After losing 158 points, they played the NBA sideline as the main line, the strongest voice that never makes a bad appearance!

This year's final script, even if Finch, Quentin, Scorsese and Nolan join forces, they probably won't be able to write it, and they won't be like that.

It really looks like playing the side plot into the main plot.

Two young teams, two brand new Finals teams, they provide a new blueprint for future NBA teams. The era of superstars huddling together has passed, and the most effective way is to gather a group of young people and let them run. The power of friendship

is true, both Pacers and Thunder are like this, and so are the Celtics who won the championship last year. The ideas of the Pacers and Thunder seem to be the same in team building. Once you fall, everything will live. In practice, they are completely different and completely different.

The Thunder used a large number of draft picks to smash a luxurious youth army. What's even more terrifying is that in the next five years, they will have 32 draft picks, 15 first-round picks and 17 second-round picks, which is the most terrifying "draft perpetual motion machine" in NBA history.

If there were still dynasties in this era, it was likely that it would be the Thunder Dynasty. Where is the

walker?

They joined the NBA for 48 years, 9 Eastern Conference Finals, and two Finals. They have never drawn the No. 1 pick, nor have they ever played for them. They are really hardworking small town masters. Their counterattack path begins with a promise that never makes a bad move.

In the 1970s, the Pacers, who had just entered the NBA, encountered a serious financial crisis. The team owner had to borrow from the bank to be able to pay the player's salary. The boss wanted to sell the team, but the new boss who took over had to move the team to Minnesota in the Western Conference. The Pacers management was struggling and undecided.

In despair, they thought of a way to save themselves and pre-sale the season tickets for next season in advance.

Faithful Indiana workers fans learned of the team's dilemma, volunteered to donate generously, actively purchased season tickets, and launched donations for the Pacers, and tens of millions of workers protected the Pacers with one dollar per dollar. In order to repay the trust and loyalty of fans, the boss and the fans made a beautiful agreement - as an industrial city located in the north-central United States, Indiana has neither the prosperity of New York nor the stars of Los Angeles.

Small cities cannot attract superstars, and they do not show up badly without high picks. This is a dead end. How did they break the dead end?

They chose to gain a foothold in team basketball, and through precise drafts (such as Miller was selected in 1987 No. 11, Granger was selected in the 17th pick in the first round in 2005, George was selected in the 10th pick in the first round in 2010, and Turner was selected in the 11th pick in the first round in 2015), refusing to dive, deepen training, self-production and self-sufficiency to maintain competitiveness, and maintain the only NBA record of "zero no. 1 pick".

They are the NBA's MIP (fastest progressive player) factory, produced by the Pacers, and must be the fastest progress. Their team history has trained five fastest-progressive players (Jaylen Ross, O'Neal Jr., Granger, George, Oladipo), which is enough to prove their ability to shape stars.

The teams eager for quick success and instant benefits are all holding together to keep warm. Pacers do the opposite and build a "de-core" team. Of course, this is also a helpless way to attract superstars.

Now they use HalleberHaleberton as the engine, paired with Siakam, Turner and deep rotation to create the offensive efficiency and conversion rhythm that is the first in the league, and use "all people are soldiers" to compete for talent crushing.

Is this accident?

This is the contemporary echo of their iron-blooded tradition, the strongest echo that will never be distorted.

In the 2004 Auburn Mountain incident, Artest was suspended until the end of the season. O'Neal Jr., Jackson and other main players have been suspended for more than 100 games. Reggie Miller retired in dismay, and the Pacers have become from the Eastern Conference overlord to the playoffs marginal team. In 2012, Granger, a core offense and defense trained for several years, suffered a knee injury that repeatedly worsened, and his path to reshaping the team's culture with a clear water image was interrupted as soon as it improved. In 2013, George took over Granger, MIP + All-Star + DPOY top three, in 2014, George was reimbursed for his broken leg, and the Pacers quickly skated from a strong team that competed against the Heat Big Three in a row.

In 2017, George left the team and ZTE completely ended.

The fate is ill-fated but never bows. Pacers management, Larry Bird and other decision makers have repeatedly refused to completely rebuild, advocating that "winning culture is higher than draft picks." On January 27, 2022, the Pacers lost 158 ​​points and lost to the bottom Hornets, and were nailed to the pillar of shame. On February 9, 2022, the Pacers exchanged Sabonis for Halliburton, 2024 with Bruce Brown + 3 first round to exchange for Siakam. They never thought of playing badly, and they made the ultimate example of resource game in small market teams.

A group of people who know basketball and love basketball made the Pacers' fate turn again, defeating the Bucks, Cavaliers, and Knicks, and returning to the finals since 2000, completing a closed-loop redemption, a magical playoff.

Of course, Carlisle also made an indelible contribution.

Ka God brings a smooth attack to the Pacers, and his never-give-up dignity does not come from the number of champions, but from loyalty to the nature of competition.

When "process theory" becomes a fig leaf for making a bad move, and when "talent accumulation" is regarded as the standard for reconstruction, the Pacers write the survival dignity of the small team with the silent and resilience of the cornfield in the Midwest - "Never make a bad move" does not fail, but refuses to use failure as a purpose.. The Pacers' team history is also an epic of survival for small market teams to fight resource injustice - they do not win attention with the No. 1 pick, but use the mid-range pick to refine real gold. From Miller to Halliburton, they proved with their precise eyes and refusal to show off that dignity is not in high ranking lottery, but in every underrated choice, the heart of the champion is carved.

Now, standing on the stage of the finals, they have won the respect of surpassing the outcome.

Finally, let me say something more that you may have forgotten, I don’t know what it is.

In the summer of 2011, the Pacers selected Leonard with the No. 15 pick, and then exchanged George Hill from the Spurs for them, who could have had the King faster than the Clippers.

That summer in 2020, the Spurs selected Vago with the No. 11 pick in the first round, allowing an excellent magician Halliburton to be removed by the King.

Everything is destined.