Big Mo loses again

 The Blob makes no claim that he has figured out the NBA. But it seems I have figured out the NBA.

See what happened in Indianapolis Sunday?

Yes, those were your Indiana Pacers laying an almighty tattooing on the New York Knicks, 121-89 to even their Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece.

See what happened in Madison Square Garden last night?

Yes, that was those very same Pacers getting floor-waxed in Game 5 by those very same Knicks, 121-91.

If you're keeping score at home, that's a 61-point swing. And while the Blob didn't exactly predict that, it did write the following two days ago, for those who might have forgotten:

... And now the series goes back to New York all even at two games apiece, with the Pacers (what a surprise!) suddenly not uttering a peep about the officiating. Any idea what happens in Game 5, momentum being what it's not?

Sure you do: The Knicks will hit everything they put up, and win in a walk. 

Only thing I got wrong there was the walk part, because when you win by 30 you've won in a dead sprint, not just a walk. Jalen Brunson, who was 5-of-17 from the floor in Game 4 and missed all five of his attempts from the arc, scored 44 points on 18-of-35 shooting. Josh Hart added 18 and Miles McBride 17. And some guy named Alec Burks scored 18 off the bench and was 5-of-8 from Threeville.

All told Sunday, the Knicks made just seven threes, not nearly enough for a team that lives on the three-ball. Last night, they made 12, which was more like it.

And the Pacers?

They actually made a dozen threes themselves, on 44.4 percent shooting. But the Knicks forced 18 turnovers and outboarded Indiana 53-29, which hardly seems possible.  Twenty of those rebounds came on the offensive end, which seems even less possible.

Momentum is a phantom, in the NBA. It's as mythical as Paul Bunyan, as tall a tale as  Mark Twain ever spun.

And that means what, boys and girls?

Thaaat's right. Pacers win Game 6 back in Indy to force Game 7.

To repeat what the Blob said the other day: Book it.