the game, and the Bulls' proud defense collapsed.

The horror of the 72-win Pacers shrouded the Chicagoans. And there is nothing they can do about it...

In the end, the score of the whole game was fixed at 115 to 78, and the gap of 37 points was like a **** number, which was deeply burned in Sibodu's heart. This was his worst loss to Henson, and it was also a manifestation of the huge gap in hard power between the two teams.

Had it not been for Radmanovic to perform well and hit 3 three-pointers in the garbage time of the last 2 minutes of the game, the point difference would have become even more embarrassing.

Two years ago, the Chicago Bulls eliminated the Pacers and the annoying coach Henson after seven hard games. But now, two years later, when the two teams fatefully meet in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the situation has changed 180 degrees. In the last game, Henson forgot to shake hands with Thibodeau because he was angry. In this game, Thibodeau lost face after the fiasco, and forgot to shake hands with Henson.

These two old enemies will always turn the battle into extremely **** and tragic.

After the game, Paul George and Ray Allen were surrounded by reporters. Henson thought he could have fun today, but was stopped by a young reporter.

"Coach Henson, congratulations! What do you think of the victory in this game? How did you rebound from the bottom?" The reporter's questions are regular, but they are all questions that the public wants to know the answer to.

However, as we all know, Henson never gives his answer easily.

"You should ask George and Ray Allen this question. After all, it is not me who scored the high scores. It is them. As for congratulations, when we enter the Eastern Conference finals, you can say congratulations. Because for us, this It was just an expected victory."

Henson walked into the player channel with a relaxed smile. From the beginning of this game, he did not plan to give his old friend Thibodoo any chance.

4 to 1, it must be 4 to 1! If the Pacers fail to advance 4-1 in the end, Henson will not be happy. Two years ago and the Bulls lost in a tie-breaker, Henson was helpless.

Now that I have the ability, let's give the Bulls a happy one!