Chapter Twenty-Three: Caught in a Bitter Battle
On the commentary stage, it was still TNT's cross talk group, and O'Neal was the first to speak: "That's why I don't like the Spurs, they are too sensible, like an accurate mechanical watch, every part of the interior cooperates with each other to form a perfect whole, but it also makes the game lose its charm it should have, without a trace of passion, I think Popovich led the Spurs more like an army than a basketball team." ”
Barkley also immediately answered, "Yes Shaquay, you are right, the Spurs' dull style of play makes the audience drowsy, but they are unmatched in the control of the rhythm, you look at the Pacers' previous games with more than 110 points in a row, and in the face of the Spurs' quagmire defense, they have only scored 39 points until now." You must know that the Pacers after getting Ye Xuan, the offensive efficiency in the first two quarters was originally ranked first in the league, but if you look at this game, the shooting rate of both sides is less than 40%, which is outrageous, and the fans are not here to see which of them plays harder. ”
After the two sides changed to the main lineup, the game not only did not become more exciting, but because both sides defended hard, the remaining five minutes, the two sides only scored a total of 11 points. The score came to 44:44 and the two sides were tied.
At halftime, Ye Xuan, as the most eye-catching person in the first half, accepted a halftime interview with TNT, Ye Xuan played 9 minutes in the first half and scored 10 points and 2 assists.
"Hello Ye Xuan, thank you for taking the time to give an interview to the midfielder, let's make a long story short, what do you think is the key to this game?" "Hey Shaq, I think the key point of this game is the attack, you know, both teams were struggling today, as long as one side can play a good wave of attack should completely change the situation."
"Okay, thank you again for accepting our interview, Ye, come on for the second half."
"I will, goodbye."
Back in the locker room, Frank first affirmed the players' performance in the first half, and then formulated a strategy for waiting for the game, Ye Xuan will follow the main lineup directly on the field.
At the beginning of the second half, Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court, and after shaking Parker with a feint, he just wanted to kill inside, but Split next to him suddenly made up for the defense and stabbed the ball in Ye Xuan's hand directly, and the Spurs launched a fast attack, but the players of the Pacers. The retreat was very timely, and Parker saw that the fast attack was hopeless, so he could only suppress the rhythm and continue to play positional battles. Duncan asked for the ball in the low post, and after Parker passed the ball, he directly pulled away for Duncan to play alone, but in the face of Hibbert's defense, Duncan's turn to play the board ended up being deflected.
Subsequently, after Ye Xuan handed the ball to Pickle Pepper, he also pulled away and let Pickle Pepper single Kewy Leonard, in the face of Leonard's kraft candy-like defense, Pickled Pepper looked very uncomfortable, and barely shot iron, but David West grabbed the rebound in the front court, after he grabbed the rebound, he hit it back and was about to turn over and shoot, but Duncan, who was guarding the side, seized the opportunity and fanned the ball out of the bottom line with one palm.
Ye Xuan's bottom line serve, found the pickled pepper on the outside, pickled pepper took advantage of the serve to run out of a little gap, pulled up the shot, Leonard was not in a hurry to make up the defense, although it interfered with the pickled pepper's shot, but he was beaten. Pickled pepper hit one of two free throws, and after more than a minute of the second half, the scoreboard was finally changed, 44:45. Parker then broke through to Green, who received the ball and broke through to the baseline and passed it to Duncan, who forced the ball into the ball and caused Hibbert's foul, plus a free throw, 47:45.
Ye Xuan thought to himself, "We can't fight like this, even if we rely on our personal ability to kill the inside line, we can't effectively cause any damage to the main force on the opposite side." Try running off the ball in the hope of tearing apart the opposition's defence. Thinking about it, Ye Xuan handed the ball to Pickled Pepper to organize, and he began to run without the ball. Ye Xuan took advantage of a gap in the bottom line to come from the left bottom corner to the right bottom corner, and Parker, who was defending him, was stuck in the penalty area by David West, Paul George was quick and passed the ball directly, Ye Xuan calmly shot, three points into the bag, 47:48.
The Spurs served in the backcourt, Parker dribbled quickly and found Duncan, who was in a good position, and although Hibbert's defense was already in place, it still couldn't affect Tim Duncan, and he hit a turnaround jumper, 49:48. This is the role of superstars!
Ye Xuan slowly dribbled the ball through the halfcourt, organizing the Pacers' offense, Ye Xuan chose to break through by himself this time, Parker was half a step behind and stuck on Ye Xuan's left side, and on the right side, Duncan was standing under the basket with a tiger's eye, Ye Xuan saw that the breakthrough could not open the situation, so he threw a throw, the ball smashed into the back of the basket and bounced high and then happened to fall down and smashed in the front of the basket, bumped a few times, and finally fell into the basket. 49:50。
The Spurs attacked, and the Pacers' rotation was very successful this time, although the Spurs tore the formation apart with several sudden points, but the Pacers' defense always appeared in the right place, and seeing that the 24-second time was coming again, Parker had to make a hasty shot. David West grabbed the rebound and handed it to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan originally thought that there was no hope for a fast attack, but when he looked up, the Spurs had just pressed very forward, and after 24 seconds of shooting at the whistle, he didn't return to the defense in time, and when he arrived, the yellow figure ran quickly, running in front of all the players in black uniforms!
It's Pickled Pepper, Pickled Pepper is almost down to the Spurs' three-point line, the first time Parker made a hasty shot, Pickled Pepper was already about to fall, Ye Xuan was not ambiguous, and directly made a super long hit and threw a pass, passed through the 3 Spurs players, and successfully sent the ball to Pickled Pepper from among them.
Connected to the audience! This ball passed the same as Iverson's cross-court hit when he was in the Pistons, and the atmosphere of the entire Consec Arena was stimulated to a climax after Ye Xuan's accurate long pass and Pickled Pepper's violent split!
The cheers came like a mountain and a tsunami. The pickled pepper who had completed the split buckle looked very excited, and rushed back to celebrate with Ye Xuan's heavy high-fives, and the Pacers' bench was also a white towel. But how will the veteran Popovich give you a chance to get on the ground? Immediately called a timeout to appease his disciple.
"Do you see that arrogant boy? He's only played a few games in the NBA and you've beaten you up, and I don't want him to be able to celebrate in front of us like that, Split, do you know what to do? ”
"Yes sir."
"Okay, go on the court and keep working hard, remember, we're the team that is going to compete for the championship, and show the momentum of your championship competition."