Chapter 275: Can You Still Win Continuously?
After losing to the Bulls, the Pacers' 2014 season was over, but that didn't mean they couldn't sit idle, as they immediately faced the Heat on the first day of their 15-year history.
In fact, you don't have to play this game at all to know that the Pacers have a better chance of winning, because on the Heat side, Bosh has announced that the basic season will be reimbursed due to injury, even if he can come back this season, it will have to wait until the end of March or even April, and it is good to die, the soul of the Heat Wade in the last game against the Raptors, because of a change of direction caused by the recurrence of old injuries, although it is not a reimbursement, but because of this, it needs to miss two weeks of games, In other words, the Heat basically have no stars who can stand up and support the scene in this game.
At the beginning of the game, Hibbert was very relaxed in the face of a rookie center just signed by the Heat, because he had also read the information of this center, and in the two seasons that he was signed by the Kings, there was basically no chance to play, and then he was eliminated by the league, and as a last resort, this center was forced to go to China's CBA to play for a while.
Although he knows that the boss of his current team is also a Chinese, he also knows that the level of the basketball league in China is still relatively low, and Smith can score fifty or sixty points in that league. So in the bottom of my heart, Hibbert didn't care too much about the opponent in front of him, but after the next few rounds, Hibbert's side was beaten a little disgraced by the opponent.
Because this opponent is Hassan Whiteside, who has risen to prominence later, although this game is his first start, but his performance has been very good, grabbing offensive rebounds on Hibbert's head in a row, and rewarding Hibbert with a big hat on the defensive end, which made Hibbert a little unable to raise his head. He was also the key to the Heat's ability to lead the Pacers by three points at the end of the first quarter without Bosh and Wade.
It's really not because the Pacers underbeat the enemy, because this opponent is really like suddenly coming out of the ground, there has been no news before, and the first few games after being brought down by the Heat were also a substitute, and they didn't show much difference, but today they grabbed 7 rebounds in the first quarter of the game, of which 3 were frontcourt rebounds, helping Lore Deng score several secondary offenses, so the Heat was able to lead the Pacers.
However, at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Pacers could see the characteristics of the opponent, so they directly replaced Hibbert. replaced C.J. Watson, so that Ye Xuan directly mentioned the position of small forward, although he still controlled the ball, but the opponent on the opposite side suddenly changed from Chalmers to Lore Deng, and the inside, the Pacers chose to completely empty, after all, it is obviously not realistic for you to want West to defend the seven-foot tall man, but fortunately, Coach Frank immediately found his weakness from his information, that is, the free throw shooting rate is a bit touching.
So there is no need to do any more tactical arrangements, the Pacers immediately used the legendary 'shark cutting tactic' against Hassan Whiteside, and it took less than 5 minutes to directly beat the Heat team into confusion, and the three-point advantage that was still leading has long been gone, and because of the opponent's sudden acceleration and the free throws that the white side can't score, it fell behind by 8 points in an instant.
At the end of the second quarter, the Pacers relied on a sudden change of tactics to directly beat the opponent 31-18, and the score directly changed from a three-point deficit to a ten-point lead in the first quarter. Needless to say, the rhythm after that was naturally the Heat's two giants, so they had to replace their right-hand man on the bench, Sean Williams and the like, to the court early, and when they changed to the bench lineup, they were beaten by the bench of the Pacers led by J,R. Smith.
Therefore, the main players of the Pacers did not exert much force in the third quarter of the game, and the opponent suddenly collapsed directly, and Ye Xuan only played 7 minutes in the third quarter of the game, and was directly replaced. At the end of the game, the Pacers defeated their opponent with a score of 105:91 on their home court, to be honest, for Ye Xuan, there will not be too much pressure in the next few consecutive games, after all, the opponents are not particularly powerful, and when he really can't do it, he can also use a bottle of small physical recovery potion to turn the tables, and it is not too simple to win in a row.
Therefore, Ye Xuan directly set his sights on the next strong team that is about to usher, and this team is also the team that has played the best this season, that is, the Warriors. But just when Ye Xuan shouted the slogan of the winning streak, he was knocked on the slap by a fish belly team in their minds.
This team is their next opponent in the Milwaukee Bucks, and since it is already January, Milwaukee's side can only be described as a snowy mountain, and it is snowy everywhere, giving people a feeling that it is very cold wherever they go. So after flying to Milwaukee on January 3, the Pacers players looked very uncomfortable, after all, the average temperature here is about 15 degrees lower than Indiana, which is really exaggerated.
And the players of the Pacers are still a little underestimated in this game, because the team they are facing is the bottom team of last season after all, and this bottom is really the bottom, because this team only got 15 wins last season, do you know what the concept is, that is to say, the Pacers won less than 40 games after introducing Ye Xuan last season, which is enough for this team to play for two seasons. So the Pacers players don't particularly care about this opponent in their hearts.
But this is how the team has always been fishy, and there were no large-scale reinforcements in the summer, nor did they sign any big-name stars, but in just one vacation, they suddenly went directly from the bottom of the league to the top eight positions in the East, yes, although the Pacers, including Ye Xuan, did not feel that the Bucks could pose any threat to themselves, but the seventh in the East, only 6 wins less than the third-ranked Pacers, is really here.