NBA Big Devil: I rule the league with defense

Originally, the Indiana Pacers were already mentally prepared to be swept away!

After all, this Pacers team has just entered the post-O'Neal era for a few years, and has been playing the role of a big team in the East. Although it has been lottery all the time, the lottery ranking is still not low enough. The talent level of the players selected Obviously insufficient!

And Granger's ability to reach the playoffs with such a lineup has already exceeded the expectations of most Pacers fans!

Therefore, as long as you can meet the Cleveland Cavaliers, it is worth it. If you can play better, then you have earned it!

But when the boys of the Indiana Pacers turned to the news!

Yao Ming suffered a fractured left ankle and is expected to rest for half a month!

Allen Iverson has plantar fasciitis and is expected to rest for half a month!

Han Mo has a headache and is expected to rest for half a month!

The first two can bear it, isn't it a bit too much for you, Han Mo, to have a headache?

What is a headache?What about your cavaliers playing monkeys?

Granger, the boss of the Pacers team, has not expressed any opinions yet. Ranson Stephens, the official drinking fountain administrator of the Pacers team, has already started talking nonsense to the media: "Han Mo can't play? Yao Ming can't play? Iverson can't play? Then, who else is in the Cavaliers? I don’t know anyone else?”

"Since the main force of the Cavaliers wants to rest so much, then our Pacers will give them a free ride! Kick their butts hard and let them have a complete vacation!"

Compared with Stephens' arrogant face, Granger is very cautious: "They have a group of very talented young people. Even if Han Mo and the others don't participate, they are still a playoff-level team. Will not take it lightly!"

In fact, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Indiana Pacers don't even have a half-point grievance. Even though the Pacers in the O'Neal era were repeatedly ravaged by Han Mo in the 76ers era, the two sides played harmoniously after the match Yes, after all, after Reggie Miller retired, although Jermaine O'Neal was very good, the overall strength of the Pacers has never reached the championship level!

Therefore, although there was a little twists and turns before the start of the game, the overall tone of the two sides is still very friendly!

It's just that although both teams are friendly, the Cleveland Cavaliers' rotation has really hurt the commercial interests of the NBA, a commercial league!

As the NBA's most eye-catching, cross-generational king's teacher, he actually said that he was taking a rotation, so he was taking a rotation?And it's still a one-off break for the entire series, aren't you being too arrogant?

As the mouthpiece of the NBA, Stephen A. Smith has already started to spout before the first game: "I know the Cavaliers are very strong, and I know that the Pacers are weak compared with the Cavaliers, but no matter how weak the team is, since both of you We have all come to the stage of the NBA playoffs, and it is time to start a fair competition. Losing is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that the opponent doesn't take you seriously. This is simply against the Indiana team and the Indiana people. humiliation!"

"I believe that the bloody Pacers will make the Cleveland Cavaliers regret making such a hasty decision! I wish I could see that when the Indiana Pacers pushed the Cleveland Cavaliers to a corner, Han Mo and others had to suddenly It is announced that their illness has been miraculously cured, and by then, Zhenzhen will be nailed to the stigma of the NBA playoffs!"

However, as soon as the match between the two sides started, Granger suddenly discovered that the rumors of underestimating the enemy that were rumored by all fans, experts, media, and even inside the Pacers team were not true!

Because the first game is over!

The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Indiana Pacers 107-100!

Although the score difference between the two sides is not that big, from beginning to end, the youngsters of the Cleveland Cavaliers are playing against the entire Pacers team!

The Cleveland Cavaliers shot 49 percent overall and 41 percent from three!51 total rebounds, 24 total assists, 8 total steals, 11 total blocks, and 12 turnovers!

The Indiana Pacers made 44% of their field goals, 33% of their three-pointers, 35 of their total rebounds, 15 of their total assists, 5 of their total steals, 6 of their 12 turnovers!

Except for the same number of turnovers on both sides, all other basic statistics of the Cleveland Cavaliers are higher than the Indiana Pacers!

Although Granger scored 35 points in the game, which was the highest score among players from both sides in this game, but apart from Granger, no one on the Pacers scored 12 points!

And the Cleveland Cavaliers:

Stephen Curry: 17 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, 2 steals!

James Harden: 25 points, 3 assists, 4 rebounds, 1 block!

DeMar DeRozan: 18 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 block!

DeAndre Jordan: 15 points, 15 rebounds!

Zhu Holiday: 11 points, 5 assists, 1 steal!

Wang Zhizhi: 10 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist!

The Cleveland Cavaliers rotated 9 players, and 6 players scored in double figures!

This kind of integrity is even stronger than when the Cleveland Big Three were present!

What made the Indiana Pacers collapse even more was that after the game was over, when they were summarizing the reasons for the loss of the game, they found that it was okay if they didn't sum up the reasons.

Facing this group of little guys who are not Wang Zhizhi, the average age is only 22 years old, the Indiana Pacers are not good at all aspects!

This feeling is like the presence of the Big Three of the Cavaliers. There is almost no value in summarizing, because the strength is just not enough to reach others!

After the Pacers played Game [-] in Cleveland, this feeling became even stronger!

When the Pacers took out the best defensive resources to target Harden and DeRozan of the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers responded that Stephen Curry made 11 of 6 three-pointers and scored 33 points, leading the team 108:101 beat the Indiana Pacers!

James Harden, the highest scorer of the Cavaliers in the last game, only scored 9 points in this game, but contributed 13 assists, which directly refreshed Harden's own single-game assist record in the playoffs!

Press the calabash and pick up the scoop. This is the only experience the Indiana Pacers have gained after playing the first two games!

And the fact that they have won a complete playoff-level opponent in two consecutive games also makes these young people a little swollen!

When the Cavaliers came to the Indiana Pacers, facing the Pacers' desperate counterattack, the Pacers fought hand-to-hand on both ends of the offense and defense, and the intensity of the game suddenly increased. This made the young Cavaliers seriously underestimated. A 20-point defeat!

"You've just played two good games and you're gone?" Han Mo looked at these young people sternly, "I know you can win, and you also know you can win!"

"So, if you lose again in this round of the series, I think you should stop appearing on this field!"

"Because you are not worthy!"