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2 days ago
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NBA Finals: Do the Pacers have a shot to beat the Thunder?
NBA Finals: Do the Pacers have a shot to beat the Thunder? Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O'Connor is joined by Mo Dakhil to discuss how Indiana can potentially slow down Oklahoma City and they offer their predictions for who will take home the title. Hear the full conversation on 'The Kevin O'Connor Show' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript I've got a hard time coming up with ways Indiana wins the series. Advertisement If Indiana does win the series. What's gonna be the story? Like what went wrong for Oy, what went right for Indiana, if indeed the Pacers are the one hoisting the Larry O'Brien trophy. I think it it'll come down to what went right would be just obviously the Pacers will have put in a, a, a strategy. Like for me, my one suggestion in terms of, and I don't think it's a good one, so I don't want anybody to go like you're crazy. I think it's you're in a situation, you have to deal with it. But my one suggestion is let SGA score and try to cover everybody else because it's just too hard, right? You can't take everything away. Advertisement Shay is gonna get his 30 points. Minimum, regardless of what you do. So, hey, let's just do a better job of covering everybody else. Make it so that Jaylen Williams isn't getting clean looks. Make it so that Chet Holmgren is not getting clean looks. Let's take away the, the big to big passing between Hartenstein and Chet. Let's try to make them have to really work on offense beyond SGA. And I think that's gonna be the thing that we look at, but the other thing we're gonna talk about is that the Pacers will have found a way to gash this defense, and that's gonna be. Unbelievably hard. And I think it's got to be a mix of everything. Advertisement They got to find ways to get transition points. They gotta create turnovers for a team that's a low turnover team, much like themselves, and then get out in transition. That allows them to set up their defense and create opportunities for them to sort of get stops because it's just gonna come down to that, Kevin. Like if they're gonna be able to get stops, they're gonna be able to get fast break buckets and from that, they'll be able to kind of, their, their fast-paced game will be the problem for the Thunder. Um, going. Thunder in 5. I want the Pacers to make this a 6-game series. I just think it's gonna be really difficult. Advertisement I think that defense is just so suffocating and game 5 of Pacers, Knicks really kind of showed you how hard it is for the Pacers sometimes to get offense going when there's a lot of pressure and the team's able to exert that pressure. The Knicks weren't able to kind of sustain that. I don't think anybody expected them to sustain that, but that's the Thunder's wheelhouse. That's where they play. That's how they defend. So I think it'll be a tough one for the Pacers. Uh, I feel like I have not heard anybody say anything but OKC and 5, and I also am saying OKC in 5. It just feels like the most logical thing. In in a steals at least one, out of respect to them, they take one game, but OKC, I think they're gonna prove themselves to be a special special team.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
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NBA Finals preview and Thibs gets axed with Mo Dakhil + Draft boards are shifting with Corey Tulaba
Old friend of the show Mo Dakhil joins KOC to preview the NBA Finals in full — how both guys landed on the Oklahoma City Thunder to take care of business in 5 games. BUT the guys play out the scenario, "what is the path to an Indiana Pacers Finals victory?" PLUS during the taping — the guys' live reaction to the stunning breaking news that the New York Knicks were parting ways with Thibs! Dakhil says New York should reunite with Jeff Van Gundy to go for some real Garden Nostalgia. Advertisement Up next, Corey Tulaba and KOC weigh in on which NBA Draft Prospects have a real level of toughness, nastiness and tenacity. After a physical and grueling NBA Playoffs, Kevin and Corey discuss the 1st Round names that aren't afraid to mix things up and get their hands dirty. Some names discussed: Kon Knueppel, Tre Johnson, Jeremiah Fears, Noa Essengue, Cedric Coward, Carter Bryant and more. Pascal Siakam #43 of the Indiana Pacers dribbles against Shai Gilgeous-Alexander #2 of the Oklahoma City Thunder during an NBA basketball game. (Photo by) (Photo by) (0:20) NBA Finals Game 1 preview with Mo Dakhil (37:40) Knicks fire Tom Thibodeau (45:48) What went wrong for Ant & Timberwolves? (59:25) NBA Draft talk with Corey Tulaba 🖥️ Watch this full episode on YouTube Check out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at or at Yahoo Sports Podcasts
