Chapter 505: Facing the Old Club
Although the reward this time is not a basketball skill lottery ticket, it is also an S-level skill, so Ye Xuan also decisively used him, and the result is that the system is relatively face-saving and gives Ye Xuan a' Gary Payton's defensive talent' Although Ye Xuan now has Tony Allen's defensive talent to build the foundation, so his defensive ability is almost lacking, but now Gary Payton's defensive talent comes out, so that Ye Xuan has the same qualification as Jordan, Kobe and others to win the best defensive team, after all, Payton is the only point guard in the league who has won the league's best defensive player.
After getting such a strong reinforcement, Ye Xuan's confidence against the Pacers is even stronger, and because this game is not only for him, but also for Solomon Hill, Ye Xuan is not prepared to give the Pacers the slightest face in this game, including his old teammates in the past. Ye Xuan is not ready to give them face, this game is destined to be a fight.
The time soon came on November 2nd, and the Lakers welcomed the challenge of the Pacers on their home court, although the new head coach of the Pacers, Nate McMillan, has been telling the media that this is just a simple regular season game, and he doesn't care about the 'special meaning' of this game, but there are still media who have exposed the news that Kevin Pritchard has given the team a winning order, which makes the outside media more convinced that Pritchard is a clown-faced person.
The game officially began, Gasol beat the aging Tyson Chandler and slapped the ball into Ye Xuan's hands, in the face of Jeff Teague's defense, Ye Xuan did not slack off, and directly chose to accelerate and overtake, forcibly breaking through Teague's forced defense, but the pickled pepper next to him also knew Ye Xuan's means, so he immediately made up for it, but he didn't know that Ye Xuan was no longer the player who only had the basket in his eyes, Ye Xuan's passing awareness and passing desire were much better than when he was in the Pacers before, As soon as Pickled Pepper's side came over, Ye Xuan took the opportunity to stuff the ball into the hands of Solomon Hill, and Solomon Hill also pulled it up and hit a three-point shot, 3:0.
The Pacers served in the backcourt, Teague slowly controlled the basketball to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to Pickle Pepper, let Pickle Pepper pull away the single, in the face of Solomon Hill's defense, Pickle Pepper was also unambiguous, directly using his body to force Hill, and Ye Xuan on the side also knew that Solomon Hill couldn't prevent Pickle Pepper alone, so when the two were entangled, Ye Xuan quietly touched it, ready to clamp the pickled pepper, but I didn't expect Pickled Pepper to be very witty, when Ye Xuan was about to put the bag in place, Suddenly jumped up and passed the ball out, and after Teague received the ball, he also hit a three-point shot, 3:3.
Ye Xuan knew that the Pacers' interior line now had Ibaka, but Tyson Chandler was still their biggest weakness, so he immediately chose to let Gasol come out to help block and dismantle in the next round, after the blocking and dismantling, the Pacers chose to change the defense, Ye Xuan was also ruthless, and directly chose to play Chandler in a misplaced single, Chandler, who was already a little clumsy in his footsteps, was Ye Xuan's opponent, and was almost shaken to the ground by Ye Xuan, although he finally stabilized his figure, but he had also lost his defensive position, was easily scored two points by Ye Xuan.
Looking back, the Pacers also followed the gourd, using Ibaka to help Pickled Pepper block and let Pickled Pepper beat Randle alone, and returned the Pacers a two-point score. Then Ye Xuan's three-point shot on the Lakers' side hit the iron, and after the Pacers used Ibaka to block and dismantle again, Ibaka, who was waiting on the outside line, hit two points and took the initiative on the court.
I have to say that the tactics of the Pacers' side have indeed been enriched after getting Ibaka, but Ye Xuan feels that the current Pacers team is actually a weakened version of the Pacers team that won the championship in 14, Ibaka is David West back then, Tyson Chandler is Hibbert at that time, and Jeff Teague Although he can't be compared with his own strength, he is not much different from George Hill at that time, - Smith and Louis Williams, The firepower is also similar to the benches of the Pacers team led by him back then, and it stands to reason that the 14-year Pacers championship lineup is still quite powerful, but this is also their weakness. Other teams are frantically engaged in an arms race, a large number of strong players are gathered in a few strong teams, so the strength of the strong teams is getting stronger and stronger, you are now vainly trying to replicate the success of the championship team from a few years ago, how can it be so easy?
So the result is also obvious, the Pacers started the game with one win and two losses, completely did not meet their original expectations, of course, this has a certain relationship with Pickle Pepper's attitude, although it has won a championship in the Pacers, but the team will abandon their friends and coaches all this move still makes Pickle Pepper a little chilled, his contract still has two years to wait until next summer, if Pickle Pepper refuses to renew his contract with the Pacers, it is estimated that the Pacers will have to trade him out at that time, And the current pickled pepper is obviously somewhat similar to Wei Shao of the Thunder team, but the difference is that the source of Wei Shao's anger comes from betrayal with his brother, while pickled pepper feels that he is not valued by the management, or his will is not valued by the management, so he wants to escape from here.
The Lakers naturally won't let the opponent be arrogant on their own turf, Ye Xuan's side immediately controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, and then after the cross run, a hidden ground pass, stuffed the ball into the hands of Wade, who cut in the air, Wade received the ball and flashed Tyson Chandler's block in the air, and then hit the ball.
The offense on the Pacers' side also began to have problems, Ibaka's three-point trial shot was missed, although the rebound was shot by Chandler, but Pickled Pepper still failed to hit the shot again after receiving the basketball, Randle grabbed the backcourt rebound, and then immediately handed the ball to Wade on the side, as for Ye Xuan, now it is almost down to the midfield, Wade's ultra-long pass is also very proficient, and he directly found Ye Xuan who was running in the front court, Ye Xuan received the pass and easily came to a back buckle, Bring the score back up.
The two teams started the game hotly, and the fans at the Staples Arena were not idle, while they began to display their own hand-drawn slogans and small cartoons to taunt Kevin Pritchard, and chanted to thank Kevin Pritchard when Ye Xuan scored or gave an assist, as if Pritchard was actually the general manager of their team.
This is also a good thing that Kevin Pritchard did not come to the scene to watch the game, otherwise it is estimated that he would be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. Of course, Pritchard is not having a good time now, since the Pacers were eliminated last season, some fans blame all this on Pritchard's head, accusing him of trading the team's future only by looking at the immediate interests, of course, there are not a few people who accuse him of being impersonal, after all, multiple consecutive transactions have made people feel that he is indeed a little too cold-blooded, since the trade of Hibbert, it has been like this. Even the home fans don't like to see him so much, so it can be seen that Kevin Pritchard is now living like a year.
The first quarter was quickly played in the seventh minute, and the game also entered the first television timeout, the Lakers took the opportunity to replace Wade and Randle with Clarkson and Nick Young, and the Pacers also traded Derrick Rose and the rookie they traded last year, Myles Turner.
After the timeout, the game continued immediately, but the Lakers' side had a sudden change in the style of painting, which was originally a good positional battle and a quick counterattack with the Pacers, but now the style of painting has changed, and it has suddenly become a pure fast attack, and it is not only biased towards Princeton's style of play, but also an improved version of the style of play similar to the Warriors' Death Five.
Of course, this tactic is also using Ye Xuan, a person who can play from the No. 1 position to the No. 3 position or even the No. 4 position, the main scorers of this lineup have become Gasol and Nick Young, although Ye Xuan still seems to be the role of ball control in this lineup, but in defense it is the role of an inside power forward, so that the team's speed is raised, and there is still no big problem when defending, Ye Xuan's height of two meters and one to defend Myles Turner will suffer some losses, But the effect is not too bad. So in the next two minutes, the Pacers were beaten a little confused, not only were they hit by the Lakers in three consecutive rounds, but they also didn't score a point, and they were hammered by the Lakers with a 7:0 small high court.
Nate McMillan also had to call a timeout to think about countermeasures, but to be honest, the current Pacers locker room has some problems, - Smith and Shambaugh have a good relationship, and Louis Williams has a good relationship with Chandler, Myles Turner and Teague, plus Ibaka and Rose are also in their own right, so the Pacers' locker room can be said to be very lively, and the reason why the first three games of this season are one win and two losses are also because of internal problems in the team.
In fact, this is also very easy to explain, the Pacers' side of the transaction has never considered the player's own feelings, after Rose was traded, he thought he was the main force of the iron fight, but he didn't expect that his dignified regular season MVP could only be arranged to play as a substitute, so Rose and Teague naturally do not agree, and now there is a problem, that is, the team's ball distribution is also a little uneven, Teague is basically fine when he holds the ball, but when it comes to the bench lineup, Louis Smith passes, And Rose didn't pass the ball to Luwe, so the substitute seemed to be strong, but in fact it was scattered.
At the end of the timeout, Nate McMillan was only able to temporarily replace Pickle Pepper, and the small group of Smith, Smith and Shambaugh played a dozen with Turner and Chandler. I have to say that this lineup is actually really stupid, basically there is no independent offensive ability, the only thing that can only watch Rose break through alone and then divide the ball, - Smith pulls out the jumper, but Rose's body can't keep up with consciousness now, and his singles ability has dropped too much, and this kind of nerve knife is also punctual and inaccurate, which makes the Pacers very uncomfortable.
In the remaining two minutes of the first quarter, although the Pacers broke their scoring drought, the defensive problem was still the same, and the Lakers once again played a 7:4, expanding the difference to double digits. At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led by a full ten.
The only thing the Pacers can be fortunate about now is that Ye Xuan and Solomon Hill have not been replaced in the first quarter of the game, so they must have to rest in the second quarter of the game, and Pickled Pepper played less than 10 minutes in the first quarter of the game, so the second quarter of the game was directly changed to grab the gun or something.
But the locker room atmosphere on the Lakers' side is indeed incomparable to the Pacers' side, and the embarrassing problem has reappeared, replaced with pickled peppers, so can Lu Wei be replaced? In the first quarter of the game, he didn't let Lu Wei play for a minute, and he was replaced by Lu Wei, so is Rose going to be replaced? Shambaugh had played a whole game, so should he continue to play as a lubricant among these people? Thinking of this, Nate McMillan is about to scold Pritchard to death, if it weren't for Pritchard's messing around, this team wouldn't be so difficult now, and now everyone's mind is not on basketball, and they still want to win the championship, and it's almost the same to win the.
The Lakers are as everyone thinks, replacing Ye Xuan and Solomon Hill and Gasol, and replacing them with Felton, Speights and Larry Nance Jr., this lineup still follows the characteristics of the previous lineup, that is, the speed of rotation is extremely fast, and the ability to seize opportunities when switching offense and defense is also very strong, after all, Felton also played offensive basketball in New York for a period of time, and he is like a fish in water for this rhythm, In addition, Speights is also very familiar with this rhythm, so as soon as Wharton's tactic came out, he directly activated these people on the bench.
And when it comes to change, Nick Young, under Ye Xuan's words and deeds, has also begun to develop towards the next sharpshooter, and the stability of his shooting is much better than before, at least it will not be called a nerve knife like before, so the combat effectiveness of the Lakers has been improving.