2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 1-0)
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Astonishing the Pacers are only down 12 with so many sloppy and needless turnovers and Haliburton not doing much on offence.
If they can get hot from 3 point land they are well and truly in this.
If they can get hot from 3 point land they are well and truly in this.
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Tim_Hardawayy wrote:Feels like Thunder should be up 25 but its still close.
I will say I think OKC gets away with maybe a little too much contact defensively, but I prefer the games like this as long as they aren't calling it on the other end either.
Same... i feel that they dont call the samenon IND side... if SGA can get away with push offs... then the other team should as well
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Haliburton isn't going to be able to just hide defensively. He's going to have to make an effort to at least stay in front of Wallace, who isn't even an offensive player like that yet.
"Kill 'em with Grindness."
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Turner has been fing awful
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Chuck Everett wrote:Haliburton isn't going to just hide defensively. He's going to have to make an effort to at least stay in front of Wallace, who isn't even an offensive player like that yet.
Hali and turner are crashing out
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doogie_hauser wrote:Astonishing the Pacers are only down 12 with so many sloppy and needless turnovers and Haliburton not doing much on offence.
If they can get hot from 3 point land they are well and truly in this.
Hali going passive for entire half's is quite a normal occurrence.
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doogie_hauser wrote:Astonishing the Pacers are only down 12 with so many sloppy and needless turnovers and Haliburton not doing much on offence.
If they can get hot from 3 point land they are well and truly in this.
They have not even been bad from 3, okc is shooting the 3 ball worse than them
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Feels like I'm watching a pre season game. Has there been anything worthy of a highlight yet? It's either a turnover a brick from 3.
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Chuck Everett wrote:Haliburton isn't going to just hide defensively. He's going to have to make an effort to at least stay in front of Wallace, who isn't even an offensive player like that yet.
i've been saying all along the way for hali to play this series is to just play like a spot up shooter
he has no business playing on ball with dort on his ass
dort is like the police in some matchups
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Donovan and Brunson got to the paint at will against Indiana. Sgas been the leader in drives per game and drives to the rim for a few seasons now. Theres nothing Indiana can do to stop him
As great as their offense is they rely on attacking mismatches and defensive weaknesses relentlessly w/ pace. That works against teams that have weak defenders like Donovan and Garland and their role players like Jerome, Merrill or Knicks really bad w/ Brunson and Kat they could run 1/5 pick and roll any time they wanted and it was an auto bucket or foul but what about Okc? There are no weak defenders to exploit..............
As great as their offense is they rely on attacking mismatches and defensive weaknesses relentlessly w/ pace. That works against teams that have weak defenders like Donovan and Garland and their role players like Jerome, Merrill or Knicks really bad w/ Brunson and Kat they could run 1/5 pick and roll any time they wanted and it was an auto bucket or foul but what about Okc? There are no weak defenders to exploit..............
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If the Thunder can force the Pacers to be mainly a 3pt shooting team, then there is not much hope for the Pacers.
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4 Turnovers for OKC. 22 for the Pacers.
That's the whole game right there
That's the whole game right there
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Wow Dort, that’s his 4th three right
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Pacers need to get this within 7 and we may have a game
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5 three pointers from Dort!
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azcatz11 wrote:Pacers need to get this within 7 and we may have a game
Let’s get them next game, i want the -9.5 spread
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5-threes for Dort. You're not gonna win when he's doing that.
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Pacers have only 22pts in the paint. Why they're all standing around the perimeter, I don't know.