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

[Primetime]

That spin pivot move looked awfully familiar

The other day I was rewatchin an old game from the 2010 Finals on YT and it was clear the influence Bean had on guys like Kyrie and Shai. From the left handed floaters Kyrie does, to Shai's pivots and spins.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Push-offs on offense and push-offs on defense.

 

[MicIsGod]

Push-offs on offense and push-offs on defense.

To not call this at the end of a game Scott on a king von run

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Crazy how Scott Foster is such a shytty ref, but he's always reffing the most pivotal games.

 

[Primetime]

Yup.

That is how you neutrlize ric playing small ball. As well as undermine'n haliban's leadership on court.

Indy is shallow on front court depth in height. So exploit it.
.hartenstein is an important cog. Every team that fsiled to retain him has lauced't . From not retaining him.

So as soon as hartenstein is properly utilized. With another of size frontcourt player. In this age. you create serious issues.
for any team understaffed in the frontcourt.



Art Barr

Yea from the start of the series i felt OKC was overreacting to IND's foot speed and 3-ball by downsizing. Like nah, keep both bigs in and do what you did with Murray/DEN by trapping that PnR ish, and getting in pre-rotation when IND has to throw it over the top.

And even on a worse case scenario like when IND successfully switched Hali on Chet late, have the OKC big stay up and concede/dare a drive to the hoop.

Because on the other end, IND would have no answers on the offensive glass, or on big to big plays. Hell, Hartenstein was shooting 70% on his floater thing but he's only taken like 2 of those shots through the first 4-games and neither were in the middle of the paint or off PnR action like they normally are.

 

[Brian O'Conner]

Same group of shyt fans that said the “NBA dead” because of ratings and that there was no way they’d get a new deal have now moved to babbling about “the refs cheating” after every game Go take your cac asses to hockey.…

The sooner the NBA can permanently rid themselves of these hollow ass loathsome leaches the better off the entire ecosystem will be... NBA by far has the worst observers of any major sport in America



Just look at this shyt….. These people are a fukking joke.. Loud and constantly useless

I mean ESPN is making the man cover the pacers after they ripped out the knicks heart and ate it in front of MSG. I kinda get Steven A is a hardcore Knick fan.. I don’t really blame him

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Krs2]

Im not really a fan of Stephen A antics but he was right on Hali.on a good day He got some all star performances, but off days he looks mid as fukk

 

[Gangstar8]

Crazy how Scott Foster is such a shytty ref, but he's always reffing the most pivotal games.

NBA needs him there to help Indiana

 

[DraymondT]

Crazy how Scott Foster is such a shytty ref, but he's always reffing the most pivotal games.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

3 steps

Nesmith is holding him with two hands which isn’t legal guarding form. The push-off (nor the travel happens) if they call the foul

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

TyLeast Half A Burden went from Steve Nash to Steve Blake and @Gil Scott-Heroin trying to make excuses for him being weak physically and mentally by blaming the refs

The Legler clip clearly shows how nobody on the Pacers could go left. The offense literally got stuck on the right side of the floor over and over, and when they were forced back left on the drive the only thing they could do was pass it out for a brick.

 

[Primetime]

The way Shai and JDubb took over the last 6-minutes was unbelievable.

And it was said on Zach Lowe's podcast afterwards, Lu Dort is probably the best defensive player in the NBA (outside of San Antonio)

 

[Da King]

The moment with 18 pts


Might be the most forced nickname I’ve ever heard by a PR team

 

[///Vega+++]

3 steps

That's an offensive foul
And it happens in front of the chief referee?
NBA is a joke sometimes