After the end of the first quarter, the scores of the two sides were relatively close, and Ye Xuan played the entire first quarter, barely allowing the Pacers to only trail by 3 points at 24:27. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that with an overdrawn style of play like Ye Xuan, it will be difficult for him to have the physical strength to effectively counterattack after the second half.

The Grizzlies are also a strong team, and last year the Memphis Grizzlies finished last season with their best performance in franchise history — 56 wins in the regular season and a run to the Western Conference Finals.

And this is only their first year at the helm of a new board of directors, and last season's Grizzlies' level of success was all the more impressive, given the management changes and the team's leading scorer, Rudy Gay, who was traded in the middle of the season. For the Grizzlies, being swept out of the playoffs by the San Antonio Spurs was a bittersweet ending to last milestone season.

The roster remains relatively stable, but the biggest change for the Grizzlies is that after Lionel Hollins was not re-contracted, their now leading head coach on the sideline has become Dave Jogle.

Ye Xuan himself also knew that if he kept playing, his physical strength would be a huge problem that plagued him, and instead of playing inefficiently on the court, he would not take a short break from the game. So at the beginning of the second quarter, Ye Xuan decisively chose to rest, and Scola and Copeland also played throughout the first quarter, so they were replaced together with Ye Xuan.

At this time, the Pacers, who are missing three main players, are stretched thin in the selection of players, and in desperation, they can only send a water cooler trio - Solomon Hill, Donald Sloan and Orlando Johnson. However, the only good news is that the Pacers' first few games ended in three consecutive quarters, which made these three water cooler managers also mixed up a lot of playing time, so it is not completely incapable of fighting now.

It's a pity that although the idea is good, but the three who rarely get the opportunity to play still seem so vulnerable when facing the Grizzlies' main lineup, although on the defensive end, the Grizzlies' shooting rate has not been too high, but they are more unbearable on the offensive end than the opposite. In just 4 minutes, Ye Xuan had to come on again to replace Orlando Johnson. At this time, the score had come to 28:38, yes, not only did the opponent score 11 points in four minutes, but he only scored 4 points.

Fortunately, after Ye Xuan came back, he immediately fired on his firepower and hit two three-pointers in a row, so that the opponent had to replace Tony Allen in advance. The Grizzlies have the ball, Conley has the ball, and he's improved a lot after a successful season last year. After Conley broke through with the dribble and flexibly passed Ye Xuan with the help of a feint, he did not choose to go inside, but distributed the ball to the 'old prince' Tayxiaan Prince.

Prince didn't shoot a lot today, but he shot 100 percent from the field, making 3 of 3 shots. Mainly because in the face of a rookie like Solomon Hill, the experienced Prince was easy to run out of the open position, and this time, it was Solomon Hill who missed the defense, and the mid-range shot inside the three-point line, Prince scored again.

Ye Xuan was helpless, so he could only remind Solomon Hill in a low voice, telling him not to get distracted, just follow the person in the opposite position and interfere. Ye Xuan controlled the ball, facing Tony Allen's kraft gum defense, Ye Xuan did his best to throw him away, and after breaking into the penalty area, Solomon Hill in the bottom corner of the side received the ball and shot three points, the excited Hill raised his finger and pointed to the sky, and then pointed at Ye Xuan to show his gratitude.

In the next two rounds, Hill, who played confidently, also learned a lesson on the defensive end, not only successfully preventing Prince's air cut, but also directly making up for the basketball knife in Coops's hand when Costa Koufors grabbed the frontcourt rebound and got up to dunk. With the play of Ye Xuan and Solomon Hill, with 3 minutes left in the second quarter, the Pacers finally chased the score to 42:47. At this time, the two sides also changed their main lineups, preparing to change the format on the field before halftime.

After George Hill came back, in order to save his physical strength, Ye Xuan still chose to hand over the ball to Hill to deal with. Hill also lived up to expectations, breaking past Conley with the ball and throwing a good shot. On the defensive end, Conley faced Ye Xuan and failed to break through Ye Xuan after two attempts, so he took a step back, controlled the ball with his right hand, and signaled his teammates to step forward to block and dismantle with his left hand.

Ye Xuan had already been waiting for the opportunity to move, when Conley gestured with his left hand, Ye Xuan rushed forward from the side, directly stabbed the ball, and then directly grabbed the ball and launched a fast attack, Conley reacted quickly, and quickly chased back after seeing Ye Xuan's steal, but unfortunately Ye Xuan's speed was very fast, facing the unguarded basket, he rushed into the free throw line and took a step, and then flew up with the ball in his right hand and "bang", and scored two points for the Pacers.

Seeing that there was only one point left in the gap, the grizzly bears had to be patient and sacrificed their 'black and white'. Randolph made a basket to the position, and Gasol Jr. mentioned the high post as a strategy, Conley used Gasol Jr. as the axis, used the bodies of Scola and Gasol Jr. as a cover to shake off Ye Xuan's defense, and hit three points outside the three-point line to stabilize the Grizzlies.

Turning his head, Ye Xuan passed the ball to Copeland, and when Copeland broke through to the inside, the ball was cut off by Quincy Bondset. At the moment when the ball was broken, Tony Allen next to Ye Xuan started, Ye Xuan was stunned for half a second, and hurriedly chased forward, Bombesett pushed forward, and the ball fell directly in front of Tony Allen, Allen stretched out his hand, grabbed the basketball and went straight to the basket with three steps to layup, seeing that the ball was about to touch the rebound, Ye Xuan pressed the ball on the rebound with both hands like a god descending from heaven, and then took off the basketball and threw it to Hibbert, who didn't have time to return to the defense, and also fell in the opponent's half.

At this time, Grizzlies head coach Dave Joggle didn't do it, he firmly believed that it was a jamming ball, grabbed the referee and didn't let go, and in desperation, the referee had to watch the replay. The playback clearly recorded everything, good hat!

Ye Xuan high-fived and celebrated with Hibbert who ran back, and secretly sighed that Sun Dasheng's chasing block was indeed powerful, worthy of being the person who overshadowed Howard in the Olympics. In the next few rounds, although the Grizzlies still wanted to force the interior, the interior line guarded by Hibbert was not so easy to be attacked, and after a few rounds of stalemate, the two teams ended the first half of the game 49-51.