2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (OKC leads 3-2)

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

All time crapper performance from Haliburton. All time poop show.

Halipoop?

Haliburton is an average nba point guard. Guy literally has no ability

Idk how you can still say that after the postseason run he has just had.

They're not coming from a rational, objective point of view. I could say they're dumb.

[Felixians4]

TJ McConnell starter minutes
Zone+ full press, SGA double team early in halfcourt

For OKC: Stay calm, elite athleticism and full team od D menaces, best team and MVP who is terrific in playoffs and clutch general

[sikma42]

JDub is sooooooo weird.

“No they didn’t”

What a weird dude.


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He didn't realize they did, why is that weird?

Just weird to contradict a reporter like that. Usually someone just acts surprised but rarely do you see someone question their grasp of facts. Likely just adrenaline but it’s weird.


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[bowery77]

Shai - 31/10/2, 6 stocks with the entire Pacers gameplan centered around him. Best player in the world stuff.
Jdub capitalizing with 40/4/6. Stepping up on the biggest stage.

[AIfan3]

Haliburton slander is unbelievably stupid, by the same people who were dancing to basketball gods in previous rounds when he was balling out. Can't be flip flopping on a player like that all the time it's embarrassing

I personally see Hali similar to how I saw a prime Deron Williams. Great player in a system that features his strengths. Will even look like a world beater a couple of times if he's grooving.

But consistent dominance? Just don't see it.

[Chuck Everett]

Ppl mentioning how bad Haliburton has been w/o mentioning Lu Dorts absurd defense is weird. This is some of the best lockdown defense of an offensive star weve seen in some time. All series. Dribbling, scoring, passing angles Hali cant do anything w/ Dort on him

He's still not strong enough. Dort is an amazing defender, but he doesn't do this type of stuff to every great wing player. Only the guys who can't handle his physicality. Last year against Brandon Ingram was an example of this.

[VicG]

Feel bad for Hali. He’s going to catch a lot of undeserved heat the next couple days. Dude clearly is hobbled anyone who thinks otherwise is just a pure hater.

To be fair, he had a similar game 5 against NYK

[kwajo]

I don't think Siakam has gotten shot single shog since he was taken out stupidly

They have sucked at finding Siakam at the end of games. Even the last game plenty of good opportunities but no one gets him the ball.

They would have won game 4 IMO if they were more competent at finding Pascal (or just sat Mathurin...), that's on the players and on the coach.

[Loaded_Hollows]

Kind of amazing to watch a really solid game with some legit amazing performances and tons of great plays, and somehow find people here just wanting to jump over each other to call absurdly elite athletes losers.

[jokeboy86]

Feel bad for Hali. He’s going to catch a lot of undeserved heat the next couple days. Dude clearly is hobbled anyone who thinks otherwise is just a pure hater.

His offense is too herky jerky still though. A lot of wasted dribbling a lot of possessions

[Nuntius]

Good game, Thunder fans.

We gave ourselves a shot in the early 4th when we cut it to 2 but OKC was poised, went on an immediate 7-0 run and never really looked back. Turnovers heavily did us in both in the 4th and throughout the game. Sadly, we were the first team to lose 2 games in a row in the series. That doesn't bode well for us at all.

Look, losing tonight's game was not unexpected. OKC is a terrific home team and we already won a game there. Winning multiple was never a strong possibility. What we had to do was to win our home games. And, sadly, we threw that away in game 4. Winning game 4 was always our best path for victory in this series and we weren't able to get it. It sucks but c'est la vie. Gotta roll with the punches.

For what is worth, I do expect us to win game 6 and force a game 7. Or, at least, that's what I hope. I really, really do not want to see this team go out in front of our home fans. They deserve to see one more win after the way game 4 ended.

[Dan Z]

Loss is on haliburden.

The guy is obviously injured.

Kendrick Perkins was never a good player. He should be fired for calling Haliburton scared.

The Pacers wouldn't be here without Haliburton. Tyrese literally made NBA more than once on playoff game winners.

Woodsanity, I think criticism of the player that carried the Pacers this far is insanity.

While I do think Haliburton will get too much criticism for this game I also think he needed to figure out how to be productive any way he could. He did look scared out there.

I say that and Perk sucks.

[Dadouv47]

what a good Pacers team...on the road and their bench killed ours. Needed an A+ game from JDub to win. Already 5 games and we still don't know what to do against Mcconell and Toppin (and Siakam is elite)

[Woodsanity]

Loss is on haliburden.

The guy is obviously injured.

Kendrick Perkins was never a good player. He should be fired for calling Haliburton scared.

The Pacers wouldn't be here without Haliburton. Tyrese literally made NBA more than once on playoff game winners.

Woodsanity, I think criticism of the player that carried the Pacers this far is insanity.

Hali played far worse than even the bench players. He gets a lot of credit he should get an equal amount of criticism.

[KP Duty]

Welcome to the Thunder Dynasty

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I mean, look what happened with Tatum?

All it takes is one big injury to throw things off the rails. Can’t predict years from now when one freak play can change everything.

Yep. I frown on saying things like that. This series isn't over by any means

[Loaded_Hollows]

Feel bad for Hali. He’s going to catch a lot of undeserved heat the next couple days. Dude clearly is hobbled anyone who thinks otherwise is just a pure hater.

To be fair, he had a similar game 5 against NYK

Yup. He gets carried by his team fairly often. This isn’t new.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Haliburton slander is unbelievably stupid, by the same people who were dancing to basketball gods in previous rounds when he was balling out. Can't be flip flopping on a player like that all the time it's embarrassing

I dont want to hear that about Haliburton's injury. If he was hurt(which I believe) then thats on the coach to sit him and save him from himself.

This is the one part that bothered me. Haliburton should have sat the fourth quarter. He never should have been reinserted in the game.

[jkvonny]

Carlisle out of wizardry. OKC's talent is too much.

Still waiting for new Knicks wizard HC , maybe DOC Rivers or Steve Nash

They had one.

They just fired him (Thibs).....

[turnaroundJ]

i mean...it's 3-2. it's not the end of the world by any means. would be cool if tyrese actually did anything though. carlisle has gotta help free him up.

[Marrs-Law]

gg. Shai & Jdub were pretty much unstoppable. Tons of credit to the OKC defense, which was absolutely insane. They make great players look bad