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

[Art Barr]

Indiana Pacers 2025 NBA Champs
that sounds so weird

It is not over yet.

If they hold serve. It can become a reality.



Art Barr

 

[Guess Who]

You gotta start Hart next game. Cason Wallace is giving you nothing offensively. When you start Chet at the 5, Siakam has done well (except game 2). Play the Chet/Hart combo and see what happens. Now there won't be a mismatch against Turner and Siakam.

It’s so obvious that OKC needs to go double big. It’s what won them game 2. Not sure why they aren’t leaning into it.

 

[InstantKlassik]

i don't watch the podcast regularly so i'm not familiar with teague's reason for hating on the pacers when he's from indianapolis.

It’s fake hate. He only do it to mess with Wells who is a real life super fan

 

[Art Barr]

Hes not a star hes a role player who had a great game at home we acting like we aint seen that before ?

Not true.
Math was a murder killer before injury.
Math is ramping back from injury.
If carlisle would cut out the avatar lineups.

To start math and obi over nesmith and nembhard.
This could be over if they hold serve.

Nembhard all season continues to re-earn this stArting job. Yet math is better.
That hopefully next game obi and math get the start.
Yet i understand all season.
why nembhard always gets the start.
As nembhard does have a good variable of intangibles. That i know what carlisle is doing. Yet math should start. As math has more scoring punch and drive than nembhard.


Art Barr

 

[Primetime]

I was worried Rick was gonna outcoach Mark....this is an interesting Finals

• vs DAL last year: challenging a blatant shooting foul that wasted their final timeout with only 3 secs left in game 6
• These playoffs: playing the foul game before DEN even crossed half court, team blows a 10 pt lead playing not to lose.
• These Finals: changing your starting lineup, odd rotations, benching both bigs in the 4th. Team blows a 15 pt lead playing not to lose.

He's fortunate Lu Dort hit those four 3s in a row in the 4th vs DEN when they were lookin at a 3-1 deficit, bc he stays forcing his team to win 5 games out of 7.

 

[Killer Instinct]

I almost want Indiana to win off of the strength of Stephen A assigning an inordinate amount of blame on Haliburton when they lose but being really meek when they win.

 

[aceboon]

I just can't get behind this Pacers team

A championship squad shoundn't look and play as bad as they do on a reguler basis


I also don't hate Shai as much as most since I appreciate his mid ranges and Drives more than all these 3 point chucking bytches that i feel is ruining the NBA.



The Pacers are wining a series that they have trailed the majority of and it feels like this every series..

This trash team winning it all would be a miracle because if they don't steal game ONE IN BOTH THIS SERIES AND THE NYK SERIS AND THEY LOSE EITHER/BOTH.

Can they beat a better team than them 3 series in a row?

Must be 2 different Pacers teams, the one I've been watching doesn't look and play bad on a regular basis

 

[DoubleClutch]

I feel like if OKC ends up losing this matchup, it’s gonna be like when the warriors lost then got KD. Cause I think the first thing they do is call the Bucks and offer them a Godfather deal for Giannis

If they’re smart they trade for KD. And sign Westbrook to come off the bench for little…. He won’t say no.

OKC then makes a title run next year. Maybe meets KNICKS in the finals and then just like that the NBA is BACK!

 

[chargers31]

Very entertaining series so far

 

[MikelArteta]

Odd series - just watching the teams, you get a sense OKC should be winning handily, but no one on OKC is really precise or experienced, and the Pacers are deep and have a chip on their shoulder. I don’t necessarily think gamblers know it all but I am very shocked that OKC is still favored to the extent they are - the Pacers have been underdogs all playoffs and won their series with games to spare, I feel like there is something people are missing with them

Pacers is just a team of destiny

 

[qnsfinest]

This is far from an upset. Only ones who thought that are western conference meat riders. These are 2 very evenly matched teams. Pacers just better.

 

[Illin Degenerate]

i dont think the fouls were necessarily intentional but once the pacers went up 8 with 1:09 remaining they did the smartest thing you can do on defense in that situation, foul. sure the thunder only making 3-6 free throws helps, but you dont let them take two 3's to potentially make it a one possession game with enough time remaining for them to get a stop and have a chance to tie or win in regulation.

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

OKC gonna pull the biggest upset ever if they can’t win this entire series.

This feels like when the Warriors beat Dallas in '06.

 

[Piff Huxtable]

i dont think the fouls were necessarily intentional but once the pacers went up 8 with 1:09 remaining they did the smartest thing you can do on defense in that situation, foul. sure the thunder only making 3-6 free throws helps, but you dont let them take two 3's to potentially make it a one possession game with enough time remaining for them to get a stop and have a chance to tie or win in regulation.

Carlisle ain't no dummy

 

[C-NICE]

If they lose this series it’s more than likely going to be in 7 games, it would be an upset for sure but cutting your window in half for a 31 year old Giannistheyve done enough to show it’s not necessary IMO

Their window is almost over you forget they gotta pay Chet and Jalen Williams soon and SGA just got eligible for the supermax . Also the spurs are on the way rockets are on the way Dallas is on the way like you got the window RIGHT NOW. Make the move to win or don't win at all