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today. Later on, we'll be discussing Jeremiah Fears out of Oklahoma. Dunkin' Prime subscribers,

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But first, Danny, let's begin by discussing the Oklahoma City Thunder, doing what was needed to be

done, what is expected to be done by a home team down 1-0.

That's right.

Historically, home teams that lose game one have a big bounce back in game two, and that was

absolutely the case here, 123, 107 in favor of the Thunder.

And that 123 is really important.

And I think that's where I want to kind of start our focus in this.

And the really bad news for the Indiana Pacers is that the Oklahoma City Thunder scoring

123 points on under 100 possessions,

96 is the possession count that I saw. It wasn't through the unsustainable success in the ways

that, like, we often talk about where, okay, the Thunder didn't shoot the lights out from three.

They weren't destroying the Pacers in transition,

either in frequency or efficiency in transition. They weren't really fully, at least,

demolishing the Pacers on the offensive glass. They had a better offensive rebound, right,

but actually had fewer second chance points. So the fallbacks, things that could easily regress to the mean, traditional ones,

those weren't what hurt the Pacers. Instead, it was pretty much everything else. It was they were

giving up a lot of twos. They gave up a fair amount of free throws, but I mean, both teams

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