Pacers beat the Cavaliers by 41 points! Team basketball crushes celebrity singles, who is the future trend?

In the midst of the NBA playoff craze, May 12 is destined to be a dramatic night that has been recorded in history. The Cavaliers, the number one in the East, were forced into a desperate situation by the Pacers with a 41-point, half-time score difference; while the Western Conference upstart Thunder used a solid defense to push the defending champion Nuggets' shooting percentage to freezing point. The two competitions are not only a fierce collision of wins and losses, but also a fierce collision of two basketball concepts - on the one hand, they focus on teamwork and fully demonstrate the ultimate spirit; on the other hand, they highlight the role of star players and interact with the overall system extremely critically, thus forming a delicate balance.

When Mitchell left the court lonely and Jokic was rarely inaccurate, he was witnessing the fierce change of the old and new orders in the basketball world. When the Pacers scored 80 points in half, the entire basketball world quietly held their breath.

This team ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference in the regular season. However, with its extremely strong offensive performance, the overlord of the Eastern Conference was firmly fixed on the shameful pillar.

Turner and Siakam made two forward towers, with 8 of 11 three-pointers and 37 assists, dismembering the Cavaliers' defense line like a scalpel. The Cavaliers' proud defensive system was useless under the third of the heavy rain in Indiana.

What's more fatal is that Mitchell was injured and left the field without a confrontation before the end of the half, which exposed the extremely serious flaw of the Cavaliers' excessive reliance on the stars - when the core personnel were absent, the combination of Garland and Mobley's positive and negative values ​​suddenly fell to -39, and the 22 mistakes were like destroying the Great Wall.

In the Denver Plateau, the Thunder wrote a counterattack script with the defensive aesthetic that is rare in modern basketball.

limited the defending champion to only score 9 points in a single quarter in the first quarter. Jokic, under the interference of Homgren's long arm, rarely showed a struggling trend of 13 shots but only 4 hits.

Alexander, behind the comprehensive data of 25+6+6 is the terrifying tactical execution of the Thunder young lineup. They used infinite defense to destroy the Nuggets' pass and cut system, forcing Murray to make only 6 of 17 shots, and Gordon's proud empty cut dunk also turned into 15 iron shots.

When the Nuggets missed four consecutive free throws in the last quarter, the physical fitness and psychological fluctuations of this old powerhouse were completely exposed under the impact of the Thunder Youth Storm.

These two seemingly different games actually reveal the evolutionary code of contemporary basketball.

Pacers proved with a true hit rate of 62% and a 10-man rotation that team basketball is still dominant in the data era; and the Thunder shows us the eternal truth that defense can win the championship.

In contrast, the Cavaliers and the Nuggets, the former relies too much on the team-building ideas of star singles, and are vulnerable under the high intensity of the playoffs; the latter is proud of the championship, which is shaky before the physical fitness encounters a bottleneck.

When the new generation of teams began to hit the throne with more scientific data analysis and more balanced lineup configuration, the transformation pain of traditional tycoons was inevitable.

The power change in the basketball world has never been so clear.

Pacers easily weave a net to victory with 37 assists; the Thunder relied on 14 steals to create an unbreakable line of defense. They are all showing everyone the arrival of a new era - there is no legend of superstars that cannot be defeated here, but there are continuous and boundless tactical innovations.

When the Cavaliers player slowly lowered his head to the locker room; when Jokic sat on the technical desk tiredly and rarely. What we witness is not only the two wins and losses, but also the historic turning point of basketball philosophy.