Chapter 386: Three Minutes of Rain
In fact, as an offensive kaleidoscope, Ye Xuan is not worried about being targeted to death by his opponent, what he is most afraid of is that his teammates have no feel after passing the ball, which leads to the team's offense being blocked, the last game was like this, if Solomon Hill could score two more three-pointers in the last game, then it is hard to say how the game will end, but everything can only be if.
This game is different, the Pacers returned to their familiar home court, and also changed their tactics and starting lineup, the opponent still uses the old methods of the last game to deal with the Pacers, of course, it will not have any effect, after Ye Xuan returned the opponent with a three-point, the opponent also knows that their defense of Ye Xuan has failed, and now their only hope of winning can only be pinned on their several main forces to be able to gain the upper hand in the offensive firepower today.
So Mike Budenholzer didn't say a word, he directly called a timeout, replaced Schroeder, who was not particularly good on the offensive end, and replaced Korver again, as for Ye Xuan's defense, they are now also broken. Korver's role on the offensive end is still very obvious, as soon as he got on the court, he used Horford's off-ball cover to catch the ball from the baseline and shoot a long-range two-pointer, and then received a three-point shot from Jeff Teague in a positional battle, which contributed a lot.
It's a pity that today's Pacers have long been prepared, and they directly played against the Hawks, compared to the offensive firepower, the Pacers were famous in the league for their average points per game during the regular season, after all, except for the Warriors, no team can say that they are stronger than the Pacers on offense, not to mention that the Pacers were missing a pickled pepper at that time.
Ye Xuan controlled the ball in the backcourt, made a block with Scola and then hit the ball back to Scola who stayed in the high position and waited, Scola received the ball and hit the shot, this offense also reminded Ye Xuan of the scene when he first came to the Pacers and played with Scola at that time, when Ye Xuan was still a substitute, and Ye Xuan often did this kind of cooperation with West after he was promoted to the bench last season, but unfortunately now West is 'degenerate'.
Fortunately, in this game, the passes sent by Ye Xuan did not return in vain like the previous game, but brought one assist after another to Ye Xuan, and the shooting rate of his teammates came up, and the defensive intensity of Ye Xuan had to be lowered, because they could not continue to divide their troops to wrap Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan started his own three-point show here, first with a step-back three-point shot after an emergency stop, and then helped Hibbert on the inside to wrap Horford in defense, causing Horford to make a mistake and lose the ball in the end. Then, in the fast attack, Ye Xuan assisted Pickle Pepper to complete an aerial relay back dunk, and suddenly expanded the score difference on the court to 8 points.
However, the opponent's offense was not ambiguous, and immediately Korver and Jeff Teague shot a long-distance three-point shot, which directly narrowed the 8-point difference to two points in an instant, and Ye Xuan's shot in the middle was also taken down by Horford, who just lost the ball because of Ye Xuan's bag, mainly because Ye Xuan himself was too careless, and after being slowed down by Korver, he still chose to force his shot, and finally Horford jumped hard to touch the basketball.
The two sides fought 18:16, and the Pacers shot a total of two three-pointers, which was relatively normal, but the Hawks had already hit 4 three-pointers, which was very efficient, and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 80%, hitting 4 of 5 shots, so that the Pacers had to beware of the opponent's outside offense.
Fortunately, the Pacers' offense did not make any mistakes, so the offensive efficiency of both teams was not bad, Ye Xuan once again controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, this time he was not ready to continue to stalemate with the opponent, in the face of Teague's defense, he directly chose to play alone, dexterously changed direction twice to shake the opponent away, and then quickly killed the inside, and then a shooting feint shook Millsap up, leaned on the opponent's body, and immediately won two free throw opportunities.
Looking back, Teague also wanted to use Millsap's block to return Ye Xuan, but unfortunately this block was seen through by Ye Xuan in advance, and while avoiding this block, Ye Xuan also took advantage of the situation to cut off the basketball in Teague's hand, grabbed the basketball he had broken, Ye Xuan quickly killed the opponent's halfcourt, and shot three points again outside the three-point line. 'Again!
Consecutive hits, see the fans of the Consec Arena is enthusiastic, applauded repeatedly, but the reason why the Hawks were able to achieve 60 wins in the regular season is also his strength, looking back, the Hawks immediately sent the ball to the hands of Korver who was ambushed in the bottom corner through 6 passes, as the top scorer in the league at the time, Korver naturally would not waste this opportunity, the hand was up and down, and the cheers of the Conseco Arena were also forcibly interrupted.
However, Ye Xuan didn't let the opponent be proud for too long, and immediately used the no-ball run to shake off Teague, and then came out of the bottom corner to catch the ball near the 45-degree angle on the left side and hit the three-point shot again.
But the three-point battle was not over yet, and Horford immediately took advantage of the opportunity to pull out and block Teague on the outside to receive Teague's return pass, and hit a three-pointer again, biting the scores of the two teams to death. In the starting lineup of the Pacers, Hibbert has almost no three-point ability, and Scola's three-point shooting rate is not high, but the three-point shooting rate of the remaining three people is quite high, although Pickle Pepper has not played a few games this season, but in the last series, his three-point shooting rate is as high as 41%, not to mention Ye Xuan, the league's three-point king shooting rate is as high as 45%, and Solomon Hill's shooting rate is also as high as 40% under Ye Xuan's training.
So the two teams' three-point match is also very good-looking, after Horford hit three points, Ye Xuan also used the breakthrough point to help Solomon Hill shoot a three-pointer, and then Teague himself used the dry pull of the step-back step to hit the three-point again, Ye Xuan immediately also used a step-back jumper after the breakthrough to pass the ball after connecting the two people, and then he suddenly pulled to the bottom corner of the left side to catch the ball, and quickly hit a three-pointer again to color, the two teams hit 8 three-pointers in a row in 3 minutes, In an instant, the score of the two teams rose to a very astonishing height.