10 data interpretation of NBA Finals: Pacers can t stand the "Bandits Team"

The Oklahoma City Thunder is only one win away from winning the championship. Before the finals G6 starts, we can take you back with 10 data to see what the characteristics of this year's finals are.

After the first five games, the Pacers completed 598 more passes than the Thunder, and averaged nearly 120 more passes per game. A large number of transfers have always been a feature of Pacers' offense, and the Thunder's aggressive defense will force the Pacers to further increase the number of passes. They will complete 386 passes in every 24 minutes of rounds, which is the most passing round for the team this year's playoffs.

On the other side, the Thunder averaged 58.2 points from Jaylen Williams and Alexander, with only 21% of their goals coming from assists.

31

Thunder Finals had 31 more shooting opportunities than the Pacers (including sports and free throw opportunities). They made 26 fewer mistakes than the Pacers and grabbed 9 more frontcourt rebounds. The Finals G3 is the only game where the Pacers have more shooting opportunities than the Thunder in this round.

The Thunder have completed 229 steals in the playoffs this year. Since the NBA has steal statistics, the team with the most steals in a single playoffs in the past 52 years has also been 23 fewer than the Thunder this year. But Caruso, the Thunder's playoff steal king, "only" completed 42 steals, ranking only 27th in a single playoff history.

The Pacers scored 110.1 points in the first five games of the finals. If it is not counted as the irrelevant game of the regular season (Halliburton and Siakam did not play), this is their worst offensive performance in the last five All-Star games this year. Although the Pacers have a true hit rate of 58.3%, higher than the Thunder, compared with their performance in the first three rounds, the Pacers' accuracy has declined, and their turnover rate has significantly exceeded the season average.

14.0

The Thunder won three games and scored 14.0 points more than their two games lost in their 100 rounds. The main difference is the free throw rate and offensive rebound rate.

65

Thunder scored 34 more points than the Pacers in the restricted area and scored 31 more points on the free throw line, which is a total advantage of 65 points. Outside the restricted area, the Pacers scored 41 more points than the Thunder.

14.5

Within 60 minutes of Halliburton's break, the Pacers lost 14.5 points to the Thunder in 100 rounds. Game 5 of the finals was the first time in this round when Halliburton was present. The Pacers lost a huge loss. The important reason here is that Harry was injured at the end of the first quarter.

49.1%

Pacers shot 49.1% of the bottom corner three-pointers in the finals, and they scored 11 more bottom corner three-pointers than the Thunder. But in the finals G5, the Pacers only made 5 three-pointers in the bottom corner, with the least in this round.

In terms of non-bottom corner three-pointers, the Pacers hit a shooting percentage of only 31.3% in this round, which was the worst round for the team in the four rounds of the playoffs. In the first two rounds, their non-bottom corner three-pointers hit a shooting percentage of 39.8%.

17.4%

The two teams made a total of 12 of 69 three-pointers (17.4%) with the last 6 seconds left in the offensive round. Once they cannot make an easy conversion attack, the shooting efficiency of both sides may drop sharply as the offensive round time is compressed. The Pacers made 47 shots in the last 6 seconds of this round and only hit 7 goals, and the Thunder's performance of 5 of 22 was not much better.

0.63

When the Thunder chose to switch defenses to deal with Halliburton's pick-and-roll, the Pacers could only get 0.63 points per round. When the Thunder used other pick-and-roll strategies, the Pacers could score 0.92 points per round. The switch can force the Pacers to stagnate the attack and turn into Halliburton to fight alone. When Harry's single-handed challenge in this round, the Pacers only scored 0.45 points per round, and the number in the first three rounds was 1.16 points.

(text/Thai Fu)