Tierace Heliberton recorded 32 points, 15 assistance and 12 rebounds without a turnover, 15 assistance and 12 rebounds without a turnover to lead Indiana pamens to lead the Indiana paise for a 130–121 victory over New York Nix on New York Nix in the Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday night in Indianapolis.
Heliberton made five 3-pointers, noting his second career postson triple-dobbal and helped pacers take a 3–1 lead in the best-seven series. Pascal Siakam scored 30 points, Benedict Mathurin added 20 to the bench and Aaron Nemith added 16 points to the fourth seeded Indiana.
Jalan Brunson scored 31 points, Carl-Antony Towns had 24 points and 12 rebounds and OG Anunobi added 22 points to the third seeded Nax. Mikal Bridge scored 17 points and Josh Hart added 12 points and 11 rebounds to the loss.
Game 5 is in New York on Tuesday.
Nemith was declared good for leaving Pacers Coach Rick Carlisle more than an hour before the tipoff. He turned his right ankle midway on Sunday through the third quarter of Game 3.
Miles Turner added 13 points to Indiana before fouling, who shot 51.1 percent from the field, including 13–32 from the 3-point range. Pacers again excelled in transition with a gain of 22–9 in fast-brake points and took advantage of 65–23 in that category in the series.
Nix made 46.3 percent of his shots and there were 12 -28 from behind the arc. There was a 44–33 rebounding age in New York.
Pamens scored the first seven points of the second half to explode 13–0 and take advantage of 76-64.
After two free throw by Brunson with 3:59 in the third quarter, Narason cut its deficit to 89-84, but 3-pointer by Heliberton left it in this period with 55.6 seconds with 99–89 and the pacers took the lead of 102-91 in the final shlok.
Siakam scored five direct points in the quarter and gave Indiana her biggest lead at 111-96. But New York scored seven direct runs to move within 115–109 after a putback by cities with 4:24.
But Indiana maintained its speed and the lead was 126–116 after the OB topin drilled 3-pointer with 45 seconds.
Haliberton was electric at the first half, with 20 points, 10 aids and nine rebellion as Pacors led 69–64 in the break. Indiana scored the last six points of half. Brunson scored 16 runs in half for New York.
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