Tonight's Pacers played like a typical Eastern team after 1990s.

A typical Eastern Conference strong team faces teams that are weaker than their own in the playoffs, should be like the Pistons at 89-90, the Bulls at 96-98, the Pistons at 2003-2007, and even the Heat Big Three later, and even the Philadelphia 76ers who "believe in the process".

(The small ball era series that was closest to this time and space last season: This year's 76ers faced the Nets in the first round, relying on oppressive defense to counterattack and kill the Nets with better shooting skills.)

Oppressive defense is a characteristic that a typical Eastern strong team should have.

Five minutes before the start of the third quarter, the Pacers scored a 24-4 climax with their talent and execution that exceeded the Hornets, completely locking in the victory.

Such a defense only needs to last half a quarter to lay the foundation for victory.

The Hornets also thought about chasing points, but the score difference was too big. No matter how hard they tried, the Pacers could maintain the double-digit lead.

Halfway through the last quarter, the form still did not improve.

Four minutes before the final game, Hornets' head coach Tim Floyd replaced Byron Davis, who had only had three minutes of rest from the first quarter to now.

Judging from the data, Davis is better than Sherlock tonight.

He scored a total of 34 points and 7 rebounds (even rebounding data looks like a guard who came out of UCL) and 8 assists.

Xie Hou, who had half the time to compete with him, scored 26 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks.

Xie Hou's defense is better, while Davis's offensive influence is unmatched. He played in the best condition tonight, but basketball still depends on the team. When the strength gap is too great, no matter how strong the individual's strength is, even if God who wears No. 23 scores 62 points, he will still fall in front of the 86 Celtics.

Besides, Davis tonight is far from the legendary "God put on No. 23", so it is natural for the Hornets to lose.

This failure seems not to be the end of the world.

The Pacers got the match point and brought the game back to Indianapolis 3-1.

The reversal of 1-3 lag behind has occurred less than ten times in the history of NBA for half a century.

And it only happened in the semi-finals twice.

In terms of probability, the Hornets can be announced in advance.

When the final whistle sounded, Xie Hou passed by Davis again. He was extremely depressed. He overdrawed all of himself tonight, but he could not get a victory back.

The more he pays, the more he loses.

What annoyed him was that no matter how he beat him, Xie Hou never took him seriously, as if no matter how happy he was, it would not affect the overall situation (it was true from the result). When they walked past each other, he pursed his lips and wanted to say a few words.

"You played well tonight." A hypocritical compliment erupted from King Arthur's mouth, and the next thing was the main topic, "Don't be too happy too early. I just regret that you resisted tenaciously but got this result. I am still better than you, no doubt."

Davis clenched his fists and said hoarsely: "It's not over yet!"

"It's over." Xie Hou replied lazily.

At the press conference, Hornets head coach Tim Hoyberg seemed to be making summary statements about the season.

"I think my players did a great job tonight, they were united well. Against the league's top team, we've done our best and each player played at their own level. We're a brand new team with a lot of new players. They've understood the strange tactical system very quickly, they've been doing great all season, but losing is always disappointing. I have to congratulate the Pacers, Coach Rick Claire did his job well, and Donnie Walsh and Larry Bird built a great team. They've been running in for a few seasons together and now they're starting to shine in the league, and they're at the top of the game."

The reporters at the scene all looked strange, and their faces all said: Hello, we need to tell you, do you have to lose at least another game before you are completely eliminated?

Davis, the Hornets' number one player, just repeatedly stated that they still have a chance and that now is not the time to give up.

Unfortunately, their head coach has given up.

Hoyberg really doesn't see any hope of winning.

Pacers coach Claire also looked relieved when talking about the game: "We played a beautiful game tonight. The viewing of the first half may have surprised the audience that they didn't want to stay in the stadium. The viewing of the second half was much better. The best thing for us was that we persisted until the end. In the first two and a half minutes, we did not play the intensity and aggressiveness that could win the game, but I'm glad we regained the aggressiveness in the last half."

Xie Hou was slightly suppressed by Davis in the data tonight. If it weren't for the third quarter, he had regained the game with his teammates with outstanding defense, someone might have talked about this.

Now he can relax in his interview.

The coach said all the good things, so he had to try his best to grasp the right amount and not to say too arrogant words.

There are enough stories born from the press conference in this series.

In another game, the series will end (Xie Hou is sure they can win), and he is not interested in putting salt on his opponent's wounds, and the Hornets are never their main opponent.

They are now only concerned about another set of matchups in the East.

It seems that the semi-finals between the Pistons and the Nets will take at least six games to decide the winner.

In the fourth game of the semi-finals, the Nets scored 97 points and they smashed the Pistons' iron barrel formation.

On the Pistons, while their defense failed, they did not rely on the offensive end.

Only Hamilton played in double digits for the starting five players. After the game, except Hamilton, only rookie Anthony's offense can be seen.

Anthony and Hamilton scored 52 points together, while the Pistons scored 79 points in total.

Just talking about these two sets of data, how bad the other people's offensive performance is. Imagination alone must have been able to add a clang of ironclad sound in my mind.

The secret of the Nets breaking the piston barrel array is Kidd.

Tonight Kidd smashed the black pot of 1 in n, made 8 of 15 shots, and played a leading role, scoring a key triple-double, leading the team to equalize the score, dragging the suspense of the series to the top of the King of Heaven.

As the overlord of the East District in the past two years, the Nets will not give in easily.

There must be other variables in this series.

But for the Pistons, all they had to do was to watch the show, then go home and end the series, straighten their backs and walk into the gate of the Eastern Conference Finals.

On the night of the semi-final game 4, Xie Hou accepted the invitation of his teammates and went to St. Rock, a famous nightclub in New Orleans.

As we all know, King Arthur is not a person who is moved by beauty. He has his own principles and hobbies.

Instead of listening to exciting music and drinking spicy wine in a nightclub, he would rather have a relationship with his teammates (and perhaps shameless dancers pose for a while), he would rather lie in bed in a hotel room watching movies or surfing the Internet with a sand sculpture netizen for hundreds of rounds.

Artest convinced him to use only one sentence: "Sherlock's chef heard that he is from Xinjiang, China, and do you know where that is?"

Xie Hou didn't know whether it was considered a regional prejudice when talking about Xinjiang like roasted lamb legs, but even a bad guy like Artest knew that it would definitely be considered famous.

Xie Hou grew up so old. I heard from my parents that I have never eaten the roasted lamb legs in Xinjiang. I didn’t expect that he would have such oral treatments when he came to New Orleans to play games. He naturally went there with him without any (mutton) meat.

Among them are Kirilenko, who has not fulfilled his cheating balance this month, Papalucas, who is in a good mood and wants to drink, Miller, who loves to run to nightclubs if he has anything to do, Prezek, the Slovenian brother who can only vent his experience in the nightclubs even if he can't go to the venue, and O'Neal, who is taciturn but always sees him in the nightclubs, even though he is taciturn.

Including Artest, the group is quite large, with a total of seven people, which is enough to play a short rotation game.

After Xie Hou arrived at Saint Locke, he found that Artest was right. There was really a Xinjiang chef named Sirzati here.

Judging from the name, he is definitely a real Xinjiang native.

Xie Hou went to meet him specially.

Seeing the legendary "King Arthur", Sirzati hugged him excitedly on the spot, asked for several autographs, and handed him to Xie Hou's business card, patted his chest and said that he could call him at any time when he came to New Orleans to play games, and the roasted lamb legs were taken to the hotel.

Xie Hou did not expect that his compatriots from a foreign country were so enthusiastic.

Judging from Sirzati's appearance, he doesn't look like a pure Han person.

Later, I learned from Sirzati that he is a mixed race between Han and Xinjiang locals. Because some local ethnic minorities in Xinjiang are genetically closer to white people, he looks a little different.

Sirza asked Xie Hou's preferred taste and asked him to sit in front to ensure that he was satisfied.

Fortunately, Xie Hou came to see Sirzati, otherwise he would have to eat a roast lamb leg suitable for American taste.

This roasted lamb leg was relieved. Xie Hou wanted to go to Xinjiang to eat lamb leg. In addition, he was very happy to win tonight. He drank and chatted with his teammates about endless things. As he talked, he even hugged the dancer on the scene.

Fortunately, Xie Hou was not completely drunk, and his teammates who wanted to pour him down were instead poured down.

In the middle of the night, the teammates who were traveling with them were not awake and all slept soundly.

Xie Hou was only drunk for five minutes and was not very clear about it, but he was very sure that he didn't want to spend the night in a nightclub.

So he settled the bill for his teammates and left enough tips to allow the waiters here to take care of his teammates with full enthusiasm. Then he walked out of the nightclub with a slightly drunk body and called a taxi back.

Things seemed to go smoothly, but Xie Hou accidentally got into the nightclub dancer because he was drunk and accidentally got into the nightclub dancer. He was still photographed by paparazzi and appeared in the newspaper the next day.
Chapter completed!