Chapter 390: Breaking the Game
Not long after the Pacers replaced the main force, the Hawks immediately replaced all their main forces, and in the last game, they suffered a loss of being rotated by the opponent's main force to open up the point difference, so in this game, Mike Budenholzer also learned smartly, and all the main forces were the same as Ye Xuan and Pickled Pepper.
In the second quarter of the game, the two teams still played back and forth, so the difference was not further stretched, but because the Hawks' substitute was in better shape today, the difference was narrowed to 2 points, and in the subsequent games, both teams were unable to expand the difference to more than 5 points or narrow to less than 2 points, and at the end of the second quarter, the two teams played 48:45.
At halftime, the Pacers have been thinking about the strategy against the enemy, although it seems that their team is still in an advantage, but in the case of the opponent's bench lineup, once the main force of the Pacers is replaced, then their remaining 3-point advantage may be wiped out in an instant, just when Coach Frank was at a loss, Ye Xuan thought of a way, he has not used the physical recovery potion now, in this critical game, Ye Xuan decided to play two quarters of the game in the second half, and he didn't go out directly, firstly, so that the team would not suffer when facing the opponent's substitute players, and on the other hand, he also wanted to consume more of the opponent's main forces, so that the main forces such as pickled peppers had the opportunity to end the game in the final stage of the game.
After telling Coach Frank his thoughts, Frank Vogel was also a little surprised, comparing Ye Xuan's biggest problem is that there are some physical defects, although there have been games with more than 40 minutes in the regular season this season, but this is only a few games after all, and it is still the regular season, and now the intensity of the playoffs is not comparable to the regular season, but seeing that Ye Xuan is very confident in proposing this plan, he simply agreed directly.
At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, the Pacers were still the same as in the second half of the second quarter, and the opponent kept stalemate, one of the two sides had an advantage on the inside, and the other side relied on the advantage of the backcourt to make a fuss on the outside, although there were a few rounds in the middle The Pacers suddenly expanded the score gap to 7 points, but then the Hawks continued to find opportunities on the inside to return the Pacers a 6:0, narrowing the difference to one point.
In this way, the two teams were deadlocked until there were only two minutes left in the third quarter, and the Pacers took the lead in making personnel adjustments, Coach Frank replaced Pickle Pepper and Solomon Hill and Scola out, leaving Ye Xuan and Hibbert to support the situation, and the Hawks also made personnel adjustments, Millsap was replaced, Teague and Carroll were also replaced, leaving Korver, who did not play much time in the first half.
But it is obvious that Korwall and Shelton-Mark's backcourt combination has no power to fight back in the face of a guard of Ye Xuan's level, and after the main players were replaced, Ye Xuan scored 8 points in a row in the last two minutes of the third quarter, although they also hit a three-pointer and played a 2+1, but the pressure brought by Ye Xuan to them has been revealed.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Pacers also replaced Hibbert, but they still put Ye Xuan on the court, and the opponent's substitutions were also particular, replacing Horford and Korver, who played the whole third quarter, with Teague who rested for about two minutes. They originally wanted Teague to chase back the point difference while the Pacers' main players were all replaced, but they didn't expect that the Pacers didn't let Ye Xuan rest.
Mike Budenholzer on the Hawks bench is also beating the drum in his heart, he knows that his team has nothing to do with Ye Xuan, when the main team is attacking, his team also has an absolute advantage on the inside, so he can play back and forth with the Pacers, and now his main forces are all resting off the court, how can this be good to face Ye Xuan, who has overturned his entire team by himself.
Ye Xuan also as early as the fourth quarter of the game before the start, he quietly knocked off the large physical strength recovery potion off the court, and instantly restored his physical strength, which had already dropped to less than 40%, to more than 65%, and in the last quarter of the game, Ye Xuan, who still had more than 60% physical strength, was very terrifying.
After holding the ball and coming to the front court, Ye Xuan seemed to have returned to the night when he faced the Raptors with 82 points this season, no matter how many opponents he faced, Ye Xuan's goal was only one, that is, the basket, Teague also tried to interfere with Ye Xuan's offensive footsteps, but he didn't expect Ye Xuan to have such physical strength to complete a breakthrough of this speed in the fourth quarter of the game, and he was forcibly overtaken by Ye Xuan in two strokes, and Ye Xuan was even more like no one after entering the inner line. Pero Antich, who was coming from the defense, hit the ball directly with a difficult pull-up rod, and also won a defensive foul.
After hitting the free throw, the Hawks instantly extended their lead to 8 points, Mike Budenholzer couldn't sit still, and Millsap, who had been resting for two and a half minutes, didn't want to lose the game like this, so he took the initiative to ask for a game. In this way, Ye Xuan only took 15 seconds to beat the Hawks to the point of being forced to make substitutions at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and at the end of the timeout, the Hawks replaced Millsap again.
However, there is still no movement on the Pacers' side, and they still put Pickle Pepper and others off the court to rest, and it seems that they are preparing for the final decisive moment. The game restarted, the Hawks because they had been replaced by Millsap, so they decisively shifted the focus of the offense to the inside, after Teague controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, he directly passed the ball to Millsap who wanted to live in the position of the inside, and the god of rice was backed by O'Neal Jr., and suddenly there was a virtual and real shaking like a dream footstep, which directly deceived the little O'Neal who had been out of battle for a long time and then leaned on O'Neal Jr., and successfully deceived the foul, And the basketball that was thrown out of his hand was fortunately knocked on the rebound and rebounded, and rebounded back to the basket, 2+1! As soon as Mishen came on the court, he returned a 2+1 to the Pacers, and instantly helped the Hawks stabilize the situation.