Chapter 130 XX Act (6/10)
The Indiana Pacers' regular season has entered the countdown.
Like other teams, they started thinking about what happened after the regular season.
The weak teams are playing hard, because after this year, the league will no longer allow high school students to run, and high school rookies will become eternal this season.
Therefore, this is also the last time that the NBA team will choose those talented players who have not yet been honed by NCAA in the visible future.
It’s simple to be a strong team. If you should lose, you will get the ball and the card will get the ball.
There are only two teams that can rest assured.
In the western aspect, just like China's Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, heroes were divided and just looking at the results, I really don't know which company can break through this chaos.
If nothing unexpected happens, at the end of the season, they will have at least 4-5 teams that have reached 50 wins.
In the East, there are only two teams with more than 50 wins.
The Pacers and Pistons in the East are basically the same level as other teams in the same division.
The Pacers are the only team that can win 60 wins this season, while the Pistons are the only team in the East except the Pacers that can guarantee a record of 50 wins after the end of the season.
The positioning battle was so fierce that the East's first and second, Pacers and Pistons, had to play a game at this final stage.
This game was two days after the Pacers slaughtered the dragon. They took a special plane to Detroit and headed to Auburn Hills to play the last regular season duel with the Pistons.
This game is not a must-win goal for both sides.
The Pistons won, but they could not surpass the Pacers to become the number one in the East;
Whether the Pacers win or not, there is no team in the East and West that can get them from the league first place (unless they lose a row next time).
Therefore, the game was not as intense as people expected from the beginning.
The Pistons only took one serious part.
That was the second quarter of the game. The Pacers were leading by 5 points at the time. Rashid threw a few three-pointers. Larry Brown was annoyed on the spot and called a timeout. He pointed at the dog head of the roaring Tianzun and roared wildly, allowing these people to correct their attitude and let the Indiana people know whose home court is xx!
The Pistons became serious, their defense increased, and their confrontation was fierce. After getting Rashid, they really became another level team. The pressure on the players was the strongest team Xie Hou had met since he was engaged in professional basketball.
It's really hard to imagine that this team can be so terrible strengthened after getting Rashid.
It was also after getting Rashid that the Pistons began a series of n games to suppress the opponent to a defensive performance of below 80 points and below 70 points.
Looking at their defense, children will cry, junior high school students will lose their dreams, and high school students will also give up all the good expectations of basketball. No one who has a normal tendency to viewing will waste five more minutes on them.
The Pistons after the All-Stars played the game that made the league office feel painful to hold their heads in the face. David Stern broke the remote control and yelled in tears with his iconic sissy voice, "Don't defend anymore." It was enough to drag the viewing of the game back to the 24-second offensive rule before it was released.
What kind of game is that? It is a game that can destroy the sport of basketball.
Of course, this is an exaggeration. The Pistons are not so guilty and their game is not enough to destroy basketball, but they can indeed kill the teenagers' beautiful fantasies about basketball.
No matter who you are, how you like basketball, the moment you first like basketball, you will score goals, score points, and the "swish" made by the basketball flying into the air and kissing the Nets.
Instead of a "bang bang" iron.
The sound of a blacksmith will not bring satisfaction. Everyone who has experienced practicing alone should know that when you can't make a n shot, the frustration will spread, making you feel like a waste, until you finally lose all your energy and completely lose your initial enthusiasm.
So, when a fan turned on the TV and wanted to see how the world's highest-level basketball league played, if he had a bad mind, he would write the name of the Indiana Pacers as the Detroit Pistons, would he give up basketball?
Having said that, it is better not to play basketball if you can remember the Pacers as Pistons.
This is the second section of the piston.
Xie Hougang imagined that he used to rely on passing to stimulate his teammates' potential, but found that doing so had no effect, and his teammates were under pressure beyond imagination.
Then he found that the pressure of the Pistons had completely locked Miller, Artest could not catch the ball, and O'Neal Jr. had degenerated into a low-level center under such defense?
what to do?
Before the end of the half, Xie Hou saw that the score was about to be pulled apart, so he made up his mind and thrust the Pistons' iron barrel formation three times with the ball, two of which scored directly. The failure was also a successful breakthrough, and he was not sure about the end.
Xie Hou wanted to show his might, but the timer did not give him a chance.
"Beep!"
The whistle sounded and the half ended.
39 to 34
The Pistons lead the Pacers by 5 points and enter the intermission.
When Xie Hou was interviewing the midfielder, he heard a reporter ask: "This is the first time you have been defended by your opponent since early February that you have scored no more than 40 in the first half. How much trouble has the Pistons' defense brought to you?"
Espn's reporters have a lot of fun watching.
Xie Hou glanced at the reporter and replied: "Their style is unique. No team in the league can get close to the Pistons on the defensive end, and we can't get used to this style immediately."
It sounds like Xie Hou has answered a lot, but in fact he is simply avoiding asking questions.
"Interestingly, the last team that suppressed your half-time scores to below 40 points was also the Pistons." In terms of the skills of provoking trouble, this reporter is the best of the month.
Xie Hou smiled faintly: "That's cool. They could limit us to below 40 points before they got Rashid. After getting Rashid, they still limited us to below 40 points. Does this mean that Rashid's arrival has very limited help to them?"
Since the reporter wanted to make trouble, Xie Hou simply satisfied her. Who told her to be beautiful and have a very strong figure?
The reporter's eyes immediately shone with a brilliance and stared at Xie Hou.
Xie Hou just wanted to satisfy her, but he didn't think about anything else, but his eyes were clearly the look of "Young man, I like you very much."
He immediately found an excuse to leave the scene.
In the locker room, Claire was facing a big enemy, carefully arranged and gave careful instructions, so that Xie Hou could make more breakthroughs in the second half and create scoring opportunities for others.
Xie Hou was also willing to sacrifice himself and prepared for the whole team to be a cattle and horse.
As a result, the second half began and they accepted it.
The serious atmosphere in the Pacers' locker room seemed to be on the execution ground, and the huge pressure of no one dared to breathe heavily. At this moment, it was like a stage comedy.
What a "daddy" this is?
If your opponent doesn’t want to win, it doesn’t mean you don’t want to win.
The Pacers need this victory, and the whole team hopes to win 60 wins.
This is not only an honor that has never been seen in the team history, but also a guarantee of the league's number one.
The situation in the Western Conference is chaotic, with strong teams gathering together. Unlike the East, the Timberwolves have a strong momentum, but it is really difficult to win 60.
If Xie Hou could stay healthy or not missed a full month, maybe they would have already achieved 60 wins now.
The East has more fish and its opponents are relatively weaker. 60 wins are the target within range, and they must complete it.
So if the piston doesn't move, they will just start a big kill.
The third quarter is the quarter where the Pacers play the winning streak.
It is a section where Pacers show their unforgivable attitude towards teammates who treat themselves as monkeys.
In a single quarter, the Pacers scored 38 to 20.
If Anthony hadn't scored on the Pistons, they would have been even more embarrassed.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Pistons were in a desperate situation. They didn't pay attention to the result and lost. The whole team looked like they didn't care, which was a pity for the fanatical fans at the scene.
At the end of the game, the booing sounded the world, and the fans' dissatisfaction was clear and bone-bone.
The players can feel it.
"What we are going to fight for is not a one-night victory," Larry Brown said.
If the fans on the scene were not too dissatisfied with the Pistons' behavior of giving up the ball in the first half, he might not have stood up and said a word.
"The game is like losing and losing." Billups publicly pretended to be stupid, not admitting that the Pistons gave up in the first half, and said with confidence, "No matter how strong a team is, it cannot win all the regular seasons, right?"
Even Wallace, a big guy, could open his mouth and tell lies: "Anyone can give up, but I can't. If I were a person who gave up easily, I wouldn't have today. I guaranteed it with my personality."
This fully demonstrates that Big Ben gave up this game tonight very easily.
The most exciting one is Rashid.
Can he give up if Xie Hou commented on him like this at the end of the half-time?
"I don't know why Arthur said that. Maybe he drank too much wine, maybe he didn't speak through his brain, anyone who knows games and basketball knows my value. I don't need to brag about it here." Rashid became more and more unhappy. "If he thinks I can't do it, then the playoffs will be true!"
"Yes, let Arthur take care of himself." Billups stretched his head to support Tianzun.
The Walker's press conference started 10 minutes later than the Pistons, so Rashid's words naturally reached Xie Hou's ears.
"That's the matter..." Xie Hou laughed. It seemed to others that this was the kind of smile that could not be held back.
Chapter completed!