The quasi-kill Knicks made all the Bulls extremely happy.

Sun Xiaotian contributed 27 points in this game, scored five points in the last two minutes of the game, and delivered a quasi-lore in the final moment, becoming the hero of the United Center.

The Bulls failed to defend Anthony throughout the game, causing Anthony to score 38 points, but in the final moments, the Bulls' excellent defensive execution made Anthony repeatedly hit the iron and the Knicks lost a good game.

Winning the Knicks seemed to be a big win for the Bulls, temporarily stabilizing their position in the second place in the East, but things were normal, and the subsequent wave of three consecutive losses allowed the Bulls to fall directly from second to fourth.

After winning against the Knicks, the Bulls challenged the Jazz on the road, only to lose by 28 points as a result of the Bulls being slaughtered in the energy arena. Sun Xiaotian only played 22 minutes in this game, although he scored 17 points in 7 of 8, but his teammates felt cold in the offense and had no rhythm in the defense. The Jazz played well on offense and blossomed more.

After the game, Sun Xiaotian said that the team's throat in this game seemed to be choked by the Utah plateau, and everyone was in a state of hypoxia, completely missing the state of the previous victory over the Knicks.

But then the Bulls lost to the Lakers and Grizzlies in a row, making the Bulls completely passive. Despite both defeats, the team's poor performance in the final moments left Thibodeau furious in the dressing room.

In the loss to the Lakers, although Sun Xiaotian scored 30 points and played against Kobe Bryant in the game. But a low-level error in the last 40 seconds allowed Bryant to hit a mid-range shot in the subsequent attack, and the score expanded to 4 points, and the Bulls fell into passivity. In the game lost to the Grizzlies, Sun Xiaotian accidentally hit his teammate Noah with his head in an offensive at the last moment of the fourth quarter and returned to the locker room.

If the loss to the Jazz is because the whole team is not in shape, even the loss to the Lakers and Grizzlies has something to do with Sun Xiaotian, not that he is the main reason for the loss, but because the Bulls team has now been stamped with the label of Sun Xiaotian, and Sun Xiaotian's performance directly affects the direction of the Bulls.

The three consecutive defeats certainly disappointed the fans, and many fans felt that the Bulls had dropped the chain at a critical moment, but after all, there were still more than 20 games to be played in the game.

The three-game losing streak also bothered Sun Xiaotian, who averaged 22.3 points, 8 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game in three games, and remained the team's most credible player, but he felt guilty for not being able to bring victory to the team, even though the fans were happy with his performance.

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In the next game, the Bulls will fly to Indianapolis to take on the Indiana Pacers, which will be another uphill battle.

As one of the oldest teams in the league, the Pacers can be called giants in a sense.

In 1967, eight businessmen each contributed a few thousand dollars to form the Pacers, joined the American Basketball Association (ABA), and reached the ABA Finals the following season. He won the ABA championship three times in 1970, 1972 and 1973. After the merger of the American Basketball Association and the National Men's Basketball League (NBA) in 1976, the Pacers became one of four teams from the original ABA league to join the NBA.

After the glory of the 1967-1974 ABA League, the Pacers have not changed their strength since 1976, when the NBA merged with the American Men's Basketball Professional League, until 1980.

From the 1980-81 season, Indiana began to recover. The sign is Jack? McKinney from Bob? Leonard took over the reins and began a four-year coaching career with the Pacers. During this period, although the Pacers' record was not as brilliant as it was in the sixties and seventies, the team still occasionally made a bright performance in the playoffs. But the team's record has been hovering between bad and good, even though the Pacers picked the scoring machine with the 11th pick in the first round of the 1987 NBA Draft, UCLA 6-foot-7" guard Reggie? Miller, but the team's fate remains unchanged.

It wasn't until the 1993-1994 season that the Pacers appointed Larry Brown as the team's head coach, and the Pacers once again stood tall among the top teams, and during his tenure, the Pacers reached the Eastern Conference Finals in four years and two times. In Larry Brown's first season in charge, the Pacers went 47-35 in the regular season and advanced to the playoffs, swept the Orlando Magic in the first round, and unexpectedly eliminated the Atlanta Hawks, who finished first in the regular season, 4-2 in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Met the New York Knicks, an old enemy, in the Eastern Conference Finals. The first four matches between the two sides were tied 2-2. In Game 5 of the finals at Madison Garden, Miller single-handedly scored 25 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Pacers to a crucial road victory. However, New York won the last two games and won the Eastern Conference championship 4-3 overall.

In the 1997-1998 season, "Big Bird" Bird took over the coaching whip of the Pacers, and then he helped the team reach the Eastern Conference Finals three times, and reached the Finals in the 1999-2000 season, where they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers. After Bird's retirement, the Pacers went through several more painless seasons until the 2003-2004 season, when Bird returned as the club's president. Big Bird sacks coach Isaiah. Thomas, by Rick. Carlisle took over. The backbone of the team, O'Neill Jr. and Reggie? Miller continued to make an appointment. The Pacers finished the regular season with a best 61-21 record in the NBA, setting a new record for winning percentage in franchise history, reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for the sixth time in 11 years, but ultimately losing to Detroit.

In the 2004-05 season, the Pacers, who basically maintained their original lineup, had hoped to win the championship again, but on November 19, 2004, the infamous "Auburn Hills Palace Mass Assault" occurred. A total of nine players received a total of 143 game bans in the incident. The Pacers were the biggest victims of the incident, and the team's vitality was devastated. Then Miller retired, O'Neal Jr. was plagued by injuries, and a group of fierce players led by Artest left the team one after another, and the team never returned to the level of the previous Eastern Conference finals.

It wasn't until the last two years, with the teaming up of Granger, Paul George, Stephenson, Hill, Hibbert, and West, that the team saw hope for a revival. Last season, we had six playoff games with the Heat, and it's still impressive.

So far this season, the Pacers have overtaken the Bulls to move into third place in the East. The growth of the team's superstar Paul George has given the Pacers hope and a future. Paul George is averaging 17.5 points, 7.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game this season, making him the favorite to be the most improved player.

Like Sun Xiaotian, Paul George also regards Maddie as one of his idols, so this direct dialogue between the two is very similar to the PK between Maddie's disciples.