The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 64 64. Fighting Pacers

Before the start of the game, the atmosphere at the Orlando Arena has been mobilized by the fans.

The noisy sound in the entire arena is even more deafening, making the Pacers team, which is currently warming up for shooting, feel tremendous pressure.

In the past two years, the Pacers have truly experienced what it means to be unlucky.

In the 04-05 season when the team lineup was neat and each player was at the peak of his career, the Pacers completely withdrew from the championship because of an incident at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

In the next few years, the veterans of the team retired and the star status declined. The transaction of this transaction has completely disintegrated this Pacers team.

Until last season, Jermaine O'Neal, who was already in a fully degraded stage, completely left the Indiana Pacers.

Let the current team completely lose its previous face, and today's Pacers will be led by the team's new boss Danny Granger.

Although Granger is very competitive this season, so far, he has averaged 25.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.

However, the overall quality of other players in the team is not high, and the strength that can contribute to him in the game is very limited.

And Danny Granger is probably the last fig leaf over Indiana today.

As the atmosphere in the arena became more and more intense, the referee finally blew the whistle on the sidelines that the game was about to start.

As the game is about to start, the two sides announced their starting lineups:

Pacers:

TJ Ford, Jarrett Jack, Granger, Murphy, Hibbert.

Magic:

Nelson, Pietrus, Lewis, Turkoglu, and Howard.

The Magic still continued to use this season's regular lineup in this game, and Su Jiu's comeback allowed Van Gundy to have more mobilization on the back line.

However, the Pacers made some adjustments to the insiders for this game.

Originally, the Pacers have been using Jeff Foster as the starting center this season.

But after running in so many games, Foster also proved to people with facts that he is simply an unsupportable fool, and it is difficult to be truly reused by the team.

And the current Hibbert is just a rookie who just entered the league with the 17th pick in the first round this season.

There is still a big gap with the later black Yao Ming who single-handedly suppressed the Heat's insiders and fought seven games with the Heat's Big Three.

But Foster is really embarrassing to use, and although Hibbert is just a rookie, he has a height of [-] meters after all.

In this era when insiders are basically competing for height and body, Hibbert only needs to refine his footsteps and skills to become a good insider.

So this game faced Howard, the number one center in the league, and Pacers head coach Jim O'Brien temporarily put Hibbert on the starting lineup.

Because if it was played by Foster, then there is only one ending, and that is to be blown up.

But if it is Hibbert, although he suffers in both physical and experience, he still has a height of [-] meters after all.

Even if it is moved up to a wooden man and stuck there, just relying on this height, it is enough to cause more interference to Howard.

What's more, the current Hibbert is just a dish, but he is not stupid...

After the start of the game, the possession of the ball was first obtained by the tall and long-armed Hibbert.

The Pacers' offensive methods this season are still very simple.

Since the Pacers currently have basically no ability to play hard inside, this also leads to most of the Pacers' offenses being launched from the outside to the inside.

As the team's well-deserved starting power forward, Murphy is an inside player who basically floats out of the game.

Most of his offense is shooting from outside the three-point line after receiving a pass from a teammate.

This also caused the Pacers to have to place more offensive burdens on Danny Granger, which is why Granger's data is so good this season, and even currently ranks sixth in the league's scoring list.

The only offensive player in the Pacers who can help Granger is probably TJ Ford, but Ford has always been a guard known for his speed.

However, after suffering an injury, the speed that Ford is most proud of can no longer allow him to continue to do whatever he wants on the court, so his biggest role at present is probably to help the Pacers score in offensive and defensive transitions.

As for Jack, from the time he entered the league until he retired, he was never an offensive guard.

It's a very stable player with a big heart, but with this kind of player, it is difficult for you to let him lead the team out of the quagmire.

Because what he can do is basically icing on the cake.

This also makes the Magic team very clear on the defensive end, just try to pinch the Pacers' Granger as much as possible.

As for the remaining players of the Pacers, once Granger can't start the game on the offensive end, it will be difficult for them to rewrite the game on the offensive end by themselves.

So when the Pacers attack, once Granger takes the ball at the corner, the Magic guards will step forward to double-team and choose to let go of Jack or Ford.

Because neither of those guys is known for his outside shots.

If the entire Pacers choose to double-team on the court, as long as Murphy is not let go, then the problem will not be too big.

This result also caused Granger to play very uncomfortable on the offensive end in the first quarter, and was always in a state of being double-teamed.

This is also the main reason why many stars choose to stay together, because only the person involved knows the feeling of isolation and helplessness.

However, compared with the Pacers, the Magic will play much more cheerfully in the first quarter.

Facing a rookie who has just entered the league, although Howard has some disadvantages in height, even Howard hates this kind of tall and long-armed inside center.

But in terms of physical fitness, there is really no comparison between the two. Howard only needs to push hard twice, and Hibbert is like a seaweed swaying in the wind.

Throughout the first half, Hibbert was staggered by Howard. He was suddenly told by the head coach to start the game, which made Hibbert happy for a long time, thinking that his chance to take the lead had come.

But when he really got to the arena, Hibbert just wanted to cry, and shouted loudly:

"Give me the ball, I want to go home!! My mother won't let me play with you..."

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(End of this chapter)