Chapter 364: Pickled Pepper Returns
After the victory over the Bulls, the Pacers are about to welcome their old rival, the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James. In the last meeting between the two teams, the Cavaliers successfully defeated the Pacers, and also ended the Pacers' 12-game winning streak in that game, which is also a coincidence, now the Cavaliers have won 14 consecutive games, and I don't know how Ye Xuan's side will snipe the opponent in this game against the Pacers.
However, before that, the Pacers took the lead in welcoming an important 'signing', their champion last season, Finals MVP, Paul George, finally returned after a 230-day break. In fact, Pickled Pepper's injury cannot be said to be fully recovered now, but he can now do some training with the ball, and in about a week or two, he should be able to start playing, so that the Pacers' playoff strength will be unprecedentedly strong.
Pickled pepper started training with the ball, which means that he can start training with the team, which is a little bad news for Ye Xuan, because since the last interview with the team manager, Ye Xuan has not put this matter down in his heart, mainly because the stage is big now, and suddenly someone wants to grab his position, which makes Ye Xuan a little unacceptable, even if this position was originally someone else's thing from the beginning.
Fortunately, Ye Xuan still knows that the overall situation is important, so these things that compete for power and profit are not put on the bright side, and now the team has come to the final sprint stage of the regular season, and is about to start attacking the championship.
Ye Xuan didn't let others know what he thought, except for Kevin Pritchard who knew about it, even Frank Vogel didn't know that Ye Xuan had already begun to think about fighting for power. When the pickled pepper returned, Ye Xuan also welcomed the other party as before, and invited everyone to go to Shen Wei's restaurant for a meal after the training, everything seemed so natural.
Time came to the 21st in a blink of an eye, and because it was an away game, the Pacers were still playing with the original team, and they didn't bring pickled peppers. For James, Ye Xuan is actually very grateful, after all, the 'water release' incident that occurred a few days ago, James also spoke out in support of himself, so before the game, these two people also chatted on the sidelines for a long time.
At the beginning of the game, Hibbert did not lose the jump ball this time, and slapped the ball into Ye Xuan's hands, Ye Xuan still maintained the hot hand of the first two games, and directly accelerated after receiving the ball. As the son of Cleveland, James certainly wouldn't let Ye Xuan be presumptuous on his own turf, so looking back, James immediately responded by using a catch-up after a reverse run directly across West with a violent dunk.
As soon as the two sides came up, they performed their own stunts, and the audience was also enthusiastic, and the atmosphere of the Quick Loan Stadium soon became enthusiastic. And Ye Xuan's side, he originally wanted to continue his continuous 50+10 performance, so it was also very utilitarian in terms of sending away, basically when his teammates didn't have a good chance, he chose to play by himself, so in the last two games, not only the data of Solomon Hill and West have declined, but even Hibbert on the inside has also been affected, fortunately, these two games finally beat the opponent, otherwise, Ye Xuan's style of play is estimated to be dissatisfied with his teammates in a short time.
However, there is also an advantage to playing like this, that is, due to Ye Xuan's utilitarian play, the offensive efficiency of the Pacers has increased, of course, mainly because Ye Xuan's shots have increased, and Ye Xuan's shooting rate is relatively high. The Cavaliers obviously also studied Ye Xuan's style of play when he broke out in the previous two games, so when Ye Xuan continued to play alone with the ball, the Cavaliers immediately let Hill and Owen wrap up Ye Xuan, and on the offensive end, Owen also continued to impact Ye Xuan's point, so that Ye Xuan could not devote all his energy to attacking.
Although the offensive efficiency of the Cavaliers has decreased in this way, the physical consumption on Ye Xuan's side has also become very large, and after a little play for three or four minutes, Ye Xuan found that his physical consumption was too great, so he could only put aside the plan to continue to brush data for the time being, and began to return to normal mode. After Ye Xuan changed his style of play, the ball of the Pacers rotated, and several other players were able to participate in the offense, which made Ye Xuan a lot easier, at least not as tired as when he grabbed both ends of the offense and defense in front of him.
And the tactics of the Cavaliers' side have actually worked, successfully allowing Ye Xuan to hand over the ball, on the 5V5 offensive battle, the Cavaliers have not been afraid of anyone, after all, they are also sitting on the Big Three, the result is that the Pacers, who originally relied on Ye Xuan to fight alone and led the Cavaliers by 3 points, began to share the ball, but quickly fell into the disadvantage, and when the game entered the TV timeout in the first quarter, it fell behind the opponent by 3 points. There is no way to do this, mainly because the strength gap between the players is too big, Ye Xuan can explode with the opponent on the offensive end, but when he starts to share the ball, the strength of the other players in the team is a little insufficient, and the result is naturally that the offensive efficiency decreases, so that the opponent overtakes the score.
Just like the first meeting between the two teams this season, at that time, the Cavaliers used similar tactics to slowly consume Ye Xuan's physical strength, and then when the Pacers lost the strength to fight back, suddenly a wave of offense directly opened the score completely, and at that time, it was because the Cavaliers did not run in well, so the two teams were still fighting back and forth, and now their cooperation has slowly begun to tacitly understand, and the result is naturally very efficient to be able to play the cooperation they want.
Ye Xuan saw that it was not good, and he had no choice but to take over the game again, although in this way, his physical exertion would increase again, but just like the second time the two teams met, Ye Xuan could use the physical recovery potion to carry it, although in the last game, Ye Xuan used a small physical recovery potion, but there was a big bottle that he was useless.