How the Knicks game 1 lost to the Pacers

TYrese Haliburton's last second shot bounced off the back of the edge. For a moment, the New York Knicks fans in the rough, party -political amount of 19,812 in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan -which were prepared for a few moments before, to celebrate a victory that brought the Knicks a step closer to the first NBA final in 26 years. Haliburton, the Point Guard of Star Indiana Pacers, seemed to have missed the attempt to pierce her hearts, turn her stomach into porridge and turn her mind into an anger. Or depression. Or both.

Probably both.

Because the Knicks led the Pacers with 17 points, 111-94, with 6:26 in the regulation of game 1 of the final Eastern Conference. The Knicks had a lead of 15 points with less than five minutes. The Knicks led nine in the last minute. Sales, missed patties and the Rotheißer from Indianas Aaron Nesmith-der Six Threes met in the fourth quarter, the first player in NBA history, who so many in the last framework of a playoff game sank the pacers the knocking of the chin, which on two points, 125-123, the lead of the kink, 125-123. Haliburton dripped into the alley, where Mitchell Robinson met him from the Knicks. Then he pulled to the top of the key to start a shot over Robinson, who either seemed to be a played three, or a failure that would leave the kinks off the hook and keep their victory.

Although Haliburton's attempt rattled off the rim, it did something surprising to find the horror of every “Go New York, Go New York, Go”-Sening-Knicks fan in the garden. It put on in the air and hovered close enough to the basket to ask whether Indiana could finally pull this miracle. “It looked like it was a chance,” said Pacers coach Rick Carlisle to Indiana's breathtaking and historical overtime victory of 138-135 about the Knicks. “It was terribly high.”

The pacers on the floor were more confident. Nesmith was positioned under the basket. “I've just seen it,” said Nesmith. “I said, 'Oh, that's good.'”

Haliburton, which was finished with 31 points, denied being emptied when the ball bounced off the edge. The shot felt true when he left his hand.

“It felt firm up there,” said Haliburton afterwards. “And frankly, when it went in, I said: 'My eyes might have been deceived.'”

New York could only want an illusion.

But the brand was very real. Haliburton and most of the arena believed that his foot was behind the three-point line, and his Summer Theater ended the game. So the Pacers hurried the ground to celebrate. Haliburton, in an allusion to the Pacers legend Reggie Miller -who sits as a member of the TNT crew crew at the courtyard -did the Choke -Schild, as Miller in the garden 5 of the Eastern Conference Finale from 1994 did 31 years ago when Miller scored 25 points in the fourth quarter to shock New York. However, the repetition showed that Hailuburton's foot played the line. The Pacers and Knicks were now actually 125-125 and would have to work in overtime.

“If I had known that it was two, I would do it not I did it, “said Hailburton of the Choke sign.” So I think I might have wasted it. “

In the last minute of the extension, an Obi Toppin-Follow-Up-Dunk and a Nifty Pass from Haliburton gave the pacers to a cut and Nembhard the spark that they needed to withstand two late three-point attempts by New York Stars Jalen Brunson (43 points) and Karl-Anthony Towns (35 points).

In view of the Playoff rivalry between the two franchise companies, which goes back to the nineties – and Indiana's history to stab Knicks in their own building – Indiana's comeback felt even surreal. The Knicks jumped back from Miller's display in '94 to win this series, but next year, in the second round of the playoffs, Miller scored 8 points in the last 9 seconds of game 1 at MSG to steal an impossible victory. The Knicks forced a game 7 in this series in 1995. But New York's season ended when Patrick Ewing missed a finger roll layup in Summer.

New York won the Eastern Conference Championship in 1999 by completing the Pacers in game 6 in the garden, but next year Indiana sent the Knicks in game 6 in New York. Ewing, New York Hall of Fame Center, never played again for the Knicks after the defeat of 2000 against the Pacers. And before this season, the Knicks had not returned to the conference final since then.

Of course, the Pacers expected in 2025.

And of all the heartbreaking Indiana, Indiana has caused Knicks fans over the years that this could be most common. Because here is an incredible statistics: In the last 27 post-seasons, teams that were listed in the last 2:50 of the fourth quarter with 14 or more points were 970-0.

970-0. Tonight.

Hailburton achieved 2:39 to 119-108 in the lead of New York. After a Brunson miss, Nesmith scored a three to do it 119-111. A Bruson Layup with 59 seconds New York gave a comfortable 121-112 pillow. But Nesmith wasn't finished. A trio of Nesmith threesome in the last minute, a bad Brunson pass and missed bad shots of cities and OG Anunoby set up Haliburton's dramatic Summerbeater at the end of the regulation.

“It's probably the best feeling in the world,” said Nesmith.

The Pacers have a feel for the dramatic. Since 1996 to 1997, teams that have come by 7 or more points in the last 50 seconds of the fourth quarter or in the playoffs have been 4-1,702. Indiana has three of these victories and everyone came to this year's playoffs.

“It's a 48 -minute game,” said Carlisle. “We always say Pacer basketball is 48 minutes. And this evening it was 53 minutes.”

In his meeting after the game with reporters, New York coach Tom Thibodeau in Ashen looked and lost the loss when he explained what developed. “They take disappointment,” he said, “and try to transform it into determination.”

The Knicks and Pacers return to MSG on Friday evening. “My whole life,” said a 21-year-old woman when he submitted from the arena, “this team gave me pain.”