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Chapter 472 The remnants of the old era, there is no ship that can carry you in the new era!
In addition to the vigorous online scolding war, on the night of the 21st, a big battle was going on in the east, which attracted the attention of countless people.

Indiana Pacers VS Miami Heat Eastern Division Finals opener!

The first game was held at the Pacers' home stadium, the Galaxy Home Life Arena.

That night, the on-site commentator was none other than Reggie Miller of the Pacers.

I have to add a word, Reggie Miller is really a model worker, with first-class ability to catch up!

Back to the game process.

Tonight, not only had to give full play to their height advantage, but also sharply bombed from the outside. The team hit 6 goals in the first three three-pointers, making the Heat hard to defend.

In the second half of the quarter, James scored 4 points in a row and led the team to pursue, but he still ended the first quarter with 24 points behind at 30:6.

In the second quarter, the Heat once caught up to 37:41, only 4 points behind.But as the "junior brother" Stephenson scored 4 points in a row, the gap was widened again.

At the end of the first half, the Pacers led the Heat by 56 points at 45:11.

Don't look at Paul George scoring the highest score in the first half, but this is largely due to the hot performance of Roy Hibbert and David West in the penalty area, which caused the Heat to shrink their defense.

After the start of the third quarter, the performance of the Pacers' inside twin towers was still eye-catching. Among the team's first 14 points, Hibbert and West's "double special" motherland made another effort and jointly scored 8 of them.

Under the leadership of the "Shuangte" inside partner, the Pacers once achieved a lead of as many as 19 points.

The huge advantage of 19 points during the third quarter directly affected the final trend of tonight's game.

In the last quarter, under the leadership of James, the Heat continued to narrow the point difference. After playing for 5 minutes, they chased the point difference to 75:83, only 8 points behind.

But as the young Pacers continued to break out, the Heat could no longer recover from it. They were defeated and lost the victory of G1.

In the end, the Pacers successfully defended their home court advantage with an 105-point advantage of 97:8. They ranked first in the regular season in the Eastern Conference and defeated the visiting defending champion Heat.

Compare the two data.

The Heat made 51.3% of their shots in this game, including only 26.1% of their three-pointers. The performance is undoubtedly bad.

The Pacers shot 51.5 percent from the field, which seems to be about the same.But in terms of three-point shooting percentage, their shooting percentage exceeded 4%, as high as 42.1%, almost double the Heat's three-point shooting percentage.

In addition, for the control of rebounds, the Heat had 29 rebounds, while the Pacers got 38.

Then there are the number of fouls. The Pacers fouled 15 times, while the Heat had 26 fouls.

Lastly is the player stats.

Paul George scored 24 points, 4 rebounds, 7 assists and 1 steal tonight, leading the Pacers in scoring.

Then, the player of the game still had to vote for the insider Optimus Prime Hibbert.

Hibbert only got 19 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assists and 13 block tonight, not even a double-double, and his shooting percentage was quite average, 5 of [-] shots.

But senior fans understand one thing: data can sometimes be deceiving.

The reason why the Pacers were able to suppress the Heat tonight was largely due to Hibbert's strong restraint in the paint.

He made 13 of 9 free throws in the game, and after grabbing an offensive rebound at a critical moment, he made a layup that caused Bosh to foul 2+1... This shot is too critical, and it boosts morale!

It can be said that Hibbert single-handedly crushed all the insiders of the Heat.

After the game, many outside media believed that his presence cast a shadow over the Heat's way to defend their title.

Of course, the reason why the Heat were played by the audience tonight is also inseparable from the excellent performance of 6 Pacers players who scored in double figures.

乔治和希伯特之后，还有19分的韦斯特、17分的师弟、15分的乔治希尔以及板凳席上的第六人Cj沃特森的11分4篮板1助攻1抢断。

Compared with the Pacers' team explosion, the Heat's side is much worse.

尽管先有韦德砍下27分的本场得分之最，后有詹姆斯25分10板5助攻3抢断的全能到不能再全能的表现。

But even if the James and Wei couple scored 52 points together, they couldn't hold back tonight's hard work!

三巨头最后一位的波什，全场12投4中，拿到9分2板4助攻……

Well, although it's not a wave tonight, it's not much better.

It can be expected that Bosh will usher in a large wave of trolls after the game.

As for the Heat's last two starters, Chalmers and Battier, the former scored 6 points, while the latter scored only 3 points... There is a reason why the Heat are so poor tonight.

Thanks to the 14 points contributed by Birdman on the bench and 12 points contributed by Junzilei, otherwise the difference between the two teams tonight would definitely be in double digits.

……

At the post-match press conference.

"This game is just over, so it's hard to say something like 'We're going to play better in Game [-]'..."

James covered the upper half of his face with a hat throughout, "We need to re-evaluate the mistakes we made tonight before we can say what we need to improve in the second game."

Obviously, His Majesty the Emperor is very dissatisfied with the team's performance tonight, but after all, he has already won two championships in Miami, and his psychological resilience is far from that of Amon in the past.

Therefore, even if the Heat lost the initiative in the first game, his mentality did not change much at this time.

Instead of being incompetent and furious in front of the media, and then being ridiculed by the Internet, it is better to go back and make a summary, and strive to win the next game.

the other side.

Although Paul George, who was being interviewed, couldn't hide his joy after the victory, his expression management was still in place and he was not too frightened.

He replied: "We have been complacent many times before, but not now, because our opponent is the Heat, the winner of the championship in the past two years.

Therefore, we must not only maintain a humble attitude to win, but also maintain this mentality to play well in every next game. "

This year is already the fourth season of Paul George's career. From a mere potential rookie to the absolute core of the team, and then to the All-Star starter, this is the second time he has appeared on the stage of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Now, standing on the stage of the Eastern Conference Finals again and facing the same opponent, the Miami Heat, every Pacers player can't help but think that they were last year because of their inexperience, so they suffered a layup lore at the last moment of James in G1.

It can be said that the loss of G1 against the defending champion Heat did to a certain extent affect the strength of the young Pacers in the next 6 games.

But this year, things are different.

It was the Pacers who won G1!

Next, what they need to do is to stabilize their mentality and play well in every subsequent game.

After all, the next challenge is destined to be more difficult than the previous one!

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After the Blazers beat the Spurs all the way in G1 and won the first game with a one-sided advantage, after a night, the same story happened again in the East.

The Pacers beat the Heat by 6 points with 52 players scoring in double figures, beating the Heat 1-0!

Although the Pacers "only" won the Heat by 8 points, it seems that the gap is not as intuitive as the Blazers beat the Spurs by 22 points, but don't forget that their opponent is the defending champion Heat, which has contracted two consecutive NBA championships in the past two seasons.

But now, the Heat's supremacy seems to be crumbling...

There is one thing to say, this year's Eastern and Western regional finals matchup can be described as full of drama!
Because last year's Eastern and Western Regional Finals were played by these four teams, good guy, this year is still the same script.

The difference is that the familiar script, protagonists and villains seem to have undergone a transformation.

At 22:00 on the 00nd, Wang Zelin updated his Twitter:

"The remnants of the old era, there is no boat that can carry you in the new era!"

There is no doubt that this tweet once again caused an uproar in the online world, but this time, there are not so many pushy trolls.

By the way, even the fierce scolding battle that started from last night to today ended hastily in a funny way with a tiger-headed ending.

The world suddenly became quiet!
(End of this chapter)