From the first quarter to the middle of the second quarter, the rhythm of the entire game is now obviously still in the hands of the 76ers. It seems that the 76ers are now talking about the rhythm of the 76ers.

They don’t have the chance to attack quickly, so they will press down on the rhythm and fight you with the position. Once they have the opportunity to counterattack, they will immediately start to counterattack. The initiative is in the hands of the 76ers.

At this time, Oladipo was a little deficient when controlling the field as a point guard, and he had no advantage in controlling the rhythm of the game.

Although Simmons is a rookie, he is obviously better than Oladipo in order to arrange these things. The same is true after McMillan's timeout. He has reminded the Pacers players of the team to suppress the rhythm, but in these two quarters, the Pacers did not make a so-called decent counterattack.

The Pacers' offense relies on their personal abilities to maintain the current score without a collapse like the first game, but the score is relying on such piecemeals and no way to overtake the score to win the game.

Oladipo was sent to the second position again, and in the first position they chose veteran Collison.

Collison is an excellent defender, not tall, and it is a bit difficult to finish inside, but when controlling the court, he still has something to put Westbrook on the bench in college.

He is smaller than Oladipo, but he has a clear advantage in moving across the 76ers who are so tall. Moreover, his passes have never been a "creative" legend at the first minute, which means that his passes are difficult to steal.

Stability, and now all the Pacers need is stability. Collison controlled the ball through the half-court and kept the rhythm, and continued to misplace the pick-and-roll on the offensive end. As a plain cross, he sent the basketball to the hands of Saidis Young who cut in.

The latter received the ball and completed a beautiful little hook. This goal was the first tactical offense that the Pacers made after the middle of the second quarter rather than the advantage of their personal ability.

The offensive end gave Collison to control the field, which also gave Lin Sen more energy to the defensive end. He did not play the ball in the inside because his hand was not smooth tonight. In the last two consecutive rounds of the first quarter, the opponent found an opportunity to fight back and could not run back.

Now he will grab the frontcourt board if he has the chance. No chance? He is definitely the fastest player to retreat.

After several consecutive rounds, the counterattacks that the 76ers wanted to see were not produced. They were very clever to see that the opponent's defense retreated quickly, and now they can only find opportunities in positional battles.

Embiid still wants to use the same trick again, but Lin Sen will not give him such an opportunity again. Now he is the defensive leader who has full skills and starts to command the defense of the entire game.

"Don't substitution, run around and don't give him three points!" When the opponent wanted to find an opportunity on this, Lin Sen decisively made the opponent's pick-and-roll style without the initial effect.

Embiid still had to face Lin Sen to play this round, and Lin Sen squeezed him through this pick-and-roll to a mid-range that he was not good at.

He is not able to easily complete a backward jump shot like Lin Sen and make mid-range shots. It can be said that there are only a few centers in the entire league who can play like this now, and Embiid is not one of them.

Finally, they had a chance to find Embiid's chance to switch positions, but when they were setters, they were stabbed from the inclined surface by Lin Sen.

The 76ers seemed to have forgotten how big Lin Sen's defense area was, and it was obvious that this pass was a little bit uncautious.

Lin Sen immediately took the pass and quickly launched his counterattack, which was very fast and very fast. Such a counterattack is exactly what the Pacers like most. Lin Sen can dribble in one-stop and find teammates. Compared with the 76ers pushing counterattack, when the Pacers have a chance to counterattack, their performance will definitely not be worse than the opponent.

Originally, the Pacers were about to fall behind by 15 points in the half quarter, but this substitution and control of rhythm gave the Pacers an immediate change in an instant.

This is also why Larry Bird is desperate to win a player like Collison. Collison has definitely not played much in the regular season.

The Pacers' backcourt was almost crowded with defenders. This season's regular starters Oladipo and Gordon, the forward guard also had two Bogdanovic and CJ Myers. In addition, he is a pure point guard, the Pacers have only 5 pure rotation guards. This season's average of 14.3 minutes of playing time has reached a very low number, with averaging 6.7 points and 2.4 assists per game, which is also a career low.

But when the team rhythm is controlled by the opponent and the entire team rhythm is following the opponent, there is no doubt that Collison is the best point guard on the court, no doubt.

After recovering the rhythm of both offense and defense, the best performance was played in several consecutive rounds. The Pacers finally caught the game to 8 points at the critical moment when the first half was about to end.

In the last round, Simmons began to be a little anxious, and wanted to get a double-digit advantage at this time. When he took the rebound, he began to advance with the Pacers' defense.

The Pacers had already figured out how to face his advancement and retreated in an orderly manner. As Lin Sen shouted, everyone faced their own defender. Simmons had to fight against the front defense of Sadies Yang to complete this layup.

After pushing the first shot, he didn't expect that there was a block behind him, the best defensive player in the league.

Lin Sen once again gave Simmons a super big hat at the last moment. After this big hat, the referee also took advantage of the situation to blew the whistle at the end of the first half!

"Young man, is your performance over?" Lin Sen gave Simmons his trash talk after completing this blocking. Not only Embiid, but now Simmons is also in Lin Sen's trash talk range.

"No end!" Simmons was not very convinced of this block. Lin Sen did not complete such a block face to face, but a sneak attack after he pushed away Sadies Young. On the front, Lin Sen was definitely not so easy to block himself.
Chapter completed!