NBA Playoffs: Pacers Miss Key Chance as Knicks Rally

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00:00You never want to create doubt if you're an NBA team.

00:04Like, you want to go up 3-0, Gilbert, if you're Indiana.

00:08And then if you drop game four and even game five, you win game six, it's fine.

00:11But this is not – I don't think this is a good thing for the Pacers here.

00:15I'm a little concerned here because last night – or, excuse me, on Sunday night,

00:19they, I think, had an opportunity to put this thing away.

00:23We've seen teams go up 3-0.

00:24Most sweep, eventually they win.

00:26Now, all of a sudden, the Pacers have to be thinking, wait a second here.

00:30Like, is it possible that we could actually lose both home games

00:33when I think that we thought that wouldn't be the case?

00:36So I suppose I would ask you, with Carl Anthony Towns playing the way that he did

00:39in that fourth quarter, which seemed to be the difference in the game,

00:42which was missing from the games in New York, is that the difference?

00:47Why the Knicks won this game, and can it be the difference tonight?

00:50Definitely the difference.

00:51You know, I think back to that moment where Indiana went up 20 points,

00:54and it really did feel like, oh, man, this might be a sweep.

00:56And I remember asking who I was watching the game with,

00:58do we need to bring the brooms out?

01:00But the Knicks figured something out.

01:02And I think not just the fact that they were able to win that game on the road,

01:05but the way they won that game.

01:06The 20-point comeback, which has kind of become their patented staple this year,

01:10the third time they've done it in the last two rounds,

01:13they can feel some confidence and say, okay, we can hang around.

01:16And this is a team that we had a big lead on earlier in the series as well.

01:20So a lot of these games could swing either way.

01:22And we saw this in that Detroit series as well,

01:24in the first round with the Knicks where they looked outmatched a little bit

01:27but continued to find ways to win and then finding ways to win on the road.

01:30Very good road team the Knicks have been during these playoffs.

01:33So definitely don't count them out,

01:34especially because the Pacers left the door open,

01:37and they might regret the fact that they didn't take care of business

01:40or get the job done, finish the job off in Game 3.