What Happened in OKC? A Full Game 1 Break Down With Mo Dakhil. Plus, More Offseason Check-ins With Howard Beck.

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Still delirious from last night, Zach welcomes Mo Dakhil to discuss a shocking Game 1 of the NBA Finals (2:04). They go through Indiana’s turnovers, the Thunder’s decision-making, and what to watch for in Game 2. Plus, What up Beck?! (51:51) Howard joins from Oklahoma City to chime in on what he saw while in the building, as well as more from the fallout in N.Y. (59:49) and some possible moves in the offseason from teams you may not expect (1:09:39). Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Mo Dakhil and Howard Beck Producers: Jesse Aron, Jonathan Frias, and Brian Waters The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Get started today at HubSpot.com/AI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh boy, coming up on a special Friday edition of The Zach Lowe show, game one of the finals, did that really happen?
0:07.6	Did I dream 19 first half turnovers for the Indiana Pacers and they won the game?
0:13.5	Did I dream that?
0:15.1	Tyrese Halliburton made another game winning shot in another crazy road come from behind gut punch win that happened i think it
0:24.7	happened and we're going to talk about it and then we're going to talk about with mode to kill
0:27.6	former video coordinator for two NBA teams what's going to happen in game two what adjustments are
0:32.6	we going to see what adjustments should we see what are the counters to those adjustments all things
0:36.3	NBA finals and then my
0:37.8	buddy Howard Beck we do some house cleaning we revisit the nick's decision to fire tibs
0:42.7	their interest in jason kid other candidates nicks going forward and a couple of western
0:48.9	conference teams that toward the bottom of the standings that i think are kind of sneakily interesting
0:53.4	and both
0:54.3	undergoing some organizational change at at very high levels. Utah and Portland, Portland
1:00.5	a little ahead of Utah and the sort of rebuilding schedule, but both of those teams in
1:04.8	interesting spots with a lot of interesting decisions that I don't think have been talked
1:08.8	about a lot. So why not take a little time to give some lottery teams some love?
1:12.1	That's all coming up on the Zach Lowe show.
1:15.7	You're listening to the Zach Lowe show presented by Fanduel.
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