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Thunder-Pacers Game 6 Reaction: Indiana BLOWS OUT OKC, who wins Game 7?
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Dsw.Com welcome in what's Right with Nick Wright Game 6 NBA Finals reaction show. And this is not the show I expected to be doing as Bed of the Year goes down in flames. I have been just wildly wrong. And at this point, I have to admit, it's not just been I have been saying it hasn't been disrespect to the Pacers and it certainly hasn't been intentional disrespect to the Pacers. It has been massive respect to the Thunder as to why I thought this series would be done in probably 5, at most 6. Why I thought yesterday, even though the Pacers were at home, even though we have seen the Thunder in these playoffs kind of play around with one of these game sixes, I thought that this was going to be a Thunder route. And I laid out a very specific way I thought the Pacers would have to win, which is, you know, you're not going to be able to slow down the Thunder's offense, so you're just going to have to outscore them. Miles Turner is going to have to have a huge game and basically everything was wrong. Miles Turner went one for nine. You did absolutely stifle the Thunder offense. You made the Thunder look young. You made Chet look like he was not ready for the moment. Jalen Williams. J Dub has the worst plus minus in finals history. A nice ripe minus 40 for the game. The league MVP Shea, who scored 20 plus in like 80 something consecutive games, barely gets over that threshold with just 21. And the Pacers in despite no one breaking 20 until the waning moments of garbage time and OB top and jumper put him at 20. The Pacers basically wire to wire the Oklahoma City Thunder. That game was 10 to 2 Oklahoma City and then the rest of the. Because what was the halftime score? Halftime score was 64 to 42. So the rest after the 10 to 2 start, Indiana beat them in the first half 62 to 32. And now we have the 20th game seven in NBA finals history. Just the first game seven since the 2016 Cavs against the Warriors. And we are one game away from what is in my opinion, without a doubt the greatest upset in NBA history. And it would be in the, you know, per the Bookmakers, tied with the Pistons beating the Lakers in 04. But that series, the Lakers were all of a sudden, they were an old team that was dealing with injuries by that series and now they trounced the Lakers. But this to me is more shocking. A Thunder team that was absolutely rolling at every step of the season, that took back control of the series in game four, I thought put their foot on the Pacer's throat in Game 5. To just get annihilated like that and to now be on the brink of what would be an all time missed opportunity and, and a. A collapse for the ages. I understand that we have. There's been plenty of teams that have been up 3, 2 in the finals and lost. I get that now there have only been four teams to lose a game seven of the finals at home. They would be the fifth. But the 131 comeback we've seen in the finals, it was part collapse by Golden State and part. The greatest player of all time just got to his greatest peak of all time over a week of basketball. That's not what this is. It's not that. Holy shit. Pascal Siakam or Tyrese Halliburton are just activating a new level. It is the Pacers as a whole are last night were the hungrier team. The obviously the more desperate team, but the more put together team. Now what I will say is thus far this series and maybe this is something the Thunder can lean on. Thus far this series has gone beat for beat like the thund the Thunder Nugget series did. Game one, Thunder Nuggets Thunder lose on a buzzer beater. Game one Thunder Pacers Thunder lose on a buzzer beayer. Game two Thunder Nuggets Thunder blow out the Nuggets. But that one by 40. Game two of the finals Thunder blow out the Pacers. Game three, the Thunder lose a heartbreaker in overtime in Denver. Game three, the Thunder lose tough game in Indiana. Game four it looks like. Oh my God. Are the Thunder going to go down 3:1 and they kind of claw their way back and win the game by five. Game four of this series. Oh my God. Or the Thunder going to go down three one. They claw their way back and win by seven. Game five of that series, the Thunder win by seven. In round two, game five of this series, the Thunder win by 11. And then game six, the Thunder got blown out in Denver and not to this degree. And game six of this series, the Thunder got blown out. So they have this exact pacing of a series and they then came out and beat the Nuggets by 32 points to move on. And you could say. And in that series, one of the Nuggets key players was dealing with an injury and Aaron Gordon. And in this series, Tyrese Halliburton with an injury. He sure didn't look hurt last night as he. That was the best beginning of a game Halliburton's had all series. He didn't end up having to play huge minutes. And now he's got two more days and all of a sudden the Thunder have two days to think about the fact that oh my God. Whether they were allowing their minds to drift there or not. Dynasty was thrown around. Obviously Shea's place in basketball history was being thrown around. We threw around Jalen Williams, J. Dub Being comped to Scottie Pippen, all of it. And now you go into a game seven where who on the Thunder is feeling great about how they're playing? I. I mean, and the chat thing is, to me, a massive red flag. Now, part of that, I will admit, might be confirmation bias for me because I have always been probably more chat skeptical than most. But chat was brutal last night. Four points, 2 of 9 from the field, no blocks, no impact on the game. Hartenstein wasn't brutal, but no impact on the game. So you're two bigs. Not played off the court necessarily, but just not it. No thrust. And the. The way the Pacers, like there was. There was a. The start of the second half was really fascinating to me, and I apologize for bouncing around. It's what I'm gonna do. It's kind of how I do it. If Damanze's not here, I don't have, like, a regular train of thought. Also, by the way, we are going to do at the end of this podcast, we'll do it as quickly as we can, but I think it'll be a good time capsule. And I also think it's. It's just a good way to pay tribute to the fact that there's only been 20 of these in the history of the league. Game seven of the finals, where we're gonna bang, bang, bang, go through all 20. It'll be less than a minute on each. It might be 10 seconds on some of them, but 15 of the 20 are really historic, touchstone moments in league history. And almost all of the contemporary ones are have either an iconic moment or are the defining moment of an iconic player's career. And we're getting one for the first time in nearly a decade. But to get back to what I was saying, down 22. To start the second half, here are. Well, up 22, I should say. Here are the Pacers possessions. Seaka miss jumper. Turner miss jumper Turner missed three. Halliburton missed three. Seakum missed layup Knee Smith miss jumper. Nimhard miss jumper. Turnover. Knith those opening four minutes, the Pacers got nothing at the rim except for Siakam, and he missed. Turned the ball over. Got no steals, drew no fouls or drew one foul, but it was off the ball. That was if the Thunder were. If they had come into the game overconfident. And then they have half time to reset with the goal being, guys, we came back from basically 10 down in the fourth quarter. Game five, or game four. Pardon me. Let's just get 22 to 16 by the under seven timeout and reframe the game that was those were their opportunities but unfortunately for them their all their offensive possessions were some of the ugliest basketball the Thunder have played all year. A late shot clock, Lou Dort three. An early shot clock Lou Dort three. A turnover by Shea. So I guess there was one turnover. A Jaylen Williams. J Dub missed three. Caruso blocked at the rim. A bad miss by Chat from three. Another Lou Dort missed three. And then Halberton hits the layup and Oklahoma City calls timeout. No great possessions, no shots from the league mvp. The team was shook and I don't know how this is going to land with the Pacers. I'm sorry with the Thunder for game seven. I still believe the Thunder are going to win. I still believe the Thunder are the right side. But hand up here I have just been dead ass wrong on a lot these playoffs and I have been wildly wrong this, these NBA finals and it is just such a unique game where who on the Pacers played great, played a great game. I, I don't, I guess you could say Obi Toppin hit a bunch of big threes, scored 20. I, I thought Seakin was going to have to score 30. He scored 16. Now I understand all of this is warped a bit by the fact that in the fourth quarter, you know I can pull it up real quick in, in the fourth quarter. The Thunder or the Pacers are. The Thunder didn't play any of their starters at all in the fourth quarter and the Pacers barely played their guys any in the fourth quarter. So this was quarter game. But still offensively no one on the Thunder on the Pacers had a monster game defensively. They all did and it was all of the Thunder or the Pacers. I keep getting it wrong. I apologize. Pacers offensive X factors. Well, their two biggest offensive X factors, Matherin and Turner combined to go 2 for 15 over 8 from 3 they won. Anyway, that's what is so terrifying for Oklahoma City. Weird shit happens in game sevens and there's never been a player that's walked into a game seven more do for a big night than Miles Turner. It just hasn't like and I'm gonna keep banging the Miles Turner drum because I believe in his talent, I believe in his ability and he has been impactful for them defensively and as a rim protector the last few games they're only like consistent other than seakum offensive forces. McConnell who McConnell has got his game straight out of the Sha Livingston playbook of I'm going to somehow awkwardly get my way to a 10, 12, 14 foot jumper. It's going to be they have very different releases, but it I'm going to have I'm the only player in the league that shoots the way I shoot and it's going to feel automatic. And McConnell with another nice 6 for 12, 12 points, nine rebounds, six assists, four steals. What a damn game by him. And so that's how we got here. And I know it sounds like from everything I'm saying, like, so I'm going for the Pacers. I I picked the Thunder. I found myself last night. I think it's an unbelievable story if the Pacers win this championship. 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See mint mobile.com all right for this is going to sound surface level but it's reality. This is this has to be Game seven. Has to be a game where the discussion on TV Monday morning and afternoon for for the Thunder the discussion is did SGA just give himself a legitimate claim to best player alike? That's gotta be it. And by the way if you go back and we're gonna do this in longer form in a few minutes but if we go back through the game Sevens the guy who the last my God close to 10 when we've walked off the court after that game 7 for a lot of people the best player alive's been walking off with the championship. LeBron 16 LeBron 13 Kobe 2010 it was a debate but he just won back to back championships. Now he wasn't good in that game seven but a lot of people obviously believe Kobe was best player alive then oh 5 Duncan 94 Akeem 88 Magic 84 Bird like those game sevens with and I'm not picking on Kobe but it was just an outlier where he was 6 of 24. The those game sevens the through line has been a guy who either had a stranglehold on best player alive or a guy who was arguably best player alive he took it. There have been a few great ones where in 2016 and in I guess you could argue 94 and certainly in 84 where the two guys who were arguing best player alive Bird, Magic, Akeem Ewing. Ewing really wasn't quite that class but if he had won maybe we'd been saying it and then obviously LeBron Curry it's like it's levitating above the arena the figurative title belt. Can you go grab it? Now that's not the case here because there's no one on the Pacers that if they win, we're like, bam. That guy is the best player in the league. But that's what, that's what's in front of Shay now. He can't do it on his own. And all year long, as great as he's been, he's never had to do it on his own. But that Thunder defense needs to wake back up and those Thunder roll players, I think J will be good. Let me say that on the front end, I the, the 40 piece he dropped in game five, he's going to be back at home. He seems so even keeled. I think he'll be good. I think Shea will be good. I don't know who else is going to be good. And I am interested because this I think does tilt things in. The Thunder's favorite refs never want a game 7 to be choppy and a bunch of fouls. And I thought early in this game, I thought it was a very fair whistle and it wasn't like a crazy amount of free throws in either direction. But I thought they made it pretty clear early in this game that it, they're going to call it maybe a little tighter than the Thunder would like. And I think it impacted Dort and Crusoe's ability defensively and that obviously huge advantage because of that to Indiana. But the. If the Thunder don't win this championship, I, I just don't. It feels like such a crushing, crushing blow. And all reference 2016 again, yes, they had won 73 games and they were up 3:1, but they had a title in their back pocket. And so when we think about the, the shocking finals defeats, the the most and the most crushing finals defeats, 1969 is the answer to that. And more on that game, oddly, in a bit. But Celtics over Lakers in Russell's final game ever because it was like, I guess, you know, we're never, we're never going to have a better team, we're never going to be better positioned, we're never going to be a bigger favorite. And we still can't get over the hump. Now that wouldn't be this because the Lakers had lost the Celtics a half dozen times at that point or close to it. But this, this can be a just a seismic event or it can be, listen, we got a little ahead of ourselves in game six. We were a little, you know, thinking about the party and the celebration and the Pacers said, you know, we're not laying down. And we knew we had that game seven at home in our back pocket. But man, you better effing when I this would be like another all cross sport. One of the biggest, the biggest upsets in recent super bowl history. The o the Giants in 07 beating the Patriots. It's unfathomable but for the most important parties with the Patriots, other than Randy Moss, they had championships already or when the Patriots beat the Rams in oh one, the Rams had won the championship two years prior. I'm. I'm just kind of struggling to find and I'm sure it exists but like this level of upset that The Thunder were minus 2000 to win the title yesterday, they were minus 700 at the start of the series and they were. Hell, they were minus 700 after game four. It just. I don't know what it does to an organization if they don't win this. Meanwhile, if there has ever been a team that walks into a game seven, as crazy as this sounds with no pressure, it's the Pacers. I don't know that that actually exists, but if it does, this is it. And so I, I am anxious for the Thunder and I don't even care. Like I, I have no connection or affinity for him. I can't wait to see how Shea handles it and to set that up. And this will be, this will. We're gonna the thing we're gonna do next we will clip as its own YouTube video. It will not do well on YouTube, however, for real die hard NBA fans, I hope for years it's kind of a something people stumble upon where they are searching for the history of game sevens in the NBA Finals. And then they watch the 10 minutes or so we're about to do because we'll go through all of them and and like I said, the vast majority have something iconic about them. But before we do that, a message from our friends at Boost Mobile. And this is a message that applies to 99% of you listening right now. Because that's how many of you can be covered by fast and reliable service on the Boost mobile network with 99% nationwide coverage. And if you don't think you deserve a deal, listen up. 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We will spend obviously less time on the very early ones. But if you want, if you're a sports history nerd like me, this should be fun. I'll try to go through the uninteresting ones as quickly as possible. First one ever 1951 Rochester Royals beat the Knicks 79 75. Give you a context for how different the league was back then. Two different guys named Arnie started this basketball game. And the first ever kind of like hard luck star in the NBA, Max Zaslovsky, pardon me, for the Knicks was involved in that game. 1952, the Minneapolis Lakers beat the New York Knicks. That was, if it wasn't already official, before the official arrival of the NBA's first true superstar, George Mikin Mikan averaged 22 and 18 for the series and in that game seven had 22 points and 19 rebounds. Those same Minneapolis Lakers in 1954 beat the Syracuse Nationals 8780. That's a new another Mike in championship. His fifth ring and the league's first three Pete and then one last one that is really kind of the BC era of NBA basketball. The 1955 Syracuse Nationals beat the Fort Wayne Pistons 92 91. We don't really have to get into it, but NBA history nerds know this. This might be fun for people who aren't. That game was probably rigged and I don't mean rigged by the refs. I mean again, allegedly, possibly, I don't know, who knows. It seems sure seems like the the newspaper writers and the people who covered that game thought Fort Wayne threw the game, thought they were on the take. And that was at a time when that stuff kind of happened. There's old CCNY thing. But so again those four, you've got the first ever Game seven with Rochester beating New York. You then have kind of the mike and era. You then have dolph Shays in the Syracuse Nationals beating the Fort Wayne Pistons in a game that could not be played in Fort Wayne's arena because Fort Wayne had run it out the arena and the game might have been thrown. Okay, now, not to modern era obviously, but all of the other. The next handful of game sevens involve one main character. Bill Russell and his Boston Celtics. 1957, the Celtics beat the St. Louis Hawks 125, 123 in double overtime. Russell's rookie year. It's Russell versus Robert E. Lee Pettit Jr. Which is also known as Bullet Bob Pettit. It's an all time series. It's an all time game and it is the beginning of the Celtics dynasty. A game seven double overtime, two point victory over the guy a lot of people thought was the best player in the league. And Bob Pettit. That's 1957. 1960, the Celtics beat the St. Louis Hawks. Same Hawks, same Bob Pettit. 1 22, 103. Bill Russell with a nice smooth 22.35 rebound performance for the Celtics. That was their third title and second in a row. Two years later, and this is going to be a theme. The Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles lakers in Game 7 of the Finals. 1 10, 107 19. I would love for the 1962 NBA season to get its own 30 for 30. It has some of the craziest stat lines you will ever see in the. The 1962 season is bananas. The just for a little context, because of the speed of the game, so to speak, Here were the stat lines of the top five. Fine, not finals, but MVPs. Number five, Jerry West. He averaged 31, 8 and 5. Number four, Elgin Baylor. He averaged 38, 19 and 5. However, he didn't play enough games because he was only able to play like on weekends because he was in the military. Number three, Oscars, triple double, 31, 13 and 11. Number two, Wilts, 50 point per game, 49 minute per game season. And the guy who won MVP, Bill Russell at 19 points, 24 rebounds. That was the season. Now to the 1962 NBA Finals which was the first ever Celtics over Lakers. It goes to overtime. It's 110107 in that series. Jerry west averaged 31 and 5. Elgin Baylor averaged 41 and 8. They're up 32 in game six. Up three, two. Elgin Baylor scored 61 points and they lost in game seven. A Celtics or Lakers role player, Frank Selby missed kind of a bunny to win in regulation. The Celtics win in Overtime. Despite West having 35 and Elgin having 41. Bill Russell had a nice tidy 30.40 rebound game. That was the Celtics fifth title and their fourth straight. 1966, the Celtics in a game seven beat the Lakers 95, 93. The Lakers are down 16 entering the fourth. They claw back come just short. Poor Jerry west at 36 and 10. Russell had 25 and 32. That was the Celtics record that will never be broken. 8th consecutive championship and 9th overall. And then one last time for posterity sakes. 1969, the Celtics beat the Lakers in a game 7. 108, 106. It is the final game of Bill Russell's career. It is an insane game. Furious fourth quarter comeback that comes up short for this series. Bill Russell held Wilt Chamberlain to 11 points per game. It was an all time upset because the Celtics were the four seed that year. And that Lakers team was unbelievable. The Lakers owner Jack Kent Cook had put balloons in the rafters to drop when they won the championship. It's the first that which really pissed off Jerry west and made Bill Russell even angrier. Will gets dinged up, goes to the bench. They, they stage a bit of a comeback without him. He's then like I'm ready to go back in. The coach is like nope, sit your ass down. Wilt Don Nelson for the Celtics hits Halliburton shot, the one against the Knicks back rim up super high in the air down through the late. The Celtics win by two. It's the first road team to win a game seven. Okay, now we're done with the 50s and 60s. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So there have only been 10 game sevens of the finals that have been played. This will be the the 11th since the Celtics dynasty. We'll do the 70s ones quickly because this is the period of the NBA I know the least about because there's the two leagues ABA all of it but 1970, everybody knows about this game. The Knicks beat the Lakers. The Lakers lost a lot of these game sevens. 113.99 that is known as the Willis Reed game because Willis Reed is like a torn quad. Limps onto the court after missing game six. Hits the first two baskets of the game. What people don't realize is those are the only two baskets of the game he made. So how they win? Well, Walt Clyde Frazier In a game seven of the NBA Finals had 36 points, 7 rebounds, 19 assists. 1974 NBA Finals the Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks and Kareem 102, 87 Kareem for the series. 33:12, 5 and 2 and 49 minutes per game. Do the math on that. Pretty unbelievable. It's not enough the Celtics become the second road team ever to win a game 7. 1978 bullets beat the Supersonics. Probably the worst finals MVP decision ever. They gave it to Wes unsell to average 9 points, 11 rebounds. The story of that is Dennis Johnson, who wasn't the best player on the Sonics, was important. Went over 14 in over 14 in game seven. But the Sonics got revenge the next year and won the championship. And they also became the third road team ever to win a game seven of the finals. And now we get to ones you guys probably know about. 1984, the Boston Celtics beat the Lakers 111, 102 in game seven of the finals. Magic had seven turnovers in that game. They had already started calling him tragic Johnson. He even though he was a two time champion leading up to it for turnovers earlier, Larry Bird was outstanding. It was the first Magic Bird finals. And it was the eighth time the Celtics and the Lakers had met in the finals. And the Celtics up to that point were 8, 0. And that kind of cemented Bird for a lot of people. Over Magic, over Kareem as the best player in the league. 1988, Lakers, Pistons, Lakers beat the Pistons 108. 105. That is on the heels of one of the most famous games in NBA history. Game 6 of those Finals with the Pistons having a chance to close it out and win the championship and deny the Lakers a back to back. Isaiah badly springs his ankle. Scores 25 in the third quarter despite that sprained ankle. And and then with 10 seconds left, down one, Kareem gets the ball foul called on Lambert on the skyhook. Maybe the most controversial foul in NBA history. Kareem makes both they win game six. 103102. And then game seven. Because of that sprained ankle, Isaiah is limited. And that's the big game. James game. James Worthy, who up to that point in his career had never had a triple double. In game seven of the finals. 36 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists. The Lakers win Magic's fifth title. Kareem sixth title. And that's the end of the Lakers winning titles until Shaq and Kobe get there. 1994 Rockets beat the Knicks 90 to 84. The iconic moment of that series is game six. The Akeem block on Starks. Down two, where the Knicks start shooting a three. Akeem gets his fingertips on it. In game seven. Akeem in a rematch, Akeem Ewing. 1984 NCAA championship that Georgetown won. Akeem outscores Ewing in every single game. Stifles him. Holds Ewing to 17. The Rockets get their first of two championships. 2005 Spurs, Pistons. Spurs beat the Pistons 81 74. That series is probably most known for game five. Down two, spurs ball. Pistons leave Robert Horry open. He hits a three, they go up three two. Then in game seven, Duncan leads a furious third quarter comeback. The Pistons are denied back to back championships. Duncan gets his third ring. 2010 Celtics, Lakers an ugly awesome game. Lakers beat the Celtics 83 to 79. The Lakers were down 32 in the series. Blow out the Celtics in game six. In game seven, one of the oddest games ever. The Lakers have 53 points through three quarters, score 30 in the fourth. Think about that. 53 through three quarters, score 4, 30 in the fourth. They're trying to, you know, this is The Celtics at 1 and oh 8 with their big 3. The Lakers 1 and oh 9 once they got Powell. Now these two teams are playing Kobe in that game 7. Goes 6 for 24, but is huge on the glass. Ron, our test. Up three, less than a minute left. Takes an ill advised three, but he makes it. Despite that, it's still a two point game with 10 seconds left. Sasha Vujicic gets fouled, Goes the line, calmly hits both free throws. Kobe gets ring number five. The Celtics big three never come actually close again. And then the two LeBron ones. 2013, he beat the Spurs 95 to 88. That's the game after the Ray Allen game. LeBron has 37 and 12, including five threes after the Spursman daring him to shoot threes all series. Chris Bosh and Ray Allen in that game combined for zero points. Zero points from Bosch and Ray Allen. So out of the Heat win on the LeBron's 37:12. Shane Battier off the bench, hit six threes. Kind of the iconic image of that game. Down to Tim Duncan has a little baby hook and then a tip in after he misses, misses it. Misses both. Slams his fist on center court. After the Heat call timeout. After the heat call timeout. LeBron hits a jumper over Kawhi from 19ft to go up four and win the championship. And then 2016, the fourth and last time a road team has won a game seven, you have arguably the most iconic shot in NBA history by Kyrie Irving. Inarguably the most iconic defensive play in NBA history by LeBron James. The block on Iguodala. LeBron goes 27, 11 and 11 as the Cavs complete a 31 comeback to deny the 73 win warriors the greatest season in NBA history. Those are the 19 we have if you just look through them. George Mikin becoming the greatest player in the league through Game seven of the Finals, Bill Russell becoming the greatest winner in sports history through game Sevens and Jerry west becoming the biggest tough luck loser in sports history through game Sevens we have the iconic Willis Reed game that was actually the Walt Frazier game. We have maybe one of the reasons Kareem left Milwaukee. Does he leave as quickly or as readily if they had won that championship? We have Magic vs. Bird, we have Magic vs. Isaiah Ewing vs. AEM. The Pistons going for a back to back while the spurs trying to create their own version of a dynasty. Kobe and Powell against the big three in Boston. LeBron's heat going for validation of all coming together by winning back to back against that spurs team and the greatest comeback in NBA history in 2016. That's what Game 7 of the NBA Finals has meant historically. What will the 20th one mean this Sunday night? We'll all find out together and we'll.
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