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90, four minutes of this series have been firmly in the Thunder's side. And tonight they, they got their game. Listen, the Pacers have, they won one on the road. Pacers are, are winning this series, one, one right now. Yeah, that's all that's it. But I will say I do think they're probably in trouble, but the Pacers also have that ability to just make everybody look like idiots all the time. So they might go ahead and do that.

I don't think we mentioned this on Friday's show because we did it right in the aftermath of the game and the buzzer beater. We did talk about how the Pacers only led for 0.3 seconds of that game. I think that's the lowest amount of time that any winning team has ever led us into history of the playoffs.

Yes.

So it would not surprise me if they figured out a way to do the the rabbit out of the hat thing again. But tonight it was just it was dominance. Well, and it felt like there was moments where it felt like the Pacers kept on fighting back. The difference I feel like tonight was you had not only Chet Holmgren and J.D. Chippippin, but it was Alex Crusoe and Aaron Wiggins.

That was the big thing.

Aaron Wiggins felt like he hit a big three every time. The Pacers were kind of creeping back. And it's crazy to say, because when you watch the Indiana Pacers play basketball, when I say creeping back, I mean like cutting it to 13. When they cut it to 13, I'd sit up at my seat Oh, oh here they come come. If you know that's still a big lead to come overcome.

If the Pacers cut it to 13 in like the third quarter,

I've just reached a point where I accept that they'll probably end up winning that game. Yeah, but yeah, the Thunder, I don't want to even say role players because Chet Homgren's, I wouldn't call him like a role player necessarily. Yeah, Aaron Wiggins and Crusoe come off the bench, but yeah, but yeah,

Crusoe is these elevated role plays. Yeah, it's like a featured cameo

It's been my point with the Thunder all playoffs Like they're an incredible team. There are times when SGA is expected to do everything and you need those second and third guys to step up And they did tonight and then the the the bench stepped up as well and SGA still had his 34 and it was like Tyres Halberton what do you have I think you had 12 points in the fourth quarter be a five going into the fourth quarter and it was like a Tirey's Hall of Burton. What do you have? I think he had 12 points in

the fourth quarter, but he had five going into the fourth quarter and it was it just felt like one of

those a little bit passive Tirey's Hall of Burton games where that's the next step for him being into that next level where he doesn't have an incredible game followed by a game where you're like, way where is this guy he's got to be he's got to be basically running the show here.

So this was it was SGA and he got his 3000 point on the season. If you include the regular season and the postseason, there's 12 guys that have ever done that. I'll just say, Will Chamberlain is one of the 12. He did it five times and then everybody else on the list has done it once, except for the last guy, Michael Jordan,

who did it 10 times. He did it twice as much as Will, and Will did it five times as much as anybody else. That's crazy. Who else is on the list? So we got Luca, he did it. Yup, before he got fat. Shout out by the way, Don Nelson. Did you see that? Yes, conference, that was great. He's like, I'm wearing my loo-kaz,

just wanna throw out there,

that that was an impomination of a trade.

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