"And we can also see that after the Hawks did not play the expected effect in the starting lineup, they decisively replaced Sofrosa and Schroder, and this substitution is also outstanding, and it can be seen from here that the Hawks have studied their opponents in the East very thoroughly. So let's wait and see whether the Hawks can beat the second-place Pacers in the East on their home court, or whether the Pacers can stubbornly recover these points in the second half. ”

As the commentators on the commentary bench analyzed, the halftime time was quickly over, and the Pacers re-entered the field, but some changes were made to the personnel, starting with Solomon Hill, who has been in the starting lineup this season, being put on the bench, and Shambaugh not appearing on the court. It's not that Coach Frank thinks that the performance of these two people is too poor, so he presses them on the bench, but because these two people still have a little bit of organization and cooperation ability, so he wants them to still be able to support the situation when Ye Xuan is not there.

Another point is that although the Hawks are very strong inside, there are no other outside players who need to be closely guarded except for Jeff Teague, in other words, the Hawks' outside line is rubbish except for Jeff Teague, in fact, it can't be said to be garbage, but there is no independent offensive ability, Korver is a fixed-point shooter, Carroll is a reckless man, and the Pacers' Hibbert just completely restrained his style of play, and Soflosa is basically useless except for defense, The only little yellow hair who is a little threatening, and the hit rate is just like that, so there is no need for a defensive top soldier like Solomon Hill to share the pressure on Ye Xuan on the field.

At the beginning of the second half, the Hawks still let Korver and Carroll appear on the court, while the lineup on the Pacers' side was changed to C.J. Watson and Starkey in addition to Ye Xuan and the two interior players. After returning to the court, Ye Xuan also directly put himself in the position of small forward, don't you like to use small forward to defend me? Then I'll just play the small forward position.

The Eagles' first two offenses failed to score, because although Ye Xuan appeared in the position of small forward, but on the defensive end, he still chose to defend Jeff Teague, so the Hawks wanted Carroll to single out the skinny C.J. Watson, but although Carroll did have an advantage over Watson, as long as Carroll burst in, he would be interfered with by Hibbert, and the result was that he missed two consecutive rounds of shooting.

On the other hand, Ye Xuan's side, although he is no longer a point guard, he still controls the rhythm of the court, and Starkey is running to find opportunities in addition to dribbling the ball through the half court. The Pacers used their rotation to quickly pull the opponent's defense, and in two consecutive rounds, Ye Xuan broke through the ball to Starkey and Watson on the outside, and the two of them each hit a three-pointer, instantly narrowing the 13-point difference to only 7 points.

The Hawks quickly changed their tactics, and they didn't dare to let Carroll attack with the ball anymore, and instead let the two inside play a small match, and the conversion of this tactic still played a little role, although the Pacers' interior defense was stronger, but they couldn't stand the two inside lines all pulled out to shoot far away. So the Eagles' offense suddenly opened up the situation.

Fortunately, they still couldn't find any good way to limit Ye Xuan on the defensive end, because the movement speed of Korver and Carroll was indeed a little unable to keep up with Ye Xuan, so in the third quarter of the game, the Hawks decisively called a timeout to replace Carroll and Korver, and replaced them with the little yellow hair Schroder and Soflosa, wanting to replicate the restrictions on Ye Xuan in the first half.

However, this time the Pacers also began to change their lineup, replacing Starkey, who had only played 4 minutes on the court, Smith, and replacing C.J. Watson with Shambaugh. When the game restarted, the Hawks were still ahead of the Pacers, but the Pacers' offensive firepower did not diminish at all.

And the Eagles' strategy against Ye Xuan in the first half also failed in the second half, because Ye Xuan simply started to play the pass after the opponent replaced Soflosa, continuous breakthrough and blocking, as long as Xiao Huang Mao came to wrap up, Ye Xuan was able to hand over the ball to the person who ran out of the vacancy, which made the Eagles not only not be able to use this lineup to open the difference again, but also because of the shortcomings of this lineup, their offense began to be blocked.

After replacing Korver, a very stable outside scoring point, the Hawks' weak outside flaws were also exposed, although the little yellow hair can show off the operation from time to time, although Jeff Teague is still very steady, but this is far from enough for the Hawks, which leads to the Pacers can unscrupulously go to the Hawks' interior duo to wrap up, which is very fast for Al Horford and Millsap's physical strength.

So with seven minutes into the third quarter, the Hawks had to make another substitution, bringing on Millsap for Mike Scott. The Pacers also brought on Solomon Hill to add some offensive pressure to the opponent. In this way, the two teams used this lineup to play for about 3 minutes, and the Pacers replaced their absolute core Ye Xuan to rest.

Ye Xuan played well in this quarter, compared to 14 shots and 6 shots and 3 errors in the first half, Ye Xuan's performance in the third quarter was perfect. Although he only made 5 shots, he hit all 5 shots and scored 12 points, and he also handed out 6 assists in this quarter, which basically completely revitalized the Pacers' offense. The most important thing is that in this quarter of the game, although he still faced Soflosa's defense and Xiao Huangmao's bag, he did not make a single mistake, so the Pacers also used the ten minutes that Ye Xuan was on the court in this quarter to directly narrow the difference to 3 points.

And after Ye Xuan and the inside two went off the court, Solomon Hill, Smith and Shambaught could still hold up the situation on the court, so although the Pacers did not have Ye Xuan to command in the last two minutes of the third quarter, they still did not let the opponent pull the score back away.