On April 26, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued to advance. As of now, the situation of the first round of the East and West is basically stable, except for the Pacers, Mavericks, and Heat who have completed the following upset wins, the Thunder, Nuggets, Timberwolves, Cavaliers and Knicks have basically locked up the semifinals.
Among the above teams, the game between the Pacers and the Bucks is the most interesting. With the Bucks sidelined due to injury, the Bucks are led by Lillard to toughen the Pacers Big Four. Although G1 led the team to victory with unsolvable individual ability, the G2 Bucks were not so lucky, Siakam's strong outburst made the Bucks team powerless, and finally could only watch the game enter garbage time, head coach Rivers replaced the core lineup in advance, lost the game 125-108, and the score of the series between the two sides was rewritten to a 1-1 draw.
Looking back at the first two games between the two sides, although G1 Lillard played efficiently, Siakam also performed extraordinarily. He finished 15-of-25 shooting in the first game, scoring 36 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, and if it weren't for the mediocre performance of his partner Haliburton who scored only 12 points in his first playoff appearance, the Pacers could even establish an advantage in G1 to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
G1 bombarded 36+13+2+2, G2's Siakam continued G1's hot hand, shooting 16 of 23 from the field, cutting 37 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, almost crushing the Bucks head-on with his personal ability, and scored a total of 73 points, 24 rebounds and 8 assists in the two games, fully demonstrating his absolute strength as the team's leader.
According to statistics, in the nearly 50-year history of the NBA, only Chamberlain has unlocked the playoffs to score more than 35 points in a row and reach double-digit rebounds, and now this feat has been repeated in Siakam, we also have to sigh Siakam's courage, no wonder he dared to refuse the 150 million salary offer offered by the Raptors, insisting on testing the free market to get a relatively equal reward through strength.
In fact, for Siakam, he has always been a player whose strength is greater than fame, as early as when Leonard led the Raptors to win the championship, the author once said that Siakam was absolutely underrated, his true level is fully worthy of the league's top five forwards, and now he has conquered the league with practical actions, 73 points and 24 rebounds in two games, and one person penetrated the entire Bucks defense, which makes other teams still how to play, even the Celtics have no good way to take such Siakam.