Chapter 354: After the game

At the end of the game, the Pacers finally lost 123-117 in their final game of February after winning 12 games in a row. After the whole game, Ye Xuan's data hit 43 points, 11 assists and 2 steals, and Hibbert also had 27 points and 14 rebounds, but two of the opponent's big three were all powerful, and Lefu had already scored 50+ in the first three quarters of the game, although Lefu did not have many opportunities in the last quarter of the game, but after the whole game, his score still came to 59 points, one point short of 60.

And the best of the game, but not to the highest scoring Lefou, but to today's sudden burst of his full strength Jade, James played a total of 42 minutes in the whole game, playing as much time as Ye Xuan, but he got 44 points plus 12 assists at the same time, he also grabbed 11 rebounds, and he also had 4 blocks. The two giants combined for 103 points, and the remaining group of people gave away a total of 20 points, and there is no one in this Cavaliers' strange data.

After this game, the Pacers began a relatively easy March schedule, with a total of 15 games this month, but the vast majority of their opponents were some fish-belly teams, such as their next opponent, the 76ers, and the next opponent, the New York Knicks, who lost Anthony. These teams are like experience babies for the Pacers, and there is no pressure to play.

And at the end of the month, the Pacers will face a new challenge, and they will face the Cavaliers again at the end of the month, and then they will play the Rockets. The battle with the Bulls and the Wizards will only be played at the end of this month, but at that time, it will not be Ye Xuan who will come to play against these teams alone, because Pickled Pepper will return at that time.

After losing this game, Ye Xuan began to be a little dissatisfied with his current strength, mainly because he was really a little unsatisfactory in the face of Dellavedova's kraft candy defense, this is just a little-known Dellavedova, if he encounters Tony Allen or Leonard again, then it must explode again?

And after this game, the Pacers had another problem, last month, it was Hibbert's bad state, which caused the team to start preparing to trade, but in the end, Hibbert found his form with the help of Ye Xuan, and now not only does not cause a drag on the team, but also has become a thigh other than Ye Xuan, if there is no Hibbert's brave play, the Pacers will not be able to win the Thunder and the Warriors in the first two games.

But West's situation is different, unlike Hibbert, West is not a standing post inside, his offensive style also relies on his single shot after holding the ball or the jump shot after blocking and dismantling to score, in the past, Ye Xuan's passing also liked to find West's point, but now West's shooting rate has dropped a little bit, and because the style of play is getting softer and softer, Ye Xuan doesn't like to pass the ball to him very much.

And after the team's tactics slowly tilted to the outside, West has less ball possession in the team, and in the last 20 games, West also averaged only 10.4 shots per game, a decrease of about 5 compared to last season, and his playing time has also decreased, West, who averaged 32.8 minutes per game last season, has dropped to 26 minutes per game this season, because more often, the Pacers' lineup is one big and four small, and sometimes even a dozen waves of five small lineups, which is one of the reasons for West's serious decline.

Of course, one of the most important reasons is that West himself no longer has the fighting spirit, after winning a championship ring of his dreams last season, West now feels a little desireless, playing less desperately than before, and not as active in training as before. When a person has lost his fighting spirit, no matter how much others help him, it is useless.

The top management of the Pacers is also very headache now, originally the team had West and Scola two very mature power forwards in the first two seasons, so the reinforcement of the position of the big forward has not been something that the Pacers management needs to consider, and in the playoffs last season, West's performance is still very good, so this season the top management of the Pacers signed a little O'Neal with the veteran's base salary to fill the vacancy during the period when West was injured. There were no other interior players introduced, and as a result, they didn't expect West's state to decline so badly, and the result is that now the trade period has ended, and the Pacers' original strong power forward position has become a shortcoming, as evidenced by the fact that this game allowed Love to score 59 points.

The most important thing is that the Pacers are still aiming to win the championship this season, and the Spurs have Duncan, the Warriors have Green, and the Rockets' power forward is not particularly powerful, but there is also a Howard who needs a big forward to cover the defense, not to mention the Cavaliers' Lefou, who has just blown West out in the East, and the two all-around interior lines Millsap and Horford of the Eastern leader Hawks this season.

So the only thing the Pacers can do now is to try to find a way to help West adjust to his condition, or get Scola back to the starting position, otherwise, West's position will definitely become a breakthrough for opponents in the playoffs. In fact, at the beginning, Ye Xuan was also going to feed West like feeding the ball to Hibbert, but West's current competitive state and his attitude are a little incomprehensible, sometimes after blocking and dismantling, he shoots in the empty position, which is even better, it can be attributed to poor feeling, but you have a chance to catch the ball, but you don't shoot, what does it mean to pass it back to the outside?

So after coming and going, Ye Xuan didn't bother to help him find his state, and West's attitude was also obvious, his brother is now famous, he doesn't need to work hard, now it's just a matter of eating and waiting for death, which is also the reason why Ye Xuan is most annoyed, but unfortunately although Ye Xuan is now the core of the team, he is not the leader of the locker room, so Ye Xuan is not very easy to blame West, a senior.