Chapter 273: The Bitter and Bitter Bulls
After talking about these other strong teams, I can only look back at the Pacers, the Pacers team this season is still a strong contender for the championship, sitting on the two outside twin stars of Pickled Pepper and Ye Xuan, plus the original championship-winning team, the future of the Pacers is bright, but unfortunately a internal training game of the American team directly lost the Pickled Pepper.
Directly missing a leg in an instant, everyone thought that the Pacers couldn't jump, but they really didn't expect Ye Xuan to explode directly this season. Although he only has the fourth salary of the team, although his team's two major interior lines have not returned to the state of last season since the beginning of this season, although the league is not optimistic about them, but this is how Ye Xuan brought the Pacers to the second place in the East.
However, the opponent Ye Xuan faced today is not so easy to deal with, this is not like the last game, you can bully and bully Hinrich on the defensive end, what Ye Xuan needs to defend in this game is to snatch a regular season MVP from James in his heyday Windy City Rose, although he has just returned from injury, I don't know what his state is, but this name is enough to deterrent.
And Ye Xuan is not against Ross on the offensive end, because they have a Jimmy Butler whose defensive skills are not much worse than Leonard, except that his hands are not as long as Leonard, although Butler is not as perverted as Leonard because his arm span is not as perverted, so his defense is not a death entanglement, but it has to be said that Jimmy Butler's defense is actually more like Kobe, not only stalking, with a little bit of action, but also not afraid of physical confrontation, Therefore, he is also one of the few people who can guard against Ye Xuan very uncomfortably when he is alone against Ye Xuan.
The time is fast approaching December 30th, and the team the Pacers will face on this day is the Chicago Bulls, who are now in fourth place in the East, but the Pacers are only 2 wins ahead of them, so the competition for the second to fourth places in the East is still very fierce.
To be honest, Ye Xuan is not very willing to meet the Bulls on this day, the first reason is that this game is the last game of the Pacers in 2014, who doesn't want to give themselves a perfect ending to the whole year? But against such a difficult opponent, this perfect ending is a bit difficult. The second reason is that the Bulls are now direct competitors to the Pacers, so this game is destined to be very anxious from the beginning.
And the most critical point is that Ye Xuan's small physical recovery potion was last used on December 24th, which means that this potion CD happened to not get better during this game, which undoubtedly made Ye Xuan, who wanted to win this game very unhappy, if he couldn't use physical recovery potions in this game, it meant that his combat effectiveness would be reduced a little, but he didn't want to waste a large bottle of physical recovery potions in this game, so he could only play like this.
The game soon began, the referee threw the basketball high, Hibbert was very powerful this time, and directly pressed Noah to slap the basketball into Ye Xuan's hands, and the game officially kicked off. Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court, Butler came up as soon as possible, after the last matchup experience, Ye Xuan was not in a hurry to forcibly break through Butler, but calmly beckoned to call West on the inside to help block and dismantle, after the blocking and dismantling was completed, Ye Xuan easily completed a long-distance mid-range shot after finding a gap, taking the lead for the Pacers.
In fact, Ye Xuan can play relatively well every time he faces the Bulls, but I don't know why, Hibbert became a full soft-footed shrimp when he played the Bulls. But after that, Hibbert's state began to go a little shopping, first when Ye Xuan blocked Rose's shot and made Rose's forced shot, Hibbert failed to protect the backcourt rebound, and was caught by Noah and succeeded in the second attack. After that, he stood in the three-second zone for no reason on the offensive end, and then was blown for an offensive three-second period.
Ye Xuan was a little dissatisfied all of a sudden, in fact, he was very unhappy with Hibbert for a long time, but firstly, Hibbert is not the kind of ambitious insider, and he will not come to grab the ball with him, and secondly, Hibbert is now carrying a big contract, and now there is really no chance to get rid of this big contract. And although Hibbert's performance is indeed a little weak, his defense has always been quite good, and he is the kind of player who has no credit and hard work, so Ye Xuan is also inconvenient. Besides, Ye Xuan himself is Chinese, and he has always adhered to the principle of harmony and wealth, so he did not show his dissatisfaction.
However, Hibbert was really a little out of shape in this game, and he was distracted at this point for several consecutive rounds, resulting in the Pacers not only being beaten into a sieve by the opponent on the defensive end, but also becoming a little unsmooth on the offensive end, if it weren't for Ye Xuan playing several balls in a row, the Pacers would have been led by the opponent by double digits. But Rao Ye Xuan played such hard, and the Pacers still trailed their opponents by 6 points with a score of 25:19 when the first quarter was 10 minutes into the game.
Coach Frank also apparently found that Hibbert was the culprit behind today, so he simply replaced him directly and replaced him with O'Neal Jr., who has been sitting on the cold bench since West's return. It's a pity that the Pacers have problems with the point of Hibbert on the inside, West has no advantage at all against Pau Gasol, and Solomon Hill also suffers a little when defending Jimmy Butler, because Butler is now playing without the ball, and Solomon Hill, who has always been basically attacking with the ball, has not adapted to it for a while.
And after the bench lineups of both sides came on, Hinrich directly pressed Starkey by one level in the overall situation, - Smith, who is already one of the super sixth man, was not able to help the Pacers chase the score back, but because Hinrich and Ty Gibson echoed inside and outside, the Bulls' lead was extended to 12 points in a few minutes.