Chapter 1044 I called her Xiao Tiantian last night
On the evening of the 18th, the Trail Blazers came to the Bankers Lifestyle Arena, the home of the Pacers, to start their 29th regular season game.
From the 2010-11 season to the present, the Pacers only played 6 regular season games in 2015 due to George's serious injury, so they failed to enter the playoffs. In the other years, they have been a strong team in the Eastern Conference and are regulars in the playoffs.
In 2013 and 2014, they also had the luxury experience of reaching the Eastern Conference finals for two consecutive years.
This season, star George George performed well. Although his scoring average dropped from 25 points at the start of the game to 23.4 points, his shooting percentage reached a career-high 46.4%, and his three-point shooting percentage and free throw shooting percentage were 40.2 respectively.
% and 89.8%, the offense is absolutely efficient.
In addition, George also grabbed 7 rebounds, sent 3.5 assists and 1.8 steals per game.
General Qiao is still the super small forward second only to the Little Emperor in the entire Eastern Conference!
Jeff Teague, acquired from the Hawks trade, is also stable. His offensive level has basically maintained the 15 points per game he averaged last season. His rebounds and assists have increased significantly, averaging 10 rebounds and 7.8 assists per game respectively.
It's a career high.
At the same time, the Pacers also have three high-quality role players who score in double figures in Myles Turner, Thaddeus Young, and C.J. Miles, as well as Monta Ellis and Al Jay on the bench.
Fusen's sword is still young.
According to the media's pre-game predictions, the Pacers' lineup is good and ranks among the best in the second tier of the Eastern Conference, second only to the Big Three of the Cavaliers and the Bulls. Tonight, their opponent is the defending champion Trail Blazers.
If nothing else, both sides will contribute a high-quality game tonight!
Tonight, two ace commentators, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, will provide live commentary for this all-American broadcast.
Before the game, both sides announced.
Trail Blazers: Lillard, Patton, Batum, Jokic, Wang Zelin.
Pacers: Jeff Teague, Monta Ellis, Paul George, Thaddeus Young, Myles Turner.
The Pacers changed their formation and brought back 31-year-old Monta Ellis.
Shooting guard CJ Miles, one of the Pacers' original lineup, sprained his ankle during warm-up in the afternoon and will miss tonight's game. In desperation, head coach Nate McMillan had no choice but to return veteran Monta Ellis to the lineup.
Strictly speaking, Monta Ellis, one of the former Golden State gangsters and the former boss of the Warriors, still has a lot of gas in the tank. This is based on the fact that he was able to score close to 14 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals last season.
The data can be seen.
However, the situation is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.
After leaving the Warriors, due to his own personality and personal style of play, Ellis gradually became a homeless man. From the Bucks to the Mavericks to the Pacers, he was never able to truly integrate into the operation of the team system.
This is a very interesting player. He has very distinct characteristics of the perimeter core of the old era and the new era.
But his shortcomings are equally prominent. The first is his inability to defend, the second is the lack of stable three-point efficiency in the new era, and the last and most critical point is that after his physical fitness declined, he was unable to get the ball at the core level like before.
As a small guard who focuses on pick-and-roll breakthroughs, Ellis, who lost enough ball rights, was like a pick-and-roll offensive machine that could ignore the environment and suddenly lost its motor, and was eventually eliminated by age, injuries and the times.
In Wang Zelin's previous life, the 2016~17 season was the last season of Ellis' career. The latter is undoubtedly one of the representatives of the change of NBA eras, but unlike those players who transformed early, the latter chose to stick to it, and then completely fell into the era.
tears.
Nowadays, it is estimated that not many people remember the Pacers' No. 11 veteran, and people will never think that in the early years, this guy openly shouted "Kobe is first, I am second, and James is third!" in an interview!
A generation of madmen.
At the beginning of the game, Wang Zelin jumped the ball and took the lead in touching the ball, and the Blazers attacked.
Inside the Pacers, Myles Turner is 2.11 meters tall. He is a space-based insider with shooting range and the ability to protect the basket. The most conventional offensive weapon is jump shots. The offensive range can reach beyond the three-point line, but he is not very capable.
Stablize.
Thaddeus Young is 2.03 meters tall and is a typical short and stocky blue-collar power forward. He mainly scores by eating cakes and secondary attacks.
Of this pair of insiders, Thaddeus Young is a high-quality blue-collar player, and there is nothing to say. The key point is Turner. Turner is very in line with the trend of today's times. His technical characteristics are enough to cope with more than 90% of the centers currently in service, and he can be placed on any team.
All very popular.
It is a pity that Turner encountered the last 10% tonight. No, to be precise, he encountered the most unsolvable giant under the basket currently in service.
Turner and Thaddeus Young are tied together, which is not enough for Wang Zelin alone, let alone Wang Zelin with Jokic beside him.
In the first attack, Lillard, Jokic and Wang Zelin cooperated tacitly. When the ball was passed back and forth, Wang Zelian saw the right time and cut into the basket.
Jokic held the ball in the high post and had an absolute height advantage against Thaddeus Young. He found Wang Zelin who was cutting in and decisively threw the ball towards the backboard.
"boom!"
The ball came to the man, and it was an extremely explosive alley-oop dunk.
2:0, the Trail Blazers opened the scoring.
"This guy is so rude!"
Wang Zelin's shocking dunk made George speechless.
But as the boss, he felt it was necessary to return the ball to the opponent.
No matter what, the Bankers Lifestyle Arena is the home court of the Pacers. How can we allow others to be so presumptuous?
Pacers offense.
Jeff Teague came to the top of the arc with the ball, and Lillard defended him. The former is a fast scoring point guard who is good at fast breaks. He suddenly accelerated and changed direction and passed the latter, intending to penetrate through the left elbow area.
Paint area.
This was a quick lateral move by Jokic on the left wing to cover Jeff Teague.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jeff Teague jumped up directly and made a pull-up jump shot.
This action made Jokic jump.
But Jeff Teague in the air twisted his waist, suddenly collected the ball, and then passed the ball to George on the right wing three-point line. General Joe naturally raised the ball and tried to pull it out.
This scene shocked Barton into a cold sweat. He rushed towards George, but missed.
It turns out that George didn't want to shoot a three-pointer at all. The Pacers' basket was ravaged just now. General Joe is also a person with a temper, and he planned to retaliate in the same way against the Trail Blazers' basket.
I'll dunk this ball!
General Qiao went berserk in an instant, went straight in, quickly reached the paint area, jumped on one foot, and leaped into the air.
For some reason, George always felt that this fight was a little too easy. Didn't he say that the Blazers' defensive efficiency was the first in the league? He always felt that something was wrong...
At this moment, a Trail Blazers player suddenly appeared behind him. He jumped up after George, showing incredible speed, jumping height and super long wingspan, and caught up with George's dunk hand in the air.
, a big slap in the face.
"Snapped!"
George dribbled the ball and was shot out of bounds.
The scene was in an uproar!
"Too cruel!"
Buckley opened his mouth wide and held his head in his hands, as if he had seen God.
"It's unbelievable that such a dunk can be caught? That's Paul George..." Smith was extremely surprised.
"Really? But don't forget, the person who blamed him is Wang Zelin!" Buckley suddenly turned his head and looked at Smith seriously.
"..."
Okay, your reason is very strong and unreasonable.
So Smith raised his hands directly in front of the camera to indicate that he had nothing to say.
On the field.
Under the Trail Blazers basket, George didn't even realize what had just happened? He only felt a huge force coming from behind, and then he suddenly threw himself into the street.
He raised his head in confusion, only to see a hand stretched out.
"Sorry man, I shouldn't have pushed so hard."
Opening his eyes wide, he realized that the person who reached out to him was none other than Wang Zelin, who had been drinking with him at the party last night.
It turns out that I am the one you are calling a brat!
At this time, no matter how stupid George was, he knew what had just happened, and looked at Wang Zelin with extremely aggrieved eyes.
Brother, I treated you to dinner last night!
You called me Xiao Tiantian last night, and today you kill me as soon as you start. Doesn’t your conscience hurt?