Miracle does not return for a reason alone. But if you point to a single number that is most defined Indiana Pacers‘Against-All-Ods 111-110 Game 1 NBA The final win, which required a fourth quarter rally of 15 points, will tell you a lot.

This was the number of 3-pointers, who was killed by Pacors, through the first three rounds of the playoffs they were six more than the average. Pacers took 39 triple in the opener, who were responsible for more than 47% of their total shots (40% in the regular session) and an average of eight more against New York in the final of the conference.

Indiana got stuck with a bomb strategy in Game 2. It did not even go, and in detail, thunder Win from your own game 1 shooting, win 123–107, and to tie a series in Episine, a game for Indiana for game 3 on Wednesday.

Passers made 14 3s on a 35% clip on Sunday. This is not a terrible number. But the thunder matched him with his 14. This is the difference. In Game 1, Thunder created seven lower 3s compared to Indiana. It is a 21 -digit inequality that was a win -win win for pacers. There was a wash from game 2 3, and OKC cleaned everywhere.

Indiana has to win a 3-point battle as OKC is better everywhere on the floor. they are big. He definitely has the best one-on-one manufacturer in the series and possibly in the world. They have the best rescue in history. There is a reason that almost anyone did not choose pacers to win the series, and many of us did not even think that they could win more than one.

Game 1 was a stunner. The game was not 2. Game 2, and clearly a lot of game 1, looks too much as everyone expected. Thunder will miss shots, but they can get too much shots that they want. Indiana cannot do it. In simple form as the old proverb, it is done, and will possibly continue, a make-or-Miss series for pacers, which are going to do major work beyond the arc, they like it or not.

Why? Because the defense of OKC is shameful to impossible to get into paint. Even when you do, they type o blood like a flock like mosquitoes because what to feel that about 50 sets start swipe on the hand ball.

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In this series so far, Indiana is being excluded from 24 points in paint, and even the difference seems to be cheating. This is likely to continue as pacers are having trouble making any kind of consistent benefit in drill and/or paint, which means they have to make it elsewhere.

It is a 3-point line elsewhere.

If they are making shots, and thunder are missing, pacers (barely) may hang. In almost any other scenario, in the seven-game chain, they cannot. Of course, the reason make-or-mise analysis closes as very lazy because it is not really so simple. This is about all the types that you are getting, and the process by which you are receiving them.

And it contains the problem for pacers, as these 3-pointers were not especially on their terms in Game 2, which has to say that an advantage arose, causing collapse and kick-outs and balls swing in rhythmic shots. Rather, this “I have no choice, but to set it on fire” 3S. Like this:

It is strange to suggest that pacers are increasing 3S by their own design And By Thunder, but what is really going. Then, it is about the quality of these 3S. OKC is fine with quantity.

This is another simple but significant difference, as the defense of OKC surrendered more than the 41% 3-point frequency rate in the regular season, according to glass cleaning, which was the third largest in the league.

But don’t confuse that number with a defense Accept 3 s. In contrast, opponents scored only 34.8%of their non-garrge-time 3S against OKC this season, the second lowest point in the league. This is because OKC does not give quality 3-pointers.

Oklahoma City, by design, has an assembly assembly line of long, strong, athletic feathers, which can put pressure in half-court and harass the paint, which can disturb the scorer, while still having the ability to run back to the shooters for a cursory competition, but really to interrupt them. Look at all the pressures, OKC is putting on Indiana’s ball handler, while still flying to throw Nosith’s corner 3:

Indiana felt such layered disruption to a large extent in the entire game 2. Tieres haliburton Could not loose from his primary defender, when OKC sent many people to him, to bring the thunder into rotation, so kick-outs were not generally open. In fact, no one can make any place on pacers.

If you are not beating anyone with drill to help the defenders to leave your man, then you are going to be hell of time to make an open 3S. Basketball is actually quite simple that way.

When he is found in paint, Heliberton has to move more effectively to score. He has to force the OKC to send more and more defenders so that they can send more and more defenders to make these open looks for all. He had a pedestrian 17 points in Game 2, but even this number suggests a better game than Heliberton. He did not really start scoring until the game was, for all intentions and purposes, finished.

As an overall strategy, pacers, in part, are taking more 3 s in this chain because they know that they are going to be a hard time with the internal defense of OKC and because they know that they are playing hard. Making 3S was the most tried and good. But there is much more in it.

Thunder forced pacers into 19 turnover in the first half of game 1, an incredible number for a highly protective crime. The safest way to cut on the turnover is to shoot quickly, before a turnover may be.

If nothing else, Indiana is definitely not passing any 3s. They know that they have to achieve multiple shots on the target as possible with the number of turnover OKC (Indiana has placed up to 15 numbers in game 2, which is still above their average, but perhaps manageable if they are making a bunch of 3S, but you have to move a very large turnover number).

Finally, all of this comes down to a basic question: will pacers make a high percentage of 3S, and if they do, will the thunder do their share to remember their high percentage? The equation worked in favor of Indiana in Game 1, but went wrong in Mathematics Game 2.

You can see a hundred different factors for the game 3 and beyond the game, but no one will carry forward the simple truth that pacers have to win a 3-point battle, perhaps by a comprehensive margin, there is no chance to win another game in this series, three more.