Chapter 223: It's Time to Show Your True Skills

After finishing their last preseason game, the Pacers ushered in a period of 5 days off, although the 5 days of rest was not particularly sufficient for the Pacers, but it also gave the Pacers time to readjust to their new teammates, after 5 days of emergency training, the Pacers players finally adapted to the style of play of O'Neal Jr., a big forward who has been clubbed inside.

It's October 30 in a blink of an eye, and the Pacers are about to welcome their first opponent in the regular season at 7 p.m., but I have to say that the Pacers' first opponent is really a bit unsightly, as the 76ers, who finished at the bottom of the league last season, their record is only slightly better than the Bucks.

However, before the game began, the Pacers held a grand championship ceremony on their home court, handing out last season's championship ring. It's going to be a tough season for the Pacers, but at least the ring can give them a little bit of confidence. -Smith and Shambaugh have strengthened their belief in playing well with the Pacers.

And the 76ers did not strengthen their team with such a poor record last season, but their high draft picks did not strengthen their team, because Joel Embiid, who was very optimistic about them, was injured directly after being selected, and it is expected that he will not have the opportunity to play for the whole season, so this season's 76ers are estimated to be like that, and Michael Carter Williams will play casually.

The game officially began, Hibbert slapped the basketball to Shambaud in front of Nolens Knoll, and Shambaud quickly handed the ball to Ye Xuan, who naturally looked very relaxed in the face of McCarvey's defense. Although the opponent is in the same grade as himself, and even he won the best rookie of the previous year, in Ye Xuan's opinion, McCarvey is no longer qualified to be on an equal footing with him, because he has already won the championship and the finals MVP and other honors that he can't reach.

So after Ye Xuan slowly controlled the ball and came to the front court, he decisively made a gesture, signaled all his teammates to pull away, and then began to prepare to fight the opponent alone. McCarvey was obviously also on guard, and immediately sank down to prepare to defend Ye Xuan, but unfortunately he still underestimated Ye Xuan's improvement during this holiday, just two simple changes of direction and a Buddha worship action, Ye Xuan easily shook the opponent away.

After passing the McCarvey, Ye Xuan faced the opponent's defensive gate and was about to force a layup, Noel naturally couldn't let Ye Xuan get his wish, and immediately flew up to prepare to block Ye Xuan, if it was Ye Xuan last season, he might only be forced to divide the ball under the opponent's defense, but unfortunately this season's Ye Xuan got Jordan's difficult layup, so Ye Xuan, who had been in the air for a long time, directly made two or three moves in the air in a row, and then threw the ball from the other side of the basket into the basket.

As soon as he scored such a difficult goal at the beginning, Ye Xuan naturally would not miss this opportunity to pretend to be forced, but Ye Xuan did not choose to do his signature celebration moves, but developed a new set of moves. I saw Ye Xuan open his hands and make a small bird flapping his wings, probably wanting to say that his stay in the air was like having wings.

The subsequent game is simply a copy of this round, the Pacers under the leadership of Ye Xuan quickly beat the opponent to the north, and the opponent is obviously not thinking about winning, so McCarvey is still the same as last season, fighting for his own data, teammates have no absolute vacant opportunities, McCarvey generally chooses not to pass, and if teammates have vacancy, McCarvey's first reaction after passing the ball is also to rush to the inside to grab rebounds, not to return to defense.

In this way, the Pacers found a lot of opportunities to counterattack, Ye Xuan's ability to promote the fast break should not be underestimated, in the first half alone, Ye Xuan even threw and passed to help himself and his teammates score a total of 14 points of fast break points, yes, there were even two rounds of fast attack, Ye Xuan actually chose to chase three points.

Because the difference in strength between the two teams was too obvious, so in less than 6 minutes of the third quarter of the game, Coach Frank chose to replace Ye Xuan and other main players, because at this time the Pacers were already 19 points ahead of the opponent, and Ye Xuan easily brushed up on a double-double in the first half of this game, which was also something that everyone did not expect.

Because after the lack of pickled peppers and West, everyone thought that Ye Xuan could only carry the banner of attack alone, so they predicted that Ye Xuan's score would usher in a blowout, but because there were no reliable other scoring points, Ye Xuan's assists would decline. But Ye Xuan only took half a game to slap these ball critics in the face.

Ye Xuan, who played 25 minutes, has easily scored 21 points and 11 assists, helping the Pacers lead by as many as 19 points at 72:53 with half of the third quarter remaining.

And the rest of the Pacers also played well, Solomon Hill's 9 points, Shambaugh's 7 points, and Smith's 8 points were all scored in 20 minutes of playing time, on the other hand, the 76ers, basically except for singles is singles, McCarvey relied on his crazy shots, and got 18 points, but unfortunately 17 shots were too much.

In this way, the first game of the new season of the Pacers won the final victory bloodlessly, although he only played 25 minutes, but Ye Xuan, who scored a double-double score of 20+10, was finally named the best player of the game. And because the opponent's resistance is really small, the Pacers didn't leak any flaws in this game.

Experts from the outside world were also surprised, because in their predictions, even if the Pacers can defeat the 76ers, but in the case of two of the team's top three scorers, the Pacers should not win so easily, but unfortunately Ye Xuan only took half a game to prove that it was reasonable for him to win the Finals MVP, after all, in the face of the Spurs' iron bucket defense and Leonard's death entanglement, he was able to score 40+ high scores.

After winning this game, the atmosphere in the Pacers team has also changed from a little doubtful to a confident one. And using a win as a start to his new season is also very good for other players on the Pacers, especially O'Neal Jr., who has just joined, although he did not play for too long in this game, but in the limited 8 minutes of playing time, he still got 3 dunk opportunities with the help of Ye Xuan, and scored 6 points and 3 boards, which made him full of confidence that he could return to the NBA arena.