2024 NBA Playoffs: East Semifinals: #2 New York Knicks vs #6 Indiana Pacers (IND WINS 4-3)

[shi-woo]

One of the worst games i've ever watched.

Pacers were completely robbed by the refs. Like, they didn't even hide it tonight, just a disgusting showing from the NBA and the officials.

Momentum killing calls all 2nd half, ghost fouls, and it's only fitting the game ends on a weakest moving screen in the history of the game. Just like the UConn women's game, but 10X worse because Turner barely moved.

The look on the Pacers players and coaches at the end said it all, the look of a kid who's ballin all night but the coach takes you out to put his son in the game look.

Hali had some bone headed plays down the stretch, and people will focus on that, but that's the type of game the NBA is Rigged crowd will always point to.

[life_saver]

Real story of this game should not be refs...it should be how underwhelming and disappointing Haliburton was. Like this dude isn't even attempting to score...it's also not like he is doing some crazy playmaking out there either. He is playing like a role player out there

[Patches Perry]

That was a fun game and a great sign of things to come in this series. More of the same please! Competitive games and a long series would be awesome.

[GooniesNeverDie]

The phantom kick ball. The phantom foul on Turner. Gifted wrapped for the Knicks.

I'll give you the kick but phantom foul? The Pacers challenged that call and it couldn't be overturned. It was a lot of contact, you can't hedge on a screen. Usually doesn't get called when star big men do it though.

By the book it’s a foul but that same scene happens almost every possession. Just saw it like 3 times in the Denver game already.


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[Jadoogar]

I hate the knicks as much as the next guy but this was absolutely not on the refs. The Turner call was iffy but everything else was legit.

No way - the Hali foul they had to challenge and lose a fastbreak and then the kick ball. Huge swings there.


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it looked like a reach in. You can't expect the refs to get 100% of the calls right. They challenged and the pacers rightfully got the ball.
You guys focus too much on the refs. What about all the mistakes the Pacers made?

[Reeko]

Did Brunson, Hart and Donte all play together at Villanova at some point?

Yes and they won a championship.

That's pretty beautiful.

[RB34]

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[EmpireFalls]

Haliburton seriously put on a Ben Simmons 2021 performance tonight. Shockingly awful.

[ajones9219]

Don't care who wins the series but the Pacers got hosed

[Im Coming Home]

death taxes and fans of the losing team crying about
the officiating … clockwork

nah man.. we got lucky at the end for sure. But the officiating was bad on both ends all game prior to that, Knicks were in the penalty in the 3rd and 4th super early, Pacers were getting the Embiid whistle.

[___Rand___]

How the REFS handed the game to Knicks in the last 3 minutes:

1) a DEFLECTION by Nesmith was deemed a kicked ball, Knicks ball. Knicks proceed to hit a 3 and take a 3 point lead

2) Phantom moving screen call on Turner with 17 seconds left disallowing Pacers to tie or take the lead in the game.

3)

[NYKnickerbocker]

I was legit more worried when TJ McConnell was out there than Hali lol

If that keeps up the pacers should pack it in

[life_saver]

Pacers win this game if they did not bring back Hali. McConnell was running the team well...

yeah...if I am a Pacers fan, then seeing your possible supermax player play like that would make me sick. Dude is playing like a role player

[Decipher]

Haliburton is trash on both ends of the floor and disappearing when his team needed him the most. This was a Ben Simmons esque masterclass performance

Simmons contributed in other ways

Hali was poor all round

[seorang]

Did Brunson, Hart and Donte all play together at Villanova at some point?

Yes and they won a championship.

I remember Donte was just a role player on that team, went nuclear in the Championship game.

[Im Coming Home]

Did Brunson, Hart and Donte all play together at Villanova at some point?

Yes and they won a championship.

That's pretty beautiful.

Divo and Brunson won two times together and Hart one once with them before going to the NBA.

[BrianInPhilly]

death taxes and fans of the losing team crying about
the officiating … clockwork

Calling a kicked ball when a team gets a steal is not even "officiating", it's literally just altering the game. I agree on 50/50 foul calls but for Black & white things like that in the final minute that's inexcusable and people have a right to call that out. That's not "crying".

[PierceFan4ever]

I mean, the league has a chance at a Celtics/Knicks conference finals. Expecting the refs to call it down the middle is a little unrealistic, and I say that as someone who doesn’t care who wins this series. That’s what the NBA is.

Feels that way. Celtics pacers isn’t gonna be a draw sadly because of no previous rivalry. Pacers gonna have to slam the door shut because crunch time it won’t be in their favor

[mpharris36]

I hate the knicks as much as the next guy but this was absolutely not on the refs. The Turner call was iffy but everything else was legit.

No way - the Hali foul they had to challenge and lose a fastbreak and then the kick ball. Huge swings there.


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and the nembhard off his leg?

or did you just forget that?