Difficult! The 48-minute fire bombing is not allowed to breathe. Thibodeau squeezed Towns and Brunson dry in the third quarter?

East Final G4: durability and battery life.

This kind of lasting is mainly reflected in the offensive end. The Pacers scored 130 points without overtime and had no dead ends in 48 minutes. It depends on whether the Knicks can withstand it.

Pacers' two lineups and ten-player rotations have filled the offensive intensity. McConaughey, Mathering, Toppin, Shepard, and Tony Bradley can play on the bench. The depth of rotation and the sustainability of offensive firepower force Thibodeau no longer dares to use short rotations.

Matherin scored 20 points, and he and McConaughey were able to be the core of the attack in the connection section. The Pacers could even continue to attack for 5 or 5 minutes.

Thibodeau also understood that short rotation was like drinking poison to quench thirst in the face of an offensive craze of this level. In the first half, 10 people were rarely used to rotate, and the Pacers were forced to have no choice but to lengthen the rotation, and to fight for sustainability and endurance, there was a glimmer of hope.

Pacers scored 22-9 in the fast break, and played the Knicks to the extreme. They quickly sent the bottom line to the bottom line to fight the blitzkrieg, which truly interpreted the world's martial arts skills that only fast and fast cannot be broken.

Carlisle's fundamental confidence is that the thickness of ten people rotates, two offensive lineups, and they will be stopped until they die. Once the Knicks' breathing skills fail to withstand, the game will be gone.

Facts have proved that short rotation is no longer applicable to the strength of the Eastern Conference Finals. The power of speaking for the strength and strength of the East Final is truly in the hands of Pacers with high-quality long rotations.

Halliburton scored 32 points, 12 rebounds, 15 assists, 4 breaks and 0 mistakes, the first player in the playoffs history. Behind this is the Pacers found a way to deal with Mitchell Robinson's entry into the starting lineup.

Pacers used Halliburton + Turner + Siakam's online double cover as a starting move, trying to transfer the Timberwolves double Tamitchell Robinson and Towns to above the free throw line, and choose the best finishing method based on the Knicks' defense.

Because Bridges is defending Halliburton from home, once the Knicks choose to switch defense and pinch Halliburton with a pick-and-roll three-pointer, Turner and Siakam both resolutely punish Bridges for misplaced small defense and big defense; once the Knicks choose to retreat, Halliburton holds the ball with a single block to combine a surprise shot, punishing Mitchell Robinson to score 7 points alone - switching Towns and Mitchell Robinson to Halliburton, and switching Bridges to Turner/Siakam, this is the main purpose of the Pacers' double-screen start-up move.

Mitchell Robinson, who played 30 minutes in the past two games, only played 18 minutes and 50 seconds in this game. The Pacers used the double cover of the five-outside lineup to maximize the shortcomings of Mitchell Robinson in defending the pick-and-roll. The Knicks were forced to become smaller in this game. Thibodeau let Hart play 35 minutes and 59 seconds. Only when the five-outside lineup can the Pacers' five-outside lineup be replaced.

On the night when Halliburton, Siakam, Nesmith and Turner felt online, the Pacers' double screening activation was indeed difficult to defend, and there was no overtime to hit 130 points. This is the most real reflection of the Pacers' comprehensive offensive ability. Although the Knicks used long rotation, they were a last-defying gun, which was too late, and there was quantity but no mass.

Shamet, Wright and Achouva basically fell out of regular rotation before the start of the playoffs. Thibodeau only likes to use Mitchell Robinson, McBride and Payne on the bench. In fact, the Knicks in normal state use up to 8 rotations, and this is the rotation logic of the regular season.

Thibodeau G3 adopted 9-player rotation, and G4 used 10-player rotation in the first half, which is an abnormal operation of the Knicks. Even though the Knicks used 10-man rotation, everyone knows the quality of the substitute players. Achuwa, Wright and Shamet have been out of the battle for a long time and may have performed well by chance. Once they rotate with the Pacers for a long time, they will inevitably show their timidity.

In other words, the Knicks used the short rotation idea of ​​the division finals in the regular season, but in the division finals, they used the long rotation idea that the regular season should be used - they did not practice soldiers and cram for the moment, so it would not work.

Pacers have polished their own 10-player long rotation over the years, five up and five down. McConaughey and Mathering can both be the main attackers in the second lineup, with a clear core, and the entire rotation depth and quality are one street above the Knicks.

In this game, the Pacers scored 36-21 as the Knicks, with a net win of 15 points, and the Knicks lost 9 points in the whole game. Towns and Brunson were exhausted in the second half, and the Knicks could no longer match the pace of the Pacers.

Knicks tried their best, and the Pacers' terrifying fire cover was really unparalleled.

The Pacers starts the center with Turner, and Thomas Bryant on the substitute. As long as Carlisle wants, he can line up two sets of five-in-one lineups.

The Pacers can line up the ultimate space lineup with ten people with three-point firepower. Halliburton, Nesmith, Nemhard, Mathering, McConaughey, Sheppard, Toppin, and Siakam all have the ability to operate and control shooting, which is terrifying to think about it carefully!

In contrast, the Knicks, Mitchell Robinson and Hart have relatively weak shooting abilities. Shamet, Wright, Payne and Achouwa's comprehensive abilities are incomparable with the Pacers' five substitutes. The gap between the space and substitutes between the two teams has caused a fundamental difference in the difficulty of the game.

Downs and Brunson may lose the game, and Nemhard won 1 of 9 out of 9 in this game. The difference in lineup strength between the two teams does exist.

Knicks are a team that competes for the starting five Tigers, and the Pacers are a team that competes for ten players in depth.

Under ideal circumstances, the Knicks will get the advantage when starting with the five Tigers, and try to give as little warmth as possible, which coincides with the Nuggets' game ideas this year; the reality is indeed, Towns and Brunson will not be able to compete with the Pacers' starting or even substitute when fighting for the offense on the court, which is also the fundamental reason why the Knicks are uncomfortable in the series.

In the field of long-lasting offensive firepower and endurance, the Pacers are undoubtedly the more advantageous side. It is naturally reasonable to enter the finals with one foot.