Chapter 348: Victory over Thunder
Slowly dribbling the ball from the backcourt to the front court again, Ye Xuan can be regarded as thinking clearly at this time, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the matter will be talked about when the time comes. Letting go of the things in his heart, Ye Xuan put his energy back into the game, and after coming to the front court, Ye Xuan pulled up a three-point shot, Wei Shao was about to taunt Ye Xuan, but he didn't prevent Ye Xuan's sudden attack, and could only watch the basketball go straight into the basket.
Looking back, the Thunder team started to play with Durant as the main point of attack again, but at this time, it was obviously a little late to let Durant play, at this time the Pacers had regained the lead, and also occupied a certain advantage on the inside, plus now Durant and others began to gradually decline, so although the Thunder team changed their tactics, but still did not have a good way to take the Pacers, and after a few minutes in the third quarter, the Thunder team also began to panic a little, Because after changing their tactics, their score did not chase back, but continued to lose, at this time Wei Shao had another voice, and immediately stood up to grab the class and seize power, and started his singles journey again.
However, I have to say that the Thunder team is worthy of having two top ten players in the league now, although these two people don't seem to be a special match now, but when one is not working, the other can stand up in time is also part of their strength, Wei Shao's singles in the third quarter finally made some progress, at least it did not let the Pacers continue to pull the score away, with his own strength, Wei Shao has kept the score difference at about 5 points, in these 8 minutes, Wei Shao scored 17 points alone, The Pacers, on the other hand, only scored 24 points.
But soon, the Pacers replaced West and Shambaugh, - Smith and C.J. Watson, as soon as this lineup came out, it was obviously ready to speed up, which was originally good news for the Thunder, because they were very good at playing this kind of chaos, but now it is different, Kanter's chaos really highlights a chaos, - Smith and Ye Xuan's joint defense, it is also a little unbearable.
The result is that the Pacers successfully expanded the difference to 10 points in the last few minutes of the third quarter of the game, with a double-digit lead, Coach Frank is also very relieved to replace the main players to rest for a while, Ye Xuan actually played still not particularly well in the third quarter of the game, but at least there will be no mistakes, Ye Xuan, who played for 10 minutes, scored 7 points and 3 assists in the third quarter of the game, the data is average, However, the data of Solomon Hill and Hibbert in this quarter are very good, Hibbert has 9 points and 5 rebounds, and his data has successfully brushed to a double-double, and Solomon Hill is also enlightened, scoring 9 points in 5 shots, and 3 assists and 3 rebounds, like an all-round James.
When the fourth quarter of the game began, Kanter and Adams struggled out of the foul trap, and the Pacers began to play steadily again, and they used the 10-point advantage in their hands to start grinding with their opponents.
Because the Pacers suddenly slowed down, the offense of both teams basically turned into a positional battle, although the Pacers' positional battle ability is actually not too strong, but when they defend the position, they are still very powerful, so it is still very easy to keep this 10-point lead. Gradually, the Thunder team was also ground up a bit of a mentality explosion, first Wei Shao blindly forced a few, then the schoolbag Du blindly forced a few, and then Vitesse also ran out and blindly forced to shoot two, seeing that the time was slowly dragged by the Pacers little by little, and the point difference was still maintained at about 10 points, Brooks simply chose to surrender directly.
Originally, the first game of the back-to-back battle at this time, tomorrow they will go directly to Houston to challenge the Rockets and compete for the second position in the West, and the Thunder team is now a little physically exhausted, if they continue to fight with the Pacers like this, not to mention that this game is already behind, it will be difficult to turn the tables, even in the case of the balance of power, Brooks is not willing to spend all his energy on this game, after all, the Western Civil War is what they need to pay attention to the most, Pacers? When they can meet us in the finals, they'll be thinking about it.
In this way, with about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Thunder side directly chose to give up the game, and the Pacers finally won two consecutive games in this difficult schedule, and in the next game, they need to face their direct opponent in the playoffs, the Cavaliers.
At the end of the game, the Pacers defeated the Thunder, who ranked third in the West, 102-94 on the road, not only solidifying their record in the second place in the East, but also quietly increasing their winning streak to 12 games, and this season only in January The Hawks' 15-game winning streak is higher than the Pacers, although the Warriors have the best record, but their winning streak this season is only 12 wins, and it was ended by the Pacers.
In fact, Ye Xuan also played very hard in this game, playing for 37 minutes, which is still the playing time when he did not continue to play in the last four minutes, but Ye Xuan's data in this game is relatively average, only 31 points and 11 assists, only 1 steal, and 3 mistakes, mainly because he did not have time to play the ball after being caught by the opponent, of course, one was caused by being distracted and cut off by Wei Shao.
In this game, Durant scored 20+ in the first quarter of the game, and finally scored 40 points in the whole game, which is very surprising, and Wei Shao has been shutting down, so the data is quite good, 33 points, 12 assists plus 10 rebounds, triple-double data. But the most surprising thing is that Hibbert, who was named the best in the game in this game, yes, Hibbert beat Ye Xuan to become the best in the game, because he actually got 31 points, 19 rebounds and 5 assists today, which is an epic performance.