If you’re simply tuning into the NBA for the Finals, congratulations, you could have been correctly launched to the weird experience that’s the Indiana Pacers. It’s uncommon that one in every of their video games makes any sense. They’d 19 turnovers within the first half, which might be dangerous for a complete sport, and nonetheless managed to win this sport anyway in spectacular trend.
Their star, Tyrese Haliburton, was a ghost within the fourth quarter. Naturally, he hit the game-winner. That is simply the way it works with the Pacers. One thing goes haywire, they chip again in whenever you don’t even discover it, then they slam the door shut on the final second. It is a Cinderella run of epic proportions, flipping the script on a devastating Thunder protection with solely 5 second-half turnovers and a few spectacular shotmaking.
Andrew Nembhard, the X-factor if you happen to ask anybody in that Pacers locker room, took over level guard duties for the fourth-quarter run, and the Pacers simply saved discovering methods to get clear appears from deep. He did his greatest Shai Gilgeous-Alexander impression and it really labored, notably with the Pacers controlling the glass late. Indiana was capable of come again as a result of it went 6-of-10 from deep within the fourth quarter whereas the Thunder didn’t hit a single shot from past the arc. That math benefit has been fueling these wild Pacers comebacks all playoffs lengthy.
However this efficiency wasn’t stunning. It was simply Pacers.
