Contest of the Year! The life of the walker is too hard!

If you missed the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, I highly recommend watching the replays, just the fourth quarter and overtime, and you'll regain the charm of basketball, where the blood goes hand in hand with suspense, and you never give up until the last minute.

With 6:26 left in the fourth quarter, Towns hit a three-pointer to give the Knicks a 17-point lead, the biggest lead of the game for the Knicks, whose home court was already celebrating the victory, and the context of the game before that was:

The first three quarters were difficult to solve, and the Pacers still accelerated the style of offense, while the Knicks were also pushing fast offense, and everyone was facing each other, which was completely different from yesterday's Western Conference finals.

With 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Brunson picked up his fifth foul and had to go off the court early, with the Pacers trailing by two points at 92-94 after hitting a free throw. It was supposed to be the Knicks' toughest period, but they then went on a 14-0 run to keep the deficit by more than a dozen points until the final three minutes.

At 2:51, Brunson, who came back up, hit a three-pointer to give the Knicks a 14-point lead. Then, ladies and gentlemen, we saw one of the craziest reversals in playoff history.

At 2:39, Haliburton made a three-pointer; At 2:04, Nesmith made a three-pointer; At 51 seconds, 34 seconds, and 22 seconds, Nesmith hit three three-pointers in a row. Counting the two three-pointers he made before, Nesmith hit six three-pointers in a row after entering the final five minutes, and he didn't lose a single one!

Starting with Smith's three-pointer in 3:14, the Pacers scored seven straight games, including six three-pointers and one free throw, scoring a staggering 19 points in seven games. Despite the Pacers' crazy offense, the Knicks still led by two points in the final 22 seconds, and the Pacers began to foul tactics.

Downs made 1 of 2 free throws, and then turned around and Smith made 2 of 2 free throws to score the 20th point of the fourth quarter and hit six three-pointers and two free throws. The Pacers trailed by one point and fouled again, and OG stepped up to the free throw line and hit 1 of 2 free throws again, giving the Knicks a two-point lead, but the Pacers had the ball.

Haliburton dribbled the ball in the backcourt, first prepared to break through, and then pulled out of the three-point line with a false shot, and shot a three-point shot against Miro's defense, and the ball bounced high on the neck of the basket, and once flew out of the game screen. Just when everyone thought the Pacers were up for nothing, the ball magically fell into the basket again!

The whole Pacers went crazy and rushed to Haliburton, who was "choking himself" in tribute to Miller. The Knicks' home court fell into the biggest silence since the start of the season, and they couldn't believe they were killed. But the plot of the peak and loop is still to come.

Through replay, Haliburton's ball stepped on the line slightly, and the three-point strike turned into a two-point draw. Haliburton's one-shot tribute to the three celebrities, the crazy reversal to pay tribute to Miller, the juggling "lore" to pay tribute to Embiid's small card, and the final stepping on the line also paid tribute to Durant.

The Knicks went from heaven to hell and back to earth in just a few minutes, and they had at least one overtime game to make up for the loss. Haliburton's bouncing is a stroke of luck, and his stepping on the line is not the luck of the Knicks.

At the start of overtime, Towns and OG scored one after another, and the Knicks regained a four-point lead. Brunson broke through and was blocked, and then Nembhard hit another three-pointer. Replays showed that Brunson was blocked and the round was an interference ball, and the Pacers were lucky to escape again.

In the ensuing game, the two sides started to attack again, and no one could defend against anyone, the Knicks' physical fitness began to collapse, and the momentum of the Pacers became more and more vigorous. In the final moments, Haliburton's attack and pass killed the game again, and the Knicks still lost G1 in a humiliating way.

Looking back on this game now, I still feel angry. The Knicks were all shot by the key shot in Brunson's absence, and the Pacers' insane offensive efficiency in the final moments allowed Nesmith to shoot the most accurate game of his career.

It's hard to imagine this as a player who left the Celtics shooting 27 percent from three-point range, and the college sharpshooter couldn't shoot when he arrived with the Celtics. The Pacers began to transform into defensive giants, and then the three-point shooting became more and more accurate year by year. This year's regular season three-point shooting rate is 43.1%, and the three-point shooting rate after today's playoff is as high as 53.8%, ranking first among all players!

The Knicks' defensive preparation for the sharpshooter was still insufficient, and most of the three points in the fourth quarter came from the Knicks' untimely change of defense, which gave him room to shoot. However, the Pacers team is indeed powerful, as if at every critical moment, someone can always step up. No one is a point that can be completely let go, everyone is a soldier, and everyone can carry the game.

For the past 27 years, the final 2:50 of playoff regular time, when a team trails by 14 points or more, the final record is 0-970. After today, the record became 1-970. The Pacers have done so much in the playoffs this year, and now the miracles are still happening and still playing out around this team.

For the Knicks, the most important thing they need to do is take a good shower, lie in bed and forget about the loss. While unrealistic, they have to.

From the next game to regain control of the rhythm of the game, it needs to be remembered that you must not fight with the Pacers anymore, the opposite team is not only strong in attack, but also very hard.

The series is still long, and whoever can control the offensive tempo will win the Eastern Conference championship.