After the game against the Pelicans, the Pacers returned to their home court, Indiana. They will have a good day off to adjust their form before taking on the Pistons on their home court. Detroit Pistons, this team can be said to be the sworn enemies of the Pacers, no matter what the ranking of the two teams is now, and whether there is an interest relationship between the two teams now, but from the fact that the two teams have not traded for nearly 10 years, it can be seen that the two teams are definitely mortal enemies of the level that never die.

Indeed, the Pacers broke out in the most glorious and most championship-winning year, which directly led to the collapse of the Pacers, who were unbeatable in the East that year, Artest was directly suspended for nearly a season, and the Martial Saints were traded, and then Reggie Miller also chose to retire because of frustration, leaving O'Neal Jr. to support the team alone, and finally fell due to injury due to strain, everything was caused by those uncivilized fans in Detroit.

However, although the management of both sides may still be concerned about this matter, the players on the court are basically no longer the same players as they were back then, including O'Neal Jr., who was still playing with the Pacers last season, and directly chose to retire this season. In fact, the Pistons also had a good hand, but since that trade, they have begun to rebuild endlessly, which is also embarrassing.

The trade was basically about trading their Finals MVP Chauncey Billups for the Nuggets' Allen Iverson, and the deal actually knew from the results that the Pistons were losing money, but they didn't just lose what they seemed. When they first closed the deal, it was also evaluated by risk assessment experts. There are two reasons for this, at that time, Billups's voice in the Pistons affected Brown, which made Brown very dissatisfied, and Brown has always been the kind of person who emphasizes the head coach's voice, so Billups' departure is inevitable.

Then some people say, didn't the AI conflict with Brown when it was with the 76ers, which caused Brown to run away? The next thing is willingness, and that is that the characteristics of the city of Detroit make the arrival of AI possible, the city is called the Motor City, and most of the people who live here are working-class workers, and the AI happens to be the players who have risen from the bottom of society, and it is one of the favorite stars of these working-class fans. Coupled with the economic depression in Detroit at that time, the team's operation was also very difficult, so they just chose to trade to get Iverson, hoping that the star with the largest number of fans in the league at that time could save the Detroit ball market.

It is true that this plan was very successful at the time, and the first few home games after the AI landed in Detroit, the Auburn Hills Palace tickets were sold out in an instant, but what? None of the fans came to watch the team lose at home, and gradually everyone found that the AI they admired no longer had the same dominance as when facing the OK combination alone, so Detroit's ball market returned to its original level after being saved by AI for half a season.

In fact, the plan of trading big-name stars to activate the ball market is not the first time that the Pistons have used it, and when they didn't trade to AI, they tried to trade Maddie from the Rockets with the same chips, but unfortunately Alexander was reluctant to trade Maddie at that time, so he didn't carry out this transaction that would be blood-making in the eyes of later generations.

Since trading Billups, the Pistons' combat effectiveness has declined, but the ball market has not been able to be active for long, so the Detroit Pistons management has also had to start cutting players to tighten the monetary base, so Big Ben was sent away, Rasheed Wallace was sent away, Hamilton was sent away, and the last Detroit Five Tigers Prince is now playing soy sauce and waving a towel with the Pacers.

Last season, the Pistons can be described as a big break, first the record was sparse, and then the team was angry, directly cut about ten, and then the team won a large wave of consecutive wins, and then it was already a rise and then forget, and then James Huang (Jennings) was injured and the team was replaced by Jackson, and found that he still couldn't win, and finally ended last season.

The good thing for the Pistons is that the team finally knew how to play the role of Zhuang Shen after a few wrong experiments. Now Zhuang Shen is the best rebounder in the league, and his ability to use his body to finish the opponent under the basket is also extremely high. Jennings has matured through this season, strengthened his impact to the basket, shot more consistently, and has been an excellent shooter most of the time.

Pope has secured the Pistons' starting No. 2 position this season, and although he is still immature, he can see that his shooting feeling is slowly getting better, and he is developing normally in the direction of a 3-and-D player. In the offseason, the team added Morris Jr. is the quintessential type of inexpensive, but very practical. has range and momentum, and it is still more reliable to match with Zhuang Shen. The draft drafted a new version of Kawaii Johnson, which is a complement to the team's weak wing, and if it grows well, he will be the ace of the team's perimeter defense.

However, I have to say that the Pistons are still a little too petty, want to rise, and are reluctant to make money, which team can still reach the Finals without spending luxury tax like back then?

Next is the point where the Pistons are not very satisfactory, first of all, I don't understand why the team would change Jackson and consume their original relatively strong forward assets. Then I renewed the contract, and the price is still so expensive. Jackson is the kind of prolific but inefficient player, whether it is the projection ability, or the ability to organize the whole team, is a big cut behind Jennings, as a two-way guard, he defends the No. 2 position at a loss, and he relies on impact to play the ball, completely unable to load the No. 2 position.

Is it too expensive to raise a sixth person with a maximum salary? He's not fit to start. How to fix it? The team also found a large number of guards who can enter the rotation in the summer, and Blake and Meeks are qualified substitutes. But they don't have the ability to play the No. 2 position...... With Jennings and Jackson, the team has four players competing for the No. 1 spot. And the only ones who can really play the No. 2 position are Pope and swingman rookie Johnson. What about the number 3 position? Except for Johnson, Morris Jr. and veteran Granger can play, no matter who can withstand it for too long, after all, Morris has to play the No. 4 position for a long time, you can't keep Ilyasova playing the whole game, right? He didn't even have a substitute, so he pointed to Morris to save his life!

It can be seen that the best 10 people on the team, there are 4 point guards who can only mix in the No. 1 position, and the 2 3 and 4 positions have to borrow each other to help keep the rotation (I am also drunk on the rotation of 4.5 people in the 3 positions) Once these 4.5 people (Granger's state can only top half of the rotation players) has an injury, it is estimated that it will collapse completely!

Another problem is that the team can't open up space. After all, Pope is still not allowed, and Johnson is not mainly based on shooting in college. I won't talk about Zhuang Shen and Baines. The team's most reliable shooters are the two two-way forwards at the No. 4 position, which is why Reggie Jackson is not recommended to start, his projection ability is too far behind Jennings, once he starts, the opponent will not hesitate to shrink the inside. This creates a very strong resistance for Jackson to hit the basket.

Overall, the team has unloaded a few big contracts, and the space has been freed up, but can these people be the future of the Pistons? It's hard to say! In addition, the geographical location of the Pistons determines that basically no star in his playing year will be willing to come to Chengcheng, after all, no star in his playing year will be willing to come to this declining city, there is neither market nor fame. Therefore, the biggest role of their space is estimated to be used to renew the contract.

The time soon came on December 18th, and the Pacers welcomed the challenge of the Pistons at home, this game is actually very important for the Pistons, because they are now in the eighth place in the East, and the Hornets behind them have won the game before, if the Pistons lose this game, then they can only give up their eighth place in the East to the Hornets.

As for the Pacers, they are not ready to let go of the water, because they were beaten badly by the Pelicans in the previous game, and now they urgently need a big win to prove that their team is still very strong, so not only can they not release the water in this game, but they also need to beat a wave of opponents harder.

At the beginning of the game, Zhuang Shen's inside jump ball was still very stable, and he easily gave the racket to Jackson, Reggie Jackson was ready to force a breakthrough after facing Rondo's defensive possession and coming to the front court, but he was still too confident in his breakthrough ability, Rondo's steal was very powerful, and when he made a mistake, Rondo's hand was quick, and he directly stabbed the opponent's ball down at once, and Ye Xuan immediately rushed towards the opponent's half with full horsepower. Behind him was Pop desperately chasing the defense, but after Rondo cut off the ball, he didn't give the opponent a chance to defend, but rushed directly to the opponent after half the court without stopping, and rushed directly to the basket, Pop had to go over to pounce on Rondo, and Ye Xuan quietly pulled to the bottom corner at this time, after Rondo attracted Pop's defense, he gently threw the ball into Ye Xuan's hands, and Ye Xuan threw the ball steadily.

The Pacers' frontcourt is two to one point smooth, and the Pistons' offense is a bit out of order, because their outside shooting rate is generally low, so in the face of the Pacers' iron bucket defense, basically only pass the ball to Zhuang Shen on the inside line to let him chisel this way, but the Pacers will not look at Zhuang Shen singles and be indifferent, and immediately Ye Xuan went in to wrap it, Zhuang Shen reacted quickly and immediately passed the ball out, but Pope on the outside line was not able to shoot the ball.

Jordan Hill grabbed the backcourt rebound, and then handed the ball to Ye Xuan on the side, Ye Xuan didn't pass the ball, but quickly brought the ball to the front court by himself, and then took advantage of the fact that the lone defender was not in place, and directly shot at the outside three-point shot, and the three-point shot hit again. Ye Xuan's three-point chase also made the Pistons a little confused, but fortunately, looking back, the Pistons finally caused the boxing king's foul when Zhuang Shen was playing with his back to the single, and used Zhuang Shen's free throws to get the first point of the game, but only got one point.

Next is the very familiar plot of abuse, the Pistons are also unlucky in this game, the Pistons team who were not able to shoot in the first quarter met a team with a very strong defense, and the main force in the first quarter of the game only scored a total of 12 points, which is also very sad, fortunately, with the Pacers replacing the main force, the Pistons also found some offensive feeling, and at the end of the first quarter of the game, they were finally able to rewrite their single-quarter score to 20 points. But the 20-point score is a bit too miserable in the face of the Pacers' 41-point score in a single quarter.

led the opponent by 21 points in a single quarter, and the Pacers' side was a little too heavy, so in the second quarter of the game, the Pacers basically had no intention of replacing the main force on the court, and even let the original Pistons champion Prince play a few minutes of soy sauce, but I don't know if Prince was dissatisfied with the unfriendly sale of the Pistons top management or what the situation was, and after coming up, he actually hit two three-pointers in a row, so that the commentators on the sidelines couldn't make it up, and could only say a classic line" Justice may be late, but it will never be absent. ”

At halftime, the Pistons reluctantly narrowed the gap to 11 points when they faced the Pacers' soy sauce players with the main force, but they didn't expect that their style of play, which was similar to saving face, made the Pacers feel uncomfortable, so the third quarter of the game began, and after 8 minutes of play, the difference expanded to 25 points again.

In fact, Ye Xuan didn't play well enough in this game, except for two fast-break three-pointers in a row at the beginning of the game, the whole game was basically brushing up assists and rebounds, and because he didn't play much time, the data was not particularly good-looking. In the end, at the end of the game, Ye Xuan's score was only 13 points, only 6 assists, and the rebounds were only 4 rebounds because the opponent had Zhuang Shen inside, and many statistics were not brushed to an ideal point, but fortunately, the team still won the final victory, and it was a big victory with a difference of 30 points - Prince was finally replaced with soy sauce and sprinkled a handful of salt on the Pistons' wounds, so he barely vented the anger of losing to the Pelicans in the last game.