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

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Omg you guys who wins Game 3??

Poll ended at Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:08 pm

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

Post#601 » by littlerock2277 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am

How blind are these refs wasting our time with errors
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#602 » by ImSlower » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am

I love RJ clowning on the refs for this ridiculous call that'll surely be turned over.
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#603 » by CelticSooner » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am

Close game 4th quarter. Will the Thunder panic? If not, they are champs.
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Post#604 » by bucknut » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am

Toppin been horrible.. cost team like 6-8 fast break points and defensive awareness sucks. . can't believe Rick had Turner and toppin both on the floor to end the third.
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Post#605 » by ImSlower » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am

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

Post#606 » by SA37 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:41 am

And the Pacers have reverted back to out of control, turnover basketball over the last ~4 minutes of game play. Just one unforced error after another.

OKC continues to create good looks. Even when SGA comes back in, they need to stay away from the SGA-ball-hog offense, at least for this game or until they get Indiana in the penalty.
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#607 » by Nuntius » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:42 am

Chuck Everett wrote:So now OKC has to waste a challenge? How do three refs miss that?


Based on the broadcast, it sounded like one ref was really, really sure about the deflection and overruled the rest. I think that at least one ref was pointing the other way.
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Post#608 » by SportsGuru08 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:42 am

AIfan3 wrote:OKC needs to find Giannis' weight training coach and just have him work with Chet all year round.

That man needs to get a whole lot tougher.


Dude is built like a twig. All the weight lifting in the world won't do much for him.
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Post#609 » by NiceLikeChrist » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:42 am

Force the team you want to lose to use a challenge early on grossly obvious bad call. Classic ref play
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#610 » by AIfan3 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:42 am

MoneyTalks41890 wrote:
AIfan3 wrote:OKC needs to find Giannis' weight training coach and just have him work with Chet all year round.

That man needs to get a whole lot tougher.


He’s plenty tough, but he’s a string bean.

Not sure Chet should get like Giannis. For one, Giannis can’t shoot.


Maybe, though Chets shot mechanics are a lot more sound than Giannis.

Giannis has like 0 arc on his jump shot. Unlike what happened with Giannis, a little muscle probably won't change Chets shot much.
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Post#611 » by SA37 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:42 am

Also, there are way too many commercial breaks.
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#612 » by KGDirkTD_Fan » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:42 am

Chuck Everett wrote:So now OKC has to waste a challenge? How do three refs miss that?

It's not even close, his hand was a mile off from the ball lol. Everyone on the court knew, shame they have to waste a challenge
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#613 » by rolling_91 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:44 am

OKC is doing a great job defending the 3 point line. Turner, Siakum can’t get a good look off of their normal action. Pacers are going to need one of them to hit shots
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Post#615 » by SA37 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:45 am

If SIakam can't catch the ball 15 ft from the basket and destroy SGA, he needs to come out.
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#616 » by yoadknux » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:45 am

TJM is so good damn lol
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#617 » by picc » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:45 am

TJ seems like one of those guys you'll all just be hanging out and playing hackeysack or something, and he won't let you go home until he wins. And when you finally tell him its 10pm and you were supposed to be home 2 hours ago, he huffs and curses and then you see him the next day wearing the same clothes, and he smells, and he's holding the hackeysack and he immediately challenges you to a rematch.

And you know he literally didn't go home last night and just stayed in the alley practicing until it was time for school again.
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#618 » by AIfan3 » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:45 am

OKC is switching everything. Now is the time to feed Siakim.
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Re: 2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1, Game 3 Wednesday) 

Post#619 » by 2weekswithpay » Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:45 am

3rd backcourt steal from TJ.

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