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One step forward to be the first in history, one step back is still a successful season.

But with the current situation, if it doesn't happen, it is likely to have an impact on the team's morale.

Even Ruan Erniu hasn't poured cold water on his teammates much recently.

Because the young but mature enough Eagles leaders know very well that the Eagles have been set up.

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With the Hawks out of the way, it's natural to talk about their opponents, the Pacers.

The current Pacers are a team struggling to get to the bottom of life and death.

Why?

First, let's take a look at the Pacers' record: 34-44, they sit in ninth place in the East.

This record is placed in the highly competitive West, which has long been eliminated, but in the East they still retain the last chance of advancing to the playoffs.

Because the Pistons currently have a 36-42 record, which happens to be 8th in the East.

With the remaining four games remaining, no one can guarantee that a miracle will not happen, and the most important thing is that one of the last four regular season games between these two teams will be a direct battle between the two sides.

In the first three meetings between the two teams in the regular season, the Pacers and Pistons played 1:2, but the difference between the two teams in each game was not large.

So theoretically, if the Pacers can beat the Pistons by more than five points in the last meeting, and win at least one more than the Pistons in the other three remaining regular season games, they may be able to take out the Pistons by a small score and successfully advance to the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Of course, all this is just theory.

To achieve this goal, the Pacers not only have to beat strong teams such as the Hawks and Pistons, but also the Pistons themselves make mistakes, which is not a task that can be accomplished by hard work alone.

Despite this, the walkers, who have only a glimmer of life, certainly have no intention of giving up hope.

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In addition to the battle for the top spot at the last moment, the relegation battle is the most intense.

There is no relegation or relegation in the NBA, so the competition for playoff spots is, to a certain extent, equivalent to the NBA's relegation battle.

The Hawks were a little careless, failing to pick up a solid win in Milwaukee, only to have to return home to the challenge of a team struggling for a playoff spot, which instantly made it several times more difficult to break 72 wins.

Atlantans make their own mistakes, and they have to bear them, and there is no way back for either side, so it is a regular season game that both teams cannot afford to lose.

Speaking ahead of the game, Woodson said: "I'm not going to put any pressure on my players, they're coming up with a great season and I'm confident they're doing their job well. ”

Pacers head coach Jim O'Brien said: "We still don't want to give up, we don't want to give up the game or qualify for the playoffs.

The Hawks do have a chance of breaking 72 wins, but I hope the Pacers can be one of the few teams to beat them. ”

Okay, no one wants to be a background board, everyone wants to be famous in history.

Jim O'Mllane's words are to be looked at in two layers:

1. The Pacers will win a crucial game in Atlanta, and the Pacers don't want to be another team swept by the Hawks this season and become a backdrop to history.

Second, if the Pacers can beat the Hawks, they would still be willing to see the Hawks take out the Heat and Grizzlies in a row, so that the Pacers can go down in basketball history with the feat of the Hawks they took out this season.

Congratulations, you got it right! The Heat and Grizzlies think the same way!

Only the Bucks, who just beat the Hawks, smiled and said that the Milwaukees, who have missed the playoffs this season, said that the rest of the league is rubbish, because they are the only team that has beaten the Hawks without a record of more than 50% this season.

Well, you know, the Atlanta Hawks have brought much more to the league this season than just a 72-win run.

Focus on three-pointers, focus on defense, focus on fast-paced transition offense, and Ruan Erniu's unique rebounding ability in history.

These will be the elements and opportunities to change the history and pattern of the alliance, and all of this is quietly changing the entire alliance.

In the past, the basketball concept of the center fighting the inside line and standing on the pile is changing drastically, and the popularity of Ruan Erniu and the Hawks is a good proof of this.

The traditional inner line is being disintegrated and even died, while a mobile inner line like Ruan Erniu is becoming more and more popular and gradually becoming the mainstream and trend.

Of course, if a center forward has the strength of O'Neal at the peak, then naturally everything is another story.

However, can the next "big diesel engine" really be cultivated in a rice-style basketball atmosphere that is increasingly pursuing the rhythm of offense and defense?

Everything is still in doubt!

The league is looking forward to the next traditional center savior, but it just doesn't know when that savior will come along or never will?

Ruan Erniu couldn't answer this question, and he didn't want to answer these questions that were not within his scope of work in a battle of focus.

After the warm-up, the Celestial finally said to the local media in Atlanta: "We're going to win two consecutive home games, win against the Pacers and the Heat, and now we only have one goal, nothing else matters." ”

The Eagles fielded their usual starting lineup for this game:

C Ruan Er Niu

PF Josh Smith

S.F. John Salmons

SG Joe Johnson

PG Mike Bibby

There are no gimmicks to speak of, but they are consistently frightening, and apart from the games where Josh and Bibby missed due to injury, it was standard for the Eagles for most of the game.

Erniu, Embarrassment, and Salmon seem to be going to play all of the regular season in the 08-09 season.

The Hawks submitted their starting list half an hour early, although until the last minute, the Hawks still had a chance to modify their starters, but their strong strength determined that they would never do this, the league's No. 1 Hawks are so domineering, they are fearless.

Since the Philips Center is the home of the Hawks, their starting list will be read out after the Pacers, and when the live DJ reads out the Pacers' starting list in a flat tone 15 minutes before the start of the game, it was a little surprising to Woodson and other Hawks coaching staff:

C Troy Murphy

PF Roy Hibbert

SF Danny Granger

SG Brandon Rush

PG TJ Ford

Dare to go to the Hawks on a double high? The Pacers are very fat!

Atlanta has proven in countless games that height is not the only element of basketball, with mobility and super offensive and defensive transitions, the Hawks have beaten their opponents again and again with a swift wind, and the Pacers are so blind, do they want to be the ghost of the Hawks again?

Wrong!

Jim O'Brien also has no way, Dunleavy Jr. is out for the season due to injury, Rasu Nesterovic is also injured, even if Roy Hibbert doesn't play double-high, the Pacers will at most put Jeff Foster, a tough guy with strong defense and weak offense, on the court.

Besides, the Pacers in these two seasons are also used to playing double-high, and no matter how you look at their interior line, they are all in the traditional sense of the twin-tower configuration.

But don't forget that Troy Murphy, who is known as the center, has the ability to shoot straight beyond the three-point line.