The NBA regular season continues, with the East ushering in a strong and weak dialogue, with the Hawks sitting at home to meet the Pacers.
As the big dark horse in the East last season, the Eagles have fallen back significantly this season, once falling out of the top ten in the East, fortunately, the state has picked up recently, returning to the tenth position in the East, but it is difficult to get back to the top eight, and there are obvious problems in the team's defense.
On the other hand, the Pacers, the team has been decisive this season, but after the trade deadline, the team's record has rebounded, and the last game was to beat the Spurs, although the team did not qualify for the playoffs, but the combat power should not be underestimated.
As soon as the game began, the Pacers scored two points, and then Trae Young and Hult scored three consecutive points to help the Hawks quickly complete the rebound.
Since then, Trae Young has continued to be in a fiery state, not only personally three points, but also completed the connection with the interior Capela, which has been suppressing the Pacers.
Although the Pacers have since entered the form inside and outside, thanks to Trae Young's fiery performance, the Eagles took a nine-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Eagles blossomed more, and Borgdan and Gallinari opened fire in succession, successfully widening the point difference to double digits.
The two teams then engaged in a tug-of-war around a 10-point difference, and then Trae Young broke out again in the middle of the quarter, and the point difference was further widened.
The Pacers faced a bad situation, showed good resilience, and constantly tried to narrow the point gap, but unfortunately, Trae Young felt too hot, and by the end of the half, the Hawks had a huge 18-point lead.
Easy to fight again, the two teams continued to be hot at the beginning of the festival, both played a good performance on the offensive end, and the point difference has remained around 15 points.
But as the game progressed, the Hawks' offensive firepower declined badly, and the Pacers blossomed more, and with 6 and a half minutes left in the third quarter, the Pacers managed to force the point difference to single digits.
After that, the Hawks Trae Young re-energized, helping the team to pull the point difference to double digits and maintain the advantage until the end of the quarter, and the Eagles held a 13-point lead in the third quarter.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the two teams still played in the first half of the quarter, and the point difference remained in double digits.
Although the point difference was not imminent, the Pacers clearly entered the form, setting off wave after wave of offensive climax, and this offensive momentum also allowed the Pacers to continue to close the point difference in the second half of the quarter.
At one point, the point difference was narrowed to just 2 points, and the Hawks withstood the pressure at a critical moment, and under the leadership of Trae Young, they finally beat the Pacers 131-128.
Throughout the game, Trae Young is naturally the biggest contributor to the Eagles' wins, playing 36 minutes, shooting 13 of 20, 7 of 10 three-pointers, and extremely efficiently bombarding the data of 47 points, 3 boards, 5 assists and 2 steals.
This is Trae Young's seventh single-game 40+ this season and the 23rd single-game 40+ of his career, coming to third place in Hawks history, behind Wilkins and Bob Petit.
He also officially overtook Maddy as the sixth most frequent player in 40+ at 23 and under, with the top five being Rick Barry (35), Chamberlain (32), Bob McAdoo (32), Jordan (31) and James (27).
Trae Young scored 33 points at halftime, making it the second-highest half-time score for a single player against the Pacers, behind Thompson's 40-point halftime set in 2016.
It is Trae Young's miraculous performance that masks the lack of a second possession point for the team, and even though the team has many points, there are no people who can really share the pressure of Trae Young's possession.
The Hawks' recovery naturally also put a lot of pressure on the Nets, because the Hawks and Hornets are likely to overtake the Nets at any time, and are also potential opponents for the Nets playoffs, and in the remaining games, Irving can only play 4 away games, the rest can not play, Durant's pressure is not small.