basketball player

Chapter 145 143:11 Winning Streak
The Pacers took the Celtics lightly, which undoubtedly broke the "strong team dream" of Boston fans.The Celtics are still a strong team, but not as dominant anymore.

Faced with the Pacers' strong outside defensive chain, the aging Ray Allen and Pierce simply couldn't do what they wanted.And Garnett has passed the age when he can do everything.

After the game, Henson said in an interview, "Now we are very strong, really strong", which undoubtedly made the Indianapolis fans cheer even more.

Of course, Henson is not just trying to make fun of it for a while.In the January schedule, Henson led the Pacers to explain their strength with practical actions.

Just one day after defeating the Celtics, the Pacers returned home and immediately slaughtered the Bobcats back-to-back 99-77.The Bobcats haven't beaten the Pacers since Henson took over, a vicious circle that seems to continue to hang over Charlotte fans.

On January 1th, the away game against the Philadelphia 9ers, although the old Pacers player Mike Roberts was in good form today, scoring 76 three-pointers.However, the overall strength of the Pacers is superior, but still defeated the home team 4 to 106, eight consecutive victories!
On the 11th, the Pacers easily defeated the Eagles in the Eastern Conference. On the 13th and 14th, the Pacers ushered in another round of back-to-back duels, defeating the Raptors and the Celtics, who were in a three-game losing streak.

The Celtics' three-game losing streak was started by the Pacers, and now, the Pacers have given the Celtics a fourth game losing streak.

Facing the Celtics last season, Henson had 2 wins and 2 losses, and had to use some tricks such as "fake rotation" to win the game.

But this season, the Pacers don't seem to be afraid of the Celtics' attack at all.In both games, the Pacers won cleanly, and the Celtics had no resistance at all.

This is not due to luck or status. The obvious strength gap between the two sides caused the Celtics' defeat.As Henson said to Vogel before, don't expect the Celtics to produce a good record in the regular season.

So far, the Pacers rank first in the league with a record of 11 wins and 0 losses!And Henson's team is also the only undefeated team in the new season so far. The start of the 11-game winning streak has also become the best start record in the history of the Indiana Pacers!

"Congratulations to the Indiana Pacers, Coach Henson has achieved what even Bird failed to achieve!"

"The start of the 11-game winning streak is the best in team history. We have reason to believe that Henson is leading his team on the highway of rising."

"The Pacers have officially entered the ranks of strong teams, and they will definitely bring us more surprises this season!"

After the game, Henson also received unanimous praise from the media for a rare occasion.Henson's point of view is correct. In competitive sports, winning is everything.As long as you can win, even those who originally hated you will do their best to flatter you.

Of course, just after the Pacers defeated the Celtics for the second time this season, Henson finally unlocked the achievement after a long absence.Since many easy-to-unlock achievements have already been unlocked in the previous season, the progress of unlocking achievements in this season has undoubtedly slowed down a lot.However, such things as breaking team history records will definitely be rewarded.

"Experience accumulator?" Looking at the special reward in front of him, Henson, who was sitting on the team bus, touched his chin.

The experience accumulator is neither a badge nor a speech skill.Its effect description is: winning the game can accumulate experience, accumulating experience and upgrading can get rewards.Just one sentence, simple and simple.

Henson's understanding is that in the future, even if you don't need to unlock achievements, you can still get rewards.This is undoubtedly the best shortcut for "cheating", and he couldn't help but complain why this reward didn't appear randomly earlier.After all, Henson still thinks it is too slow to obtain rewards by unlocking achievements.

But what Henson doesn't know right now is how much experience is gained by winning a match, and how much experience is needed to earn a so-called "level up."If you can only get 10 experience for winning a game, but you need 1000 for an upgrade, isn't that nonsense?

With this question in mind, Henson led the team to Sacramento. On January 1, the Pacers' opponent was the Sacramento Kings.

However, an upset happened in Sacramento.

So far, they have only won 14 games in 4 games. This season, without accident, the Sacramento Kings are going to the lottery. With their tough defense and incredible, yes, Henson called it incredible offense. They passed two key three-pointers in the last 30 seconds, ending the Pacers' winning streak and ending their best start record at 11 consecutive victories.

The Pacers played mediocre in this game. Although it is not good, it must not be said to be bad.It’s just that the king’s magical shooting rate came as it was said, and Henson even wondered if the king’s coach Keith Smart also had a data analysis module, and then used some kind of reward or speech technique, otherwise it really couldn’t explain why the king’s sudden state is so good today.

Cousins ​​scored 26 points in the game, and Marcus Thornton made 6 of 5 shots from beyond the three-point line!And the Dominican guard on the Kings bench, Horford's brother Francisco Garcia, also scored 21 points with a three-pointer!
You know, Garcia's scoring average this season is only 4.8 points!And it was Garcia's three-pointer in the last 2.3 seconds that sealed the game and ended the longest 11-game winning streak in the history of the Pacers.

Henson originally wanted to see how much experience he could gain by winning a game, but instead he lost inexplicably and saw nothing.

It's okay to lose, but what makes Henson even more chilling is that Paul George suffered a back contusion in this game and only played half of the game.Then the team doctor officially informed Henson that George would miss at least two games.

"We are cursed in Sacramento." All this, so Henson said helplessly at the press conference.

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Back contusion, missed two games.Henson opened the NBA injury list on his computer and found that George's injuries were insignificant compared with those players who were absent for a few weeks or a few months.

After all, two games won't keep the East's No. [-] team out of the playoffs, and two games isn't much for a long season.

Henson doesn't know if it's because he was equipped with several injury-related badges, but since he entered the Pacers, the Pacers players have never had a major injury.

Thinking of this, Henson couldn't help being a little worried about Granger.Without his own "shelter", I hope that Granger will not encounter any devastating injuries
Although George's injury is not serious, he only needs a truce for two games.But the injury at this juncture still made Henson feel crazy.

George's average output of 16.5 points per game so far this season has made him an indispensable and important attack point for the Pacers.The most important thing is that without George, the Pacers also lack the height advantage at the second position.

But in the next game, the Pacers' opponent is the Los Angeles Lakers, who have the most dangerous shooting guard in the league!

George is originally from Los Angeles. He will definitely be in full swing when he returns to his hometown to play. Maybe he can break all the fangs of the black mamba.But now, everything is gone.

George was injured, and the Pacers lost the strongest defensive point in the second position.And this year's offseason, the Pacers snatched the "goddess" Paul from the "tall, rich and handsome" Lakers, which must have made Kobe hold a grudge.

Although Paul's inability to join the Lakers was not the fault of the Pacers, everyone knows that if Bird hadn't fanned the flames, it is very likely that there would not be such "basketball reasons."

Therefore, Henson now not only loses George, who may be in full swing, but also has to face an angry purple and gold army.

Although both the Lakers and the Celtics have begun to fall since winning the championship, it has to be admitted that the Lakers are still stronger than the Celtics at this stage.After all, the Lakers are living in a crueler west, and Kobe is in a better state than the Big Three of the Celtics.

"Don't stare at the injury list, have you decided who will replace George in the next game?"

It wasn't until Vogel patted himself on the shoulder that Henson recovered from his thoughts.

"Who else can I use? Of course it is Matthews."

"Oh? I thought you would let Leonard try to play the starting second position." Vogel smiled and wrote Matthews' name on the whiteboard.

Who will start each game, who will play against, and who will the substitute play against, are usually written by the assistant coach on the whiteboard in the locker room one day in advance.When the players came to see it the next day, it was clear at a glance.

"Leonard? That kid playing the starting second position will smash Staples' basket." Henson couldn't help teasing.

"Why do I think you're talking about Kobe?"

"I don't, I'm not"

Henson shook his head, but suddenly he thought of a person, a person who might get some chances to show himself.

"Frank, after writing the roster, accompany me to see how Jimmy Butler's training is going." Henson almost forgot about the No. 30 rookie.

(End of this chapter)