On the evening of January 4, 2000, Bankers Life Arena, Indianapolis, Indiana.

On this day, the Pacers were at home to meet the challenge of the Nets.

After two months of the schedule, the Pacers showed extraordinary competitiveness and still won against many strong teams in the league. The current record is 20 wins and 9 losses, which is comparable to the Nets.

Before the game started, many people were optimistic about the Pacers defeating the Nets, because during this period, the Nets suffered some injuries, and Armstrong and Cage had not recovered. Fortunately, their injuries were not serious and they only needed a few days to recover.

For the Nets, although Armstrong and Cage are important, as long as Chi Liang stays healthy, the Nets are the new and powerful teams in the league and can still maintain strong strength.

Now Chi Liang has become a representative of technical flow. His skillful footsteps under the basket, accurate mid- and long-distance shooting, solid positioning skills, excellent assisting ability, and unpreventable assisting ability are his best labels.

Chi Liang's playing style is undoubtedly quite difficult to limit. He can attack and defend hard, and has almost no flaws. Therefore, even though other teams have thought of many ways, it is difficult to curb Chi Liang's performance over the past period of time.

In this game, the Nets sent O'Neal Jr., Chi Liang, Newman, Kidders and Billups. Although the lineup is not complete, the Nets are still strong.

Pacers

Center: Rick Schmidtz

Power Forward: Dale Davis

Small Forward: Jaylen Ross

Scoring guard: Miller

Point Guard: Mark Jackson

"Guys, the tactics of this game are very simple. We need to speed up the pace and try to consume their energy. Do you understand?"

Before playing, Coach Rivers pointed to the tactical board and determined the basic tactics for this game against the age of the Pacers starting.

The game started on time, with O'Neal Jr. and Davis jumping.

Chi Liang was ready to run to the frontcourt at any time, while Billups stood behind and was ready to catch the ball. No matter how you look at it, O'Neal Jr.'s chance of winning the jump ball is significantly higher.

Unfortunately, O'Neal Jr. took off in the wrong time, which led to Davis snatching the opening ball away.

The Pacers' position attack, Jackson steadily used the basketball, Chi Liangluo to defend Davis from low posts. His defensive task was very easy tonight, and Dale Davis was just a blue-collar player.

Soon, Davis received the ball with his back and did not dare to play Chi Liang alone, but he was experienced. After the cross-running position of the outside line ended, he divided the ball and handed it to Jaylen Ross.

Compared with last season, Ross' performance has been significantly better. So far, he averaged 18.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and has a tendency to become the core of the Pacers.

After passing the ball, Davis immediately moved to the other side and wanted to pull Chi Liang to one side, but because of his weak attack, Chi Liang was not completely attracted, and at the same time focused part of his attention on Ross.

At the same time, Schmitz stepped forward and completed the pick-and-roll for Rose.

Ross broke through with the trend, and O'Neal had to switch defense. His speed could barely follow Ross, but Ross easily shook it away and stopped and jumped on the jump shot.

Chi Liang hurried forward to assist in defense, but Ross had completed the shooting action and easily hit the basket.

After the amplifier was converted, the Nets served quickly, and the Pacers were obviously prepared. They retreated quickly and did not give the Nets a chance to make a quick move.

Billups suppressed the rhythm and waited for his teammates to take the position. At this time, Chi Liang stood on the waist and took the initiative to reach out for the ball.

Chi Liang is the cornerstone of the Nets' team building, and he has unlimited firepower. Billups naturally passed the ball to him.

The moment he received the ball, Chi Liang moved a small step forward to the right, and was about to pass Davis with speed.

Unexpectedly, just as he was about to complete a breakthrough, Schmitz and Ross immediately left the defensive player to form an encirclement with Davis.

At this moment, the three of them were about to double-team Chi Liang!

Although he was extremely confident in himself, Chi Liang had no idea of ​​being too strong in the face of the double-team defense of the three players. Before they completed the double-team, he decisively passed it to the unguarded Newman.

With no defense, Newman raised his hand and shot, scoring two points for the Nets.

In the first two minutes, both sides were back and forth, mainly tempting. Unexpectedly, both teams felt very hot, so in the following time, Chi Liang reduced singles and started to focus on assists.

First, Chi Liang broke through and passed the ball, and after attracting Schmitz's defense, he assisted O'Neal Jr. to score a dunk.

In the next round, Chi Liang attracted double teams and distributed the ball to Kidres who cut in, who made a layup.

Soon, Chi Liang assisted Kidders again, this time Kidders ran outside the bottom corner three-point line and hit a hollow three-pointer.

Not long after, Kidders again used O'Neal's cover to appear in an open position. Chi Liang immediately passed the ball, and the former made a jump shot after receiving the ball.

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In this game, Kidders felt hot and hot, giving people the feeling of blowing Miller.

Before the game, no one would have thought that Kiddish would explode. Pacers coach Bird was also surprised, but Miller could not defend Kiddish.

However, Bird did not take any measures, thinking that Kiddish was in good condition and might soon reveal his true colors.

"Let's fulfill Kiddells today!" After Kiddells scored three consecutive goals, Chi Liang increased the strength to assist Kiddells. At the same time, under his instructions, O'Neal Jr. also kept covering Kiddells. As long as Kiddells showed up in shooting space, Chi Liang's pass would arrive.

The next time is the performance time between Chi Liang and Kidders. As the team organizer, Chi Liang has most of the rights to handle the ball.

Often when he gets the ball, he will immediately attract the Pacers' attention and then attract double-teams. This is also the strategy that Pacers head coach Bird set before the game, focusing on limiting Chi Liang's performance.

Since the season has been underway, Chi Liang has long become the focus of research for other teams in the league, but after the research, they all felt a headache, which is related to Chi Liang's characteristics.

Chi Liang's characteristics are very obvious, that is, they are all-around, accurate shooting, strong organization, sharp low-level footwork, excellent defense, and are very good at using their physical advantages to crush their opponents. This kind of all-around player is extremely difficult to defend, but Chi Liang's characteristics are almost all top-level, and such players without defects are almost unable to defend.

To defend Chi Liang, it is almost impossible to complete a single player, so before the opening, the Pacers focused their main energy on Chi Liang and wanted to limit his performance.

In Bird's view, as long as Chi Liang's performance is restricted, the Nets' threat will undoubtedly drop to a higher level.

Unfortunately, what he didn't expect was that the Nets felt excellent, especially Kidds, who also had an explosion.

Kidders did not disappoint Chi Liang's trust. He felt hot and had a high shooting percentage. He scored 17 points in the first quarter before being substituted.

With 17 points in the first quarter, this gives people the feeling of being a core player.

There is no doubt that this is Kidders' highlight moment.

However, Chi Liang still performed the best in the Nets. He played the first quarter in a row. In this quarter, Chi Liang's assist efficiency was amazing. He assisted Kidders seven times in the first quarter. O'Neal and Newman both got two assists since childhood, and Billups, Mageti and Rucios Harris each got one assist.
Chapter completed!