June 6, 2025 • 39 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to Tyrese Haliburton winning Game 1 of the NBA Finals for the Pacers!!!
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside hour two. Boy, do we have a
treat here for the next few minutes. Game one of
the NBA files the Thunder in control, but the Pacers
slowly cutting into their lead throughout the second half a
big run. They trail the Thunder right now one ten
(00:51):
to one oh nine with twenty two and a.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Half seconds left to go.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The most previous play is being reviewed after a miss
by the Thunder. Pascal Sam goes for the ball and
he grabs it but is bumped into it or it
is going for it with another Thunder player and Siakam
grabs it but he falls.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Out of bounds. He screams for a foul.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And Rick Carlyle they went look the replay, called the
time out, wants them to look at it. So they're
looking at this because you could see Carlyle say that's
a foul. That's a blanket foul.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You see him saying, I've seen the replay a few times.
This is not a foul, right, it's it's it's it's
not it's not a foul, right you you watch them.
But both of them are going for the ball, right,
you got, you got? Wallace is going for it. Saam
is going for it. And Wallace just puts his arm
out and swats the ball when already has it, doesn't
(01:44):
touch him, doesn't touch him, and Siakam just loses his
balance and goes out of bounds.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I I don't know how you call this a foul.
I really don't he.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Get called it at the beginning of the play when
he grabs his wrist to keep him underneath the basket.
Listen all the way back that galley going into the corner.
But the prior couple of possessions for Indiana, it was like,
unless you drew blood, you were not getting a phone call.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, they're definitely like they're definitely even though both it
feels weird because it's like both teams have been to
the free throw line a ton in the fourth quarter.
But it feels it also feels like they're letting them play.
It's a it's a weird thing going on right now.
It's like, oh, go to the free throw life, but
they're letting them play. We're gonna get the call right now. Again,
I'd be really surprised if if it gets reversed, but hey,
you never know. It is the NBA Finals and and uh,
(02:30):
you know, seven game series is great, but it looks
like they are keeping the call as is. Yes, thunder
Thunder fans are celebrating Sihawkam was the last one to
touch it, and honestly, it's the right call, right, unsuccessful challenge.
I get why they did it right, They had to
do it, and you know, but here's the thing is,
you know, when when when players make that move and
(02:52):
and and you get caught up in a moment of hey,
this is our you know, you kind of had to
do it there, but wow, sometimes you're a player, you
can't just say challenge and challenge. You have to understand that, well,
we got to make sure it's the right play. And
you know, quite simply, this was a ball that went
out of bounds and the officials make the right call
with the thunder.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Well rise to the level, Jason, and the answer is
there's contact, but is it enough?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The answer is no, and Tyre's Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, Oklahoma City misses a shot.
The rebound goes to Indiana. Indiana dribbles down court. They
look like they're in trouble. They look like they're in
trouble because Halliburton can't penetrate. He finally finds his way
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free on the right side and he puts up a
fifteen footer that falls. It gives the Pacers the lead.
They're checking to see if there's time left on the clock.
Like Halliburton, there's four seconds left. He's being guarded at
mid court and he steps in the he steps inside
the three point line and he hits a shot, and
they're looking to see how much time is left on
(04:04):
the clock for the Oklahoma City Thunder. It looks like
looks like three tenths of a second, so they're gonna
get to inbound the basketball. But my goodness, man, this
this Indiana Pacers team just will not die. In a
night where Halliburton has had a game where he's only
got fourteen points. This really has been something. This has
(04:25):
been along the lines with everything the Pacers have done,
the big comebacks in the first round, beating the Cavs
the way they did Game one against the Knicks, like
this is kind of what the Pacers do. And Halliburton
hits the big shot when it looked like they were
in trouble and things were gonna go absolutely south of
the Pacers, and now it looks like they're gonna win
Game one, one eleven ten.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
So does he get to go and steal the clutch
trophy from your guy Brunson or what?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I don't think you can call him over any much.
I don't think i'll call him over rated. I don't
think any players do that.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I told you he had the extra motivation from having
that attempt to go snatch the Larry Bird Trophy and
then Pascal Siakam's name being announced show you know, motivation
for the next round. But on again, you hang around
second or in the fourth quarter six of ten from
three point range? Are the Pacers the Thunder zero for five?
(05:18):
Sga misses that big shot on the Thunder's last possession
for Haliburton fourteen ten and six and a plus twelve.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
What a disaster this is gonna be for the Thunder
What an absolute disaster.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Game one, they control it most of the way.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It sounds like the next series game.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah, this looks like the next SGA to recover eight
seven seven SGA playing the role of Jalen Brunson right
with thirty eight points and ah, you don't really get
what you need out of Jalen Williams and chet Holm
grand and a half, but you get a couple of
other performances.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And here come the pacers who just absolutely wear them down.
They hit their threes right, eighteen for thirty nine from
three point range. It's what keeps them in this game.
And Hall and again hits a shot in which it
looked like he was absolutely stuck.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And you know, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Say the the calm, the grace under pressure, under fire
that Haliburton has is just I can't get over it.
Where there's plays that other players, other clutch players would
absolutely melt and panic and look for a ball, look
for a pass. He just finds a way, finds a
little bit of space and hits a shot. We've seen
(06:25):
him do a time after time after time I give
him all the credit in the world. They're gonna win
a game that I didn't think they could win again.
One eleven, one ten. Right now, three tenths of a
second left to go, Oklahoma City will inbound the basketball
from the PACER's side, so they get a chance for
one last alley oop tip, some kind of quick toss up.
(06:46):
But it looks like this is going to mean other
than a miracle, and it seems like the Pacers have
the run on miracles. This is gonna wind up being
a Pacers stealing Game one from the thunder.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hey run that Gordon. Play run that Gordon. Oh so
that worked.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Against us, just exactly what they kind of tried to do.
But the Pacers take the one eleven, one ten victory
as the inbound gets tipped away. Jason, you know, we
watched the first half and with the turnovers final turnover
count twenty four to six. But one of the things
we were talking about the series was that you do
(07:25):
have a bunch of defenders, you do have depth for Indiana,
they kept Oklahoma City. They shot under forty percent for
the game. They shot under forty percent for the game,
did not take care of the basketball with all the
turnovers that they caused, good transition defense by the pacer,
something you got used to seeing against the Knicks. So
(07:46):
they go into OKAC and they steal one man. Did
they just just take it? This is a very violent fashion.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
This is just disaster. It's absolute disaster for Oklahoma City.
Like they had a little lost on the final play,
like Halliburton kind of slides to the side and Wallace
is on him, and and Caruso kind of comes up
leaves Seakam because he doesn't want to have that little
slide past to Seakam.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
But then yeah, he retreats back instead. Yeah, yeah, not
recognizing I guess with the clock because if he passed
at they don't have a they don't have time.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, and Halliburton hit. Halliburton hits the shot.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And I will say this because I know you don't
want to foul, but wow, in a game in which
in which they were letting you play down the stretch,
Wallace was was given Halliburton way too much room, Like
you gotta know you gotta have that body clock, knowing
how much time is left, knowing that I gotta be
close to him because he's not going to drive past me.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And get to the hoop. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And he definitely, you know, he gave him a a
little bit too much rooms. He gets up a clean shot.
So I mean, look, Halliburton makes the play. But the
one thing I will say is that man Wallace kind
of gave him a little bit too much room there.
Let him go up with a clean shot. Man, thatda
was something.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Steady and stick it. You are gonna apologize to Tyres Haliburton.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Am I gonna apologize what I say?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
He got lucky last round?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
One? Did what you did?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I say these things had, yes game?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Come that shot? This is it? Is it? Really luck?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Come on the end of games one?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Bounced it off the back, bounces off the back of
the rim, up in the air and back through.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, that's long.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You want the face of the league Forget sgsluck. Yeah
yeah yeah, Now now it's Haliburton who's making all See.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The metal stand they just put up to win a game,
end of regulation or ot Since nineteen ninety seven, Lebron
James with eight shots and then tied with five are
Reggie Miller and now Tyrese Haliburton. See how quickly they
got that stat together, like we said, my and research
staffs get it done.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Like how big of an underdog were the Pacers today?
They were nine and a half for ten.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, depending on when you you started to dive in
I think it got out to ten and a half
as you got closer to tip off, a little bit
of late money and big bets coming in on OKC
to take care of business at home, which they they
did for three quarters.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Haliburton is a dog.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I mean, you know, you want to look, you want
to look at something and a couple of keys to
this game. Right, the Halliburton shot is insane and we're
gonna we're gonna continue to talk about that. But you
look at the rebounding advantage the Pacers had. They had
four starters with at least nine rebounds in the game, right,
they had a fifty six to thirty nine rebound advantage,
(10:32):
and and yeah, the twenty four to six turnover advantage.
But they didn't turn those twenty four turnovers into enough
points or was it eleven points off or twelve points
off of twenty four turnovers? Like that's why this is
an as this is just a disaster for the thunder
Like it's game one we're here, we're at home. We're
the better team, we have the MVP, we play better defense,
(10:54):
we control the entire first half, and then we just
get lost in the second half. Whether because this would
not like the Pacers had some crazy comeback where they
hit all of their threes. No, they hit a bunch
of threes like they normally do. But you know, eighteen
out of thirty nine. Okay, you know it's it's you know,
it's forty five percent of your threes, all right, but
this was still a game where it's not like the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It stopped scoring. It's not like the Thunder and all
of a.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sudden hit the skids and and somehow the I mean,
the Pacers just do this. Man, when you think they're dead,
they find a way to stay in it at the
end all three rounds of the playoffs. Like, it's not
like when Halliburton's got the ball. I'm saying to myself,
I'm talking. I'm saying, he's gonna hit the shot. He's
gonna hit wherever it is. He's gonna put it out.
It's gonna it's gonna bounce off the front of the rim,
and then it's gonna bounce off of somebody's head, and
(11:39):
then a bird is gonna fly by and it's gonna
hit the bird, it's gonna.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Fall through the bottom of the net, and the Pacers
are gonna win.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
You're picturing Neil Mike of what they do Michael Jordan,
Larry Bird Horse commercials from McDonald's right.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was, yeah, No, I was thinking more than the
Danny Rojas the penalty when he when he.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Wow, okay, they hit the dog on the that's well
you know that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I mean, look, it's is this is.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
What the pacers do, but they it's the pacers doing
pacer things.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, okay, sorry, good.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Here's how it sounded just a couple of moments ago.
Tyre's Halliburton's game winner for the Pacers. Pacis a little
chance to win it final seconds, so foul, so do
Haliburton looking, Halliburton driving pulls.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Off jump shots with three.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Tuns of a second, remating time out.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, see Tyrens Halliburton, cuse it again, Mike bring ESPN
ABC on the call.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Disappointing there Burton shot.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Uh, where's the bang bang? Where's the title bang for
a shot like that?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
No, I think you only use bangs for the Knicks.
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
I think it's a Hey, he's getting paid by it,
but he's not a Knick's broadcast Jason.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
That okay, you want to know, No, I don't. I'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I will tell you probably why it wasn't a bang
or a double bang or a triple bank.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I'll tell you what why. I'm gonna tell you, tell us,
tell you what.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Tell me why?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Generally tell me why? Why don't you go watch Michael CONFORDO.
It's the first hit he's had as a Dodger again,
go watch at eighth inning hit.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I've been kicking off.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
They now think he's a bot and he's looked at
it so frequently.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Generally, generally with play by play guys, their best calls
like this come when it's the home team.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
If this was if they were at home.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And Halliburton hit that shot, or if it was the
Thunder hit that shot, it would have been a bang
or a double bang. But on the road, when the
crowd is silent, it's just a weird energy, so I think,
and you feed off the crowd in that situation, you
got to create your own energy. So I think that's
more why he didn't use a banger double bank. Who's
the home team doing it?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
He would have done it, or he came over the
top and said, Halliburton says you to the Thunder. Seven
more are made threes than the Thunder tonight, six fewer
free throws. I'll take that trade all day long. On
the eleven points scored off of all of those turnovers.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The Pacers are doing Pacers things like that was I
can't get over I can't get over it, man, I
mean this is a It's a tough one man, all
of a sudden. Game two is the NBA Finals for
the Thunder. Game two is the NBA Finals because the
PA they continue to do what they've done. They outscore
the Thunder thirty five to twenty five in the fourth quarter,
an amazing ending to an NBA Finals game. We continue
(14:34):
the breakdown coming up next. The Pacers absolutely steal Game
one away from the Thunder one to eleven one ten
Our post game is just starting.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Ma My best
Friend Mike Harmon. The Pacers steal Game one from the Thunder.
They trailed the entire way until zero point three seconds
left on the clock. Tyrese Halliburton hits a jumper to
give the Pacers the lead. They win it one to
eleven to one ten, and we're gonna say something. Look,
(15:20):
you get prisoner of the moment certain times things. We're
gonna have something incredibly lofty say, can't I can? I
can give the Pacers credit even though they beat the Nick.
I can give the Pacers credit. Uh, something incredibly lofty
about Tyrese Halliburton. But first, let's hear what the final
call sounded like from the Halliburton shot from both perspectives, Right,
(15:40):
we have the we've played the Mike Breen right ESPN,
which was no bang or double bang which is kind
of shot, okay, or triple bank maybe quadruple bank maybe
save in the big bang for game game five, game six,
game seven. But what did it sound like from both
perspectives Thunder and Pacers, Frostburg, What.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Do you want to do?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
First?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I think we should do the thunder Thunder first the
pain thunder final call of Tyres Halliburton's game winning shot.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
The Pacers have at seven seconds, Haliburton across the time
one of five, down one, Haliburton dancing on Wallace, pulls
up right playing harts that ham stick said. With three
toests of a second to play, Pacers lead one to
eleven one ten with three tests of a second to play,
time out thunder.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Cold surgical as if it was expected.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Att Pinto Matt Pinto broadcasting that like it was a
mid February game in the ACC at the bottom of
the ACC, like a Syracuse, Florida state game.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh, someone's got it with point three seconds. Should have
just stayed home.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, Look, I get that you don't want to show
like your you're bum because you're broadcasting for the Oklahoma
City audience. But I mean, just summer, just as the
NBA finals, man, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Of oh come on, man, like like when how I react.
So I'd be the great.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'd be a great end of game NBA announcer like
the other the other four seven and a half minutes,
not but the final thirty seconds. I'd be a great announcer.
I'd be oh, and screaming and upset. I mean, look,
play it again. It makes it sound like Halliburton hit
a shot at the end of the second quarter going
into halftime to give the Pacers lead.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Play one more to Pacers.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Half a seven seconds Haliburton across the time one of five,
down one. Haliburton is dancing on Wallace, pulls up whit
playing harkst Ham sticks him with three tests of a
second to play. Paces lead one to eleven one ten,
with three.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Tests of a second to play, time out thunder, so hey,
he sticks it, Hey sticks the jumper with point three seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Well, very surgical and oh my goodness, surgeon like. And
then the precision.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Cut just like Tyrese Halliburton cut him to the quick
once again. As you see trending right now. He did
it again, clutch and many other derivatives of that. And
I would have liked from the the okay sea side.
Also a first, we lost the soon Owners in the
sup Bump final and now this.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
What a week. I've really show zero emotion. I know, Hey,
sticks it. That's that's up by three, okay, and time
out on the floor. We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
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Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, that's it all right here from the Associated Press,
here's a stat for you to UH before we get
to the thrill of victory. UH Pacers trailing by nine,
two fifty two to play. Since the start of the
ninety seven playoffs, teams were oh one hundred and twenty
one when trailing by seven or more points in the
final three minutes of the fourth quarter overtime.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
For tonight, it's not fourteen fourteen, but it's significant.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I know, I know, I really it's I can't get
over it. I can't get over what the Pacers were
able to do at the end of games. Down seven
in the final doesn't matter. We're gonna hit threes and
you're not gonna score. We're gonna hit threes, you're not
gonna score. Okay, okay, and that's exactly what happen. We're
gonna hit shots, you're not gonna score, and you're just
gonna not score a couple of time.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's all. It's only got to stop you completely.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But we're just gonna keep hitting shots, and we're gonna
do word to find and the way to find a way.
It's almost like I would say if Indiana fans got
together and they said, Okay, we're gonna make a deal
with the devil. Okay, you give us Caitlyn Clark and
you give us an NBA championship. We'll give you our
souls for all attin. Just give us Sammy alternity, all eternity.
We just want Sammy all. Alternately, let you all live.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That's all. That's all we want.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's all we want.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
It just brings.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Let Sammy come out. Uh, that's all you want. Give
us Caitlin and one NBA championship and you can have
it all.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And and the.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Devil is saying, oh sure, I'll You know what, since
I get all you see, you don't really know what.
Given your soul to me is like, I'm gonna let
you really enjoy the hell out of this. This isn't
gonna be like every game is gonna be a twenty
point burial. No, no, it's gonna be all kinds of
fun stuff. So at least when you know, you give
up your soul and to you know, to hell, and
when do you see what life.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Is like in hell?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, at least you have the memories of these plays
to go with you. That's this Indiana Pacers run. That's
what's happening with them.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
But a team after team does the Hey, let's get
a photo with the villain that has been terrorizing the
town that we just captured and killed. And then he
sits up and stabs him in the eye. That's what
the Pacers came do. We relaxed for just one second.
So here's the Pacers side of it. Now, here's the
Pacers final call perspectives. Here there was the thunder, there
(20:28):
was Matt Pinto calling it like it was a preseason game.
Here is the victorious Indiana Pacers final call.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Rebound Indiana eight seconds to go. The Pacers are.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Not gonna call the time out.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Paddleburton has it with three driving, with two pulling.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Up ahead heading with three tenths of a second to go.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
How many more times can this team do that? So
weeds baby, that was very Christopher Walking ask how many times.
Can Halliburton do that telling you fellas how Bell explore
(21:13):
the room telling you, well, we're done here.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'll be wearing gold plate at Diapers. So there's your fine.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I almost feel like watching hearing the patiers call
like they almost sound like they expected it to happen. Yeah, yeah, Halliburton,
and yeah we've seen it. He's he's just gonna hit
this shot. I mean that's how I felt. He's just
gonna hit this shot unless you actually d him up
a little bit, He's gonna of course, he.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Hit it, etching his name into the record books. This
team doing improbable things, causing UH search engines to overheat
any statistical databases right now, you need to make sure
you've got a fire extinguisher because it's oh for this
and they're very large numbers, lots of calculations to come
(21:57):
back with. Now the doctor string hold up one finger.
He found your one. Just an amazing run. Fourth quarter
SGA had what two to four from the field. He
made six free throws, so he did his part, but
they couldn't hit from me on the arc. And once
again Pacers catching fire, just like they did against the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So we'll get to the Tyrese Halliburton end of this
A big conversation, one of the prod one of the
loftiest conversations, realistic conversations you can have about Tyres Halliburton
and his heroics coming up in ninety seconds Mantie.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Yeah, forget about SGA.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, they're cutting his face out and superimposing Halliburton's face.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
In over SGA's.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But first we're gonna find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports from Monty Belanos, Monsey, what do
you got for us?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Right now?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Nothing else matters but this shot from Tyrese Halliburn as
the Pacers do it again, y'all, I'm so mad. I
should have put one hundred on the Pacers twin. I
wanted to do it and I did didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Money line plus ten, No, like just for the to
win the series?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Is the series? Okay? They were plus seven undred.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
I should have done it, but because now it's gonna change.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Up, so mad it's now plus two fifty.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Yeh No, I'm so mad at myself. I should have
done it. But seriously, guys, I don't know how the
Pacers did it again. They came back down fifteen overcame
nineteen turnovers in the first half and beat the Thunder
one eleven O one ten on a Tyrese Halliburn game winner.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Zero point three seconds were left on the clock. Game
winner is what I'm calling it.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Haliburn ended with fourteen points, ten rebound, six assists. Six
Indiana players ended in double digits. Pascal Siakam was the
leading scorer nineteen points and eleven rebounds of the game,
though ashit Gil just Alexander.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
He ended with thirty eight points in total.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Pacers had twenty three twenty four turnovers. Okasey only had
six turnovers. Man, this feels like Game one for the
Knicks and the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You know, Oh no, no, no, no. This is a kid
giving out candy compared to the Knicks looting.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
But no one, how.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
I'm gonna go back and be like that one game
one in.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The history of the NBA. This is going back to
what Nathan has said. Let's put a peach basket up
and put a ball through it. No one had blown
a lead like the Knicks in the final, Man, no one. Yeah,
teams were undefeated with a nine point lead and fifty
seconds left to go, and not only did they give
it up, but Halliburton hits the shot off the back
of the rim and bounces up and bounce its for
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and he does the Reggie.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Miller choke thing.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
This is this is like a thirty point loss compared
to that give us fourteen fourteen this sample size the
way they came back in the final three minutes, just
one hundred and twenty one. But I do agree with you,
DELMONTI right with the Knicks, yah, because.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It would be like this.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
You know how when you're gonna do public speaking, what
they always say, if you're really nervous, picture everybody in
their underwear.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
In this case, it was, Look, you guys have a
monumental task ahead of you. Just picture the defenders are
the Knicks.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Yes, and then here they are. Here they are Seriously,
nothing else matters. The Astros are playing against the Pirates
and Houston is up four to two top of the
seventh inning. In game two of their double header, the
Royals outscored the Cardinals seven to five, so they did
split the double header. Today, the Rays edge the Rangers
four to three. Yankee shout out the Guardians for zero.
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The Cubs beat the national seven to one. And the
Dodgers defeated the Mets at Dodger Stadium six to five.
Giants over the Padres three to two at the Women's
College World Series Championship Texas Tech Edge Texas for to
three to force a game three four tomorrow. And in
the NFL, quarterback Aaron Rodgers signed a one year deal
with the Steelers. He's expected to participate in next week's
mandatory mini camp, while Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson out in
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definitely after aggravating a shoulder injury that forced them to
miss part of last season. Head coach Shane Steichen wouldn't
commit whether Richardson would actually be healthy enough to start
training camp on July twenty. Second man back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Thanks a bunch more se Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now, you brought up
that stat a few minutes ago, right, Tyre's Halliburton. Now
the most game tying or go ahead field goals in
the final five seconds, going back to the ninety seven playoffs. Right,
that's how far back that ABC went.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Yeah, so you got Lebron James has eight and that
he's got the most.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
With it, right, and Lebron has played you know, a
couple more players, just a Fewi's Halliburton, right, and Reggie
Miller played just a couple more playoff games in Halliburton.
Halliburton has five game tying or go ahead field goals
in the final five seconds. He's got five, second most
going back now thirty plus years. Four of them are
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this postseason, right, four of them all in different rounds. Right,
He's got the Thunder, he's got the Knicks, he's got
the Cavs, he's got the Bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
He's got all of them. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And again it's a little bit prisoner of the moment,
but I mean this is something that's unprecedented. He is
on an all time NBA playoff run this postseason, to
the point where I want to go back and look
at some of Michael Jordan's runs in in the early
to mid nine I mean, I was there for him, obviously,
but this is thirty years ago, and Jordan obviously was,
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you know, winning three in a row away for two.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Years, three in a row. He is.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I gotta go back and look and see if even
Jordan had runs like this with game winning shots like
obviously he didn't because Halliburton's already got five. But again,
you're going back to the ninety seven playoffs and Jordan
started winning back in the early nineties. But like, I
gotta go back to that to find somebody that maybe
have had the kind of playoff that Halliburton is having.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
That's the level he has been at.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
This entire playoff, all these big shots at the end
of games, all these big games. He is having, you know,
triple doubles after the first eight minutes of a game
against the Knicks, Like he is on an all time
playoff run. Where we might look at the end of
this playoffs and go, okay, best playoff performance ever in
NBA history. Where does Tire's Halliburton rank? Is he in
the top three? Is it the best? Like that's where
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we could wind up looking at Haliburton. When this is
all said, they finished the job right.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And as we just were talking about with Monsei, odds
come down tremendously, the implied odds. You still have a
seventy five percent probability for okay, see based on the
betting odds. But you go and you punched him in
the mouth here in a game that you didn't play
very well. In the first half at all understatement with
your nineteen turnovers, but only six or five depending on
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your scorecard in the second half, and you shot well
from three point range, and you give this guy an opportunity. Right,
didn't take a lot of shots. We noted it as
we started the shows, like he's the old let the
game come to you kind of side of things. But facilitating.
He was active on the glass, and then in the
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fourth quarter when it matters, he rises up. Now you
go back to those bulls runs. I'm gonna immediately think
of the right basketball play as the lebron James always
loved to say, getting the ball do either Kerr or
packs and for big shots right doesn't mean Jordan didn't
have them, but those are not indelibly etched into our
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brain other than the sometimes I dream he is me
and he's shooting the ball over Craig Elo or taking
Russell off the dribble and sending him away as if
a magician. But but for Haliburton, you know, the prisoner
of the moment. Right now, it's the chaos that comes
one with the knicks and what that comeback was and
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that shot and emblematic and callbacks from thirty years. But
now you do this to the Thunder because I mean
go through. I mean Monsei did the shots. She had
everybody go up and down and make the predictions. I'm
gonna guess most people were yelling sweep as they did, right.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I got it to six.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
So I'm feeling really chesty now that I gave the
Evasers a bunch of chance.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Still pick the Thunder to win the series.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
But I'm like, hey, I gave him two games and said,
you know, they matched up well. And the clip that's
circulating on Fox Sports Radio that went up on the
social z, how about a Frescats WANLL know, I feel
like a wizard on a.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Relative basis now, But did I expect this?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
But you hang around, you keep it close. This is
the team that that is gonna jump up and bite you.
And Halliburton's that guy. He's got ice in his veins.
Man again, he should go and steal that trophy from
Jalen Brunson that they made up this year.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, they're gonna come to his house and say, hey, sorry,
j You're great. I mean, this is nothing on you,
but we kind of need that trophy. And you got
your coach fired yeah, yeah, yeah, So you worry about
that and we'll get this trophy to the right person
and things will be fine.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I mean, look, we.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Could look back at the like, let's if the Pacers win, right,
and we look back and say, all right, is this
the best playoff performance in the last fifty year? Right?
Because I don't Thinknyony's gonna go back to the black
and white video of the sixties and did Bob Coosey
have a run like this?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
A Bill Russellavro.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
You want to go back, you know, modernish era of
the NBA, back to like nineteen eighty right back to
back to what Magic and Larrygan in and that really
changed things in the NBA, right.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
You go back there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, it may wind up being the best, Like
I'm saying, I don't know off the top of my head,
because I remember, you know that some of the playoffs
that Jordan had and some of the big shots he had,
but overall, consistently through the playoffs, like it may end
up when it's done with Halliburton having the best four
shots like this, and that's not just like he's showing
up at the end of games. He's having other big
triple doubles and scoring thirty five points, Like the guy
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is doing it at a level that we haven't seen it.
I mean, we've seen guys make big shots a couple
of times in the in the playoffs before. He's already
got more pressure shots in the NBA playoffs, and Steph
Curry's had his entire career, and Curry's got a good
five titles, So I mean, like, it's four titles.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I don't really that's how big a deal.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
That's how big and how well and what Tyre's Halliburton's
been doing over the course of the last month. It's
it's incredible to see and I still can't believe I'm
seeing it. But again we could in a week, we
can look back and go, was anybody as good as Halliburton?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Did Jordan ever have a run? Did Kobe have a
run like this?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Did Paul Pierce have the run when the Celtics won
in two thousand and eight? Tim duncan ever have a run
quite like this? And I don't know that you're gonna
find it.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Man, I think it's gonna come down to this.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Though Jordan still wins because Haliburton is fueled not by
the play on the court, but a guy sitting in
a barkell loungeer yelling.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I took that personally because.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
He has earned that and taken that as his mantra
for these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
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Speaker 1 (32:53):
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Still on overload after the Pacers incredible comeback, they steal
game one away from the Thunder who led the entire
way SGA had a big night. Wasn't a great night
for the rest of the Thunder, Like the Thunder clearly
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did not have their a game, which we'll get to.
We'll get to next hour. But the Pacers, they do
Pacer things right. This is kind of how they do it.
They get down big and it seems like it's a
deficit they can't come back from, and they show you
that there's no deficit that we can't come back from.
And Halliburton hits the big shot again, his fourth shot,
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tie or go ahead shot in the final five seconds
of a playoff game this postseason, and I'll tell you
the hot take that everybody's gonna have tomorrow, right, And now,
congratulations to all the people who picked the Pacers to
win the series, because the only reason people pick the
Pacers to win is just to say, well, everybody's picking
the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I could pick the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
If they win.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Boy, I'll get a lot of attention because nobody in
their right mind who's going to pick the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Nobody would pick the Nobody would think they could beat
this team.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
But I'm picking the Pacers because I'll look good.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Right, It'll be a great hot take for me, So
I'll give you tomorrow's hot take. Tomorrow's hot take is
going to be the Pacers. They look like a team
of destiny. They look like a team of destiny, and
you can lay it all out. You can lay it
all out. First series against the Bucks, that looked like
they were done. They came from behind down seven in
the final minute of Game one and they stole it.
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Halliburton hit a big shot. They Okay, well that was great.
It was a nice series by them. But now it's
back to reality. Best team in the East of Cleveland Cavaliers.
They're gonna get back to reality. Nope, they go right
through the Cavaliers and make them look like they like
they were the fifty win team and the Pacers were
the sixty three win team.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Okay, but it's gonna end against the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Knicks're gonna get revengeful last year, different team, Karl Anthony Towns. Nope,
more incredible heroics by the Pacers and Halliburton and game
one and look at what they are doing. And here
they are now game one again, a comeback nobody thought
they could have. They win big on the road, they
hit their threes, they do it late. Now you're seeing
Jim ers Trend, the late Colts owner whose final tweet
(35:41):
was wishing good luck to the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
You know, in their playoff game.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And I'll tell you and all, you're gonna throw that
all in the hopper and you're gonna see people say
the Pacers look like a team of destiny. The thing is,
what I just described seems like a team of destiny,
doesn't it. But I guarantee you that's gonna be the
hot take tomorrow. Pacers are a team of destiny.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Well, I'm gonna go to the.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Other side and I'll say, well, the fact that the
thunder beat the hell out of everybody all season long,
and that they did so in the playoffs, even in
those games against Denver. Right, it went seven, but if
you went minute by minute, if you went to the judges,
you'd be like, yeah, the Thunder one the majority of
the minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It took seven games again, kept it close and eaked
out a couple of wins, which is why we were
calling for the Gordon play earlier, all of those things,
but that they weren't tested in close games. So yeah,
the team hanging around was able to jump up and
bite them.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Oh really, just.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
You know, look, I know that it's it's gonna be
more over the top platutits though for Indiana, just because
of the way they win this game, the way they
come back and do it in very Indiana way. The
shock is there because that's kind of what they kind
of look like. That they kind of do look like.
So well, I said, they kind of do look like
that team of Destiny. That's one game and the Thunder
(37:02):
clear look, Thunder it clearly could be one of those.
This is an adjustment game and we're not gonna let
that happen in the third and fourth quarter anymore. And
they could win the next four, right, you know, at
least now we know we have a series and it
really is gonna be all or nothing for the Thunder
in game two, because if you're going back to Indiana
down oh two, hey, I'll tell you what. How did
it work out for every other team down oh two
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against the Pacers when they lose the first two at
home and the p in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Didn't go well for it didn't go well.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
But but it really this is all the ingredients you
would expect to see and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's hard for me to see it going into the series.
This is Oklahoma City is just that much better. But man,
all the way along it was, are the Pacers really
gonna send Yannis Homer? The Pacers really gonna send the
cass over, They're really gonna send the Nicks one, really
gonna send the Thunder home? And all they've been doing
is doing exactly that the entire playoffs.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Well, but we go back to and you know, it's
moments in time and deciding I think on some level
what the regular season means again, right, we start going
back thirty thousand foot view of well, what does it
really mean? When do you need to coalesce? When do
you need to peak? All of those things? Health obviously
being a big deal. Well, both these teams are loaded
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for bear, but they were the two teams with the
best record since the calendar flipped to twenty twenty five.
So the fact that they didn't the Pacers have you know,
a number one or number two next to their name
in the seating it begets that question once again doesn't
really matter as long as you're ready to go play basketball.
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How big is home court advantage, all of those things
that we've asked in a giant vacuum. And now this
is a team going and perhaps and it's one game,
and who knows they could get throttle three straight games.
Right the nineteen turnovers in the first half today, that
could be thirty eight points or forty points next game,
(38:56):
right versus the inefficient I don't think it will because
I think the Pacers deep was better than perhaps advertise,
and something I tried to stump for, you know, by
giving them two games in the series.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Man.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
But you know all of that to say, you know,
I think it does make us look at the league
a little differently, and were they underrated based on where
they came through out of the regular season in the
process versus the thunder throttling everybody and taking the regular
season perhaps more seriously than other teams did.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I mean, look, I always say fifty five games is.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
All you need in the regular season. That's all you
need the.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Last don't like people making money the last twenty five games.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Nothing had the tea, the teams that are in the
playoffs or in the teams that.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Are done or done.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Once you get to fifty five, like we don't need
anymore after everything is the same after that. But we
have more breakdown of this game coming up next. The
one thing after game one, I really don't want to hear.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
What is it? We'll tell you next, Fuliburn
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside hour two. Boy, do we have a
treat here for the next few minutes. Game one of
the NBA files the Thunder in control, but the Pacers
slowly cutting into their lead throughout the second half a
big run. They trail the Thunder right now one ten
(00:51):
to one oh nine with twenty two and a.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Half seconds left to go.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The most previous play is being reviewed after a miss
by the Thunder. Pascal Sam goes for the ball and
he grabs it but is bumped into it or it
is going for it with another Thunder player and Siakam
grabs it but he falls.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Out of bounds. He screams for a foul.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And Rick Carlyle they went look the replay, called the
time out, wants them to look at it. So they're
looking at this because you could see Carlyle say that's
a foul. That's a blanket foul.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You see him saying, I've seen the replay a few times.
This is not a foul, right, it's it's it's it's
not it's not a foul, right you you watch them.
But both of them are going for the ball, right,
you got, you got? Wallace is going for it. Saam
is going for it. And Wallace just puts his arm
out and swats the ball when already has it, doesn't
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touch him, doesn't touch him, and Siakam just loses his
balance and goes out of bounds.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I I don't know how you call this a foul.
I really don't he.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Get called it at the beginning of the play when
he grabs his wrist to keep him underneath the basket.
Listen all the way back that galley going into the corner.
But the prior couple of possessions for Indiana, it was like,
unless you drew blood, you were not getting a phone call.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, they're definitely like they're definitely even though both it
feels weird because it's like both teams have been to
the free throw line a ton in the fourth quarter.
But it feels it also feels like they're letting them play.
It's a it's a weird thing going on right now.
It's like, oh, go to the free throw life, but
they're letting them play. We're gonna get the call right now. Again,
I'd be really surprised if if it gets reversed, but hey,
you never know. It is the NBA Finals and and uh,
(02:30):
you know, seven game series is great, but it looks
like they are keeping the call as is. Yes, thunder
Thunder fans are celebrating Sihawkam was the last one to
touch it, and honestly, it's the right call, right, unsuccessful challenge.
I get why they did it right, They had to
do it, and you know, but here's the thing is,
you know, when when when players make that move and
(02:52):
and and you get caught up in a moment of hey,
this is our you know, you kind of had to
do it there, but wow, sometimes you're a player, you
can't just say challenge and challenge. You have to understand that, well,
we got to make sure it's the right play. And
you know, quite simply, this was a ball that went
out of bounds and the officials make the right call
with the thunder.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Well rise to the level, Jason, and the answer is
there's contact, but is it enough?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The answer is no, and Tyre's Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, Oklahoma City misses a shot.
The rebound goes to Indiana. Indiana dribbles down court. They
look like they're in trouble. They look like they're in
trouble because Halliburton can't penetrate. He finally finds his way
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free on the right side and he puts up a
fifteen footer that falls. It gives the Pacers the lead.
They're checking to see if there's time left on the clock.
Like Halliburton, there's four seconds left. He's being guarded at
mid court and he steps in the he steps inside
the three point line and he hits a shot, and
they're looking to see how much time is left on
(04:04):
the clock for the Oklahoma City Thunder. It looks like
looks like three tenths of a second, so they're gonna
get to inbound the basketball. But my goodness, man, this
this Indiana Pacers team just will not die. In a
night where Halliburton has had a game where he's only
got fourteen points. This really has been something. This has
(04:25):
been along the lines with everything the Pacers have done,
the big comebacks in the first round, beating the Cavs
the way they did Game one against the Knicks, like
this is kind of what the Pacers do. And Halliburton
hits the big shot when it looked like they were
in trouble and things were gonna go absolutely south of
the Pacers, and now it looks like they're gonna win
Game one, one eleven ten.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
So does he get to go and steal the clutch
trophy from your guy Brunson or what?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I don't think you can call him over any much.
I don't think i'll call him over rated. I don't
think any players do that.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I told you he had the extra motivation from having
that attempt to go snatch the Larry Bird Trophy and
then Pascal Siakam's name being announced show you know, motivation
for the next round. But on again, you hang around
second or in the fourth quarter six of ten from
three point range? Are the Pacers the Thunder zero for five?
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Sga misses that big shot on the Thunder's last possession
for Haliburton fourteen ten and six and a plus twelve.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
What a disaster this is gonna be for the Thunder
What an absolute disaster.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Game one, they control it most of the way.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It sounds like the next series game.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah, this looks like the next SGA to recover eight
seven seven SGA playing the role of Jalen Brunson right
with thirty eight points and ah, you don't really get
what you need out of Jalen Williams and chet Holm
grand and a half, but you get a couple of
other performances.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And here come the pacers who just absolutely wear them down.
They hit their threes right, eighteen for thirty nine from
three point range. It's what keeps them in this game.
And Hall and again hits a shot in which it
looked like he was absolutely stuck.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And you know, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Say the the calm, the grace under pressure, under fire
that Haliburton has is just I can't get over it.
Where there's plays that other players, other clutch players would
absolutely melt and panic and look for a ball, look
for a pass. He just finds a way, finds a
little bit of space and hits a shot. We've seen
(06:25):
him do a time after time after time I give
him all the credit in the world. They're gonna win
a game that I didn't think they could win again.
One eleven, one ten. Right now, three tenths of a
second left to go, Oklahoma City will inbound the basketball
from the PACER's side, so they get a chance for
one last alley oop tip, some kind of quick toss up.
(06:46):
But it looks like this is going to mean other
than a miracle, and it seems like the Pacers have
the run on miracles. This is gonna wind up being
a Pacers stealing Game one from the thunder.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hey run that Gordon. Play run that Gordon. Oh so
that worked.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Against us, just exactly what they kind of tried to do.
But the Pacers take the one eleven, one ten victory
as the inbound gets tipped away. Jason, you know, we
watched the first half and with the turnovers final turnover
count twenty four to six. But one of the things
we were talking about the series was that you do
(07:25):
have a bunch of defenders, you do have depth for Indiana,
they kept Oklahoma City. They shot under forty percent for
the game. They shot under forty percent for the game,
did not take care of the basketball with all the
turnovers that they caused, good transition defense by the pacer,
something you got used to seeing against the Knicks. So
(07:46):
they go into OKAC and they steal one man. Did
they just just take it? This is a very violent fashion.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
This is just disaster. It's absolute disaster for Oklahoma City.
Like they had a little lost on the final play,
like Halliburton kind of slides to the side and Wallace
is on him, and and Caruso kind of comes up
leaves Seakam because he doesn't want to have that little
slide past to Seakam.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
But then yeah, he retreats back instead. Yeah, yeah, not
recognizing I guess with the clock because if he passed
at they don't have a they don't have time.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, and Halliburton hit. Halliburton hits the shot.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And I will say this because I know you don't
want to foul, but wow, in a game in which
in which they were letting you play down the stretch,
Wallace was was given Halliburton way too much room, Like
you gotta know you gotta have that body clock, knowing
how much time is left, knowing that I gotta be
close to him because he's not going to drive past me.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And get to the hoop. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And he definitely, you know, he gave him a a
little bit too much rooms. He gets up a clean shot.
So I mean, look, Halliburton makes the play. But the
one thing I will say is that man Wallace kind
of gave him a little bit too much room there.
Let him go up with a clean shot. Man, thatda
was something.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Steady and stick it. You are gonna apologize to Tyres Haliburton.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Am I gonna apologize what I say?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
He got lucky last round?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
One? Did what you did?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I say these things had, yes game?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Come that shot? This is it? Is it? Really luck?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Come on the end of games one?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Bounced it off the back, bounces off the back of
the rim, up in the air and back through.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, that's long.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You want the face of the league Forget sgsluck. Yeah
yeah yeah, Now now it's Haliburton who's making all See.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The metal stand they just put up to win a game,
end of regulation or ot Since nineteen ninety seven, Lebron
James with eight shots and then tied with five are
Reggie Miller and now Tyrese Haliburton. See how quickly they
got that stat together, like we said, my and research
staffs get it done.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Like how big of an underdog were the Pacers today?
They were nine and a half for ten.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, depending on when you you started to dive in
I think it got out to ten and a half
as you got closer to tip off, a little bit
of late money and big bets coming in on OKC
to take care of business at home, which they they
did for three quarters.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Haliburton is a dog.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I mean, you know, you want to look, you want
to look at something and a couple of keys to
this game. Right, the Halliburton shot is insane and we're
gonna we're gonna continue to talk about that. But you
look at the rebounding advantage the Pacers had. They had
four starters with at least nine rebounds in the game, right,
they had a fifty six to thirty nine rebound advantage,
(10:32):
and and yeah, the twenty four to six turnover advantage.
But they didn't turn those twenty four turnovers into enough
points or was it eleven points off or twelve points
off of twenty four turnovers? Like that's why this is
an as this is just a disaster for the thunder
Like it's game one we're here, we're at home. We're
the better team, we have the MVP, we play better defense,
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we control the entire first half, and then we just
get lost in the second half. Whether because this would
not like the Pacers had some crazy comeback where they
hit all of their threes. No, they hit a bunch
of threes like they normally do. But you know, eighteen
out of thirty nine. Okay, you know it's it's you know,
it's forty five percent of your threes, all right, but
this was still a game where it's not like the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It stopped scoring. It's not like the Thunder and all
of a.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sudden hit the skids and and somehow the I mean,
the Pacers just do this. Man, when you think they're dead,
they find a way to stay in it at the
end all three rounds of the playoffs. Like, it's not
like when Halliburton's got the ball. I'm saying to myself,
I'm talking. I'm saying, he's gonna hit the shot. He's
gonna hit wherever it is. He's gonna put it out.
It's gonna it's gonna bounce off the front of the rim,
and then it's gonna bounce off of somebody's head, and
(11:39):
then a bird is gonna fly by and it's gonna
hit the bird, it's gonna.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Fall through the bottom of the net, and the Pacers
are gonna win.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
You're picturing Neil Mike of what they do Michael Jordan,
Larry Bird Horse commercials from McDonald's right.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was, yeah, No, I was thinking more than the
Danny Rojas the penalty when he when he.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Wow, okay, they hit the dog on the that's well
you know that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I mean, look, it's is this is.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
What the pacers do, but they it's the pacers doing
pacer things.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, okay, sorry, good.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Here's how it sounded just a couple of moments ago.
Tyre's Halliburton's game winner for the Pacers. Pacis a little
chance to win it final seconds, so foul, so do
Haliburton looking, Halliburton driving pulls.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Off jump shots with three.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Tuns of a second, remating time out.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, see Tyrens Halliburton, cuse it again, Mike bring ESPN
ABC on the call.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Disappointing there Burton shot.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Uh, where's the bang bang? Where's the title bang for
a shot like that?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
No, I think you only use bangs for the Knicks.
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
I think it's a Hey, he's getting paid by it,
but he's not a Knick's broadcast Jason.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
That okay, you want to know, No, I don't. I'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I will tell you probably why it wasn't a bang
or a double bang or a triple bank.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I'll tell you what why. I'm gonna tell you, tell us,
tell you what.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Tell me why?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Generally tell me why? Why don't you go watch Michael CONFORDO.
It's the first hit he's had as a Dodger again,
go watch at eighth inning hit.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I've been kicking off.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
They now think he's a bot and he's looked at
it so frequently.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Generally, generally with play by play guys, their best calls
like this come when it's the home team.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
If this was if they were at home.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And Halliburton hit that shot, or if it was the
Thunder hit that shot, it would have been a bang
or a double bang. But on the road, when the
crowd is silent, it's just a weird energy, so I think,
and you feed off the crowd in that situation, you
got to create your own energy. So I think that's
more why he didn't use a banger double bank. Who's
the home team doing it?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
He would have done it, or he came over the
top and said, Halliburton says you to the Thunder. Seven
more are made threes than the Thunder tonight, six fewer
free throws. I'll take that trade all day long. On
the eleven points scored off of all of those turnovers.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The Pacers are doing Pacers things like that was I
can't get over I can't get over it, man, I
mean this is a It's a tough one man, all
of a sudden. Game two is the NBA Finals for
the Thunder. Game two is the NBA Finals because the
PA they continue to do what they've done. They outscore
the Thunder thirty five to twenty five in the fourth quarter,
an amazing ending to an NBA Finals game. We continue
(14:34):
the breakdown coming up next. The Pacers absolutely steal Game
one away from the Thunder one to eleven one ten
Our post game is just starting.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Ma My best
Friend Mike Harmon. The Pacers steal Game one from the Thunder.
They trailed the entire way until zero point three seconds
left on the clock. Tyrese Halliburton hits a jumper to
give the Pacers the lead. They win it one to
eleven to one ten, and we're gonna say something. Look,
(15:20):
you get prisoner of the moment certain times things. We're
gonna have something incredibly lofty say, can't I can? I
can give the Pacers credit even though they beat the Nick.
I can give the Pacers credit. Uh, something incredibly lofty
about Tyrese Halliburton. But first, let's hear what the final
call sounded like from the Halliburton shot from both perspectives, Right,
(15:40):
we have the we've played the Mike Breen right ESPN,
which was no bang or double bang which is kind
of shot, okay, or triple bank maybe quadruple bank maybe
save in the big bang for game game five, game six,
game seven. But what did it sound like from both
perspectives Thunder and Pacers, Frostburg, What.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Do you want to do?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
First?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I think we should do the thunder Thunder first the
pain thunder final call of Tyres Halliburton's game winning shot.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
The Pacers have at seven seconds, Haliburton across the time
one of five, down one, Haliburton dancing on Wallace, pulls
up right playing harts that ham stick said. With three
toests of a second to play, Pacers lead one to
eleven one ten with three tests of a second to play,
time out thunder.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Cold surgical as if it was expected.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Att Pinto Matt Pinto broadcasting that like it was a
mid February game in the ACC at the bottom of
the ACC, like a Syracuse, Florida state game.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh, someone's got it with point three seconds. Should have
just stayed home.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, Look, I get that you don't want to show
like your you're bum because you're broadcasting for the Oklahoma
City audience. But I mean, just summer, just as the
NBA finals, man, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Of oh come on, man, like like when how I react.
So I'd be the great.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'd be a great end of game NBA announcer like
the other the other four seven and a half minutes,
not but the final thirty seconds. I'd be a great announcer.
I'd be oh, and screaming and upset. I mean, look,
play it again. It makes it sound like Halliburton hit
a shot at the end of the second quarter going
into halftime to give the Pacers lead.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Play one more to Pacers.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Half a seven seconds Haliburton across the time one of five,
down one. Haliburton is dancing on Wallace, pulls up whit
playing harkst Ham sticks him with three tests of a
second to play. Paces lead one to eleven one ten,
with three.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Tests of a second to play, time out thunder, so hey,
he sticks it, Hey sticks the jumper with point three seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Well, very surgical and oh my goodness, surgeon like. And
then the precision.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Cut just like Tyrese Halliburton cut him to the quick
once again. As you see trending right now. He did
it again, clutch and many other derivatives of that. And
I would have liked from the the okay sea side.
Also a first, we lost the soon Owners in the
sup Bump final and now this.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
What a week. I've really show zero emotion. I know, Hey,
sticks it. That's that's up by three, okay, and time
out on the floor. We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Hey, This time out brought to you by Canes Caynes
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Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, that's it all right here from the Associated Press,
here's a stat for you to UH before we get
to the thrill of victory. UH Pacers trailing by nine,
two fifty two to play. Since the start of the
ninety seven playoffs, teams were oh one hundred and twenty
one when trailing by seven or more points in the
final three minutes of the fourth quarter overtime.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
For tonight, it's not fourteen fourteen, but it's significant.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I know, I know, I really it's I can't get
over it. I can't get over what the Pacers were
able to do at the end of games. Down seven
in the final doesn't matter. We're gonna hit threes and
you're not gonna score. We're gonna hit threes, you're not
gonna score. Okay, okay, and that's exactly what happen. We're
gonna hit shots, you're not gonna score, and you're just
gonna not score a couple of time.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's all. It's only got to stop you completely.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But we're just gonna keep hitting shots, and we're gonna
do word to find and the way to find a way.
It's almost like I would say if Indiana fans got
together and they said, Okay, we're gonna make a deal
with the devil. Okay, you give us Caitlyn Clark and
you give us an NBA championship. We'll give you our
souls for all attin. Just give us Sammy alternity, all eternity.
We just want Sammy all. Alternately, let you all live.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That's all. That's all we want.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's all we want.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
It just brings.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Let Sammy come out. Uh, that's all you want. Give
us Caitlin and one NBA championship and you can have
it all.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And and the.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Devil is saying, oh sure, I'll You know what, since
I get all you see, you don't really know what.
Given your soul to me is like, I'm gonna let
you really enjoy the hell out of this. This isn't
gonna be like every game is gonna be a twenty
point burial. No, no, it's gonna be all kinds of
fun stuff. So at least when you know, you give
up your soul and to you know, to hell, and
when do you see what life.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Is like in hell?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, at least you have the memories of these plays
to go with you. That's this Indiana Pacers run. That's
what's happening with them.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
But a team after team does the Hey, let's get
a photo with the villain that has been terrorizing the
town that we just captured and killed. And then he
sits up and stabs him in the eye. That's what
the Pacers came do. We relaxed for just one second.
So here's the Pacers side of it. Now, here's the
Pacers final call perspectives. Here there was the thunder, there
(20:28):
was Matt Pinto calling it like it was a preseason game.
Here is the victorious Indiana Pacers final call.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Rebound Indiana eight seconds to go. The Pacers are.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Not gonna call the time out.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Paddleburton has it with three driving, with two pulling.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Up ahead heading with three tenths of a second to go.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
How many more times can this team do that? So
weeds baby, that was very Christopher Walking ask how many times.
Can Halliburton do that telling you fellas how Bell explore
(21:13):
the room telling you, well, we're done here.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'll be wearing gold plate at Diapers. So there's your fine.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I almost feel like watching hearing the patiers call
like they almost sound like they expected it to happen. Yeah, yeah, Halliburton,
and yeah we've seen it. He's he's just gonna hit
this shot. I mean that's how I felt. He's just
gonna hit this shot unless you actually d him up
a little bit, He's gonna of course, he.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Hit it, etching his name into the record books. This
team doing improbable things, causing UH search engines to overheat
any statistical databases right now, you need to make sure
you've got a fire extinguisher because it's oh for this
and they're very large numbers, lots of calculations to come
(21:57):
back with. Now the doctor string hold up one finger.
He found your one. Just an amazing run. Fourth quarter
SGA had what two to four from the field. He
made six free throws, so he did his part, but
they couldn't hit from me on the arc. And once
again Pacers catching fire, just like they did against the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So we'll get to the Tyrese Halliburton end of this
A big conversation, one of the prod one of the
loftiest conversations, realistic conversations you can have about Tyres Halliburton
and his heroics coming up in ninety seconds Mantie.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Yeah, forget about SGA.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, they're cutting his face out and superimposing Halliburton's face.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
In over SGA's.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But first we're gonna find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports from Monty Belanos, Monsey, what do
you got for us?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Right now?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Nothing else matters but this shot from Tyrese Halliburn as
the Pacers do it again, y'all, I'm so mad. I
should have put one hundred on the Pacers twin. I
wanted to do it and I did didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Money line plus ten, No, like just for the to
win the series?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Is the series? Okay? They were plus seven undred.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
I should have done it, but because now it's gonna change.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Up, so mad it's now plus two fifty.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Yeh No, I'm so mad at myself. I should have
done it. But seriously, guys, I don't know how the
Pacers did it again. They came back down fifteen overcame
nineteen turnovers in the first half and beat the Thunder
one eleven O one ten on a Tyrese Halliburn game winner.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Zero point three seconds were left on the clock. Game
winner is what I'm calling it.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Haliburn ended with fourteen points, ten rebound, six assists. Six
Indiana players ended in double digits. Pascal Siakam was the
leading scorer nineteen points and eleven rebounds of the game,
though ashit Gil just Alexander.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
He ended with thirty eight points in total.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Pacers had twenty three twenty four turnovers. Okasey only had
six turnovers. Man, this feels like Game one for the
Knicks and the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You know, Oh no, no, no, no. This is a kid
giving out candy compared to the Knicks looting.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
But no one, how.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
I'm gonna go back and be like that one game
one in.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The history of the NBA. This is going back to
what Nathan has said. Let's put a peach basket up
and put a ball through it. No one had blown
a lead like the Knicks in the final, Man, no one. Yeah,
teams were undefeated with a nine point lead and fifty
seconds left to go, and not only did they give
it up, but Halliburton hits the shot off the back
of the rim and bounces up and bounce its for
(24:29):
and he does the Reggie.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Miller choke thing.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
This is this is like a thirty point loss compared
to that give us fourteen fourteen this sample size the
way they came back in the final three minutes, just
one hundred and twenty one. But I do agree with you,
DELMONTI right with the Knicks, yah, because.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It would be like this.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
You know how when you're gonna do public speaking, what
they always say, if you're really nervous, picture everybody in
their underwear.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
In this case, it was, Look, you guys have a
monumental task ahead of you. Just picture the defenders are
the Knicks.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Yes, and then here they are. Here they are Seriously,
nothing else matters. The Astros are playing against the Pirates
and Houston is up four to two top of the
seventh inning. In game two of their double header, the
Royals outscored the Cardinals seven to five, so they did
split the double header. Today, the Rays edge the Rangers
four to three. Yankee shout out the Guardians for zero.
(25:18):
The Cubs beat the national seven to one. And the
Dodgers defeated the Mets at Dodger Stadium six to five.
Giants over the Padres three to two at the Women's
College World Series Championship Texas Tech Edge Texas for to
three to force a game three four tomorrow. And in
the NFL, quarterback Aaron Rodgers signed a one year deal
with the Steelers. He's expected to participate in next week's
mandatory mini camp, while Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson out in
(25:42):
definitely after aggravating a shoulder injury that forced them to
miss part of last season. Head coach Shane Steichen wouldn't
commit whether Richardson would actually be healthy enough to start
training camp on July twenty. Second man back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Thanks a bunch more se Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now, you brought up
that stat a few minutes ago, right, Tyre's Halliburton. Now
the most game tying or go ahead field goals in
the final five seconds, going back to the ninety seven playoffs. Right,
that's how far back that ABC went.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Yeah, so you got Lebron James has eight and that
he's got the most.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
With it, right, and Lebron has played you know, a
couple more players, just a Fewi's Halliburton, right, and Reggie
Miller played just a couple more playoff games in Halliburton.
Halliburton has five game tying or go ahead field goals
in the final five seconds. He's got five, second most
going back now thirty plus years. Four of them are
(26:40):
this postseason, right, four of them all in different rounds. Right,
He's got the Thunder, he's got the Knicks, he's got
the Cavs, he's got the Bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
He's got all of them. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And again it's a little bit prisoner of the moment,
but I mean this is something that's unprecedented. He is
on an all time NBA playoff run this postseason, to
the point where I want to go back and look
at some of Michael Jordan's runs in in the early
to mid nine I mean, I was there for him, obviously,
but this is thirty years ago, and Jordan obviously was,
(27:11):
you know, winning three in a row away for two.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Years, three in a row. He is.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I gotta go back and look and see if even
Jordan had runs like this with game winning shots like
obviously he didn't because Halliburton's already got five. But again,
you're going back to the ninety seven playoffs and Jordan
started winning back in the early nineties. But like, I
gotta go back to that to find somebody that maybe
have had the kind of playoff that Halliburton is having.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
That's the level he has been at.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
This entire playoff, all these big shots at the end
of games, all these big games. He is having, you know,
triple doubles after the first eight minutes of a game
against the Knicks, Like he is on an all time
playoff run. Where we might look at the end of
this playoffs and go, okay, best playoff performance ever in
NBA history. Where does Tire's Halliburton rank? Is he in
the top three? Is it the best? Like that's where
(28:00):
we could wind up looking at Haliburton. When this is
all said, they finished the job right.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And as we just were talking about with Monsei, odds
come down tremendously, the implied odds. You still have a
seventy five percent probability for okay, see based on the
betting odds. But you go and you punched him in
the mouth here in a game that you didn't play
very well. In the first half at all understatement with
your nineteen turnovers, but only six or five depending on
(28:26):
your scorecard in the second half, and you shot well
from three point range, and you give this guy an opportunity. Right,
didn't take a lot of shots. We noted it as
we started the shows, like he's the old let the
game come to you kind of side of things. But facilitating.
He was active on the glass, and then in the
(28:47):
fourth quarter when it matters, he rises up. Now you
go back to those bulls runs. I'm gonna immediately think
of the right basketball play as the lebron James always
loved to say, getting the ball do either Kerr or
packs and for big shots right doesn't mean Jordan didn't
have them, but those are not indelibly etched into our
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brain other than the sometimes I dream he is me
and he's shooting the ball over Craig Elo or taking
Russell off the dribble and sending him away as if
a magician. But but for Haliburton, you know, the prisoner
of the moment. Right now, it's the chaos that comes
one with the knicks and what that comeback was and
(29:28):
that shot and emblematic and callbacks from thirty years. But
now you do this to the Thunder because I mean
go through. I mean Monsei did the shots. She had
everybody go up and down and make the predictions. I'm
gonna guess most people were yelling sweep as they did, right.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I got it to six.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
So I'm feeling really chesty now that I gave the
Evasers a bunch of chance.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Still pick the Thunder to win the series.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
But I'm like, hey, I gave him two games and said,
you know, they matched up well. And the clip that's
circulating on Fox Sports Radio that went up on the
social z, how about a Frescats WANLL know, I feel
like a wizard on a.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Relative basis now, But did I expect this?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
But you hang around, you keep it close. This is
the team that that is gonna jump up and bite you.
And Halliburton's that guy. He's got ice in his veins.
Man again, he should go and steal that trophy from
Jalen Brunson that they made up this year.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, they're gonna come to his house and say, hey, sorry,
j You're great. I mean, this is nothing on you,
but we kind of need that trophy. And you got
your coach fired yeah, yeah, yeah, So you worry about
that and we'll get this trophy to the right person
and things will be fine.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I mean, look, we.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Could look back at the like, let's if the Pacers win, right,
and we look back and say, all right, is this
the best playoff performance in the last fifty year? Right?
Because I don't Thinknyony's gonna go back to the black
and white video of the sixties and did Bob Coosey
have a run like this?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
A Bill Russellavro.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
You want to go back, you know, modernish era of
the NBA, back to like nineteen eighty right back to
back to what Magic and Larrygan in and that really
changed things in the NBA, right.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
You go back there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, it may wind up being the best, Like
I'm saying, I don't know off the top of my head,
because I remember, you know that some of the playoffs
that Jordan had and some of the big shots he had,
but overall, consistently through the playoffs, like it may end
up when it's done with Halliburton having the best four
shots like this, and that's not just like he's showing
up at the end of games. He's having other big
triple doubles and scoring thirty five points, Like the guy
(31:22):
is doing it at a level that we haven't seen it.
I mean, we've seen guys make big shots a couple
of times in the in the playoffs before. He's already
got more pressure shots in the NBA playoffs, and Steph
Curry's had his entire career, and Curry's got a good
five titles, So I mean, like, it's four titles.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I don't really that's how big a deal.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
That's how big and how well and what Tyre's Halliburton's
been doing over the course of the last month. It's
it's incredible to see and I still can't believe I'm
seeing it. But again we could in a week, we
can look back and go, was anybody as good as Halliburton?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Did Jordan ever have a run? Did Kobe have a
run like this?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Did Paul Pierce have the run when the Celtics won
in two thousand and eight? Tim duncan ever have a run
quite like this? And I don't know that you're gonna
find it.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Man, I think it's gonna come down to this.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Though Jordan still wins because Haliburton is fueled not by
the play on the court, but a guy sitting in
a barkell loungeer yelling.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I took that personally because.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
He has earned that and taken that as his mantra
for these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
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Speaker 4 (32:49):
We get off the air. Well coming up next more
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Still on overload after the Pacers incredible comeback, they steal
game one away from the Thunder who led the entire
way SGA had a big night. Wasn't a great night
for the rest of the Thunder, Like the Thunder clearly
(33:45):
did not have their a game, which we'll get to.
We'll get to next hour. But the Pacers, they do
Pacer things right. This is kind of how they do it.
They get down big and it seems like it's a
deficit they can't come back from, and they show you
that there's no deficit that we can't come back from.
And Halliburton hits the big shot again, his fourth shot,
(34:08):
tie or go ahead shot in the final five seconds
of a playoff game this postseason, and I'll tell you
the hot take that everybody's gonna have tomorrow, right, And now,
congratulations to all the people who picked the Pacers to
win the series, because the only reason people pick the
Pacers to win is just to say, well, everybody's picking
the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I could pick the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
If they win.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Boy, I'll get a lot of attention because nobody in
their right mind who's going to pick the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Nobody would pick the Nobody would think they could beat
this team.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
But I'm picking the Pacers because I'll look good.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Right, It'll be a great hot take for me, So
I'll give you tomorrow's hot take. Tomorrow's hot take is
going to be the Pacers. They look like a team
of destiny. They look like a team of destiny, and
you can lay it all out. You can lay it
all out. First series against the Bucks, that looked like
they were done. They came from behind down seven in
the final minute of Game one and they stole it.
(34:58):
Halliburton hit a big shot. They Okay, well that was great.
It was a nice series by them. But now it's
back to reality. Best team in the East of Cleveland Cavaliers.
They're gonna get back to reality. Nope, they go right
through the Cavaliers and make them look like they like
they were the fifty win team and the Pacers were
the sixty three win team.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Okay, but it's gonna end against the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Knicks're gonna get revengeful last year, different team, Karl Anthony Towns. Nope,
more incredible heroics by the Pacers and Halliburton and game
one and look at what they are doing. And here
they are now game one again, a comeback nobody thought
they could have. They win big on the road, they
hit their threes, they do it late. Now you're seeing
Jim ers Trend, the late Colts owner whose final tweet
(35:41):
was wishing good luck to the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
You know, in their playoff game.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And I'll tell you and all, you're gonna throw that
all in the hopper and you're gonna see people say
the Pacers look like a team of destiny. The thing is,
what I just described seems like a team of destiny,
doesn't it. But I guarantee you that's gonna be the
hot take tomorrow. Pacers are a team of destiny.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Well, I'm gonna go to the.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Other side and I'll say, well, the fact that the
thunder beat the hell out of everybody all season long,
and that they did so in the playoffs, even in
those games against Denver. Right, it went seven, but if
you went minute by minute, if you went to the judges,
you'd be like, yeah, the Thunder one the majority of
the minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It took seven games again, kept it close and eaked
out a couple of wins, which is why we were
calling for the Gordon play earlier, all of those things,
but that they weren't tested in close games. So yeah,
the team hanging around was able to jump up and
bite them.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Oh really, just.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
You know, look, I know that it's it's gonna be
more over the top platutits though for Indiana, just because
of the way they win this game, the way they
come back and do it in very Indiana way. The
shock is there because that's kind of what they kind
of look like. That they kind of do look like.
So well, I said, they kind of do look like
that team of Destiny. That's one game and the Thunder
(37:02):
clear look, Thunder it clearly could be one of those.
This is an adjustment game and we're not gonna let
that happen in the third and fourth quarter anymore. And
they could win the next four, right, you know, at
least now we know we have a series and it
really is gonna be all or nothing for the Thunder
in game two, because if you're going back to Indiana
down oh two, hey, I'll tell you what. How did
it work out for every other team down oh two
(37:23):
against the Pacers when they lose the first two at
home and the p in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Didn't go well for it didn't go well.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
But but it really this is all the ingredients you
would expect to see and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It was.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's hard for me to see it going into the series.
This is Oklahoma City is just that much better. But man,
all the way along it was, are the Pacers really
gonna send Yannis Homer? The Pacers really gonna send the
cass over, They're really gonna send the Nicks one, really
gonna send the Thunder home? And all they've been doing
is doing exactly that the entire playoffs.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Well, but we go back to and you know, it's
moments in time and deciding I think on some level
what the regular season means again, right, we start going
back thirty thousand foot view of well, what does it
really mean? When do you need to coalesce? When do
you need to peak? All of those things? Health obviously
being a big deal. Well, both these teams are loaded
(38:14):
for bear, but they were the two teams with the
best record since the calendar flipped to twenty twenty five.
So the fact that they didn't the Pacers have you know,
a number one or number two next to their name
in the seating it begets that question once again doesn't
really matter as long as you're ready to go play basketball.
(38:35):
How big is home court advantage, all of those things
that we've asked in a giant vacuum. And now this
is a team going and perhaps and it's one game,
and who knows they could get throttle three straight games.
Right the nineteen turnovers in the first half today, that
could be thirty eight points or forty points next game,
(38:56):
right versus the inefficient I don't think it will because
I think the Pacers deep was better than perhaps advertise,
and something I tried to stump for, you know, by
giving them two games in the series.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Man.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
But you know all of that to say, you know,
I think it does make us look at the league
a little differently, and were they underrated based on where
they came through out of the regular season in the
process versus the thunder throttling everybody and taking the regular
season perhaps more seriously than other teams did.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I mean, look, I always say fifty five games is.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
All you need in the regular season. That's all you
need the.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Last don't like people making money the last twenty five games.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Nothing had the tea, the teams that are in the
playoffs or in the teams that.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Are done or done.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Once you get to fifty five, like we don't need
anymore after everything is the same after that. But we
have more breakdown of this game coming up next. The
one thing after game one, I really don't want to hear.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
What is it? We'll tell you next, Fuliburn
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