Chapter 285: Halftime Lead
After the substitution was completed, the Warriors served in the backcourt, Green became the Warriors' ball handler and commander again, and the Splash Brothers started their own off-ball running again, for Ye Xuan and Solomon Hill, it was still a little uncomfortable to defend the opponent who ran without the ball, although he was barely able to be thrown away when he ran, but when he followed the defense, he had to beware of the opponent coming up at any time to do off-ball cover, which was very annoying.
And I don't know if it's Ye Xuan's illusion or the referee is really a little blind, Ye Xuan always feels that the opponent is suspected of moving when blocking and dismantling, and there are one or two times when it is particularly obvious, but the referee doesn't blow such an obvious action, Ye Xuan began to feel a little bit that his eyes were spent or something. In fact, the referee can't be blamed, after taking over the league, Xiao Hua has been in various mockery, everyone says that he is not as good as Stern, which makes him very unhappy.
In fact, he also knows that the reason why Stern was able to create such a brilliant reputation in the NBA is because Stern promoted the NBA brand to the world and raised the popularity of the sport to a different level. Of course, the most important thing is that Stern is very good at using the power in his hands to create topics, from the black and white era that started shortly after he took over the league, to the era of Michael Jordan's basketball god, all the way to the back four quarterbacks, 23vs24, in fact, there are more or less some of Stern's shadows in it. To put it bluntly, Stern's biggest characteristic is that he can cater to the needs of the audience and constantly carry out his god-making movement.
And Adam Xiao Hua obviously wants to learn from his predecessors, and after he took over the league last season, he originally wanted to use the Pacers, Ye Xuan and Pickle Pepper as the main promotion of the twin stars, but unfortunately the plan has not yet started, and as a result, Pickle Pepper was directly injured, and in terms of the extent of the injury, no one can recover in the future, so Xiao Hua decisively gave up the Pacers. As for why not build Ye Xuan into a new generation of 'gods'? Please, Ye Xuan is not an American, this is the United States, this is the NBA, even if it is not good, the best player among them cannot be a yellow-skinned Chinese.
At this time, Xiao Hua set his sights on Curry, who had accumulated a lot of money, Curry was actually a late bloomer, after entering the league in 09, Curry's performance was also remarkable, but there was no highlight moment, which also led to his second contract not being particularly big. However, since last year, Curry has gradually shown his strength, coupled with the precipitation of the Golden State Warriors in the past few years, he has shown amazing combat effectiveness at the beginning of this season, and Xiao Hua also immediately made a decision and took the Warriors as his goal of creating gods.
However, as a god, he naturally needs a strong opponent, and this opponent, now it seems that Ye Xuan's Pacers team and the new Big Three Cavaliers team just established this year are more suitable, among them, although the Pacers team is reimbursed by the team boss, so the combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced, but because of Ye Xuan's explosion this season, it is still very eye-catching, and Ye Xuan is also unreasonable, and he has continuously played a series of superhuman data, which has also attracted a lot of attention.
The strength of the Cavaliers looks a little stronger, although their current record is not the first in the East, but this is also related to the run-in of their team, on paper, the Cavaliers with three major stars are undoubtedly the Eastern team with the best chance of reaching the finals this season.
This is the end of the digression, Ye Xuan was a little annoyed after being blocked twice by the opponent's mobile cover, and immediately found the referee's theory, but unfortunately the referee had a dead mother's expression, just ignored Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan could only accept it, in fact, if other players went to the referee like this, maybe they had been stuffed in the face by a T, but unfortunately the person who came to trouble the referee was Ye Xuan, and Ye Xuan was now carrying a technical foul, and the referee did not dare to rashly send Ye Xuan out, otherwise this game would not have to be watched.
After the theory failed, Ye Xuan could only restart the game, at this time, the Pacers were shot after being blocked and dismantled by the opponent with two moving covers in a row, so the lead has been wiped out by the opponent, but Ye Xuan is obviously not the kind of player who can be slaughtered, so after the ball came to the frontcourt, Ye Xuan immediately started his own offensive career, first using the inside West to help block and dismantle, and then shot a stop-and-go jump shot. After Curry's three-point shot, he hit a chasing layup, and although Curry hit a three-pointer, the Pacers still maintained a one-point lead.
In fact, the Pacers' defense in this game is also very good, if the Warriors were to play according to the original offensive rhythm, the Pacers should have fallen behind by at least 10 points by now, but because Ye Xuan and Solomon Hill defended the opponent's two main forces well, so they had no chance to attack with the ball, so the shooting rate naturally dropped a lot, although the off-ball running of these two people was very uncomfortable, but in general, The offensive efficiency of the Warriors has dropped a lot under the Pacers' defense.
In the next few rounds, the Pacers' offense was still initiated by Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan now gradually began to have physical problems, after all, Ye Xuan only rested for less than three minutes at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, so Ye Xuan has now changed his style of play, passing the ball more to his teammates and letting his teammates play.
The offense on the Warriors' side is more of a shaft by Green in the high post, and then Curry and Thompson run without the ball to find opportunities, which is a bit similar to the way the Spurs played when they sent Dio to the court in the finals last year, so the Pacers' defense is relatively handy.
The game lasted until the last minute of the second quarter, and the Pacers still relied on Ye Xuan's individual ability and the excellent touch of Solomon Hill and Shambaugh to lead the opponent by 4 points. At this time, the Pacers took the lead in replacing their backcourt trio, - Smith, C.J. Watson and Starkey, the three masters of chaos, in the last minute of the second quarter of the game, the Warriors were not able to make any big waves, and at the end of the half, the Pacers led the opponent by three points at 54:51 and entered the halftime break.