2025 NBA Finals: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Indiana Pacers

Still early yet, never forget that these Pacers tend to finish strong.

 

OKC’s defense is legitimately insane…all-time great level

for a team this young to play defense at this level is pretty remarkable

 

Siakam and his teammates told him in the first round and going back to last series he started doing this again. Indy has no chance if he can't be more aggressive.

Walking the ball up half court and passing , waiting around the 3 pt line is something any PG can do

 

Not often to see some Shaivonte Hangtime.

 

Was just about to post something similar. Like wow, we thought we had good defense but this **** is incredible. It's like there's no weakness anywhere to exploit, it's flawless.

 

Seems we got timid Haliburton today. As excellent as he's been, you never know which version you're getting game to game from him.

 

Dort fouls every play. Caruso is legit but Dort is a fraud

 

Indiana really need to hit the few open shots they manage to get, because they are not getting many at all. It's crazy, Pacers offense is actually masterful at times with the staggering screens and they just shut it all down like it's nothing...

 

The Dorture Chamber has opened on Offense.

Playing a rookie in the Finals, I see you Mark Daigneault.

 

I think DB gets away with more off-ball punishment/fouling than anyone in the NBA. That's his true specialty.

 

Only because Draymond does all his fouling that he gets away with on balls. Usually his opponent's.

 

This OKC team is so fluid, you cant help but admire.. I hope we can achieve this with our boys

 

Must be nice having a point guard who can get to the basket

 

Cool, Gilgeous is reliable.

 

I’ve never seen a team have 19 turnovers in 1 half

that has to be some sort of record

 

Shai weirdly reminds me of Harden, despite the different playstyle entirely. Like he's fire but he doesn't really look like it's that difficult at all what he's doing. I always felt like James at times was just low-key chilling and could've probably put up even more insane numbers if he wanted, Shai looks like that.

Is there any way we can hope to get our defense up even further to their standards? I feel like the majority of our youngsters probably could athletically at least, but we deffo don't have their level of rim protection from either Sengun or Bari.

 

Pacers have 19 TOs? Seriously? They are lucky to be within 12. Maybe that first half will just be "shock therapy" and they adjust and improve ball security going forward. They clearly weren't ready. The good thing is they are within striking distance. If Chet and J-Dub continue being flat tires on offense, anything can happen.

On OKC's side, they have 18 more FGAs but only lead by 12. That is totally unacceptable. They should be up by 20+.

Sometimes in playoff series, the 1st quarter or 1st half of game 1 is not indicative of what happens the rest of the series.

 

Oklahoma is that much better than New York, getting to the point of not being funny.

That Dort, Wallace, Alex Caruso trio......gawd darn it. Not even mentioning our German Hartenstein.

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