Chapter 244: The knight is really not easy to mess with
In fact, David West's injury has almost recovered around the 23rd, but on the one hand, Coach Frank feels that this trip to Texas will be more tiring, afraid that West will be injured again, and on the other hand, he also feels that his team should be more auspicious in the two games to Texas this time, so he simply did not take West to the away game, so West's comeback was also delayed until November 29.
After the game against the Spurs, the Pacers finally returned to their home court, and they welcomed their next opponent on the 29th, which is another Eastern Conference team, the Orlando Magic. The Magic have been on the road to rebuilding since losing the Beast, and now they have Vucevic as a very strong interior player, and they also selected Victor Oladipo, which they thought was very good, last year. Unfortunately, their results did not increase with the acquisition of these two strong players.
It's not because their roster is too scummy, it's because their guard line really doesn't have anyone who can speak, and their current main guard is Evan Fournier, who got it from the Diggers, and this year's rookie Elfred Payton. And Victor Oladipo, who was originally a shooting guard, was placed in the small forward position by them, and went to play against players like James, Anthony, and Durant, and I don't know if they deliberately wanted to hit Oladipo's self-confidence.
However, their power forward position is still very good, Tobias Harris averaged 15 points and 7 rebounds per game last season, which is already a very good blue-collar power forward.
It's a pity that this game is in the case of West's return, when the Pacers have lost two games in a row and urgently need a victory and are still inspiring, and when the opponent's guard line is not Ye Xuan's opponent at all, it is destined to become a show for the Pacers.
Sure enough, as soon as the Pacers opened, they used Ye Xuan's offense to constantly tear up the opponent's defense, and then helped West, who had just returned from injury, to shoot two mid-range shots in a row, which could be regarded as helping him find his senses, and then Ye Xuan staged many times in the outside offense to completely shake off the opponent and then step back to shoot a three-point shot, which not only hit the opponent's morale, but also made the home audience very enjoyable.
Although the opponent's interior strength is indeed quite good, it is a pity that Vucevic is still a little difficult under Hibbert's black and hard defense, plus Tobias Harris's hand does not seem to be particularly ideal today, and Victor Oladipo was a little dizzy by Solomon Hill's defense, so the Magic team quickly lost this game, and once it lost, it was impossible to find the north, and when the second quarter of the game was 9 minutes into the game, the Pacers had already led the opponent by as many as 15 points, At this time, Coach Frank also directly replaced Ye Xuan and other main forces, and Ye Xuan only played 17 minutes in the entire first half.
In the second half, the Pacers still sent their own main lineup, and the opponent was the same, still putting Oladipo and other main players on the court, but obviously, the opponent had been stunned, so the main players of the Pacers only took 4 minutes to expand the score gap between the two teams to more than 20 points, and then Coach Frank waved his hand and directly replaced all his main players. Although the opponent only replaced Vucevic and Tobias Harris on the inside, and let Oladipo continue to play on the court alone, the Pacers didn't care too much about their move to let the main team brush up the data.
At the end of the game, the Pacers' lead was partially eroded by their opponents, but they still led the Magic by 9 points. Ye Xuan's game can be said to be clocked out in two and a half quarters, so his statistics will inevitably drop a little, but in 21 minutes, Ye Xuan still sent 27 points and 8 assists, although it is not as bright as his average data per game, but it is not bad.
On the opponent's side, Oladipo relied on the crazy brushing data after the main players all went off the court, so at the end of the game, he actually scored the highest score of the game 31 points, plus 7 boards and 6 assists, just like a trumpet James all-round, but unfortunately everyone with a discerning eye knows that this data has no practical reference value, because 70% of these data are brushed out in garbage time.
After the game against the Magic, the Pacers are finally starting to get nervous as they head to Cleveland in back-to-back games to take on their biggest opponent on the road to defending their title this year, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers instantly took their strength to a new level after trading for Love and George Hill, and they also have James, the number one in the league today. In the new season, the Cavaliers only lost one game to the old Spurs in the initial run-in period, and lost one game to the Warriors team with the Splash Brothers who have gradually grown.
You must know that the Cavaliers' current record is a very exaggerated 12-3, except for the Spurs and Warriors, only the Hawks used their strong interior to bite the Cavaliers. And the three games they have lost, without exception, have all been away from home. So the Cavaliers' home win rate this season is still 100 percent.
Time came to 8:30 p.m. on November 30th, the referee blew the whistle of the game on time, Hibbert pressed Vallejo and slapped the ball into Ye Xuan's hands, but a familiar face immediately appeared in front of Ye Xuan, that is, his teammate George Hill last year, after getting George Hill, the Cavaliers' side became a lineup of double point guards, allowing Irving and Hill to play at the same time, and Irving became more of a scoring guard.
In the face of Hill, of course, Ye Xuan still couldn't be cowardly, and decisively chose to break through, although Hill's defense was good, and he was also familiar with Ye Xuan, but after Ye Xuan's improvement this holiday, there were basically few people who could defend one-on-one, so he easily passed Hill and kicked off the game with a small throw.