The Indiana Pacers finished off the Cleveland Cavaliers 4 games to 1 to move on to the Eastern Conference Finals, and Dave DuFour and Zena Keita are here to react. They discuss Tyrese Haliburton’s huge game and whether the Cavaliers need to make any changes this summer. Then, following an epic game between the Nuggets and Thunder, Andrew Schlecht joins the show to talk about OKC’s win, why the Thunder bet on Lu Dort, and how the Nuggets get the series to a seventh game.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita & Andrew SchlechtExecutive 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 Pacers are in the Eastern Conference Finals, finishing off the Cleveland Cavaliers in five. And Oklahoma City has a three games to lead over the Denver Nuggets. We got Andrew Schlecht here to talk about it after the game. Wow, we are moving along in the playoffs. Zena Kata, I'm Dave Dufour.
Zena, the Pacers are the first team to make the conference finals. What do you think? Just initial gut reaction to the Pacers making a second consecutive conference finals.
They deserve it. Dave, I think if you're looking at all the teams in this playoffs, I think Who is the most consistent to what they look like during the regular season? It's Indiana. They were an offensive team focused in terms of being able to get the ball around. They averaged about 30 assists during the regular season. They're doing the same thing in the playoffs.
They have their starters distributing the ball, distributing the amount of field goals they're making. They're doing the same thing in the playoffs. They have not veered away from what got them success in the postseason. Now, some teams... have picked up some new skills in the postseason, which is great. But a lot of teams have completely changed their identity.
And it's been their downfall, including the team that Indiana just took care of in the Cleveland Cavaliers. So I look at Indiana and I say, shout out to you for staying consistent, being efficient and staying true to who you are and finding success in that, because that's exactly what's gotten them here.
Yeah, I think, look, if you were going to look back at just this series, you would say that the Pacers and the Cavs were much closer than their records look like, right? The Cavs get off to this great start. They have multiple 15 or three, right? 15 game win streaks or something like that. I mean, at least two. I can't remember if there was a third one that made it there. There's two.
I think it was 12 games it made it to. And the Pacers got off to a rough start, but then they finished the season 34 and 14. Andrew Nembhard comes back. All of a sudden, that defense makes so much sense. And and in my opinion, the way that the Cavs kind of went into the playoffs was so different than the way that their regular season had gone up to that point.
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