Chapter Seventy-Seven: The First Battle of the Playoffs (2)

Compared with the wide opening and closing when the main team was on the court, after the Pacers' one-vote bench came on the court, the scene became boring, and the offensive rhythm of both sides was slowed down, and Mike Budenholzer saw that Mishen and others could not take advantage of the court, so he simply replaced his main team.

A substitute came on the court for a while, and it was not until 2 minutes of the game played in the second quarter that the two sides changed the main force one after another. I have to say that the Eagles' benches played really well under the leadership of Lowe. Even when the Pacers deliberately slowed down the tempo and put on a bucket defense, the Hawks' benches seized the opportunity to recover seven points in those minutes.

When Ye Xuan came on the court, the score had come to 41:34, and the Pacers only led by 7 points. But with the appearance of the main players, the rhythm of the game was suddenly raised again.

Ye Xuan received the serve from the backcourt, slowly advanced to the front court, stopped near the top of the arc and made a gesture, Teague thought that he was going to wait for his teammates to come forward to block and dismantle something, but Ye Xuan made a false shot, taking advantage of Teague's inattention, directly past Teague and into the penalty area. Facing Antici who came to make up for the defense, Ye Xuan was not stunned at all, and jumped directly to meet Antici who pounced.

Of course, Antich couldn't do what Ye Xuan wanted, and immediately jumped to cover Ye Xuan, but after Ye Xuan threw the ball high, he didn't care about it, Antich secretly screamed that it was not good, but unfortunately it was too late, Hibbert behind him had already jumped high and grabbed the basketball thrown by Ye Xuan, pressed it with both hands, and smashed the ball into the basket.

After the completion of this air connection, the atmosphere that had begun to cool down on the scene was ignited again. Ye Xuan also raised his right hand high and pointed to the audience, and then gave a flying kiss, and the on-site director immediately found that it was Ye Xuan's girlfriend Shen Wei who also came to the scene to watch the game.

After receiving the serve, Teague challenged Ye Xuan again, this time, he changed his thinking, did not choose to force a breakthrough, but used his own skills, after two consecutive changes of direction, he finally shook off a little gap, taking advantage of this opportunity, Teague immediately started to hit Ye Xuan to hit a throw.

But Ye Xuan is not the kind of person who endures losses after suffering, looking back, Ye Xuan immediately used a change of direction under his crotch and a Buddha worship action to pass Teague, and took advantage of the gap when Antici on the inside line had not yet made up for the defense.

After that, the main players of the Pacers came into play, first Pickles Pepper singled Korver again, and then Hibbert also fouled Antich on the inside, making both free throws. At halftime, the Pacers extended the margin to more than 15 points and entered the halftime break with a temporary 16-point lead at 57:41.

In the locker room, the Pacers looked very relaxed, after all, being able to lead by so many points in the playoffs shows that their side is indeed better than their opponents. Unlike the Pacers, the Hawks' locker room was cloudy, and the game was played like this, which greatly surprised them, after all, they won the Pacers by as many as 16 points in the last meeting. However, now it seems that the strength of the main lineup on his side is obviously inferior to that of the opponent, which makes the generals of the Eagles very annoyed.

At the end of the intermission, the main team of the Pacers was full of energy, and as soon as they got on the court, they hit a series of heavy punches. First, Pickled Pepper cut off Millsap's return pass after being trapped, quickly advanced to the front court to assist Ye Xuan to score two points, and then Hibbert grabbed the rebound after Millsap's shot missed, and then made a long pass to find Ye Xuan, who had already made a fast break, Ye Xuan received the ball and hit the inside line to attract the defense of Teague who was back to defense, and then assisted Lance who followed up and scored two more points.

Subsequently, Korver's three-point shot was also missed, and after Ye Xuan got the rebound that popped up, he found that there was no chance of fast breaking, so he slowly advanced to the front court, and handed the ball to the pickled pepper next to him with a horizontal pass, but the pickled pepper didn't want to shoot directly with a dry three-point shot, and the hot pickled pepper actually really threw the ball, and it only took a minute to hit a small climax of 7:0 again, and the Eagles entered a timeout again.

After the timeout, although the Eagles were able to score the ball in two consecutive rounds, Ye Xuan was also powerful at this time, first using his feet to shake off Teague and then hitting a throw, and then using West's cover to hit a step-back jumper.

A few rounds later, the Hawks' shooting percentage dropped again, and less than seven minutes into the third quarter, the Pacers led by a full 30 points, 83-53. And Coach Frank also waved his hand and directly replaced all the main forces.

Although the Hawks finally took advantage of the Pacers to come off the bench to recover some points, it was a drop in the bucket in the face of the huge 30-point difference. At the end of the game, the Pacers defeated the Atlanta Hawks with a score of 116-94 to get the first round of the playoffs off to a good start.

Ye Xuan only played 26 minutes in this game, and efficiently scored 19 points, 7 assists and 3 steals. And Pickled Pepper scored 23 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds in 26 minutes, and Pickled Pepper also got 3 steals. And after the game, the pickled pepper was also rated as the best in the game.

Compared to the efficient main lineup on the Pacers' side, the Hawks' stats can only be described as bleak. The overall shooting rate of the whole team is only 37%, the three-point shooting rate is only 25%, and the steals are only contributed by Lowe in the whole game, but the 19 turnovers in the whole game make the Pacers can only look up.

Also playing alongside the Pacers vs. Hawks game are the Bulls vs. Wizards, the Trail Blazers vs. Rockets and the Mavericks vs. Spurs, which have already beaten their opponents 90-85 at home. And the game between the Bulls and the Wizards was a 102-93 victory for the Wizards. The game between the Trail Blazers and the Rockets was tied 106-106 in regulation time and is now preparing for overtime.

After Ye Xuan and his teammates briefly celebrated on the field, they returned to the locker room together, and after Coach Frank briefly summarized the game, he praised everyone's performance. Then after telling everyone that the training would continue tomorrow, he left the locker room with pickled peppers and went to the press conference.

And Ye Xuan took out his mobile phone and prepared to watch the overtime of the Rockets, after all, he and Howard are also good friends. As a result, as soon as the game was opened, Howard was seen hitting two free throws in a row. But although Howard played well in overtime and scored 6 points, Harden ran out of energy after entering overtime, shooting 0 of 4.

Howard picked up his sixth foul with 11 seconds left in the game and was ejected. The Rockets also lost their first home court by 120-122 by two points. After Ye Xuan finished reading it, he sent a text message to Howard to comfort him, then got up and left the locker room to go home.