After the Six World Wars, the Indiana has not lost yet!

Faced with the critical battle of being eliminated if it was defeated, the Pacers played the representative game of the finals in the sixth game. They once climaxed 68-32, sweeping away the decline in the previous game, and finally ushered in a home victory 108-91, forcing the series into a 3-3 draw, ushering in the fifth finals tiebreak battle since the Millennium.

Reviewing the game, the Thunder took the lead with 25-18 in the first nine minutes, and expanded to 42-34 in the middle of the second quarter. The situation seemed to be replicating the first two games. Then, coach Carlisle quickly took the initiative to strike back with five small lines. Nembhard and McConnell held the ball to restrain the first defense line, and combined with the weak side topping and Sika's breakthrough and finishing, is it that Halliburton will connect the entire team to attack.

started to gain a lead from the middle of the second quarter, and the Pacers stabilized their momentum until the last moment, and once led by up to 31 points. This is an advantage that the Pacers have never played in this round of the finals.

Obi Toppin, who averaged only 10.5 points per game in the regular season this season, scored 20 points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals in 23 minutes in this game. Relying on his weak side cut and 45-degree angle to run in advance, perfectly tearing the Thunder's low-post rotation; more importantly, Toppin was on the court for 11 minutes, and his four-shot lineup was formed by McConnell, Nembhard and Shepard. The net score was as high as +22, which completely accelerated the pace of the game, and targeted the Thunder's franchise protection team formed around Chet.

Thanks to his outstanding performance in this game, Toppin was as famous as Robert Horry, becoming the second finalist in NBA history to start from the bench, eventually scored more than 70 points and 30 rebounds, and scored more than 12 three-pointers.

After passing the team doctor's assessment before the game, Halliburton was still restricted by calf injury. After opening the gap early in the first half, he only played for 22 minutes in this game and had to rest the game, but he still contributed 14 points, 5 assists and 2 steals. Relying on more high pick-and-rolls, Turner was able to choose to delay and help Halliburton avoid Dolter's frontal pressure, forcing the Thunder into the inside to shrink around mid-range jump shots and throws, connecting the bottom corner shooters.

The Thunder made 21 mistakes in the game, and the Pacers scored 26 points in the conversion; Alexander made 8 personal mistakes to the highest in his career playoffs, tying his personal career mistakes record. Whether Alexander or Jewish, once the first cover is broken, the Pacers' weak side directly fills up the ball and forces the ball to get out. Homgren is difficult to handle the ball in a short pick-and-roll. In addition, the Thunder only has 26.7% of the three-point shooting percentage left on the outside. The key to oppressing the Pacers' victory in the last game became their weakness in this game.

Pacers made 15 of 42 shots from the outside in this game, and their 35.7% shooting percentage was not completely explosive by the Pacers' standards, and it was not particularly accurate, but the winning point was the timing of scoring. 8 of the 11 three-pointers in the second and third quarters came from the receiving shot after the half-time transfer, which directly punished the Thunder's shrinking defensive position.

On the other hand, the Pacers also remembered the lessons from the previous game, with only 12 mistakes in the game. Sika contributed 16 points and 13 rebounds, grabbed 5 offensive rebounds in three quarters, and seized the opportunity to score a second offensively.

February level, Carlisle arranged five small + early running position, focusing on the five-outside position of four-shotsman + Sika or four-shotsman + Turner, relying on the ball holder's pick-and-roll + 45-degree empty cut on the weak side, forcing the Thunder's inside big man to leave the inside guard, allowing the Pacers to avoid the last round of the attacking basket.

Especially Halliburton, who played with injury, took the ball at an average of 3.2 seconds in each offense and defense conversion. This data is reduced by 1.6 seconds compared to the fifth game. Relying on the fast-paced sports counterattack, the Thunder cannot set up a complete half-field position defense, which directly puts the Thunder in a passive situation.

Compared with the indiscriminate attacks of Alexander in the previous few games, the Pacers no longer pursued double-teams in this game as soon as they got the ball. Instead, they shrink their defense line in advance before finding a shooter, and then use the long arms of the defensive player to return to the three-point line to intercept the ball, causing the Thunder to continue to fall into a vicious cycle of "slow ball out - mistakes or barely take action".

On the other hand, on the Thunder, Dai Gnott wanted to rely on the two main players Alexander and Jewe to stagger the playing time to support the game, but the Pacers set up McConnell + Nembhard's oppressive defense line, which almost completely disintegrated the Thunder's offensive mode, especially in the stage of single-core leadership of Jewe, who only scored 4 points in 6 minutes, with a plus-minus value of only -9. After the 3-3 draw in the

series, the Thunder's home tiebreaker came to the Thunder's home tiebreak. Looking back on NBA history, the Finals' home record was 15 wins and 4 losses. Coincidentally, the Thunder's predecessor, the Supersonics, happened to be one of four of the defeats. On the other hand, among the teams that have lagged behind 2-3 in the past 20 years, if the teams that won the sixth game, the final winning rate is to win all three games, namely the Lakers in 2010, the Heat in 2013, and the Cavaliers in 2016.

For the Pacers, the key to the tiebreak is Halliburton's health. If his health is fine, the Pacers' offensive and defensive conversion and misplaced outside call can achieve continuity; but if the leg injury sounds the red light again, Carlisle must activate McConnell and Nembhard's dual control plan in advance, but it is difficult to ensure that the Thunder will not be prepared in the seventh game after losing in the sixth game.

In addition, referring to the Thunder's assist and turnover ratio in the fourth and fifth games of the series, the data was 0.57, while the sixth game completely dropped to 0.25; whether it can continue to double-team the opponent's two core players and keep the fouls, so that Chet can match Turner more, this will be the key watershed in the seventh game of the series..

Pacers like to push counterattacks, while the Thunder likes to drag the rhythm to the half-field positional battle. In the end, who can pull the opponent into his own rhythm is likely to be the one who will eventually win the championship trophy.