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Pacers vs. Cavaliers: Analyzing the NBA Playoff Showdown
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5/3/2025
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Pacers Cavs is set the team that eliminated Giannis in Indiana and
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here's how I'll ask this question I'll go to you first Tom who were you more impressed with in
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round one Cleveland or Indiana oh that's that's I mean maybe it's Indiana I mean Cleveland boat
00:21
raced Miami sure did right and and like sure did we didn't have any faith in Miami maybe they won
00:28
the game but ultimately I'm not surprised the fact that Cleveland's you know dropping 100 120 points
00:34
out of nowhere in three quarters and they're scoring because that's what they've been doing
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all season so that that's like par for the course that's what I expected from them to see the Pacers
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do it in a well-rounded way as I would put it when you're getting great contribution from Siakam you
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got some scoring from Turner at times Halliburton didn't have to do a ton of scoring the entire
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series he was this assist in the ball left and right and you got Nembhardt you got Nason involved
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Ben Matherin McConnell like they had a very very well-rounded effort and that's what they need
01:00
to be Cleveland so Cleveland is something that I essentially had already written in pen
01:04
permanent marker they were they were going to win that series at worst 4-1 yeah and it was going to
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be them scoring the lights out just because that they did that the entire season that's what they
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did teams they blew them out by 15 20 points when they were 15 point favorites they'd be winning by 30
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so I'm not impressed by Cleveland because that's the standard that they have set not to say that they
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didn't do a good job which they did sure so the Pacers I would say we knew they were going to win
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that series yeah and then how they did I thought it was just a very a very solid effort overall top
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to bottom I think were you more impressed by coach I I'm more impressed by Indiana because I just
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thought Miami flat-out quit they quit and I think that's something where you you've you probably the
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first one to say that the most overrated thing that I now think and regards of a basketball coach
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a fan is heat culture because that heat heat culture is you know Dwayne Wade in his prime
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getting shagged toward the back of his prime LeBron James you know obviously Dwayne Wade with
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with Chris Bosh Jimmy Butler who carried you guys and that's the heat culture sorry and I used to
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believe it like no one's business and I was appalled appalled that these guys went out and got their
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you're trying to curse uh butts kicked in game three the worst in game four so because of that
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it's automatically Indiana but Tom made a good point it's it's it's how they did it the fact that
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you had eight guys scoring 8.2 points per game or more they traded roles they traded whose collective
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responsibilities yeah Mather was always going to be the distributor but everyone had points in this
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series where they stepped up offensively and that's what makes this series so interesting
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because that's how Cleveland plays yeah they beat you by the sum of their parts and now you have
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the sum of their parts versus a team in Indiana that's playing the best basketball throughout the
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first half of the year Halliburton's playing like a top 20 player in the NBA right now and then you got
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the rest of these guys yeah spicy take part too you know I hate Halliburton but I'll give him his props
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I really hate his father but I took that story for another time but I think personally this is going
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to be such an intriguing series and I think I think Tom's right about what we talked about earlier
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I think they're being a little bit too disrespectful to Indiana I still think Cleveland wins it yeah but I
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think if I can find a good number of uh Indiana plus two and a half games I'll look at that I think
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it's 4-2 Cleveland
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