2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 3-3, Game 7 Sunday!)

RRR3 · Post #121 » by **RRR3** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 6:47 pm

Scott Foster reffing, Silver definitely making sure OKC wins

f4p · Post #122 » by **f4p** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 6:56 pm

Wallace_Wallace wrote:I hope we’ll see a physical game 7 where ticky tack fouls aren’t called, both teams have to really dig deep to score which makes every basket and every scoring run important.

That tends to be how they go. In my experience, refs are balanced and also let them play in-game 7s. Which is also why we haven't seem a team score 100 in a finals game 7 in almost 40 years.

KIRAG · Post #123 » by **KIRAG** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:10 pm

If Pacers wins it all this needs to be framed and displayed at their practice facility

Marvin Martian · Post #124 » by **Marvin Martian** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:40 pm

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Deathray · Post #125 » by **Deathray** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:48 pm

RRR3 wrote:Scott Foster reffing, Silver definitely making sure OKC wins

If Foster is on the job and it goes similar to game 4 then game 7 will be talked about as one of the all-time asterisks. Maybe not quite to the level of the 1972 Olympics but it'll be remembered.

JM00n69 · Post #126 » by **JM00n69** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:58 pm

Hope we get a proper G7 and both teams turn up. Forster might be reffing but there's too many eyes on this to blantly rig this either way. He is a very experienced crew chief end of the day. Hope they let them play just hard enough and call it same both sides. Let's go I can't wait.

Wizop · Post #127 » by **Wizop** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:04 pm

Officials are not announced this soon.

cjx · Post #128 » by **cjx** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:14 pm

Doc P Siakam is like Raiden from Mortal Kombat, Fam :wizard:

tamaraw08 · Post #129 » by **tamaraw08** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:15 pm

SweetTouch wrote:Congrats okc on winning their title, even tho they almost choked it they deserve their props . SGA well deserved finals mvp

Already heard from my sources $ilver made the call

Congrats Indiana you tried your hardest

Yes, I agree. Congrats OKC.
Signed, Sealed and Hand Delivered.
I can see Nembhard and Nesmith getting called for 2 quick fouls the first 6-7 minutes.

Wizop · Post #130 » by **Wizop** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:45 pm

tamaraw08 wrote:I can see Nembhard and Nesmith getting called for 2 quick fouls the first 6-7 minutes.

And I can wish Dort and Caruso get whistled.

tamaraw08 · Post #131 » by **tamaraw08** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:03 pm

Wizop wrote:
tamaraw08 wrote:I can see Nembhard and Nesmith getting called for 2 quick fouls the first 6-7 minutes.

And I can wish Dort and Caruso get whistled.

Refs doing this in front of 18 thousand OKC fans?, I guess we can all wish. :wink:

Patches Perry · Post #132 » by **Patches Perry** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:24 pm

Can't wait to find out who Adam Silver scripted to be the winner tomorrow.

Given that Indiana is the underdog and most people are rooting for them, it makes sense that he would script the story with a happy ending. Maybe he's playing the long game though, setting up OKC as the evil empire antagonist for a more satisfying plot payoff in the future? Who knows. I guess we'll find out tomorrow!

Blame Rasho · Post #133 » by **Blame Rasho** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:31 pm

Patches Perry wrote:Can't wait to find out who Adam Silver scripted to be the winner tomorrow.

Given that Indiana is the underdog and most people are rooting for them, it makes sense that he would script the story with a happy ending. Maybe he's playing the long game though, setting up OKC as the evil empire antagonist for a more satisfying plot payoff in the future? Who knows. I guess we'll find out tomorrow!

The storybook ending is pacers win and then the thunder trade for Durant and then the next year he wins a title with them. It also messes up how we view Durant historically if he wins a finals mvp and how we view him historically.

Post #134 » by **boomershadow** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:56 pm

ChuckChilly wrote:OKC with the salon blowout. I think they tried to win the first half, but then started feeling like it would be better to win at home in the second half and gave in, in game 6. I think game 7 will be over by the 3rd quarter.

Hopefully they do as good a job trying to win in this game as they did the first half of last game 8-)

RaptorPride · Post #135 » by **RaptorPride** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:01 pm

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Backcountry · Post #136 » by **Backcountry** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:35 pm

Some of you, I wonder why you bother to watch the NBA. You'd rather make negative pronouncements and try to say "I told you so" than enjoy the games.

Bunch of Eeyores.

Raps in 4 · Post #137 » by **Raps in 4** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:22 pm

Patches Perry wrote:Can't wait to find out who Adam Silver scripted to be the winner tomorrow.

Given that Indiana is the underdog and most people are rooting for them, it makes sense that he would script the story with a happy ending. Maybe he's playing the long game though, setting up OKC as the evil empire antagonist for a more satisfying plot payoff in the future? Who knows. I guess we'll find out tomorrow!

LeBron is going to run out of the tunnel in the third quarter, WWE style, and sub in for the Thunder. Then Steph will come out of the other tunnel and throw on a Pacers jersey. Ratings will increase tenfold.

Slimjimzv · Post #138 » by **Slimjimzv** » Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:29 am

Backcountry wrote:Some of you, I wonder why you bother to watch the NBA. You'd rather make negative pronouncements and try to say "I told you so" than enjoy the games.

Bunch of Eeyores.

A lot of people who don't seem to be basketball fans in here. The primary topic should be how amazing both of these teams have played, how well they're coached, how amazing the environments have been, and how lucky we are to get to watch a game 7 NBA finals. But they just want to complain and troll. Embarrassing behavior.

Post #139 » by **boomershadow** » Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:26 am

Deathray wrote:
RRR3 wrote:Scott Foster reffing, Silver definitely making sure OKC wins

If Foster is on the job and it goes similar to game 4 then game 7 will be talked about as one of the all-time asterisks. Maybe not quite to the level of the 1972 Olympics but it'll be remembered.

I doubt anyone will care much if the Pacers get robbed.

Hitachi77 · Post #140 » by **Hitachi77** » Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:19 am

Slimjimzv wrote:
Backcountry wrote:Some of you, I wonder why you bother to watch the NBA. You'd rather make negative pronouncements and try to say "I told you so" than enjoy the games.

Bunch of Eeyores.

A lot of people who don't seem to be basketball fans in here. The primary topic should be how amazing both of these teams have played, how well they're coached, how amazing the environments have been, and how lucky we are to get to watch a game 7 NBA finals. But they just want to complain and troll. Embarrassing behavior.

I mean, you have a ref shrouded in controversy reffing the most important game of the year, when there are many alternatives and just three games ago there was more controversy. It’s fair to call it out.

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