On December 14th, the Pacers welcomed the Portland Trail Blazers, who had been defeated by themselves once, on their home court, and the Trail Blazers were also aggressive in this game, wanting to avenge the defeat of the Pacers in the last game. Moreover, in this game, the Pacers fought back-to-back, and Ye Xuan played for another 39 minutes in the game the day before, which also gave the Trail Blazers the opportunity to try attrition tactics again.

At the beginning of the game, the Pacers learned from the experience of the previous game and directly let Hibbert defend Aldridge, and Coach Frank did not continue to use West as the main power forward, but let Marcinmy serve as the starting power forward, so that Marcinmi would not suffer particularly when grabbing rebounds against Robin Lopez.

And the Trailblazers obviously summed up the lessons of the previous game, so at the beginning of this game, Batum was asked to defend Ye Xuan, which not only saved Lillard's physical strength, but also effectively curbed Ye Xuan's play, thereby further consuming Ye Xuan's physical strength.

It's a pity that although they planned very well, they went out of the basket in actual combat, not because their tactics were not played, but because they were too inefficient on the offensive end. When the game was played for 4 minutes in the first quarter, although the Pacers only scored 8 points for a variety of reasons, the Trail Blazers were even more miserable, because they never scored a point except for a throw made by Lillard after the opening, and Robin Lopez also won two free throws in the middle, which was thought to be able to break the team's scoring drought, but the basket was like a lid, no matter how he shot, the two free throw opportunities were finally ironed.

Because the shooting rate of both teams is not particularly high, the atmosphere on the scene is not very good, but this is good news for the Pacers, because their game is a back-to-back game, after the last game finally defeated the Raptors, these players of the Pacers have not fully recovered, so in the case that the shooting rate is not very high, the Pacers just justifiably suppressed the rhythm of the game, so that not only the number of rounds in the game has become less, And the kind of fast attack and retreat that consume physical strength is gone, which makes Ye Xuan also save a lot of physical strength.

However, the feeling is not good after all, after all, the first quarter of the game is almost 9 minutes, the two teams began to gradually pick up, the first 9 minutes in the two teams combined only 22 points, and in the next three minutes, the two teams scored 22 points, at the end of the first quarter of the game, the Pacers relied on the opponent to find their hand faster than the opponent, temporarily leading the opponent by 10 points at 27:17.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Pacers changed their lineup, allowing West and Scola to partner on the inside. Then create opportunities for C.J. Watson, Smith and Ronnie Starkey to attack with the ball, because Scola and West both have the ability to open up space, so the five players on the Pacers' side are floating on the outside, which has caused some trouble to the opponent's inflexible bench inside, and the Pacers also used this opportunity to stretch the difference between the two teams to 14 points in one fell swoop, if it weren't for the opponent's C.J. McCollum hit a three-pointer and a mid-range shot at the critical moment, the Pacers may have completely pulled the score away.

But even so, the Trail Blazers had to call a timeout and then bring Lillard on an early roll, hoping that he would bring the bench to make up for the disadvantage. It's a pity that I don't know if Lillard was beaten out of the psychological shadow by Ye Xuan or today's state is too bad, after Lillard was on the court, not only was he not able to help the Trail Blazers stabilize his position, but he also missed shots in a row, and after coming up, he shot 1 of 5, which directly wasted a lot of opportunities for the Trail Blazers.

The game went on like this, Ye Xuan was also happy to rest off the field, after all, if the opponent did not narrow the point difference in the face of his team's substitutes, then he would not have to play, he had worked so hard in the front of so many games, if this game could be won by lying down, Ye Xuan was also very happy. However, Terry Stouts obviously won't just sit still, immediately called a timeout, and then replaced Aldridge and Wesley Matthews, who had been resting for a while.

Coach Frank saw that the opponent applied for a timeout again, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he directly replaced several main players except Ye Xuan, and then the court became Hibbert and West against Aldridge and Chris Carman, Starkey, Solomon Smith against Lillard, Wesley Matthews and McCollum.

Ye Xuan basically watched the whole game in the second quarter like this, and only came out to play for three minutes when there were three minutes left in the second quarter of the game, because in this game, Hibbert, who had been silent for several games, suddenly became powerful, not only defending Aldridge to only score 8 points in the two quarters of the game, but also successfully hitting the back many times on the offensive end.

At the end of the first two quarters, the Pacers still maintained a 15-point lead into the second half, Ye Xuan played a total of 15 minutes in the entire first half, and it didn't seem that the time was particularly short, but Ye Xuan only needed to play 3 minutes in the second quarter under the premise of playing in the first quarter, which was also unexpected by the opponent. And in this way, the Trailblazers' tactics of dragging Ye Xuan down failed again, and in the third quarter of the game, the Pacers made persistent efforts and directly took away the opponent with a wave of 13:4 small **.

After Ye Xuan played 4 minutes in the third quarter of the game, he also directly hung up the exemption card and clocked out of work. Because at this time, the Trail Blazers have replaced all the main players, and they are obviously not ready to struggle. In fact, even if they want to struggle, in terms of their shooting percentage today, there is really no chance, their shooting rate today fell below 30%, and it was not until later after entering garbage time that the shooting rate rebounded slightly, but the whole game was still only 35%.