468 days passed! 2-0, Siakam is the most successful deal in 2 years!

【(2) Pacers 114-109 Knicks (0)】

Pacers won 2 away games. In history, the team led 2-0 in the division finals and finally won 76 wins and 6 losses, not to mention that the Pacers won 2 away games, but today's game is still exciting.

I watched a Western Final game yesterday, and today I watched a tense and exciting Eastern Final game. This is a good rhythm.

Today's game is the 50th playoff game between the Knicks and the Pacers in the last 40 years. We always talk about the battle of yellow and green, the battle of cavalry, and the battle of fire, but this set of duels is actually the most feud between the NBA in recent years.

The two sides played until the last minute again. With Brunson's super-god performance, the game was chased to a 3-point difference.

At the last moment, the ball was handed over to Brunson, and there were 14.3 seconds left to organize a three-point tie that could run out of the open position or a sure three-point shot.

But the point guard of the new team second team still wanted to leave more time. He took a hasty move after halftime, and finally the iron shot was scored by Turner.

The Knicks are in a desperate situation. We can't say that Brunson makes a mistake in his choice, we can only say that his luck is not on their side. Even if he is 10 points behind, the Pacers G1 can reverse it. Halliburton's "Didibo" is even harder than Brunson's three-pointer, but others can score.

This is fate, my nie! !

However, this game cannot be simply explained by "life", because it is very exciting, we still need to review it.

At the beginning, the Pacers came up and scored a 16-9 wave. Nesmith, who saw the gods and killed the gods in the last game, scored another unreasonable three-pointer.

In fact, except Halliburton, the Pacers' feel of the entire first half continued the G1 second half to overtime.

Especially Siakam made 9 of 14 shots and scored 23 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist. The Pacers scored 49 points in the whole first half, and Siaka accounted for nearly half.

But Sika is so amazing, and the scores of both sides are not widened.

"You have Zhang Liang's plan, I have a ladder." It is said that the Knicks don't like to use substitutes. Today, they suddenly changed personnel dispatch on a large scale, giving a lot of time to the sixth man Mitchell Robinson and the seventh man McBride.

After Miro came on the court, he limited the scores of all Pacers players except Sika. Although the two scored not much, the Pacers were a little unacceptable after changing the structure of the lineup. Look at the plus or negative values ​​of these two games, you know that the Knicks were not pulled apart by the Pacers. The score was based on these two people.

Pacers: "Brother, don't you just like the rotation of 5 people?"

In the second half, the two sides continued to fight. As McBride and Miro divided a lot of playing time, the main players got a lot of rest.

For example, Hart only played 18 minutes in the first half. You should know that Zhang Xuelu averaged 48 minutes per game in the playoffs in the past, and OG only played 20 minutes.

The third quarter was particularly exciting when both sides had enough physical fitness.

The walkers felt warm and Siakam continued to be in full shape. Moreover, the Pacers are strong because they like 10-man rotation in the regular season, and their physical fitness reserves are definitely more than the Knicks in the playoffs.

Topin, McConnell, and Sheppard all performed, and they all felt hot, and there was such a problem. If you can't grasp the defensive focus, it would make it difficult for the Knicks to defend.

And Brunson fought unreasonably and madly, and he and Anunobi were the key to the Knicks not being dragged down by the Pacers.

The two sides arrived in the fourth quarter and made the battle reach a white-hot stage. To limit the Pacers' indiscriminate fast break, Thibodeau even made a bold decision: to abandon Towns.

It is not that Towns played poorly, but because Towns' retreat speed is not as fast as Mitchell Robinson, and it is difficult for him to limit the Pacers' indiscriminate quick attack.

Popular fans who pay attention to the Pacers game will find that this team is good at changing points. For example, in offensive rounds of certain positions, they will suddenly release their defensive hardness and even give you 2 points. Then quickly drive the bottom line ball and immediately push the fast attack. At this time, they already have players who are going smoothly, and use simple 2 points to exchange for your difficult 2 points.

And Towns's role in such a high-conversion game is indeed not as good as Miro.

Miro not only can defend fast attacks, he is also a rare No. 5 player who can lead the defense.

Miro played for 29 minutes today and set a new playoff high. He played for most of the playoffs before less than 20 minutes...

Suddenly high intensity also made Miro not very able to bear it. He frequently breathed in the late game, but it was also thanks to his surprise that the Knicks, who had streamlined their talents, dragged to the last moment.

The MVP of this game is undoubtedly Siakam, who set a career playoff high of 39 points, and he also tied Reggie Miller to become the away player with the highest score in Madison in the Eastern Conference Finals.

But interestingly, he was actually only one step away from 40 points in the second part of the game, but he chose to frequently create opportunities in the final quarter, allowing Turner, who had no performance in the first half, to score through open opportunities frequently.

The game ended, when the reporter asked him "How to evaluate this career battle." His charming reply:

"Actually, our team really doesn't care who scores, and I didn't pay attention to how many points I got. I just wanted to win. I think today's game is worth remembering our defense. In fact, our defense was bad in the last game, and the team performed very well today.. ”

This is a low-key leader. On January 18, 2024, when Siakam was traded to the Pacers, the Pacers gave 3 first-round picks. Many fans believed that Sika, who averaged less than 20 points per game, would definitely lose money.

But 468 days passed, Sika helped the Pacers reach the Eastern Conference Finals twice, and now it is only 2 steps away from the first finals in 25 years.

His hard solution ability It is the weapon that the Pacers' projection team lacks the most, and his low-key personality and selfless playing style are just right in line with this civilian team. On a cold night when Halliburton feels, he can carry the team's offensive banner, and when his teammates feel hot, he can create misalignment opportunities and provide support to his teammates through soft touch.

It is no exaggeration to say that, in the past two years, Sika is the most successful deal, so let's see if he can win another victory for his second championship in his career.