New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson scored 43 points against the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals Wednesday night, but that wasn't enough to give New York WW
Knicks lead by 14 points at the end of the fourth quarter
Indiana's 14-minute volume is back and there are less than three minutes left to work overtime. Aaron Nesmith matched the NBA record in the fourth quarter with six 3-pointers in the playoff season.
Tyrese Haliburton also hit the game's shot near the top of the arc, which involved the ball bounced violently after entering the back of the basket.
Haliburton and Nesmith became the third Pacers duo with 30 points per game in the playoffs.
“In the playoffs, when you win, it's the best thing ever. When you lose, it's the worst thing ever. The best way to deal with all of this is to keep your head flat and make sure we have each other's support.”
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“In the playoffs, when you win, it's the best thing ever,” Brunson said, who said he had only six shots out of six outside the arc and had seven turnovers.
“When you lose, it's the worst thing ever. Give them a lot of honors. They shut down the game like they did in all the playoffs. It's just that we're not that good.”
New York creates horrible NBA history
Karl-Anthony Towns won 35 points and 12 rebounds, while Josh Hart scored eight points and scored a top 13 rebounds.
“We did a lot of things, we did a good job, we made ourselves capable of winning,” Towns said. “We played for 46 minutes. Those 2 minutes [are] We lost the game where we were and that's all of us. ”
The Knicks finished their last game in overtime, but Brunson and Town both missed 3 seconds in the last 10 seconds, sealing Indiana's comeback.
Entering Game 1 in the last minute of the fourth quarter or overtime game in the playoffs, trailing 9 points or more in the last minute of the playoffs or overtime since 1998. The history is now 1-1,414.
According to basketball reference, the team led at least 14 points in the last 2:45 of the fourth quarter, as detailed game-by-game tracking for the first time in 1997-98.
The Knicks faced Indiana in their second game Friday.
