On December 29, the Pacers sat in the Bankers Life Arena to face the last opponent in December, the Miami Heat, which is also the second matchup between the Pacers and the Heat this season, and the Pacers, like the Pacers, traded O'Neal's Heat in the offseason, and is also the favorite for the championship this season, so today's game is also a great test for the Pacers, the Pacers, who have won 29 games in a row, have become the public enemy of the entire league, and now it is not just the media that continues to fan the flames, Even other teams in the NBA league are looking forward to the Pacers' winning streak being ended, and perhaps now they are still looking forward to the Pacers to continue to win, leaving the fans of the Pacers and Meng Xu, as well as the league's top management, for them, the longer the Pacers' winning streak, the better.

Because in the last meeting between the two sides, the Heat sitting at home not only ended the winning streak by the Pacers, but also was abused by the Pacers in front of countless Heat fans, so since the end of that game, the Heat have been working hard to find their way back in the next meeting between the two sides, so they defeated the Celtics on the road.

However, just when most of the melon-eating people had prepared the melon seed bench and were ready to watch the Pacers' good show against the Heat, the Pacers' side was surprisingly calm, and no one stood up to respond to O'Neal's provocation at all, even Meng Xu, who has always had a big mouth, was very quiet this time.

Just when the people who eat melons were confused, on the morning of December 29, the Pacers' official website posted the news of Dibeken Mutombo's season reimbursement, in the Pacers' away game against the Timberwolves, Mutombo was injured when defending Garnett in the opening game, and was finally diagnosed with a torn meniscus in his right knee, and will rest for at least 3-4 months, if he recovers properly, he can also play again before the start of the playoffs, but considering Mutombo's age, his injury is definitely not optimistic.

In the absence of Mutombo due to injury, in this game with the Heat, Jermaine O'Neal was pushed to the center position, and Nn Hilario continued to start, but today he played the position of power forward, and the remaining three positions were basically unchanged, small forward James Posey, scoring guard Reggie Miller, and organizational guard Meng Xu.

On the Heat side, the starting lineup has not changed much, it is still center Shaq O'Neal, power forward Udonis Haslem, small forward Eddie Jones, and two guards Dwyane Wade and Damon Jones.

Although Mutombo's average of 5.5 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season is already a career low, Mutombo's role in the Pacers' defensive system is not something that NN Hilario will be able to replace for a while, especially in the face of an inside killer like the big shark, the gap between NN Hilario and Mutombo is clearly reflected, in the last game between the Pacers and the Heat, Mutombo and Jermaine O'Neal's bag defense against O'Neal can be said to be the key factor for the Pacers to defeat the Heat. But today, Jermaine O'Neal and Nn Hilario's bag clamp on O'Neill is a little unsatisfactory, especially NN Hilario, in the choice of the timing of the bag, either too early, or half a beat slow.

With no way to contain O'Neal, the Pacers fell into passivity after the opening, and the Heat, led by O'Neal, who was already close to going out, was simply unstoppable on the court, and in the first quarter alone, Rick Carlisle called three timeouts in a row to disrupt the Heat's deployment, but ultimately failed.

"This kid is improving again!" The Pacers, who had fallen behind the Heat by nearly 10 points after the end of the first half, finally resumed the full-court pressing tactics in the third quarter and began a violent counterattack, but Meng Xu found that in the last game, Dwyane Wade, who would dribble unsteadily and even make mistakes as soon as he pressed, was obviously much better today, and he couldn't talk about it easily, but it was rare for Meng Xu to make mistakes as soon as he was pressed, and Meng Xu also found that Dwyane Wade's breakthrough is getting sharper and sharper.

Although compared to the performance in the last game against the Pacers, Wade's progress has been very obvious, but Wade's heart is still panicked to death at this time, after all, in the current league, no player can be calm under Meng Xu's pressing, talent suppression with the fear and suffocation of death winding skills, in terms of suppressing the state of opposing players, it is absolutely terrifying, even a master point guard like Jason Kidd, when facing Meng Xu's pressing, the error rate will increase significantly.

Under Meng Xu's pressure, Wade, who barely dribbled through the half court, saw Damon Jones covering for himself in the corner of his eye, and immediately used a small range of changes of direction to try to get rid of Meng Xu, but Wade, who got rid of Meng Xu's forced grab, at the moment of passing the basketball to Heslem, found that Meng Xu, who had just fallen half of his body, suddenly appeared in the middle of himself and Haslem, and cut off Wade's pass very easily.

"The Pacers' all-court pressing tactics are just too strong! Especially these three outside players, there is no flaw in the cooperation between them! Watching Meng Xu steal Wade's pass and quickly launch a fast attack, and finally score with Prince's dunk, Michaels also kept shaking his head on the commentary bench on the sidelines.

Meng Xu, Tyshawn Prince, James Posey and other outside combinations, when using pressing tactics, it is no exaggeration to say that the Bulls at the peak of the year, the suffocating full-court tight defense, is basically like this. The Pacers' three outside players are tall and long-armed, have excellent mobility, a wide range of help defense, and are also top-notch in individual defense.

The Heat's outside line was completely suppressed by the Pacers, and under the pressure of the Pacers, the Heat's outside players couldn't even do the basic cooperation, and the third quarter had been played for nearly five minutes, but the Heat didn't even play a pass more than five times on the offensive end. In the case that the outside players can't even hold the ball steadily, even if the Heat have O'Neal on the inside, it won't help now.

"Are we just going to lose?" Stan Van Gundy yelled on the sidelines, and even called two timeouts in a row in the space of a minute, but the situation on the court did not change at all, and finally after the Pacers again overtook the score through a quick counterattack after a steal, Stan Van Gundy sat on the bench, although the game is not over in the third quarter, but Stan Van Gundy knows that his team has gone over.

"Alas!" In the box of the Banker's Life Arena, Pat Riley, who came to Indianapolis with the team, let out a sigh and rubbed his face with his hands. 36-17, under the pressure of the Pacers, the Heat lost by 19 points in the third quarter, and Pat Riley can obviously see that Meng Xu did not do his best at all in this game, the Pacers in front of him, and the Pacer No. 5 on the court, are already so strong that people are a little desperate, and the last player who made Pat Riley feel desperate was the Bulls' No. 23.

95-107, the Heat lost the second matchup with the Pacers, and relying on the victory in this game, the Pacers' winning streak officially came to 30.

"It looks like the Pacers are really going to break the Lakers' all-time record for the longest winning streak!" Looking at the Pacers players on the court who have begun to celebrate wildly, Magic Johnson, who claims to be the number one Meng Mi, is now in a somewhat apprehensive mood, after all, the record that the Pacers are about to break is set by the team that Magic Johnson once played for.