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

[Hawala Man]

Pacers gonna go up 3-1 and they'll hoist the trophy game 6...they prob fukk off game 5 and get blown out...if Pacers don't win game 4 they're losing this series

OKC wins game 4 and the series goes 7 games. You would've said the same thing if Pacers were down 2-1 instead of being up right now 2-1.

 

[KFBF]

I really hope someone bloodies Lu Dirt before the end of this series

I bet u he wouldn't do shyt to James Johnson

Dort is the quintessential if he's in your team you love him but if he's not it's easy to hate his guts.

 

[SCORCH]

Makes sense.

"After two games of wrestling with Oklahoma City’s defense, of battling waves of defenders that just kept coming, Tyrese Haliburton cracked open his laptop to study someone familiar with it," Mannix wrote. "Few players in NBA history are as adept at shedding a physical defense as Stephen Curry, the Warriors superstar who has powered Golden State to four championships … and counting.

"Early in the week, Haliburton’s trainer, Drew Hanlen, fired off a file of a decade’s worth of Curry’s postseason field goals, a highlight reel of Curry torching defenders from San Antonio to Houston, Cleveland to Boston."

The result? A near-triple-double, as Haliburton scored 22 points with nine rebounds and 11 assists on 9-of-17 shooting from the field and 4 of 8 from 3-point range in Indiana's 116-107 Game 3 win.

 

[Brian O'Conner]

That Gene Hackman death seeming more suspicious by the day…. Bout to watch Hoosiers before Friday

Spoiler

 

[Primetime]

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

So what exactly are they giving up?

Stylistically, it would have to be JDubb and Hartenstein + any combo of picks and disposable bench guys like Wiggins and Isiah Joe to make the salaries match. They'd need Chet, Giannis, Dort, Shai, Cason Wallace / Caruso (6th man) to be the core, otherwise they'd have to make too many additional moves to replace what a Chet or Dort provide. Moves that may not be available.

 

[Primetime]

What's crazy is both teams need to win game 4

It's honestly why OKC is still the betting favorites despite being down 2-1. Part of that is proably impacted by the change of the playoff format.

i.e. OKC/IND is similar to Heatles/Mavs where one team was the heavy favorites that the vast majority of analysts picked to win in 5 or 6. What's funny is Miami choked game 2 at home the same exact way OKC choked game 1: up big, got too comfortable, and couldn't stop the avalanche (ironic Carlisle was the HC for DAL). A key difference after is the format was still 2-3-2 back then. Heat went 1 for 3 in those middle games on the road, including losing game 5 to go down 3-2 and were broken mentally. Thunder will have game 5 at home, so IND/Carlisle definitely recognizes the importance of winning the next game not resetting the series 0-0 once again.

 

[The God Poster]

Ive predicted every game of this series so far correctly.

Pacers upset in Game 1
OKC blows them out Game 2
Pacers win a close Game 3

Game 4 prediction

 

[Miggs]

Game 4 prediction

okc wins a close one in game 4

 

[Art Barr]

Stylistically, it would have to be JDubb and Hartenstein + any combo of picks and disposable bench guys like Wiggins and Isiah Joe to make the salaries match. They'd need Chet, Giannis, Dort, Shai, Cason Wallace / Caruso (6th man) to be the core, otherwise they'd have to make too many additional moves to replace what a Chet or Dort provide. Moves that may not be available.

Under no circumstance do you trade or offer hartenstein.


You let that black Boi be.

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Art Barr

 

[MicIsGod]

okc wins a close one in game 4

Same

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I'm glad we got a competitive Finals.

Let TheColi tell it and it was going to be a sweep, and then when OKC won Game 2, it was going to be a backdoor sweep. Y'all never gonna learn to just let games play out huh.

 

[Ozymandeas]

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Dillah810]

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]