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NBA Finals: OKC v Indiana

SGA bricks the easy jumper, Haliburton drains the tough jumper for the win.

Pacers come from down big once again.

Really impressive. Haliburton has that clutch gene. It's pretty rare.
 
Haliburton is 6-for-7 (85.7%) when taking a shot to tie or take the lead in the final 90 seconds of the 4th or OT this playoffs. That’s the most such shots in a single postseason since 1997.

This is a whole different level of clutch – never seen anything like this. I'm in a hotel on vacation with the wife and screamed "He did it again!" WAY too loud when he hit that shot.

I hate the word "unbelievable" but this postseason he's been unbelievable in crunch time.
 
Well this certainly makes the Knicks collapse look better. The team that was going to sweep fell victim to the same thing the did the Knicks. Granted not as bad but it took a lucky Haliburton shot to beat the Knicks.

He just beat his man today and got a good clean look at a 19-20 footer. NBA player should make that shot.

I was wondering why Dort was not covering him to start the game. Don’t get how Dort was able to cover and hang with Ant but was just flat out schooled on a basic pull up jump shot. Nothing special just fake a hard drive to hoop pull up from 20 and boom. I get with a one point lead he may have thought the play was to take it to the hoop but you got to be closer than that on a game winning shot. Maybe he thought Caruso was going to flare out as he looked like he may have been retreating and trying to drop to cover Siakam. But that bad miscommunication should not happen to a team that has been touted as the best defensive team ever.

No Dorture Chamber tonight!
 
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superjohn said:
I don't understand the OKC love.
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Well they did win 68 games to the Pacers' 50 and in arguably a more difficult conference. It was justified. But I will say that it does seem in sports when one team is a prohibitive favorite that the underdog seems to do better than expected.
 
superjohn said:
I don't understand the OKC love.
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They are a fun team to watch and play great D. I love SGA but he becomes a one dimensional ball hog too much at the end of games sometimes. I think Chet needed to be in at the end of the game for size.
 
Alot of playoff teams missed the boat not selecting him at the end of the first round, Nuggets probably still playing if they drafted him over Peyton Watson.

 
Great team effort by Pacers. 6 players in the teens for scoring and another with 9 points. 3 players in double digits on rebounds, 3 players with 4 or more assists.
 
Hunt for 7 said:
Well this certainly makes the Knicks collapse look better. The team that was going to sweep fell victim to the same thing the as did the Knicks. Granted not as bad but it took a lucky Haliburton shot to beat the Knicks.

He just beat his man today and got a good clean look at a 19-20 footer. NBA player should make that shot.

I was wondering why Dort was not covering him to start the game. Don’t get how Dort was able to cover and hang with Ant but was just flat out schooled on a basic pull up jump shot. Nothing special just fake a hard drive to hoop pull up from 20 and boom. I get with a one point lead he may have thought the play was to take it to the hoop but you got to be closer than that on a game winning shot. Maybe he thought Caruso was going to flare out as he looked like he may have been retreating and trying to drop to cover Siakam. But that bad miscommunication should not happen to a team that has been touted as the best defensive team ever.

No Dorture Chamber tonight!
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Not sure why everyone including SVP is saying that Dort was covering Haliburton on the last shot. That was Wallace!
 
24-13. Those are the assist numbers. Eventually NBA teams are going to realize that when defensive intensity goes up in the playoffs, you absolutely have to move the ball. Get the ball to open guys and let them take the shots even if your lead scorer gets fewer. Indiana also dominated the boards.

SGA took 30 shots. Williams 19. The highest shot total on the Pacers was Siakam with 15.
 
Kitaman said:
I turned the TV off at that point. :(
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I learned the hard way when I did the same during Knicks Game 1. Here, I had to keep watching.
 
aceboon said:
Alot of playoff teams missed the boat not selecting him at the end of the first round, Nuggets probably still playing if they drafted him over Peyton Watson.

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Yes, that shot floored me - it was simply D-I-R-T-Y.

I go back and forth when I'm watching the Pacers thinking Nembhard is their 3rd best player, then Nesmith, then Nembhard etc...
 
Drame said:
Not sure why everyone including SVP is saying that Dort was covering Haliburton on the last shot. That was Wallace!
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Yup your right but it was still a lack of communication on who had shooter if even for half a step it gave Haliburton the room he needed.
 
JB75 said:
Have no interest. Might first nba finals I don’t watch since I was 8 yrs old. Two tuff markers with minimal star power. Told my wife last night after Knicks lost that I won’t be moving my schedule around for a sporting event now until football starts. Lollll. Also sucks that nba on tnt is now over after all these years. Those guys were great.
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couple things:
1) Why does the market matter? Wouldn’t you watch the colts in Super Bowl? NFL has much smaller markets than the NBA eg Green Bay and Buffalo
2) No star power? SGA just won the MVP… and
3) inside the NBA is still being produced by tnt but it will be licensed/aired ESPN.
 
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