"What should I do? What exactly should I do? In the pause after the end of the first quarter, Larry Brown held a tactical board full of various lines in his hand, but Larry Brown didn't know how to arrange tactics to his players at the moment, and didn't know what defensive strategy to use to arrange the defense against Meng Xu.

Larry Brown's tight defense of Meng Xu caused Meng Xu to give up the ball and play without the ball in the difficult situation of attacking with the ball, which was originally a very good thing, because not only Larry Brown, all those who have studied the Pacers know that the Pacers' tactical system is built with Meng Xu as the core, so as long as Meng Xu gives up holding the ball, then the Pacers' tactical system of blocking and breaking points with Meng Xu as the core will be impossible to use, but when Meng Xu gave up the ball and changed to play without the ball, Larry Brown found out, It turned out that Meng Xu, who switched to playing without the ball and put all his energy on scoring, how terrible it was.

"Larry, this guy can't have such a good feel all the time. Seeing Larry Brown, who became a little hesitant because of Meng Xu's sudden outburst in the first quarter of the game, Herb Brown, as an assistant coach, couldn't think of any good coping strategies except for persuading Larry Brown and looking forward to Meng Xu's decline in the following games.

Originally, before the game, the Larry Brown brothers thought that after restricting Meng Xu with the tactics of pressing and packing, they would disrupt the tactical arrangement of the Pacers, but now it seems that Meng Xu, who gave up the ball, is more threatening on the offensive end, and Meng Xu's extremely strange no-ball movement, and extremely fast shooting speed and high hitting rate also make the Pistons' defense of Meng Xu useless.

So in this case, Larry Brown was also forced to a dead end by Meng Xu, should you change your defensive strategy against Meng Xu? If it doesn't change, with the difference between the two sides has reached 11 points so far, if Meng Xu's feel in the second quarter of the game still won't decline, then half the game will not be played, and the Pistons can only disarm and surrender, and if it changes, won't it go back to the old way of the last game?

"Let Ben pull it out and continue to wrap him up." It seems that after a struggle in his heart, Larry Brown finally made up his mind, not only not to relax his defense against Meng Xu, but also to strengthen his bag, two people can't do it, then three people.

"Richard, you lead the defense, Ron, wrap it up, Ben, get ready near the free throw line, as long as he catches the ball, wrap it, you have to strangle him." Hamilton is the only player on the Pistons team who can keep up with Meng Xu and never let him throw more than two positions, as for Ron Artest, who was pinned on by Larry Brown before the series, after Meng Xu switched to playing without the ball, he was thrown out of Meng Xu at every turn.

After Larry Brown finished arranging, Herb Brown on the side frowned slightly, and continued to strengthen the clamping of Meng Xu, then the Pistons' holes on the defensive end will inevitably further increase, the Pacers still have a Jermaine O'Neal, Ben Wallace was very difficult to defend Jermaine O'Neal, and now he has to distract himself and prepare to wrap Meng Xu at any time, it is conceivable that after the game restarts, Jermaine O'Neal's point is bound to open.

After the start of the second quarter of the game, neither the Pacers nor the Pistons changed to the rotation lineup, but continued to send out an all-main lineup, one wanted to beat the opponent to death, and the other was obviously unwilling to lose the game like this, and wanted to use the main lineup to fight back.

When the Pistons began to trap Meng Xu with three people, Meng Xu's number of shots plummeted, compared to the first quarter of the game 12 shots in a single quarter, Meng Xu only shot 4 times in the entire second quarter, after all, after the Pistons used an almost crazy wrapping strategy against Meng Xu, the rest of the Pacers' players will inevitably be leaked out, so Meng Xu has no need to force a shot under the encirclement and interception of three people.

Perhaps because of the number of shots in the first quarter of the game, and the fact that he has not found his touch, Jermaine O'Neal, who got a lot of opportunities in the second quarter of the game, is obviously not very good at shooting accuracy today, and in the first game of the series, he made a total of 14 shots near the free throw line, hitting 8 of them, and Jermaine O'Neal, who has a shooting rate of nearly 60%, only has a shooting percentage of just over 40% today.

"I didn't hit again, Jermaine felt really bad today." In the central box of the Bankers' Living Arena, Marvin Simon, one of the Pacers' owners, took a hard puff on his cigar after seeing Jermaine O'Neal miss another shot. The Simon brothers are undoubtedly the most glamorous owners in the entire league now, and what could be more rewarding than the once-obscure Pacers, who are about to establish their own dynasty in their hands, from a small club to a giant? So since the start of the playoffs, no matter how busy they are, the Simon brothers will take time out to watch the Pacers play.

"The Pistons' defense is tenacious. Larry Bird saw the reason at a glance, but Larry Bird did not explain the mystery to Marvin Simon, for an industry insider, everyone knows the aura of its own system, but it is still difficult to convince an amateur of this kind of something that sounds a little mysterious.

"Malven, you're in good shape, it's time to smoke less cigars." Due to the perennial hard work and chaotic schedule, the current physical condition of the 75-year-old Marvin Simon is not very optimistic, so Larry Bird, who is sitting next to Malvin Simon, advised him to smoke less cigars and divert the topic by the way. As for Larry Bird, who has always been a cigar lover, he was sent to the hospital just after the finals last year due to overwork, and almost burped, and now he is very reluctant to quit cigars.

"Larry, when are you coming back? We're all waiting for you to come back. After extinguishing the cigar in his hand in the ashtray, Malvin Simon turned his head and looked at Larry Bird very seriously, although after Larry Bird was hospitalized, Simon Brothers arranged for personnel to take over all of Larry Bird's duties, and judging from the current situation of the Pacers, they are doing a good job, but the Simon brothers still hope that Larry Bird can return to the management of the Pacers.

'I'm not fully recovered, the team is working very well at the moment, and even if I come back, I won't do better than them.' Now Larry Bird has lost all his life goals, a perfect player career, a perfect coaching career, the only legend in NBA history that combines the best player, the best head coach, and the best administrator, and led the team to win championships in the player coaching era, and also fulfilled his childhood vow, bringing the O'Brien Cup to his hometown, as for the obsession with the Celtics, it also swept the Celtics in the playoffs with the Pacers, With Auerbach apologizing to himself on behalf of the bastards and vanishing, Larry Bird is now all about how to enjoy life.

"Let's not talk about that, let's continue watching the game." Seeing that Larry Bird didn't want to come back, Malvin Simon didn't say much.

The gambling defense in the second quarter of the game successfully inspired Larry Brown, so in the third quarter of the game, Larry Brown continued to use multi-person packs against Meng Xu to relax the defense of other players of the Pacers, but the Pacers obviously changed their style of play in the third quarter, and Jermaine O'Neal, who had been looking for opportunities in the high post in the first half, began to attack the basket frequently, so that Ben Wallace could no longer participate in the bag of Meng Xu.

Without Ben Wallace's bag, the Pistons' defensive efficiency against Meng Xu was greatly reduced, so the Pistons, who were a little caught off guard after the start of the third quarter, were given an 8-2 small climax by the Pacers in a very short period of time, and by the time Larry Brown, who reacted, called a timeout, the difference between the two sides was already more than 20 points.

In the end, when the full-time whistle blew, the Pacers won 106-89 again over the Pistons to take a 2-0 lead. After scoring 38 points in the last game, Meng Xu scored a game-high 42 points again after only three quarters today.