New York – If these 2025 NBA playoffs have learned one thing about Indiana pacers, it is: they have always got time.
Seven below with 40 seconds to go into overtime of an elimination game against box in round 1? No problem. Seven below with 47 seconds to go to game 2 in Cleveland? No problem.
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And now: 14 down at the Madison Square Garden with 2:51 to go to the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference?
No problem.
Another night, another unprecedented Come back – or unprecedented collapseDepending on how full your glass is-for Engiaa, which once again attached a hostile to a road area, slipping the nix in overtime of Wednesday, 138–135.
“Unprecedented for Other Teams, “former knock forward OB Topin, with a smile, after chipping in eight digits with 10 rebounds, including two, including two, including two Huge Sting In the last minute of overtime with games in the balance. “But for us, we just continue it. We are always going to play that last whistle, until he is the last buzzer.”
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In the previous spring, Paers ended the New York season, winning the game 7 on the MSG court behind a historical aggressive performance. Now, he has taken away the advantage of home-court away from a nickens team, which was to feel that they were at the top of the world for three minutes … and that, like Milvauki and Cleveland, exit the world’s most famous area, wondering what the hell had just happened.
“You can never just give your guard against him,” Nix’s coach Tom Thibodo said that his team first said after a fourth quarter lead of 17 points to a series for Postsen. “No lead is safe.”
They are not safe because there are many players in Indiana that can be hot in a hurry. Accepting the role of the human torch on Wednesday: Aaron Nemith, who entered the fourth quarter with 10 points on 3 -for -5 shooting, and finished with 30 points on 9 -for -12 shooting, drilling six triples in the last five minutes of the fourth, including three in the final minute, which is a matter of concern through MSG.
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I was doing just what the team needed, you know? “Nemith said after the game. I was in a good rhythm. Actually I did not realize what I was doing in the moment.”
What was he doing in the moment To become the first player in the history of NBA to hit six 3-pointers in the fourth quarter of a playoff game,
“It’s untrue,” he said. “This is probably the best feeling for me in the world, personally. I love it. Like, when that basket feels like an ocean and anything you toss, you think it’s going to go inside. It’s just … so fun.”
Tyrese Haliburton and Indiana Pamens celebrated their game-hanging basket against the fourth quarter N of Game 1 of the Final at the Madison Square Garden in New York on Wednesday. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Image)
(Al Bello through Getty Image)
“Obviously, Aaron’s heroine-my meant means, I hope they are talking about it,” said Pacers All-Star Tiers Heliberton. “They can’t be talked about enough … I think every shot he made, he kept giving us more confidence, what we could do, you know, actually win this game.”
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Each shot just presented a little more doubt in Nax, who seized the control of Game 1 with 16–1 runs after Star Point Guard Jalen Brunson, which raised his fifth personal dishonesty in less than two minutes in the fourth.
OG Angobi drilled a pair of huge shots. Reserve Guard Miles McBrid rotated from a weak side for a demon block of Pascal Siakam in Rim. McBrid and Carl-Antony Town made a handful of free throw after dishonesty on the 3-point shooters cruelly ill. Town, Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson included many difficult rebels. It was a collective effort to achieve the nix within the striking distance of a 1-0 lead … and it was a collective effort to throw it away.
“We played 46 good minutes,” Towns said, who scored 35 points on 11 -for -17 shooting with 12 rebounds in 39 minutes. “Those last two minutes gave us the cost of the game.”
Shots up early in the clock. Defense defense to allow Nesmith to walk in open shots in the rhythm continuously. Missed free throw and expensive turnover. Each one of them opened the door slightly widely, invited Indiana to walk … and then, after an unnabi free throw, put the knees in two seconds with 7.2 seconds after an unnabi free throw, Heliberton opened it.
He drunk the length of the court, defeated Mikal Bridge and entered the lane-where he met the 7-foot Robinson, who was closing his route for Rim. So Haliburton bus … turned around, returned to the 3-point arc over time, and let it fly.
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“I think the biggest thing for me is that, I already have the confidence to take a shot in the moment, but I have this confidence with my group,” said Haliburton. “My group wants me to take those shots. My coaching staff wants me to take those shots. I think our organization wants me to take their shots. I think we are now at the point where we want our fans to take that shot, you know? So I think I feel that everyone is staying at that time.”
When the ball is in the air, however, a terrible lot can occur between living and dying.
“All honesty, when he took it out and shot him, I was so, ‘Oh, wow,” Nemith said, who crashed the aggressive glass and found himself standing directly under the rim, with a front-round ticket for the show.
Heliberton sent the shot from the rear rim, as if he had overcome it a bit. but then …
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“And then it jumped up – straight up – and I saw it,” Nemith said. “And I was, like,” Oh, that is Good,
Passers coach Rick Carlisley said, “It seemed that it was a chance.” “it was Fondly High.”
Haliberton insisted that he never had confidence.
“No, I knew it was that it was … I’m liked it,” it’s going in, “he said at his postgam news conference through a Cheshire Cat Grin at his postgam news conference. “It seemed that it was stuck there, however. And honestly, when it went in, I felt that my eyes were cheating me in the moment. But when I left my hand, it was nice, so I felt that it was going to go inside.
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The special moment of one team is the total disaster of the other.
“Give them a lot of credit,” Brunson said, who scored a game-high 43 points on 15-for-25 shooting, but also included a playoff-high seven turnover, including A. Expensive poor pass What should be an easy Anunobi sting to push the New York lead in seven with 31 seconds. “They shut down the game, as they are all playoffs. Just not really good from us.”
But like a game-winner 3-pointer looked at the moment that launched a choke sign ‘Round the World was revealed to be a game by a video replay review-Bind 2-Pointer -Which meant that both teams needed to ride the emotional waves of the moment and lock back for five and minutes.
The turner said, “Everyone has their jersey, their neck, their arm – whatever it seems, catch it.” “Just bring them to the handle and tell them, ‘Let’s go, man. It is not over. We gave ourselves a chance. It was all.’ We thought that it is over, you know, but this is what is this.
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And when Nix seized the initial stage of the additional session, the Indiana bus kept coming above four. Paste a 3 and a driving by Andrew Nebhard. To take a hard taking and finish through contact by Haliberton. A huge aggressive rebound and putback stings by the topin. Every Hemekar replied, every opportunity to continue the pressure was confiscated, and finally, Naxal began to look like a team that was worn by Indiana’s sheer tireless intensity.
“I think maybe you can say that,” said Haliberton. “They missed out on throwing a couple free under the stretch. I missed something small at the end of the game … I think it is difficult for me to discredit, and say that ‘Wear-Down Effect’ Was not there, you know? I think whatever you are seeing is a part of it, and I think it is a part of our identity – how can we wear on teams for 48 minutes? Apparently, raising the full apprehension, but at the same time our aggressive pressure, downhill, playing, playing fast, I thought we thought we have done a good job of playing our style. ,
“I think everyone in this team is going to work, 110%, every game, until the last buzzer, man,” said the topin. “I feel like what has happened. I think they slow down a bit, and we just continued it.”
It is a mystery, of course: that there is no secret. After the positive game you get out of a large hole together after the positive game after the positive game. That you are firm, that you keep charging, unless there are no more opportunities to do it. Because if you are committed to this, you give yourself a chance that another man can take a nap.
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“We were too much on the edge,” Carlisley said. “We talked in the handle – we had some timeouts that we had to take, and we talked in the handle,” Just keep working. Keep working on these people … You just have to play, you know? The game is long. “
The game between 1 and 2, however, is short. This means that Nix does not have much time to build a wall in the grief of the missed opportunity, not that they find themselves in an incredible situation that Cleveland did: below 0–2, moving towards Indiana, feeling a starting heat on a starting heat.
“You have to be disappointed and convert it into more determination … The playoff has a lot of emotional high and climb,” Thibodo said. “You have started bouncing you quickly. You watch the film, make yourself improved, and get ready for Game 2.”
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The pacers will be ready-are ready to get the grievances and are ready to win another, the better front-to-back on Wednesday is ready to turn into the performance (“We may not depend on making a straight hell shot for the rest of the series for three minutes,” Turner said) and is ready to play his way.
Brunson won the Clutch Player of the Year, but pacers are the best clutch Team In NBA this season, conviction of opponents 20.9 marks per 100 assets When the score was within five points in the last five minutes and the “clutch” was going 30–14 in the game. All this experience pays dividends at moments of Madhouse such as “Eastern Conference 14 down in the fourth quarter of the final.”
Carlisley said, “We have done a lot of these games this year.” “We were probably a dozen of them throughout the season. A lot of sports early, where we were struggling, there were sports that we had to be taken out … it’s a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it is. It is not easy. It’s not easy.”
no it’s not. These pacers look only in this way.