Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 173 I’m already studying my opponents for the next round!
"Jermaine, I need you to take the initiative to attack Duan at the beginning of the second quarter."

During the break, Carlisle entrusted O'Neal with important tasks.

Carlisle's idea is very clear. Duane played the full first quarter. According to the habit of the previous two games, Duen will definitely continue in the second quarter.

Even though Duen didn't have many independent attacks in the first quarter, with the intensity of tonight's game, Duen must have been physically exhausted.

It is precisely for this reason that O'Neal Jr. approached Du En for a singles at the beginning of the second quarter, and Du En would only appear in two situations.

Either he noticed a physical problem and left the game early in the second quarter to rest.

Either they miscalculate the intensity of tonight's game, and when the time comes their physical strength does not support attacking at critical moments, but they choose to force singles, which ultimately leads to inefficient scoring.

In short, no matter which situation occurs, it is beneficial to the Pacers.

Of course, there is another situation, that is, Duan at the beginning of the second quarter did not continue to play as usual.

In this way, it is also beneficial for O'Neal to go up and hit hard, which will help the Pacers lead the score.

"Don't worry, I will take care of Du En!"

As the team boss, O'Neal Jr. also seems confident.

Even if there is a battle at the Palace of Auburn Hills, the Pacers' goal this year is still the championship!
O'Neal knew that Duan was very strong, but he didn't feel that after losing two games in the beginning, he would be unable to win the entire series.

In O'Neal's opinion, as long as he wins two games in a row at home and breaks the Bulls' morale, they will be able to easily take control of the Bulls!

Coincidentally, Duen also thought that if they could win tonight, the Pacers' morale would be shattered by them.

Therefore, at the beginning of the second quarter, Du En will definitely continue to play!
The break between the first and second quarters was very short. After the players from both teams drank a few sips of water and the head coach fed them a few sips of chicken soup, the game started again in the second quarter.

Seeing Du En playing again, O'Neal's eyes lit up.

However, the team that scored the first offense of the second quarter was the Bulls.

Before O'Neal could cause trouble for Duen, Duen found Ben Gordon for a cross-cover outside the three-point line.

The Pacers still chose to attack Du En hard and consume Du En's physical strength.

Instead of embodying Kobe's thoughts, Duane continued to pass to Ben Gordon.

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

I rested down there for more than ten minutes before, but now I have a lot of energy and am naturally in good condition.

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Another three-pointer. If he keeps playing like this, Ben Gordon may break the playoff three-pointer record.

In this regard, the Pacers can only ignore Ben Gordon and continue to implement the plan to consume Duan.

Du En felt the power of O'Neal's back attack and found that O'Neal did not play reasonable ball and team ball this time, but was serious about it, and he became a little more cautious.

However, the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change.

O'Neal Jr. started with his back to the basket, using his size and height to overpower Duan.

But because of Antonio Davis's assisting defense and Duen's concealed elbow during defense, he finally chose to take a mid-range shot with his back turned.

Although O'Neal Jr.'s mid-range shot is cool, it is only slightly more accurate than Garnett's iron-blooded jump shot.

And with the intensity of tonight's game involving a lot of hands and confrontations, O'Neal Jr. was naturally unable to stabilize his shooting percentage. In the second quarter, under Duan's defense, he only shot 7 of 3 from the field.

Moreover, before Duan could bear it and needed to take a rest, O'Neal, who was sweating profusely, couldn't stand it anymore.

Of course, Duan was not much better than O'Neal. Almost 2 minutes later, Duan also left the game early to rest.

It can only be said that the intensity of tonight's game was indeed high. Fortunately, Duan was not Kobe and did not force the ball into singles.

Because of this, Duan, who only took 7 shots in the first half, has yet to score in double figures.

However, the Bulls lacked Duan's offense, but they did not lack scoring.

At the end of the first half, it was 57 to 48. The Bulls, playing away from home, had already established a 9-point lead due to the outstanding performance of the team.

Although this point difference is still easily caught up by the Pacers, in an away game, the Pacers have a home whistle, and the Bulls can still perform like this, which is already very good.

When the second half started, Diaw withstood the test and already had 6 assists in the first half.

Duen didn't have to worry about the Bulls having no one to sort out the offense. Instead, he finally took on the posture of being the team leader and started attacking with the ball.This time, Duen did not continue to attack from the high post, but took the initiative to get the ball from the low post.

In this situation, the Pacers can only let O'Neal Jr. guard Duan alone, and there is no way to double-team.

The problem is, Duane's footsteps are much faster than O'Neal.

Although Duen has not learned his fantasy steps from Olajuwon, Duen has multiple insider star templates superimposed, and his low post playing skills have no shortcomings.

Just like Yao Ming said - I can do Olajuwon's moves, but I will never be as fast as him.

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

Therefore, even if they are talented at the level of James and Howard, they are not fast at all and cannot use dreamy footsteps.

As the shooting guard second only to Jordan, Kobe relied on his talent to copy his dream footsteps.

As for Du En, he can also do whatever he wants with his talent.

When Duane broke through O'Neal's defense time and time again, bursting to the basket to attack the basket or feeding Tyson Chandler, tonight's game quickly lost its suspense.

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

In the third quarter, the Pacers got 5 opportunities to stand on the free throw line, including one when Reggie Miller scored 3 free throws thanks to Miller's kick.

However, Duan's strong singles broke through the Pacers' proud defense.

In the third quarter, the Pacers relied on 11 of 9 free throws to stabilize the situation, but did not narrow the point difference.

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

And Duane, who continued to play in the fourth quarter, still caused trouble for O'Neal in the low post.

It was also because Duen attacked a lot in the low post, so O'Neal was forced to mobilize more defense to limit Duen's offense.

The result is that, after the whole game, O'Neal only took 13 shots, and finally only scored 15 points. He no longer had the glory of 20+ points in the first two games.

On the other hand, Duan only scored 8 points in the first half. By the time the game was over, the score had increased to 31 points.

In fact, Du En can still score a few more points, but considering that the outcome is already decided, there is no need to continue to score points in the remaining garbage time.

In addition, 31 is also Duan's jersey number.

Normally I want to get 31 points but I still can't get it, but I happened to get it tonight, so I'll just keep it at this number.

106 to 95, the Bulls once again won the third game of the series with a huge advantage of 11 points.

After the game, another player No. 31 on the field also had to come to Du En to save face.

"Dunn, congratulations on winning again!
Your energy is beyond our imagination. It seems that we really picked the wrong opponent.

Also, I want to welcome you to Indianapolis.

This is a friendly city and I hope you can play happily here. "

Reggie Miller, on behalf of the Pacers players, surrendered to the Bulls, mainly because he was worried that the Bulls youth team did not understand the rules and would not show any mercy when fighting.

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

In order to gather 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 Dunn will be merciful and not sweep them away.

"We have tried our best to defeat you!
Don't worry, I'm a human being too and I get tired too.

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

Moreover, we are a young team, and my teammates and I have many shortcomings.

Being able to play more games and accumulate playoff experience is not a bad thing for us. "

As the team boss, Du En promised to play a tacit game.

Although Dunn doesn't know the Bulls management's plans yet, he thinks that Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf will not give up the opportunity to earn tickets for one more playoff game.

As for whether you are worried about being beaten by the Pacers?
At least before this, this kind of situation has not happened in the NBA, and in Duan's memory, there is no such accident in NBA history.

Therefore, when the Bulls got the series match point in advance, as the boss of the Bulls, Du En could already say those pretentious words loudly...

I'm already studying my opponents for the next round!
(End of this chapter)