NBA Playoffs, Haliburton Drags Indiana One Win Away From Finals
He took the blame for the Game 3 defeat but it didn't take him long to make amends. At Gainbridge Fieldhouse - with his father John back in the stands after the fight with Antetokounmpo that had pushed the Pacers to ban him from the stands -, Tyrese Haliburt scored a historic triple double leading Indiana to a 130-121 victory over New York that made it 3-1 in the Eastern Conference final. He had 32 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds but above all no turnovers: in the NBA playoffs only Nikola Jokic and Oscar Robertson have put in 30-15-10 performances but none of them have had 0 turnovers since (1977-78 season) they have been recorded in the statistics.
30 points for Siakam"I just wanted to win and show that I can respond the right way when my back is against the wall," Haliburton said, in a game that also saw Pascal Siakam finish with 30 points and Obi Toppin sink the game-clinching three-pointer with 46" left. "Tyrese was our leader," Coach Carlisle praised. "We made sure things went in a different direction than Game 3."
In a series where for the first time the home court advantage is respected, New York sinks despite 31 points from Brunson , 24 from Towns and 22 from Anunoby . The Knicks, after all, never gave the impression of being able to turn the game around this time and tomorrow at Madison Square Garden they have no alternative to victory if they do not want to be eliminated for the second year in a row by Indiana, one step away from those Finals reached only on one occasion, in 2000, when they then bowed 4-2 to the Lakers of Shaq and Kobe. "We have to do better, first of all as a team - tries to shake his teammates Karl-Anthony Towns - We all have to make it more difficult for each of them to score".
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