Li Yuan's words completely angered Tinsley. As a breakthrough expert, he decided to play Li Yuan alone in the next round, so he specially communicated with Reggie Miller and played a cross-running position with him, trying to make him misplaced by changing positions.

However, the transfer was successful, but the person standing in front of him was not Li Yuan, but Iguodala.

While Reggie Miller was crossing with him, Iguodala from the Raptors quietly posted on her back and completed the defense against Tinsley for Li Yuan, and Li Yuan stood in front of Artest.

Like O'Neal Jr., Artest is one of the two most core players of the Pacers. He can average 25 points per game on the field season, making him the most scoring guy in the Pacers.

Logically speaking, Li Yuan's defense is not better than defending Tinsley.

But the problem is that although Artest is difficult, the more important reason is that his body has nothing to do with his own skills. In addition to normal shooting, he only dribbles into the inside line. There is no big change in the moves. He can complete a layup or dunk if he can squeeze out his opponent. If he can't squeeze out, he will not be able to score... Well, he can average 25 points per game now, which shows how powerful his strength is.

But it has to be said that players like defense do not have high requirements for Li Yuan’s own defensive ability, but rather higher requirements for the Raptors’ inside players to make up for defense.

This is Mitchell's ultimate change of teams for the Raptors' outside defense. Morris's key task every night is to guard the opponent's outside ball-holding core. If the opponent wants to play Li Yuan in a misplaced position, Iguodala will take over Li Yuan's position, and Li Yuan will retreat... In short, everything related to defense is Li Yuan's last move.

Including, now he is facing Artest. If the opponent gives Artest the ball, Li Yuan only needs to step forward to block the ball and force him to break through into the inside, and just wait for Bosh and Heywood to make up for defense.

All his strength on the court, Mitchell hopes he spends on offense.

...

Tinsley did not choose to pass the ball. He was so angry that he was very angry with Li Yuan. It was naturally impossible to choose to pass the ball now. He must be the "director" of this ball. Otherwise, when Li Yuan stood in front of him later, his blood pressure would rise again.

Originally, he did not take Iguodala seriously. In his opinion, this was just a little newbie and there was nothing to be afraid of, but unexpectedly, this guy didn't want to shake at all. After his continuous fake moves, he successfully blocked his starting move. After several entanglements, he had to admit that the little newbie in front of him had very good defensive ability. The key is that this guy didn't want to shake, which made Tinsley's biggest killer move: the power of the dribble was greatly weakened.

In the end, in order not to waste this opportunity, Tinsley could only find O'Neal Jr. to pass the ball to the latter. Heywood is a very good blue-collar defensive player. He is very strong in both the top defense ability and the ability to protect the frame during running. However, when he met O'Neal, who is now slightly lower than O'Neal, he was really a little reluctant but lacked strength. He was hit by the latter in the inside line and found an opportunity. He easily turned his back and added a small hook to put the ball into the basket.

O'Neal Jr.'s offensive desire tonight is not very strong, and the Raptors' inside line really can't arouse any of his offensive desires.

Li Yuan returned to Tinsley with the ball again. Thinking about the misplaced player he just played with the ball but didn't catch this guy. This made Tinsley really angry and annoyed: "You can only rely on your teammates' soft balls. If you leave your teammates, you will be nothing?"

"It seems that you think my team has a strong ability to cooperate!" Li Yuan smiled and looked at Tinsley, who was angry and embarrassed, and once again waited for Chris Bosh's response, and chose to pass the ball without hesitation.

Tinsley's trash talk will not have any effect on him, because since he can easily get rid of Tinsley through the defense of running without the ball, there is no need to get involved with him through singles. It would be like banning his biggest weapon by himself, that would be too stupid.

Moreover, unlike the previous game tonight, there is Chris Bosh to help relieve his worries. Tonight's Raptors' offensive end, from the situation Li Yuan saw before the timeout, he probably had to carry the Raptors forward on the offensive end.

This is also the reason. If he usually competes with Tinsley's words and plays a few singles because someone can protect him, then it will definitely not work tonight. He will protect the entire Raptors tonight. If he is willful, he will probably have to enter garbage time early tonight.

He must show his most confident offensive method. There is no doubt that the A-level running ability without the ball and the ending ability at the basket are destined tonight. Only by constantly running can he get the most goalscoring opportunities, and only by entering the basket can he increase his goal probability!

Another thing... Tinsley's trash talk was too weak, it was not on the same level as him. He wasn't doing anything yet. Look at Tinsley's appearance, he was already very angry with him!

"Swish!"

Li Yuan hit the third consecutive ball, which completely churned the entire arena. With the help of this morale, the Raptors made a very imposing wave of offense and defense on the court. Although they failed to catch up to within 5 points by the end of the game, 29 to 23, the Raptors were still 6 points behind at the end of the first quarter.

But this difference is more about the difference that the Raptors had already fallen before Mitchell called the timeout in the first quarter. They also recovered the difference of 3 points after the timeout.

It can be seen that their performance after the first quarter was paused.

Li Yuan is the best performer among them. He made 4 of 8 shots in a single quarter, and had 4 free throws, scoring a total of 11 points. This is almost half of the Raptors' scores in the first quarter. From this we can also see what role his performance in the first quarter played in the Raptors' situation in this game.

When the game ended, the other Raptors' starting players took the initiative to slap Li Yuan with Li Yuan. The latter's performance in the first quarter surprised them. The teammates Li Yuan who were sitting on the bench below also had to take water and those who should take towels.

At this moment, Li Yuan became the center of the entire Raptors.
Chapter completed!