This is the biggest game of the series as far as I’m concerned. Whoever wins this game emerges with homecourt leverage the rest of the Finals.
This is a potential moment for the OKC Thunder. This is one of those moments when you find out about yourself and your teammates.
What you collectively are about as a team.
This is one of those times just like in the Denver series. Except this Pacer team isn’t fractured, isn’t razor thin, and this team has one of the best coaches in this generation of the NBA with all due respect to David Adelman.
This is where we don’t expect either team to surrender. Where we expect the winner to have survived by playing smart, tough, physical NBA playoff basketball for 48 minutes.
48 MINUTES.
If Alex Caruso needs to be tackled and put on the floor with some malice intended…so be it. And the same would apply for the Thunder on their defensive end of the floor. There should not be ONE SINGLE UNCONTESTED LAYUP TONIGHT.
Not one.
Hopefully…we tonight as NBA fans get the same desperate type of urgency we witnessed last night in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
What a hockey game!
Urgent. Sustained. Desperation.
May the most deserving team emerge victorious tonight in Indy.
Mike J