In the NBA, there is no shortage of teams that deliberately lose and are rotten, and when there was no reform of the draft draw in previous years, many teams deliberately lost in order to get the high picks, including the Philadelphia 76ers. This is basically a management decision, the players themselves are still willing to win, but limited to the strength of the team can not win the game, but today's Pacers game may refresh everyone's cognition, the Pacers players in the final key moments of the performance of the commentators are stupid.
The Pacers and Cavaliers were on a par with each other in regular time, but when it was time to decide, the Pacers players suddenly stopped playing, and with 14 seconds left, the two teams reached a 124:124 draw, and pacers player Jaylen Smith took the initiative to make Garland a senseless foul, allowing Garland to stand on the free throw line and hit two free throws to complete the rebound, when the Pacers' home broadcast ended the two commentators were speechless, the male host was asking why, and his female partner had nothing to say.
Brogdon then made a key mistake that buried the game. The two players who made mistakes were not confused, Smith played 28 minutes and had 15 points and 5 rebounds on 5-of-9 shooting, while Brogdon's 12 assists in the whole game would make mistakes in the final moments of passing. The loss wasn't a deliberate attempt by the Pacers, they were probably trying to send the Cavaliers a win, for the simple reason that the higher the Cavaliers' ranking, the more likely the Pacers were to get their draft picks. The Pacers got this year's draft pick in their previous deal with the Cavaliers about LeVert, but that draft pick was strictly protected.
If the 22-year Cavaliers draw a lotto draw (1-14 picks) and it's their own, and vice versa, it's the Pacers, so the Pacers' deliberate loss may be to ensure that the Cavaliers can make the playoffs. This season's Cavaliers All-Star was full of momentum before the Game, once playing in the top four in the East, but now the 76ers and Green Army have slowly improved their records, and the Cavaliers have fallen to sixth in the West, winning only 4 games more than the Raptors and Nets. The most damning thing is that Cavaliers All-Star interior Allen injured his finger, showed a broken finger on ct examination, and there was no return schedule, and the Cavaliers coach bluntly said that he did not know whether he could make a comeback in the regular season this season.
Many basketball commentators are not optimistic about the current Cavaliers, and the original champion Jefferson bluntly said that the Cavaliers are likely to fall to eighth in the East, and if they end up in the play-off zone, they may not have played the Nets with the Big Three and the Eagles of last year's Eastern Conference Finals. If the Cavaliers don't make the playoffs, the Pacers will have one less first-round pick, this victory has stabilized the Cavaliers' top six position in the East a lot, they are 3.5 wins ahead of the seventh, but the fate of whether the Cavaliers can enter the playoffs is in their own hands, they will face the Raptors and the Nets directly in future games, and the outcome of these games is crucial.
The Pacers' "acting" this time is indeed a bit too much, but the league may not punish them, to know that the Pacers are one of the few playoff regulars in the NBA, they are close to more than 30 seasons have not been broken, this premeditated loss is just to change the first round of signing back to end the swing early, can they quickly complete the rebuild as desired? Let's wait and see.