Tyrese Haliburton made a triple with 1.1 seconds and the Indiana Pacers scored the last eight points in 47.9 seconds to stun the short -handed and better planted Clevaliers on Tuesday night to take sexies.
Haliburton scored 11 or 19 points in the last 12 minutes. After Andrew Nembhard stole an entry pass from the Max Strus of Cleveland with 27.5 seconds removering, Indiana tried to find a triple potential before Haliburton drove inside and got dirty.
He made the first free kick, but the second was lost. Haliburton obtained the offensive rebound and dripped to the 3 -point line, where he did it from the top of the key.
It is the second consecutive game in which Haliburton has been late. The fifth year guard scored 22 points in the victory of 121-112 on Sunday in the first game of the series, including a triple advantage in the fourth quarter in the fourth quarter.
“Obviously, we were lucky. Ty hit another incredible shot to win the game,” said Indiana coach Rick Carlisle. “You don’t see this very often, much less twice in a week. Tyrese, we’re again. We are very lucky.”
Myles Turner and Aaron Nesmith led Indiana number 4 with 23 points each. It is the first time that the Pacers win the first two games in a playoff series on the road from the first round of 1994 against Orlando.
Donovan Mitchell scored 48 points for Cleveland, which were missing three key players, including two headlines. NBA Deconsive Player Evan Mobley (left ankle) and the key reserve of Hunter (right thumb) were in game 1, while Darius Garland (left foot finger) lost his fourth consecutive postseason game.
“I feel that we overcome them during most of the game and then, towards the end, we had our mental lapses. Capitalize every mistake we made,” said Jarrett Allen, who had 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Mitchell scored 15 points in the third quarter as the Cavaliers build an advantage of 98-81 at the end of the period. But the Pacers recovered with a 17-6 race to return to him.
Cleveland seemed to have a space to breathe with 1:06 stirring when Max Strus hit a triple of a mitchell assistance to put them 117-110.
But the cavs could not endure again, since they committed two ball losses and the Pacers had a couple of offensive rebounds that led to points at the last minute. It is the first time that Cleveland dropped his first two at home in the playoffs since 1996 in the first round against the Knicks.
“It’s hard to put all this in words,” said Carlisle. “Cleveland hit us with a great blow to the beginning of the game. In the room, we only kept enough energy to do it. Give the boys credit, somehow they found a way.”
Associated Press reports.
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