After the win over the Suns, the Pacers will face the Trail Blazers, who knocked out the Rockets in the first round of the Western Conference last season. The Trail Blazers' personnel changes this season are not particularly large, and it is still LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard who are the core of the interior and exterior respectively, creating pressure on the opponent at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and then the all-round small forward Nicolas Batum and mascot killer Robin Lopez and others have good adaptability and ability to open up space, which also gives the two cores room to show.

Overall, as long as the Trail Blazers don't encounter any injuries or anything like that, the strength is still very strong. On December 5, the Pacers arrived in Portland on time to challenge the Trail Blazers. After the start of the game, Ye Xuan's side showed his amazing combat effectiveness, in the face of Lillard's defense, Ye Xuan's still played relatively easily, on the one hand, because Lillard's height and weight are not dominant, on the other hand, it is also because Lillard himself is also a player with strong offense and weak defense, just like Irving of the Cavaliers, although the offensive ability is really strong, but their defense can only be ranked in the middle and lower reaches of this position.

Therefore, Ye Xuan's singles success rate is still quite high, in just 3 minutes of the opening game, Ye Xuan made 6 shots, and shot 4 of them, scoring 10 points. One of the two balls that missed was not able to shoot because Ye Xuan was interfered with by Aldridge who came to make up for the defense after Ye Xuan burst in.

And the tactical arrangement of the Trail Blazers does not seem to be ready to change anything, still letting Lillard come to the opposite position with Ye Xuan, thinking that like the Cavaliers, Lillard hopes that Lillard will put a little pressure on Ye Xuan on the offensive end, so as to increase Ye Xuan's physical consumption. But their wishful thinking was wrong, Ye Xuan played the first quarter of the game, and did not show the slightest fatigue, although the Pacers' offensive and defensive ends were supported by Ye Xuan alone, but Ye Xuan did not feel particularly tired this time, and did not deliberately collect the fight to retain his strength.

So at the end of the first quarter, the Pacers led the opponent by 8 points with Ye Xuan's excellent play. After entering the second quarter, Ye Xuan rested for 4 minutes off the court, and it was not until the second quarter of the game when the opponent relied on the rotation of the main forces to tie the score, Ye Xuan was replaced. At this time, the opponent can be regarded as open, and relying solely on the rotation of the consumption of the two main players cannot play the feeling of the Cavaliers, so Terry Stottes decisively changed the original tactical thinking and sent Batum to defend Ye Xuan instead.

Batum was originally a big front and small front all-you-can-eat position, but after being arranged to defend Ye Xuan, the speed was not particularly disadvantaged, which suddenly made Ye Xuan even more uncomfortable on the offensive end, but fortunately, after Ye Xuan's side attracted Batum's defense, Solomon Hill's long-range offensive firepower was also liberated, so the Pacers' side did not let the opponent catch up with the score at the end of the second quarter, and they still led by 5 points into halftime.

At this time, Ye Xuan was actually still a little less physical, after the first half, Ye Xuan's physical exertion had already exceeded half, although after an intermission recovery, Ye Xuan's physical strength began to slowly rise, but time passed quickly, when the third quarter of the game was about to start, Ye Xuan's physical strength on this side was probably only recovered to about 60%.

And this physical strength does not mean that you can play well as long as you still have physical strength, once the physical strength drops below 30%, the efficiency of shooting and breaking through will become relatively low, and then let Ye Xuan take on the heavy responsibility of both offensive and defensive ends, it is estimated that Ye Xuan will be tired to death if he does not hold on to the end of the game. Therefore, when Ye Xuan was about to appear, he hurriedly touched a bottle of small physical recovery potion in the system.

As a result, after seeing the real thing in his hand, Ye Xuan immediately wanted to complain again, looking at the small blue bottle in his hand with a diameter of about 1 cm and a height of about 10 cm, Ye Xuan couldn't help but think of the thing he had drunk in his previous life when he was in China, "The calcium in the blue bottle, the delicious calcium?" ”

However, after drinking this thing, Ye Xuan suddenly became a little more energetic, as if he had taken a stimulant, when he thought of stimulants, Ye Xuan suddenly nervous, and asked the system, "Xiaokong, can you find out this thing in the urine test after the game?" Won't you get me some urine test positive and just ban me from the game? ”

"Master, please rest assured, the things produced by the system are all natural and have no side effects, natural herbal essences, not chemical synthetic agents, and will not be detected by any testing."

Listening to the explanation that the system read one by one and felt that the advertising words were the same thing, Ye Xuan just wanted to continue to complain, but Coach Frank next to him was already beckoning him to prepare to play at this time, Ye Xuan had to quickly suppress his soul of complaining, and then moved his hands and feet and prepared to play.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Trail Blazers began to exert their strength, first of all, Aldridge, the boss of the Trail Blazers, who continued to beat David West on the inside of the Pacers.

After three consecutive rounds of being beaten by their opponents with the same moves, the Pacers had to change their alignment, opting to let Hibbert defend Aldridge and West go hand-to-hand with mascot killer Robin Lopez. After changing defenses, Hibbert has more experience in the face of Aldridge's turn-over jumper, after all, he is also against Bosh, Garnett, Nowitzki, Duncan, these monsters who turned over and jumped, and they have more experience.

Although West is still uncomfortable with this kind of matchup, it is undoubtedly the best choice for the Pacers. The opponent originally thought that Ye Xuan would start to have physical problems after playing for a while in the third quarter under such a high-intensity offensive and defensive conversion, but the result was beyond their expectations, because Ye Xuan not only played nearly 20 minutes in the first half, but Ye Xuan still played for 10 minutes in the third quarter of the game, and after the third quarter of the game, the Pacers relied on Ye Xuan's excellent play and the good feel of other players, and kept the gap in the score at about 10 points, leading by 10 points into the fourth quarter. It's also good news for the Pacers.