The Eagles don't just have problems, and in addition to their own slackness, they clearly haven't understood the fact that they have unwittingly become the public enemy of the league. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

That's right, defending a champion is about being the enemy of the world, and if you won the championship last season and want to defend it this season, it means you're in everyone's way.

Who doesn't love to win, and who doesn't want to win championships?

The strength of the Eagles stifled the chances of other teams to win, so they became targets.

At least half of Doug Rivers' words are right, and luck aside, the attention and pressure the Hawks are under right now is unprecedented.

The strong teams want to beat them and build confidence, and the weak teams often put down their baggage and go to play the Eagles with a hard fight mentality.

It's good to say when you meet a strong team, anyway, the Eagles are also psychologically prepared to fight with their opponents, and they are afraid that they will encounter an unreasonable weak team, so they are willing to cut their bodies and dare to pull the emperor off the horse.

The underdogs get even more excited when they find out they have a chance to beat the strong.

In the second quarter, Pacers bench Jarrett Jack was the man who led the offensive wave.

Jack was born embarrassed, and as soon as he was a little nervous, his eyebrows would immediately droop and his entire face shape would form a standard "embarrassment".

Of course, Jack's glorious deeds do not lie in his embarrassment, but in another attribute he brings, known as the main PG killer in the team.

Why?

Because this guy often comes off the bench, replaces the team's main point guard in the final quarter, and also plays well, maybe he can lead the team to a comeback.

Last season in the Trail Blazers, he repeatedly replaced Steve Blake in key moments, and this season to the Pacers, TJ Ford, who has suffered a major injury, may not escape the fate of counterattack.

Jack faced Dragic's defense, first used a powerful break to the interior and made a layup.

Immediately after that, he fired a series of shots on the outside, hitting two three-pointers, and instantly opened the score of the two teams.

The Hawks failed to close the score at the start of the second quarter, but were further widened by the home team.

Woodson angrily took another 24-second timeout, and after a reprimand, he replaced all the main players except Pachulia in advance.

Ruan Erniu held the ball inside, faced Foster's defense, carried the opponent toughly, and scored with one hand.

On the offensive end, after receiving Ruan Erniu's return pass, he immediately pulled out from outside the three-point line and hit a 3-point shot.

Er Niu and Yu Sen both fired inside and outside, and finally temporarily suppressed the opponent's counterattack.

The game went on, and the Pacers went on on the offensive end.

Jack held the ball from the outside, and after taking advantage of Murphy's block, he held the ball and went into the box.

Erniu immediately stepped forward to block it, blocking all his offensive routes.

Jack was not greedy either, and immediately sent the ball to Granger on the outside, and the Pacers boss dropped a knife in his hand and hit a three-pointer.

On the offensive end of the Hawks, Bibby controlled the ball from the outside, and with the help of Erniu's blocking, he shot directly at the three-point line and missed!

Nguyen struggled to grab a frontcourt rebound between Murphy and Foster, and then sent the ball to the unguarded Salmons.

Salmons' three-point touch today is also hell!

"Bang!"

Missed three points in the open space!

Foster pulled and pulled to block Erniu's way, where Troy Murphy had already grabbed the rebound in the backcourt.

Jack received the pass and dribbled unhurriedly across the half-court.

The Pacers have a high forward on the inside, and they don't have a whirlwind of fast play in their heads.

The reason why Jack plays better than TJ Ford is also because his style of play is more compatible with the Pacers' lineup.

Danny Granger holds the ball in the frontcourt, meets Salmons' defense, is outside the three-point line, suddenly pulls out, hits!

Immediately after, the Hawks made a passing error in the frontcourt, and the Pacers' No. 13 rookie this year, and a member of the NCAA championship, the University of Kansas, Brandon Rush cut off Mike Bibby's pass.

Jack got the broken ball and passed it to Granger, who was running at the front, and Granger flew into the air, stretched out one arm, and glided for a dunk.

The Pacers pulled the score away again, and Woodson was already so angry that he didn't speak!

He sat in a chair and looked coldly at the players on the field, the spray had already been sprayed, and if the Hawks didn't cheer themselves up, no one could help them.

Ruan Erniu immediately gathered his teammates together and held a short meeting of about 5 seconds near his penalty area.

"Forget everything now, just remember two things: one, keep an eye on your defender, and two, give me the ball on the offensive end!"

Due to the briefness of the meeting, the referee did not stop the Eagles' violations.

Anderson sent the baseline ball and Bibby dribbled across half court.

Ruan Erniu didn't ask for the ball in the low post, the Pacers did a lot of homework today, Murphy went around, Foster was hard behind Ruan Erniu, and the more Erniu wanted to get them in the low post, the easier it was to be targeted.

In this case, Ruan Erniu came directly to the outside of the three-point line to receive the ball, and Murphy pounced.

Troy Murphy is 6'11" (2.11m) tall, and Ruan Erniu is more than 6'8" tall and 204cm.

The difference in height between the two is obvious, but their weight is about the same, both are about 243 pounds.

Ruan Erniu took a tentative step, forcing Murphy to take a step back.

It was this step, Ruan Erniu immediately retracted his foot, pulled up and jumped, made a three-point shot, and hit!

In the top three divisions, Erniu is now more and more confident, and his three-point shooting percentage has increased from 25% at the beginning of the season to about 42% now.

The Celestial Empire monster is so terrifying, something that some people can't do in a lifetime, he only took half a summer, plus the entire preseason plus ten regular season games.

Although Erniu's three-point shooting never left the top arc position, it was enough for him.

With this point of shortening the inside line, Erniu's role on the offensive end is greater.

Whether it is an empty cut or a breakthrough with the ball, Ruan Erniu has become more calm.

In fact, he's redefining the inside line for a new era.

The two sides continued to engage in strangulation in the second half of the second quarter.

The head coaches of both teams, Mike Woodson and Jim O'Brien, also redeployed their players in the subsequent games to keep the offensive firepower of both teams in check.

On the Pacers' side, Granger was naturally a well-deserved leader and first point of attack, and the slightly quiet Granger in the first quarter shot 4-of-5 in the second quarter, including 2-of-2 three-pointers and 1-of-1 free throws, scoring a team-high 11 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.

For the Hawks, Ruan Erniu became a mainstay in the second quarter, shooting 7 of 10 in a single quarter, including 2 of 3 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws, scoring 18 points and 8 rebounds in a single quarter.

It can be said that if it weren't for Ruan Erniu's strong play, maybe the Eagles would have knelt in advance in this game!

At the end of the first half, 55-61, the Hawks trailed the Pacers at home by six points.

Ruan Erniu scored a double-double of 26 points and 14 rebounds in the half, and he and Eva Sen were the key to the Hawks' ability to bite the home team.

The Hawks could never have imagined that this road trip would be so difficult, with the league's No. 1 team starting with a nine-game winning streak being pushed to such an extent by a team in the middle of the East with a 4-5 start.

It also fully confirms the saying that there is no weak team in the NBA, in this world, in the highest level of basketball competition, there is never a team and game that is guaranteed to win.