Chapter 381: Second Round

After winning the MVP of the regular season, Ye Xuan was also very excited, because after winning this award, Ye Xuan is basically equivalent to a career slam, except for a best rookie who has no chance with him, and the MVP trophy of the All-Star Game has not been won for the time being, Ye Xuan has basically won all the other awards, regular season MVP, championship, finals MVP, best team! It's all in your pocket.

However, for Ye Xuan, now is not the time to celebrate, so after learning that Ye Xuan won the MVP, the Pacers players are just blackmailing Ye Xuan for a Chinese meal, because what they have to greet next is the Hawks, who have played 60 wins this season. Even the Hawks almost swept the Pacers in the regular season, although there was a game in which the Pacers won under the leadership of Ye Xuan, but the two teams had a record in the regular season. It was still the Hawks who led 3-1.

Soon the time came when the game was about to start, at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, the whistle was officially blown in the second round of the series between the Pacers and the Hawks, Hibbert pressed Horford to give the racket to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan was not greedy for merit, and after coming to the front court, he waited for his teammates to settle down before he started to attack, using his personal ability to shake off Jeff Teague in front of him, and then a hand-to-hand pass stuffed the ball into West's hands, and West took the ball and easily hit the board and shot the ball.

Looking back, the Hawks also started their own offense, and they also knew where the Pacers' goal was, so after Teague came to the frontcourt, he directly passed the ball to Millsap on the inside, and after Mishen received the ball, he directly chose to hit West with his back, and after West's symbolic resistance twice, he was knocked away by the opponent, and after knocking away West, Millsap also easily scored two points.

Coach Frank immediately frowned on the court, but fortunately, the outside strength of the Pacers has an absolute advantage, and now after the return of Pickled Pepper, Carol does not dare to defend Ye Xuan, a single Teague, Ye Xuan is not casually kneading, so after making a collision with Shambaugh, Ye Xuan's side passed Teague again, and Ye Xuan, who entered the inside line, scored two more points with a stop-and-go jumper, and the game was not too easy and freehand.

But looking back, Millsap continued to bully West on the inside, the two of them were still playing each other last season, and West, who had slipped too much this season, became the one who was at an absolute disadvantage, seeing West being carried away again, Hibbert's side immediately went over to make up for the defense, but Millsap came to an inside pass, and Horford directly received the ball and dunked to score two more points.

The Pacers' interior line has not been beaten through by the opponent like today since three seasons ago, but now it seems that this interior combination is no longer as stable as before, and Coach Frank off the court has also begun to think about future changes, fortunately, Ye Xuan still has an absolute advantage on the outside, turning Teague around, and Carol also has to be distracted to make up for the defense, so that the outside line of the Pacers is open, although the Pacers occupy the advantage of the outside, Relying on three-point points and other points to occupy the advantage of the score for a while, but this score is not very stable, with the ups and downs of the shooting percentage, the Hawks can also bite the score.

Nine minutes into the first quarter, the Hawks began to change lineups, replacing Millsap, Jeff Teague and Korver with substitutes, while the Pacers' side also said Hibbert, West and Pickle Pepper were replaced by Masimmy and Smith, and as for Shambaugh, he was replaced by Solomon Hill as early as when the TV was off.

The contest between the two teams and a half bench lineup instantly changed the situation on the field, and it was originally able to rely on the inside advantage to maintain the score within an acceptable range, but after the inside line was missing a thigh, it was suddenly not easy to use, and the outside substitutes were suppressed by Ye Xuan and Solomon Hill together, and they couldn't turn up any wind and waves at all.

This season, after losing Louis Williams, the Eagles' bench strength has indeed declined, which is also Mike Budenholzer's biggest headache, usually he uses one or two main players to play with substitutes, in order to delay until the main players recover their strength, but now they have met the opponent's bench strength is very good, the most important thing is that Ye Xuan is still on the court, making the opponent play very uncomfortable.

At the end of the first quarter, with the advantage of substitutions, the Pacers played an 11:6 in the last three minutes of the first quarter, winning the opponent by five points, plus the previous 3 points, the lead was instantly extended to 8 points, and the opponent won 8 points in a single quarter, which is already a very good result. At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, both teams invariably replaced the main force that played the whole first quarter of the game, and after Ye Xuan left the game, the pressure on the opponent was much less, but they still had to face the back line composed of Pickled Pepper and Solomon Hill.

On the inside, although after Horford was also replaced, the Hawks' interior line seemed a little empty, but their Pero Antich and Michael Scott's style of play, which was all floating on the outside, also made the Pacers' side of the pile inside a little uncomfortable, so the two teams suddenly returned to the rhythm at the beginning of the last quarter, the Pacers used the point of pickled pepper on the outside to attack the opponent, and the opponent used Antich's three points to constantly involve the Pacers' defense, As a result, the Pacers' defense looked a little chaotic, and then Shervin Mark waited for an opportunity to sneak up at any moment.

Fortunately, the time for the substitutes to fight is not much of a derby, and it didn't take long for the two teams to replace their main forces again, when Ye Xuan returned to the court, the score difference between the two teams had not changed, and it was still an eight-point difference, but it could be seen that the Hawks would suffer more, because they had to replace Horford and Carroll in advance, and on the Pacers' side, Ye Xuan didn't play 40 minutes a game once or twice, so he didn't feel anything. In addition to Ye Xuan's first round, he didn't use a bottle of physical strength potion, so now it can be said that there is enough ammunition, it's really annoying, and it is not impossible to play for 48 minutes in a game.