Chapter 231: Leading the Scoring List
At the end of the game, the Pacers finally won 115-99 against their opponent, considering that a week ago, the same opponent directly beat the Pacers for the whole game. After the game against the Wizards, the Pacers now improved their record to 4-3 and re-improved their ranking to the top four in the East.
And after the absence of pickled peppers and West, although the Pacers played a little hard, but they also unexpectedly developed Ye Xuan's amazing ability to lead the team, all 7 games, the Pacers lost three games were basically blown up by the opponent on the inside, and among the 4 games that were won, two games were against the bottom of the league, and one was Ye Xuan's big outburst and scored an astonishing 69 points, and the latest game was that Hibbert on the inside finally woke up, This also made Ye Xuan's burden much lighter.
However, I have to say that Ye Xuan's offensive efficiency is simply amazing, in 7 games, he played an average of only 33 minutes per game, and he got an average of 36 points per game, and Ye Xuan is not only outstanding in the scoring list, but also out of the top position in the assist list, because in 7 games, Ye Xuan's assists have doubled in 4 games, and when there is no double, Ye Xuan's assists are not particularly low, so Ye Xuan is now playing 7 games. actually averaged 10.1 assists per game, temporarily ranking first in the league's assists list, only behind Chris Paul.
In the next game, the Pacers finally got a break, and after the game against the Wizards on the 9th, they had a day off and waited on their home court for the Utah Jazz to visit, and then the next day, on the 13th, they needed to travel to Miami to challenge the Heat, who lost James. After that, they will have another back-to-back, No. 15, No. 16, for two consecutive days, they need to face the Denver Nuggets at home, and then go to the Bulls on the road.
Time flew by, and the clock was fast approaching the 11th, and the Pacers also welcomed their opponent of the day, the Jazz, on their home court. The Jazz team traded or pardoned all of their veterans last year, so they entered the rebuilding last season, they now have Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert on the inside, Gordon Hayward on the outside, and the internal and external duo can be regarded as very good, plus the assistance of Kanter, Hood and others, it stands to reason that the results of the new season will not be too bad, but unfortunately after last season's mess, the Jazz's role players don't know how, and they have become a little unable to play. The Jazz have now played six games and only won two, which can be said to be the bottom of the West.
In this game, the Pacers' side is full of momentum, on the one hand, they have just won two consecutive big victories, and their morale is high, on the other hand, Ye Xuan said that after winning today, he will invite everyone to rub another Chinese meal. This can hook out the gluttonous worms of this gang of gluttons, since Ye Xuan invited a guest to eat an authentic Chinese food, they can't forget this taste a little, so when they heard Ye Xuan say that they were treated, they were naturally gearing up, and they seemed a little impatient.
However, at the beginning of the game, it did not go as smoothly as they imagined, although Hibbert has gradually found his best defensive lineup, but the two fists are hard to beat the four hands, and after starting with Scola, Hibbert found himself not only to mark Gobert, but also to help Scola to make up for Derek Favors, under the impact of the opponent's two interior lines, the Pacers were in a backward situation at the beginning.
On the offensive end, although Ye Xuan is out of absolute positional advantage, and the opponent team still does not have an excellent point guard to organize and distribute the ball, so the Pacers can still barely bite the point difference. At the end of the first quarter of the game, although Ye Xuan was not particularly outstanding in terms of data, only scored 7 points and 3 assists, he indirectly helped his teammates open up the situation, sent indirect assists many times, or broke through the ball to create opportunities for teammates to open up, so in the first quarter of the game, the Pacers tightened the score with 24:26, and did not let the opponent's two major interior lines pull the difference apart.
And after coming off the bench, the Pacers suddenly had a voice, although the opponent has a former All-Star like Joe Johnson on the bench, and an offensive player like Kanter, but they are really a little weak defensively, not to mention that after Joe Johnson became the sixth man this season, he couldn't find his own offensive rhythm, so the average points per game plummeted, and Kanter himself was in the whirlpool of trades, because he was very eager to be qualified to start, It's a pity that there are always Gobert and Favors on their heads.
On the other hand, on the Pacers' side, Smith led the team, plus the chaos master C.J. Watson, with Masimmy and O'Neal Jr., in terms of offensive efficiency, there is naturally no need to brag. And the opponent was originally strong and weak in offense and defense, and the substitutes of the two teams became offensive chaos, at this time, C.J-Smith's experience in chaotic warfare was reflected in the value, one of the two was a sitting disciple during the old Nelson Cyclone Kombat period, and the other was the third scoring point next to the Nuggets gold double guns that year, and when it came to offense, they naturally had their own set.
So it didn't take long for the second quarter for the Pacers to overtake the score, and the Jazz had to replace their main small forward Hayward to deal with it. The Pacers also took the opportunity to replace Ye Xuan, although Ye Xuan, who played full in the first quarter of the game, only rested for less than 3 minutes, but because Ye Xuan did not make any shots in the first quarter of the game, his physical strength was not particularly serious.
At this time, with Ye Xuan leading the team, the Pacers' offense seemed more fluent, but on the Jazz side, the disadvantages of not having a good point guard were immediately revealed, first of all, the distribution of the ball, except for one Hayward, the other players in the Jazz team are basically ball-holding offensive types, Kanter, single Joe, Favors. It's all good at attacking with the ball, but when you don't have the ball, you become a master of watching the show.
And after Ye Xuan came on the court, a group of chaotic masters on the Pacers' side quickly transformed into fixed-point shooting shooters, which not only opened up a certain space for Ye Xuan, but also quickly shot after Ye Xuan broke through the ball, and suddenly the balance of victory tilted towards the Pacers.