On December 26, 2009, Zhang Kong's second Christmas in the United States, the Pacers ushered in the first big game after Christmas, the home game against the Hawks, yesterday's Christmas game, a total of five games.

Heat vs. Knicks, Celtics vs. Magic, Cavaliers vs. Lakers, Clippers vs. Suns, Nuggets vs. Trail Blazers.

This game also gave the Pacers a chance, the Celtics won the Magic, but because of the winning rate, they were still behind the Pacers for the time being, and the Lakers lost to the Cavaliers at home, which was a bit surprising, and after losing to the Cavaliers, the difference between the Lakers and the Pacers has narrowed, and today there are not only the Hawks against the Pacers, but the Lakers will also be against the Kings.

With the Pacers at 22-5 and the Lakers at 23-5, it's another pivotal game.

And the Hawks have always been the bitter master of the Pacers, whenever they encounter a game that is empty, the old seat has never won, whether it is against the King or against the Pacers, the Hawks have always been a loser, but today the Hawks have a chance, because the Pacers have carried out a large-scale blood change, and Hawks head coach Mike Woodson is determined to solve the Pacers on the opponent's home court.

Today, the Pacers' main lineup has not changed, it is still center Hibbert, power forward Murphy, small forward Granger, scoring guard Dundee Jones, point guard Zhang Kong, and the four new interior players are all sitting on the bench.

The Pacers now have a total of just 13 players, two spots away from the 15-man cap, and Larry Bird has also been looking for a roster recently, hoping to add some outside personnel in case anyone gets hurt.

The game began under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of spectators in the Consei Middle Stadium, and the Eagles, who were fighting away, played very passionately at the beginning.

The anti-guest is dominant, and Joe Johnson and Mike Bibby on the outside are defended by Zhang Kong and Deng Lai Jones, and they can't help it.

However, their interior offensive line made the Pacers a little unguardable, wave after wave of offense, the Pacers were powerless to fight, looking at the situation on the court, Zhang Kong finally couldn't help it, and forcibly broke through Mike Bibby and then made a stop-and-go jump shot, which finally broke the scoring drought on the Pacers' side, and the nightmare on the Pacers' side is not over.

The Hawks were not originally a team that relied on the outside to eat, although Mike Bibby and Joe Johnson were the Hawks' outside claws, but compared with the Pacers' three spears, the firepower output was still a little worse, but the blame is that the Pacers' outside line suddenly became dumb today, and the Hawks' outside line has been full of firepower, if it weren't for Zhang Kong and Dundee Jones' desperate defense.

Maybe the Hawks only made three three-pointers, and Murphy became the Pacers' most reliable offensive point on the inside, he hit four goals in this quarter and scored 8 points and 7 rebounds, and he carried the Pacers slowly forward.

played until there were 3 minutes and 11 seconds left in the first quarter, the Pacers first changed to the bench lineup, and the Hawks side except for Bibby, the rest of the people were still playing with the main force, and the person who replaced Bibby was the new firepower output point, Crawford, this is the second time Zhang Kong and Crawford this season, but the first time was at the beginning of the game.

Crawford was poor at the time, and now he's the main firepower for the Eagles.

After Hibbert and Murphy on the Pacers' interior line went down, the Wolves, who took 13 million to get their hands on, Al Jefferson and Earl Barron from the Knicks came to the court first, Earl Barron played center, and Jefferson played power forward.

On the small forward side, it was Mike Dunleavy who came off the bench, and Granger didn't feel good today, so he had to give up on him first.

And Zhang Kong moved up a position to the point guard position, and Earl Watson came to play point guard.

Although it is said that Watson plays point guard, but no matter how you look at it, he is like a scoring guard, after the ball passed half court, Watson handed the basketball to Zhang Kong's hands, and Zhang Kong will control the direction of the game, Zhang Kong is definitely the person who has the most balls in the team, and Zhang Kong glanced at the team's situation, and was not in a hurry, looking at Crawford in front of him who was defending himself, Zhang Kong couldn't help but smile softly, he was not ready to come by himself with this ball.

glanced at Jefferson, who was already in the position on the inside, Zhang Kong's brows furrowed, because he rarely passed such a drop ball, it seems that Jefferson still plays with the Pacers according to the routine of playing in the Timberwolves, which is not good, but after all, it is only the first game, and it needs to be improved slowly! In order to give the newcomer a face, Zhang Kong hoisted the ball high into the inside line.

Jefferson couldn't help but be happy after receiving the ball, it seems that this Zhang Kong is not unreasonable!

Holding the ball back with both hands and gently leaning on Josh Smith, after testing his strength, Jefferson suddenly turned around and dribbled towards the inside, Josh Smith may be inferior on the offensive end, likes to wave three-pointers, likes to play air relays, but on the defensive end, his strong body can be very strong, especially his blocking.

How could Jefferson, who had been in the league for several years, not know how powerful Josh Smith was, but Jefferson, who was eager to prove his strength in front of his new club, chose to be strong, and after shaking left and right a few times, he directly used a backward jump shot.

However, he was in a hurry, and the route he threw was a little low, and when he saw the route of this ball, Zhang Kong knew that it was going to be over.

Sure enough, Josh Smith jumped up for the first time, and his raised arm directly slapped the basketball in front of him.

The basketball grazed Jefferson's head, but it didn't fly far before it was caught by another person.

"Zhang Kong!" The DJ on the scene shouted Zhang Kong's name loudly, Zhang Kong's rebounding was not good, because his own rebounding data was very poor, but in the face of such ground rebounds, he was still more virtuous, as long as he stood there in advance.

So Zhang Kong appeared at the position of the basketball landing point for the first time, although he couldn't predict the correct landing point of the basketball, but it was not too far behind, and he was directly picked up by Zhang Kong, and then he didn't look at it, and directly dribbled to break through.

Josh Smith in front of him immediately abandoned Jefferson and pounced on Zhang Kong, Josh Smith, who had fought with Zhang Kong many times, knew how powerful Zhang Kong was, but he still underestimated Zhang Kong, when Zhang Kong did not use his strength, but flashed past him in a very dexterous way, he suddenly remembered that the Celtics player had said in the last game.

Zhang Kong learned Ginobili's snake layup, and by the time he came back to his senses, Zhang Kong had already broken into the inside.

Al Hofford, who was on the inside, watched Zhang Kong pounce and jumped high, hoping to interfere with Zhang Kong.

But it's a pity that in such a one-on-one defense situation, it is difficult for someone to prevent the demonic layup method of the spirit snake layup.

Another breeze floated by, and Zhang Kong had disappeared from Hoford's face and appeared behind him.

Then he gently handed the ball into the hands of Al Jefferson next to him, looking at Zhang Kong's eyes, Jefferson was a little surprised.

Because of this ball, no matter how you look at Zhang Kong, it is impossible to give it to himself, but now the basketball is in his hands.

"Buckle!" Looking at Jefferson in front of him in a daze, Zhang Kong shouted, then Jefferson reacted, jumped up with the ball in both hands, and dunked the basketball heavily in the basket, and then Zhang Kong took these defenders to slowly retreat back, watching Zhang Kong's movements, Jim O'Brien nodded happily off the court, there is Zhang Kong in the team, it seems that Al Jefferson They are integrated into the team's offensive tactics, and it is good to have an excellent point guard.

"The Pacers' offense is completely different from your original team, and you need to get on the court and experience it!" Looking at the players on the field, Jim O'Brien remembered what he had just said in the locker room.

He said this is not unfounded, the Pacers' offense is indeed different from other teams, because other teams do not have an excellent point guard, it can be seen that wherever there is a good point guard, the offensive routines look very messy, so that others have no way to find the trajectory of the opponent's offense, just like the Suns, you never know who Nash will pass the next ball to, and the Rockets are another version, as long as Yao Ming is in the deep position on the inside, the ball will always be passed to him.

A good point guard creates chances, while a mediocre point guard takes advantage of them, and a garbage point guard squandered them.

Zhang Kong is definitely not a good point guard according to the data, but his ability to create opportunities is not bad.

Al Jefferson has a lot of offensive means, and because of the reason that the offensive end is empty for their main offense, Jefferson also puts more energy on defense, Jefferson and Earl Baron's defense is sacrificed, and the Hawks' interior line immediately can't get benefits, whether it is Horford or Josh Smith, they are in a state of dumb fire.

But fortunately, they can still rely on the outside offense, the Pacers Zhang Kong proved with the time off the bench that Dunleavy was also dumb today, and finally he began to attack on his own, Zhang Kong shot two three-pointers in a row and hit one, which is also the first time the Pacers hit a three-pointer in this game, and when the team is in trouble, there is at least one person to rely on.

Looking at Zhang Kong who was fighting the field, all the people were very relieved, and with Zhang Kong's emotions increased to 26 points, Zhang Kong's surname became a lot better, and the originally cold face now shows a smile from time to time.

This is not easy to see in the past, it seems that this system is really powerful, as the saying goes, the country is easy to change, the surname is difficult to change, after the surname of this system is added, Zhang Kong's surname has been changed, but such a change is a good thing for walkers.

(To be continued)