Chapter 302: Questioned Again
The Pacers have dropped to third place in the East after finishing this game, as the Cavaliers have won all of their last few games, and now their victory has completed the comeback over the Pacers. The Pacers' side suffered a wave of two consecutive defeats, and Ye Xuan's performance in these two games was not particularly good, especially in the game against the Heat, which was Ye Xuan's worst performance in the past half a season, so the media also pointed the finger at Ye Xuan again.
After coming to the press conference, Ye Xuan began to be annoyed by various reporters' questions, first of all, a series of questions about Ye Xuan's abnormal performance in this game, or the Pacers' overall performance was basically abnormal, but since Ye Xuan is now the core of the Pacers, basically this responsibility is also attributed to Ye Xuan's head.
The second is that Ye Xuan has made many mistakes in these two games, you must know that Ye Xuan, as the top three players on the assist list, has always controlled the mistakes very well, his average number of turnovers per game is only 1.75, and the assist-to-turnover ratio of 5.7 is also among the best in the league. But Ye Xuan made 4 mistakes in these two games, which made people have to start questioning Ye Xuan's performance, some people said that Ye Xuan's style of play caused Ye Xuan's follow-up to be weak after more than half of the season, but more people are more willing to believe that it is Ye Xuan who is now famous and began to slack off on the game.
Of course, there are some sinister tabloids, and they even directly talked about the game with Team Rocket a few days ago, saying that Ye Xuan actually went to Ye Xuan with the generals of Team Rocket at that time to carnival in Ye Xuan (I guess they didn't think that what they made up was actually the truth.) Although Ye Xuan's performance in that game was not bad at that time, it was also because Ye Xuan's playing time in that game was relatively short. And the next two games exposed Ye Xuan's negligence in training now, and the real hammer that he did not put on the basketball was not put on the outside.
For these doubts, Ye Xuan knew that no matter how he defended, it should be useless, and he could only use his strength to prove himself in the next game. Of course, there are remarks against Ye Xuan, and naturally there are remarks that speak for Ye Xuan, in fact, just like Kemi and Jammy, the most direct way for Ye Xuan's fans to defend Ye Xuan is to shake the pot.
So all of a sudden, Ye Xuan's fans began to blame the other two members of the team, who had a high salary, and the inside line had not done anything in the last few games. In fact, if you want to say strange things in the last two games, it is really Hibbert to take the blame, because as the highest-paid player on the Pacers now, Hibbert has been continuously beaten by opponents when he is in the opposite position, which is really a bit too much, especially in the face of Hassan Whiteside, not to mention being beaten two 2+1 in a row, but the opponent grabbed 21 rebounds in one game, including 5 frontcourt rebounds, which is a bit excessive.
And David West, in fact, is a bit of a disaster, although West is still receiving an annual salary of $1200, which is higher than Ye Xuan, but his positioning in the team has dropped significantly compared with two years ago, and the opportunity to shoot has also decreased a little, so it is inevitable that the data will decline compared with the previous two seasons, and as a result, because the annual salary is higher than Ye Xuan, he was also hacked by Ye Xuan's fans along with Hibbert.
After a warm time in Miami, the Pacers need to start again, and this time, instead of returning to Indiana, they are heading to Orlando to take on their next opponent, the Magic. I have to say that the schedule of the Pacers this season is indeed very strange, either consecutive back-to-back, consecutive games, or consecutive away games, such as this time, it is a wave of five consecutive away games, which makes the Pacers also quite complaining, this is probably the worst treatment of the defending champion.
In Orlando in January, the weather is not bad compared to Indiana, although it is not as sunny as Miami, but at least it is not as snowy as Indiana, but the players of the Pacers are not in the mood to visit the mountains and rivers in Orlando and experience Disneyland and the like, because after a wave of two consecutive defeats, they urgently need a victory to prove themselves, not only Ye Xuan, Hibbert and others also attach great importance to this game.
Fortunately, the Orlando Magic can only be regarded as a fish belly team this season, so this game should be relatively simple for the Pacers. However, before the start of this game, the Pacers can only temporarily borrow the university's basketball arena at Orlando Business School for a while.
Originally, in this case, the team was disbanded in the away city and had a free day, but this time, due to the pressure from the outside world and the loss of the previous two games, Coach Frank also felt that his management of the team was too loose, so now he is ready to grasp the problem of team discipline.
Training in the university's basketball gym, of course, is not as easy as training in a regular NBA basketball gym, due to the lack of a lot of equipment and the lack of recovery facilities, so the Pacers did not do any high-intensity training, just did a simple physical training, and then disbanded and went back to the hotel to rest.
Ye Xuan was also going to go back to the hotel to lie down after the disbandment, but he was unexpectedly stopped by Coach Frank in the locker room, obviously Coach Frank was ready to discuss something with Ye Xuan, or something to tell Ye Xuan.
But Ye Xuan never expected that Coach Frank's first sentence would be so shocking, because after Coach Frank and others left, the first thing he asked Ye Xuan was "Ye, how did you Hibbert play this season?" ”
As soon as Ye Xuan heard this, he knew that Coach Frank was asking himself in disguise if he traded Hibbert, so Ye Xuan's answer became very cautious, "Boss, you should know that the team needs nothing new blood now, we are the defending champions of last season, we just need to wait for Pickle Pepper to return from injury, and then we will still be the Pacers team with the ability to win the championship." While Hibbert has been a little bit worse this season, he's been pretty good on the defensive end, what do you think? ”