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"We played terribly!" Lin Tian certainly would not confront Carlisle at this time. After all, he was the culprit for following the Knicks' rhythm in the first quarter. In the first quarter, it was indeed because Lin Tian himself was a little too excited and did not deliberately suppress the rhythm.

But Lin Tian had no choice. The New York fans were too enthusiastic. Their enthusiasm made Lin Tian feel embarrassed if he didn't have a few more beautiful rounds!

"In the third quarter, we're going to pick up what we deserve! We're going to play the right basketball and we're going to beat the Knicks to the ground."

"Ron, you handle Carmelo. He scored 19 points in the first half! How many points do you plan to let him score in the second half?"

"No more than 10 points!" Artest said with a gloomy face, "Including the points he scored during the garbage time of the game."

"Udonis?"

"I will keep a close eye on Amare. I won't let him get to the basket easily anymore, and I won't let him take off and dunk like that anymore! I will make him stay outside the 3-second zone and become a desperate idiot!"

"Very good." After looking at the two men, Lin Tian continued: "I played the worst. My defense against Charlie Ward was not good enough. I gave him too many open spaces and space to easily handle the ball. He made a lot of good passes and organized the team's offense."

"In the second half of the game, I will watch him closely, I will make him completely defeated, and I will make it impossible for him to organize the team's offense!"

Seeing Lin Tian once again stepping forward and speaking for him and expressing his determination, Carlisle nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, I believe in you! You are all my best disciples, of course I will give you a chance!"

"In the second half of the game, hammer the New Yorkers to the ground!"

"Yes!"

In the second half of the game, the two teams changed sides and Ward dribbled to the frontcourt.

Just as he arrived at the frontcourt, Lin Tian rushed over, stuck directly to him, and began to defend him tightly!
"Sure enough! The Pacers' defense has improved! The starting five who didn't play in the second quarter showed their attitude in the first round of the third quarter!"

When Barkley saw Lin Tian sticking to Ward and the other players of the Pacers, he immediately became excited and said in a tone that was just as I expected: "Let's see, the Pacers are on defense!"

"Look at the matchup between Ron and Carmelo. Ron is going to push the youngster Carmelo from the waist position all the way to the 3-point line! In front of the 'Beast', 'Melo' can't even stand steadily!"

"We can't ignore Udonis's defense on Amare. Although he is not as tall, heavy or physically fit as Amare, he lowered his center of gravity and still kept Amare outside the three-second zone, preventing him from rushing into the zone to look for opportunities."

Kenny said: "The most important thing is Lin's defense against Ward. We see that Ward doesn't even have a chance to pass the ball at this moment, let alone organize an offense like in the first half. Facing Lin's defense, he really can't come up with any way to deal with it. He needs the support of his teammates!"

"Gerald Wallace went up and Ward passed the ball! But Christie also rushed out! She stole the ball! Christie stole the ball!" As Kenny yelled, Christie blocked Ward's pass and then pushed the ball to the frontcourt. The basketball immediately flew towards the frontcourt.

Lin Tian increased his speed in the blink of an eye, took two steps at a time, grabbed the basketball, and then ran all the way to the basket alone, and dunked it with one hand!

"Here it comes! The Pacers' defensive counterattack! Here it comes! Lin and Christie, these two have been working together for seven seasons, and there is absolutely no doubt about the tacit understanding between them."

Barkley shouted excitedly: "Look! The Pacers we are familiar with are back!"

"Charles, I have to remind you that you are not very familiar with this Pacers team. Except for Lin and Christie, the rest of the team have never been your teammates. Even the head coach has been replaced."

"You've been retired for so long, I don't think those young people even know that you played for the Pacers. After all, your Pacers career is really not worth mentioning!"

While the two commentators were bickering with each other as usual, the Pacers had once again defended the Knicks' offense. This time, Ward forced his way to the basket, wanting to follow the same style of play in the first half, once again throwing the ball into the air when rushing to the inside, and then letting Stoudemire dunk with his physical fitness.

But this time Stoudemire didn't even rush forward. He was blocked outside the 3-second zone by Haslem and couldn't get in at all.

The basketball was not touched by anyone, but flew directly out of the baseline, resulting in a turnover.

The Pacers, who successfully defended, would naturally not be afraid of the offensive end. This was of course the time for Lin Tian to take another shot!
Lin Tian accelerated and broke through directly from outside the three-point line, passed his old rival Ward in one step, and then went straight to the basket.

This time it wasn't that the Knicks didn't have time to assist in defense. This time, when Lin Tian was almost at the basket, Okur had no time to dodge.

He was lying sideways when he was bumped into by Lin Tian.

After being hit by Lin Tian, ​​O'Neal fell backwards like a kite with a broken string and flew out of the baseline. However, Lin Tian seemed to have not hit anything. His momentum and altitude did not decrease at all. He slammed his hands heavily on the basket!
"boom!"

After a loud bang, the Pacers scored another 2 points!
The first two rounds were definitely enough to illustrate the attitudes of the two teams and their ability to control the game. The next few minutes were basically a microcosm of the first two rounds.

Anthony was holding the ball and playing one-on-one, but he was almost unsteady on his feet due to Artest's terrifying strength. The last jump shot he managed was outrageous.

Although Stoudemire has an advantage over Haslem in terms of height and wingspan, he does not have the mid-range jump shot that he will have in the future, which may only be inferior to Nowitzki among all the No. 4 players in the league. He is essentially a man with a rather rough physical fitness.

So now he is not afraid of those who can jump and are big. What he fears most is the type like Haslem who has a strong lower body, plays with all his might, and then blocks him from entering the three-second zone.

Outside the 3-second zone, he really has no way out now.

In short, the Knicks are missing a pair of players who are not good at confrontation and do not like to break through, and the other one can only run and attack, and the Pacers have exploited these weaknesses quite well.

Throughout the third quarter, these two were completely suppressed. Apart from Anthony's sudden burst of luck and a difficult magical shot, these two did not score even a single point in the entire third quarter!
With the team's two core players performing so poorly, the Knicks' performance in this quarter is naturally even worse.

They only scored a total of 9 points in the first 20 minutes and 3 seconds of the third quarter, which was Anthony's extremely difficult fadeaway 3-pointer. Other than that, everyone else scored a lot of points.

The Pacers were firing on all cylinders during this period, especially Lin Tian, ​​who once again opened his powder keg, easily killing Ward and making it impossible for him to handle the ball calmly, while at the same time bombarding the Knicks' defense.

同样是9分20秒内，林天12投8中，3分球2投全中，罚球2罚2中，爆砍20分！
Even though he didn't play for a single second in the second quarter, Lin Tian had already scored 34 points!

Facing a defensive team of the level of the Knicks, as long as Lin Tian wants to score, he can do whatever he wants and score no matter how he plays!
The reason why this time is chosen as the node is that when the third quarter reached this time, the Pacers launched a crazy offensive frenzy of 35:3.

In just the past 9 minutes, they have already outscored the Knicks by 32 points!

The score difference between the two sides also changed from the Pacers being 16 points behind at the start of the third quarter to the Pacers leading by 16 points now!

The polarities are reversed, and yin and yang are confused!
The Pacers' attack completely confused the entire Knicks team and made them dizzy.

What happened? I lost so much?
As for the Knicks fans, the lovely people of New York are so happy right now!
They now look at Lin Tian as if he were one of their own. If their own person can be so powerful and dominate the game on both offense and defense, and they are not happy, then who will be happy?
The cheers were absolutely one wave after another, one burst after another, it was crazy!

That state and excitement were as if all the points Lin Tian scored could be added to the Knicks' side.

In short, the Pacers' momentum was fully displayed!

It was at this time that Carlisle took the initiative to call a timeout.

This timeout also made Don Cheney on the opposite side sweat.

The last few minutes of the game were really scary.

He felt that his entire team was like a ship that had hit an iceberg and was about to sink. They were helpless, weak, at a loss, and could only wait to die.

During this period, Don Cheney called two timeouts and replaced many players, but the team just couldn't score and couldn't defend the Pacers. Their players were frightened by the Pacers players and didn't know how to play.

Don Cheney was really at a loss as he had already called all the timeouts in the third quarter. He didn't know what to do. So in his opinion, Carlisle's timeout was like a life-saving bell for him. It was saving him!
The team got another rare opportunity to adjust.

"Listen! They must be tired! With such a high defensive intensity, they must be tired! They are also human beings, they are NBA players, and so are we! The gap between us is not that big, we all come from the same league, we are not that far apart."

Don Cheney's opening remarks didn't sound like he was talking to the players at all, but more like he was talking to himself, or like he was trying to convince himself.

He actually hadn't said a word yet.

We are both NBA coaches. The gap between Carlisle and me can’t be that big!
Absolutely impossible!
After comforting himself, Carlisle continued to arrange tactics: "Everyone, the Pacers will definitely replace their starting players next. They will take a break because it is impossible for anyone to maintain such a high intensity for such a long time! They can't do it!"

"They will only keep two starters at most, most likely three! This is our chance to catch up!"

"So next, Carmelo, Amar'e, Mehmet, Stephen, Charlie, the five of you go on the court!"

"In the last 3 minutes, catch up with me!"

Well, Don Cheney is an NBA-level head coach after all, so his guess is correct.

It can even be said that his guess is a bit conservative.

Because after the timeout, Carlisle actually went 5 on 5!
This operation is really cool!
"I can't figure out what Carlisle is thinking and what he wants to do." Barkley frowned and said, "The five-in-five in the second quarter was because the main players had a bad attitude and only thought about offense but not defense. Then what about the third quarter? I don't understand why five-in-five was needed at this time?"

"The game is still suspenseful. The score difference between the two sides has not widened at all. Why do they suddenly make such a large-scale substitution at this time?"

Can't figure it out?

That’s right if you can’t figure it out!

Carlisle himself didn't really figure it out.

He felt that a mid-to-lower-level team like the Knicks was not worthy of their attention and was too bad!

My self-confidence suddenly exploded.

So Carlisle just now suddenly felt that doing a five-up-five-down move at this time would make him very mysterious, and no one would be able to guess his thoughts.

And mystery always makes men more attractive.

Anyway, Carlisle now feels that he is very attractive.

With his hands folded across his chest, a stern expression, he stood there without saying a word!

It is so elegant and mysterious, and so full of momentum.

This is the aura and feeling of a top coach.

Carlisle stood in Madison Square Garden, but at this moment he felt like he was standing on top of the pyramid.

He wanted to shout: "I am the king of the world!"

This feels so good!
No wonder Phil Jackson always acts like a master. It feels so good!

However, although Carlisle is happy, the Pacers' pure bench lineup is really not that good.

After all, the team's depth is not as good as in previous years, and now two important rotation players have suffered serious injuries. The energy of the Pacers' bench is definitely not excellent now.

After the timeout, Anthony and Stoudemire each scored 4 points in a row, quickly narrowing the gap.

Seeing this scene, Carlisle couldn't help but move his body.

It seems like it’s too big?
After all, he was a novice at pretending to be cool, so he had no confidence and was obviously feeling weak. Fortunately, although he was a novice at pretending to be cool, he was very familiar with leading a team. Having experienced countless big scenes, he knew very well that he could not pause the game immediately or make substitutions directly.

It will affect the player's self-confidence and his prestige in the team.

"Tony, do you know why I substituted you in?" Carlisle suddenly shouted after the Pacers missed their third consecutive attack: "Because of trust!"

"Lin and his team can play a great game, and so can you! It's that simple."

After saying this, Carlisle turned around and sat back on the bench.

The coach trusts us!
Trust is a very expensive thing. Sometimes it cannot be obtained despite all efforts, and sometimes it is so easy to get.

Parker was the first to feel a surge of anger in his head, followed by the young and energetic Howard, who was also so excited that he just wanted to dunk three balls right away.

The morale of the Pacers' role players was boosted so easily!

In the next round, Howard first got angry and defended Anthony's shot one-on-one, and then Bonner grabbed the rebound and passed it to Parker.

After Parker got the ball, he accelerated and rushed all the way to the Knicks' basket. He then turned quickly against Anthony who was returning to defense, and then made a reverse layup!

Anthony didn't expect Parker to dare to challenge him directly and turn around so quickly. He was not careful enough to catch up with Parker and he couldn't control his hand and slapped Parker on the arm.

"Beep! The thug fouled! Three points are valid, plus one free throw!"

The referee quickly raised his hand and blew the whistle, giving Parker a 2+1!

After scoring the goal, Parker pounded his chest with one hand and roared, extremely excited!

Then he beat his chest and even ran quickly to the midfield, shouting at Carlisle: "I won't let you down, coach! No!"

Carlisle maintained his master persona tonight. He just nodded but didn't say anything or give any other response. Tonight, he was going to pretend to the end.

"Coach, it feels great to show off!"

A voice suddenly came.

Carlisle couldn't react in time, and actually nodded and said, "Great! No, huh?"

Carlisle turned around quickly and saw Lin Tian with a sly smile on his face.

It's over. It's ruined.

"It's okay. Only God and the earth know it, and you and I know it." Lin Tian gave a smile that we all understood, then leaned back on the back of his chair, feeling extremely relaxed.

Fortunately, although Carlisle failed, only Lin Tian knew about it, especially the five players on the court who were playing for their lives, who were completely unaware of it.

They are fighting very vigorously!
In the last two minutes of the third quarter, Don Cheney, who wanted to catch the Pacers off guard by staggering his attack and use his main scorer to narrow the gap, completely failed!
In the last less than 3 minutes, the Knicks' two young players played against the Pacers' full substitutes, but the score was only 8:9!
Not only did they fail to narrow the gap, but they also conceded 1 point more to the Pacers' bench!
The score gap between the two sides increased instead of decreased, and the Knicks were completely stunned.

Therefore, at the end of the third quarter, both Anthony and Stoudemire had no expression on their faces. They couldn't believe that they couldn't beat the Pacers' bunch of losers?
How can it be?

The worst problem for the Knicks was that Stoudemire and Anthony played the entire third quarter and had to rest in the fourth quarter.

But the score difference now could officially exceed 20 points at any time. Letting them go down to rest? Even if it takes only 3 minutes, the score difference will be completely widened, and then the two of them won't even need to play.

Why not let them rest?
At the end of the fourth quarter, these two players must have been so tired that their legs were shaking.

Neither of them is known for their physical fitness in the league.

Don Cheney was caught in a dilemma. No matter which choice he made, it felt like a complete defeat.

"Well done, just as I thought." It was also the intermission, but the atmosphere on the Pacers side was much better.

Carlisle has recovered his form and he continues to act like a cool guy.

Tonight, this guy is obviously determined to pretend to the end!

"Sit down and take a rest. The first three minutes of the fourth quarter are still your time. I hope you can increase the score difference to 25 points!"

Lin Tian watched from the side and nodded continuously.

Well, that's pretty good, it really has some of Phil Jackson's charlatan style, but is this guy really going to go down this messed up route?
No, I have to find some time to persuade him.

It feels good to pretend to be cool, but that's only fun once in a while. If it happens all the time, anytime and anywhere, without interruption, then that's not okay.

Very tiring and burdened.

Anyway, Lin Tian felt that a guy like Jackson who had been pretending for more than ten years should most likely see a psychiatrist. He must have some psychological problems.

In the fourth quarter, the Pacers continued with their all-substitute lineup.

As for the Knicks, Don Cheney thought again and again and was afraid to let both of them play, nor did he dare to let them both take off, so he took off Stoudemire and let Anthony continue to fight on the court with the substitutes.

But to be honest, the mentality of both sides is completely different at this moment. The Pacers are full of confidence and feel that they will have no problem tonight, while the Knicks are somewhat doubtful about their lives.

It's normal that we couldn't beat the starting lineup and were taught a lesson by Lin.

But I can’t beat your lineup, including Tony Parker and the other five players?

At this time, it stands to reason that two completely different branches can be distinguished.

Optimistic and competitive people: Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I will kill him to prove myself!

Pessimistic and fragile people: I’m too bad.

The Knicks team tonight clearly took the latter path.

It’s not that Anthony and the other players on the Knicks are too soft or too superficial. It’s simply because they are too young and have not experienced too much adversity. Also, the Knicks lack a true leader.

This person can be a player or a coach.

This person doesn't even have to be very strong. He just needs to have enough prestige to be able to calm the situation and make everyone submit to him. When he raises his arm and calls on everyone to roll up their sleeves and fight with him, everyone will quickly unite around him.

But the Knicks are missing such a person.

The only veteran on their team is Ward, but Ward is not a talkative leader, he is just an excellent puzzle piece.

In addition, Don Cheney is not the kind of excellent coach who can unite the team and make the team fight back. He is just so-so as a coach. The reason why he can be the head coach of the current Knicks team without any pressure of results is not because he is so good.

The most important reason is that it is cheap and is about to expire.

Dolan's goal is always to enter the free market next year! Before that, everything will be fine.

Don Cheney himself is also very clear that although he will definitely not be fired this season, if his performance is not good and the team management looks down on him, then this season will be his last season with the Knicks.

The coaches on both sides had their own thoughts, but the game on the court never stopped. Three minutes before the fourth quarter, the Pacers faced the Knicks with only one core and showed no mercy. They fired at random and launched continuous charges!
Although their abilities are limited and their hit rate is not high, this group of people is really in one of the craziest and most desperate periods of their careers.

If you can't make the shot, go for it! If you can't make it, find a way to defend it back. If you can't defend it, you must score in the next round!

When the Pacers players showed this attitude, the Knicks naturally could not keep up with their intensity.

In 3 minutes, the Knicks' semi-main lineup was beaten by the Pacers 6:2!

The difference between the two sides has exceeded 20 points!

When there were only 9 minutes left in the game, Carlisle didn't even call a timeout or give any tactical instructions. He just waved his hand, and Lin Tian and the other five starters stood up and walked to the center line together.

Another five-in-five substitution, the Pacers have to use the starting lineup to completely win the game!
When Don Cheney saw the situation here, he quickly made substitutions, bringing on Ward, Stoudemire and others, but he did not dare to replace Anthony. He knew very well that if he replaced Anthony at this time, the team would surely be finished.

As for what would happen at the last moment if Anthony continued to play?
This is not what Don Cheney should be thinking about right now.

His goal now is not even to make the team win. What he wants is to let the team prolong the suspense of the game as long as possible, prolong the possibility of winning as long as possible, and then leave a good impression on Lin Tian.

Well, it's so humble.

But on the field, being humble is useless, you have to rely on strength!
To make matters worse, Carlisle deliberately said loudly to the substitute players: "You played very well, far exceeding my expectations! You have worked hard, take a rest."

All members of the Pacers heard this.

Several main players immediately felt a surge of anger hitting their heads.

What do you mean? Are you picking on us? Do you think we played badly?

FUXX!

Beat them to death!

Kill the Knicks!
Then, five Pacers players walked onto the court side by side!
The expressions of the five people were quite varied.

Artest and Haslem both had their eyes wide open, looking as if they wanted to tear their opponents apart and eat them.

And the other three people...

Christie was stretching, Miller twisted his shoulders a few times, and Lin Tian even yawned.

Well, Carlisle's words are totally useless to these three old-timers with low IQs!
But fortunately, there are still two guys in the team's starting lineup who get hot-headed easily.

And these two happen to be facing Anthony and Stoudemire.

Isn't this a coincidence! Isn't this a coincidence!
So...after the Pacers and Knicks made substitutions respectively, the situation on the court became very interesting.

Lin Tian, ​​Christie and Miller, three smart guys, took the attitude as if the team was leading by 20 points. They controlled the time, advanced steadily, looked for opportunities, and then shot slowly and steadily.

The main focus is peace and stability, and taking advantage of the situation.

However, Artest and Haslem...

Anyway, Haslem's entire body was almost hanging on Stoudemire's body, and the physical contact area between the two was probably close to 50%. Haslem really took out a life-threatening attitude and gave himself up completely.

Haslem's head was completely stuck on Stoudemire's elbow. If it was a more aggressive guy, he would have raised his elbow without caring about the consequences and would have directly knocked Haslem to the ground.

But Stoudemire is obviously not tough enough, or it could be said that Stoudemire, who is only 19 years old, does not have that much courage at the moment.

Not cruel enough.

Not only is he not cruel enough, he's also a bit cowardly.

Anyway, Stoudemire's attitude at the moment was: The gap was more than 20 points, why are you still fighting so hard? How much money can you make in a month? Why are you fighting so hard?

Or is there some vengeance between us about someone killing their father or stealing their wife that I don't know about, and you're working so hard just to embarrass me?

If Stoudemire still had time to doubt his life and wonder what was wrong with Haslem, then Anthony was being defended so hard that he was about to vomit.

"I know your seventh uncle!"

Anthony's words were enough to show how miserable he was at the moment. Artest really hit him so hard that his bones were almost broken.

If Anthony wasn't pushed into a corner, he wouldn't do such a thing as trying to build connections on the court.

"My seventh uncle owes my family 500 US dollars and hasn't paid it back yet! I'm going to beat you up!"

"Seventh uncle! Seventh uncle! It's my fucking seventh uncle! Oh! FUXX!" Anthony shouted twice in despair, and then he felt a pain in his ribs.

Artest hit him in the waist with an elbow.

They all came from the streets and grew up fighting. When has Anthony ever been afraid of this?

He just felt that it was unnecessary. Why was he still working so hard when the game was already like this? Besides, he was really tired.

But now you are doing this, you are bullying me like this, how can I tolerate you?
You can't bear it! Even if you call me Uncle Seven, it's too late! I'm going to hit you!
"puff!"

Then there was another muffled sound. Anthony couldn't control his emotions, lowered his shoulders and bumped into Artest's chest.

The force was so fierce and powerful that even someone as strong as Artest couldn't react and was knocked to the ground by Anthony.

Then Artest got up instantly, took two steps forward and rushed in front of Anthony, raised his arms and pushed him up.

"Are you looking for death? This is New York. Do you dare to hit me in New York?"

"I won't choose where to beat you! I'm going to beat you up in New York, you bastard!" Anthony was completely mad at this point, he raised his hand and pushed Artest again.

Then the two of them opened their mouths and started to curse at each other fiercely.

Unfortunately, Lin Tian couldn't understand it. It was probably New York suburban dialect slang.

I really don't understand.

Just as the conflict was about to escalate from verbal abuse and pushing to fistfighting, the referee finally intervened.

"Stop! Stop it all! FUXX! Let go of me, both of you! Shut up, shut up! I'm from Queens too, I can understand what you're saying! If you say that again I'll punch you in the head!"

Thanks to the quick intervention of the three referees and the intervention of other players, the conflict between the two players was not escalated and quickly subsided. (End of this chapter)