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Less than five minutes after the second half of the game started, Vogel's face next to the court was so gloomy that it was about to freeze!

He deliberately endured it until the end of the half, and had a heated discussion with the entire coaching staff during the break, and came up with tactics that he thought he could handle. However, he was declared bankrupt before even playing half a quarter!

The Wizards' triangle offensive tactics are simply bottomless in Vogel's eyes. Every time he thinks he has figured out a strategy to deal with it, the Wizards will immediately come up with a new response!

At this time, Vogel felt like he was climbing a stairway with no end in sight. His footsteps never stopped, but when he looked up again and again, the end of the stairway was still deep into the clouds...

Unable to break the Wizards' triangle offensive tactics, the Pacers naturally have no way to recover the lagging score. After all, the Pacers are a team built on defense, and Vogel is also a coach who values ​​defense more than offense.

Everyone has their own strengths. If the Pacers and Wizards are forced to play against each other, there is a high probability that the Pacers will lose miserably!

The final result of the game was no surprise. The Wizards finally won the match point in the fourth game of the series and beat the Pacers 109-88, rewriting the series lead to 3-1 and still far away from advancing to the Eastern Conference finals. One win short.

李凯明全场出战了38分钟，投篮20中12，其中三分球3中2，罚球6中6，得到32分17篮板8助攻3盖帽1抢断的数据，虽然他上场时间不短，但是这38分钟和他自己单挑打38分钟的消耗完全不在一个量级上！

Sure enough, team basketball is great!

Leonard's performance today was average, but Paul George learned wisely. After being continuously intercepted by Leonard in the first game, he basically stopped taking shots against Leonard in subsequent games, which also reduced the latter's defensive effect. He played a lot. He played 36 minutes in this game and scored 11 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.

Thompson's performance improved tonight, hitting 4 three-pointers and scoring 16 points and 3 rebounds.

The next game will be back to the MCI Center again. Li Kaiming and his teammates hope to end the game at their home court, and then wait and wait for their opponents to qualify. After all, the Wizards have home court advantage throughout this year's playoffs. .

On May 5, Game 16 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals Wizards vs. Pacers officially started at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C.!

At the beginning of the game, the Pacers showed their hard work before being eliminated. Not to mention Hibbert crushing Blatche during the jump ball stage, the defensive intensity at the beginning was also very strong.

The Wizards haven't adapted to this kind of defensive intensity at first. It just so happens that tonight's referees are also very strict. Except for the very obvious fouls, they don't even call small moves to pull people.

第一节的比赛奇才队球员表现都不怎么好，连李凯明也是5投2中仅仅得到了6分，而球队也以21比27落后步行者6分。

So in the second quarter, Sanders did not follow the usual rotation and asked Li Kaiming to appear again with a lineup of five foreign players. The Pacers were on the verge of fishing. Naturally, Vogel did not dare to relax and started with death. The main players of both sides appeared on the court in the second quarter with perfect understanding.

The Wizards came up to serve, and after reaching the frontcourt, Hinrich took it from the outside. The Wizards' five-out lineup began to run a triangle offensive tactic again.

Vogel on the sidelines saw the Wizards' movement and immediately covered his head with a headache. He couldn't figure out how to limit this triangle offensive tactic for two days.

Because from the perspective of tactical restraint, if you want to prevent the triangle offense, you cannot adjust the defensive focus according to the opponent's tactical changes, because the changes in the triangle offense are almost endless. If the Wizards make a change of tactics every time, To cooperate, Vogel would have to call a timeout to arrange defense. Even 100 timeouts for the Pacers in that game would not be enough.

So the problem is that if you want to prevent the triangle offense, you must start from its foundation. As long as you fundamentally destroy the possibility of the triangle offense, you can destroy the Wizards' offensive system and drag the game into a melee between the two sides again. .

But after Vogel and his coaching staff studied for two days, they finally had to give up, because although they discovered the core of the triangle offense, there was no way to solve this problem!

This makes Vogel and the Pacers' coaching staff despair!

The core of the triangle offense is not the cooperation of two people, or some kind of tactical movement, but one person, and this person is Li Kaiming!

Although the core of the triangle offense is not Li Kaiming from the perspective of tactical movement on the scene, because it is the team point guard Hinrich who controls the ball, but after a closer look, we can find that the Wizards' triangle offense is based on Li Kaiming's strong one In terms of one-on-one and off-ball ability, this result is a death sentence for the Pacers!

If the core of the tactics is personnel coordination or tactical movement, then we can start from the defensive tactics and disrupt the basic coordination of the triangle offense, so as to destroy the Wizards' offense.

But when the core of the tactics is one person, how can we defend against this? Is it possible to prevent Li Kaiming from playing?

Although this is not impossible, Vogel and the Pacers still can't do it with off-the-disc moves to knock out the opposing players. Not only can they not do it, in a parallel world, they even do this. victim!

Since there is no way to limit it, the Pacers can only defend in their usual position.

The Wizards' ball went to Li Kaiming at the waist position. Facing David West's defense, the latter turned around from the baseline and rushed to the basket. At this time, a dark figure suddenly rushed out from the side.

Seeing Li Kaiming about to dunk, Lance Stephenson rushed over and hugged Li Kaiming down. The referee blew the whistle and Li Kaiming walked to the free throw line.

Standing on the free throw line, he took a deep breath and took the basketball from the referee's hand. Li Kaiming squatted slightly, then moved his wrist to shoot and hit the free throw!

And just when Li Kaiming and everyone in the audience thought this was just an ordinary two free throws, Stephenson, who was standing in the blocking position, stood up again, adding a funny and disgusting atmosphere to this free throw.

He took the initiative to rush over and grab the basketball. The referee thought that this guy was so active because he wanted to give the ball to him. Unexpectedly, Stephenson took the ball with both hands and rubbed it on his face and neck while spinning!

After seeing this, everyone at the scene was speechless!

Even the commentator at the MCI Center was confused by Stephenson's behavior!

"Well, Lance Stephenson chose to smear his sweat all over the basketball after getting the ball. Did he want to interfere with Li Kaiming's free throw..."

After wiping the sweat off his face with a basketball, Stephenson handed the ball to the referee at the bottom line. The referee actually stood there for a while, hesitating whether to take the ball.

After all, this is a basketball smeared with the bodily fluids of a big black man. It’s disgusting to think about it...

The professional ethics of the referee tonight were still very high. After just a moment of hesitation, he caught the ball. But looking at the expression on his face, it was clear that he was definitely not feeling comfortable. !

After the referee got the ball, he threw it directly to Li Kaiming. Of course, Li Kaiming took Stephenson's actions into consideration. After receiving the ball, although he continued to mentally build himself, he could still feel the basketball pass in his hand. Feeling sticky and watery...

Well, it just feels terrible!

At this time, Li Kaiming felt that what he was holding was not a basketball, but a piece of shit. He wanted to throw the ball out quickly. This time, he didn't even squat down to shoot the ball, but just moved his wrist and shot!

state! There was a sound of blacksmithing, and Lance Stephenson had a smile on his face!

Li Kaiming touched his nose. It's not that I didn't want to score this goal, it was mainly because that guy was so disgusting...

However this is just the beginning.

After several rounds of contests between the two sides, the Wizards gradually chased the score to 3 points left. The Wizards attacked and used their running position to allow Li Kaiming to cut in and get the ball.

And just when he was about to combine the ball for a layup, Lance Stephenson came out from halfway again, and then his whole body was directly attached to Li Kaiming's body!

Instead of simply sticking it to his body, he leaned his head against Li Kaiming's side. Li Kaiming could even feel the slippery feeling coming from the area where his arm came into contact with Stephenson's face... …

I grass!

Li Kaiming felt nauseated, and the ball protector pushed Stephenson away. Unexpectedly, this guy took advantage of the situation and dived, and even gave him an offensive foul!

God testifies, today’s game is definitely the most disgusting game in my career, bar none!

Li Kaiming threw the ball to the referee and walked to his own backcourt without looking back.

Originally, Li Kaiming was still rejoicing that he and Stephenson were not in the same position. This kind of situation only happened occasionally. Unexpectedly, this guy actually got a taste of the sweetness. When defending, he even took the initiative to switch to Li Kaiming. What was even more annoying was that, He actually blew into Li Kaiming's face!

Help! For the first time, Li Kaiming felt that a game was so long.

Fortunately, his adaptability is still very good, and he also started to take more decisive shots, leaving Stephenson with no time to help defend. Under his leadership, the Wizards gradually overtook the score...

At the end of the game, the Wizards defeated the Pacers 99-89 at home and sent their opponents home 4-1. Although they won the game, Li Kaiming was not happy at all because this was the most frustrating game for him. In one game, although he later adjusted, his adjustment method was still to avoid facing off against Stephenson.

When had he, Li Kaiming, ever been afraid of facing off against others? But today he was really scared...

This game will leave a lingering shadow on Li Kaiming for a long time to come...