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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
Fri, 06 Jun 2025
On Fri.'s No Dunks, the guys discuss the Pacers pulling off ANOTHER miraculous comeback in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, whether Tyrese Haliburton is having the greatest clutch playoff run in NBA history, Andrew Nembhard's cojones, the Thunder's decision to start Cason Wallace over Isaiah Hartenstein, and why the NBA/ABC desperately needs to crank up their Finals presentation. That, plus cartoon-inspired kicks, buffets, slang, and more.🎤 Trey and Jesh react to the Pacers stunning Thunder in Game 1: https://bit.ly/455zKfU▶️ Join No Dunks on Playback : https://www.playback.tv/nodunks👕 Fix up, look sharp in some No Dunks merch: https://nodunks.com📈 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: YouTube.com/nodunksinc𝕏 Follow No Dunks on Twitter/X: https://x.com/NoDunksInc🥶 Cold open: @lockyerboys: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ4o5Y0gsLe/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: How did the Pacers pull off another comeback?
I mean, there's smart plays by like Case and Wallace grabbing Halliburton's arm as he streaks down the lane to try and get a pass. But because Case and Wallace yanked him, Halliburton didn't get it. It's overshadowed all the great defensive plays that the Thunder made, especially Caruso.
It goes on and on and on. That's like the beauty of these coaches playing so many guys, I think. It's like this high-level defense, or at least effort, right? Because they just come in waves and they play so many guys. That starts to wane as the game goes on when you have these coaches and we've seen teams that play their guys more. 40, 45 minutes. Well, like, I mean, something's got to fall off.
Like you're going to lose some energy, especially you usually lose it on the defensive end first, but we don't really have that case because so many guys are both really good defenders or at least give a damn and put an effort. And then like everybody's sort of fresh when they keep coming in, in these ways. Didn't we have a Rick Carlisle did the old like hockey lineup switch.
He did.
Took five guys off five guys in let's go jump over the boards.
This is a team, man. And when you're going through all of Hal Burton's game winners and how he's able to do it, I go back to just who this guy is. And he was a number 12 pick and he wasn't the guy to take over. He wasn't going to be a superstar that needed to shoot all the time. The way that Rick Carlisle says, five guys come on in in game one of the NBA finals. And it works.
I mean, the guys that he plays. Same for the other side. On Dagnall's side. I mean, they go deep as well. AJ Mitchell.
You called that too? You're like, we're going to see Mitchell. I'm like, are we? Yeah, we saw him early.
Yeah, he didn't play all that well. So they yanked him, and he didn't come back, right? No.
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Chapter 3: What was the role of Andrew Nembhard in the game?
Well, I mean, I don't have anything else randomly or really from the game. I'm just hyped for game two. That's Sunday night. We will all be back here in the Classic Factory on Monday to break down game two. The guys are headed back from OKC. So we won't have an immediate reaction pod on. On Sunday, we'll see if OKC can do what they've done many times in this postseason.
They're 4-0 after losses, so they've always come back with a win. They've averaged in those games a victory of 20.5 points, so they're usually beatdowns. They come back. They haven't, you know, they lost consecutive games twice during the regular season. Like they almost never do. So, you know, but it's a, it feels like sort of a must win.
Not that they can't win on the road because they're really good, but you know, it's that game two situation where you're down 1-0 and the Pacers have put a lot of teams already in this postseason in this position and a couple of times taken a 2-0 lead. So can't wait for Sunday night.
Absolutely not, and OKC's fans will be bumping whether or not there's artificial sound or not.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. I don't want to spread that misinformation, but I do love OKC's fans, and I liked how Adam Silver actually, who did his pregame media session, talked about all these ratings, the whole, hey, are enough people watching, and how people say it to him on the street if they see Adam Silver. What's going on with the ratings?
He says the goal is that market size essentially becomes irrelevant, is the whole goal. And he looks at the way technological changes have changed, the meaning of the differential from one city to another doesn't really matter. He says, yeah, there's 700,000 people in OKC, 900,000 people in Indianapolis.
So not small markets, but even if there were another million people or so in a city, when you're talking to a global market and a sport like the NBA, when you're being followed by billions of people around the world, those incremental changes become pretty meaningless.
It doesn't matter. That's what he's saying in the end. Stop asking Silver about ratings and start asking him about, why don't we have the Larry O'Brien trophy on the damn floor of the finals? Start doing that, everybody.
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