After only eight points on seven strokes in a disappointing 5th loss, Indiana Pacers called on the Indiana Pacers to adjust Game 6 sliders by ease-seeing against the New York Knicks’ headhunting pressure and hunting Shots and Huly Shots and Hero Hero Ball and Box Corce.

However, this is not what Indiana head coach Rick Carlisle asked for.

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“As a team, we have to be aggressive and we have to maintain a certain balance,” he said.

That is: they need to play Pacers basketball.

The multi-handed approach is one of the most powerful crimes in the NBA. Sticking to the full-court ball pressure with pipe burning makes the Pacers one of the best progressive defenses in the NBA. Committed to running 12 deep commitments - and all 12'ems commitments runningOff Make and Insess - This makes them hard to deal with on their second back-to-back night in February, but it makes them an absolute nightmare.

It's a play style that brings collective effects up instead of personal influence - making the Pacers unique and distinctive, which makes them one of the best teams in the NBA for nearly six months... Now, they make them Eastern Conference champions.

In Saturday's 125-108 games, 11 Pacers beat the garbage time before garbage time, with seven of them scoring in double figures. Andrew Nembhard's defense on Knicks star Jalen Brunson changed the game, snatching six steals and defeating his offensive game with 14 points with a 12-12 shooting percentage. Alternate center Thomas Bryant saw his own minutes, supporting Tony Bradley's excellence in fighting Knicks center Mitchell Robinson on the glass, with the chance to nursing an injured hip back fold with Bradley. He made the most of these three huge three-pointers, blocking the shot with 11 points in 13 minutes and scoring 11 points. Obi Toppin provided his trademark unsuppressible energy and held a championship in the game with drafting and trading his team, raising with 18 points, 6 rebounds and three blocks. (The last stat caused a surprise smile in Haliburton's game, who mocked Toppin for "all athleticism, but sometimes just on the defensive end (not used).")

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“We preached depth throughout the year,” Halliburton said. “We’ve been talking about it all the time, and it’s not just the word we use to entertain. This is who we are, and that is who we are, and I think we are doing a great job of leveraging it. We have a lot of different people strengthened. ”

Of course, including Indiana's superstars, they knew they had to go on a stronger and more productive outing with Madison Square Garden in Game 6 and answered the phone.

Pascal Siakam maintained his early offense, scoring 16 points in the first half, and Indiana's lead was all in the first half of the first and second quarters, competing entirely in two games, with neither team being able to score more than six points in a separation. He leaned the Pacers’ game shortly after halftime, with three buckets in a row - a pop-pop 3, a set of Aaron Nesmith 3 when transitioning 3, as well as transition leaks through contact and a beautiful reverse handstand - it was a 9-0 run of 9-0, which is equivalent to a third run and has allowed Indiana to improve 13 times in the third race and can be separated into separation.

Siakam will score a top 31 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, three blocks and a steal – another monster show in the Oriental Conference finals, the Knicks never really found a good answer, where he made a very clear point about why PACES BRASS has to go missing works, they have to lose the 2024 trade deadline, and he is his most valuable player, his 2024 trade deadline, which is his highest turnout player.

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“It’s so cool,” Siakam said of the Larry Bird Trophy, who brought him to the post-match press conference. “I don’t know they have a trophy for it, but I’m excited.”

However, after he lifted it with the 2019 Toronto Raptors for six years, he is not so excited because he is going to have another chance to compete in the bigger Gold Trophy.

"I'm telling guys - I mean, for me, you know, I got there in grade 3, and I think I'm going to be back there a lot. That's not happening," Siakam said. "So, it's an opportunity, you don't know when to get it again. So, I think we have to have a mindset and at the end of the day, just give everything we have and know that it's a chance in one lifetime."

Haliburton didn't get many good shots early until he didn't score after a quarter and a half minutes from the second quarter. But he kept reading the game, continuing to move the ball and his body, and always trusting the savings he and the Pacers put in the game and series - they put all the miles on the Knicks' legs, they will bring all the mental and physical stress of the fraternity with the players in New York with friendly, ruthless movements - and they will eventually pay off.

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Then, in the fourth quarter, the dam broke out and Haliburton covered the Knicks’ pickup cover onto the ribbon, repeatedly into the paint, either doing it for himself or setting up a rolling Obi Toppin for a layup or a slam dunk. Halliburton scored or assisted in fourth place, blocked the lead to 20 with a 32-foot bomb in the last minute grace Pack the Knicks and send them back to New York and then send the Pacers to the NBA Finals.

"I'm proud of Tyrese," said Myles Turner, a Pacers Center. "Everyone saw it - you know, when it comes to superstars, brothers, you're going to take everything that comes with it. High and low, good and bad. Now.

Haliburton's play and rhythm, Siakam's constant sprints and gaps fill off offensive games, while the strength of the offense brings offense. But killing the Knicks was Indiana’s repeated forced them into expensive mistakes—17 turnovers led to 34 Pacers points as the team’s long-term commitment to boost pace and maintain Vise-Grip’s pressure eventually took another victim away.

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"Our defense is a year and a half we've been unwavering," Carlisle said. "I mean, really. The year that started last year was actually a different set of rules. Our game was small, even faster. It's not a team with great defenders. But we've gotten better, we've gotten better, we've gotten bigger, we've gotten bigger, we've gotten Pascal, and these guys signed together that the importance of defense, and everyone was involved in growing."

For Turner, the growth began in the summer of 2015, when he came to Indiana as 19-year-old Reedy. Filled with ups and downs, trade rumors, frontcourt partners and frustration for a decade, the longest pacemaker was about to make his first NBA finals.

"When the buzzer sounded, it was just… nothing but happiness, man, there was nothing else," Turner said. "Just pure excitement. Just pure verification. Over the years, all the hatred, all the love - everything between brothers. In that moment, it made so much sense. Honestly, man, I don't know what I was thinking. It was just pure exuberance and joy."

Walkers will feel this thrill and joy one night. And, if their coach has something to say, maybe not even That Many are vigorous.

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"It's impossible to pop up the champagne," Carlisle said. He said he would compete in his sixth NBA final, with three being a player from the Boston Celtics in the mid-1980s, one of whom was an assistant to the 2,000 progressive Larry Bird staff, and now two head coaches after Dallas Mavericks won the 2011 championship. "You know, when you get to this point of the season, it's two teams, it's a goal. It's one thing or nothing, we know the size of the opponent."

That opponent, the Oklahoma City Thunder, has been the best team in the NBA since the opening ceremony of this season. They feature point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's league MVP, Jalen Williams' All-Star partner, the frightening two-headed monster inside Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein, and the NBA's most ferocious look guard. They are young, they are fast, their intensity keeps playing out and puts incredible pressure.

Sounds familiar.

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"I think this is a new blueprint for the league," Turner said. "I think the super and stacked years don't work as well as before, you know? I mean, since I'm joining the league, this NBA is very stylish. It's just a change. But the new trends now are what we're doing now. okc does the same thing. You know: young people, escape and run, run, run, run, you know, use the power of friendship."

Is this power enough to allow Pacers to surpass their upcoming 68 Victory Swordsman; they will enter the series with serious weakness. However, this is good. They are used to it.

From last year's run to the Eastern Conference Finals, the final was seen as team injuries along the way, to a brutal injury 10-15 start of the season, and largely regarded by national experts as the foil of the Cavaliers and the Knicks in the playoffs, and the practice of the season was ignored. They have learned to not care about other people’s trivial predictions. They are not afraid of dreaming greater.

“I think we’re just doing well together in the whole group without having to worry about external noise,” Halliburton said. “Inside, we have expectations here. It’s not surprising to us alone because we want to do…I just think we’re doing well, like I mentioned before, just being there as much as possible – not in the past and not worrying about the next step. Just worrying about what’s happening right now.”

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Now, for Indiana, it's the first time in 25 years in the NBA Finals. They won't win the game with the power of overwhelming stellar power. Still, continue to increase the output of a group that is proven to be greater than the sum of your parts, but keep playing walking basketball - and they've shot it.

"You know, we're a team in an ecosystem," Carlisle said. "We rely heavily on the collective component of the best functioning of the entire team."