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

[T-K-G]

Candace was looking on point during that post game show

 

[T-K-G]

Zach Lowe breaking down the difference between a Full (TJ) McConnell and a Semi-McConnell I'm rolling

 

[superchoops]

 

[Street Knowledge]

The series isn’t over but let’s say Indiana wins, what would the Thunder do from this point?

Would the be like hey we are a bunch of kids Chet and Jdub haven’t reached their primes yet and the pacers are on some 2007 Giants team of destiny shyt. Let’s just run it back or would they make a big move?

 

[Crude]

This Pacers team reminds me of 2004 Pistons/2014 Spurs. No superstars (yet) just stars and a bunch of hoopers

They remind me more of the early 2000s Jason Kidd led Nets teams with Kenyon Martin, Richard Jefferson, Keith Van Horn, Kerry Kittles, etc that got washed in a couple of finals by the Shaq-Kobe Lakers and Tim Duncan-Greg Popovich Spurs. Only with this Pacers team Haliburton is obviously playing the role of Jason Kidd.

Same type of teams bunch of solid players and a pass first floor general but no elite scorers.

Those Pistons and Spurs teams were built differently in my opinion.

 

[T-K-G]

The series isn’t over but let’s say Indiana wins, what would the Thunder do from this point?

Would the be like hey we are a bunch of kids Chet and Jdub haven’t reached their primes yet and the pacers are on some 2007 Giants team of destiny shyt. Let’s just run it back or would they make a big move?

Go back to a real basketball town in Seattle

OKC been gifted multiple good teams since they got the Thunder, them people don't deserve that that ain't a hooper city. Too many professional hoopers go to Seattle during the summer for them to not have a team

 

[superchoops]

The series isn’t over but let’s say Indiana wins, what would the Thunder do from this point?

Would the be like hey we are a bunch of kids Chet and Jdub haven’t reached their primes yet and the pacers are on some 2007 Giants team of destiny shyt. Let’s just run it back or would they make a big move?

they gotta keep their depth imo until a concrete #2 emerges consistently

 

[In The Zone '98]

The series isn’t over but let’s say Indiana wins, what would the Thunder do from this point?

Would the be like hey we are a bunch of kids Chet and Jdub haven’t reached their primes yet and the pacers are on some 2007 Giants team of destiny shyt. Let’s just run it back or would they make a big move?

Cap situation is solid for another year. They'd have to send out like 4 players for Giannis

Might be best to run it back

 

[Sghost597]

 

[Illin Degenerate]

The series isn’t over but let’s say Indiana wins, what would the Thunder do from this point?

Would the be like hey we are a bunch of kids Chet and Jdub haven’t reached their primes yet and the pacers are on some 2007 Giants team of destiny shyt. Let’s just run it back or would they make a big move?

i think its most likely they just run it back with maybe a depth move like they made for caruso. their issue is they have this year and next year and then the cap becomes a problem because they have to extend chet and jalen and decide what theyre going to do with their team options which are currently about 68 million combined. that 2026 offseason its almost guaranteed they have to let hartenstein walk or trade him into a teams cap space and if resigning both jalen and chet doesnt push them over the 2nd apron that offseason, sga's extension definitely will the next offseason. so they may decide to offload either caruso, dort, jalen, or chet by the 2027 offseason.

 

[Astroslik]

According to the talking heads on TV, the answer is a resounding no to the bolded.

He won't be considered one because he doesn't actively seek his shot regularly, and unless you come into the league as a 1-of-1 type player or are on a notable run of exceptional statistical excellence, winning basketball (which is what Haliburton plays, clearly) has absolutely NO bearing on one's superstar status in the eyes of said talking heads. It doesn't matter that Indiana is clearly not the same team if he doesn't impact the game.

Personally, I think Haliburton is the best floor-general archetype point man in the league. But while I think he's the best in the league at what he does, that doesn't matter when all the "best players" in the NBA are stat-stuffing, high-scoring forwards or guards who either have unlimited shooting range or are a likely 30-35 a night.

The one big thing working against Haliburton's case as a superstar is that his floor is wildly volatile, and he doesn't have superstar expectations. He will disappear on you in games offensively. If his baseline expectation is 20 points and 10 assists, then ideally, his floor would be around 12-14 points a night.

If you're the best player on a championship contender and a walking 20-10 at point, that should be superstar-worthy. There are a lot of players who could be considered superstars if the networks stopped putting the same teams on national TV games or forced their sports talk shows to discuss something beyond the same 4-6 topics. The Super Bowl location has more variance than what the likes of First Take discuss.

The wrong people control the narrative. Haliburton is the same player who was voted Most Overrated and people were like only for it to come out that he got a leading 13 votes in the survey that determined this.

And to add to this, being a superstar isnt about stats its about name recognition. My mom doesnt know about Haliburton but she knows Giannis, Curry, Ant, Jokic

 

[UpThruDere]

Pacers win Game 4 in another close game like 3 was, then get blown out in Game 5 in OKC, then come back home and close it out with a blow out of their own.

 

[SchoolboyC]

The series isn’t over but let’s say Indiana wins, what would the Thunder do from this point?

Would the be like hey we are a bunch of kids Chet and Jdub haven’t reached their primes yet and the pacers are on some 2007 Giants team of destiny shyt. Let’s just run it back or would they make a big move?

They run it back

Maybe make a move to bring in a vet piece without breaking up their core

Their cap situation doesn’t really explode until 26-27 when Chet & J Will extensions kick in

 

[Art Barr]

Oscar don’t look like he’s pushing 90

Okay!
who is the lady next to the legendary big o, oscar robertson?


I saw this lady.
during the telecast and was like,....

Who dat?




Art Barr

 

[No1]

First time for everything