Chapter 355: Half Moon Time (I)
After entering March, the NBA is no longer the basketball game that the American people pay the most attention to, because the NCAA has entered the Sweet March schedule, and now the NCAA is more concerned than the NBA, and even many NBA stars have gone to the NCAA arena to watch the potential stars they think are more optimistic.
And the Pacers, on the side, also started their own Eastern N company, No. 2, the Pacers first ushered in the sad 76ers, who had just been ravaged by the Pacers, but after less than a week, they immediately had to face the Pacers who had just been terminated with 12 consecutive wins, and the Pacers generals who had been killed by the Cavaliers in the last game had not been very happy, and this game did not leave a little mercy, and in the first quarter of the game, they used the strong firepower on the outside to beat the opponent 35:23, He led his opponent by 12 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, under the leadership of Smith and Scola, the 76ers were defeated, and Ye Xuan originally said that he would continue to play and brush up the data when he was halfway through the second quarter, but he didn't expect that by the time he played, the Pacers were already ahead by almost 20 points, so after Ye Xuan played, he was a little embarrassed to continue to play dead, and went up and brushed 7 points and 4 assists, and after brushing his data to 20 points and 10 assists, Ye Xuan was replaced again.
At the end of the game, the main players of the Pacers only played less than 20 minutes, and the 76ers lost points like crazy, facing the benches of the Pacers played very hard, and finally lost by 44 points with 78:112 points, and the 44-point difference also created the largest point difference played by the Pacers this season, and it expanded a lot at once, after all, the highest in front was 30 points ahead of the opponent or something.
After two days of rest, the No. 5 Pacers welcomed the Knicks who lost Anthony on their home court, and the Knicks can now be said to be close to the bottom of the table, so there is no tactic at all, it is all the Sanda mode of who takes the ball and who attacks. So when the Pacers faced the Knicks, they played very easily, Ye Xuan and others clocked out of work in two quarters again, although the average playing time per game went down, but the average data per game also began to decline, and Ye Xuan's average score per game dropped to 33.7 points after these two games.
Subsequently, the Pacers finally ushered in a relatively strong opponent, the Bulls, who are currently ranked fourth in the East, and the Pacers are also careful to respond, the focus of this game is the contest between Rose and Ye Xuan, Rose, as the youngest regular season MVP winner, the rise of the year is exactly the same as Ye Xuan, almost single-handedly, bringing the team to a very high position, but now Rose due to injuries, so the state has not been particularly good, That's why I slowly withdrew from everyone's sight.
But in this game, I don't know if Windy City Rose is possessed by Jordan, or dreaming back to 2011, the state is surprisingly good, in the face of Ye Xuan's defense, he was not stunned at all, and even under the sudden throw, he got 29 points and 8 assists in the first three quarters of the game, and although Ye Xuan also wanted to compete with Rose, it was Jimmy Butler who defended him. Butler's defense made Ye Xuan a little annoying, although he was not as perverted as Leonard, but it also had a certain impact on Ye Xuan's offense, and the result was that Ye Xuan only scored 23 points and 6 assists in the first three quarters of the game. The Pacers were also limited by the core Ye Xuan, and Hibbert was only able to fight Noah on the inside, so they trailed the Bulls by 11 points at the end of the first three quarters.
In the last quarter of the game, Ye Xuan was forced to use a bottle of small physical recovery potion, wanting to break out in the fourth quarter of the game and bring back the disadvantages of the first three quarters of the game in one fell swoop. It made the Pacers even worse.
So in the last few minutes, even though Ye Xuan played a wave of 4 three-pointers in a row, the Pacers still trailed the Bulls by as many as 6 points. At the last minute, Ye Xuan still wanted to try to overtake the score back, but unfortunately the Bulls were very steady, basically every round had to consume as much time as possible, and finally after Ye Xuan failed to shoot three points again, the Pacers could only announce their surrender.
In this game with the Bulls, Ye Xuan played a total of 41 minutes, although the first three quarters of the game were not particularly good, but he scored 21 points in the fourth quarter and almost led the Pacers to complete the turnaround, but the Bulls relied on Rose who regained his form and Gasol, who dreamed of returning to 2010, to carry Ye Xuan's wave of outbursts, and in the end, the Pacers could only accept losing to one of their main competitors at the Conseco Arena, the Bulls.
This is the Pacers' ranking has fallen from second in the East to third in the East, and because of the direct loss to the fourth Bulls in the East behind them, the difference between the Bulls and the Pacers is only 2 games.
After the game with the Bulls, the Pacers are going to start non-stop, because they have a back-to-back game waiting for them the next day, but the good news is that their back-to-back opponents are the New York Knicks who have just been beaten by the Pacers. In other words, the New York Knicks, who have made 84 shots in the whole game, only 11 balls were scored by teamwork, and the rest were either hit by iron or forced singles.
Such an opponent also made Ye Xuan happy, 29 points and 9 assists, which were all obtained in the first half, the most important thing is Ye Xuan's steal data, Ye Xuan, who played for 19 minutes in the whole game, won 8 steals, an average of a little more than 2 minutes of a steal, the efficiency is simply explosive, if it weren't for Ye Xuan himself being a little embarrassed, maybe he would be able to brush up the first triple-double of his career in the second half.