At 8:00 a.m. on May 15, Beijing time, the NBA regular season playoffs Eastern Conference semifinals Knicks host the Pacers G5 Tianwang Mountain battle, Anunoby continues to be injured, and its starting five tigers are Brunson, DiVincenzo, Hart, McBride, and Harden; The starting lineup of the Pacers is Haliburton, Nembhard, Nesmith, Siakam, Turner.
At the beginning of the first quarter, Nesmith hit a 2-point shot, and Siakam easily put in a basket for 2 points, and the Pacers led 4-0 in the opening game. Brunson hit a step-back jumper and hit 2 points, McBride came up and hit a 3-point shot from a distance, and Haliburton also pulled out a bow and shot a 3-point shot from a distance to enter the net steadily, Brunson made a steal and shot 2 points, Hartentar Taishan pressed the top and added 2 points, and the Knicks tied the score 9:9. The two sides began to fall into a confrontation, and the Knicks led the Pacers by six points at 38:32 at the end of the first quarter.
The fight continued in the second quarter, Harden scored 2 points on a step-back jumper, DiVincenzo got up and deducted 2 points, and the Knicks scored 4 points in a row to extend their lead to 10 points at 42:32. Nesmith scored 1 point on a technical free throw, Brunson scored 2 points on horseback archery, continued to add 2 points to his mid-range shot, Siakam hit an inside hook layup and hit a 2-point layup, Nembhard hit a 3-point shot from the outside, and the two sides fell into a confrontation mode, and the Pacers trailed the Knicks by 15 points at 54:69 after the two quarters.
Statistics for both sides at the end of the first half:
For the Knicks, Brunson had 28 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, and Hart needed McBride to score 12 points each; The Pacers' Siakam had 13 points, while Turner, Haliburton and Toppin each had seven points.
In the third quarter, Harden made two free throws and scored 1 point, Turner hit a 3-point shot from the outside, and he shot 3 points from the outside, and he continued to shoot 3 points with a cold arrow from the outside, oh my God, it was Turner who jumped high on the outside and only knew how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle to score 3 points, and one person hit 3 three-pointers in a row to stop the Knicks, and the Pacers chased it to 63:70! DiVincenzo hit a mid-range shot to stop the bleeding, Nembhard made a foul and made two free throws to add one point, and Harden stepped back to shoot back for 2 points, and the two teams fell into a scuffle again, and the Knicks led the Pacers by 21 points at 96:75 in the third quarter!
The fourth quarter came to the tiebreaker! Siakam scored 3 points with a direct sword on the outside, and there was a bonus plus a penalty to add 1 point, McConaughey hit 2+1 against the defense, Siakam also hit 3 points with a flying knife on the outside, it's really powerful, the Pacers came up and scored 10 points in a row to chase 84:96, why should they fall behind so much early! Undeterred, Burks immediately hit a 3-pointer from the outside to stop the bleeding, Brunson hit a 2-pointer from step back, and then scored another 2 points on a mid-range shot. The two sides fell into a scuffle again in the final quarter, seeing that there was no hope of chasing points, the Pacers withdrew their main force early and surrendered, and finally the bench lineup fought to the end of the game, the Knicks defeated the Pacers 121-91 at home, won the battle of Tianwang Mountain, and currently won the Eastern Conference semifinals match point 3:2, and the next game of life and death between the two sides!