#327: Indy's chances, OKC hatred & SGA's paradigm

Thinking Basketball

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4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The first two games of the NBA Finals and the Pacers prospects. Also, OKC's best defender, their historical versatility, why fans hate them and the complaints about their “special” officiating, and how Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is introducing a unique paradigm.

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another show. It's the NBA
0:14.2	finals. We are through two games as of recording this. It is Monday, June 9th. The Pacers have won once. The Oklahoma
0:23.0	City Thunder have won once. And yeah, it's been, it's been very exciting watching these teams.
0:30.8	I don't know if anyone was watching, Cody. How you doing? I'm doing great. I love the NBA finals.
0:37.1	I'm having a great time watching this.
0:38.7	I know game two.
0:40.8	Yeah, I think the Thunder were up 19 at halftime, but there's still like the sick, morbid part of you that's watching.
0:46.8	You're like, well, maybe, just maybe.
0:48.8	There's like four and a half minutes.
0:49.9	No, I think there's two and a half minutes left.
0:51.8	And at that point, Dagnol unloads his bench.
0:55.6	Everyone out there is a bench player.
0:58.0	I don't know what the lead is at that time, but it's pretty big. And I'm still like, I'm not going to turn this one off yet.
1:01.6	Like, just in case something goes nuts here.
1:04.4	But of course, the Pacers magic kind of ran out from game one.
1:08.2	So regardless, like I said, I'm still very much enjoying these finals.
1:11.2	Well, I think we have to start at the juiciest of possible places to start, which is we have a
1:16.0	one-one series. The Thunder defense has been as advertised. I think as we saw in the latest
1:24.1	video breakdown of this game, they have done what we expected them to do
1:29.2	against this Pacer's offense.
1:30.5	The Pacer's offense and just the team,
1:32.4	I think you have to give credit
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