New York - If we learn about the Indiana Pacers in this 2025 NBA playoffs, it is: They always have time.

In the knockout round 1 against the Bucks, it dropped by 7 seconds with a score of 40 seconds? no problem. In Cleveland's second game, 47 seconds fell 7 seconds? no problem.

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Now: Down 14 at Madison Square Garden to play 2:51 in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals?

no problem.

Another night, another unprecedented comeback, or an unprecedented collapse in Indiana, depending on the entire collapse of your cup, which once again designed the hostile takeover road arena, sliding over the Knicks in overtime on Wednesday 138-135.

“Unprecedented other Team,” former Nick forward Obi Toppin laughed and corrected eight points, 8 points on 10 rebounds, including two huge dunks in overtime. Until the last buzzer, we always play until the last whistle.”

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Last spring, the Pacers finished their New York season, winning seven games on MSG after a historic offensive performance. Now that they have taken home advantage from a Knicks, they have to feel like they are on the top of the world, and there is still three minutes left… Just like Milwaukee and Cleveland are in front of them, they have left the world’s most famous arena and wondered what the hell was going on.

"You can never let you fight against their guards," said Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, whose team wasted a 17-point fourth-quarter lead for the first time this playoffs. “It’s safe without lead.”

They are not safe because Indiana has multiple players to get hot in a hurry. Analyzing Man Torch’s Role on Wednesday: Aaron Nesmith entered the fourth quarter with a 3-5 shooting rate and hit 30 points with a 30-point shooting, drilling six thirds in the last five minutes of the fourth solo, including the last minute, which included three-thirds, including anxiety on MSG through the Conce Counter Course Confucter Confucter Confucter Confucter Confucter Confucter.

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I'm just doing what the team needs, you know? "Neismith said: "I just let them fly." My pace is very good. Not really aware of what I'm doing right now. ”

What he is currently doing is becoming the first player in NBA history to hit six 3-pointers in the fourth quarter of the playoffs.

"It's not true," he said. "For me personally, it's probably the best feeling in the world. I love it. It's like, when that basket feels like the ocean, something you throw away, you feel like it's going to go in. It's really… so funny."

"Obviously, Aaron's heroes - I mean, I want them to talk about things," said Pacers All-Star Tyrese Haliburton. "They can't be talked about enough...I think every shot he shot will give us more confidence because you know we can really win this game."

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Each shot also raised more questions about the Knicks, who seized control of the first game 16-1 before Planet guard Jalen Brunson won his fifth individual foul in less than two minutes of the fourth time.

OG Anunoby drilled a pair of huge shots. Backup guard Miles Miles McBride spins from the weak side, spinning in the monster block of Pascal Siakam on the edge. McBride and Carl Anthony Town made several free throws after the Pacers committed a brutal and unknown foul on the three-point shooter. Town, Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson dragged multiple tough rebounds. It was a collective effort to bring the Knicks to an amazing distance of 1-0 lead…it was a collective effort.

"We played for 46 minutes," said Towns, who scored 35 points from 17 points and 11 in 39 minutes with 12 rebounds. "We lost the last two minutes."

Bad shots were taken early in time. Lack of transitional defenses to keep Nesmith open-out shots at a constant pace. Missed free throws and expensive turnovers. They each opened the door and invited Indiana to walk by…and then, after Anunoby's free throw brought the Knicks to two seconds, the Knicks (7.2 seconds) could walk for two seconds, and Haliburton kicked it away.

The length of time he dribbled, defeated Mikal Bridge from the bounce on the bridge and entered the driveway - where Robinson 7 feet, where he encountered his path. So Haliburton just...turned around and transported back to the three-point arc as time went by, letting it fly.

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“I think the biggest thing for me is that I already have the confidence to shoot at this moment, but I have confidence in the team,” Halliburton said. “My group wants me to take these photos. My coaching staff wants me to take these photos. I think our organization wants me to take their footage. I think now we are at the moment when our fans want me to take pictures, you know?

But there can be a lot of things between life and dying when the ball is in the air.

“Honestly, when he took it out and shot, I was like, ‘Oh, wow’,” said Nesmith, who bumped into the offensive glass and found himself standing directly under the edge with a front row ticket.

Haliburton shot the shot from the back rebound, looking like he had cooked a little. but……

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"And it bounced up - straight up - I just looked at it," Nesmith said. "And I was like, "Oh, that's it OK. ”

"It looks like there is a chance," said Pacers coach Rick Carlisle. "Yes Very High. ”

Halliburton insisted that his confidence never wavered.

"No, I know that's...I'm like it, 'it's coming in'," he said with a smile at the post-match press conference. "It feels like it's stuck there though. Honestly, when it comes in, I thought my eyes might have been cheating on me all the time. But it feels good when I leave my hands, so I thought it's going to go in.

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A special moment for one team is the entire disaster for another team.

"Give them a lot of honors," Brunson said. He scored a top 43 points on 15-for-25 shooting percentage but also won seven playoff-high turnovers, including an expensive bad pass, which would have been an easy Anunino dunk that pushed New York's lead to 31 seconds. "They're going to end the game, like they've been playing the playoffs. It's just that we're not very good."

But that moment, like a three-pointer to win a game, triggered a cho card sign.Bundle 2-pointer-This means both teams need to bypass the mood swings at that moment and lock in for another five minutes.

"Catch everyone's jerseys, neck, arms - whatever it takes," Turner said. "Just squeeze them in and tell them, 'Let's go. We think it's over, but that's the truth."

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Indiana keeps coming as the Knicks seized on the early stages of the extra meeting. Andrew Nembhard's 3 and driving layup. Halliburton's contact was difficult and completed. Toppin's huge offensive rebounds and dunks. Every haymaker answered, every opportunity continued to put pressure on, and eventually, the Knicks began to look like a team worn out by purely ruthless intensity in Indiana.

“I think maybe you can say that,” Halliburton said. "They missed a few free throws. They had a few short misses at the end of the game...I think it's hard for me to discredit and say "wear effect" isn't there, you know, I know everything you're seeing, I think it's part of it, and it's part of our identity - obviously we can enjoy it in 48 minutes, but it's a 48-minute range, and we can enjoy it, and we can enjoy it, and we can enjoy it, but satisfy our identity. Downhill, moving, playing quickly, I think we're doing a great job of offense."

“I feel like everybody on this team will be working 110% of each game until the last buzz, man.” “I think that’s what happened. I feel like they slowed down a little bit and we just kept going.”

Of course, that's the secret: there's no secret. After an active game, you string together positive performances and climb out of a big hole. Stay firm and keep charging until there is no more chance to do it. Because if you stick with it, you'll give yourself another chance to blink.

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"We're very shaky," Carlisle said. "We're shrunk a little - we have a few timeouts, we're shrunk a little, just keep working. Keep working. Keep working on these guys...you just have to keep playing, you know the game is long."

However, the time between games 1 and 2 is short. This means the Knicks don’t have much time to indulge in the pain of missing opportunities, lest they find themselves in the enviable position Cleveland has done: drop 0-2, heading to Indiana and feeling the heat of early summer vacations.

"You have to be disappointed and turn it into more determination... there are a lot of emotional climaxes and lows in the playoffs," Thibodore said. "You have to bounce back quickly. You watch the movie, make corrections, and prepare for Game 2."

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The Pacers will be ready - ready to greed and get another win, ready for a better face-to-face performance than Wednesday (“We can’t rely on having to have three straight minutes to go for the series,” Turner said) and ready to play their way.

Brunson wins clutch player of the year, but Pacers are the best clutch team In the NBA this season, when the score is within 5 points in the last five minutes, and in the "Clutch" game, the opponent scored 20.9 points per 100 games of lightning strike. All of these experiences have paid benefits in crazy moments, such as "the Eastern Conference Finals fell 14 in the fourth quarter."

"We have a lot of these games this year," Carlisle said. "We probably have a dozen of them all season. In many games we are struggling with, we have to pull out the game... It's a muscle. It's a muscle. The more you work out, the stronger it becomes, the stronger it becomes. It's not easy. It's not easy." ”

No, no. These pacemakers just make it look like that.