Standing pretty old

Chapter 482

This is not the only problem that the Eagles encountered. Apart from their own slack, they obviously haven't realized the fact that they have unknowingly become the public enemy of the league.

That's right, the defending champion is to fight against the world. If you won the championship last season and want to defend your title this season, that means you are blocking everyone's way.

Who doesn't love winning?Who doesn't want to win the championship?
The strength of the Eagles has stifled other teams' chances of winning, so they have become targets.

At least half of what Doug Rivers said is correct. Regardless of luck, the attention and pressure the Hawks are now receiving is unprecedented.

Strong teams want to defeat them and build up confidence; weak teams can often put down their burdens and play a game with the Eagles with the mentality of fighting hard.

It’s okay to meet a strong team. Anyway, the Eagles are mentally prepared to fight against their opponents. They are afraid of encountering an unreasonable weak team.

The weaker teams get even more excited when they realize they have a chance to beat the stronger teams.

In the second quarter of the game, Pacers substitute Jarrett Jack was the figure who led the attack wave.

Jack is born with an embarrassing look. As long as he is a little nervous, his eyebrows will immediately droop and form a standard "囧" character with his entire face.

Of course, Jack's glorious deeds do not lie in his embarrassment, but in another attribute that comes with him. People in the world call the team's main PG killer.

Why do you say that?

Because this guy often stands up from the bench, replaces the team's main point guard in the final quarter, and also plays brilliantly, maybe he can lead the team to reverse the game.

In the Trail Blazers last season, he replaced Steve Blake many times at critical moments. This season, in the Pacers, TJ* Ford, who has suffered serious injuries, may not escape the fate of being counterattacked.

Facing Dragic's defense, Jack first used a strong breakthrough to reach the inside and made a layup.

Immediately afterwards, he continued to fire from the outside, scoring two three-pointers, which instantly opened up the score between the two teams.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Eagles not only failed to narrow the score, but were further widened by the home team.

Woodson angrily asked for another 24-second timeout. After a while of reprimand, he replaced all the main players except Pachulia in advance.

Ruan Erniu held the ball inside, faced Foster's defense, pushed the opponent away toughly, and scored with one hand.

Jiong Jisen did not slack off either. On the offensive end, after receiving the return pass from Ruan Erniu, he immediately made a three-pointer and hit a 3-pointer.

Er Niu and Jiong Jisen opened fire, one inside and one outside, and finally temporarily suppressed the opponent's counterattack.

The game continued, the Pacers' offensive end.

Jack holds the ball from the outside, and after Murphy's pick-and-roll, he holds the ball and enters the penalty area.

Er Niu immediately stepped forward to block, blocking all his attacking routes.

Jiongmei Jack was not greedy for credit, and immediately sent the ball to Granger on the outside. The Pacers boss dropped a knife in his hand and hit a three-pointer.

On the offensive end of the Eagles, Bibby controlled the ball from the outside, and with the help of Er Niu's pick-and-roll, he shot directly from the three-point line and missed!

Ruan Erniu struggled to grab an offensive rebound between Murphy and Foster, and then sent the ball to the unguarded Salmons.

Salmons' three-pointer feeling today is also a ghost!

"boom!"

An open three-pointer is missed!

Foster pulled and pulled, blocking Erniu's way, and Troy Murphy had already scored a backcourt rebound.

Jack received the pass and dribbled the ball across the half court unhurriedly.

The Pacers are sitting on the inside high center, and there is no whirlwind in their minds.

The reason why Jack played better than TJ* Ford is also because his style of play is more compatible with the Pacers lineup.

Danny Granger held the ball in the frontcourt, facing Salmons' defense, from outside the three-point line, he suddenly pulled up and made a hit!

Immediately afterwards, the Eagles made a pass error in the frontcourt. The Pacers selected the No. 13 rookie this year and the NCAA champion-a member of the University of Kansas-Brandon Rush cut off Mike Bibby's pass. ball.

Jack got the intercepted ball and immediately passed it to Granger who was running in the front. Granger flew into the air, with one arm stretched out, and a gliding dunk succeeded.

The Pacers opened the score again, and Woodson was too angry to speak!

He sat down on the chair, looked coldly at the players on the field, the spray had already been sprayed, if the Eagles didn't pull themselves together, no one would be able to help them.

Ruan Erniu immediately called his teammates together and held a short meeting of about 5 seconds near his penalty area.

"Now forget everything and just remember two things: [-]. Keep an eye on your defender; [-]. Give me the ball on offense!"

Because the meeting was very brief, the referee did not stop the Hawks' violation.

Anderson sent the baseline ball, and Bibby dribbled the ball across the half.

Ruan Erniu didn't ask for the ball in the low post. The Pacers did a lot of homework today. Murphy stepped forward and Foster made a hard top behind Ruan Erniu.

That being the case, Ruan Erniu went directly to the three-point line to receive the ball, and Murphy threw it out.

特洛伊*墨菲身高6尺11寸（2.11米），阮二牛身高6尺8寸多，达到204CM。

The height difference between the two is obvious, but the weight is about the same, both are about 243 pounds.

Ruan Erniu took a tentative step, forcing Murphy to take a step back.

At this step, Ruan Erniu immediately retracted his feet, pulled up and took off, shot a three-pointer, and hit it!

In the three-point area of ​​the top arc, Er Niu is now more and more confident, and his three-point shooting percentage has also increased from 25% at the beginning of the season to about 42% now.

Celestial monsters are so terrifying. Some people can't do things in their entire lives. He only spent half the summer, plus the entire preseason and ten regular season games.

Although Er Niu's three-point shot never left the top arc position, it was enough for him.

With this involvement point of pulling out the inside line, Erniu's role on the offensive end is even greater.

Whether it is an air cut support or a breakthrough with the ball, Ruan Erniu has become more calm.

In fact, he is redefining the inside line for a new era.

The two sides continued to strangle in the second half of the second quarter.

The head coaches of the two teams, Mike Woodson and Jim O'Brien, also deployed their respective generals in the ensuing games to maintain the offensive firepower of the two teams.

For the Pacers, Granger is naturally the well-deserved leader and the first point of attack. Granger, who was a little quiet in the first quarter, made 5 of 4 shots in the second quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and 1 free throw. In 1, he scored a team-high 11 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.

For the Eagles, Ruan Erniu became the mainstay in the second quarter. He made 10 of 7 shots in a single quarter, including 3 of 2 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 18 points and 8 rebounds in a single quarter. super data.

It can be said that if it weren't for Ruan Erniu's strong performance, perhaps the Eagles would have already knelt down in this game!
At the end of the first half, at 55:61, the Eagles fell behind the Pacers at home by 6 points.

Ruan Erniu scored a double-double of 26 points and 14 rebounds in the halftime. He and Jon Jonson are the key to the Eagles' ability to bite the home team.

The Eagles would never have imagined that this road trip would be so difficult. The league's No. 9 team with 4 consecutive victories at the beginning was forced to this level by the mid-level Eastern Conference team with 5 wins and [-] losses.

It also fully confirms the saying that there are no underdogs in the NBA. In this world, in the highest level of basketball arena, there has never been a team or game that is sure to win.

(End of this chapter)