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Pacers hope home cooking energizes push to even series with New York Knicks, force Game 7

Pacers hope home cooking energizes push to even series with New York Knicks, force Game 7

The Indiana Pacers' season is on the brink. It's win or it's over. So the last playoff team with a perfect home record has to dig deep and make the most of the energy it receives from its own crowd as it tries to rebound from an embarrassing loss at New York with a season-saving win Friday night in Game 6. "What's known doesn't need to be spoken about. Guys know the intensity we have to bring," Pacers All-Star Tyrese Haliburton said after Thursday's practice. "We've got to have a level of desperation that we've never had before, and we've got to be ready to go for 48 minutes and understand every possession matters even more than it has all playoffs." Getting to this point certainly didn't occur