NBA Finals Game 6 PREDICTION: Thunder Close It Out? | Haliburton Injury Update - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

Will the OKC Thunder win their first NBA title tonight? Or can the Pacers survive Haliburton’s injury to force Game 7? We analyze:   - Haliburton’s Achilles risk: Should he even play?   - OKC’s terrifying young core: How Jalen Williams is becoming a superstar.   - X-Factor: Myles Turner and Pascal Siakam vs. Chet Holmgren.    #NBA #Thunder #Pacers #Basketball    🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00the NBA Finals could be done in just a few hours as the Oklahoma City Thunder have a chance to put

00:14a bow on this one with a 3-2 series lead against the Pacers of Indiana and it is tough for me to

00:22not go into this one feeling like this has a bit of a victory lap type of a feel to it this OKC team

00:30they have been the heavy favorites throughout this series throughout this NBA playoff and most

00:36people are just kind of assuming anytime there's a setback it's okay well they'll bounce back and

00:40once they get ahead it's like okay now they're in front now they're out with it and this is going

00:46to be the end of it but we have counted the Pacers out this whole time and they just keep impressing

00:52they're on their home court tonight you can totally see them battling in this game and

00:57forcing a game seven the big part of it obviously is Tyrese Halliburton he is so huge to what this

01:04game could be tonight he was clearly limited in game five and honestly a lot of the coverage around

01:10it has been a little bit gross um specifically on the Fox side of things just to be blunt but

01:15to to know that he was injured and then to continue talking about how it's one of the worst

01:23performances from a star of all time it's like he is he is one like the next stage of this injury

01:29is the thing that happened to Kevin Durant that y'all are saying is the reason why uh that that dude

01:35Kawhi won a championship with the Raptors like we are talking about it what he has is not a serious

01:41injury but the next step of it is a really serious one so to go on any show and be like well this guy

01:50he's a star player when was the last time a star player looked that bad it's like I don't know but

01:56when was the last time a star player was dealing with that while he was playing against one of the

02:00best defenses in the history of the National Basketball Association when you grade for era and

02:05everything like that like I just I I hated to see anyone putting it on Tyrese Halliburton did they need

02:11more for Halliburton in game five gosh darn right they did was it his fault no no it's not his fault

02:18that his calf strained on him while he was making a drive to the basket so I I just thought that you

02:25are being at worst or at best ignorant about the situation if you are blaming Halliburton obviously he

02:32is probably not doing great going into the game tonight if he can be even 75 percent then that's still

02:40probably worth it to get him out there I do wonder if it was worth it keeping him in game five though

02:45like they were talking about it on the broadcast at halftime that he had a calf strain so why are you

02:51still running him out there at that point like he was not helping he finishes the game as a minus 13

02:56his his presence was not helping you in that game and so why why do that why why not just sit him

03:05at that point if he is going to be a detriment to your team and again this is not a comment on him

03:10this is a comment on what he's dealing with if he is going to be a detriment to your team you are

03:15risking serious injury going forward this isn't like the the Stanley Cup playoffs where you see a guy

03:21and he comes out like some of those injuries are insane right but you you hear a guy comes back oh

03:26he's been dealing with it like the the Barkov thing on his hand like he was dealing with a gash on

03:31his hand for basically the whole playoff which ow and you see the pictures like how did you do

03:36anything but that's not one like he if he keeps playing his hand's not going to fall off right

03:40like that that is one that is pretty set on that the the Halliburton one if he keeps playing and you

03:48injure it a step further that's next season gone ask the Celtics how they're dealing with that

03:54situation right now and Celtics fans aren't handling that awesome so I I kind of thought

04:00this was maybe a case to save him from his cell from himself and you're gonna have a real uncomfortable

04:05conversation with it I think Carlisle has probably built up some of that goodwill at this point to be

04:10able to do that I I felt like the risk of an Achilles injury with that is so great that and what he is

04:18giving you out there is pretty minimal I thought it was worth it to rest him for that second half

04:23hope that maybe an extra hour and a half two hours off of it would be enough to help him be in better

04:30shape for game six instead of the alternative where you risk further injury you still lost and now it's

04:37a question of whether he can play in the biggest game of your season or not so I I would have rather

04:43they sat him there given what he wasn't doing mainly for that club a reminder you can follow

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04:55sky all of that uh just search at primetime klein wherever you are on social media from a game

05:01standpoint obviously game five Jalen Williams was incredible the the scary thing about this team

05:07is they are probably the best team in the league they are odds are they're going to get a trophy

05:12in the next few days here by the time this week is done they will probably be the ones hoisting the

05:18trophy and they're getting better they are yet Caruso is the oldest guy on the team and his Elmer

05:25Fudd looking ass is just early 30s um it's so terrifying for the rest of the league to see how

05:32good these guys are and the improvements they are making like Jalen that performance he had that's

05:38probably going to be a career highlight for him right like I don't think we're going to look back on

05:42that as like if we did a top 10 Jalen Williams moments in his career I don't think all of a

05:47sudden that's popping up at seven you know like we're not talking about that type of a growth but

05:51that type of a game is going to be in his range of outcomes more and that is because of how he has

05:56improved in these playoffs this isn't a Terrence Ross 50 point game this is him growing as a more

06:01dynamic attacker and that is even from where he was at the start of this postseason like what he did in

06:07that game numbers wise maybe it's not sustainable but talent wise it's sustainable what he can do he

06:13is that level of a guy that he can do that sort of a thing and I think he is going to be one when

06:18people are ranking their players like the ringer does the top 100 and all that he is going to be

06:23someone that people are going to have a okay wait a minute I keep putting him ahead of guys that I

06:27wouldn't have before like he is doing a a leveling up type of a postseason here he is growing as a

06:33player SGA has gotten better since these playoffs have begun Chet Holmgren you can see he's starting

06:40to figure a few things out and you can see there's a lot of things that he will figure out it is going

06:45to be so much fun to watch this team progress over the next little bit and it is going to be difficult

06:50to keep them together but it is going to be a very fun team to watch as they try to piece this whole

06:56thing together and grow as a a very very scary very dynamic basketball team so what can the Pacers do

07:05the the bench scoring has been big for them at various moments here in these playoffs right like

07:09they they have had big games from non-Halliburton players and Halliburton's not the put up 40 points

07:14a night guy right but you have Siakam put up a big performance in the postseason Nembhard has had

07:21big showings Matherin can help them score they're going to need that um McConnell was excellent in

07:27that game and that is another reason why going back to the Halliburton point that's another reason

07:31why I kind of think it made sense for them to to give Halliburton a bit more of a blow in that second

07:37half because McConnell was on fire and he has these games he did it to the Knicks last year he has done

07:44it at various points in the playoffs this year he just comes in and there's something about the energy

07:49he brings or whatever it is but it changes it changes the mood on the floor and he just attacks

07:56in such a way he is so quick he is so aggressive he can score from anywhere he is someone that can

08:02really get that pace going and pardon the pun he is a perfect backup point guard he's especially a

08:07perfect point uh backup point guard for this team but like he is someone that I I think if you just

08:14put him on a bad team and let him run I think that he would actually put up some numbers

08:18as a a starting point guard on a bad team like I I don't think you're winning a championship with

08:24him as your point guard but him as just like let's lead a bunch of young kids out there I think he

08:30would be like I think he would be great with like a Washington or someone like that I I really enjoy

08:34what he was able to do on the court they need him to be a difference maker in this game they they

08:39need that bench to to step up and it just it has the feel of a night where if they're going to be

08:44successful Siakam is putting up like 35 points and Miles Turner is having a big game those two feel

08:52like kind of the x factors of this series to me and of this game Williams has the big night in game

08:58five they need one of the not superstar guys to step up if they are going to um if they are going to to

09:06be successful here in this game on the Oklahoma City side the defense is obviously the key for this

09:13team uh they are constantly getting steals and constantly forcing turnovers they weren't able

09:18to take advantage of it early in the series the way that they have been at various points throughout

09:22the playoffs now they've started to do that again and you could really see that when Indy started to

09:27turn the tide in that fourth quarter it was the defense that got them there were so many other teams

09:32it is big shots deep threes all of that it is this team's smothering defense forcing turnovers

09:38pushing the ball up the floor off of those that really it is just suffocating what they can do

09:45and that is the key to their success now and it it is something that is really it took them a couple

09:51games to find it but they certainly have found it again and while I don't want to write the pacers off

09:56this does have a touch of a feel of maybe a coronation for an SGA tonight he has had a couple big

10:04moments in this series and now he has a chance to put the title away on the road so it's going to

10:09be a great it's going to be a fun night this has been an excellent series there's been a lot of talk

10:13about the market size and all of that but this is going to be a very fun series now for these two

10:19teams and this is a leveling up for both and what it means for the rest of the league going forward

10:24is going to be an interesting discussion when this whole series wraps up

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