Chapter 301: Suffering a losing streak
On the 24th, the game between the Pacers and the Heat started on time, Ye Xuan was still full of firepower as soon as he came up, facing the defense of his old rival Mario Chalmers, Ye Xuan scored 9 points and 2 assists in the first 3 minutes of the game, which directly forced the Heat to call a timeout, and the Pacers also relied on Ye Xuan's small outburst to directly take an 8-point lead.
Everything went as planned, with a smooth start and it looked like the Heat had lost their ability to play against most teams after Bosh announced that he was out of season. But just after the Pacers relaxed their vigilance a little, the Heat team suddenly began to erupt, first Wade began to exert strength on the offensive end, and scored points in two consecutive rounds, so Ye Xuan also had to switch defenses with Shambaught and defend Wade in person.
But then Lore Deng suddenly began to explode, in the face of Solomon Hill's defense, Deng actually won consecutive singles, and in the eighth minute of the first quarter of the game, the Heat successfully chased back the opening nearly 10-point disadvantage. Fortunately, the timing of the game at this time is still relatively friendly for the Pacers, because this is when the Heat start to rotate.
In order to protect Wade, whose injury has been unstable, Spoelstra directly replaced him, and was replaced with Wade, as well as Chalmers, who was very desperate on the defensive end today, causing some trouble to Ye Xuan, but at the same time also carrying two fouls. The Pacers also made a rotation here, first of all, they replaced Hibbert, who also fouled twice, Hibbert can be said to be completely blown up by Hassan Whiteside after the opening, not only was Hassan Whiteside fouled twice, but these two times were all 2+1, but fortunately, the service percentage of the white side was still so weak, and the two free throws were not able to shoot, so the Pacers can still draw with the opponent now.
At the end of the substitution between the two sides, the Heat served on the sideline, and Norris Cole, who was replaced, was obviously a little helpless in the face of Ye Xuan's defense, so he handed the ball to Lore Deng directly after half time, Deng did find the feeling when he was in the Bulls today, after receiving the ball, he took a tentative step to point Solomon Hill up, and then dribbled to the side, pulling it up was a three-point shot, the ball went straight into the basket, and the Heat officially overtook the score.
Fortunately, the Pacers quickly returned the opponent a three-point under the leadership of Ye Xuan, and after Ye Xuan broke through, he attracted the defense of the two and passed the ball out of the crowd.
In the first quarter, more than two minutes were played, and the opponent still relied on the excellent performance of Lore Deng and Hassan Whiteside to play back and forth with the main lineup of the Pacers when Wade was replaced to rest, but at this time the Pacers were ready to continue to adjust the lineup, first of all, Ye Xuan was replaced, not that Ye Xuan played badly or anything like that, but that Coach Frank was ready to replace Ye Xuan in advance in the second quarter of the game today. So when there was still a minute and a half left in the first quarter of the game, Ye Xuan was replaced, and along with Ye Xuan, Solomon Hill and David West were replaced.
The substitution on the Heat's side was much simpler, and the Ha team was replaced with Chris Anderson. The Pacers didn't expect that in the one and a half minutes that Ye Xuan was not present, the Heat team took advantage of the Pacers' lack of Ye Xuan and no direction, and played a wave of 7:0, directly rewriting the score to 33:26, leading the Pacers by 7 points at once.
As soon as the game opened in the second quarter, Coach Frank couldn't wait to replace Ye Xuan again, and the Heat team also made corresponding adjustments, replacing Lore Deng with Wade, who had been resting for a while. But what Ye Xuan didn't expect was that Hassan Whiteside still stayed on the field and was not replaced.
Ye Xuan was ready to rush into the inside line to create some trouble for the opponent at the beginning, but the first time he rushed in, he found that the opponent's aerial interception ability was really beyond imagination, and he almost gave Ye Xuan a hot pot, and when he rushed in for the second time, Ye Xuan also made a feint, thinking that he had shaken off the opponent, but he didn't expect the opponent's bullet speed to be amazing, and he directly jumped twice to cap Ye Xuan's shot, originally the Pacers' offense completely relied on Ye Xuan's point, and now Ye Xuan lost two consecutive attacks, Suddenly, the offense on the Pacers' side was paralyzed.
The Heat took advantage of this opportunity to stretch the score to 42:30 in one fell swoop, leading the Pacers by as many as 12 points. Wade also played very hard in this game, and it can be seen that Wade wants to win this game very much. Compared with the vigorous fighting spirit of the Heat team, the Pacers' will to fight is relatively low, even Ye Xuan, including Ye Xuan, does not have the kind of consciousness that wants to catch up, the game is obviously more than ten points behind, but they are still not inspired to fight any will.
Maybe it was last season's championship, and this season after losing the pickled peppers, so these players of the Pacers seem to be a little slack, and the result of this game speaks for itself, the Heat, with the excellent play of Wade and Lore Deng, successfully defeated the old opponent of last season's Eastern Conference Finals.
The Pacers didn't want to fight back until the third quarter when the opponent was leading by nearly 20 points, but it was too late, including Coach Frank and Ye Xuan, the whole team of the Pacers didn't expect that the opponent in this game would be reimbursed in Bosh, and Wade's injury had not stabilized to be able to burst out with such amazing combat effectiveness.
At the end of the game, Wade, who played 32 minutes, scored a game-high 32 points, and Hassan Whiteside's superhuman performance of 21 boards in 36 minutes of playing time was one of the key reasons why the Heat were able to beat the Pacers by 20 points in this game.
And Ye Xuan's performance in this game was not particularly good, he was not able to help his teammates adjust their mentality in time when the team was behind, resulting in the team being slowly pulled away by the opponent, 27 points and 6 assists, but there were 4 mistakes plus the performance of being covered by the opponent 2 times, which can be called Ye Xuan's worst performance this season.