The start was 4-0, and five minutes later, the score expanded to 14-9.

The reason why the Bobcats failed to defeat the magic directly by relying on the opening wave of offense and defense was-

As the game progressed, the Magic found a way to attack hard.

Brandon Bass's starting lineup finally played a role, but its effect was a bit different from the preset.

The rebounding battle and assisting sparks in protecting the penalty area were basically useless, but because of the offensive end, he pulled out to Xiao Hei Dou and Old Carters to cover the pick-and-roll, Bass found his position.

"A pick-and-roll from Brandon Bass, Aaron Brooks went around and took the ball directly!"

Swish—!

"The ball has entered, and Xiao Hei Bean's condition is rising!"

“…”

"It's still Brandon Bass' pick-and-roll, this time it's Vince Carter. He rushed out with a quick stop and made a jump shot!"

Swish—!

"I'm in again, the magic attack has opened fire!"

Relying on Bass' pick-and-roll cover, Xiao Heidou and Old Carter, the group of chaotic war masters, began to have a one-on-one fight.

This surprised many people. Will adding a pick-and-roll cover solve the problem?

That's right, for a master of chaos like Little Black Bean and Old Carter, a cover and half of their body position would be enough for them to throw the damn ball into it.

"So, why didn't the previous magic tricks play pick-and-roll?"

At the end of the regular season, if the Magic had also played the pick-and-roll attack at that time, the Bobcats might not even be able to win that victory.

But when it comes to pick-and-roll, Stan Van Gundy feels bitter.

Is it because he doesn’t want to hit a pick-and-roll? It’s not allowed!

It’s not that strength is not allowed, it’s that sparks are not allowed.

With the Magic's usual lineup configuration, the fourth position usually allows Mr. Billion Lewis to start. The only thing that the Magic can pull out the pick-and-roll cover is left is sparks.

The problem lies in that Sparks are unwilling to make a wall for pick-and-rolls for those small outside players on the Magic.

Following the players' opinions, this pick-and-roll attack will naturally not be able to be beaten.

Brandon Bass has always been the third pick in the Magic's fourth position. The starter of this game played a miraculous role at this moment.

The game continues, the Bobcats' offense.

They continued to use the simple and efficient Liku pick-and-roll. Although it looked strange, the effect was surprisingly good.

Curry is an all-round point guard. He can make a spike and control and pass.

As for Li Ke, he can also make a sudden shot and control, but he is not very good at passing.

But at the moment, the Bobcats only need to deal with the ball to Curry, who is not far away when he encounters clamping defense. Such a pass is not difficult.

Kuli scored pick-and-roll continuously, conveying a thought - Kuli is a dick!

On the other side, the magic attack.

Li Ke suddenly joined the sparks to prevent them, which unexpectedly achieved good results.

Half a quarter of the game has passed, and Sparks only relied on the make-up deductions and scored 2 points, which is considered to be in a state of silence.

Such a successful defense was also surprising even Rivers on the sidelines.

"Sheldon can withstand Dwight Howard, does this mean..."

On the sidelines, Rivers touched his chin, and Armond Hill shook his head. As Rivers' right-hand man, he certainly knew what Rivers was thinking.

"Put down your unrealistic ideas, Doug, don't try to pull out your immature five-square lineup on a stage of the Eastern Conference Finals."

"I know, I know."

Back to the game, the sparks were silent, but the Magic also relied on the chaos of the outsiders to barely keep up with the Bobcats' offensive rhythm.

After playing a few more rounds, the official paused when the score became 17 to 12.

While rushing off the court, Li Ke looked up at the score above his head, and they were already 5 points ahead.

This lead is actually expected.

After all, in this game, the Bobcat took out Li Ku's pick-and-roll set, Rivers didn't care about it at first, and Li Ke's killer move.

However, the Eastern Conference semi-finals are used to the rhythm of leading early and big scores, and the Bobcats are still a little uncomfortable with the rhythm of this game.

Therefore, after a pause, Rivers immediately announced:

"We need to solve the opponent's pick-and-roll attack, and then the defense against the pick-and-roll will be changed to changing defense against the pick-and-roll..."

Rivers believes that if the Bobcats lineup configuration changes defense when facing a pick-and-roll, it should be much better than the defensive method of delaying the obstacle and returning position.

But after the suspension and after the actual practice, the situation on the field changed a little differently than Rivers imagined.

The Magic replaced Rashad Lewis and continued to play with a relatively reluctant pick-and-roll attack compared to Bass when he was on the court.

Why is it barely forced? Because Xiao Hei Dou holds the ball and makes a wall for him to pick-and-roll, it is Old Carter and Lewis, who has just appeared on the stage.

But this relatively reluctant pick-and-roll set has a miraculous effect at this time.

"The Magic actually started to learn from the Bobcats, focusing on pick-and-rolls of outside players. They played very smartly and stared at Stephen Curry, and made a crazy single breakthrough."

It's a bit complicated to say this. Simply put, it is magic that suddenly becomes aware of it and stares at Curry's various military trainings.

You should know that the Bobcats' main lineup has the first-class single defense ability in four positions. The only one who is not first-class is Curry.

Curry's defense is not only not first-class, he also orders food, so now he is ordered by Magic's outside chaos masters.

Rivers realized this and walked to the sidelines, shouted a few times, leaned on his gestures, and then moved the defense back.

But after getting back on defense, there is still a way to go for Magic's offense.

At the end of the first quarter, the Bobcats had only 4 points ahead of the score of 30 to 26.

In one quarter of the game, Rivers saw the strength of the Magic's scorers.

"Fortunately, Sheldon's clamp locks the monster. We still have the advantage in this game until now."

Since he had the advantage, Rivers was not in a hurry.

In the second quarter, some substitutes were replaced on both sides.

Overall, the rotation lineups of the two teams are not bad, with the Magic including Jamal Nelson, JJ Redick and Lewis, who had already appeared in the first quarter.

On the Bobcats, the No. 1 pick replaces Jordan Jr. Tucker replaces the second in Hua and Du, and Li Ke's position suddenly moved to the No. 1 position.

The substitute rotation lineup matched, but the result was that in the second quarter, the Bobcats, who had the advantage in the field, still failed to open the score.

"In the last attack in the second quarter, the Warcraft finally got a chance to play singles at a low post. He leaned on Tagibson, who had just been on the court, turned around and forced a layup!"

Bang-!

"The basketball bounces out and the half game is over!"

"With a score of 57 to 52, the Bobcats still have a 5-point lead."

The 5-point lead is no different from the 4-pointer at the end of the first quarter.

In the midfield, Rivers was already a little impatient.

"Do you want to change to five young masters?"

Armond Hill rolled his eyes: "Don't always think about your fifth little girl, it's too immature!"

"Then let the game continue like this?"

"It's better to try to kill Huo..."

So, in the third quarter, the game just started. Surprisingly, Kenyon Martin, who was the first to play, directly slapped the empty-handed spark, a little confused.

Dan Crawford was also stunned. He watched Old Martin raise his hand on his own, and then he realized and blew the whistle.

Starting from the slap of the No. 1 pick, the Bobcats gave Sparks five consecutive fouls in the following rounds. Old Martin directly fouled five times and left the court first.

The real main center of the Bobcats, Jordan Jordan, then stepped onto the battlefield in the second half after a beep from the timer.

At this time, what sparks have to face is the devastated basket.

Bang-!

"World Warcraft's free throw, he failed to make the first free throw..."

"Look at the second penalty."

Because Sparks stood on the free throw line, on both sides of the free throw area, the Magic were preparing to compete for rebounds, Michael Pitrus and Ryan Anderson.

So, bang!

After another iron shot, Pitrus was stuck in the position by Li Ke, Ryan Anderson was also suppressed by Jordan Jr. Hua Lao Er jumped out and grabbed the rebound.

Immediately afterwards, there was an extremely rapid counterattack...

In the third quarter, the tactic of killing Huo achieved phased success.
To be continued...