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Pacers go from getting a stop and the ball back with the shot clock off to giving up possession potentially. Brutal.

If you analyze the box score, despite Indiana’s 26 TOs, the Pacers are in this game due to OKC’s ineffectiveness in scoring off those turnovers. OKC with 11 points off 26 IND TOs. IND with 4 points off 7 OKC TOs.

TYRESE HALIBURTON. THE LEGEND CONTINUES TO GROW.

That’s the moment every kid dreams about in the driveway, at the park etc. Wow.

Nobody steals wins like Indiana. I’m sorry I doubted them, again. No more.

Chet Holmgren was atrocious tonight. Good player, probably not as good as the Thunder hoped he’d be at this point given the prospect he was in the draft.

Talked so much about OKC’s defense stifling Indiana in this series but it was Indiana’s defense that gave OKC more trouble tonight. Weird game. Exactly how the Pacers like it.

Feels like the Pacers just have to keep games close enough in the 4th (10 points or less) and wait for that one offensive flurry. That flurry + their execution under Tyrese Haliburton’s watch and their general poise wins them possessions over and over again down the stretch of

Knicks fans seem to be rooting against Indiana. I’d think Indiana winning it all would make the Knicks look better.

Pacers would be the most shocking NBA Finals winner of my lifetime (born in ‘97). Long way to go still but…

My morning conclusion: sports are more random than we want to admit and I guess that’s part of what makes them fun.

There’s a little bit of Harden/CP3 in the Haliburton/Nembhard combination. Not as explosive, of course, but when teams try to take out the head of the snake in Haliburton (Harden) with ball denials, Nembhard is fully equipped to run the offense, much like CP3 was in Houston.

If Jason Kidd gets dealt for a second time as a coach, we’re in unprecedented territory.

The Knicks’ “tsunami offer” with their current assets…

I’m kind of surprised Jared Dudley wasn’t in the mix in Phoenix given his relationship with the Suns and Devin Booker. Dudley will be a great HC who is knocking on the door of getting a job soon.

Honestly, the Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau like they did only to turn around and trade draft capital for Jason Kidd only makes sense if it leads to Giannis Antetokounmpo. So I’m not ruling it out.