Pacers bench drives game 3 win, Indy takes 2-1 lead
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
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Summary
Bennedict Mathurin and T.J. McConnell combined for 37 points off the bench to push the Indiana Pacers to a 116-107 game three win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni,and Zena Keita give their instant reaction to the Pacers win, Tyrese Haliburton’s aggressive play, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s fatigue. Then, the gang looks ahead to game four and Zena apologizes to the Pacers.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita & Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 12th, 2025. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Dave Dufour here with Zena Keda and S. Baraheni. |
| 0:14.1 | Coming up, the Pacers take a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals. |
| 0:18.5 | We're going to break down game three and look ahead to what the thunder need to do in |
| 0:22.2 | game four to respond. |
| 0:30.3 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:31.6 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:32.8 | Another great NBA finals game in the books. |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah. One of the best games of the books. Yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | One of the best games of the playoffs. |
| 0:40.3 | I had so like an incredible time watching it. |
| 0:43.3 | Number one, the game was on speed. |
| 0:47.0 | I mean, we were just flying up and down the court all night long. |
| 0:50.7 | Not a lot of three-pointers. |
| 0:52.5 | Both teams attacking the paint. |
| 0:54.1 | I mean, this was, before we even |
| 0:55.7 | talk about what happened, I mean, this was just a fun basketball game. I really just had a fun time |
| 1:01.3 | watching it. When I watch the games, I take notes on my iPad and my written iPad. And first note that I |
| 1:08.9 | wrote down today, game starts super physical and super fast. |
| 1:13.8 | And the first thing that I noted was that foul on SGA against Nemhart, the offensive foul to start the game. |
| 1:21.8 | So you knew that Indiana was going to immediately want to impose their will defensively in this game from the jump, |
| 1:29.7 | literally from tip of how Nemhard was trying to disrupt SGA. |
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