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MILWAUKEE -- Jeff Teague has gotten off to a slow start this season, his first with the Indiana Pacers, but hell try to take another step forward Thursday as the Pacers try to move above .500 for the first time this season when they take on the Bucks in Milwaukee.Acquired in a summer trade with Atlanta, Teague is averaging just 8.3 points per game, well below the 15.1 points per game he averaged in his previous five seasons with the Hawks. But the most glaring item in Teagues stat line so far: a 22 percent shooting percentage, including a 0.67 percent mark from beyond the 3-point arc through his first four games with the Pacers.Its been tough, Teague told the Indianapolis Star earlier this week.Its way different than any team Ive played on in the past, Teague said. Weve got a lot of talent, but its just different. It just is. Everything is different, the concepts; everything is totally different. Im just trying to get used to it.Teague has been making up for his poor shooting with other parts of his game. Hes averaging 7.2 assists with 3.8 rebounds per game and his teammates are confident that the seven-year veteran will find a comfort level in Indiana and start to revert to form.Hes been an All-Star, Paul George said of Teague. Hell fight through it. Hell get an understanding of how our offense is and what shots hell get. Hell be better. Were not worried about that.Milwaukee, meanwhile, is getting an unexpected boost from rookie point guard Malcom Brodgon.A second-round pick out of Virginia in this summers draft, Brogdon has quickly developed into a vital part of the Bucks rotation early in the season, scoring 7.5 points with 2.5 assists in 18.1 minutes through Milwaukees first four games.Hes not really like a rookie, guard Matthew Dellavedova told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after Milwaukees 117-113 victory at New Orleans Tuesday night. Hes very mature. He knows how to play the game; he works hard every day.Brodgons potential playing time increased when Michael Carter-Williams was traded to Chicago late in the exhibition season. He played 23 minutes against Indiana in the preseason finale and finished with 13 points, seven rebounds and three assists.Tuesday night at New Orleans, Brogdon scored 14 in 23 minutes and was on the floor down the stretch as the Bucks closed out the Pelicans to move to .500 for the first time this season.Im more and more comfortable, for sure, Brogdon said. I think its all about experience. Its about time on the floor.And then I think its once you get on the floor, its having the confidence to make shots and execute the right way. I have a lot of trust from coach Kidd. He believes in me and so do my teammates.We have great vets -- Jet (Jason Terry) and Steve Novak. Theyre always talking to me. 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And in the decider, Yi appears helpless in the face of a sustained barrage.Its 9-4 in the third game.Even as a deluge of sports fans across the country salivate at the prospect of a semifinal against Indian badmintons reigning queen P V Sindhu, watching on TV back in Bangalore, coach Vimal Kumar can sense the sprint to the finish line wont be straightforward. Sainas legs gave way, he says after Yi completes the comeback to seize victory. It was just exhaustion.Vimal has nurtured Saina over this, by far her most challenging, period as an elite athlete. Since her Olympics dream in Rio was shattered, Saina has endured a career threatening knee surgery, one that made her wonder if it could actually force her to pull the curtains down on her playing days. Vimal marvels at what he describes as her sheer willpower to even compete again so soon after the procedure.I dont know how she has played, he chuckles admiringly. I wasnt expecting anything. She has been back on court only for three weeks.Saina herself admitted before setting off on her comeback trail that she just wanted to play without concerning herself with results. In China last week, her first comeback tournament, she was tripped in the first round by Thailands Porntip Buranaprasertsuk. But the contest lasted three games and led to a string of chirpy tweets from Saina, pleased to have competed again against a strong opponent.In Hong Kong, Saina drew Buranaprasertsuk again in the first round. This time, she extracted revenge in another three-game battle. In the pre-quarters, world nnumber 14 Sayaka Sato was also tamed in three games.dddddddddddd Two near hour-long, back-to-back jousts where encouragingly, her knee had held up just fine.And then came Yi - last year at the World Championships, in their only match so far, Saina had dispatched Yi 21-13 & 21-9 in just over half an hour. On Friday though, she wasnt quite as agile and Yi was around to swoop in. For 71 minutes, they jostled in a partisan arena, before the contest was settled after a thrilling cascade of twists and turns.Yi is quite an explosive player and she is a tricky opponent, she was attacking quite well throughout the match, Vimal says. I thought Saina contained her pace quite well and started dictating the pace but from 9-4 in the third game the legs gave away, the strength wasnt good enough. She needed some strength there. If she has that Saina can still push those fast rallies, retrieve and play.So what happens now? Sainas hopes of playing in the year ending Superseries Finals in Dubai in December, contested between the top eight players in the Superseries rankings, are all but extinguished. She has slipped to 11 on that rankings chart and there are no more Superseries events scheduled for the year. She has chosen instead to head to Macau next week for a Grand Prix Gold event, a lower tier tournament, because Vimal says she told him that she wanted some more competition.However, as coach, for the moment, Vimal isnt concerned with restoring her place on podiums just yet. He likes what he saw on TV on Friday. He watched his ward play without discomfort and not complain about her knee. He knows, and she knows, that there is work to do before she can play big matches continuously. And when she is back on the training court, he already has an agenda in place for what they will focus on.She has to get strength in her legs, he firmly insists. And power in her lungs.Saina Nehwal is up again and running again. ' ' '