Chapter 114: The Jedi Comeback
After Hill came to the Heat halfcourt with the ball again, he handed the ball to Pickle Pepper, and after Pickle Pepper held the ball and played alone for a few rounds, he found that the effect was not good, one was that he and his teammates didn't know why they didn't feel very good, and the other was because the opponent took advantage of the Pacers' bad hand and began to choose to shrink the defense and put on a joint defensive formation to defend the Pacers' breakthrough.
The Pacers, who failed to make progress in successive rounds, exhausted their 11-point lead in less than 6 minutes, and Coach Frank had no choice but to replace Ye Xuan and George Hill to rest for a while, so that C.J. Watson, who had not had much chance to play since entering the Eastern Conference Finals, and Lance, who was assigned to the bench in this game, came to play.
After Ye Xuan was replaced, he was also very self-blaming, because the opponent took advantage of his mistake to boost his morale, and also took this opportunity to directly erase the previous double-digit point difference, which made Ye Xuan a little unacceptable, and Coach Frank obviously saw that Ye Xuan was already a little stressed when he was on the field, so he quickly replaced him for psychological counseling.
Just when Coach Frank was still comforting Ye Xuan off the court, the situation on the Pacers court did not change significantly after Ye Xuan got off the court, and C.J. Watson didn't play much for half a month, so he didn't feel very good, so he couldn't hit the ball after receiving the pickled pepper after he got on the court.
On the contrary, the Heat took the opportunity to seize the flaw of C.J. Watson's long-term absence and directly let Chalmers hold the ball and play him alone, although it did not directly score the ball, but it also made the other members of the Pacers consume more physical strength in order to make up for the position.
However, after Chalmers's single loss, the Pacers organized a decent counterattack, with Lance and Pickles charging in front, and David West also following up, although James and Wade desperately chased the defense, but still failed to prevent this counterattack, and finally the counterattack ended with Pickles Pepper's back pass to David West, who followed up on the outside, who dunked with one hand.
However, Watson's defense after that also explained why he failed to get a chance to play in the Pacers' regular rotation, and was blown up by Chalmers one-on-one after another, which also made Lance Stephenson tired of making up for him, but the opponent moved the ball quickly, so Watson's leakage became an opportunity for the Heat to play more and less, and under the transmission of James and Wade, the ball could always come to the hands of unguarded players, and then they practiced shooting.
The Pacers were also pulled away by their opponents little by little in such an unfavorable situation. With less than three minutes left in the third quarter, the Pacers had gone from leading by 11 points to the second half and trailing by five points.
On the bench, Coach Frank was obviously not ready to replace Ye Xuan now, but replaced Hill, replaced Watson, and then replaced the Pacers' interior duo with Scola and Mashinmi.
After replacing Hill, the Pacers' defense did not continue to be easily torn apart by the opponent as before, but it was only limited to the score was not further quickly stretched, and after a stalemate between the two sides for a period of time, the third quarter of the game finally came to an end.
At this time, the Pacers trailed the opponent by 66:72 by 6 points, from leading by 11 points to trailing by 6 points, and it only took one quarter, although they scored 20 points in a single quarter, which is not particularly low, but let the opponent get a high score of 37 points is indeed beaten into a sieve by the opponent.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Coach Frank replaced Pickle Pepper and replaced Solomon Hill as a shooting guard. As a result, all five of the Pacers' players on the floor lacked the ability to play with the ball, and while Lance and George Hill were barely able to play a single game, their offensive ability with the ball was a little lacking when it came to defending against defenders like James and Battier.
With three minutes of play in the fourth quarter, the Heat had stretched the margin to a 10-point lead. On the bench, Coach Frank glanced at Ye Xuan next to him, and then asked, "How is it, have you calmed down now, we still have a chance, but I need you to play without any distractions, whether it is your self-blame or inferiority, these are all put aside for me, I just need your self-confidence, and then go on the court to chase the score back." ”
Ye Xuan cheered up his spirits, and then nodded heavily, "Don't worry, coach, I've calmed down now, let me play, I will definitely be able to chase the score back." ”
Coach Frank immediately called a timeout, and then replaced Lance with Ye Xuan to rest. After Ye Xuan came on the court, he immediately found the rhythm of the offense, received Hill's pass one step outside the three-point line, dribbled forward, and shot directly against Ray Allen's block, the basketball smashed on the rebound and rebounded into the basket.
Then on the defensive end, Solomon Hill and Ye Xuan quietly played a cooperation, Ye Xuan deliberately let go of his left hand route to let Wade break through, and then quickly followed the space of his right hand, after Wade was stuck in his right hand, he also wanted to use his left hand to force Ye Xuan and then layup, but Solomon Hill on the side came out and formed a trap with Ye Xuan.
After Wade lost the space to hold the ball, he could only firmly protect the ball in his arms, Ye Xuan was witty and did not grab the ball, but gave this opportunity to Hill, after all, Solomon Hill's height of 2.01 meters was there, and his bounce was also better, and sure enough, after a stalemate, the referee awarded the scrum.
The 1.93-meter-tall Wade is certainly not the opponent of the 2.01-meter-Solomon Hill, and the latter is still a young and strong, full of physical strength, Hill jumped to the ball and handed the ball to another Hill, George Hill quickly controlled the basketball to the frontcourt, but the opponent's retreat was very fast, so the Pacers did not find a fast break.
After pressing down the rhythm and slowly bringing the ball to the front court, Hill handed the ball to Ye Xuan who took the initiative to ask for the ball, after Ye Xuan took the ball, he used his own butterfly step, compared with Wade, who has been on the court for more than 30 minutes in this game, Ye Xuan, who has been sitting on the cold bench in the second half of the third quarter and the first half of the fourth quarter, is obviously more physically strong, so after two consecutive changes of direction, Ye Xuan smoothly shook Wade away, and then hit it directly in the middle distance.