The Athletic NBA Daily
Haliburton 4-point play drops Bucks + Cavs win 15th straight, again
12 Mar 2025
Tyrese Haliburton hit the go-ahead free throw with 3.4 seconds remaining to complete an improbable four-point play and lift the Indiana Pacers over Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milawaukee Bucks. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Cleveland Cavaliers second 15 game winning streak of the season, Zion Williamson’s triple double trend, and the Clippers slip down the standings. Then, the Athletic’s Eric Nehm joins the show to talk about that game winning play from the Pacers, the Bucks offensive stagnation, and what needs to change before the playoffs.Read Eric's article on the Bucks/Pacers: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6196567/2025/03/11/pacers-bucks-tyrese-haliburton-comeback/Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita & Eric NehmExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, the Cavs win 15 straight again. Zion gets another triple-double. And Eric Name is here to talk about the Bucs, who are super down bad after that horrific four-point play to lose last night. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena.
Good morning, Dave.
How are you? It's a good morning for everybody if you're not a Milwaukee Buck. How about the freaking Pacers? Tyrese Halliburton just has a knack for hitting these tough shots. Another game winner drawn up. Actually, it wasn't a game winner the first time, so... In case you guys didn't see it last night, we got to talk about this just right off the jump because it was an amazing play.
The Bucs have a 114-111 lead on the Pacers. You know, I'm getting my notes together. I'm thinking, OK, we got Eric. We're going to talk about how the Bucs have won nine of their last 12. They're on this great run. OK, and now we're talking about a Bucs three game losing streak because Tyrese Halliburton
And the Pacers, they run an inbound play that is the football play that they ran against the Boston Celtics in the playoffs last year. It's the exact same play. Tyrese Halliburton runs an excellent underneath wheel route, catches the ball on the run, shoots a fading three-pointer, and he's fouled by Giannis Kovacic. with 3.4 seconds left, completes the four-point play.
Giannis gets the inbound on the ensuing possession. They didn't have a timeout. He runs down to court and takes his first shot of the fourth quarter. It's a three-pointer, grazes the rim. But, man, what a shot by Tyrese Halliburton.
Unbelievable shot, unbelievable poise, especially when you're up in the air and fading to the side. I just cannot believe that Giannis did not allow him to land. It was just like one of those moments where you're like, whoa, no, no, no.
And also the amount of space that Tyrese Halliburton had to be able to maneuver in that corner between Brooke Lopez being on top of the ball, the person that was taking the ball out of bounds and jumping in. to the opposite side, as opposed to where Tyrese Halliburton was going. He jumped opposite, as opposed to ball side.
And then that allowed a little bit more space, so just enough time for Tyrese to catch the ball. And then Giannis wasn't close enough. As tall and as long as Giannis is, he still wasn't close enough to touch Tyrese Halliburton immediately as he got the ball, which allowed him to get the shot up and then a foul because he couldn't land.
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