After enjoying a hearty Chinese meal, the three newcomers in the team also quickly integrated into the collective, and Smith didn't show any misfits, so under Ye Xuan's gags, everyone quickly became one.

After a few more days of getting along, Smith didn't seem to be as difficult as the legend suggests, so after a training session, I wanted to have a good chat with him.

"Hey,."

"Hey, Ye, what's the matter?"

"I want to talk to you about this season, and you know that the outside world has a very bad opinion of you, but after these days of contact, I found that you are actually quite easy to get along with."

"No, Ye, you don't know, I used to be really difficult to get along with, the doctor said that I had mild mania, which made me very irritable, so I also had all kinds of unnecessary conflicts with my teammates."

"It doesn't matter, at least now you're doing very well with the Pacers, and I don't want to know if you were really hard to get along with, as long as you don't get into trouble with the Pacers, I guarantee that your reputation in the league will slowly get better."

"Hahaha, that's right, Ye. You and your compatriots said exactly the same thing, when I went to your country's CBA, your compatriots also said that I had received a socialist infection and had reformed my ways. ”

Ye Xuan shed a few drops of cold sweat on his head, and then said, "Our task this season is very arduous, you know, as the champion of the previous season, we lost the general of Pickle Pepper before the start of this season, which makes the outside world very unoptimistic about us, but we just want to prove that we are still the strongest team in the league, and we need to ensure that the team's results are as good as possible before Pickle Pepper comes back, so that when we enter the playoffs, We will be able to gradually regain our combat effectiveness. ”

After a pause, Ye Xuan continued his brainwashing, "Think about it, when you were in the Nuggets, didn't you also play a commendable performance for a period of time?" You were even a strong contender for the Sixth Man of the Year at one point, and this season we also need you to step up from the bench and help the team still play effectively while the main players are resting, and I believe that if we can take the team into the playoffs with Pickles injured this season, and then go all the way up to the championship, then no one will question our strength anymore, and you can also seek a big contract as the championship Sixth Man of the Year, how about it? Makes sense, right? ”

The two of them slowly walked out of the locker room while blowing and forcing like this.

Time flies, and after more than a week of collective training, the Pacers finally have their first big training opportunity, and on October 8, the newly defended champions will welcome their first preseason game of the season at home, and they will welcome the Timberwolves, who have just traded their team boss Kevin Love and are ready to start a rebuild, at their home Consec Arena.

In the preseason, it was originally used for training, so Ye Xuan didn't play a lot of time in this game, except for the time when he played for 5 or 6 minutes at the beginning, Ye Xuan basically sat on the sidelines to watch the three new teammates perform on the court, and after practicing together for more than a week, these brothers have gradually integrated into the tactics of the Pacers.

And because the Pacers didn't have any rookies this year, there was no talk of training rookies, so the preseason game directly became a game for the Pacers to run tactics. In the 5 or 6 minutes that Ye Xuan played, he was basically holding the ball alone or breaking through the ball, and in just half a quarter, Ye Xuan showed amazing strength, and even suddenly threw and directly got 11 points and 3 assists, and this, it only took 8 rounds, 5 shots, 3 passes, and the high efficiency is really rare.

In addition to Ye Xuan's playing time is not high, the other absolute main players did not play much, Hibbert only played less than 20 minutes in normal games, and West also played for about 20 minutes and did not play again, but Solomon Hill got a lot of playing time, I think Coach Frank wants to exercise his ability to lead the bench alone.

Although the main team of the Pacers did not stand for too long, as the defending champions, their bench and new three additions are not bad, and the opponent is obviously training the newcomers, this year's champion Andrew Wiggins shot wildly throughout the game, hitting only 10 of the 26 shots, although he scored a game-high 26 points, but also consumed a lot of shooting opportunities, plus Zach LaVine and other newcomers are also looking for a feeling, So in the end, the Pacers still won the game with a score of 103-95 on their home court.

After this game, the Pacers rested for two days before welcoming a new opponent on their home court, the Magic, on October 11. Compared to the Pacers, the Magic still look very weak, and the Magic, who finished bottom of the league last season, selected their favorite Aaron Gordon with the fourth pick, but the rookie obviously didn't live up to their expectations.

In this game, Ye Xuan played half a quarter of the game at the beginning of the first quarter and the beginning of the third quarter, in this game, the Pacers gradually began to run some tactics, and the results are self-evident, in the face of the Magic team that has no defensive elite and the lineup is not particularly ideal, the Pacers easily killed the opponent again, 113:91, and sent the opponent back to his hometown with a big score.

Ye Xuan played exactly 12 points in this game, and efficiently scored 14 points and 5 assists, when he was there, not only helped the team to sort out the offense in an orderly manner, but also looked very relaxed when he broke through with the ball, it felt that Ye Xuan easily shook off the opponent as if he was crossing the road when facing Elfrid Payton.

After this game, many media also began to pay attention to Ye Xuan's high-energy performance in the new season, although it was only a preseason, Ye Xuan's efficient performance still impressed many commentators, and they also coincidentally mentioned a statement, that is, Ye Xuan is now the only leader of the Pacers.