The Basketball Court Swordsman

The Pacers underestimated the Celtics, which undoubtedly broke the "strong team dream" of Boston fans. The Celtics are still a strong team, but they are no longer so dominant.

Facing the Pacers' strong perimeter defensive chain, the elderly Ray Allen and Pierce are simply powerless. And Garnett is already past the age when he can do anything.

After the game, Henson's phrase "we are very strong now, really strong" in an interview, undoubtedly made the Indianapolis fans cheer.

Of course, Henson is more than just a quick slap. During the January schedule, Henson led the Pacers to demonstrate their strength with practical actions.

Only one day after the victory over the Celtics, the Pacers returned to the home court and immediately slaughtered the Bobcats back to back 99 to 77. Since Henson coached the Pacers, the Bobcats have never beaten the Pacers. This strange circle seems to continue to hang over the hearts of Charlotte fans.

On January 9, the away scene was against the Philadelphia 76ers, although the Pacers old McRoberts was in great shape today, shooting 4 three-pointers. But the Pacers, who were better overall, still defeated the home team 106 to 96, winning eight straight!

On the 11th, the Pacers overtook the Eastern rivals, the Eagles. On the 13th and 14th, the Pacers ushered in another round of back-to-back duel, defeating the Raptors and the Celtics who were in a three-game losing streak.

The Celtics' three-game losing streak started by the Pacers, and now the Pacers have given the Celtics their fourth straight defeat.

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

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

This is not the reason for luck or status. The obvious strength gap between the two sides created the Celtics' defeat. As Henson told Vogel before, don't expect the Celtics to come up with too good results in the regular season.

So far, the Pacers have ranked first in the league with a record of 11 wins and 0 losses! Henson's team is also the only unbeaten team to play so far in the new season. The 11-game winning streak started, and it became the best start record in the history of the Indiana Pacers!

"Congratulations to the Indiana Pacers, Coach Henson has achieved what even Bird could not achieve!"

"11-game winning streak started, the best team history, we have reason to believe that Henson is leading his team on the rising highway."

"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 won the unanimous praise of the media. Henson’s view is correct, competitive sports, victory is everything. As long as you can win, even those guys who hate you will do their best to cheer.

Of course, 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 last season, the progress of unlocking achievements this season is undoubtedly slow. However, things like breaking the team history record are definitely rewarded.

"Experience accumulator?" Looking at this special reward, Henson sitting on the team bus stroked his chin.

The experience accumulator is neither a badge nor a word skill. Its effect description is: winning the game can accumulate experience, and accumulate experience to upgrade can be rewarded. Just such a sentence, simple.

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

But what Henson doesn't know now is how much experience can be gained by winning a game, and how much experience is required to obtain the so-called "upgrade". If you can only get 10 experience to win a game, but it costs 1000 to upgrade once, isn't that nonsense?

With this question in mind, Henson leader came to Sacramento. On January 18, the Pacers' opponent was the Sacramento Kings.

However, an upset happened in Sacramento.

At present, only 4 of the 14 games have been won. Not surprisingly this season, the Sacramento Kings rushed to the lottery. They used their tough defense and incredible, yes, Henson called it an incredible offense. The last 30 seconds With two key three-point shots, the Pacers ended their winning streak and ended their best start record at 11 consecutive victories.

In this game, the Pacers played just so well. Although they are not good, they must not be bad. It’s just the King’s magical shooting percentage. Henson even doubted whether the Kings coach Keith Smart also had a data analysis module, and then used some kind of rewards or words, otherwise it really can’t explain why the Kings suddenly In great condition.

Cousins ​​scored 26 points in the game, and Marcus Thornton shot 5 of 6 from beyond the three-point line! And the Dominican defender on the Kings bench, Horford's little brother Francisco Garcia, actually scored 21 points with a three-pointer!

You know, Garcia averaged only 4.8 points per game this season! It was Garcia's last 2.3 seconds of the three-pointer, the lore game, which ended the Pacers' 11-game winning streak.

Henson wanted to see how much experience he could gain from winning a game, but he did not realize that he lost inexplicably and saw nothing.

Even if he loses, what makes Henson even more chilling is that Paul George also suffered a back injury in this game and only played halftime. Then the team doctor officially informed Henson that George had to miss at least two games.

"We are cursed in Sacramento." All this made Henson reluctantly said at the press conference.

Back contusion, missed two games. Henson used his computer to open the NBA injury list and found that George's injuries were nothing compared to those players who were absent for a few weeks or months.

After all, two games will not allow the original Eastern Conference No. 1 team to be shut out of the playoffs. Two games are insignificant for a long season.

Henson didn't know if it was because he was equipped with several injury-related badges, but since he was stationed in the Pacers, the Pacers players really have never suffered major injuries.

Thinking of this, Henson couldn't help but worry about Granger. Without his own "asylum", I hope Granger won't really encounter any devastating injuries...

Although George's injury is not serious, he only needs to truce for two games. But this injury on the bones and eyes still made Henson crazy.

George has averaged 16.5 points per game so far this season, making him an indispensable attack point for the Pacers. The most important thing is that without George, the Pacers also lack the height advantage in the second position.

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

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

George was injured and the Pacers lost their strongest defensive point in the second position. And this year's offseason, the Pacers "hit a knife to seize love" from the Lakers, "the rich and handsome" robbed the "goddess" Paul, certainly made Kobe hate.

Although it is not the Pacers' fault that Paul could not join the Lakers, everyone knows that if Bird hadn't fanned the flames, there would be no "basketball reason".

Therefore, Henson not only lost George, who was in a state of possibility, but also had to face an angry Purple and Golden Legion.

Although the Lakers and Celtics have both begun to fall apart since winning the championship, they have to admit that the Lakers at this stage are still stronger than the Celtics. After all, the Lakers are living in the crueler West, and Kobe's condition is better than the Big Three of the Green Army.

"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 was relieved from his thoughts.

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

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

In each game, who is the starter, who is against, and who is against the bench, are usually written by the assistant coach on the whiteboard in the locker room one day in advance. The players came to see it the next day and it was clear at a glance.

"Leonard? That kid playing the starting second position will knock Staples' basket crooked." Henson couldn't help joking.

"How do I think you are talking about Kobe."

"I don't, I am not..."

Henson shook his head, but suddenly he remembered a person, someone who might be able to get some chances to see himself.

"Frank, finish writing the list of players, and accompany me to see how Jimmy Butler's training is." Henson almost forgot the No. 30 rookie.