Chapter Eighty-Nine: Another Victory
After a comfortable two-game winning streak at home, the Pacers had a day off before another day of training at Indiana. Early in the morning of the 16th, everyone came to the stadium early to gather and set off for Washington. After arriving in Washington, D.C., everyone did some field acclimatization in the afternoon, and then began to wait for the game to start.
At the beginning of the game, the Pacers showed their strength as the first in the East, Hibbert gave the ball to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan quickly started after taking the ball, and directly entered the opponent's penalty area to score the first point of the opening game when the opponent had not yet established a defensive position.
And Wall was not convinced, after serving in the backcourt, in the face of Ye Xuan's defense, he directly made 3 changes in a row to barely shake Ye Xuan away, and then directly made a step-back jumper and shot a difficult three-pointer. After the three-point shot, the fans in the Verizon Center Arena instantly burst into cheers.
But after two offenses back and forth, the two teams suddenly began to play iron continuously, as if there was a lid on the basket, and the score remained at 2:3 for more than three consecutive minutes of play, and the fans who watched it were drowsy.
Today's commentator Jeff Van Gundy couldn't help but complain, "Welcome everyone to watch today's iron competition, at present, our home team has played 7 irons in a row, and our away team has not shown weakness, playing 6 irons in a row to pay respect." ”
Fortunately, this situation did not last long, Ye Xuan stood up to break the deadlock, and after creating opportunities for his teammates to break through the continuous points, Ye Xuan also found that his teammates' hit rate today was really miserable, so he prepared to play a few singles by himself.
But Ye Xuan's three-point shot was also inaccurate today, and after shaking off Wall's step-back three-point iron, Ye Xuan decided to open the situation with a throw-up with a system bonus, and sure enough, he broke through the throw-in after blocking and scoring the ball. After that, Ye Xuan seemed to have suddenly broken through the opponent's defensive barrier, and then threw all three consecutive shots, and suddenly opened the score to 12:5.
At this point, the game went into a television timeout in the halfcourt, and after the timeout, the Wizards changed their style of play and switched to Gortat as the main attacker, with Beal and Wall on the side. After changing their strategy, the Wizards finally began to make gains. After a few more minutes, the score was 19:13.
Coach Frank saw that Ye Xuan was basically relying on Ye Xuan to score now, so he simply kept Ye Xuan on the field, and then replaced all the other main forces to rest. And the opponent also replaced all three except Wall and Nei Lei.
The Pacers served on the sideline, Ye Xuan handed the ball to Hill's organization, Hill took the ball and quickly called Scola to help block and dismantle, after the block was over, Hill took two steps inward, and then distributed the ball to Ye Xuan, who was ambushed on the side, after Ye Xuan received the ball, a false shake shook off the old Miller, and then directly killed the opponent's penalty area and caused a tired foul.
Although he didn't feel good, Ye Xuan still made this free throw without any interference, and after hitting both free throws, Ye Xuan had already scored 15 points in the first quarter, and his other teammates only scored 6 points in total.
At the end of the first quarter, Ye Xuan scored 20 points in a single quarter to help the Pacers lead the opponent by 11 points at 28:17. At the beginning of the second quarter, Ye Xuan was replaced to rest, and the two sides still didn't feel good, so they basically relied on the center on the inside to play the success rate, or hit the inside line to cause damage, and relied on free throws to score points.
The on-and-off game was really invigorating, and the fans at Verizon Center Arena couldn't stand it, and even when it was about whether the team could advance to the next round of the playoffs, many fans still chose to leave the stadium early.
Ye Xuan off the field is happy to see this scene, after all, if the game keeps stopping, keeps making free throws or something, the more time to rest for himself, and as long as he rests and plays, he can quickly establish a greater advantage for the team by relying on his own feel.
Finally, after the TV pause in the second quarter, Ye Xuan was replaced, and the score of the two sides is now 37:25, and the two teams combined for less than 20 points in the half-quarter game, no wonder the audience chose to leave the game. However, after Ye Xuan came on the court, he quickly made the game smooth.
First, he relied on the pick-and-roll to shake off the position and hit a mid-range shot, and then broke through to the inside and passed to Hibbert on the inside to help him dunk with both hands and score two more points, while the opponent could only rely on the breakthrough of Wall and Beal and Gortat's inside single to barely bite the score.
At the end of the second quarter, under the leadership of Ye Xuan, the Pacers had already led the opponent by 18 points, and now the score was temporarily fixed at 52:34. After returning to the locker room, Ye Xuan promised his teammates that "you let go of the vote in the second half, find your own feeling, and when you are all gone, I will stand up to help you." Rest assured that there is a brother in the guarantee that this game will definitely be won. ”
Looking at Ye Xuan's appearance, his teammates gave him the middle finger one after another, but Ye Xuan scored 28 points in the first half today, and also scored 3 assists, which can indeed be regarded as the guarantee of the Pacers' victory today.
After the start of the second half, Ye Xuan began to constantly create opportunities for his teammates, and his teammates were also more powerful, and slowly began to regain a little touch, and Ye Xuan also took this opportunity to start his journey of brushing assists. With more than four minutes left in the third quarter, the Pacers replaced all of their main players, if nothing else, because they are now 25 points ahead of their opponents.
And Ye Xuan was also happy on the court, in just over 7 minutes, he only shot 1 time and hit the iron, but he got 8 assists, basically Ye Xuan passed past his teammates to catch the ball and shoot, the entire third quarter ended, the Pacers led the opponent by nearly 30 points 86:58.
Throughout the fourth quarter, the Pacers' main players never got a chance to play again, because the opponent couldn't improve the score to 86 points until the end of the game. At the end of the game, the Pacers won the game with a disparity of 109:84 with the foundation laid by Ye Xuan's outstanding play in the first two quarters, Ye Xuan scored 28 points and 3 assists in the first half, although he did not score a point in the second half, but he got 8 assists in 7 minutes and successfully brushed up on the double-double data.
The Wizards, with a 32.9% shooting rate of the whole team, really don't know how to write the word win, and the Wizards, who are 0:3 behind, have basically lost hope of advancing to the next round, and they only hope to be able to defeat their opponents at home in the next game to defend their dignity.