116-107! Substitute scored 31 points, unprecedented record was born, magical laws reappeared

Matherin broke through the Thunder penalty area with the ball in the final quarter, twisting his body and hitting it to 21. The sound of the floor hitting and the screams of 20,000 people torn the Indiana night sky.

The moment the 22-year-old Canadian fell to the floor, it seemed to have a crack in the Thunder's dream of champions.

McConnell on the bench waved his towel and roared, Turner beat his chest and pointed at the scoreboard, which clearly showed the Pacers' substitute scored 49-18, and Mathering's 27 points per person was 9 points more than the entire Thunder team's bench.

Have you ever seen the battlefield where the finals were dominated by the bench?

Matherin's bullet-like efficiency made the Thunder's defense look like a piece of paper burned through.

He became the first NBA to score 25 in the finals substitute in the past 14 years. The last time he did this was Terry, the Mavericks' Jets in 2011.

He only played 22 minutes in the whole process, scoring an average of 1.23 points per minute, the strongest firepower that exploded in the shortest time in the history of the finals.

183cm McConnell transformed into a ball-stealing machine, stealing the knife and cutting the knife five times, and broke Alexander twice in the last quarter, directly extinguishing the thunder counterattack flames.

He wrote a script that has not been seen in the NBA for 78 years: the first finals bench contributed 5 assists and 5 steals.

When the two led the substitute group to score 49 points, the Thunder bench's eyes were full of despair.

They set the third highest score in the finals since 1997, second only to the 2024 Mavericks and the 2020 Lakers.

The third young master of youth who Thunder is proud of, Alexander, Jewish and Chet scored 70 points together and became an empty background board.

When Alexander pulled off his arm guard after the competition, there were red scratches on his forearm. The Pacers' wheel battle was consumed like a group of tireless hyenas, Toping and Shepard were entangled with the outside, and Turner guarded the basket and sent five hotpots.

The Thunder's inside pillar scored only 3 points in the final quarter. The Pacers deliberately lured him out of the penalty area, allowing Siakam to crush Hartenstein in dislocation.

Halliburton's pass magic is the invisible killer move.

Although he was protected by Dort to the point of breathing, he still used 9 rebounds and 11 assists to build the net.

What's terrifying is that he scored 0 free throws in the first three quarters, using pure shooting and conduction to tear the defense line, subverting the survival rules of superstar basketball.

The Thunder's three-point shooting percentage plummeted to 32.1% in the last quarter. When the 4-minute digits were not collected, their offense completely became a singles show in Alexander.

This super giant, who averaged 29 points per game, lost all four shots in the last 5 minutes, and suffered a zero score in the last quarter sports game for the first time in the series. The scene of WNBA No. 1 pick Clark sitting on the sidelines and smiling made Pacers fans crazy.

The Pacers won all the 8 games she watched on-site this season.

The last time this stadium witnessed a victory in the finals was 25 years ago, in the era of Reggie Miller.

Tonight they made six history in one go, Turner blocked 124 times in the playoffs, surpassing O'Neal Jr., and becoming the first Pacers in the history of the team; Halliburton became the first Pacers player to score in double-digit points in the last 30 years;

The whole team has 20 players, the first time in the history of the team in the finals.

Even the controversial penalty became a footnote to victory. McConnell's "never out of bounds" saved the ball caused a thunderous challenge, but the Pacers used their strength to make the booing a noise.

When Carlisle cast the "Death Five Littles", Thunder's collapse was already doomed.

The coach who led the Mavericks to kill the Big Three of the Heat in 2011 once again humiliated the opponent's 7 short rotation with 10 people.

Pacers' playoff substitutes accounted for as high as 41.2%, while the Thunder was only 23.7%. This 17.5% gap is the trial of team basketball's monopoly on superstars.

Look at the cold data of the technical stand: the Pacers scored 28 assists in the game, continuing the bloodline of the playoff assist king;

The Thunder only scored 4 sports goals in the final quarter, and Alexander scored 3 of them;

The bench scored a net loss of 31 points, setting the largest substitute score difference in NBA Finals history.

At this moment, the slogan hanging on the dome of the Banker Life Stadium is becoming a reality: "The fighting spirit of the nameless will eventually illuminate the road to champion."