"Oh, Larry, are you sure this team is my Pacers?" Looking at the first three quarters of the game, Pacers owner Melvin Simon's face showed a look of surprise, he never thought that his bad team could play such a result, second in the East and fourth in the league, such a result is amazing enough.

Originally, their goal for this season was only to make the playoffs, but as things stand, they need to go a little higher.

"Yes old friend, what you see is your Pacers, just because of that 10 million base salary!" Big bird Larry Bird looked at Melvin Simon, an old friend of the Pacers and his old friend, and said to him with a smile.

"Looks like we should set our goals higher!" Sitting on the sofa, sipping Larry Bird's treasured red wine, Melvin Simon's face was happy, he was already very happy that the team could break even, but with the recent Pacers games playing better and better, the arena has even begun to make profits, which is why he agreed to come to Larry Bird's house to watch the game today, if you are in a good mood, everything is good! It's as simple as that.

"Hey, old Melvin friend, it's not me who hits you, just with the configuration of this team now, it's good to be able to make the playoffs!" Larry Bird smiled, and he was telling the truth, with the current configuration of the Pacers, it won't be easy to play well.

After all, Zhang Kong is just a person, not a god, even if he reaches level 90 in the regular season this season, it will be difficult to help the Pacers go further, and the level of other people in the team is not high enough, which is the biggest problem.

Now there is a strange circle in the NBA league, and the strong teams have begun to hoard masters, so the strong teams are getting stronger and stronger, and the weak teams are getting weaker and weaker, which is a little surprising to people, the Pacers can definitely only be regarded as a fish belly team before, after joining Zhang Kong, although they have played quite well so far, but the overall strength is there.

Listening to Larry Bird's words, this time it was Melvin Simon's turn to be silent, he was calculating the value of the team right now.

No one will make a money-losing deal, of course the Cavaliers don't count, they are now losing money and making money, as long as they can win a championship, let them take as much as they want, so now the Cavaliers will have so many bad contracts.

Melvin Simon is not as hard as the Cavaliers owner, stable, step-by-step development, this is what he wants, and it is also his way of business, but now there is such an opportunity in front of him, if he doesn't fight for it, the fans will scold him to death.

"Old friend, I know you won't cheat me, say, what do you need to do?" Melvin Simon looked at Larry Bird next to him and asked with a smile, he understood what Larry Bird meant by coming to him this time, he wanted to use a knife on the team.

"We need to look for a trade, we don't need to trade on the outside for the time being, we have Zhang Kong, Danny, Mike, Dunday, and Watson, Brandon, TJ, we have a lot of people on the outside, and it doesn't matter if the players in the back are traded a few. What we're missing now is an inside master! In Larry Bird's eyes, Murphy and Hibbert on the inside are clearly not enough.

Murphy has little role in addition to grabbing rebounds when defending, although the offensive end has a wide range of offense, but to put it bluntly, he is just a small white player, and he can't make any big waves, and Hibbert, a stupid big man, has too many fouls.

A player like him can be a pretty good player after a few years of training, but it's a shame that Larry Bird isn't ready to work anymore.

The rest of the interior players, Tyler Hansbrough, are good, but too short and too inexperienced. Jeff Foster is just a role player, Solo Jean Jones is the same as the former, embarrassed, and now the league's strong teams play the Pacers, all starting from the weaknesses of the Pacers, starting from the inside, if you play like this, the Pacers' life will not be very easy.

The firepower output of the outside line is enough, and now they need a main firepower output point on the inside, as well as an inside defensive point.

When Hibbert was out of trouble for a foul, they needed a big man who could hold up a day on the inside.

"There aren't many good big men in the league right now!" Although Melvin Simon usually doesn't pay much attention to the situation in the league, he also knows that the good interior lines in the league are in short supply, and it is difficult to meet good interior lines.

"I've got a good piece of information!" Larry Bird looked at Melvin Simon next to him and smiled and whispered.

Hearing Larry Bird's words, Melvin Simon's old face slowly wrinkled, and it seemed that they had studied a good solution.

"Ah Yawn ......" was taking advantage of Zhang Kong, who was suspending to drink water, suddenly sneezed and almost choked to death by the water.

"Who muttered to me?" Zhang Kong pinched his nose vigorously, and then looked at the assistant coach in front of him with his head full of water, with a very 'kind smile' on his face, but fortunately, at this time, the timeout was over, and Zhang Kong ran to the field like a desert.

With 6:27 left in the game, the Pacers led the home team Magic by six points, 87-81.

Since the first quarter opened the score, the Magic have been chasing points, but every time they want to catch up with the score, there are always people who make trouble, at first because the Pacers have a good hand, and everyone is making trouble, as the game gets deeper and deeper.

The physical strength is getting worse and worse, and the troublemakers on the Pacers' side are basically only the Pacers' 'three shots'.

Zhang Kong, Mike Dunleavy and Granger, when these three spears are on the court at the same time, the power is quite amazing.

The Magic's strongest tactic is three-point rain, as has been said many times before, with Howard attracting the bag and making it open from the outside.

But today their three-point rain completely extinguished it, and Rashad Lewis has been in soy sauce for a long time now.

And Zhang Kong completely snuffed out JJ Reddick's offense, not to mention Jason Williams, and TJ Ford abused him.

And Granger waved his two long arms, which also made Petrus want to die, Granger's defense is not too good, and those who have watched his game know that this old boy is characterized by comprehensiveness, and his playing spirit is also full of 'faces', commonly known as soft ball style.

It's not news, everyone knows it, so it's not good to meet those superstars with a hard style of play, but the French 'Jordan' he faced, although he is also called Michael, is a copycat after all, plus the defensive skills he learned from Zhang Kong, as well as the special defensive training, he also touched Petrus to the bridle...... The only place on the outside where there is still a little rain is the No. 2 position, Mike Dunleavy, whoever positions him, is a pitcher, his shooting is very strong, three-point, mid-range shot, layup, fixed-point, open-position, break-through shot, emergency stop, throw-...... He knows almost all of his shooting skills, and he's all good, but the point is that he defends too badly.

This is also because of why he is playing the sixth man now, the player he is playing against today is Carter, speaking of which Zhang Kong still has a grudge against him, his first golden body, virgin, is what he stabbed, his right hand stabbed lightly, the ball went in, Zhang Kong broke.

After Zhang Kong was broken, it hurt for a long time...... I felt distressed for a long time, and that ball was money at that time.

Zhang Kong is used to being poor, every penny is good, and Carter played extremely well on the outside today.

When Dundee-Jones's physical strength couldn't keep up with him, the original flyer began to get angry.

The constant offense has put the Pacers in a headache, and this guy Mike Dunleavy can't defend it.

Fortunately, the Pacers feel pretty good here, they have been playing against the Magic team, and finally when there are 4 minutes and 21 seconds left in the game, Zhang Kong couldn't help but switch defenses with Dunleavy, he personally came to defend Carter, and watched Zhang Kong defend himself.

Carter was stunned for a moment at first, then smiled and began to run on the court, watching Carter's running, Zhang Kong snorted coldly, and also ran, and Stan Van Gundy looked at the situation on the court, couldn't help touching his beard, and then fell into deep thought, he began to think about the tactics used by the Magic against the Pacers.

"If that's the ......" Stan Van Gundy sneered as he looked at the situation on the Pacers' court.

Then he looked up and glanced at the scores on both sides of the court at this time, and now the Magic is already nine points behind the Pacers.

"It looks like there's no way to try this tactic today, but the Pacers ...... There will definitely be a chance in the future! Seeing that Carter on the court was running with Zhang Kong, Stan Van Gundy suddenly called a timeout, and then replaced Carter, and at the same time there were several main players off the court, he actually gave up this game, at this time there were two minutes and twenty seconds before the end of the game, but Stan Van Gundy still gave up, and the Magic deserved to have the demeanor of everyone, and did not fight with the Pacers for the victory or defeat of this game.

"Squeak!" When Zhang Kong threw the basketball high, the bell for the end of the game rang, and the audience still gave warm applause to Zhang Kong's performance, of course, now there are only those Chinese audiences left in the audience, those local Magic fans have long left, they don't want to watch the home team abuse! And Buckley, who wanted to leave but had no way to leave, could only sit in the back with a helpless face...... When Stan Van Gundy replaced his main man, he knew his Rafite couldn't keep it.

Looking at the Magic players who sank into the locker room, Zhang Kong suddenly noticed that Stan Van Gundy was smiling when he walked into the locker room, and such a smile made him feel a little weird...... But then the rest of the Pacers got him involved in the carnival team, and the victory in this game is very important, such a game is definitely a top two!

Some buddies said, why is there a recovery stone and not for Yao Ming? Xiao Fei will reveal it here, it will be used by Yao Ming, but not now, hehe!

(To be continued)