On March 21, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued to unfold, with the Pacers playing at home against the Trail Blazers. After the last game to beat the Rockets, the Pacers still missed the playoffs early, and it was time to relax. This time at home against the Blazers, they ushered in a big outbreak, the whole game occupied the initiative, has been suppressing the opponent. In the end, the Pacers beat the Blazers 129-98 to win two straight.
Both teams have been absent from both teams in this game, and this season both teams are in the same situation, basically starting to reorganize their squads. In this campaign, the Pacers were in even better shape and the players played well, establishing a 13-point lead at the beginning of the first quarter, and then the point difference was further widened, and the half-game finished to take a 21-point lead. In the second half, the Blazers began to chase points, and in the third quarter, they successfully narrowed some point differences, but unfortunately failed to continue, and the feeling of the final quarter fell into a slump again, only 16 points were scored in a single quarter, and the Pacers pulled the score apart again, and as Washington broke through, the point difference was determined at 31 points.
The Blazers have been really miserable in recent times, after the injury of youngster Simmons, the team has suffered a series of fiascos, after the 30-point defeat to the Knicks, the last game played well, 5 points to lose the Nets. In the last 11 games, the Blazers have lost 10 games, and they still have a chance to advance to the play-off zone, but with this wave of consecutive defeats, it has fallen to 12th place in the West, three wins behind the 10th Pelicans, according to the current momentum, it is also very difficult to catch up, perhaps they have given up.
The Pacers have abruptly announced a rebuild this season, getting potential stocks like Halliburton. They have no requirements for results this season, and although they beat the Rockets in the last game, they still missed the playoffs early. Now the Pacers have no pressure, officially missed the playoffs, and there is no way to compete for the bottom three, but this time they ushered in a big outbreak, the whole team blossomed more, and achieved a big win.
In this campaign, the Pacers completely had the upper hand, not falling behind once in the game, the highest scorer was Brisseter, who had 24 points and 9 rebounds on 8-of-10 shooting; Anderson had 18 points and 6 rebounds, Bitazer 12 points, Halliburton 10 points and 7 assists, Taylor on the bench 17 points, Smith 17 points and 5 rebounds, and Washington 13 points and 6 assists.