"Who's special!" Looking at Murphy lying on the ground with his knees hugged, Zhang Kong couldn't help but muttered secretly in his heart.

"I can't beat it!" After a closer examination, the team doctor could only shake his head at the rest of the walkers.

Jim O'Brien saw the team doctor's actions and knew it was over! The common problem of young players is that they always rush too hard at the beginning of the season, which makes their bodies overloaded all the time, and even Superman can't stand it.

What's more, they are just ordinary people, and by the end of the season, these loads will explode together, and no one can help but fall.

Murphy is down again now, Al Jefferson could have been an accident, and Murphy could have been an accident.

Because Murphy's injury just now was not because of any small moves by the Portlanders who had a grudge against the Pacers, but because Murphy shot by himself, and when he landed after shooting, he squatted his knees, which may not be anything in normal times.

But after so many days of high-intensity competition, Murphy didn't hold up this time, and fell straight down the court, watching Murphy fall to the ground, everyone knew that this time Murphy was unlikely to accompany him to play the four consecutive games.

"Fortunately, it's a body injury, and the recovery stone should be usable!" Zhang Kong squatted down and looked at Murphy's knee, if there was another injury that didn't even use the recovery stone, Zhang Kong really didn't know what to do when the time came.

Murphy's injury has cast a shadow on the hearts of players like the Pacers, in fact, Murphy is not the only one who is tired now, almost all the starting players are tired, and not all of them have a recovery stone like Zhang Kong to recover their state.

With 82 regular season games in a season, five and a half months, it's important to be in shape and adjust, and at the beginning of the season, why do you think the big names let the Pacers become No. 1 so easily?

It's not because they are not strong themselves, even if they are the current Pacers, there are many teams in the league that can compete with him.

The main reason why the Pacers have become the No. 1 in the league so easily is that they will choose to give up some games to provide enough rest time for the main players, and the Pacers have not tasted the No. 1 in the league for a long time.

So they rushed up to be completely dead, a simple analogy, the 82 games in the regular season, like a 10,000-meter run, the strength of the Pacers has a chance to win, so at the beginning of the game, some self-confidence swelled, and began to sprint with all their might.

After 5,000 meters, he really became the first, and then he continued this first forever.

But when he reached the last two kilometers or so, his physical fitness began to fail...... The engine's 'heart' is strong, and the leader's 'brain' Granger is still strong, but his limbs are a little unbearable.

So today Murphy was the first to fall, watching Murphy was helped off the court by the team doctor, and the Pacers had no choice but to continue the game, two games in a row, two generals were injured and left the court, which was a huge blow to the Pacers' morale and tactics.

Jim O'Brien had no choice but to bring in Roy Hibbert, and the absence of the main players gave these substitutes more time to play, but if the record is not guaranteed, such a game is also meaningless.

The game restarted, and the offensive pillars that the Pacers relied on were still Granger and Zhang Kong, and they could only rely on Granger and Zhang Kong at this time, and the other people's hands had dropped below freezing, which was really a bit of a surprise.

But fortunately, Granger and Zhang Kong are still working hard there, but the Nuggets have already proven that it is difficult to win the game with two spears! Although Granger is not the kind of person who needs to hold the ball himself to play 100% of his strength, and he cooperates well with Zhang Kong, but here Zhang Kong and Granger are attacking with all their might, and the Pacers' defense completely collapses.

From the main force of the Trail Blazers, Roy, Aldridge, Batum, and Miller, to Fernandes, Dante Cunningham, Jerry Bayless, Juwan Howard, and Martell Webster, no matter who they are, they will not take this opportunity to give the Pacers a knife and release the blood of the Pacers.

Although the offense on the Pacers' side is still sharp under Zhang Kong's guidance, it has been slowly pulled away by the Trail Blazers. After all, the energy of the two people is limited, and there is no way to compete with one team, and at this time, the rest of the Pacers have no fighting spirit at all, at least in their hearts, they have given up this game...... He was absolutely unwilling to give up Zhang Kong like this, and he hit the Trail Blazers' basket again and again, hoping to awaken the morale of his teammates.

But only the blood surname on the Trailblazers' side was awakened, so that they were really obsessed with attacking, and the Pacers were still so arrogant and lifeless, looking at the situation in front of him, Zhang Kong could only sigh helplessly, the first quarter of the game ended, the Trail Blazers only led the Pacers by 2 points at 32-30, but at the end of the half, the Trail Blazers led the Trail Blazers by 6 points at 51-45, and the Trail Blazers only scored 15 points in the second quarter, and after the benches came on the court, they only scored 3 points in total. Eight of the remaining 12 points were scored by Zhang and four by Granger, and it can be seen that there is no one on the Pacers' side to step up.

Although the difference in the score is not very large, on one side the morale has fallen into the trough, and on the other side the morale is high.

At halftime, Jim O'Brien adjusted the team's morale well, but if he can adjust the team's morale in just a few minutes, then he is not the current half-tone manager, but a famous coach!

It is precisely because of this that Jim O'Brien did not turn the morale back, in the third quarter of the game, the Pacers rose on fire, and began to bombard indiscriminately at the beginning of the game, but when the bench players came on the court, the Trail Blazers instantly chased back, and in the third quarter of the game, the Pacers lost another three points, and the difference was stretched to nine points...... 77-68, the Pacers now want to cry without tears, the last quarter of the game, after eight minutes of play, the Pacers have completely lost hope of a comeback, and the point difference has been stretched to 14 points...... For now, the Trail Blazers have won the game, and in the last three minutes, the Trail Blazers replaced all the main players.

Let the Pacers' side help people chase the score, but there is no point in chasing the score, although Zhang Kong hit two three-pointers in a row to narrow the difference to more than ten points, but at this time it is too late, there is no need to play anymore!

Rudy Fernandez hit a three-pointer in front of Dunleavy and the game was officially over...... In the end, the Trail Blazers took out the Pacers with a seven-point lead of 102-95 and avenged the last one-shot victory...... In fact, if the morale of the Pacers is not so low, even if they lose Murphy and Al Jefferson, they may not lose to the Trail Blazers.

In this game, the Pacers can be described as losing very badly, although Zhang Kong and Granger teamed up to score 62 points, but losing is losing! There is no need to find any reason, the failure of the Pacers today is actually predictable, and what they need now is adjustment.

Zhang Kong scored 32 points in this game, 8 of 16 three-pointers, 11 of 23 shots from the field, and two free throws, but there were only six assists, five of which were from Granger, and only 3 blocks, and there was no way to put all his energy into the offense, and Granger had 30 points and 4 rebounds and no assists.

These two guys from the Pacers today are playing with double guns, and apart from them, none of the Pacers team has scored in double figures.

The top scorer, Dundee Jones, scored eight points and Dunleavy added six...... That's why the Pacers lost.

On the Trail Blazers' side, the team had five players score in double figures, Alderich 19 points, Roy 22 points, Miller 12 points, Fernandez 16 points, Jerry Bayless 10 points, and the bench players scored more than a notch better than the Pacers.

Playing like this, the Pacers should lose and not lose is what they shouldn't! As soon as the game ended, the Pacers players drilled back into the locker room from the court, and today the surprising Zhang Kong did not leave first, today's loss hit the Pacers hard, and they need to go to the hospital together to visit Murphy to determine the extent of Murphy's injury and how long it will take to heal.

Although Zhang Kong did not leave, he was still like that, did not accept interviews from anyone, rested alone in the bathroom, and waited until all the reporters outside had left, he came out, and then followed his teammates to the local hospital in Portland.

Murphy's situation is a little better than Al Jefferson's, because he sprained the cruciate ligament in his right knee within the recovery range of the recovery stone, and if he is a defender with a lighter body, it shouldn't be a big problem, but Murphy is a big inside player after all.

Such an injury only appears because I am too tired, and the injury is not very serious, and the hospital's recommendation is to rest for a month.

Now that Zhang is empty, the last month will be shortened to one week, and then Murphy will be fully healed, and then after another week of training, about half a month later, Murphy will return to the Pacers' lineup...... But now Jim O'Brien isn't thinking about Murphy's return, he's thinking about what's next for the team.

(To be continued)