With a twenty points recital in the fourth period, Dominican Karl Anthony Towns rescued the New York Knicks on Sunday on the Indiana Pacers track (100-106) and directed a twenty points comeback that allowed New Yorkers reopen this, They see them now down 1-2.
The Pacers had it won with a spectacular starting start, but the twenty points of Towns, with six of nine in field shots and three of four from the arc in the fourth period, They opened new horizons for New York.
The two defeats suffered in Madison Square Garden les They left the wall and this triumph at homein the first of the two games set in Indianapolis, they return mood and hope.
Especially since everything went against the Knicks for almost three quarters. Towns barely wore four points, and three fouls, and Jalen Brunson did not go from a modest four fourteen in field shots, for 17 points. In addition, he lived with four personal offenses since the beginning of the second half.
Towns ended with a double double of 24 points and fifteen rebounds, Brunson put 23, OG Anunoby contributed 16 and Mikal Bridges, 15.
The Pacers melted in the fourth period and wasted the twenty points of Tyrese Haliburton, the 19 of Myles Turner and the 17 of Pascal Siakam. Sand they sank in the fourth period with a 26 % success in field shots and a modest one of eight from the three line.
Indiana is still commanded by the series and with a field advantagebut this Tuesday's appointment, again at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, acquires much more weight after this defeat.
Indiana, from the party to the abyss
And that everything had started in the best way for the Pacers. After the celebrations for the 500 miles of Indianapolis, the sporting event of the year in the city of Indiana, and the Ovation to Spanish Álex Palou, who went to the Gainbridge Fieldhouse after his historic victory, The locals had an unbeatable start.
With the confidence shot after his two victories of Madison Square Garden, They reached twenty points of advantage in the second period and completely dominated the Knicks. They not only limited the New York offensive, but also loaded their brightest stars.
Brunson reached the break with four personal offenses and did not put any point in the second period, and Towns had three fouls.
When The Pacers sealed a 13-0 and took advantage 55-35 The party seemed sentenced. TJ McConnell Lucia and ten points leaving the bench, Haliburton and Myles Turner took nine to break, but the Knicks managed to cut distances to thirteen points before the closing of the segment.
He did not stay in a detail. Because the Tibodeau team returned to changing rooms with positive sensations and the Pacers, with some doubts. Indiana maintained ten points ahead in the third quarter, PBut things were complicated in a fourth period signed by a monumental Towns.
The Dominican put nine points in the first three minutes and He kept scoring at pleasure, without the Pacers finding solutions to contain him. He attacked the painting, signed powerful mates and hurt from the triple, Until the Knicks took advantage 86-85.
Indiana clung to the clash, but the Knicks, with inertia in favor, did not miss the opportunity. Another Towns triple rose 94-90 to the luminous with 5.07 to play. The Pacers did not endure the psychological blow and the Knicks sealed a transcendental triumph to keep their ambitions alive in the finals.
