On May 18, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Knicks failed to grasp the match point battle, losing to the Pacers 103-116 away, and the big score came to a 3-3 draw. In this game, the Knicks suddenly collapsed in the final stage of the first half, and were hit by a wave of offensive by the opponent, and then completely fell into passivity, and let the Pacers completely open up the difference in the final quarter, and the game lost suspense.
The Knicks' performance in this playoff is still very good, and coach Thibodeau's employment is also questionable, with 7 people rotating early, successfully eliminating 76ers in the first round, and once taking a 2-0 lead in the semifinals. But then the team also suffered from injuries, the players consumed too much on the field, after all, every game is played to the final stage, the main players need to stay on the field for a long time, and this time they not only lost the game, but also lost a big player.
The Knicks have fallen by one Anunoby in this series, the starting lineup at the beginning of the season has been absent by three, Randle and Mitchell Robinson have both been written off in advance before the game, and Anunoby's situation is not very good. Unexpectedly, Hart was also injured this time, he injured his abdomen during a scramble for rebounds, and then was substituted off the court, and has been in great pain since then, and once returned to the court, his abdomen was covered with muscle patches, but he couldn't continue to hold on, and finally left the court early.
Another main force fell, and in this way, the Knicks' main lineup was missing one after another, and it also exposed the hidden dangers of Thibodeau's employment. In fact, Brunson also suffered an injury before, and he has been playing with injuries, wanting to help the team move forward, but he didn't expect the helpers around him to fall one after another. This time the Knicks really lost and lost, but this loss was because they themselves were missing another big man, not deliberately hurting people on the court.
As this round of the series was also dragged into the tie-break, the league also determined the specific schedule of the semifinals tie-break, the Pacers and Knicks tie-break will start at 3:30 on May 20, and the Nuggets and Timberwolves tie-break will start at 8 o'clock on the 20th, all on the same day, which is still very exciting. Next, it will be up to the Mavericks and Thunder series to also enter the tiebreaker, and if so, it will still be very exciting.