Black five minutes! G5 war criminal Nembhard, can G6 rebound?

Everyone knows that the finals G6 is about to start.

Looking back at the previous finals G5 Tianwangshan, the Pacers lost away in addition to the disaster with injury with Halliburton, there is another key "war criminal" that has to be mentioned - yes, Nembhard.

Pacers fell 14 points at the end of the half. McConnell performed his bravely in the third quarter, leading the team to only 8 points away. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Siakam scored 14 points in the team's first 15 points, and the gap once narrowed to 2 points.

Although after that, Javi hit another three-pointer to expand the gap to 5 points, the momentum on the court still turned to the Pacers. However, it was also from this time that Nembhard began the "performance":

-In the next round after Javie's three-pointer, Nembhard's pass on the top of the arc was intercepted by Wallace, and the latter dunked, and the gap reached 7 points

-After the above round, Carlisle replaced Nembhard, and then again before 7 minutes and 20 seconds left The time it was replaced. In the first round after the court, Nembhard was passed by SGA in one step. Harry and Tott helped defend, resulting in Dolte being released in the bottom corner. The latter received the SGA's pass and hit a three-pointer. The score was 103-95

--6 minutes and 18 seconds left, the score was 105-97. In the Pacers' offensive round, Nembhard broke through with the ball in the middle and encountered a double-team pass, but was stealing the fast break by SGA and also scored 2+1. The difference returned to the double-digit number for the first time since the third quarter

—5 minutes and 50 seconds left, Jewe got the ball against Nembukhad, and a fake move flew directly, then made a layup, scored 110-97

—5 minutes and 42 seconds left, Nembukhad passed the ball across the half, and Sika was intercepted by Caruso again. In this round, Jewe made a foul and made one of two free throws, and the score difference reached 14 points

-5 minutes and 05 seconds left, SGA took the ball to attack Nembukhad, turned around and caused Nembukhad to hit the ball, and made both free throws, with a score difference of 16 points

- With 3 minutes and 35 seconds left, the score was 118-104, Nembhard got the ball and quickly attacked, but was given a big hat by SGA. Less than 15 seconds after this round, Nembhard was replaced by McConnell. In summary, from 8 minutes left, after Jewe made a key three-pointer to 3 and a half minutes left, the Pacers lost the black wave. Nembhard made three mistakes, and each mistake was directly scored by the opponent. At the same time, he was blocked and beaten by SGA or Jewe three times.

There is nothing to say about being unable to defend, after all, there are times when they can't be defended, but three mistakes are really inappropriate, and three times ended up being the opponent's score. In comparison, the Pacers G1 made 24 mistakes, but the Thunder only used these mistakes to score 11 points.

Back to G5, Nembhard's final game data was: playing 36 minutes, 3 shots from 8 shots, 0 of 2 three-pointers, 1 of 1 free throw, only scored 7 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, 2 blocks, 4 turnovers, plus or negative value -12, the second lowest in the team.

Zoom into the entire series, Nembhard's performance was: 5 games, averaging 10.0 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists per game, 2.8 turnovers, 43.9%/33.3%/66.7% from three events, and the real shooting percentage was only 54.0%.

First, let's talk about what is worthy of recognition. In this round of series on the defensive end, Nembhard gave the season's MVP and his national teammate SGA a lot of pressure. He played against SGA for a total of 43 minutes and 224 rounds. SGA made a total of 17 of 41 shots in these rounds, only scored 49 points, and sent 11 assists, but also made 7 mistakes.

In fact, the reason why Thunder G1 lost is because SGA is too obsessed with playing Nembukhad alone. However, after a few games, after finding that the effect was not good, even SGA had to call a pick-and-roll substitution when encountering Nembukhad, and Nembukhad's restrictions on SGA were indeed OK.

However, on the offensive end, Nembhard's performance declined greatly. As a comparison, Nembhard before entering the finals: 16 games, averaging 12.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.6 steals per game, with only 1.6 turnovers, with a shooting percentage of 47.3%/48.8%/83.3% in three events, and a real shooting percentage of 58.4%.

The reason for this situation is partly because Nembhard consumed too much energy on the defensive end, and partly because the Thunder's defense is indeed good. In terms of making mistakes, the Thunder's historical level is not an exaggeration.

Of course, Nembhard certainly cannot be responsible for all three losses in the series, but if the Pacers want to win the life-and-death battle of the G6, his performance is also crucial.

In addition to continuing to act as the SGA terminator on the defensive end, the offensive end also needs to regain the feel and reduce mistakes. The five black minutes in the last quarter of G5 have become a thing of the past. I hope that G6 Nembhard can bring some surprises.