Chapter 58: The Jedi Strikes Back

After Ye Xuan got off the court, he felt dissatisfied with his ability for a while, facing the top defenders in the league, he felt that he was blown up, and then in the time when he was very confident in leading the substitute battle, he didn't recover many points for the team. Seeing Ye Xuan's expression, Frank knew that he was beginning to doubt himself, and hurriedly came over to enlighten Ye Xuan.

"Ye, you have done a good job, after all, the Clippers are the top team in the league now, and they have a better hand today, you don't have to blame yourself too much. In the face of Paul's annoying little moves, many veterans of the league will look very uncomfortable, let alone a rookie like you, let alone a rookie like you, I tell you, I will still arrange for you to start against Paul in the second half, I hope you can cheer up and use your energy and wisdom to open up the situation for the team. After Ye Xuan heard this, he nodded heavily, signaling that he understood.

The main players of the two teams on the field fought on the field for another 5-6 minutes, and Coach Frank replaced Ye Xuan on the field to play the last two minutes of the first half. Ye Xuan came on the field to replace C.J. Watson, and on the offensive end, Ye Xuan did not choose to face Paul's defense directly, so he gave up holding the ball and handed the ball to Pickle Pepper, and he used off-ball running and cutting inside to help the team open up space.

Pickled Pepper held the ball at the top of the arc and made a three-threat posture, faced J.J. Redick's defense, made a move to shoot, immediately took the ball down and broke forward, and then made a worship action, the second false shake successfully shook Redick up, Pickled Pepper took two steps in, and hit a close-range jumper before Jordan Jr. had time to come over to make up for the defense.

After a stalemate between the two teams for a while, the score was temporarily fixed at 55:48, and the Pacers temporarily trailed by seven points. In the locker room, Coach Frank first affirmed everyone's performance in the first half, and then formulated a game strategy for the second half.

"In the second half, I hope you can impact the opponent's interior more often, the opponent's interior looks very strong, but their bench interior is not very good, and Jordan Jr. is also easy to fall into the foul trap, in addition, when defending, I allow you to use the shark tactics appropriately. Jordan Jr.'s free throws are famously poor, and Griffin's free throws, although they have been improving, they are not up to the league average, come on, we will definitely be able to win the opponent and overtake the score. ”

β€œLet’s Go Pacers!!”

There was the sound of everyone cheering in the locker room.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, after Ye Xuan controlled the ball and came to the front court, he used West's block to dismantle Paul, and then entered the inside line to fake a shot to shake up Little Jordan, and then Ye Xuan bumped up, causing the opponent to foul, and after making two free throws steadily, he slowly retreated to his own half.

In the rematch, Paul took the ball to the frontcourt, used Barnes's cover to stagger the defense, and then hit the ground and passed back to Barnes, who cut inside, and Barnes received the ball and threw it inside. The basketball smashed into the back of the basket and bounced high, but Jordan Jr. on the inside got stuck in a favorable position, grabbed the rebound and smashed the ball into the basket with both hands, which incidentally caused a foul on Roy Hibbert.

But when it comes to free throws, Jordan Jr.'s free throws are even worse than O'Neal's, but O'Neal made a total of 11,252 free throws in the regular season in his career, hitting 5,935 of them, and a shooting rate of 52.7%.

Jordan Jr.'s shooting percentage was even more disastrous, with the exception of the 2011-12 season, when he shot more than 50% from the free-throw line to 52.5%, all other seasons were below 50%, and even three seasons when he shot less than 40% from the free-throw line.

With this free-throw percentage, the shark-slashing tactic was carried forward in Jordan Jr., and this season, his free-throw percentage is still the same, and his free-throw shooting rate that has just reached 40% has left him struggling on the one-point line after making a kill inside.

And today, his free throws obviously did not go up, in the boos of the fans, little Jordan waved his hand, the basketball crossed a wonderful arc in the air, and then only touched a little front of the basket, Hibbert picked up the rebound and handed the ball to Ye Xuan with a long throw, Ye Xuan dribbled the ball in two steps and hit the ground, the basketball passed through the chasing Paul and was directly sent to the hands of Pickle Pepper, Pickled Pepper would not give up such an opportunity to perform in front of the fans, grabbed the basketball with his right hand and jumped high, and then handed the basketball to his left hand behind his back, and smashed the ball into the basket, Switch hands behind and dunk! The quick and efficient counterattack also drew cheers from the fans in the stadium.

And with this fast attack, the Pacers will also blow the horn of counterattack. First, Ye Xuan seized the opportunity to cut off the pass from Griffin, who was about to pass back after failing to reach the ball on the inside, and assisted Lance to score two points.

Then when the opponent missed the counterattack, Pickle Pepper took advantage of the misplaced opportunity to play big, shook off the slow-paced little Jordan and scored the ball, and the score was close to 57:56 in an instant, and the veteran Doug Rivers saw that the opponent's offense was like a tide, and quickly called a timeout.

At the end of the timeout, Paul was instructed by Rivers, pressed down his rhythm, slowly escorted the ball to the frontcourt, and then handed the ball to Griffin, who asked for the ball on the inside. After Griffin received the ball, he first tested David West with his back, but then sank down and pressed his back inside, and the pickled pepper next to him helped defend the bag, but Griffin instantly passed the ball out, and after receiving the ball, J.J. Reddick shook a shot, shook off the pickled pepper who pounced back to block, and then dribbled inward and hit a jumper, which finally stabilized the Clippers.

The game continued, the Pacers began to block and dismantle, after West blocked Ye Xuan, he immediately dismantled the inner cut, Ye Xuan changed the defense and faced Griffin's marking, without thinking about it, he directly hoisted the ball into the inner line, and the thin Redick behind West's back hit was naturally handy.

In the next round, after Paul gave Redick a breakout, the opportunity was wasted again, and it seemed that they left all their hand in the first half, but fortunately, this time, Jordan Jr. once again pressed Hibbert to grab the rebound, and as soon as Jordan Jr. got the ball, he was hugged by West on the side before he had time to jump and dunk. Suddenly, Jordan Jr. felt that the world was targeting him, and when he thought that he was about to go to the free throw line, he wished that he hadn't grabbed the rebound just now.

Walking to the free throw line, Jordan Jr. first drew a cross in the void, and then shot, as if praying that it worked, the basketball bounced on the basket a few times...... Then it went upside down. Jordan Jr. happily ran back to the half court to celebrate with his teammates, and then ran back to make a second free throw amid the laughter of the audience. The second free throw shot, sure enough, in line with his shooting rate, Hibbert hurriedly grabbed the rebound and handed it to Ye Xuan.