The Basketball Court Swordsman

Chapter 93: : A bad trip to the west

As Jeff Van Gundy said, until the electronic buzzer sounded throughout the game, Thibodeau’s bulls still failed to recover. Rose hit all three three-pointers at critical moments, ruining the Bulls' last chance.

As a result, in the Conseco Arena, the young Pacers surprisingly and incrediblely defeated the Bulls who had beaten them by 19 points!

After this game, the Bulls who had hoped to get rid of the Pacers were overtaken by the Pacers instead. The Pacers returned to the top three in the Eastern Conference, while the Chicago Bulls fell to fourth.

Although there is still a long time to play in the regular season, the current ranking does not determine anything. However, the Pacers' ability to defeat the Chicago Bulls in the playoffs, an opponent they may encounter in the playoffs, still made the Indianapolis fans who have been defeated for four years to survive.

93 to 85, the score of the two teams is not too high, because almost both sides of the game are fighting defense. The only difference is that the Pacers’ offense went smoothly in the final moments, while the Bulls’ offense was delayed due to Thibodeau’s weakness.

"At the end of the game, the Indiana Pacers succeeded in revenge. They defeated the Bulls at home and scored four consecutive victories!"

"Jeff, what do you think of this peculiar game? The process of this game makes people sleepy, but it makes the fans excited at the critical moment." Reggie Miller threw the question to Van Gundy. , He saw it, and Van Gundy suffocated his stomach to say something.

"Yes, this is indeed a strange game. The defensive battle in the middle seems to have brought the fans back to the era of defensive supremacy. The game between the two sides at the end of the fourth quarter turned the game into ups and downs. This game Both teams played well in the game. They defended each other. But at the last moment, Coach Henson's on-the-spot scheduling was obviously better, which is why the Pacers were the ultimate winner."

As a former NBA coach, Van Gundy saw clearly. At the last moment, whether Henson's offensive or defensive arrangements, they just strangled the Bulls' goal. Thibodeau's inaction on the offensive end caused the Bulls to attack misfire again at a critical moment.

This Asian, who has become a coach in only three years from a scout, may be as amazing as the big yellow-skinned man Van Gundy knows best.

At the end of the game, when Thibodeau and Henson shook hands, their expressions were not very good. After all, after losing this game, Thibodeau will definitely be overwhelmed by the media.

So Thibodeau didn't want to speak, he just wanted to leave as soon as he shook his hand.

"The 19-point loss is back to you, we are even!" However, Henson did not choose to remain silent. He knew very well that as long as he was still in the east, as long as Thibodeau was still in the Bulls, the matter between them would never count. Finish!

Thibodeau paused, but did not refute. In the face of a defeat, any rebuttal is futile.

After shaking hands with Thibodeau, Henson saw Old Sage walking towards him grinning. It seems that the protagonist of the interview today is himself again.

"Coach Henson, congratulations, this is really a great victory! We have all seen it, your rotation strategy and last-minute scheduling are very exciting, can you talk about the Pacers restricting Rose's defense at the end of the game? What is your idea?"

Sarger smiled. He didn't expect Henson to answer his questions seriously. Instead, he was a little expectant, wanting to hear what Henson would say again.

Of course, Henson will not talk about the settings of those defensive traps, after all, these things will be used to deal with others in the future.

So Henson hooked up with Sager intimately, and then put his mouth to the microphone: "I have no idea. The only thing I said to them during the timeout was that if you mess up, you have to face it after the game. Those stupid questions of Sarger! Choose for yourself!"

"The players asked me again if Sager was the weird old man who always wore colorful suits. I nodded affirmatively, so you can see their performance afterwards."

Henson smiled and patted Sarger on the shoulder. His answer was not disrespectful, he was just joking with Sarger.

Sager also grinned, not minding the jokes of the coach and the players. After all, no matter how poisonous Henson's mouth is, it will not be poisonous to Popovich...

In this joyous atmosphere, Henson led the Pacers' little guys to win four consecutive victories again and brought the Pacers' iron-blooded defense back to the world.

After this game, Thibodoo was slobbered by reporters.

"The Bulls didn't attack at all. That's why the Bulls will lose in this game," said Stephen A. Smith, a famous NBA reporter. "He is an amazing good coach, but in this game, he exposed his problems. ."

"The players are not superman, and Thibodeau's over-reliance on the main players will harm him!" "Chicago Sports News" commented.

"Coach Thibodeau is coaching a team with the goal of a championship, and such a team is not allowed to have such shortcomings." A Chicago fan commented indignantly.

Thibodeau was bound to spend the past few days in distraction, and it was Henson's young coach who suddenly appeared in people's eyes to give him these things.

Starting today, the long-term war between Thibodeau and Henson has officially started...

Although Henson led the team to solve the big trouble for the Bulls, the January schedule still made Henson want to scold his mother.

From today until January 23, the Pacers will start a long four-game road trip to the West.

It doesn't matter if you continue to play away games, the key is to continue to play the Western Conference team, which undoubtedly makes this four consecutive trips extremely difficult.

On January 17, the Pacers began the first stop of their road trip to the West.

In Los Angeles, Staples, Henson immediately experienced the magic of the Western Conference team.

In this game, the Pacers played well, Granger scored 32 points, and Holiday also got a season-high 30 points. I thought it was bound to win the Clippers, but I didn't know the second half, but the situation changed suddenly.

Clippers champion Blake Griffin played a stunning second half. In the third quarter, he was proficient in shooting and hooking, and scored 13 points on 7 shots and 5 in a single quarter. In the fourth quarter, he made all 7 shots, 15 points in a single quarter and 28 points in the half, which made the Pacers' victory in hand.

Griffin scored a career-high 47 points in the game. "White Monster"'s CIC was so accurate that Henson wondered whether Duncan's soul was possessed by Griffin.

"I don't know how he did it, everything that happened tonight is really amazing." Henson faced the camera and waved his hand impatiently. It seems that even God doesn't want the Pacers to win tonight.

114 to 110, the Pacers lost to the Clippers, and Granger and Holiday's excellent stats also turned into empty cuts.

On January 19, the Pacers were a guest in the Bay Area War Warriors. Many fans in this game believed that Henson could avoid losing streak. After all, the Warriors' situation this year was not as expected. The 17 wins and 23 losses allowed the Warriors to be kicked out of the top eight in the West.

Before the game began, the reporters also captured photos of Coach Henson dating the mysterious woman. Of course, the players know that the so-called mysterious woman is Henson's girlfriend. All came to Oakland, and Henson couldn't possibly not meet An Jiali.

However, in the game that night, there was another accident.

The Warriors felt like they had a cramp today, no matter how they voted. The Pacers had always been leading, but the Warriors made 6 of 6 shots in the third quarter, which completely reversed the situation.

However, under Henson's command, the Pacers stabilized their rhythm and drew 105 with the Warriors in the final 18 seconds of the game.

Then, the magic happened again.

Under Holiday's constant defense, the Warriors head guard Monta Ellis froze, against Holiday's tight defense, forcibly shot from a position two steps away from the three-point line, and killed the game!

At that moment, the entire Oracle Arena went into madness, and Monta Ellis' key ball made him, who had been criticized, received the cheers of the fans.

"What the **** is this!"

An Jiali looked at Henson roaring in the cheering crowd, and couldn't help but worry a little about his mental condition. In the last loss to the Clippers, Griffin broke out inexplicably. Losing the Warriors in this game, the Warriors team was inexplicably smooth, and there was an unreasonable magical lore...

The Pacers did not lose in tactics or strength, as Henson said in an interview last time.

No one knows what happened.

The Pacers lost the first two games of the four most relaxed games in the West. After facing tough pioneers and revengeful Nuggets, people couldn't help but sweat for Henson.

The day after the game, Henson in the hotel room picked up the newspaper the waiter had brought from the crack in the door and flipped through it at will.

To his surprise, the photos of himself and An Jiali walking hand in hand on the uCB campus have become the headlines of the sports page of the newspaper.

"Got the beauty, lose the game." This big headline made Henson extremely hot.

He crumpled the newspaper into a ball, then smashed it into the trash can. Now he understands a little bit why the head coaches are so angry.

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