Granger caught attacking defense that does not grasp and do not forget they have a single 54 minutes
Ticker Jan. 23 news, the Indiana Pacers in the season can be described as some Gaokaidizou, and now has more than half of the season, they held the record of 16 wins, 22 top Eastern eighth. But compared to the same period the previous few seasons walkers, they have now is some progress, at least if we end the regular season, playoffs, they can smoothly catch the last train.
According to Yahoo Sports reported that, although the Pacers made some progress, but the team headed star Danny - Granger apparently also wants to do better. They introduced this season, former "queen bee" Paul's strong substitute Darren - Collison, and early in the season, center Roy - Hibbert was once a very eye-catching performance.
"Until now, we still think we can achieve 50% winning percentage," Granger seemed to be somewhat at a loss, "we should be able to."
recent years, Indiana The most frightening is their attack capacity. They had last Nov. 10 game against the Nuggets 144 points the next boom, in which 20 of 21 shots in the third quarter team, single-Festival will be 54 minutes. But lately, they seem not as fire wang. In December last year, the competition, only three games they scored a hundred. Their defense is better than offense, in the hit rate and limited opponents to opponent, they were ranked No. 4 and 14 of the league, but his shooting and scoring but were only ranked 28th and the poor 19.
"starting from the last month, our offense stalled," Granger said, "we all win by the defense to win games. We rely heavily on defense, which is very important."
words from the mouth of Granger, it is fresh. Scorer for him, now able to shift the focus to the defense, but also from the side shows how the Pacers want to win games, into returning to the playoffs.
"feel the attack has had its ups and downs, but as long as the defense good enough to pressure the other side, it is workable." He said, "We all want to win every night, so long as we have been focusing on defense, and in accordance with the way we race, we definitely no problem. "
Granger is averaging 21.5 points, compared to 24.1 points last season, declined. In fact, he's hit rate is still well maintained, but the attack rate decreased because of the team, so he has reduced the number of shots. The outcome of the Pacers and Granger has a direct relationship between the attack: to win the game in Indiana, he is averaging 24.2 points and shooting 50%; in the failure of the game, he averaged only 19.5 points and shot the poor is low, only 38%.
This shows that the Pacers To return to the playoffs, relying on defense and offense alone is not enough, not to mention the offensive side of a person relying on Granger. They need to maintain our current level of defense at the same time, the development of more firepower, as they used to do it, get back the original attack frenzy. The last few games, the Pacers do feel somewhat back to temperature, their last 5 games, scoring four hundreds, and in the Jan. 13 game, the Mavericks won at home.
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