In the early morning of May 13, Beijing time, the Pacers defeated the Knicks 121-89 at home, and the score was 2-2 to tie, the Knicks lost both away games after two consecutive home games, and the game was still one-sided at the beginning of 9-34 behind, and the Knicks were up behind by 43 points, and this game was the first game of this year's playoffs.
In this game, the Knicks are still taken care of by the referee, the Knicks made 31 free throws in the whole game, while the Pacers only had 8 free throws, and the gap between the free throws was 23, which is also the main theme of this series, in fact, the G1 Pacers lost the game and was hacked by the referee, otherwise it is now 3-1 for the Pacers.
The Pacers officially praised backup guard TJ McConnell, who scored another double-double in this game, which is his second double-double in this series.
In 21 minutes, he was 6-of-12 from the field and 2-of-2 from three-point range, scoring 15 points, 10 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals, and he scored 7 points in the first quarter to help the Pacers pull away to 34-9 to establish the victory.
McCann's post-match speech was also very emotionally intelligent, he said: "Once we leave the arena we have to forget about this victory, this series is not over yet, Brunson has achieved great things as a player, there are not many people who can improve by leaps and bounds like him, there are few people in this league who can guard against him.
With 3:08 left in the final quarter, the Pacers chanted for James Johnson to play, hoping that the mascot veteran would also play on the playoff stage, but Carlisle didn't play him.
Thibodeau still insisted on the 8-man rotation before the garbage time of this game, and the bench only used Burks, Simms, and McBride in the same situation as G3, and it has to be said that Thibodeau's Jedi 8 Samurai has fallen into a dead end, because Burks and Sims have not played high-intensity games for too long.
Text/Yan Xiaobai's basketball dream