Tyrese Haliburton’s no-show Game 5 leaves Pacers on the ropes
NY Post
Tyrese Haliburton came up small on the big stage.
The Pacers star turned invisible when they needed him most, in a desultory 121-91 second-round Game 5 loss to the Knicks.
The All-Star failed as both an offensive engine and a team leader.
“We’ve got to do a better job of coming together as a group. … [We got] a little frenzied,” Haliburton said. “Obviously, the Garden has a great environment … but we’ve got to do a better job of coming together as a group. We kind of split in the first quarter, and then never really responded the right way. We need to do a better job coming together as a group and that starts with me as the leader.”
After excelling the prior three games, Haliburton had just 13 points and five assists, his minus-22 by far the worst of any Indiana starter.
“I’ve just got to do a better job of being aggressive,” Haliburton said. “I think we go back to Game 1, I said the same thing after Game 1. It’s more on me than it is on what anybody else is doing. So I’ll fix that next game.
Whenever seasons like the one the Knicks just completed end, I always find myself back outside the visiting locker room at old Mile High Stadium. I always find myself standing with a handful of writers surrounding Bill Parcells maybe half an hour after the Jets lost the AFC Championship game to the Broncos.