The Pacers won the battle of the pawns against the Thunder in the NBA late
The difference is always in the details. Sport is like life: it is a game of centimeters. It’s not about talent. Many people have it. It is not enough. One day the distractions arrive. The excuses. The shortcuts. NBA game 3 teaches that success is always about attitude. Of perseverance. Of courage, even before the most scary storms, like that luxury rival called Oklahoma City Thunder.
The margin of error is minimal. The ball is there, on the parquet, and the difference between winning or losing will be in the suddenness to launch. Who will do it first? Who is willing to sacrifice for that possession? Tense the quadriceps. Fight each defense like the last. One, another, and another. Convince yourself that you can, even in the most unequal fights. Adversity is not only earned with the brain.
The heart is needed.
Rick Carlisle built a team with all the lyrics. Indiana Pacers’ soul is in the synergy of parts. In the sum of wills. Because Tyrese Haliburton is the head of the snake and Paskal Siakam, the multifunction razor that adapts to every need, but today did not win for them. Or, rather, he did not win only for them. The key, the difference in centimeters, came from the bank. They were not the kings, the horses or the bishops: Indiana won, in the eyes of a euphoric reggie Miller bet in the front row, the battle of the pawns.
The great performance of the substitutes of the Pacers in game 3
TJ McConnell had a fascinating income in the game and changed the energy of his team. In attack and defense, because it reached five ball robberies. Myles Turner had a lazy game on offense, but his five tapas were key. Andrew Nembhard and Andre Nesmith were also fantastic without ball. And Bennedict Mathurin, of course, made a wonderful game on both sides: he only defeated the OKC Bank 27-18. That in attack, but was also fundamental in defense: they noted only 1-5 TC as a primary defender.
That said, keeping one is unfair: the Bank of the Pacers defeated the Thunder 49-18. It was another sheet in the encyclopedia that the great teachers once dreamed: Behold, with you, the basketball of the common good. No one is better than all together.
Nembhard was a Shai Gilgeous-Alexander stamp. The Canadian reached 24 points, but with 9-20 in field shots and with a worrying fact: he lost six balls. He was not the only one: Oklahoma City had 19 and it was the second game with the most team losses throughout the season, behind the 20 that he gave against New Orleans Pelicans on December 7. Let’s understand it like this: it was guilty but also a victim, because this offensive hell was largely created by the joint of the Pacers players.
This deep rotation Made in Carlisle allowed Indiana to shine in her preferably climax: the end of the matches. The last quarter was won 32-18 with an overcoming energy. It is undoubtedly a team that sails very well in the most dangerous waters. The justification, of course, is in the numbers: it is 9-1 this season at the Clutch.
Unlike the second game, OKC had a hard time controlling Haliburton. What happened is that when his teammates appear, Hali was able to create more easily from the dribbling: he made 22 points, but more important were his 11 assists. Of their passes, the Pacers scored 25 points with 11-19 in field shots.
Do not surprise anyone by saying that the Thunder has more talent than the Pacers. The radiography of the season reveals it. No one should get angry with that. This makes it clear that the Pacers, who already know what it was to fall in postseason in previous years, that they already paid the price of inexperience, they learned that when the opportunities are presented, they must be taken. That does not reach with wanting it: you have to do it. And in that game of details, in that sports deed that is defined by so little, they always win those who strive the most. Those who arrive before. Those who stay an extra hour.
Cold statistics says that the teams that won the third game of a series of equalized finals 1-1 They won the championship 80% of the time (33-8).
The Pacers flew under the radar during all the playoffs. They did not see them coming. In silence, they hit the rock. Every morning, every afternoon, every night. Basketball, like life, is a game of centimeters.
What is integrity? Do what is due when nobody looks.
The strategy, dear friends, begins in the brain. And the difference, the distance in the last line, is taken out with the heart.
