By Tanner Bowen | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-05-22 21:00:00
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第一场比赛绝对不负众望，堪称两队季后赛传奇对决的又一经典篇章
纽约尼克斯与印第安纳步行者重演了去年东部半决赛七场大战的戏码，比赛一开始就进入白热化阶段，双方火力全开。尤其是步行者，仿佛忘记了如何投丢球，开局前9投全部命中。但尼克斯在进攻端同样给予了步行者防守极大的压力。第二节双方进攻效率有所下降，但尼克斯凭借其身材优势和身体对抗控制了前场篮板，从而获得了更多的进攻机会。上半场结束前，杰伦·布伦森高难度上篮命中，帮助尼克斯以69-62领先进入更衣室。
下半场一开始，双方互不相让，步行者努力争抢前场篮板，逐渐缩小了最多时落后11分的差距。布伦森第三节独得9分，但在泰瑞斯·哈利伯顿的出色发挥下，印第安纳将分差缩小到3分。第四节开始仅2分钟，布伦森就领到了个人第五次犯规，似乎给了步行者反超比分的绝佳机会。然而，尼克斯随即打出一波14-0的攻击波，进攻端多点开花，防守端也充满侵略性。布伦森在还剩5分钟时重新登场，尼克斯似乎已锁定胜局。
但步行者并不甘心。在阿隆·内史密斯等人的三分雨攻势下，尼克斯14分的领先优势迅速缩减至2分。比赛时间所剩无几，哈利伯顿超远两分神奇弹框入网，将比赛拖入加时。加时赛中，双方你来我往，难分伯仲，最终奥比·托平的扣篮和杰伦·布伦森本场比赛的第7次失误，为步行者锁定胜局，完成了一场史诗般的逆转。
- 这场比赛堪称两队过去几十年中众多传奇对决的又一经典。两队在之前的系列赛中都展现出了惊人的韧性，因此，在精彩系列赛的第一场就上演逆转，对任何人来说都不应该感到意外。
- 如果没有阿隆·内史密斯的英雄表现，步行者根本无法赢得这场比赛。内史密斯命中8记三分，刷新了个人单场三分球命中数纪录，同时也打破了步行者队史季后赛单场三分球命中数纪录，其中6记三分来自第四节，帮助印第安纳从看似不可逾越的尼克斯领先优势中扳回一城。
- 哈利伯顿在命中扳平比分的超远两分后，误以为是三分球，并模仿了步行者传奇球星雷吉·米勒的经典“锁喉”手势，挑衅麦迪逊广场花园的尼克斯球迷。这个画面很可能成为人们在30年后回忆这场比赛时的标志性瞬间。更令尼克斯球迷难受的是，雷吉·米勒本人就坐在场边，为TNT电视台解说这场比赛。
- 布伦森得到43分，但在下半场领到了一些愚蠢的犯规，导致他在加时赛中不得不缩手缩脚，避免被罚下场。他还出现了7次失误，仅有5次助攻，其中一些失误代价惨重。在接下来的系列赛中，他必须更加稳健地控球，减少失误。
- 步行者在比赛中多次采用全场紧逼战术，使得尼克斯发球困难，被迫在进攻时间即将耗尽时才开始组织进攻。
- 杰伦·布伦森和泰瑞斯·哈利伯顿的进攻风格截然不同。布伦森就像一个保龄球，喜欢寻求身体对抗，总是在突破时撞击防守者，从而创造投篮角度。哈利伯顿并非回避对抗，但他的球风丝滑流畅，几乎能够在对抗中翩翩起舞。
- 在尼克斯一度看似将统治篮板球的情况下，印第安纳显著缩小了前场篮板的差距，最终仅比尼克斯少抢2个篮板。他们的防守还迫使纽约队出现15次失误，其中7次来自对杰伦·布伦森的围追堵截。
第二场比赛将于北京时间周六上午7:00在TNT电视台播出。
点击查看原文：Eastern Conference Finals, Game 1: Indiana mounts historic comeback to steal Game 1 against the Knicks
Eastern Conference Finals, Game 1: Indiana mounts historic comeback to steal Game 1 against the Knicks
Game 1 certainly lived up to the hype of this legendary playoff rivalry
The rematch of last year’s 7-game Eastern Conference Semifinals match-up between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers got off to a ridiculously fast start, with both teams coming out blazing. Indiana in particular looked like they had forgotten how to miss, hitting their first 9 shots from the field. New York though was able to light up the Pacer defense just as much in the early going. Both teams cooled off a bit in the 2nd quarter, but the Knicks were able to use their size and physicality to control the offensive glass, leading to more offensive possessions. A tough Jalen Brunson lay-up in the waning seconds of the half sent New York into the locker at halftime with a 69-62 lead.
The start of the 2nd half was a back-and-forth affair, as the Pacers slowly cut into a deficit that was as big as 11 with a renewed effort of their own on the offensive glass. Brunson had 9 in the quarter but thanks to some impressive shot making from Tyrese Halliburton, Indiana was able to cut the Knick lead to just 3 at the end of the 3rd. Brunson picked up his 5th foul just 2 minutes into the 4th, seemingly giving the Pacers a real chance at claiming a big lead. Instead, the Knicks responded with a 14-0 run, getting offensive contributions from all over and playing with a fury on the defensive end. Brunson made his return at the 5:00 mark and it looked like the Knicks were set to claim a Game 1 victory.
Indiana though had other ideas. A flurry of 3s, mainly from Aaron Nesmith, cut a 14-point Knick lead down to just 2. With time expiring, Halliburton threw up a long two that took an insane bounce before dropping, forcing an unlikely overtime period. The two teams traded buckets throughout the extra session, but it took an Obi-Toppin slam and Jalen Brunson’s 7th turnover of the game to ultimately seal the game and a comeback for the ages for the Pacers.
- This game belongs among the slew of legendary match-ups between these two teams over the last few decades. Both teams have shown tremendous resiliency in the rounds leading up to this one, so it should come as a shock to absolutely no one that one of them mounted a comeback in the very first game of what should be an amazing series.
- Indiana simply does not win this game without the heroics of Andrew Nesmith. Nesmith’s 8 made 3s marked a career high in any game and a Pacers franchise record for 3s in a playoff game, hitting 6 of them in the 4th to claw Indiana back from what looked to be an insurmountable Knick lead.
- Haliburton, thinking the long 2 that forced OT was actually a 3 and thus the gamewinner, imitated Pacers legend Reggie Miller’s iconic taunt, the, “choke,” hand gesture to the Knicks faithful inside Madison Square Garden. It’s an image that will in all likelihood be the one people recall when they look back on this game 30 years from now. Making matters worse for Knicks fans, none other than Reggie Miller himself was sitting courtside calling the game for TNT.
- Brunson had 43 points, but picked up some silly fouls throughout the 2nd half and had to play with a hand tied behind his back in overtime so as not to foul out. He also had 7 turnovers against just 5 assists, with more than a few of them being extremely costly. He’ll have to be much tougher with the ball and cut down on those turnovers as the series moves along.
- The Pacers mixed in a lot of full court pressure throughout the game, making it difficult for the Knicks to inbound the ball and forcing them to start their offense deep into the shot clock.
- There’s a stark contrast in the offensive styles of lead guards Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Halliburton. Brunson is like a bowling bowl and loves to seek contract, always looking to bump his defender on his drives to create angles for good looks. Halliburton doesn’t eschew contact, but he has a silkiness and smoothness to his game that lends itself to almost being able to dance through it.
- Indiana narrowed the offensive rebounding gap significantly after the Knicks looked like they were going to dominate that statistic, finishing the game with only 2 fewer rebounds than the Knicks. Their defense also forced New York into 15 turnovers, 7 of them coming from hounding and trapping Jalen Brunson.
Game 2 will be Friday night at 7:00 CT over on TNT.
By Tanner Bowen, via Pounding The Rock