On May 11th, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and today the Pacers sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Knicks, this game is the third game of the series between the two sides, the previous two Pacers lost to their opponents, but they even provided 78 controversial penalty reports to the league because they questioned the Knicks' home whistle, and after returning to the home court, they also want to win, and then let's talk about the game process briefly, and then talk about the players' play.
Contest Recap:
Hart hit a three-pointer to give the Knicks the lead at the beginning of the first quarter, and then the game entered the rhythm of the Pacers, who at one point established a double-digit lead led by Haliburton and Sika, and the Pacers had a nine-point lead by the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, led by DiVincenzo and Brunson, the Knicks caught up with the difference, but Sika and Turner scored in quick succession at the end of the quarter to help the Pacers re-establish a six-point lead to end the first half.
Yibian re-attacked Turner to help the team extend the lead to 9 points, and then DiVincenzo fell into the sky, he hit 17 points in the first quarter, and with his help, the Knicks also overtook the Pacers by 5 points to end the third quarter. DiVincenzo hit another three-pointer in the final quarter to help the team extend the lead, and then Sika turned on his own mode, he broke through consecutive kills to help the team tie, and Nembhard hit a long-range three-pointer at a critical moment to kill the suspense of the game, and finally the Pacers narrowly defeated the Knicks 111-106.
Haliburton did his best
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the players' play, Haliburton shot 12 of 25 in the game, 6 of 14 three-pointers got 35 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, Haliburton's projection ability is indeed excellent, but his poor defense has also become the target of the opponent, any top star is an offensive and defensive existence, Haliburton If he wants to become a top star in the future, he must improve his defensive ability.
Sika played too humble on the offensive end, many times when the team needed his breakthrough to tear up the defense, he stood on the outside and became a spectator, although this is Haliburton's team, but Sika as the team's most experienced player, he should also stand up like this fourth quarter, this game Sika shot 8 of 12, 1 of 1 three-pointers and got 24 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block. Turner also swept away the inefficiency of the previous game, scoring 21 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist in this game.
However, the Pacers did not play their bench advantage in this game, the Pacers' bench almost won the opponent's bench by more than 30 points in the past two games, and as a result, their bench became a burden, the bench scored a total of 4 points in this game, and the opponent Burks scored as much as one person, the Pacers' experience and stability are not good enough, and they can reach the second round thanks to the Bucks core injury, I have to say that the overall strength of the East is too poor now.
Devin did his best, Thibodeau Taikeng
Brunson because of the impact of injury, his state is obviously not good, 26 shots 10, 3 points 6 2 got 26 points and 6 assists, in the first quarter because of injuries, he continued to play iron and made mistakes, I thought Brunson was going to rest this time, but I didn't expect him to make adjustments in the second quarter, Brunson's spirit is commendable, but in order to win so much physical consumption, too irrational.
However, DiVincenzo replaced Brunson's firepower very well, he scored 35 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists on 12-of-26 shooting from the field and 7-of-11 from three-point range, hitting more than 5 three-pointers in 4 consecutive games and scoring more than 20+ points. To be honest, it was a loss for the Warriors not to reuse him at the beginning, and if the Warriors could keep him and give him a chance, maybe the team would not worry about Klay's departure.
Hart still continued his dominance in rebounding, shooting 4 of 5 from the field, 1 of 1 from three-point range, with 10 points, 18 rebounds and 4 assists, a 1.93-meter player who has the league's highest total rebounds in the playoffs so far, which is also enough to fight. As we mentioned earlier, the Knicks' bench is good enough, and with Anunoby's injury, Burks has been given more opportunities to play, and he has been abandoned until then.
After getting playing time, Burks also proved his worth, with 14 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist on 4-of-6 shooting, scoring as many points as the Pacers' entire bench combined. Burks proved that he can make a difference in the playoffs, and he didn't get a chance before because he thought he couldn't, and to be honest, I don't think Thibodeau can be so rigid anymore.
Brunson has been seriously reduced by his form, and now he is dragging the injury in the fight, so if he continues to play, he may also miss the game due to injury, after Anunoby, Bojan, Randle and Miro were all reimbursed for the season due to his death, and now the team can no longer be injured, they still have a lot of players who can play, Thibodeau should give them a chance to reduce the consumption of the core.