After the end of this game, the Pacers will immediately welcome another strong opponent a day later, that is, the Houston Rockets, who are currently in excellent form and have rushed to the second place in the West, the Rockets have a very amazing result this year, although they only have two offensive points Harden and Howard, rather than at least three stable scoring points like the Warriors or Cavaliers, but this does not prevent them from achieving impressive results, which is partly due to the fact that It's because McHale does fit well with the current Rockets in terms of tactical setup, and on the other hand, it's also because their two cores are among the top three players in the league at their respective positions.

Although Howard was not selected as an All-Star this season, his average efficiency per game is even higher than before, if it weren't for the sudden emergence of Curry and Thompson in this year's All-Star, it is estimated that our Superman would still be the pistachio of All-Star Weekend. And although this year's Howard is not as strong as when he led the Magic team to the Finals, his role in the Rockets cannot be ignored, especially his deterrent power on the inside, which can make the Rockets' outside line open up the situation without worrying about the inside line being broken by the opponent.

Since it was already the sprint stage at the end of the season, Ye Xuan was not able to make an appointment with Howard Harden to play with him or anything. However, when adapting to the venue, several people still talked about the old days on the sidelines, Harden actually has a little lingering palpitation about Ye Xuan now, after all, Ye Xuan's poisonous milk skills shown in the All-Star Game also scared him, and even Harden himself is one of the victims of poisonous milk.

Don't mention anything else, but this game is an inevitable game for these two teams aiming to win the championship, because now the Clippers behind the Rockets and the Rockets have a very tight gap between the wins, and although the Thunder's record plummeted after Durant's season was reimbursed, there is a team in the West that has become the ultimate beneficiary, and after getting Anthony through a trade, the Pelicans have also begun to impact the playoffs. The Pelicans, who have always been hovering around the eighth and ninth in the West, quickly produced a good chemistry with the newly arrived firepower, and the Thunder recently suffered a wave of three consecutive defeats, and directly fell to the eighth place in the West, and it was the Pelicans who got strong reinforcements that rose up.

And the momentum of the Pelicans can be said to be very amazing, quite like the Lakers after they got Gasol in 08. Because after they traded, there was no run-in time, after losing to the old Spurs in the first game, they met the Bulls, Rockets, Thunder, and Clippers in succession, and the Pelicans won the game, and I don't know if Anthony's arrival liberated Brother Thick Eyebrows, Brother Thick Eyebrows' data in the last month has simply improved a step compared to before, if he follows his current data, Ye Xuan's MVP will be handed over.

After the start of the game, both teams were on fire, but perhaps because the return of pickled peppers in the last game injected new vitality into the Pacers, so the performance of the Pacers' role players in this game was far more eye-catching than the role players of the Rockets, among which Hibbert's performance was very good, not to mention that he successfully contained the opponent's interior core Howard on the inside, and he also relied on his defensive awareness many times on the inside to help Ye Xuan prevent Harden's shot. And Ye Xuan's side also performed very well when defending Harden, Harden wanted to open up the situation on the outside, and when he used his teammates' cover to enter the restricted area and wanted to rely on layups and the like to score points, he was interfered with by Hibbert on the inside, and as a result, the Pacers quickly took the lead when the two cores could not play the effect they wanted.

In the second quarter of the game, Pickled Pepper was replaced, after the baptism of the previous game, Pickled Pepper began to practice shooting hard in the past two days, in order to get his feel back as soon as possible, the hard work paid off, Pickled Pepper's efforts were also rewarded, after being replaced, Pickled Pepper's ball-holding offense became a nightmare for the Rockets, and because the basic skills of Pickled Pepper itself did not fall, so after gradually finding the state of the game, Pickled Pepper suddenly became the key Mr. of the Pacers team last season, With the bench, he beat the Rockets again, easily extending the lead from single digits to double digits.

In the second half, the Rockets also organized one or two waves of powerful counterattacks, but because they were fighting back-to-back and away again, when they played in the fourth quarter of the game, the Rockets, who had finally narrowed the gap to 7 points, began to suffer from a physical crisis, and the Pacers also discovered this problem, and immediately replaced the pickled pepper that had found the state of the game, and together with Ye Xuan, the two swords were combined, and the Rockets who could only barely support were directly defeated.

Seeing that there was no hope for the game, McHale also waved his hand and directly replaced all his main lineups, announcing that he had given up the game. Since then, the Pacers have completed the feat of beating the Rockets, the second in the West, after killing the Warriors who are the first in the West, and they can be called the gods of the West.

At the end of the game, the Pacers successfully defeated the Rockets who came to challenge 117:103 at the Conseco Arena, Ye Xuan played a total of 36 minutes in the whole game, easily cut down a double-double of 31 points and 11 assists, and the state of the substitute Pickled Pepper in this game was also very good, he came off the bench in the second quarter and played a total of 18 minutes, 12 shots, 17 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, the data has also improved compared with the previous game, the most important thing is that Pickles are gradually getting back into their form, which is great news for the Pacers.

In fact, this game is more of a lesson for the Rockets, the reason why they lost this game was that the opponent completely divided the two cores, so that Howard and Harden could not be connected in tandem, and then broke them one by one. After this game, McHale will probably sum up the lessons learned, otherwise, if he is targeted by the opponent in the playoffs, the Rockets will really have a hard time, and it will be too late to make changes.