[NBA] The 2025 Finals

[kingdivac]

Jeezus Turner

 

[Tetsujin]

Myles Turner seeing his new contract bleed dollars in real time

 

[SacTownKid]

That block looked clean?

 

[kingdivac]

Nembhard missing one he usually hits

 

[kingdivac]

Pacers need to shore up defensive reboudning some

 

[kingdivac]

There we go Mathurin

 

[Tetsujin]

OKC playing like they’re the ones who had a player tear his Achilles in the first quarter.

 

[kingdivac]

OKC playing like they’re the ones who had a player tear his Achilles in the first quarter.

You're right, they're getting outplayed right now

 

[kingdivac]

....despite scoere.....this game looks like an 80 to 90 mpt finish

 

[Tetsujin]

The Thunder guards refusing to rebound the ball after Hartenstein gets stops on the switch is killing their defense lol

 

[kingdivac]

Mathurin's reaction time is not good

 

[Tetsujin]

John Haliburton confirmed it’s an Achilles. Damn

 

[kingdivac]

Mathurin is a fool

 

[SacTownKid]

That Dort call, the NBA sucks.

 

[Tetsujin]

Why did the Thunder shoot that ball so early. He was like 70 feet from the hoop and there were still two seconds on the clock haha

 

[Joshyjosh31]

God damn bout just runs into offensive players and gets fouls every ****ing game

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Impressive first half effort from Indiana. They're right in this after the devastating injury to their leader

 

[Joshyjosh31]

That Dort call, the NBA sucks.

Every ****ing game ****ing hell how the **** is running at someone a foul

 

[Sherds]

Come on Indy... Somehow, someway... Will be one of the great performances

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1936948396423561336

All three of these involved the Pacers too

 

[coolhandluke]

This Pacers team is grit personified. Salute!

 

[iowamcnabb]

Any theories on the Achilles injuries? Could it be the shoes? Coincidence?

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Need to keep it close Jdub is having one of those games and FT isn’t a king unless it’s a bs call

 

[Sherds]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1936948396423561336

All three of these involved the Pacers too

Tatum's was vs the Knicks yeah?

 

[Tetsujin]

Yeah, something strange is up. Whatever new trendy training method or supplement is going around? Ditch it now. The wheel was just fine before.

Pushing the pace this hard for so many games a season just isn’t healthy. You factor in all the tread on these kids legs coming into the league thanks to years of AAU and prep tour leagues and this is what happens.

We’ve seen the same with pitchers in baseball as guys throw the ball harder than they physically should be able too too many times and blow out their elbows like two years into their careers.

(Also in the case of Tyrese, this was always a concern just based on how skinny he’s always been)

 

[SacTownKid]

John Haliburton confirmed it’s an Achilles. Damn

Honestly, if Jarace Walker gets a chance to shine next season, Hali comes back after, and they keep it together then they might be primed to dominate after the next season. They'll still obviously be good regardless if they don't tank it. They even have Furphy who has upside. This team has shown how to build through the draft and with fit moves.

 

[Tetsujin]

Tatum's was vs the Knicks yeah

Yeah you’re right. I had somehow conflated that to the series last year where Tyrese blew out his leg against the Celtics halfway through game two.

 

[SacTownKid]

Pushing the pace this hard for so many games a season just isn’t healthy. You factor in all the tread on these kids legs coming into the league thanks to years of AAU and prep tour leagues and this is what happens.

We’ve seen the same with pitchers in baseball as guys throw the ball harder than they physically should be able too too many times and blow out their elbows like two years into their careers.

(Also in the case of Tyrese, this was always a concern just based on how skinny he’s always been)

Yeah, and it's always that long stride kicking the leg back that seems to do the trick. The 90's was brutal physically, but they were all on the good **** back in those days so they could take it, lol. They didn't run nearly as much.

 

[The_Jamal]

I mean in Halis case, he was playing with fire with the calf strain. Devastating man, I can't imagine telling someone to sit out of the game 7 of the NBA finals, but thats probably the hard call the GM has to make and take the blow back on. Hali is your guy for the next 5+ at the very minimum, but then its also a game damn 7 of the NBA finals.

No clue, that's why I'm not on that chair.

 

[Tetsujin]

Honestly, if Jarace Walker gets a chance to shine next season, Hali comes back after, and they keep it together then they might be primed to dominate after the next season. They'll still obviously be good regardless if they don't tank it. They even have Furphy who has upside. This team has shown how to build through the draft and with fit moves.

The thing is that none of their *high level* picks have panned out at all. They’ve had success on the margins with Nembhard and Sheppard as second rounders but Myles was picked by the old Larry Bird regime a full decade ago and Jarice and Benn have both failed to get any traction at all with Carlisle. The one place that the pacers have absolutely killed it is via the trade market, which might honestly be the first time that a teams ever had success purely trading for a core.