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Pardon my taste, yeah Yeah, part of my team. Yeah, part of my team. Yeah, part of my team. Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings UFC 316 and DraftKings. One night only for a shot to win some cash. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now and use code Take. That's code take for new customers get $300 in bonus bets if you're bet wins when you bet just five bucks only on draft kings the crown is yours today is Friday June 6th and the Indiana Pacers have done it again. They stole game one in Oklahoma City these PASERS, they just keep doing it. PFT. It's insane. They have come back from 15 points down or more five times in these playoffs. That's a single most in a playoffs since 1997. It's just the Pacers game plan is to low you to sleep being giving you a 10 point lead. And then the last three minutes Fuck your world up and that's what they did the okay seat under again You should let the Pacers take lead you should go into the fourth quarter losing by six points against the Indian of Pacers And I bet you'd win like 75% of those games. It's crazy what they've done these playoffs Just like Ryan Rass said, don't count the Pacers out. He liked the Pacers.

So credit to Ryan for being the only one aboard that train. It was crazy at the, I think when Haliburton got the ball, I thought it was gonna go in at that point. It's just like, okay, same story. But up until that point, I was still like, surely they can't do this again. they didn't read until point three seconds left in the entire game if NBA playoff

if NBA games were 45 minutes long, the Pacers would be a lottery team. Yeah, it was, it was, it was, I mean, we shouldn't be shocked because they've done this so many times, but it still is shocking because the competition keeps going up level and it's like, no,'s this isn't going to happen for a game one Oklahoma City like the thunder were in control of this game for pretty much the entirety for 45 minutes. It was not like yeah, it was there'd be a run here, run there, but it just felt like they were always in that 10 point range, but they never got the kill shot. And with 932 left in the game, they had their largest lead of the game, which was 15 points. And then the Pacers outscored them 32 to 16 in the last 932. Incredible fourth quarter from them. Howl Burton is an absolute just ice and ice in the veins killer.

How does it time and time and time again? I just, I don't know what to say. Like the Pacers are so much fun. There's been an incredible run. This, this finals obviously had going into it. There's a lot of talk about, you know, was, okay, so you're gonna kill them, you know, the ratings, whatever blah, blah, blah. And then the Pacers just show up and they're like, Okay, you know, you want some fun games?

Let's make it an incredible game one

and everyone buckle up because you're never safe

with the Indiana Pacers. How many players do you think have more last second game-winning shots than Tyree's Halliburton in the course of the playoffs? I believe this is since the year 2000. Hmm. Probably like, I mean, is it none? Since, excuse me, since 1997, final five seconds of fourth quarter and over time, since 1997 in the playoffs is one guy. How many? It's LeBron James. He has eight. Yeah. Tyreece Halliburton has five. It's crazy. It's, and how many is he have in this, in this. Yeah, I think three Yeah, it's it's nuts and they're just like the thunder S.J. was awesome tonight New door was awesome tonight their defense. What were the what was the turnovers in the first half was it 18 turnovers? 19 I think 19 turnovers were you like when you saw like the halftime lead what was it 10 points? Yeah, it was it knows 12 points at halftime and it felt like the thunder could have been up like the thunder didn't play that Great offensively in the first half. They were just incredible on defense and It felt like the lead was way bigger than 12 points even at that point. So I don't know. I don't know what the Pacers are doing. I don't know what Rick Carlyle is doing.

I don't know what what makes them so different other than the fact that they just they they always believe that they can win until the very last second. But this must be the best thing ever to be an Indianapolis Pacers fan. It must be the best these playoffs have to just feel like crack just hit after hit after hit of crack. Yeah, and it's I mean, I think it's a testament to their conditioning, their pace like they just and Richard Jefferson actually made a really good point in the first half where you could see it in the first quarter where the Pacers pace which they like to play at they needed to dial it down a little bit because they were just playing two frenetic the the thunder were in every single passing lane and once they kind of got in a little bit of a rhythm and in control in that second half and especially the fourth quarter where they scored 35 points against the best defense in the league, it just, you just give Halbert in a chance at the end and that's all the matters. The Pacers led for point three seconds of this game. Yeah.

Point three seconds of this game. It was insane. They're so fucking fun. And I don't really know what else to say that there's so much fun to watch. And like they always get the thing that you, I love watching about this Pacers team, is they just, it feels like they always have guys stepping up. Like Obi-Tauppin was incredible tonight. He was five for eight from three. They, you know, they had six guys in double figures. Like it just feels like they get something from everyone. And like in T.J. McConnell had not, you know what I mean? Like they have so many guys and they're so deep that they get something from everyone and they all pick up each other. Like Tyrese Hallebert and looked very passive in the first half. And it's not like he He was, it's not like he lit the world on fire in terms of like the overall game.

Yeah. up each other like Tyrese Albert and looked very passive in the first half and it's not like he was it's not like he lit the world on fire in terms of like the overall game. Yet he was he was very good rebound in the ball but like it doesn't matter because other guys will step up like NEMHARD hit a big three. That's like they just have guys that step up in big moments and there's so much fun to watch. Yeah NEMHARD he didn't play that well. He shot not not really, but in the fourth quarter, he made, he always, like, when it comes time to actually do something important, Nimhard is always there making shots. Yeah, it was, it was not, can we talk? So I don't really know, I mean, I wanna say this under, we're gonna kill him in game two, because that just feels like how these things go, where it's like, hey's you know you if you're the Pacers you went down to Oklahoma City you stole game one The little bit of the pressure is off Okay, see on the other side's like we really blew this badly So it feels like they'll be it in Justin there, but no matter what like there was a lot of people who thought this series, series would be very quick.

I think the Pacers are,

like it's gonna be hard to beat the Pacers in the inapolis.

So what, you know, the Indiana Pacers are for real. I don't know, it's crazy. I know that it's like crazy to save until they're already in the NBA finals, but they were that big of a underdogs.

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