17-point reversal + overtime kill! Pacers tell you: Why is this team rewriting the script of the Eastern Conference Finals

When the timer in Madison Garden hit zero, the figure of Toppin hanging on the basket seemed to become the most dazzling nightmare for New Yorkers. Behind the score of 138-135, a group of "little people" wearing golden robes are subverting the script of the Eastern Conference in the most passionate way.

The game has 8 minutes and 42 seconds left, and the Pacers are 17 points behind. The broadcast footage swept across the bench, and coach Carlisle's hand holding the tactical board burst out.

No one could have expected that a 3D player with an annual salary of $5.8 million will soon ignite a nuclear explosion. In the next 8 minutes, Nesmith transformed into a human-shaped self-propelled turret, and 6 three-pointers accurately tear the Knicks' defense line like a scalpel. When he raised his hand in the bottom corner for the seventh time, even Spike, who was wearing a custom suit on the sidelines, subconsciously shrank his neck. With 20 points in a single quarter, 6 of 7 three-pointers, this man, who averaged only 12 points per game in the regular season, used three-point rain to extinguish the sound of New York's tsunami. 7 seconds before the final game, with Anunobi making 1 of 2 free throws, Halliburton was like a hungry wild wolf, as if he smelled the scent of victory. Then he broke through to the penalty area and stopped and retreated. The whole world thought he was going to replicate the Lillard-style super long-distance kill. But this young point guard, who is always criticized for "lack of killer instinct", chose to step on the three-point line to shoot the mid-range that violates the trend.

When the electronic beeps and the basketball's net sound rang out simultaneously, 20,000 viewers in Madison Garden collectively lost their voices - this 24-year-old boy completed a fatal counterattack on the questioning of "key ball soft-foot shrimp" in the most classic way.

Overtime became an exhibition hall with the depth of the Pacers' bench. While Thibodeau was still fighting the main force, the tenth man on Carlisle's rotation list had already completed a fatal blow. The moment Toppin received the ball and rushed to the basket, the Knicks stood up collectively, and they were too familiar with the offensive choice of the 2020 No. 8 pick.

But this time, the young man who was abandoned by New York did not choose to make a conservative layup, but used a thunderous dunk to smash the old club's dream of winning. When he landed, he roared at the audience, as if saying: "Look, this is the real son of New York! "

This victory is far more than a victory in the tactical board. When Brunson scored 40+ in 48 minutes, the Pacers' six-player scored double-digit balanced firepower was like a loud slap. In the era when modern basketball obsessed with superstars, the Indiana man used team basketball that averaged 28.4 assists per game to penetrate the Knicks' iron-blooded defense line.

NeSmith's 20-point surprise attack, Halliburton's cold-blooded mid-range shot, Toppin's revenge dunk, each shot tells the same truth: when all gears are precisely bitten, the grassroots legion can also overturn the Galaxy battleship.

Perhaps it is like the unspoken declaration in the locker room: the super-stacked era will eventually pass, and the glory of team basketball is rising slowly in Indiana.

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