You'll Need a Pace(r) Maker For Two Harts This Time | Official Pacers (#4) vs. Knicks (#3) Eastern Conference Finals Thread

Who goes to the NBA Finals?


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Pacers pulled off a fortuitous comeback but a question for Knicks fans. Do yall think the Knicks need to continue to play at this pace of game 1 the rest of the series or should they get back to the grit and grind knocks style and slow it down…
I'm more concerned with them getting rid of Drop Coverage and cleaning up their rotation than the pace. They shifted to more switching against Boston, and it helped disrupt their offense. I thought they'd keep that in place for Indy, but they were back to deep drop coverage and got cooked 40% three-point shooting.

If they can force more turnovers and tough shots by Indy, then the pace is fine since it'll present transition opportunities for Bridges, OG, and Hart.
 

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up 9 with under a minute left, foul. why let them shoot 3's to get back into the game. yes i realize they finally played the foul game when they were up 3, but why let it get to that point. i dont understand why coaches will foul up 3 but will let the pacers knock down three 3's in a row and say now lets prevent them from shooting a 3.
 

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Hell no. A fast paced game is not to their benefit. They should play the two bigs and maul the Pacers with KAT
every game they lose at this point means there's another game added where they gotta try to keep that pace.

they gotta play through their bigs and let Brunson cook.

still tho, 16 from bridges/og, 35 from KAT, 43 from Brunson and you down 0-1. That's fukkin tough
 

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I'm more concerned with them getting rid of Drop Coverage and cleaning up their rotation than the pace. They shifted to more switching against Boston, and it helped disrupt their offense. I thought they'd keep that in place for Indy, but they were back to deep drop coverage and got cooked 40% three-point shooting.

If they can force more turnovers and tough shots by Indy, then the pace is fine since it'll present transition opportunities for Bridges, OG, and Hart.
I don’t know why they went back to Drop coverage. That is notable, and should be called out.
 
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