Chapter 396: The Decisive Moment (I)

After the substitution ended, the Hawks immediately relied on their interior advantage to attack, and although Scola tried his best to defend, he still couldn't stop Horford's offense, and after being shaken off twice, the opponent easily hit two points. On the Pacers' side, as the shooting rate began to decline, the offense came to a standstill, and Ye Xuan, who was originally very efficient and useful, helped his outside teammates find offensive opportunities, and now it suddenly failed, and the Pacers finally hit a mid-range shot, and then hit three more shots in a row, which caused the Hawks to quickly expand the difference to more than 5 points.

And what's more serious is that Ye Xuan, who the Pacers have always relied on, was heavily guarded by the opponent at this time, and there was no chance to play for a while, which made Coach Frank, who had been habitually pinning his hopes of winning on Ye Xuan's personal ability this season, seem a little at a loss. But fortunately, at this time, Pickle Pepper stepped up, and when the Hawks were about to re-expand the gap to 10 points, he suddenly hit a long-range three-pointer for the Pacers to force the gap to 6 points.

In the next few rounds, Ye Xuan also found that Pickled Pepper now has a better feel, and there is still only one Carol who is guarding him, so Ye Xuan decisively began to help Pickled Pepper create offensive opportunities, and Pickled Pepper did not live up to Ye Xuan's expectations, in the next 10 rounds, 8 of the Pacers' offenses were ended by Pickled Pepper, and Pickled Pepper hit 5 of them very efficiently, although it seems that the shooting rate is not particularly high, but in the case of poor hand feeling of the players on both teamsThose five goals are enough to change the outcome of a game.

The game went on until there were more than 3 minutes left in the third quarter, and at this time, the Hawks had no time to take care of the pickled peppers because they had been focusing on Ye Xuan's defense, so the Pacers slowly narrowed the difference of nearly ten points again, knowing that when Coach Frank replaced Ye Xuan to rest, the Hawks only had a 2-point lead.

In fact, this can't be blamed on the Eagles, they don't mean that they just stand stupidly and let the pickled peppers play infinitely singles, but when they go to wrap the pickled peppers, Ye Xuan, who gets the opportunity, will suddenly come out and suddenly give the Eagles a good look with three points and breakthroughs, compared to a singles Ye Xuan, the Eagles are more willing to let Carroll go to the pickled peppers alone, at least there is a little chance to defend the ball.

When Ye Xuan was replaced to rest, Pickled Pepper still stayed on the court to lead the substitutes to play, and the playing time of Pickled Pepper in the first half of this game was slightly shorter, so it shouldn't be a problem to support it a little now, and sure enough, in the remaining three minutes, although the opponent still let Millsap and Korver steal points on the court, they still couldn't reopen the difference until the end of the third quarter.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, the Pacers re-replaced Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan's physical strength at this time was relatively sufficient, because in the third quarter of the game, due to the outbreak of pickled peppers, Ye Xuan played relatively easily, and the physical consumption was naturally smaller, so he also directly applied off the court to play at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then played the whole game.

Playing with Ye Xuan, Solomon Hill, who didn't get much playing time in the third quarter of the game, and Shambaugh, who didn't feel particularly good in the first few quarters of the game, in addition, the two on the inside are Ma Simmy and O'Neal Jr., who haven't played much recently. O'Neal Jr. now has a mentality, that is, to mix a championship with the Pacers, and then retire with peace of mind, as for playing time, data, contract renewal, he hasn't thought about these things at all, and now O'Neal Jr. is no longer the All-Star interior who can fight against the roaring Tianzun, but the existence of O'Neal Jr. has helped the Pacers' locker room atmosphere to be more harmonious.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the opponent also replaced Millsap, one of the two cores who played the whole third quarter, and replaced Horford, another core who was replaced and rested early. However, they didn't expect the Pacers to send O'Neal Jr. to play, so their power forward was Pero Antich. This gave the Pacers a chance to attack the inside, Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court and passed the ball directly to the little O'Neal on the inside, although the little O'Neal is not as good as before, but the strength and technology are still there, the bamboo pole that floats on the outside line all day and night is not a matter of hitting it in two strokes, the first single, a small hook shot, after the basketball hit the iron, O'Neal Jr. reacted quickly, immediately stuck the position and then jumped the ball to the basket again, and the basketball turned around and finally fell into the basket.

O'Neal Jr. succeeded in single, and the Pacers were still 2 points behind their opponents, but the Pacers were shaking the towel on their hands frantically on the bench as if they had won the game. However, in retrospect, O'Neal Jr.'s age disadvantage also became apparent, and his speed was not enough to support him to follow Antich, which led to Antich finding an open shot in the outside run, and quickly catching the ball and hitting a long-range two-pointer, which was also considered to be a return to the Pacers.

And the Pacers don't really want to let O'Neal Jr. take the main offense on this side, so in the second round of attack, Ye Xuan began to control the situation again, after coming to the front court, Ye Xuan called out O'Neal Jr. to help block and dismantle, and then used the cover to pass Shervin Mark in front of him, and then accelerated to dodge Antich, who pounced to make up for the defense, and then continued to take two steps to the inside, and scored two points with a stop-and-go jump shot.

The Hawks served in the backcourt, and after receiving the ball, Shervin Mark was about to turn around and bring the ball to the front court, but he was still too careless, and Ye Xuan behind him seized the opportunity to directly cut off the basketball in his hand, and Horford, who served in the backcourt, immediately pounced at this time to prevent Ye Xuan from scoring a direct dunk, but Ye Xuan obviously didn't want to score a two-point, after the break, Ye Xuan not only did not break through, but the two crotch dribbling steps back adjusted his position to a 45-degree angle outside the left three-point line, At this time, Horford and Shervin Mark reacted and wanted to pounce on the block, but unfortunately it was too late, Ye Xuan easily threw this unguarded three-point shot in, not only successfully smoothed out the point difference, but now surpassed the opponent by 1 point.