Chapter 442: Three Consecutive Wins and the Best of the Week

After beating a strong opponent in the first game of the season, the morale of the Pacers is also very high, but after entering the regular season, the league schedule is destined to have little rest time to slowly taste the taste of victory, and on October 29, they will have to face the Nets again on their home court.

The Brooklyn Nets can be said to be the saddest team last season, as the team with the highest luxury tax paid by the league last season, the Nets' record last season can be said to be very bleak, 38-44 last season, and finally ranked ninth in the East, missing the playoffs.

On the bright side, the team proved a couple of things last season, with Lopez surviving injuries to become the league's best interior player in the low post and has grown into a qualified rim protector. Lopez has only two partners, a mobile interior to help him make up for his defense, and a projection interior to help him open up space. Thaddeus Young, as a Plan B option, is actually flawless, with a certain range and a certain mobility, and his combination with Lopez has become one of the most difficult interior combinations in the East in the second half of the season. Therefore, the team renewed Yang's contract at a more reasonable price, which is no problem at all. (Considering that the boss likes to spend money randomly, I want to give you a thumbs up here).

The team's draft selection is also good, and it can be said that Bodalovic can be brought in in a second, and this player can be said to be a qualified NBA starter, or an excellent role player. It is also a good move to buy out Deron Williams at the polar price, if Delon Williams and singles Joe can only keep one, although singles Joe is inferior to Delon in all aspects, but Joe Johnson is an expiring contract and will be liberated as soon as next year passes, and Delon has one more year. Hollins is a good coach to adjust the interior line, but he has never used it for guards, and it is more convenient to use the singles Joe with a single function, and it is also a good operation to bring in Thomas as a spare tire in the offseason, at least it is also a sporty interior line.

And then it's time to complain...... If you give me 10,000 reasons, I won't take Baniani! And it's so expensive, just this stupid operation, completely lowering the score of so many frontal uniform groups in front of it! While Bargnani is theoretically a good fit to play with Lopez on the offensive end, can you imagine how miserable they are on the defensive end......

And Jack, why does Jack always get traded after a counterattack? Because Jack's style is to look good, but in fact he is a very average defender. It feels like he can still be the starter in scoring and assisting, and then grabbed the starting position of N multi-star point guards, but they were all sent away later! Because Jack doesn't control the tempo of a team and is not a qualified playmaker, as a projection guard with less than 3 points, it's good to play third guard, but it's not good to revitalize the team. The stats also show that teams lose by 8 points per 100 possessions when Jack is on the floor...... Far worse than Delon.

The team's backcourt is extremely weak at the moment, and singles Joe is out of the tactical ladder and can only be used as the third offensive option. After all, Boyang's ceiling is not high, Jack just looks good and they don't have any decent benches, I can't imagine that such an outside ball level can play in the playoffs, plus they have no draft potential at all, the road to rebuilding will be extremely difficult!

The Nets, who have set their goal of rebuilding this season, have basically given up the last three or four seasons, because their first-round picks for the next few seasons have been traded away, and the five starters of the year were all All-Stars It does seem to be very beautiful, but now that the scenery is gone, the rest is a mess.

The Pacers did not take much effort to win this game. At the beginning of the game, Tyson Chandler had not yet adapted to the interior blocking tactics of Thaddeus Young and Brook Lopez, so there were some holes in the defense, so that the opponent could barely bite the difference, but after the second team came on the court, the Nets were completely blown up, and the substitutes, under the leadership of Ye Xuan, directly changed the difference from only four points ahead of the opponent to 14 points ahead of the opponent in just 5 minutes.

Although the Nets played relatively well for a while in the second quarter, with two consecutive steals from Pickles and Rondo, the Nets couldn't find any chances, and at halftime, the Pacers led by 19 points.

At the beginning of the second half, the Pacers did not show mercy to the opponent, and still played with all the main forces, Ye Xuan went up and hit two three-pointers in a row, and then it was a dragon after grabbing the rebound in the backcourt, and it was a happy game, but it didn't play for 5 minutes, and several people were all replaced by Coach Frank, but at this time they were already ahead of the opponent by as many as 25 points.

At the end of the game, the Pacers once again increased their score to more than 110 points, and in this game, they also managed to suppress the opponent's score to less than 90 points, and a 28-point victory also made the rest of the league have to pay attention to the strength of the Pacers. The most eye-catching performance in this game is naturally Ye Xuan, with no one being able to distract him and no one being able to defend him alone, Ye Xuan's hit rate today is simply breaking through the sky. Although he only played 24 minutes, he scored as many as 34 points, and to get these points, Ye Xuan only used 15 shots, and he hit 13 of them, especially when he led the bench in the second quarter, he hit 4 consecutive shots, which is also the reason why the Pacers were able to establish a huge advantage very early. 34 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, this is Ye Xuan's second game of the season.

After this game, the Pacers didn't have much to rest, and they immediately needed to pack up and prepare for Chicago to take on the Bulls, who were also good. In terms of results, the Bulls came to the Cavaliers last season, playing 6 games and being eliminated. But the process was uncomfortable, and in the end, the team had all kinds of problems that needed to be solved.

On the bright side: Gasol didn't get out of his way to the Bulls, but was well protected. The weakness of the defensive end of the movement drop is perfectly hidden, using the height and reach as an excellent frame protector. Jimmy Butler, has grown into an all-around flank that is a better model of law than Rolle Deng. Milotic has brought a lot of surprises and can be used as a qualified rotation player. The team's summer operation is also based on stability, and Butler will be re-signed for a long time with an early maximum salary, and he will not compete with other players. The Bulls' lineup is very stable, and if it is only a small tinkering, the cooperation will be higher and higher.

On the downside: Rose was so rusty that he shook off for a season and didn't make it, and he didn't show the slightest sign of success. Now he is hurting the team as soon as he plays (see the player's chapter for details), but the team must give a lot of the ball to Rose to get him back into form, otherwise his investment will be in vain. Fortunately, the team's foundation is hard enough and the East is weak enough, Rose went up to lose a 20-minute base, and the team can win back with a non-Ross lineup, and the 50-win record is proper for the playoffs in the upper half of the East.

According to the positioning of the bull to his sister-in-law, he can still maintain the current high level for 1-2 years, but the question is what to do with Noah? This season, Noah has basically been scrapped on the offensive end, and he used to rely on non-stop running, covering and receiving the ball down, cutting without the ball, and driving the whole team to attack at the free throw line. But last season he completely lost possession of the ball on the offensive end...... Rose, who has the most ball, is a single-player who only needs to provide one screen. My sister-in-law's free-throw line playmaking ability and threat are above Noah, and when he is the core, Noah only has the ability to attack without the ball...... But the big man directly cuts the success rate you know...... now his biggest role on the offensive end is to take the ball at the free throw line to make an inside pass when his sister-in-law is about to sink into the low post single. On the defensive end, he has the ability to infinitely supplement the defense to the outside, and he is a perfect match for his sister-in-law, so he can't change positions casually.

There is also a team that is also too thin in rotation, especially on the wings. After all, Dunleavy is too old and not mobile well, and now he is overloaded for 30 minutes a game, and Butler has to play 38 minutes per game, and he feels distressed to watch, and he is really afraid that he will die before he is like Rohr Deng. If Rose's recovery is still not as expected (at least to contribute to the team, this requirement is really not high), then the other two backcourts will be very troublesome, Brooks can shoot suddenly, but unfortunately there is no confrontation, and it is not possible to revitalize the whole team. Hinrich was a decent passer, but moved slowly and shot erratically. The three guards all have their own problems, and it was good for Bob and Hinrich to play on the bench, but Rose would not be ideal if he recovered...... Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau is a master who likes to play the main game, and when it comes to the playoffs, the players are persevering with perseverance.

This game is also a lot of pressure for the Pacers, who are no weaker than the Pelicans, and they are also one of the Pacers' key contenders this season. At the beginning of the game, perhaps because of the back-to-back influence, the players of the Pacers did not play particularly well, including Ye Xuan, who had a shooting rate of 86% in the last game, and his performance at the beginning of this game also seemed a little out of shape.

Unlike the Pacers, who only relied on Jordan Hill to score two points in the first 3 minutes of the game, the Bulls are very confident, although Rose has been struggling last season, but every time he faces Ye Xuan, he always seems very active, even with sudden shots, and scored 5 points under Ye Xuan's defense, coupled with Gasol and Butler's shooting, the Bulls took a very obvious lead of 11:2 at the beginning.

Fortunately, the players on the Pacers' side have also experienced strong winds and waves - four of the five starters have won championship rings, so they quickly adjusted their form, and after a wave of 6:2, the Pacers closed the gap to five points. In the last two games, Rondo and Ye Xuan led a bench to grab points, and in this game, Coach Frank arranged pickled peppers to carry out this task.

Although there is no organizational ability of Ye Xuan and Rondo, but Pickled Pepper can barely play a dozen organizations, but unfortunately the effect is not particularly good, after wasting two minutes of precious substitute time to grab points, Coach Frank decisively replaced Pickled Pepper to rest, and replaced Rondo to lead the substitutes. After Rondo came on the court, the effect was really good, although Xiaobu's projection and breakthrough were very good, but it was still not enough to see in front of Rondo, if they didn't have Ty Gibson to support the scene, the difference might have been smoothed out by the benches led by Rondo at the end of the first quarter of the game.

At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers trailed the opponent by 4 points at 28:32, but unfortunately at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the problems of the Bulls were highlighted, and Rose, who performed well in the first quarter of the game, shot 1 of 5 in this quarter and only scored 2 points, which led to the Bulls' offense coming to a standstill. So at halftime, although the Bulls relied on Gasol and Butler's shots to barely bite the score, they no longer had any advantage, but still trailed the Pacers by 3 points.

The third quarter was a turning point for the Pacers, who finally took the pace of the game into their own hands, playing an astonishing 37:21 in a single quarter, and ended the battle in a straight quarter, although there was still a full quarter of the game in the fourth quarter, Tom Thibodeau should not be ready to struggle.

At the end of the game, the Pacers won their third consecutive victory on their home court, Ye Xuan's performance in this game was still very good, although he was a little confused in the first quarter of the game, but then he found his rhythm, and finally he played 28 minutes in this game, got 27 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and the rebounding data was also brushed up a lot with the help of Tyson Chandler, two of which also successfully launched a fast break, Therefore, after Ye Xuan grabbed the backcourt rebound, launching a fast break can basically be regarded as one of the regular tactics of the Pacers.

The start of the game was a wave of three consecutive wins, which made Pacers fans very happy, but the good news is still to come, Ye Xuan won the best week in the first week of the East with an average of 29.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game after three games this week.