Chapter 105: The Crucial Third Battle
Soon after coming to the American Airlines Arena, the game began, and unlike the previous two games, Ye Xuan felt a different pressure from the beginning of his appearance, with the audience booing, mocking, and even shouting insults to the Pacers players. Ye Xuan clenched his fists while comforting himself that it was because his opponent was afraid of him, so he did this to try to interfere with himself. While secretly determined to eliminate the Heat.
After the game began, the Heat showed a different kind of fighting power, Bosh jumped high and gave the racket to Wade on the side, and after Wade held the ball, he handed the ball to Chalmers to bring to the frontcourt. After coming to the front court, Chalmers did not directly hand over the ball to James to organize, but chose to force a breakthrough directly, and before Ye Xuan could settle down to defend, Chalmers had already rushed to the free throw line and directly hit a mid-range jumper.
Ye Xuan took the ball to the front court, and then took the initiative to hand the ball to Pickled Pepper to play, after all, Pickled Pepper had fewer shots in the last game, so let Pickled Pepper fire the first shot of the Pacers in this game. After Pickled Pepper received the ball, he called Lance to help block and dismantle, and after the block was completed, Pickled Pepper took two steps inward and then made a stop-and-go jump shot, but unfortunately it was probably because he hadn't found the feel yet, and Pickled Pepper's shot smashed out of the basket.
James quickly launched a fast attack after winning the rebound, and the Pacers' Ye Xuan and Lance Stephenson's retreat speed was also very fast, seeing that there was no opportunity for a fast attack, James also gave up the idea of sneak attack, and slowly held the ball outside the three-point line and waited for his teammates to settle down.
However, the moment Bosh passed by Ye Xuan's side, James suddenly started, quickly broke through two steps inward, forcing Hibbert to come over to make up for the defense, and James, who attracted Hibbert's defense, was not in a hurry, and dribbled two steps outward, and at this time, Bosh had already stuck Ye Xuan behind him in the low position and began to ask for the ball. James's pass was immediately sent over, and Bosh hit Ye Xuan with his back, of course, it was still very easy, using his height advantage to hit a high and easily hit a board.
The Pacers served the ball in the backcourt again, and after Ye Xuan came to the front court with the ball, he did not directly hand the ball to Pickled Pepper's hand, but made a gesture for his teammates to pull away, and then he was ready to play Chalmers alone. After several consecutive crotch dribbles in front of Chalmers, Ye Xuan suddenly started to kill to the left, and Chalmers hurriedly moved sideways to the left to try to intercept Ye Xuan's breakthrough.
But who knew that Ye Xuan's footsteps to the left slowed down, a back dribble handed the ball to his right hand, and then broke through to the right, Chalmers hurriedly pounced on the right side of the defense, Ye Xuan suddenly showed a bad smile on his face, and immediately took a step back to the right and returned to the three-point line, Chalmers still wanted to make up for the defense, but he didn't notice that the center of gravity of his body had been completely shaken, and he was anxious to rush forward Chalmers fell directly to the ground with an unstable foot.
Ye Xuan's variant of the flower-wearing butterfly step can be regarded as having its due effect, after shaking Chalmers to the ground, Ye Xuan easily threw the ball outside the three-point line. After throwing in, he didn't forget to make his trademark celebration gesture, shooting at the opponent's basket, and then putting his finger to his mouth and blowing.
By this time, the Pacers' bench had blown up, and the towels were dancing like electric fans. The action of dangling the opponent directly to the ground and then throwing the ball into it with ease is also reminiscent of the original Allen Iverson. And several teammates on the field, such as Pickled Pepper Lance, also came over to high-five Ye Xuan to celebrate.
After such a small episode, the morale of the Pacers also began to rise, the running was more aggressive, and the defense was more pressing.
It's a pity that today's Heat team doesn't know if it's because of the reason for returning to the familiar court, or because of eating the expired V brother, one by one as if they were on automatic aiming, not only James hit an unreasonable three-point shot outside the three-point line, but even Battier and Chalmers have hit this kind of shot that the defensive player has sealed his hand on his face.
Although the offensive efficiency of the Pacers is also good, it has not reached the point of this kind of casual shooting, so less than 5 minutes into the game, Coach Frank called a timeout, at which time the Heat had relied on the hot touch to score 19 points, while the Pacers only scored 13 points.
During the pause, Coach Frank instructed Ye Xuan to increase the consumption of the opponent when attacking, and asked Lance Stephenson to find a way to interrupt the opponent's perverted hand with some tough moves.
Although it can also be seen that the opponent's offense mostly relies on long-range shots, relying on their fiery hand. But after the timeout, even though Lance slapped the opponent the opponent's hand when James attacked again, the opponent's hand did not diminish in the slightest, and after hitting two free throws, he hit a long-range two-point again in the following round.
With this hot touch, the Heat team took advantage of the hot iron and replaced the super shooter Ray Allen for about 7 minutes in the first quarter of the game, and the Heat's outside offense was even more unstoppable.
With 10 minutes to go in the first quarter, the Heat finally took the lead in replacing their two main players, Bosh and Wade, in favor of Chris Anderson, who has poor shooting ability, and Norris Kerr, who is shorter in height. Then he replaced Battier with Rashad Lewis.
On the Pacers' side, personnel adjustments were also made, except for Pickled Pepper and Lance, who were still on the court, Ye Xuan and the interior duo were replaced to rest. At this time, the score of the two sides has come to 27:39. The Pacers' scoring is relatively normal, but the Heat have scored nearly 40 points before the end of the first quarter, and it has to be said that their shooting percentage is really high.
Pickles and Lance stayed on the court to lead George Hill, Scola and Masimmi played for a while, and after the main force was replaced, leaving James alone to lead the Heat team, the feeling finally declined, and James was also a little uncomfortable by Lance and Pepper's alternate defense.
But fortunately, there was not much time left in the first quarter of the game, and in the remaining nearly two minutes, the Heat only relied on James' breakthrough and Lewis's three-pointer to score 5 points, while on the Pacers' side, Scola continued to play defensive black hole Lewis in the low post, hitting three balls in two minutes, and Pickled Pepper also hit a shot.