After losing the game against the Hawks by a big score at home, Ye Xuan and his teammates bid farewell to March and ushered in the last month of the regular season - April. April is a month when the weather is getting warmer, and in this month, people will gradually enter the real spring and slowly welcome the coming summer. But a big loss to usher in such a good month is obviously not a good sign.

However, they also know that April will be a crucial month for teams to challenge for home advantage in the playoffs, and those on the brink of the playoffs will be doing their best to compete for a playoff spot during the month. If you don't play well this month, you are likely to lose the first place in the East and lose the home court advantage of the Eastern Conference Finals. And no matter who the opponent is in the playoffs, this home-court advantage is even more important.

The Pacers now have a record of 48 wins and 22 losses, temporarily ranking first in the East, while the defending champions of the Big Three Heat are second with a two-game deficit. With the last twelve games left in the regular season, the Pacers will face a tougher opponent than the Thunder, led by the Thunder.

That said, the Pacers are in for a relatively easy April. But for today's Pacers, they're going to have a hard-fledged devil's workout.

Due to Coach Frank's speech after yesterday's loss, the Pacers arrived at the arena before nine o'clock, and at nine o'clock, Coach Frank slowly walked out of the aisle.

Then he looked at the stack of documents in his hand and said to Ye Xuan and the others, "Yesterday, I thought all night, what kind of training should I let you carry out in order to squeeze out your physical energy, so that you have no intention of going out to look for flowers and ask willows?" Then I found a 6+6+6 training method of Kobe Bryant circulating on the Internet, and I will briefly introduce this training method: shooting blue mid-distance + three-point shooting a total of 6 0 0 0 times! Jump box 6 0 0 0 0 times! 1 0 0 0 m sprint training 6 0 0 reps! Lift the barbell 6 0 0 times! 6 0 0 squats, 6 0 0 push-ups, daily shooting exercises: shots! 3 0 0 0 0 jump shots. Remember to hit the shot. 5 sets of sit-ups of 2 0 0 reps each, 3 sets of barbell curls of 1 5 reps each, 2 sets of bench presses of 1 5 reps each, followed by 2 0 reps of switchbacks for 2 0 m runs. This is the first stage of training. ”

“？？？” The Pacers were in an uproar: "It's impossible, is it?" 600 sprints in the 100 meters? That alone made me want to die, okay, I didn't even listen to the rest of the story. ”

"Shoot 3,000 jumpers? I can't shoot that many goals in a season combined!! ”

"6,000 box jumps? After the jump, I can guarantee that I won't even feel my legs! ”

Several key players were the first to complain. Coach Frank suddenly collapsed, "What's wrong?" Are you questioning my decision? Yesterday's game was so ugly, are you embarrassed to complain? It seems that I am usually too lenient, and often cancel the next day's training after a big win, so that you have developed the habit of not liking training, and now, I have decided to change, the training starts, and those who do not complete the training will wait for the team to be banned. ”

The Pacers also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and in desperation, they could only start shooting training separately.

After half an hour of training, everyone kept shooting, but it was still far from the required 6,000 shots. Coach Frank on the side finally couldn't help it, clapped his hands, motioned for everyone to gather, and then said with a hint of sly on his face, "Okay, everyone, give up this 6+6+6 training, Happy April Fool's Day!! ”

He burst out laughing. Everyone was stunned at first, and then helplessly looked at Frank, who was laughing like a child who had succeeded in a prank, and wanted to cry without tears. However, after a call from Frank Vogel, the tension and sense of loss caused by yesterday's defeat also disappeared.

"Okay, okay, let's wrap up the April Fool's Day topic, and now that you've had a thirty-minute shooting warm-up, let's do some real work." As he spoke, he began to instruct everyone to start training for themselves.

What was assigned to Ye Xuan was a training plan for physical confrontation. Seeing his teammates practicing shooting, tactical running, dribbling and transmission on the court, but he could only be taken to the equipment room by the physical trainer with Solomon Hill next to him for training, Ye Xuan's face suddenly appeared with a capital embarrassment.

After coming to the equipment room, Ye Xuan sat on the arm strength training equipment and began to exercise his upper body strength, because Coach Frank felt that Ye Xuan would be difficult to fight against strong defenders when breaking through, which also affected Ye Xuan's breakthrough effect, so he hoped that Ye Xuan would strengthen his upper body strength to increase his ability in physical confrontation.

Unlike Ye Xuan, Solomon Hill is arranged to focus on training his lower body strength, although he is not an interior player, but as a small forward, he will need to face players with strong offensive ability such as James, Durant, and Anthony in the future. Good lower body strength will allow him to play defensively with less effort.

After the two of them separated and trained on their respective equipment, there was no other sound in the entire equipment room except for the impact of equipment, and Ye Xuan suddenly felt a little bored. So the bored Ye Xuan came to Solomon Hill with two dumbbells from the side, and while sitting on the equipment for the other leg exercise, he held the dumbbells to invite Hill to chat, "Hey, Hill, it seems that the coach still attaches great importance to you, and the special training plan for you has been formulated." ”

"Ye, you also know that I am a marginal person in the team, and there should be few opportunities to play this year, the coach probably takes a fancy to my defensive ability, and hopes that I can help the team defend when necessary." After chatting for a while, the two ended the training in the equipment room, and then went to the court, met with the team for a while to practice running tactics, played a full-court 5v5 internal game, and then ended today's training.

However, it seems that due to the impact of yesterday's defeat, in addition to Solomon Hill, several main players such as Paul George and George Hill have also stayed to practice. Ye Xuan also took the initiative to stay and practice shooting for a while, but after hitting more than 50 arc-top three-pointers in a row, he was kicked out by Coach Frank on the grounds of affecting his teammates' training.