The New Orleans Arena, a competition hall named after the city, carries a large number of commercial performances and sports competitions in the city, just like Staples in Los Angeles has become one of the tourist attractions because of hosting many competitions.

The Pacers' players feel very different about this place, and they tasted the playoffs defeat on this field.

The first defeat happened here, although there was a reason for it.

Rick Claire made a review after the game. They concluded that weak wing defense caused the Hornets to bloom at multiple points, and Xie Hou had to spend extra effort to block the wings, which was also Claire's earliest positioning for him.

Helping Artest assist in defense and instigate a counterattack, this is Claire's role positioning for Xie Hou at the beginning of the season. He said this position is the No. 6 position.

However, Xie Hou gradually performed beyond expectations, and the positioning of the No. 6 position was too useless for him. He was a natural core player, and no one could deny this.

With unique personal abilities and support from his teammates, Xie Hou gradually broke away from the position of the No. 6 position and became a veritable team core.

The defeat in game3 is that Xie Hou is not focused on the offense. His sense of responsibility prevents him from watching the opponent's offense slip away from his nose. He spent a lot of physical energy to assist in defense, rotation, and make up for the gaps. As a result, he is in place on the defensive end, and he is powerless on the offense end, and he cannot use his strength when he needs to score, and then lose.

It cannot be blamed for Xie Hou. Claire would not do this, so the team held an hour-long tactical analysis meeting and concluded that all this was Ron Artest's fault.

If he hadn't been asking for trouble to chat with the old woman, he wouldn't have been accused of harassement, and wouldn't have been locked up by New Orleans' notes on bail the next morning.

The Pacers team believed that if the rules permit, the police station that detained Artest would definitely want to lock him until the end of this series before releasing him.

"Don't worry, if I have me tonight, I will definitely win!" Artest's optimistic look made the bubble gum in Claire's mouth almost bite.

He has to be calm and not lose his temper, otherwise if Artest, a naive bear, strikes on the spot, will have a greater negative impact on the team than if he is not present.

The fourth battle between the two sides began.

Before the game began, the New Orleans sang "We Charlotte Hornets are invincible" in a run-off voice.

Xie Hou was embarrassed and almost broke out on the spot when he heard this. Fortunately, the referee threw the ball into the air in time, so the fans shut up (Xie Hou thought about it and probably couldn't even resist the referee's fans).

Magloyle won the jump ball for the Hornets.

Xie Hou felt more and more that the arm span had a great impact on the jump ball. Judging from height, O'Neal was a little taller, but Magloyl could touch the ball first because his arms were too long, 230 cm.

Davis dribbled through half the game. As soon as he met Xie Hou, he started calling out PJ Brown's pick-and-roll.

Brown held a grudge against Xie Hou's previous humiliation, and immediately made a bad move in the pick-and-roll, pushing the person's waist with a small move. Although it would not be injured, it would be enough to make King Arthur's pain for a while.

Brown's small movement did make Xie Hou stop moving. He had to stand still. Davis used the pick-and-roll to force a breakthrough. He was faster and threw Kirirenko behind.

They have played 3 games with each other and are very familiar with each other's characteristics.

Davis knew that AK47 was not easy to deal with, and the Russians also knew that this American had a variety of speed and attack skills.

They entered the restricted area with different thoughts.

Davis used a hand-changing layup to avoid the cover and wiped the board successfully.

2 to 0

When Xie Hou arrived at the frontcourt, he found that the Hornets were still defending him with the same old tricks.

Strictly speaking, it is not the same, there are changes.

They didn't care about letting Xie Hou two meters at the beginning, but now they only letting one and a half meters are now, which is a great progress.

Xie Hou really wants to know how hard he can shoot in the Hornets' scouting team? Otherwise, why would they implement this obviously problematic tactic to the end?

No one knows what it is. The only thing Xie Hou and his teammates know is that this defense is no longer useful.

In the semi-finals, Xie Hou's three-point shooting percentage is as high as 50%, and he hits 3 goals per game. Such efficiency and number of hits should no longer be regarded as an empty target.

However, his opponent was determined to force him to shoot.

Outside the three-point line at the top of the arc, Xie Hou suddenly stopped. Davis saw his preparation movements and thought it was not good. Xie Hou's shooting ability has been fully demonstrated in the previous few games. Although the regular season data showed that his long shots were unstable, they had such a large space, Xie Hou could shoot in the most comfortable way every time.

Anyway, it is no problem to keep the hit rate above 50% in training state.

So he made this result, which was 50%.

Davis rushed forward, and from the beginning, within Xie Hou's calculations, he used the projection threat he had shown before, and the opponent with his IQ was not as good as crazy.

At that time, he just needs to steadily return the racket to the floor, turn sideways, and dribble inward. Without getting close to the inside, he will stop and jump outside the paint area.

2 to 2

"Arthur doesn't seem to have any weaknesses." Mike Blin, who was in charge of commentary on this game, said, "Although his three-pointers are unstable, they are threatening; his breakthrough ability is almost unparalleled. Although he is only a first-year player, I can't imagine anyone who has brought greater threats after completing an outside breakthrough. If no one assists, he will attack the penalty area and make the opponent pay the price; if the opponent is willing to assist in disrupting the entire defense for him, his vision of sending 8 assists per game is enough to directly crush the defense."

"He can shoot baskets outside the paint area, throw shots, pick baskets in the paint area, and do a one-handed ball pulling rod like Dr. J... I really can't imagine him being restricted."

The commentator sitting next to him was John Thompson. After hearing Brin's praise for Xie Hou, he deeply agreed and also had his own opinions.

"The most rare thing about Arthur is that he established his own characteristics early," Thompson said. "In the first two months of his entry into the league, he was like a successful circus employee who was very knowledgeable, excitedly showing the audience how rich his arsenal is. We all know that a comprehensive player must have comprehensive skills, but when it comes to a life-and-death moment, comprehensive players are prone to hesitation. Why? Because they are so comprehensive that they don't know which weapon to take out at critical moments to compete with their opponents."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Hou and Artest took action at the same time, double-teaming Game3 George Lynch (g3 scored 16 points), and his oppressive defense caused him to make mistakes.

Xie Hou held the ball and pushed back, went to the frontcourt, and stepped into the paint area with one kick.

Davis' speed made him catch up with Xie Hou, but the gap in height and wingspan forced him to look up (there was no other way except to look up).

Xie Hou's left hand firmly grasped the ball, and he threw it gently, hitting the board and scoring.

"This is Arthur's killer weapon!" Thompson pointed out. "When he makes a breakthrough in positional battles, or pushes a counterattack with the ball, his marching is always full of threats because his passes can turn the game into a show! His layup skills are so rich that I remember Dr.J from the ABA era and Michael Jordan from the 1980s."

Needless to say, many old coaches from the ABA League believe that Dr. J during the NBA period only played half of the ABA period's skills. Such praise shows how powerful Xie Hou is in the commentator's heart.

4 to 2

Xie Hou mutes the audience and lands on the ground and runs past Davis. He doesn't like to talk trash unless it's for some dirty purpose or encounters particularly interesting opponents.

Davis will not forget how many trash words Xie Hou squirted before to anger him.

Thinking about it now, those trash words have some purpose.

At that time, Xie Hou successfully angered Davis, so he achieved his goal.

At this moment, perhaps in his eyes, Davis is just an opponent who does not need to be destroyed by trash talk.

"asshole!"

Davis cursed in his heart.

In order to save physical fitness, Davis called for pick-and-roll, and he asked center Magloyle to come out for pick-and-roll.

The Canadian will undoubtedly take his opponent O'Neal Jr. out of the penalty area.

Magloyer's excellent pick-and-roll quality made Xie Hou have to stay outside and watch Davis get stuck in the battle.

He must say that Byron Davis is a little too slight on the Pacers other than him (although none of these people are better than him).

If he only compares defense, Xie Hou thinks he can only rank fourth or fifth in the team.

At least three people have better defense than him.

Artest (no problem), Kirilenko (Xiehou convinced), O'Neal Jr. (Xiehou was puzzled by his loss when he encountered a strong team attack, but was really convinced by his assisting defense).

Xie Hou's defense is better than the above three people. Only data is available.

Xie Hou's average data is 1.9 steals and 2.2 blocks (both regular season).

However, he played a defensive data of 22 per game, but no one called on him to be selected for the best defensive team. Why? Because his defensive effect is not as outstanding as shown in the data.

Claire believes that Xie Hou is a perfect team defender, and his ability to assist in defense may be no less than that of O'O and Kirirenko, but as the outside and as the team's offensive core, he cannot focus on this, so his defensive effect must be discounted. With such beautiful data, it is entirely up to the correct position of the brain, timely repair defense, and a defensive sense that cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

Davis' breakthrough this time did not achieve his goal.

O'Neal Jr. chased back from the free throw line and gave him a brutal nail-board hat.

ps: If someone cannot understand Xie Hou's average of 2 breaks and 2 blocks per game cannot be selected for the best defensive team, I'll give an example here. Although it's a long time ago, everyone is definitely impressed by this person. That's the dr.j mentioned many times in the article. Speaking of this master, everyone thinks of his past goals, but who knows that this master scored at least 1.8 steals and 1.8 blocks for 13 consecutive seasons? But some people have said that Dr. J's defense is good? Including the ABA period, the doctor who averaged 1.8 breaks and 1.5 blocks in his career was only selected for the ABA period.
Chapter completed!