Not many anticipated the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder to be trailing 2-1 within the NBA Finals, and fairly frankly, they’re a Tyrese Haliburton buzzer-beater away from the script being flipped.
A deficit is what they face, although, with yet one more recreation set to be performed in Indy (Friday evening, 8:30 PM EST on ABC) earlier than heading again to OKC for a vital Recreation 5. Halfway via the sequence, listed here are two issues which can be working and two issues that aren’t for OKC.
What’s working
Protection inflicting turnovers: Oklahoma Metropolis has had no challenge inflicting a typically laughable variety of Indiana turnovers. The Pacers, who averaged 13.2 turnovers within the common season, have turned the ball over 17.3 instances per recreation within the sequence.
OKC compelled 19 Pacers turnovers within the first half of Recreation 1, which is an NBA Finals report for turnovers in a single half. It is disrupted Indiana’s offensive stream all through the sequence, however extra on this later…
