In the difficult season, the Pacers still won 57 wins, ranking third in the Eastern Conference, only 1 win less than the Cavaliers, and 5 wins less than the Pistons, the No. 1 in the Eastern Conference.

For Xie Hou personally, this is a brilliant personal performance season.

Xie Hou, who played only 62 games due to injury last season, played all this season, averaging 38 minutes per game, scoring 34.5 points, 12.2 rebounds, 7.7 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.6 steals.

Miller, Kirilenko, O'Neal Jr.'s injuries, and the Auburn Mountain incident, which has been called "this should be the back example of the future for you," almost destroyed the Pacers.

It almost took away the Pacers' ability to compete for the championship, but also gave Xie Hou a real opportunity to take over everything.

Claire said: "It was a disaster for the team, Arthur's opportunity. He finally had the opportunity to rebuild the order that belonged to him alone in a pile of ruins, rather than being able to get along with a bunch of successful star teammates."

Pacers' general manager Donny Walsh gave a clever example that could help fans understand intuitively: "This means Arthur needs to play like Wilt Chamberlain in the 1961-1962 season."

1: The famous 5025 season per game, and there is also a record destined to be permanently sealed in this increasingly healthy league - 48.5 minutes per game per game.

Shehou received praise, honors and brought the team into the playoffs, and now he is facing Shaq O'Neal and the Toronto Raptors head-on.

April 25, 2005

As expected, the "Big Shark" is still the "Big Shark" that people remember. Bankers Life Stadium is like the sea water of the Pacific Ocean to him. The sky is high and the birds fly, and the sea is wide and the fish leaps - the first game of the East, Shaq O'Neal scored 30 points and 7 rebounds in the first game.

In order to limit him, the Pacers' inside fouls are constantly being fouled, and the more O'Neal is unable to defend himself, the more impatient he is. Those injuries on the battlefield can always be patient in the hospital, but he has no. Not to mention patience, he is now an idiot who likes to behave as long as he suffers a little setback.

In a single quarter, O'Neal Jr. was in 3 offenses, and the Pacers rotated in chaos.

After the game, O'Neal Jr. left the court with six fouls, Jeff Foster made four fouls, and Austin Crohill made four fouls. Although O'Neal's free throw feel good tonight, it actually reached 45%, Reggie Miller came out of the bottom corner at a critical moment and received a pass from Xie Hou and made a fatal quasi-final three-pointer to ensure that the Pacers finally narrowly won by 2 points, and suddenly suppressed the Toronto idea of ​​turning away.

The Sharks are currently quite uncomfortable. Toronto treats him as he is at his peak, and does not consider his declining strength. His playing style is compatible with other teammates. He just wants to use his unparalleled low-post destructive power to kill opponents.

Times have changed after all.

It has been three years since the Sharks rampant alliance.

Three years of aging, athletic ability decline, and new regulations that are unfavorable to traditional centers are introduced. The league is changing with each passing day. Even the Sharks must admit that the current league is no longer an era when teams have to prepare for hand-to-hand combat in order to limit him.

game2

The Raptors don't want Xie Hou to perform as he pleases.

In the first game, they lost to Xie Hou's sudden score rather than losing to Miller's three-pointer.

When the Pacers' inside defense was almost negative, Xie Hou couldn't find the touch on the outside, but when he saw Jaylen Ross' ability to break through once, he forced Westbrook's assist to score 14 assists in a single game, giving Miller the final three-pointer, which was just one of the things he had been doing all night.

Morris Peterson, who has proven that he cannot prevent Xie Hou, has a heavy responsibility, and he was asked by the head coach to restrict Xie Hou.

There is no doubt that Xie Hou fully understands what a sense of responsibility is and never retreats when the team needs help the most.

King Arthur's figure filled the field.

Xie Hou first made a breakthrough like a scalpel and gave an assist. Miller and Papalucas completed easy catches and layups one after another, and could also serve as arrows to end the attack in a fast break counterattack. He directly challenged Shaq O'Neal, who had always been weak, caused a foul from his hand, asked for a free throw, and used a high-pitched board-back layup close to the negative angle to tease Milicic, who had an unhappy quarrel with him. The live commentator Bobby Leonard shouted excitedly: "Arthur's ball is so handsome that he rolled in with the rebound!"

The rules for the Eastern Conference teams are that once the situation is not good, the defensive end will be intensified, and there will be no mistakes in everything.

The Pacers' offensive efficiency began to decline, and the tense situation forced Xie Hou to take over the offense.

When O'O turned off the engine and Miller was stared at, others couldn't help, and the defense was still strong but could not put the ball into the basket, the Pacers needed one person to do this.

Xie Hou has been doing the same thing for a season.

During the regular season, he did not disappoint the coach, teammates, and fans, but instead disappointed the black fans who looked down on him, hoped that he would make a fool of himself, and showed his true colors.

When their unstable offense and gradually increasing mistakes made the Raptors close to the score, Xie Hou made the most correct choice in defense almost the same moment.

The moment when Peterson was passed in one step, the Raptors' coaching staff discovered that no matter who they asked to defend Xie Hou, the same result would be.

Xie Hou flashed through Jaylen Ross's assisted defense, spread his wings and bravely hit Milicic, who was 217 cm tall. The whistle of the exclusive superstar sounded, and the Serbians paid the price of fouls for his active defense.

Xie Hou withstood the confrontation, and his core strength has been much stronger than his rookie season, thanks to two years of hard training.

In the past two years, the strength of his upper and lower limbs has been on the spot, but the core strength is different now.

Milicic's confrontation made him feel like he was confrontation, and he made a move and the ball entered.

Xie Hou, who landed, clenched his right fist. On this night when his muscles flew, he would prove that no confrontation or defense could stop him from scoring, and he was the only one who could stop him.

Members of the English club on site began to cheer for their king.

There are thousands of these people.

The cheers of thousands of people were enough to drive the audience.

Xie Hou's energy and the ability to make the Raptors helplessly break through, allowed them to defend their home court.

After the game, Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell said: "With the league banning handcheck completely, breakthrough players like Arthur are increasingly unable to stop them!"

This is the first year of a total ban on handcheck, and the spring of the breakthrough hand is coming.

Because this year is the first year of implementing the rules, the referees still don’t know how to make a judgment, the standards are unclear, some games are loose, and some games are very strict.

Tonight, the Pacers' home court, the three referees treat handchecks with the type that they would rather kill mistakes than let go.

The Raptors have no one who can follow Xie Hou at speed and don’t get started, so how can they defend themselves?

Mitchell's complaints were for a reason, but the referee acted according to the rules and was fine.

A complete ban on handcheck will turn a breakthrough like Xie Hou into an unsolvable monster, but the monster's shooting threat this quarter has been greatly reduced, and its breakthrough skills are only 70% of that of last season.

Anyone who knows a little basketball should know that the threat of breakthrough is always based on shooting threats.

It is difficult for a person who has no shots to make a breakthrough his trump card.

Xie Hou's inefficient shooting this quarter still played a terrifying breakthrough power, which is enough to prove how lethal his breakthrough is.

Handcheck was cancelled, the league clearly stipulated the standards, the referee's efforts to implement the new rules increased, Xie Hou himself was protected by the new rules, and a superstar's body whistle - trying to prevent his breakthrough - has become impossible in all senses.

The Raptors are still dead under Xie Hou's breakthrough.

Xie Hou made only 1 of 6 three-pointers from the outside, and the breakthrough allowed him to score a 3,010 assist in the second game.

Big score 2 to 0

O'Neal kept complaining to the league, thinking that the Pacers' inside foul was too strong, and complaining that the referee blew too many body whistles to Xie Hou.
Chapter completed!