Chapter 365: Two fists are hard to beat four hands
After Ye Xuan resumed to dominate the ball, the Pacers' side finally stabilized the situation again, and did not let the Cavaliers continue to expand the point difference, but because the Cavaliers have more offensive points than the Pacers, and in terms of alignment, the Cavaliers are also more dominant, so compared with the Pacers' side, which puts all the burden on Ye Xuan, the Cavaliers play much easier.
And I don't know if it's because of the reduction of the ball in the last two games, Hibbert's state on the field has also begun to decline again, but he didn't sleepwalk the whole game like at the beginning of the season, but in terms of positivity, it was not as high as in February, after losing Hibbert's inside firepower, Ye Xuan could only take the ball in his own hands.
And the defensive strategy of the Cavaliers is also very despicable, just let Ye Xuan plan alone, let Dellavedova who had just been replaced entangle with Ye Xuan alone, and then the others cut off Ye Xuan's passing routes, so that Ye Xuan can only attack by himself, although Ye Xuan's offensive efficiency is indeed very high, but the more times he shoots, the greater the physical energy consumed, Ye Xuan has not yet played the first quarter, and he feels that his physical strength is a little insufficient.
Frank Vogel also discovered this problem, and replaced Ye Xuan with 3 minutes left in the first quarter of the game, and the Cavaliers were not in a hurry to blow the horn of offense, but immediately replaced the other three main players except James and replaced them with their own substitutes.
In the battle between the substitutes, one side has one of the league's best small forwards on the field, and the result is naturally needless to say, fortunately, Coach Frank put Solomon I Hill and Hibbert on the court to support the court, otherwise it is estimated that when Ye Xuan plays again, the Pacers will be able to fall behind by double digits.
After the first quarter of the game, the Cavaliers took advantage of Ye Xuan's 3 minutes off the court to successfully expand the difference to 6 points, and the two teams combined for a total of 74 points in the first quarter of the game, and the Cavaliers led the Pacers by 6 points at 40:34, which is also because the defense of both teams is caused by the opponent's inability, speaking of which, the offense of both teams is ranked first in the league, the Cavaliers can score an average of 107 points per game, and the offensive firepower can rank second in the league, second only to the Warriors who are the first in the league, The Warriors are averaging 109 points per game due to their three-point firepower. And the Pacers are actually not bad, because there is Ye Xuan, the scoring champion, here, and the shooting rate of other players in the team is not bad, so the Pacers can also average 105 points per game, ranking fourth in the league.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Cavaliers replaced Dellavedova with George Hill, and then replaced Irving with him, James was rested, but in this way, the Cavaliers still have a strong point on the court to lead the benches to play, this rotation is actually the most comfortable rotation for the Cavaliers, which is also what they have explored in this wave of 14 consecutive wins, and now that the Cavaliers are on the right track, all aspects of cooperation have been run-in, look at James's appearance, I guess I also want to touch the championship in the first year of teaming.
And the Pacers want to replace Ye Xuan as soon as possible, but on the one hand, they feel that Ye Xuan has been playing for a short time recently, and from time to time he has a 40+ minute game, and the iron man can't stand it, and this game is still the regular season, if he makes his core players sick, it will be more than worth the loss, so Coach Frank kept pressing Ye Xuan, and waited for two minutes in the second quarter of the game before replacing Ye Xuan, at this time the Cavaliers relied on Irving's excellent performance, The lead has been extended to 10 points.
And after Ye Xuan came on the court, Blatter also replaced James again, although he rested a few minutes less than Ye Xuan, but he didn't need to consume physical strength like Ye Xuan at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, so although the rest time was short, it was enough. Ye Xuan returned to the court, and began to perform in the first round, after an emergency stop after a change of direction, he started to accelerate again and successfully got rid of Hill's defense, and then faced Thompson, who was about to dunk, but Thompson wanted to foul but was not resolute, but gave Ye Xuan a 2+1 opportunity, Ye Xuan, who was held by Thompson with one hand, threw the ball to the basket with the other hand in the air, and the ball went in!
Ye Xuan walked to the free throw line and threw the extra free throws, successfully narrowing the difference between the two teams to 7 points. After Hill received the pass in the backcourt, he slowly controlled the basketball and walked to the front court, Ye Xuan was assisting in defending Owen at this time, but it didn't mean that he would always follow Owen's side, see the opportunity, and directly cut off Hill's pass to James, and then strode towards the Cavaliers' halfcourt, James behind him chased after him, but Ye Xuan also knew the power of James's chasing hat, so after rushing through the halfcourt, Ye Xuan deliberately slowed down some speed, and James had to slow down. But at this time, Ye Xuan suddenly increased his speed again, and when James re-accelerated, it was too late, so he could only watch Ye Xuan make a layup with a low hand and score two more points.
Ye Xuan only took half a minute to narrow the difference to 5 points, which immediately made the Cavaliers chrysanthemum tight, fortunately, the Cavaliers also had James as the Dinghai Shen Needle, calmly took over the responsibility of organizing the offense from Hill, and slowly controlled the basketball to the frontcourt, at this time it was not the difficult Solomon Hill who defended James, - Smith, James naturally would not miss this opportunity, and directly chose to single, crashed away, and easily scored two points.
Coach Frank saw that it was not possible to go on like this, and if he couldn't contain James, he would basically not be able to win the opponent by relying on Ye Xuan alone, so he immediately called another timeout and replaced Solomon Hill, who had rested for 3 minutes, and was replaced with Hill, as well as West, who had been performing poorly recently. On the Cavaliers' side, they replaced their real giant, LeFou, and the current lineups of the two teams are basically back to the state they were in at the beginning, although the Pacers' interior line is Marcinmy instead of Hibbert, but the role of the two is almost the same, just to protect the rebound.