NBA -Playoff -snack: Pacers, Tyrese Haliburton Steal Game 2 with late 3

Tyrese Haliburton missed a free throw, got his own rebound and sank a 3-point with a second to delete Donovan Mitchell's 48-point excursion and push the Indiana Pacers past the Rocket Arena past the Cleveland Cavaliers (120-119).

With the victory, the Indiana Pacers take over a 2-0 lead in the semi-final series of the Eastern Conference.

Tyrese Haliburton Game winner in game 2 🚨

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The Shorthanded Cavaliers came shortly before overcoming their injury report and the evening of the series. They were the entire fourth quarter until the last second and had a lead of seven points with just under a minute.

Darius Garland (toe delight), de'andre Hunter (thumb) and Evan Mobley (ankle injury) were on the move for the Cavs, and Donovan Mitchell tried to compensate for it. The Star Guard ended with 48 points at 15-of-30 shooting. Max Strus added 23 points (a playoff career -high) and Jarrett Allen had 22.

The Cavs took 61: 50 with half of the lead when Mitchell had 21 points after making most of the shots in half that he made all year round according to the TNT program.

For the Pacers, Myles Turner and Aaron Nesmith ended 23 points each, and Bennedict Mathurin and Haliburton both had 19.

Game 3 is on Friday in Indianapolis.

Bring the breakdown of the cavs

Well, that was definitely the worst CAVS loss since game 1 of the NBA final 2018. Only a emptying – no, devastating – breakdown, the days in the creation, suddenly forged from one roster free of several of his best players so as not to mention any reliable inbodes and ball handers.

The dagger was, as you certainly know, Haliburton's 3-pointer near the Summers. The fact that Haliburton played this special game in one night in which he had his wrist X-rays at halftime is a barrel full of irony for a cleveland team that missed three of his top players with pain management injuries.

The fourth game in a row played as well as Hunter and Mabley, both of whom were injured in game 1, the Cavs leads of 20 points on Tuesday evening.

But the fourth quarter seemed to take two hours. The Cavs, which were already missing, had another unhappy event that Ty Jerome is suddenly liability in this series. Cavs trainer Kenny Atkinson tried to go away from him (1 of 14 shootings with two sales), but without the Point Guard and Mitchell tried that Cleveland had to wear so much of the goal charging to bring the ball past the Half Court. The Cavs could hardly get the ball.

In the meantime, the Pacers have just knocked away and expanded the game at every turn.

In the last minute, the Cavs had at least two brutal sales, one when strus could not get the ball in, and one when Mitchell invalidated in Aaron Nesmith. A missed rebound enabled Haliburton to have the ball in his hands in this last possession.

Only a variety of mistakes that were suddenly increased by the precarious health situation of the CAVS were best led in the east to a 2-0 deficit in this series. – Joe Vardon, Senior NBA writer

The slow start pacers start a large hole to dig out

Before game 2, Atkinson said that the Pacers played with more violence in the first game of the series.

“What is the definition of strength? Power, energy, type of static type 2,” he said. “This is like a physics of the second class (class), right? Two static objects and then an object and the other type of kind of. That would be with more strength, right?”

But the Pacers did not have the same energy to start the game on Tuesday evening, and rose 32:15 in the first quarter and it was a hard battle from there. In the second quarter, Indiana fought a little back and closed the lead to eight, but went into half with 61: 50.

After Indiana was up to 20 years old, Indiana made the game interesting at the end of the fourth quarter and drew within three. After Haliburton had done one of two free throws, he gets a rebound with nine seconds in the game and hits a streptback-3 pointer to silence a rough Clleveland audience and end the game. A stunner. – Shakeia Taylor, NBA employee author

Indiana sales are still a problem

Indiana sales were again a big problem and Cleveland used. In game 1, Indiana had a total of 16 sales. But on Tuesday evening, the Cavs forced nine sales in the first quarter and the total amount rose up to half to 14 (16 points). In the second half, they added four more sales for a total of 18 in the game. – Taylor

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