Chapter Eighty-Eight: Shame and Courage

After winning the first game of the second round with difficulty, although everyone didn't say anything, they complained a little bit about Hibbert in their hearts. Hibbert himself knew that he was dragging the team back in this game, so he was also holding back his strength.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's time to play the second game. At the beginning of the game, Hibbert showed a completely different mental outlook from the previous game, jumping high when jumping the ball, directly giving the racket to Ye Xuan, and then quickly ran to the opponent's basket, quickly stuck the opponent behind him, and then raised his hand to ask Ye Xuan for the ball.

Ye Xuan just controlled the ball outside the three-point line, and was about to forcibly break through to tear the opponent's formation, when he saw that Hibbert had already signaled him to pass the ball in a good position on the inside, Ye Xuan hesitated, but still chose to believe in his teammates, after Hibbert received the ball, he swept away the weak posture of the previous game, hit Gortat twice with a tough back, and then turned inward and hooked the ball inward.

On the other side, Gortat also seemed to want to prove himself, and when he turned around, he immediately asked for the ball in the inside position, and Wall was also a reasonable person, and after coming to the frontcourt, he hoisted the ball to Gortat on the inside. After getting the ball, Gortat did not hit Hibbert with his back, but directly received the ball and faced Hibbert head-on, made a shooting action and then dribbled the ball inward with two steps, and then a false shake finally shook Hibbert up, Gortat felt a touch inward, and threw the ball into the board.

As soon as the game opened, the big centers on both sides showed their singles skills, and Ye Xuan was also happy to see Hibbert take the initiative to take on the responsibility of attacking, after all, if his own interior general can give full play to his original strength, facing the Wizards, the probability of winning on his side is still very high.

So after controlling the ball again and coming to the front court, Ye Xuan handed the ball to Hibbert again, and then pulled the defender away to let Hibbert play alone, Hibbert was not ambiguous, after receiving the ball, he continued to hit Gortat with his back, and after advancing inward for two steps, one turned his back, and then made a move to get up and shoot, the opponent was shaken up instantly, Hibbert seized the opportunity to pull the ball back and easily put the ball into the basket.

The audience saw that Hibbert, who had been in a slump on the court, had regained his form and immediately stood up and cheered for him. And in the next round, Gortat once again singled Hibbert's shot, which was also swept out of the basket under Hibbert's interference.

Ye Xuan came to the front court again to hand over the ball to Hibbert, who played confidently, Hibbert just wanted to continue to sink down and hit the opponent with his back, the opponent suddenly wrapped him, fortunately, Hibbert reacted relatively quickly, and passed the ball out in time, after Ye Xuan on the outside line received the ball, he did not hesitate, and directly dribbled the ball under his crotch and shook the unstable Wall directly to kill inward, and then took advantage of the internal fatigue and did not have time to make up for it, and threw the ball in with an emergency stop jump shot.

The opponent's backcourt double gun seems to feel bad today, after Wall came to the front court with the ball, he used the block to find a vacancy, but unfortunately this time the shot was out of the basket, West grabbed the backcourt rebound, and quickly handed the ball to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan quickly brought the ball to the front court, and then passed the ball to the pickled pepper who followed up behind, and after receiving the ball, the pickled pepper used his speed to directly hit the opponent's inner line with one arm and dunk the ball in.

After the Wizards served in the backcourt, Wall once again used the block to find a gap, but this time the shot still did not score, looking back, although the opponent returned to the defense in time, did not let Ye Xuan seize the opportunity to break fast, but after Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court, he immediately called Hibbert to help block and dismantle.

After the block, Ye Xuan burst into the penalty area to attract Gortat's defense, and then a behind-the-back pass handed the ball to Hibbert, who quickly followed up after the block, and after Hibbert received the ball, he unceremoniously completed the attack with both hands.

Although the opponent's main center Gortat was also in great shape today, but Wall and Beal were not very good, and the score was quickly pulled apart under successive hits, and the Pacers had a full fifteen-point lead over the opponent at halftime.

After the start of the second half, Ye Xuan and Hibbert continued their excellent form, echoing inside and outside, and put the opponent into a timeout in a few rounds, and after the pause came back, although Gortat and Beal scored the ball in 3 consecutive rounds to renew the life of the Wizards, but as Ye Xuan broke through and caused Gortat to foul for the fourth time, the actions of the Polish Hammers began to become timid.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Pacers continued to work hard, and with less than five minutes left in the third quarter, they stretched the margin to 20 points. Coach Frank also waved his hand and replaced all the main players to rest.

Although the Wizards relied on their main lineup to recover some points when the Pacers' main team was away, when the Pacers replaced the main lineup that had been rested for a long time, the main Wizards team who had worked for a whole quarter became more vulnerable, and finally the main team of the Pacers did not play long on the court before the opponent announced his surrender.

At the end of the game, the Pacers defeated the opponent with a disparity of 103:86, rewriting the score to 2:0, in which Hibbert, who was sprayed with dog blood in the last game, played 30 minutes, got 25 points and 13 boards of monster-level interior performance, telling everyone that he still has the strength, and he just took a nap in the last game.

In addition, Ye Xuan relied on the cooperation with Hibbert to brush up on 11 assists again, and scored a double-double of 19 points and 11 assists in the whole game.

On the other hand, the Wizards' number one star John Wall was completely lost today, with only 6 points and 8 assists on 2-of-13 shooting from the field. So although Gortat scored 22 points and 12 rebounds on 10-of-15 shooting, he still couldn't close the gap between the two teams even a little.

Unlike the public opinion after the last game, the unscrupulous media praised Hibbert with words such as "the king is back" and "the tiger just took a nap", and also took the initiative to make up some reasons to help Hibbert explain the abnormal play in the last game.

In the same way that the Pacers easily won two consecutive games 2-0, the Spurs, who were dragged into a tie-break by the Mavericks in the first round, have also used two big wins of more than 15 points to let the Trail Blazers understand that they are still strong. In the other two sets, the Heat also won the first game with a comfortable 107-86, while the Clippers were very explosive in the first game, winning the first game against the Thunder 122-105.