NBA Opening Draw To Twilight Shaquille O’Neal

On the evening of the 18th, the Trail Blazers came to the Pacers' home banker life arena and started their 29th regular season game.

From the 2010-11 season to the present, the Pacers only played 6 regular-season games in 15 years because of George's serious injury, which failed to enter the playoffs.

In 2013 and 2014, they also had a luxurious resume of reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years.

This season, the head star George has performed well. Although his scoring average has dropped from 25 points per game to 23.4 points per game, his shooting percentage has reached a career-high 46.4%, and his three-point shooting percentage and free throw percentage are 40.2. % and 89.8%, the offense is absolutely efficient.

In addition, George can also grab 7 rebounds per game, send 3.5 assists and 1.8 steals.

General Joe, is still the super small forward in the entire east after the little emperor!

Jeff Teague, who was traded from the Eagles, is also stable, and his offensive level has basically maintained the average of 15 points per game last season. It's a career high.

At the same time, the Pacers also have Myles Turner, Thaddeus Young, and Cj Myers, three high-quality role players who scored in double figures, and Monta Ellis and Al Jay on the bench. Fossen's sword is not old.

According to the media's pre-match estimates, the Pacers' lineup is good, belonging to the top of the second echelon in the Eastern Conference, second only to the Cavaliers' Big Three and the Bulls' Big Three, and their opponent tonight is the defending champion Trail Blazers.

If nothing else, the two sides will contribute a high-quality game tonight!

Tonight, two ace commentators, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, will give live commentary on this all-meter live broadcast.

Before the game, the two sides announced the starting lineup.

Trail Blazers: Lillard, Button, Batum, Jokic, Wang Zelin.

Pacers: Jeff Teague, Monta Ellis, Paul George, Thaddeus Young, Myles Turner.

The Pacers changed and put the 31-year-old Monta Ellis back on the starting lineup.

Pacers' original starting lineup shooting guard Cj Miles sprained his ankle in the afternoon warm-up and missed tonight's game. In desperation, head coach Nate McMillan had to let veteran Monta Ellis return to the starting lineup.

Strictly speaking, Monta Ellis, one of the former Golden State gangsters and the former boss of the Warriors, still has a lot of fuel in his fuel tank. From this point, he can still score nearly 14 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals last season. data can be seen.

However, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

After leaving the Warriors, due to his own personality and personal style of play, Ellis gradually became a homeless man. From the Bucks to the Mavericks to the Pacers, he has never been able to truly integrate into the operation of the team system.

This is a very interesting player. The characteristics of the outside core of the old era and the new era are very distinct in him.

But his shortcomings are also prominent. First, he is not good at defense. Second, he lacks stable three-point efficiency in the new era. The last point is also the most critical point. After his physical fitness declines, he cannot get the core-level possession of the ball as before.

As a small guard who mainly focuses on pick-and-roll breakthroughs, Ellis, who has lost enough possession of the ball, is like a pick-and-roll offensive machine that can ignore the environment, suddenly loses its motor, and is finally eliminated by age, injury and era.

In Wang Zelin's previous life, the 2016-17 season was the last season of Ellis' career. The latter is undoubtedly one of the representatives of the changing era of the NBA, but unlike those players who transitioned early, the latter chose to stick to it, and then completely fell into the tears of the times.

Today, it is estimated that not many people remember the No. 11 veteran of the Pacers, and people would never think that in the early years, when he was interviewed, he openly shouted "Kobe first, me second, and James third!" generation of madmen.

At the beginning of the game, Wang Zelin jumped the ball and touched the ball first, and the Blazers attacked.

The Pacers start the inside line. Myles Turner is 2.11 meters tall. He is a space-type inside line with a range and the ability to protect the basket. The most conventional offensive weapon is a jumper. too stable.

Thaddeus Young is 2.03 meters tall and is a typical stocky blue-collar power forward. His scoring is mainly based on eating cakes and second offense.

This pair of insiders, Thaddeus Young is a high-quality blue-collar, there is nothing to say. The focus is on Turner. Turner is very in line with the trend of the times. His technical characteristics are sufficient to deal with more than 90% of active centers, and he is very popular in any team.

It's a pity that Turner encountered the last 10% tonight, no, to be precise, he encountered the most unsolvable giant under the basket in active service.

Turner and Thaddeus Young tied together are not enough for Wang Zelin alone, let alone Jokic beside Wang Zelin.

On the first attack at the start, Lillard, Jokic and Wang Zelin cooperated tacitly. When the ball was passed back and forth, Wang Zelian cut to the basket at the right time.

Jokic holds the ball in a high position and has an absolute height advantage against Thaddeus Young. When he finds Wang Zelin who is cutting in, he decisively throws the ball to the backboard.

"boom!"

The ball arrives at the man, and the extremely explosive alley-oop dunks.

2:0, the Blazers opened the scoring first.

"This guy is really rude!"

Wang Zelin's astonishing buckle made him speechless when he saw George.

But as the boss, he felt that it was necessary for him to return the ball.

In any case, the Bankers Life Arena is the home of the Pacers after all, how can others be so presumptuous?

Pacers attack.

Jeff Teague came to the top of the arc with the ball, and Lillard defended it. The former is a fast scoring point guard who is good at fast breaks. He suddenly accelerated and changed direction to pass the latter, intending to pass through the left elbow area and insert paint area.

It's a quick lateral move from Jokic on the left wing to pick up Jeff Teague.

Jeff Teague jumped straight up and made a pull-up jumper.

The action made Jokic jump too.

But Jeff Teague in the air twisted his waist, suddenly received the ball, and then passed the ball to George on the three-point line on the right wing. General Joe naturally lifted the ball up and pulled one out.

This scene shocked Barton into a cold sweat, and he rushed towards George, only to be missed.

It turned out that George didn't want to shoot a three at all. The Pacers' basket was ravaged just now. General Joe is also a tempered person, and he planned to retaliate against the Blazers' basket in the same way.

I've dunked this ball!

General Qiao ran away in an instant, went straight into the paint, quickly rushed to the paint area, took off with one foot, and jumped into the air.

I don't know why, George always feels that this way is a bit too easy. Didn't he say that the Blazers are the first in the league in defensive efficiency? He always felt something was wrong...

At this moment, a Trail Blazers player suddenly appeared behind him. He jumped up with George, showing the sky-defying speed, jumping height and super long wingspan, and caught up with George's dunker in the air. , slap hard.

"Snapped!"

George even dribbled the ball and was shot out of bounds.

There was an uproar at the scene!

"It's too cruel!"

Barkley opened his mouth wide and put his head in his hands, as if he saw God.

"It's unbelievable, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com can also be caught for a dunk like this? That's Paul George..." Smith was extremely surprised.

"Really? But don't forget, the person who blocked him is called Wang Zelin!" Barkley suddenly turned his head and looked at Smith very seriously.

"..."

Well, your reason is very strong and unreasonable.

So, Smith raised his hands directly in front of the camera, indicating that he had nothing to say.

field.

Under the Blazers basket, George didn't realize what just happened? He only felt a huge force coming from behind him, and then he suddenly rushed to the street.

He raised his head in a daze, but saw a hand stretched out.

"Sorry buddy, I shouldn't have pushed so hard."

Opening his eyes wide, he realized that it was none other than Wang Zelin who had been drinking with him at the party last night.

It turned out to be me in your kid hat!

At this moment, no matter how stupid George was, he knew what happened just now, and he looked at Wang Zelin with extreme aggrieved eyes.

Brother, I invited you to dinner last night!

You called Xiao Tiantian last night, but today you will be killed as soon as you come up, won't your conscience hurt?

(end of this chapter)