Chapter 247: Eaten by Man
After the entire second quarter of the game, Ye Xuan found a very serious situation, that is, the opponent's lineup played the current lineup of the Pacers without any pressure, and if he played well, he would just bite the score, but once his hand and physical strength began to decline, the opponent could quickly pull the score away.
At the end of the first half, the Pacers didn't seem to be particularly far behind, only 8 points behind the opponent, but as soon as they looked at the opponent's playing time and Ye Xuan's playing time, Coach Frank knew that this game was more auspicious, first of all, Ye Xuan played 19 minutes in the first half of the game, and the team was still nearly ten points ahead of the opponent in the case of such a large physical consumption, which is undoubtedly unacceptable for the Pacers. Their other two giants, Irving, only played 15 minutes, and Love only played 16 minutes, which is very easy compared to their average of 35+ minutes per game last season.
And from the point of view of physical consumption, the Pacers are also in an absolute state of loss, the opponent's Big Three's shots and touch rates are basically the same, except for James because he wants to control the ball, the remaining two are very average shots, which also means that their physical distribution is also very reasonable, and on the Pacers' side, as long as Ye Xuan is present, basically all the offense is initiated by Ye Xuan, so Ye Xuan's physical fitness is also at a loss.
At halftime, Coach Frank had been thinking about how to play this game, but unfortunately after thinking about it, except for Ye Xuan's sudden outburst and continuous shooting of fairy balls, there was no other chance to win. The second half of the game started quickly, and the Pacers still used the starting lineup from the first half, but the Cavaliers pressed Vallejo on the bench and replaced Tristan Thompson as the main center.
The Cavaliers serve in the backcourt, after Hill brought the ball to the front court, he passed the ball to James to organize, Solomon Hill's defense of James is already very in place, but unfortunately he still can't stop him from helping his teammates, James's thinking is actually very clear, let everyone pull away, and then hand the ball to Owen to play alone, Owen is against Ye Xuan, so Ye Xuan has to spend a lot of energy on defense. On the offensive side, Ye Xuan had to do it himself, which made Ye Xuan's physical strength drop very quickly.
When the advertising paused in the third quarter of the game, Ye Xuan was already a little tired, although in the past 6 minutes, the Pacers narrowed the difference from 8 points to 5 points, but they also consumed a lot of physical strength, the Cavaliers basically only Irving alone had a larger physical exertion, and James and Love and others had not yet started to exert their strength.
Sure enough, after the commercial pause ended, the Cavaliers suddenly strengthened their defense, and now in an instant George Hill led the defense, while the other four were in a joint defensive formation that was standing in position and ready to make up for it. This caused a lot of trouble to Ye Xuan's offense, and when the game reached the ninth minute of the third quarter, Ye Xuan's physical strength was no longer able to continue to support this intensity of offensive and defensive rhythm, so the Pacers also called a timeout and took the lead in entering the rotation of personnel.
The Cavaliers saw the Pacers call a timeout, and they also made a very chicken thief substitution, but they did not choose to replace all the main forces in between, but replaced Irving and George Hill, two people who were opposite Ye Xuan on both offensive and defensive ends, and then replaced Tristan Thompson with Vallejo. In this way, James and Love on the court can still lead the benches to continue to steal points on the court, and the Pacers were forced to replace Ye Xuan, and they simply replaced West and Hibbert directly, Smith, Scola and Mashinmi.
It's a pity that the team doesn't even have a player who can organise effectively, and Smith will do it. -After Smith came to the Pacers, he can be regarded as hardworking, and he has played better and better on the offensive end, and I don't know if it's because Ye Xuan can indeed create more opportunities for his teammates and really evolve.
The third quarter of the game ended like this, the Pacers' benches did not have much to do in the face of James and Love, - Smith and Solomon Hill have been resisting desperately, but unfortunately the opponent once again stretched the score difference to 10 points, which means that less than three minutes after Ye Xuan left the game, the Pacers lost 6 points unconsciously.
It's a pity that the opponent is still not satisfied with this result, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he rotated again, and replaced Irving and Hill again, James and Love went down to rest, but Irving's interest breakthrough alone also caused a headache for the Pacers, and Coach Frank didn't want Ye Xuan to play so early, but the situation was really a little uncontrollable, so Ye Xuan was replaced less than two minutes after the start of the fourth quarter of the game.
This situation can be regarded as stabilized, but unfortunately it is only possible to slowly narrow the point difference when James and Love have not returned, and Irving can also sneak attack from time to time, making it more difficult for Ye Xuan's side to chase points, which makes the Pacers' journey of chasing points even more difficult. Finally, Ye Xuan used his personal ability to narrow the difference between the two teams to 8 points, and the Cavaliers took a timeout, and then replaced James and Love again, and then the two teams fell into a stalemate back and forth.
Time is slowly consumed by the opponent, and the players on the Pacers' side are getting more and more anxious. Of course, Ye Xuan's side was also very anxious, but the opponent used his multi-point flowering characteristics to continuously consume Ye Xuan's physical strength, and the score did not let the Pacers chase back. In this way, the game went on for about 6 or 7 minutes, and the Pacers still trailed by 10 points. Ye Xuan's physical strength began to decline again, and the Cavaliers still seemed to be at ease, after all, the ball was relatively scattered, and James, who had played more time than Ye Xuan, was still a physical monster.