Hoops Tonight - EVERY WAY Pacers should beat Thunder in NBA Finals w/ Sam Vecenie

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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4.3 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Jason Timpf is joined by head NBA writer for the Athletic Sam Vecenie to break down the NBA Finials between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers. They both give their general thoughts on the matchup before discussing every strategy and game plan the Pacers could use to beat OKC, why Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam are so important, and how tough it is to defend Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Timeline

0:00 Start
5:27 Series overview
15:55 Pacers offense
37:25 Pacers defense
49:00 OKC historic greatness

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