Nembhard: Pacers East Final G6 s stealth MVP - 6 steals + textbook defense locks Brunson

Congratulations to the Pacers for successfully defeating the Knicks in Game 6, winning the Eastern Conference championship and entering the finals again after 25 years. The performance of Halliburton and Siakam of G6 is certainly important to the Pacers' foothold. But Nembhard's performance and defense are an indispensable part of the team. After Nesmith left the court, he became the second ball holder and strengthened his outside defense. Although he made 6 of 12 shots in this game, he scored 14 points. But the plus or negative value is as high as +25.

When he faced Brunson, he strengthened his defensive intensity

serve on the sideline ball. With his enthusiasm and confrontation to Brunson, he directly steals the bottom line ball, leading Brunson in the whole game, making him feel uncomfortable and keeping him in front of him, since he didn't have the ball, he has been pestering Brunson since he got the ball. When he squeezed through the cover and started to jump after three steps, he started to interfere with Brunson. I think it can be called a textbook for defense against Brunson. First, he will fight him physically and not be stuck behind him.

also squeezed through when there was cover and kept in front of him to interfere with the shooting

In addition to defending Brunson, he also has this kind of auxiliary defense that makes people shine. When he saw Bridges trying to force Harlibert on his back, he suddenly attacked him on his blind side, creating a steal.

Anunobi wanted to get misplaced, and Nembhard suddenly walked around, causing Brunson's pass to pass in the wrong direction, creating a steal again, but this time in the assisted defense position, he saw Brunson cleverly reach out to steal after closing the ball, and saw Turner step forward to make up for defense. When he was waiting for his pass, he directly stealed

When he and Haliburton were preparing to attack Brunson, the flexible and smart Nembhard broke out from his weak side, and Nembhard had 6 steals in this game, and 6 steals set a new record of steals in the final of the division final. Brunson only scored 19 points and made 5 mistakes under the Pacers' defense, which made Nembhard's contribution to this performance.