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I had an ominous premonition about Thunder...

7:16pm, 8 June 2025【Basketball】

First of all, I want to say that I don’t have the ability to predict the future, no one has it, but I have a feeling that the Pacers can lead at least 2-1 after three games, and even the Pacers may lead 2-0 and create history again, because no one has stolen the opponent in three consecutive rounds of the series before.

If the Pacers really do it, then when they return to their home court, they will learn from the lessons of G3 in the Eastern Conference Finals and continue to pursue the victory. At that time, they will undoubtedly be extremely unfavorable to the youth team, and as the series progresses to the G5 and G6, it will be more beneficial to the Pacers.

Even if the Thunder tries all their strength to win G2 and plays 1-1, the G3 Thunder will most likely not be able to escape a failure, and the Thunder will still be passive in the series. Based on my understanding of this Thunder team, once the Thunder team is passive in the series, they will find a way to fight to the next game to tie the score of the series.

But have you ever thought that in front of Carlisle, the problem that you tried your best to equalize the series score is that you have exposed quite a lot of your trump cards to Carlisle, who is smart? How did you fail in the playoffs last year? Because you have never been able to fight against Old Kidd in coaching, and Giddy's discomfort to the lineup is only second. This year, you will definitely not be able to fight Carlisle, and this year's Pacers scored more than last year's Mavericks. Halliburton is playing superstar performance in his own way.

In this era, playing super giants does not require averaging a super data such as triple-double. While allowing teammates to play MVP performance (Siakam), he also scored every time he made a key ball, and used his own ball merchandise to revitalize the team in regular rounds, allowing the opponent's defensive arrangement to lose sight of the other. It is also a way to play super giant performance.

If the referee can fulfill SGA's "duel force" mode, it is not guaranteed that the Thunder will win the series at present. After all, the Thunder is still behind, and Carlisle still has many cards in his hand, and Dednot is destined to be unable to calculate Carlisle - to a certain extent, the Thunder's initiative to win now is not in his own hands. If the Pacers' shooter group has good luck in jump shots, they will stop; if they play single centers, rebounds will be a problem, and Homgren cannot make Sika at a low post.

Adjusting the starting lineup is a way, but the question is whether Caruso and Carson Wallace, who are used to playing the title stage, can be competent for the starting role, and how should the Thunder team be arranged in the title stage? Some players in the Thunder formation will find that they are still the most comfortable to play as a substitute in the end, and changing the formation may not necessarily achieve good results.

This problem was exposed in the Mavericks last year - the Thunder team building model is very powerful, but the team limit is still a bit far from reaching the championship. The mentality of high-end players, adjustment of playing style, and coach adaptability, that is, on-the-spot micro-jobs require some real skills, which are exactly what the Thunder lacks and the Pacers just have.

So I don’t understand why these people led by Yang Yi think that the walkers have no chance. They are obviously walkers, but they actually have more hope of winning?