Awkward scored 4 points, and a sluggish scored only 8 points! The NBA is underrated super giant, you really want to lead the team to win the championship

This season, the NBA playoffs reached the finals, and the Thunder and Pacers were left with two young teams. Teams that ended their journey this season early are brewing big moves. The Lakers are planning to strengthen the inside, and Lopez, Capela, Looney and even veteran Horford are all alternatives, but the team wants to continue to improve its competitiveness. In the words of Los Angeles media, no one else is safe when Doncic strengthens, including James, there is also the possibility of being traded. The Suns are eager to send Durant away and are expected to finalize the deal before the draft, with the goal of retrieving the first round of this summer as soon as possible. The Rockets' first round tiebreak game of the playoffs was eliminated by the Warriors, proving that they really need to lift the upper limit, and Jaylen Green should be given up.

Every family has a difficult sutra to recite. But looking back, the Thunder and Pacers are finally competing for the championship this season, which proves that the NBA has indeed entered the stage of taking the lead in the new generation. Legendary stars such as James, Durant, Curry, and Kat are all past. The Thunder won 68 in the regular season this season, breaking the historical record. In addition to the difficulties in playing against the Nuggets in the playoffs, they did not encounter pressure when playing against the Grizzlies and the Timberwolves, so they are naturally the biggest favorites to win the championship. But after the first three games of the finals, something was wrong. Alexander did not have the ability to organize and support + relied on free throws. The Thunder lacked stable scoring points, including the team's overall mistakes, and it was not surprising that they fell behind 1-2 in a big score. Instead, the Pacers, led by Halliburton, are getting closer and closer to the championship.

Regarding the Pacers, the outside world does not pay much attention to them. Moreover, at the end of the regular season, the most overrated star initiated by US media and anonymously voted by NBA players. Halliburton, the leader of the Pacers, was elected first place with a high vote. Halliburton has been unpopular since entering the league. At that time, the Kings chose the former between Fox and Halliburton, and no one cared about the price in the league. In the end, the Pacers decided to give it a try and sent Xiao Sa to get the cornerstone of this future team building. In the past three years since he came to the Pacers, Halliburton has averaging 20 points and 10 assists per game, but one thing is that the scores are fluctuating greatly, and some games have no desire to attack at all. To give a few examples, for example, in the second round of the playoffs, Halliburton scored 2 of 8 shots in the game and scored only 4 points!

As a result, the Pacers lost to the Cavaliers with 22 points. Including the Eastern Conference Finals against the Knicks G6, Halliburton played for 32 minutes, made 2 of 7 shots, and his performance was very sluggish, with only 8 points, and the Pacers lost another 17 points! It is indeed a bit difficult for Halliburton to get 30+. He has never been a super scoring point, but he is definitely the strongest organization leading the team in the NBA. Let’s look at a few statistics. In this year’s playoffs, Halliburton’s On-Off value is +14.5. As long as he is present, any Pacers duo + trio + four-man (including Halliburton) will win points! In the finals G3 game, he scored 22 points, 9 rebounds and 11 assists in a single game. He is the fifth player in NBA history to have 20 points, 10 assists and 0 free throws in a single game in the finals!

The key is that in the first three games in the finals, Halliburton scored a total of 53 points, but no free throws, the first player in NBA history! Not only is Halliburton not favored by fellow NBA players, but the league doesn't like him very much. He was elbowed by Dortmund and hit Caruso in the abdomen. He was not even qualified to get a free throw. But data shows that when Halliburton scored at least 20 points and 10 assists in a single game this season, the Pacers won 20 wins and 1 loss! In addition, in four consecutive rounds of series, Halliburton had a winning goal or a tie, with a layup in the first round and a winning goal of the Bucks, a three-pointer in the second round, a winning goal of the Cavaliers, a tie in the Eastern Conference Finals dragged into overtime, and a jump shot in the finals, a winning goal of the Thunder, the first person in NBA history! Halliburton's winning contribution value at a critical moment is already the first player in NBA history!

The Pacers were able to succeed this year, and only 2 wins were left to the championship, Halliburton made an indelible contribution. In Carlisle's tactical system, Halliburton is a tactical initiator and a feint point that attracts firepower for most of the time. The Pacers averaged 6 players in double digits per game in the playoffs, and 8 players scored more than 8 points. Halliburton and McConnell seamlessly connected the control of the game in 48 minutes. But at the critical moment, Halliburton had a super big heart. According to statistics, in the past 28 years of NBA history, Halliburton's effective shooting percentage was 79.5% at the critical moment, the league's first! Yao Ming is second in the league 73.3%, followed by Jokic, Curry, James, etc. In Carlisle's words, handing the ball to Tyres (Haliburton) at the last moment is already successful.

data shows that the team that took the lead in the finals had an 2-1 lead with an probability of winning the championship of 81%. The Pacers also have a home advantage. In addition, the most important thing is that the Thunder does not have many matching measures for the Pacers' offensive strategy of blooming more points, and they lose sight of the other; and Alexander's dependence on referees is too high! Halliburton is getting closer and closer to leading the team to win the championship. It has to be said that he is the most underrated super giant in the NBA this season. There are not many points, but in terms of dominance in the game, no one can match it. It is too strong at critical moments, and there is also stable field control and organization! And with Sika as the strongest support, he is expected to lead the Pacers to become the future overlord of the league.