Watch the NBA | Once again, the Pacers fell short, and the Celtics turned the tables on the code

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2024-05-26 16:07Posted in Beijing Basketball Commentator, Tencent NBA Writer

Watch the NBA | Once again, the Pacers fell short, and the Celtics turned the tables on the code

Pacers VS Celtics G3

The Pacers led by as many as 18 points, and into the final three minutes they held an eight-point lead before being overturned by the Celtics again. Thinking back to G1 and the Pacers' playoff ahead of this year's playoffs, it seems like they couldn't avoid making mistakes. Thinking back to Kidd's micro-yesterday, it's hard not to want to wring Carlisle out of the boardroom.

Toppin's defensive performance on the court is hard to breathe, Shepard has made 0-of-9 three-pointers in his last four games, and Carlisle really trusts them, they really don't fight. Of course, Carlisle really doesn't have many forwards that he can use, and Nesmith has a defensive value that must be used more, and he has 5 fouls and 6 fouls per game, and he has no potential to add time, and his offensive and defensive performance is difficult to describe. Sika is really not full, and the number of battles against the water should let him fight for a while. McDermott won 13 points in less than 4 minutes on the court, and I feel at some moments that since the defense of the brothers is very poor, it is better for the knife brother to take an offense, and it doesn't hurt to use it for a while.

The Pacers may be one of the few to defend with a 1.85m small guard on the last card than a 2-meter forward on the last card. In the G1 game, after Nesmith was sent off, Carlisle used TJ McConnell, and the basket was too small to be rushed by the Green Army. Now that I think about it, it would have been even worse on the topping.

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Objectively speaking, the G3 Pacers still came up with very good adjustments. Without Haliburton, it's not surprising that the Pacers' defense has improved, and with one less opening on the line that can be easily torn apart, the Pacers at least have time to protect the basket.

But the talent gap is objective, and the double tanhua stable cut 60+ is something that the Pacers can't stop. Although Harry's disastrous anti-roll call is gone, the resistance of other people's singles defense, roll-breaking moves, and three-point line rotation are still indescribable. The Pacers' "How to Defend Against the Green Army's Learning Model" has evolved to version 2.0, and they look hard to protect the basket and swipe the card, but the traces of cramming are still too heavy, the rotation is always half a beat slower, and the substitutions are also frequent mistakes. It's still too much for them to have a temporary learning defensive system to deal with the five outside. Their defensive effect on Tatum is more about Tatum's own feel. G2 Tatum frequently hit iron in the big vacancy, G3 Tatum didn't give a chance, in addition to his own score, he also had accurate shots, he had two very good back passes in the fourth quarter, and Horford next to him was like a butcher on the three-point line, cutting the main artery of the Pacers.

The Green Army's use of a switch and a five-small in G2, as well as a limit to TJ McConnell's three-point attempt, have stifled the Pacers' offense, and the Pacers are unlikely to win when they don't have an offense. G3 They played a game similar to the Knicks G6, at that time they had a size advantage over the Knicks who were injured at the front, and now the opponent is changing defenses and engaging in five small, and their big men want to make a difference, it is necessary to go to the low post to eat alone. Turner and Sika each scored 22 points, with the former hitting high and scoring multiple times in the mid-range, and the latter holding the ball on the line at non-critical moments.

The Pacers are able to eat big and small, not only because Turner and Sika have some close-to-the-basket skills, but more importantly:

They can really go to the low position to the wrong position;

They can really get the ball to the low post;

They really have the ability to execute and stick to this style of play.

That's what Carlisle and his team are great about, and it's something the Timberwolves are going to learn and do.

Eating too little is certainly not enough to lead by 18 points. Nembhard is second only to Tatum in this game, and his outburst is no surprise, he's a terrible guy when his jumper goes into a state of insolvence—don't ask me why I know—and he's been proving his one-on-one ability in this year's playoffs. Mid-range shooting + breakout, Nembhard completed the standard playbook of defender punishment and defensive changes.

As for McConnell, he regained his composure after the Greens' three-point shooting against him, patiently dribbling to the near basket for dessert and using his short back-to-back shots to force the score.

There are no superstars, but there are four scorers who can break down from mid-range, and the Pacers' ability to break down the defense is still far underrated, and there are not many teams in the playoffs who are better than them in this area.

However, the Walkers fell short after all. In the critical ball stage, the Green Army's average defensive strength was highlighted. White is like a ghost who scares you when he turns his head. Holiday is like a rock, and you should dub Zhongli in the beautiful clothes. Tatum wanted to fan the ball to the spectators in the stands every time he blocked, and he showed his muscles for the first time, and the highlights were not only offense.

If the whole team of the Green Army has a sense of co-defense, then the space that the Pacers cannot fill will be fully exposed, and it will be increasingly difficult for the Pacers to get into the paint area, regardless of whether the Green Army is defending the joint defense or marking people. Later in the game, it became difficult for the Pacers to develop their offense, and when they couldn't find a transition opportunity, it wasn't easy to create a jumper opportunity, and every point they scored was like a stunner. This may explain why Carlisle's penultimate attack requires players to push the transition without calling a timeout, and the last touchline ball is a sprint from the back of the team to simulate the transition attack - allowing the Green Army to set up a net that is really uncomfortable.

So, how did the Green Army turn the tables around?

In fact, it is on defense.

Playing a walker, you always have a way to score, it's nothing more than a feeling of not being online. But it won't be easy to keep the Pacers at bay, even if there's no Haliburton on the other side. The high level of individual defense quality and team defense displayed by the Green Army G2 was repeated at the end of the third quarter and the fourth quarter of G3.

And that's what they can bring to the finals.

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