Yesterday's Timberwolves lost on their knees.
Today's Knicks are desperately trying to keep themselves alive.
111-94 defended the home court, 2-3 in the East Finals, and the suspense continued.
After yesterday's Western Conference finals, many people began to imagine the Thunder VS Pacers...
When he returned home, the Knicks didn't agree and it was over.
Statistics:
Brunson 32 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Towns 24 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists, Hart 12 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, Bridges 12 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists, Anunoby 11 points, 4 rebounds and 3 steals, Robinson 6 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks, McBride 5 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, Shamet 5 points and 1 board, Achiuwa 2 points and 1 board.
Mathurin 23 points and 9 boards, Siakam 15 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals, Toppin 11 points and 4 boards, Shepard 8 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, Haliburton 8 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals, McConaughey 7 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Nembhard 6 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 steals, Walker 6 points and 1 board, Turner 5 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks, Nesmith 3 points and 2 boards.
The playoffs are turn-based games.
One game is another, and everyone has to accept the media people who win and blow and lose the criticism.
For the Knicks, just keeping themselves at the table, the real test was Game 6 back in Indiana.
From the point of view of the laggards, it's hard for me to judge.
Because we don't know whether the Knicks' performance today is a return to the light, a dying struggle, or an awakening, or a Jedi counterattack.
Everyone will have an opinion that no one has to have.
But today the Knicks played the pace they wanted, that's for sure.
It's easy to understand that, on the one hand, the Knicks definitely need to reduce the tempo and reduce the number of rounds to weaken the gap in depth. On the other hand, if you want to keep up with the walkers, you can't afford to the donkey anymore.
Thibodeau has changed.
The Knicks rotated nine players in the first half, and the least-of-the-court player was Deron Wright, who also played 6 minutes and 18 seconds.
Counting Achiuwa, who played 5 minutes and 37 seconds in the second half, the Knicks are in a 10-man rotation today.
The production team has a new donkey, and the vitality is also coming.
67-year-old Thibodeau, has "faith" collapsed? Take Carlisle's path and leave him with no way out?
I don't know, let's take a look down.
When the situation is good, he may be willing to change, but if the Knicks encounter difficulties in the next game, maybe the first thing he thinks of is to let the main force play.
It is extremely difficult to change a person's habits of thinking, his perception of the game.
This is like an old teacher, who has not changed the education method, teaching content, evaluation system and even values for decades.
The "old people" in front of the screen, now back in elementary school to listen to the teacher's lectures, you find that he is still the same set of rhetoric.
So, don't just listen to the commentator scolding Thibodeau, how their way of explaining is not changed, the reason is the same.
If the next game, the Knicks lose the main force, this is also Thibodeau, this is his way.
If you can't stand it, just let him out of class.
Far from it.
Today's Knicks deserve to win.
They win on defense.
The Pacers are a team that can't win with only 94 points, and their defense isn't as good as the Rockets...
From 130 points in the last game, to 94 points today...
One significant change for the Knicks is that they play hard to give Haliburton intensity, and the strategy adopted is hand-to-hand combat, resolutely using players to cling to you and consuming you, and not giving Haliburton any chance to run and run the ball.
Magicians don't have blue bars, they fail.
Last game, HarryBecame the first player in NBA playoff history to make 30+10+15+0 turnovers.
Today, three orders.
To put it bluntly, Harry's level is still not enough, especially the consistency of the attack.
As a big brother, I can't say anything about 7 shots...
When the Pacers' faucet is pinched, the Pacers' starters won't play anymore.
On the contrary, it was Mathurin, and the attack was the best.
As I said in the last game, Mathurin is known as Indiana Kuminga, and he is a role outside the team's system and can be picked.
However, if Nesmith and Turner don't play, the Pacers are not Pacers.
To say a thousand things and ten thousand, they rely on Haliburton's leadership.
Since it's a win, don't change it lightly.
From the Knicks' point of view, if you want to win G6 away from home, you still have to adhere to today's defensive principles and personnel rotation methods.
Stretching the rotation, the Knicks have more and more strange lineups, and the Pacers are not used to playing, which is all played according to common sense...
I believe that New York has tasted the sweetness.
As for the offensive end, give Mr. Tang more scenes.
And for the Pacers, Harry needs more support.
When Nesmith and Turner hit more outside the line, they were unwinding Haliburton.
Finally, one more word about the poisoned milk:
When the Thunder in the West saw these two teams playing, the corners of their mouths rose slightly, and everything was silent.