Tyrese Haliburton on Tuesday a spectacular double triple of 32 points, ten rebounds and fifteen assists and directed the 130-121 victory of the Indiana Pacers against the New York Knicks with which his team took 3-1 advantage in the East Finals and was at a single triumph of his first finals in 25 years. After wasting 20 points ahead in the third match and see how the Knicks cut distances to 1-2 in the series, The Pacers responded with character and will have this Thursday at the Madison Square Garden in New York their first match ball to seal the Ronda pass.
The winner of this series will be measured in the NBA finals, As of June 5, with the winner of the tie between Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves. OKC leads 3-1 and can seal the round pass on Wednesday at home. Haliburton signed an performance for the history of the Pacers and became the third player in the history of the 'playoffs' with at least thirty points, ten rebounds and fifteen assists, without ball losses, after Oscar Robertson and the Serbian Nikola Jokic.
Haliburton connected 11 of his 23 field shots, five of twelve in triples, and five of his six free; He also achieved four robberies and had no loss of ball. He had the support of a 30 -point and five rebounds Pascal Siakam. Aaron Nesmith put 16, Myles Turner contributed thirteen, while Bennedict Mathurin got twenty leaving the bench. The fifteenth attendance of the Haliburton night led the triple a few on the night of Obi Toppin, who put the virtual sentence with 126-116 in the last minute.
The Pacers, with everything in favor
Pacers have everything in favor to stand in the finals. When an NBA franchise took 3-1 advantage in a series of 'playoffs' ended up moving in 283 of the 296 occasions. The Knicks left Indiana. The 31 points of Jalen Brunson were not enough or the double double of 24 points and twelve rebounds of the Dominican Karl Anthony Towns, who finished the game with discomfort in the left knee. OG Anunoby contributed 22 points for the Knicks, who paid with twenty points against their 17 ball losses.
The Pacers returned to the track with renewed ambitions, that were not allowed to condition the traumatic defeat of the third period and faced the duel with clear ideas, lucidity and effectiveness.
Both the Pacers and the Knicks were above 50 % in field shots in the first half. Brunson put thirteen points for New York, but Indiana sealed a spectacular six of eight from the arch, led by three of three of Haliburton. Brunning (16), Towns (14) and OG Annoby (13), in the Knicks, and Haliburnon (20), Sakam (13) Aaron Nsmith (12) yThey looked double digits in the first half and the Pacers took five points ahead of the changing rooms.
A source of concern for Tom Thibodeau were the lost balls of the Knicks, up to nine in the two opening rooms, paid with eleven points. And that account reached twenty in the third period, in which the Pacers started with a 7-0 to take twelve points ahead. The five balls lost by the Knicks promoted nine points of Indiana.
Carlisle's team, despite repeatedly sending Brunson to the free line (9 of 10 for the former Dallas), defended an advantage of eleven points to enter the fourth period. Siakam led the locals with five consecutive points At the beginning of the last segment that gave the maximum advantage to his team in 111-96 that forced the dead time of Thibodeau with 9.52 in the stopwatch.
With a 10-2, New York took an opportunity to place six points, but Siakam cooled that moment with a triple transcendental. And in the final stretch, Indiana could count on the weight of Myles Turner, with a valuable offensive rebound, and Nesmith, who forced a New York offensive foul to prevent Knicks from approaching the scoreboard. The sentence came from the hand of Toppin, former of the Knicks, with a triple with 46 seconds for playing that rose 126-116 to the luminous and handed Indiana La Victoria.