In this game, Ye Xuan was once again reduced to playing soy sauce, and it was good to say in the first half, at least there were many shooting and performance opportunities during the attack, so in the first half, Ye Xuan's score was also 17 points, which was the most efficient player in the game, but after the Pacers changed formation in the second half, the Heat's defense became a little inadequate, which made other teammates also get a lot of opportunities. As a result, Ye Xuan only had 6 shots in the second half, and he only hit two three-pointers, contributing a total of 23 points in the whole game.

And because Ye Xuan didn't have the ball in this game, so there were only a pitiful 3 assists, Ye Xuan's assist data declined significantly, compared to the average double-double assists per game last season, Ye Xuan's current assists are a little too few. However, Ye Xuan's rebounds this season have risen amazingly, although the opponent has Hassan Whiteside on the inside in this game, so Ye Xuan can let his teammates get stuck in the position to grab rebounds by himself, but even so, Ye Xuan still grabbed 7 rebounds.

After the game against the Heat, the Pacers will immediately welcome their old rival, the Pelicans. Since losing to the Pacers in the first game of the season, the Pelicans have played very well under the leadership of two Anthonys, and Anthony Davis's play this season is also very terrifying, after having Anthony on the wing to help him side, the opponent has obviously become more careful with his defense, and will not go to cover him at every turn, plus a large number of shooters of the Pelicans, they won 9 consecutive wins after losing to the Pacers, and then lost to the powerful Warriors, and won 7 consecutive wins again. Their current record is second in the league behind the Warriors, who suffered one loss after a 24-game winning streak, and is in second place in the West, leaving behind the Rockets and Spurs, who are very favored.

And the ambitions of the Pelicans' top management are gradually revealed, after getting a superstar like Anthony to join, and then the team's strength has suddenly increased to the current height, they began to think about the plan to form the Big Three, in the offseason, they asked about various offers for the league's top guards, including the Cavaliers' Irving, the Pacers' Ye Xuan, the Clippers' Paul and others are all in the Pelicans' recruitment plan, but unfortunately these players are the baby bumps of the team, And the goal of these teams is also to win the championship, how can it be possible to trade their main point guards, or even core players, at this time.

However, although the Pelicans' top management seems to be going to make a big move, but the operation of the summer is thunderous and rainy, except for the completion of the basic contract extension, their summer basically has no trade, which makes the managers of other teams a little confused, in fact, shortly after the start of the season, the Pelicans' offer even made Kevin Pritchard a little tempted, and the Pelicans offered to trade Ryan Anderson plus Gordon plus Holiday plus Cunningham in exchange for Ye Xuan and Marcinmy. This deal makes Kevin Pritchard very much to accept, after all, Holiday is actually a little worse than Ye Xuan's role, but the team now has Rondo in organization and defense, and there are a large number of players with plenty of firepower on the offensive end. And Ye Xuan's performance after his comeback is not particularly eye-catching, and the team's risk assessment experts can even give him an A+ evaluation when evaluating this deal, which means that the risk assessment experts think this deal is very cost-effective.

But it's a pity that when Kevin Pritchard was still hesitating, Ye Xuan fell again, and Ye Xuan's performance after his comeback has begun to drop a little, so the Pelicans have given up on Ye Xuan's path, and Kevin Pritchard also has a little bit of a debt and feels like he has a little loss. But in fact, his hesitation is also reasonable, first, Ye Xuan is the core of the Pacers, and he was the regular season MVP last season, leading the team to the playoffs alone, and he can be said to be the hero of the team. Second, Ye Xuan's Chinese identity has indeed increased the team's income a lot, so Kevin Pritchard needs to think about whether to trade Ye Xuan for so long. Ye Xuan still doesn't know about this matter, if he is not injured again this season, it is very likely that he will be secretly traded, and even before the deal is reached, he will not get any news.

Fast forward to December 16, and the Pacers travel to New Orleans to challenge the Pelicans. At the beginning of the game, the inside line of the two teams began to jump the ball, of course the thick eyebrows would not let the old boxing king jump away, and he jumped hard to give the racket to Holiday , in the face of Rondo's defense, Holiday didn't want to force the opponent or something like that, and immediately passed the ball to Anthony after coming to the front court, unlike the last encounter, Anthony did not choose to attack by himself in this game, but held the ball near a 45-degree angle and dribbled two steps before hanging the ball to the thick eyebrows in the heart. Anthony Davis was also very unreasonable after receiving the ball, leaning on his back twice and then turning around and stepping back to hit the ball, which was quite a bit of Duncan's feeling.

The Pacers did not show weakness on their side, and after Rondo controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, he directly let Jordan Hill hold the ball and singles Ryan Anderson, who was weak, but what Coach Frank didn't expect was that although Anderson looked like a bully, Jordan Hill's back singles skills were still a little too poor.

Anthony Davis grabbed the rebound, and immediately launched a quick counterattack with a pass, Holiday ran in front, followed by Ye Xuan and Rondo, and then Gordon and Anthony, but the ball was passed to Anthony at this point, Anthony's advance speed is naturally not as fast as the guards, after receiving the ball and dribbling two steps, a high throw sent the ball to Holiday who had already stepped into the three-point line with one foot, Holiday reached out to grasp the ball steadily, and then directly took three steps to go to the basket.

At this time, Ye Xuan didn't look like a player who had just returned from injury, the speed of the return defense was called a fast, at the moment when Holiday sent the basketball to the basket, Ye Xuan jumped up and slapped the ball on the rebound, and Rondo behind him rushed to collect the rebound, Holiday reacted, and then immediately signaled to the referee that it was a interference ball just now, but the referee is an old seniority, take it back because you are a rookie to interrupt the game, not to mention that this ball has the potential of five best balls, What's more, Ye Xuan is still the player who the big boss of the league, Xiao Hua, asked to take care of it, so how could the referee award the ball for interference.

Ye Xuan's chasing the hat this time also boosted the morale of the Pacers, in fact, all of this is still thanks to the system, if it weren't for the talent of 'Sun Dasheng's chasing hat' with talent bonus when chasing defense, then even if Ye Xuan's speed is very fast now, there is no chance to catch up with Holiday , after all, his starting point is too much more than Ye Xuan to go into the basket.

The game continued, Rondo slowly controlled the ball through the half, and then passed the ball to Ye Xuan, the cap hero just now, but Ye Xuan was tired enough to chase the hat just now, and he was too lazy to attack with the ball anymore, so after passing the ball directly to Pickled Pepper, he ran to the bottom corner to play soy sauce. Pickled pepper singled Anthony with the ball, but unfortunately the effect was not particularly good, and the shot hit iron again.

In the next six minutes, the two teams began a long iron career, Anthony shot 0 of 3, Davis was not far behind, except for the first offense after hitting the ball, the next game was 1 of 5 shots, only two more points. The same is true for the three on the outside, Gordon scored 3 points on 1-of-3 shooting, Anderson was not bad, scoring 5 points on 2-of-4 shooting, and was the only player on the court with a 50% shooting rate, as for Holiday and the ball that was capped, he shot a total of twice, and he didn't score a point, so when there were about 4 minutes left in the first quarter, the Pelicans actually only scored 12 points, but even so, they still led the Pacers by one point!!

The Pacers' side also seems to have been affected by the opponent's iron feel, the whole team feels very bad, Rondo naturally needless to say, his shooting percentage is not low, but the result is even worse in this case, two shots are all iron, and the same is true for Pickle Pepper, 5 shots hit a ball that is a three-pointer, in addition to making fouls and getting 2 points, now a total of 5 points, Ye Xuan's data is also bad, I don't know if Ye Xuan's scope today was not brought out, His shooting percentage is also very bad, he only hit 1 of 4 shots and was sentenced to step on the line, only two points, and the remaining 4 points are the points obtained by the two inside after receiving the cake fed by Ye Xuan and Rondo after the Pacers were involved in the outside line.

Frank Vogel can't stand this oppressive rhythm of the game anymore, and he still plays with the iron all over the court, so he waved his hand and rolled down all for Lao Tzu except Rondo, and putting Rondo on the field is not to say that he is performing well, but because he needs someone who can distribute the ball on the bench. But although this substitution is an active change, the result of the change is a little unacceptable to the Pacers, because without the support of Chandler and Jordan Hill, Anthony Davis suddenly broke out, and the interior line of the Pacers is overturned.

And without the defense and interference of pickled peppers, the back singles of the little melon also began to play a role, and Solomon Hill's defense was relatively good when it came to defending the frontal breakthrough, but it was a little less clever when defending Anthony's tonnage of playing with your ass, and in three minutes, the Pelicans finally replaced their main players, but at this time, the Pacers had been suddenly opened by the opponent by 9 points.

At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers only scored 19 points in a single quarter, but the opponent scored 16 points in the last few minutes, directly expanding the difference to 9 points.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Pacers immediately replaced Ye Xuan, who had been professionally beating children for 30 years, Ye Xuan's combat effectiveness when he played the substitute lineup was indeed much higher, mainly because the defense he faced was much worse, after all, the most of the team's substitute players paid more attention to offensive ability, rather than defensive ability, and the opponent made the main players fight frantically for almost a whole game in the first quarter of the game, so Ye Xuan had at least 3 minutes or so to enjoy himself in the second quarter.

Ye Xuan naturally did not disappoint Frank Vogel, - Smith, Shambaugh, Solomon Hill and Myles Turner played a five-swingman fast offensive lineup, this lineup is so flexible that the Pelicans want to die, and the shooting rate is also very high, the most important thing is that although they are not easy to deal with when facing interior players, but they are very handy at defending outside players, no matter how you block and dismantle, the person who changes my defense can press you to the ground and rub it, but now the league is in charge. The main scoring points on the bench are basically outside players, and as a result, the Pacers seized the opportunity to defend the opponent's offense in 5 consecutive rounds, while their own offense did not fall behind, scoring 7 points in 5 rounds, and instantly narrowed the gap to only 2 points.

The head coach of the Pelicans saw that the situation was not right, and immediately called a timeout to adjust the state of the players on the court in the center, and after the pause, he also directly replaced the thick eyebrows who had only rested for more than two minutes, and he also saw that the Pacers lineup had no way to take a strong interior line, so he made a substitution like this.

In the next few rounds, although the Pacers' outside offense still left the Pelicans with little to do, at least the Pelicans' interior offense was still able to keep the score at the same level.

The Pacers are not ready to continue the stalemate, - Smith changed it, replaced Jordan Hillondo and Pickled Pepper, and let Jordan Hill interfere with the thick eyebrows on the inside, while also allowing the team's outside firepower to continue to be maintained, at first glance, the two teams just made a personnel adjustment, but the discerning person can see that in the coach's bench game, the Pacers finally have a slight advantage.