The defending champion is down! The Knicks are fighting against the Pacers again after 25 years! Who will become the Eastern God-Eater?

The defending champion (Celtics) fell down with a bang in the absence of Tatum. With the G6 being washed away by the Knicks by 38 points, we finally saw the life of this Celtics: without Tatum, they even looked pale and powerless.

Celtics started with a strong momentum, Jaylen held the Knicks team with 13 points in a single quarter, but the old fox, Thibodeau, was not panicked at all, as if everything was under control.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Thibodeau directly showed off his killer move, took Hart's defense god, let Donsla's space, and forced Jaylen to play singles! Porzingis was entangled by Hart and was in a dilemma. Jaylen was exhausted and shots were all short. As soon as Hauser and Connet stepped on, the Knicks immediately turned on the "meat grinder mode" - Anunobi's steal, Hart's rebound, and Brunson broke through, and a wave of flows directly defeated the Celtic mentality. With McBride's three-pointer falling, the score was frozen at 37-64, and the Celtics fell 27 points behind!

Today's Thibodeau used Hart as a "universal glue". He was 1.93 meters tall, and he had to defend Jaylen, but also to win backboards and push counterattacks! The whole game scored a triple-double of 10 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, directly paying tribute to Fraser 53 years ago! No wonder netizens joked: "Thibodeau's tactical manual has only one page, just use it to death. If you don't use it, you will win it to death!" The reason why the Celtics collapsed is still closely related to Tatum's absence. First of all, no one can click Towns on the offensive end. Tatum averaged 10 points per game in four games, and no one dared to play in G6 Towns walking in the penalty area.

The second is that the bench is full of paper tigers in the absence of Tatum. Hauser and Prichard can make a living with Tatum. They are taken out alone and are directly eaten alive by the Knicks Second Team.

Finally, Jaylen's physical strength problem was 13 points in the first quarter, and he scored only 7 points and 6 fouls left the field. After physical fitness was squeezed dry, he made people feel sad.

In contrast, the Knicks scored 20+ for four players, Anunobi locked the Celtics' front line on both ends of the offense and defense. Even Towns, who had been scolded for a whole year, became hard. It would be strange if the Knicks didn't win!

With the end of the Celtics, the seat in the Eastern Conference Finals has also been determined, that is, the fate - the Knicks VS Pacers.

25 years ago, the Knicks lost to the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Final; 25 years later, the two teams met again, and the flames of revenge may have begun to spread in the hearts of everyone in the Knicks!

As I said in the article I published earlier, the battle between the two teams was a collision of "spear and shield". Did the Knicks "smash" the Pacers to death by defending; or did the Pacers defeat the Knicks by running and bombing?