OKCEAL Team Six Hunts Down The Haliban! | Official Thunder (#1) vs. Pacers (#4) 2025 NBA Finals Thread

[EarlyEarly]

Did the league tell them to cut that foolish group interview bs for the finals

I saw like 4 different interviews going on. Dudes were spread too thin

 

[Loose]

0-0

Yea meh. Game 1 loss was inexcusable to me. Not playing a center is a fireable offense. Team needs to be better defensively on the road.

 

[Stone]

I know it’s 2 road games but falling behind 20 points in 2 straight just never a good sign imo.

Think Indy gets one more and OKC closes it out in 6. Maybe 5 if they get G3

Shai just has too high of a floor from game to game. All they need is Chet and JDub to be not terrible

 

[superchoops]

bad loss today, but Indiana shouldn't be discouraged

- SGA is still Canadian
- Jalen Williams is still missing chromosomes
- Chet is still anorexic
- Caruso and Wiggins won't always shoot like prime Splash Bros

i saw a play where caruso was in the left corner, they made 3 passes, then passed it to caruso who was in the right corner and splashed that shyt

don't even know how this mf got here. some Prestige shyt forreal

 

[Art Barr]

I'll give this nikka @Art Barr this - he's the only guard on their team that seems capable of getting to the cup and actually laying the ball up. TJ just does that Nash baseline dribble, Nembhard can't get past the mid-range area without picking up his dribble...and Haliburton....

Mathurin is cold.

Yet no nikka has ever been successdul with 80 celtic level mind games. Sohh of course mathurin will have a deer in headlights moments.
just like obi did in the fjbals. As their coach been playing these celtic ainge v rick depth chart ass games for two seasons.

That even ainge never figured out and they had a whole documentary.
documenting this shyt when rick was a rookie. That showed rick figured out these games. Or ainge. Two sport darling white athletee of the time succumbed to. That no black player in general figured out.

Laimbeer is who figured out the celtics mind games. So for carlisle to subject any pacer player.
to the shyt makes no sense.
As no black player ever definitively ever figured out the celtic level mindgames. That ric was made to come of age in.

Sohh why subject your own players to a level of mindgames. No black man figured out in general. Then keep the shyt going in the finals. Makes no sense.



Art Barr

 

[the artist known az]

I know it’s 2 road games but falling behind 20 points in 2 straight just never a good sign imo.

Think Indy gets one more and OKC closes it out in 6. Maybe 5 if they get G3

It's pretty much like the Knicks last series. Pretty much every game they were down double digits

 

[Art Barr]

Haliburton tonight

Once your point guard sized celtic coach.
usurp your leadership.

In the finals.

What are you to do.


Art Barr

 

[Rigby.]

I know it’s 2 road games but falling behind 20 points in 2 straight just never a good sign imo.

Think Indy gets one more and OKC closes it out in 6. Maybe 5 if they get G3

Indy def only has so many ways to win a game. They won't have 30 TOs like in G1 most times, but it's pretty clear their guards can't create easy O for the most part. The wings/bigs gotta be the focal point in a way they usually aren't. Siakam is one thing, but these dudes dead needed Turner pull ups to keep it within 15-20 for the longest. Bryant and Obi were getting up more shots than Nembhard, TJ and Tyrese for a minute there.

Losing basketball right there

 

[Guvnor]

OKC Was too cold. Shai was going nuts, OKC's defense was crazy and I hope they get it done from hee on out. OKC in 5.

 

[Piff Huxtable]

Mathurin is cold.

Yet no nikka has ever been successdul with 80 celtic level mind games. Sohh of course mathurin will have a deer in headlights moments.
just like obi did in the fjbals. As their coach been playing these celtic ainge v rick depth chart ass games for two seasons.

That even ainge never figured out and they had a whole documentary.
documenting this shyt when rick was a rookie. That showed rick figured out these games. Or ainge. Two sport darling white athletee of the time succumbed to. That no black player in general figured out.

Laimbeer is who figured out the celtics mind games. So for carlisle to subject any pacer player.
to the shyt makes no sense.
As no black player ever definitively ever figured out the celtic level mindgames. That ric was made to come of age in.

Sohh why subject your own players to a level of mindgames. No black man figured out in general. Then keep the shyt going in the finals. Makes no sense.



Art Barr

what are you babbling about old man?
Did Jerry Sichting fukk your girlfriend in 1986?

 

[Crude]

I don’t like Perk, Stephen A, Malika, and random cac guy and them on the post game or pregame.

Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson and them were more knowledgeable and entertaining in my opinion.

 

[Art Barr]

I wish cbs had coverage. I hate this wild world of sports bullshyt. These weak ass maugs.
used to tspe the finals and show you a condensed version.

They just as frustrating.
as the lack of playing time benching. for dr j in the nba. After a game changing dunk by the doctor.

This disney abc bullshyt coverage. been trash since i was a shawty.



Art Barr

 

[Guvnor]

Pacers winning game 1 was pure luck. 24 turnovers on their part was horrible basketball.

 

[Guess Who]

back to back trash games

Hali is great at capitalizing on a scattered defense.

You see it. He struggles against a set defence, especially without a screen.

 

[bl2k8]

I don’t see game 3 as a must win for Indy, they just need a split. I think Indy was always good for at least one start to finish win with no bullshyt endings and could possibly get 2 of those.

Their only way to realistically win the series IMO is to steal another game the way they stole game 1 and I just can’t see that happening twice this series.