After Li Liang arrived, the walker had become the most suitable shape.

In the 82 regular season games, they found the most suitable tactical system, a relatively simple but very effective tactical system.

Everything revolves around Li Liang, his pass, his three-pointer, his defensive tension, and his close-range emergency stop jump shot.

You can pass the ball, but you are not as good as James and Nash, so you can give you some three-pointers with independent offense.

JR-Smith, Granger, and Stephenson are all players who can catch the ball and throw it, and they can also catch it in bad situations.

You have the strongest three-pointers in history and give the team enough space, so you can increase singles in tactical terms and reduce all kinds of fancy cooperation.

You can do a lot of things on the defensive end, but protecting the basket is more average. Get a McGee who has no advantages other than protecting the basket, and then a Garnett, a formerly historic basket.

Then you have to do anything except protect the basket.

What, you have learned how to protect the basket?

OK, you can call the No. 5 position.

You also have a beautiful breakthrough and a retro emergency stop to play a jump shot after the board.

No problem, David West substituted, Scola traded, cleared the positions of the left and right ribs, giving Li Liang a room to play for the jump shot.

What is the main tactic of Pacers that is strong at low positions and the cooperation between high and low positions is no longer the mainstream tactics of Pacers.

It can be said that the Pacers' lineup and tactics are all set up around Li Liang's supporting facilities.

Li Liang is Indiana's single-core CPU. This CPU works well, has a low failure rate, and sometimes the peak operation will exceed your imagination.

From this point of view, Bird's vision is really unique.

Perhaps as a coach, he is not as good as some of the league's excellent coaches in terms of tactical richness and details.

But in terms of strategic choice and control, he is first-class.

As a manager and as a coach, he is not short of honor, ability, and what he lacks is an opportunity.

Li Liang is his opportunity.

In the third game of the semi-finals, the game was in the second quarter and the first half was about to end.

The score on the field has reached 43:35, and the Pacers lead the Bulls by 8 points.

The Bulls scored terrible, but the Pacers weren't much better.

In the middle and late section of the second quarter, as Bird expected, when his number of shots began to increase, the number of iron shots also began to increase.

But the Pacers still maintained their advantage because the Bulls were also making irons, and their offense was even more sluggish than the Pacers.

Ross had no touch in the first half. When this sharp knife didn't work, the Bulls had no real blasting point. Butler had no choice but to attack since he played against Li Liang.

The Bulls can only rely on positional tactics and Pacers' grinding, and at the basket, Noah desperately grabbed the frontcourt rebounds to extend the Bulls' life.

Noah Guang grabbed four frontcourt rebounds in the second quarter.

After arriving at home, the Bulls team received a morale bonus and played very hard.

Unfortunately, sometimes after the Bulls fought for a long time, Li Liang turned around and made a jump shot, which was very good at hitting the team.

Moreover, the Bulls have to guard against Li Liang's three-pointer, and his three-pointer is too terrible.

In the last minute of the second quarter, Bird replaced Li Liang and took a break.

Logically speaking, Li Liang will play the second quarter in normal rotation.

He ended early in the first quarter today, but Bird replaced Li Liang in advance to protect their core.

In the second quarter, Li Liang made 6 of 13 shots, and made 20 shots in the whole first half, scoring 29 points.

His score alone was almost up to the Bulls' score.

At the end of the second quarter, the Bulls barely pushed the score to 40 points.

At 48:40, the Pacers still maintained an advantage of 8 points, and both sides entered the intermission.

Li Liang took over half of the Pacers' score alone in the first half.

This is how single-core teams have relatively large instability.

Even if your core performance is very stable, the role players' state fluctuations are relatively large.

Especially like the Pacers' several nerve knives, JR-Smith hit 5 three-pointers in the last game, and has made 1 three-pointer so far this game, and has made all the other shots.

Not to mention Stephenson, he scored 2 points and contributed 3 turnovers.

None of the three-pointers from the outside made the score.

But the Pacers' defense bit it. No matter how fierce the Bulls fought for the frontcourt rebounds, after losing the rebound, the Pacers still maintained their defensive formation and bit it very tough at the basket, without giving the Bulls a chance to score easily.

The second half of the game is destined to be even more difficult.

This will be a huge test for both parties' physical strength and willpower.

The short rest time ended and the players on both sides reappeared. Li Liang could feel that the air in the United Center was getting hot.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Pacers made a mistake in defense, or was it the one Li Liang made.

He was careless when defending Noah, and Noah seized the opportunity, found a gap in the middle, received the ball and broke through the basket and made a layup.

This is Noah's first goal in his game.

Li Liang was careless and started in the second half, but Li Liang returned to the fourth position.

He was still a little uncomfortable for a moment.

Afterwards, Li Liang was surrounded by three people.

The bulls are also showing off, I don’t care. Three or four people are going to surround you.

What kind of defensive traps and messy defensive strategies are just a pile of people.

Anyway, I'm running fast.

The three of them surrounded him, but Li Liang still had to pass the ball.

Granger, and Granger passed the ball to McGee at the basket.

McGee turned around and was about to buckle it, but Gasol gave it a shot!

But Gasol obviously had a thug move on this ball, and the referee did not whine.

McGee didn't say anything, Bird couldn't help but make a thug gesture to the referee.

It was useless. The Bulls' counterattack had already started. Rose rushed to the basket with one dragon and passed the ball to Dunleavy on the wing.

Dunleavy received the ball and made a three-pointer!

This ball is really deadly, the Bulls chased for 5 points in a row.

The key is that these 5 points are too fast to chase, and the Pacers' 8 points advantage is only 3 points left at once.

In the first half, both sides often scored no points in three or four rounds.

Bird's face was as deep as water, and Li Liang gave Bird a wink, telling him not to rush to pause.

Sure enough, Li Liang immediately retaliated on the offensive end. He and McGee broke through the basket after pick-and-roll, leaning towards Gasol.

This time the referee called a foul, and if he didn't say it, it means that the referee's business is not good.

You can be on the home team, but you need to balance when it is time to balance.

Besides, this is Bruce Lee. If you don’t brag, wouldn’t you ask for a scolding?

Li Liang made two free throws from the free throw line, stabilizing the situation.

Then, the Pacers successfully defended the Bulls on the defensive end with a 24-second offensive violation.

This time they still played a clever cooperation. Noah received the ball from a deep position under the basket and could make a layup directly.

As a result, Noah did not dare to take action under Li Liang's defense, and passed it back to Gasol who was inserted. As a result, the ball was not passed well and Gasol did not catch it.

By the time Gasol rescued the ball, 24 seconds had arrived.

I can only say that Li Liang's ability to adjust is really strong.

Then, he seized the opportunity again, received a breakthrough pass from Granger at the bottom corner, and forced a three-pointer to hit!

This ball is really heartbreaking. It was almost 3 points to catch up, but after fiddling, it turned into an 8-point difference.

The Bulls were persistent. Rose, who was in poor form in the first half, made two breakthroughs and scored at the basket.

At this time, Li Liang called for a pause.

Back at the bench, Li Liang asked Bird, "It's not good to let me play the third position in the first half, why did it change again? Don't you change the formation? Is there no continuity in changing the formation?"

Bird spread his hands, "I just asked to suspend the replacement, but you won't let it go."

"My head coach or your head coach? Besides, I'm not making a foul free throw, and I'm giving you a chance to substitute?"

"If you talk about it, I will replace you."

"You can do it, you can get there!"

The two had some arguments, but no one responded.
To be continued...