Dimensional reduction strike, Knicks Pacers meet in the East Final, 5 people from both sides come from the West

In the NBA playoffs ending today, the Knicks defeated the Celtics at home, eliminated their opponents 4-2 with a big score, and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals.

At this point, the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs has also ended. The eight Eastern Conference playoff teams finally made it to the highest stage in the Eastern Conference were the Pacers and the Knicks, third and fourth place respectively in the regular season. The Celtics and the Cavaliers were eliminated in the second round together in the Eastern Conference, which is also rare in NBA history.

And the Pacers and the Knicks have some commonalities.

Their core guards are all from the West and are not All-Stars when they come. Halliburton is from the King, and Brunson is from the Mavericks.

Their forwards are all from the Raptors, the Knicks are Anunobi, and the Pacers are Siakam. Overall, Siakam is better than Anunobi.

They all have 1 excellent inside line, the Pacers are Turner and the Knicks are Towns.

They are all combined teams, the Knicks' 5 starters come from 5 different teams, Hart comes from the Pelicans, Brunson comes from the Mavericks, Towns comes from the Timberwolves, Anunobi comes from the Raptors, and Bridges comes from the Suns. The Pacers would be better, Halliburton is from the Kings, Siakam is from the Raptors, Nesmith is from the Celtics, but Nemhard and Turner are from the Pacers' own draft.

There are 10 starters on both sides, 5 of which are from the West.

Sometimes, when Western players go to the East, it will be a dimensionality reduction blow.

Brunson joined the Mavericks in 2018 and grew up gradually during the Mavericks. The 2021-2022 playoffs were his first wave of highlights. After that, he was poached by the Knicks, selected as the All-Star in the Knicks, and led the team to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Halliburton joined the Kings in 2020, and was also in a normal manner during the Kings period. He was traded to the Pacers in the 2021-2022 season. He was also selected as the All-Star in the Pacers and led the team to the Eastern Conference Finals.

and Russell, who was called Shuila during the Lakers, but after joining the Nets, he was selected as the All-Star and led the team to the playoffs.

Leonard, after only one season in the East, easily led the Raptors to the Finals and won the championship for the first time in history.

Going forward, Kidd immediately led the Lotto team from the Suns to the Nets to the Finals for two consecutive years. It is true that the Lotto team has only added Kidd to an All-Star.

It has always been much more difficult to "get mixed up" in the West than in the East. At the most exaggerated time, all five players from the NBA All-Series team came from the West. Therefore, in that era, it was much more difficult to be selected as an All-Star in the West than in the East, because the West had the All-Star level, and the East might not even be able to get 13.

Each season, there will be no more than 3 teams in the East that have the ability to compete for the championship, and in the West, it may even have the ability to rush to the championship seventh place in the West. So when some players go from the west to the east, it is a dimensionality reduction blow.

If you want to say that Durant's eastward tour failed, that is also true, but the reason for his failure is off-court, the team was being plastered, and that kind of footwork is hard to defend.