The 25-year wait comes to an end today

When Tatum fell, the Celtics' season was actually over, but the three-point callback of all the players in the last game extended another game for the Celtics.

Today on the Knicks' home court, the countdown to the Celtics' season began when everyone but Brown couldn't shoot. The Celtics scored 20 points in the first quarter, and Brown scored 13 points alone.

In the second quarter, the Celtics completely collapsed, no one scored after Brown went off the court, Brown continued to make mistakes after coming up, and the Knicks played a monstrous momentum under the sound of the home court, while the Celtics' three-point score fell to the bottom again.

When the Knicks led by 22 points, the Celtics were 3-of-18 from three-point range. In the first half, the Celtics made 4-of-20 three-pointers, Brown scored three, and the virus-plagued Boshen scored one, and the others did not score.

Brown scored 18 points in the first half, and none of the Celtics had left anyone to score more than five points. Heading into the second half with a 27-point deficit, the season for the Celtics has been sealed.

Game 6 of the series took the Knicks to take the biggest series lead of more than 13 points in today's game. In the first three wins, the Knicks were all double-digit reversals, the 20-point reversal in the first and second games changed everything, and the reversal in the fourth game broke down the Celtics' psychological defense, and of course, it also made Tatum completely down.

Now thinking back to the season opener, the Knicks, who were recruited in the offseason to challenge the Celtics, were brought back to reality overnight by the Celtics with a 23-point victory. In that game, the Celtics made 29 three-pointers, and after the first game, people said that the championship suspense was over.

But the season was long, and the Celtics were obsessed with a three-point play, culminating in the first two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Tatum's high power consumption throughout the season also fell in the context of the high-intensity schedule of the playoffs. Of course, the decline of the main players such as Boshen and Holiday is also one of the fundamental reasons for the Celtics' loss.

And the resilience that the Knicks honed over the long season blossomed in the playoffs. The "Knicks donkey" in everyone's joke seems to have long been accustomed to the devil's schedule like the playoffs. Of course, Thibodeau is not static, and the reuse of Miro in the semifinals can be said to be a miracle move, Milo's rebounding and frame protection are points that the Celtics cannot solve, and in the end they can only use fouls to "cut people" to get Miro off the court.

This is the Knicks' second time in 25 years that the Knicks have reached the Eastern Conference Finals, the last time was in the 99-00 season, when their Eastern Conference finals opponent also happened to be the Pacers, and the star matchup at that time was Ewing, Alan Houston vs. Reggie Miller.

At that time, there was a small character on the Knicks roster who barely played in the playoffs, called Rick Brunson. That's right, Brunson's father. Twenty-five years later, his son once again took the Knicks to the heights of the division finals. Thanks to Nick Harrison for letting Brunson go, otherwise there wouldn't be such a father-son story.

There is another person on the Knicks roster who was on the same Knicks team 25 years ago, and Thibodeau is of course an assistant coach under Van Gundy. At that time, Thibodeau was not bald, and now Thibodeau has spent his hair over the years, just like his former master Van Gundy.

For the Celtics, the season is over, and the offseason is the beginning of the turmoil. Huge salary pressure, even if Tatum does not have a ruptured Achilles tendon, they will inevitably reorganize the roster through operations in the offseason, and Tatum's serious injury has pressed the accelerator button.

The dominance of the Celtic team on their way to winning the title last year led to the belief that they would build a dynasty. However, defending the title for a while seems so difficult, with distractions on and off the field, a decline in the player's form and injuries all factors that cannot be controlled. I still believe that the Celtics will still be able to return to the top team when Tatum comes back, but at that point, I am afraid that it will be a matter of fact.

Before the champion falls, it is still the champion, but when the champion falls, a new order is about to be established. The Knicks Pacers in the East and the Timberwolves in the West both represent new forces in the league. If the Thunder survive the tie-break and the Timberwolves, and the four young teams meet in the division finals, a new era has arrived.

Whether you want to or not, time is always pushing people forward, success and failure, peaks and valleys, are the scenery on the road. We will eventually reach the other side, and we will eventually write our own unique stories along the way.