The Pacers deliberately dragged the game into a high pressure rhythm, and the Suns' performance also declined.

After 8 consecutive points, Mike D'Anthony's timeout interrupted the game, hoping to use the timeout to get the team back on track.

The pause time of dozens of seconds makes the Pacers recall their gains and losses to the Suns, and they discovered the best way to fight against the running team.

To improve confrontation, this is the only way out.

After the pause, the Pacers' continued rising intensity of confrontation has not been taken seriously by the referee.

There is a view that the stronger the party, the more ignored the referee.

Referees always have the mentality of treating the weak, and Pacers are far from being weak, but they do have a firm control over the situation under such circumstances.

The Suns' offense rarely broke the chain, and Iguodala eventually attacked the ball from the outside.

His breakthrough failed, and Artest's defensive shot missed after several changes of direction.

“The competition is moving towards the extreme.”

"The Pacers' confrontation has exceeded the scope of the regular season, and the Suns must play the game as a playoffs."

"It's going to be an interesting conversation, and the running system has never really proved itself in a playoff level game."

The person who said this was Charles Barkley.

In order to avoid being caught by the slut, he specially added a key "really prove himself" to this sentence.

The "real" prefix gives Barkley the final right to interpret the meaning of this sentence.

If a lever is coming out: "Just? Haven't the Nuggets in 1985 and the Suns in the past few years proved themselves?"

Barkley had room for spiral: "Is that amazing? Are there any rings?"

The fans could only squirt back in anger: "It seems like you have a ring?"

Then, Sir Charles naturally won the finals: "At least I have touched the floor of the finals, and the team mainly based on the running and bombing system has not even played in the finals. How can it be considered as proving itself?"

No matter how dissatisfied the fans are, Barkley is telling the truth. From the Suns to the Nuggets, the running and bombing team is in full swing in the regular season, but never reappears in the playoffs.

Because the playoffs fully interpret what is a game that "defense wins the championship".

In the past, defense always became a problem for running and bombing teams.

Since the running team needs to open fire on the offensive end, the defense will inevitably be a bit loose. In order to run more underground fast attacks, someone will run to the frontcourt as long as they see their opponent's shooting. At this time, if the opponent wants to grab offensive rebounds, it is easy to cause a situation of more grabbing less. In addition, the head coach of the running team often treats defense as someone who ignores air, so it is not surprising that various problems will arise.

The Nuggets and the Suns' failure in the past few years can be said to be because they lost their regular season offense in the playoffs.

It can also be said that it is their defense that limits their possibility of going further.

But this season's Suns are different.

Except for Nash, the other four people: Bale, Iguodala, Marion and Garnett are all excellent, top-notch, first-class and top-notch defenders in the same position.

They shouldn't be weak when fighting for defense.

Iguodala missed the attack, and Xie Hou dribbled the ball and attacked by the opponent during the process.

When the ball was served again and the positional battle was fought, the Suns' defense scared Xie Hou.

Iguodala's single defense plus Garnett seems to be able to appear in any position to defend, causing the Pacers' offense to be severely defeated.

They were pressed for 22 seconds.

Two seconds before the end of the offensive time, Xie Hou received the ball, transported it, and jumped horizontally on the three-point line and shot.

Such a shot is amazingly difficult.

Xie Hou's move was difficult but gentle. Even though the offensive environment was so bad, he still had room to shoot.

"Swish!"

74 to 78

"In this way, the difference is only 4 points."

"The Suns should understand that when facing the number one player in the league, they cannot have any luck. He will take advantage of the half-minute slackness, let alone the slump that lasts for several minutes?"

A few years ago, when Xie Hou won the championship for the first time, some people refused to admit that he was a superstar.

In less than five years, everyone now admits that he is the strongest one.

When facing the strongest person, the Sun should show the strongest performance.

The Suns have been silent for three minutes, and no running team will remain indifferent in the face of such scoring waste.

Their tactics ran for more than ten seconds and the ball returned to Nash's hands.

Nash began to discover that personal abilities were at some point beyond tactics.

At this point, the offense is to get rid of the Pacers' defense and not afraid of Tim Thomas' assisted defense throwing score.

80 to 74

The Suns' scoring drought was broken by Nash, which seemed rightfully so.

Nash, who has never become the scoring champion in the team for many years, is considered to be capable of becoming the scoring champion in the league. If he was active in the small ball era more than ten years later, this may not have become a fact.

To a certain extent, Nash at this time was the pioneer of the group of defenders more than a decade later. His game surpassed his time.

After Nash's offensive efforts were made, the Suns' defensive players adopted a comprehensive and three-dimensional personal oppression against Xie Hou on the defensive end.

The Suns are really the team with the most capital to defend Xie Hou in the league. The other four people except Nash have the ability to switch to defense Xie Hou.

This is an advantage that other teams do not have.

Moreover, except for Laga Bell, the other three are also good at assisting defense. They have Pacers like assisting defense resources on the defensive end, but D'Antoni is not good at training and utilization.

In order to limit Xie Hou's offense, the four men exerted all their strength and developed some of the long-awaited potentials for the first time by fans.

The fans were only excited and excited when they watched their defense against Xie Hou.

"We've never seen a team that can defend Arthur with helplessness, the Suns did it!"

What is the symbol of killing a super giant? It is that he cannot score in the most reasonable way.

Before changing to power forward, Xie Hou's efficiency was well known to the world. He dominated the league with the characteristics of taking total scoring, rebounding and assisting. He obviously did so many things and had terrible efficiency. Why is his shooting rate so high? Of course, it's not that his opponent is too stupid to defend against his attack. Instead, Xie Hou often finds reasonable scoring opportunities. If he shakes past his opponent's several positions in each ball like Iverson, and is worried about throwing a ball without leaning back or pulling up the arc, then it's strange that he can have a high shooting rate.

It is precisely because he often finds his opponent's flaws and seizes those seemingly inconspicuous small flaws that violently tear the gaps, which makes him have the best offensive efficiency in the entire league.

Now, the Suns' defense has turned this advantage into invisible.

The Pacers' offense was once again forced to 20 seconds.

Xie Hou leaned against Iguodala, turned back with difficulty and hit the board.

76 to 80

"Arthur's transcendent personal ability helps the Pacers maintain the score difference!"

"To be honest, this is not a good choice. Can he keep investing?"

The Sun's tactics continue to be locked.

To play against a superstar, they also have capital.

Nash just called one, this time he called one for Garnett.

Garnett held the ball in the basket and flicked it, and the ball was stopped with one step. Tim Thomas's only athletic ability was not threatening his offense.

He had no choice but to stand in place to watch Garnett score the goal.

Son of Wind, Garnett, it seems that the Suns stars are going to come forward one by one to solve the problem.

If you want to compete for the personal abilities of the stars, Pacers are not afraid.

The most popular team for a team with the best player in the league is that you can compete for your personal abilities, and Xie Hou can't ask for it!

The tragedy that happened to the Spurs/Mavericks/Pistons/Cavs/Lakes seems to be repeated in the Suns.

Xie Hou decisively called the pick-and-roll misplaced to play Garnett, and his offense seemed to have only one chance.

Garnett didn't expect Xie Hou to rush in when he saw some opportunity.

A small negligence ruined the defense.

His pursuit was not very effective. Xie Hou leaned on his body, hooked the ball with his left hand, hit the board and then stepped in.

"Arthur's heroic performance, pressing the mute key for the American Airlines Center!" Barkley flattered like a fanatical believer, "I saw the shadows of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in him!"

The classic cliché plot of Xie Hou fighting against the opponent alone did not continue.

Two minutes later, Xie Hou assisted in defending against Garnett's blocking and twisted his ankle.

Seeing him jumping to the sidelines with one foot and sitting down, his face full of regret, the Phoenix vented his anger as if he had survived the disaster.

It seems that the crisis has been lifted.

When Xie Hou left the field, the Pacers' score difference had already reached 3 points.

His departure ended the Pacers' pursuit of the score.

"If the Pacers lose so badly next, then this will be the most regrettable Christmas battle I have ever seen!" Barkley expressed regret for the game, and focused more on Xie Hou's injury. "Arthur has been attending for three consecutive seasons since his rookie season, but the moment he landed just now, it didn't look very good."

Xie Hou was lying behind the bench, and the audience was fenced and could not see his situation clearly.
To be continued...