The Thunder have not dropped a game to an East team at home in about 15 months. And have only dropped 1 game to an East team at all this season (2 if you count vs Bucks in IST Final). But this makes it interesting..
https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585569/pacers-thunder
Edit: After some more skimming the last East team to win an away game vs the Thunder before this one were the Sixers in Nov 25th 2023. So Indiana is the only team to do this in the last 2 years.
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that shit say 2024?š
2025 Thunder are so much better than 2024
Okc, kfc, ufc… Pacers in 5 šš
Thursday night canāt come quick enough
Watch the footage of that game. Despite the game clearly being over, Shai was fouling the Pacers so they could get free throws and he could get uncontested layups to hit his 30 point mark. It was pretty shameless.
J Dub didn’t play it doesn’t count, now the last time they were fully healthy and lost at home to a east team was early 2023
Didnt they lose their first match against Cavs this season?Ā
TIL Gordon Hayward was on the Thunder in 2024
This series might look boring to anyone but i feel like weāre in for a legendary finals games
Oh wow so 2 months ago
Oh shitā¦.over a year ago? Okay thatās impressive
No Jdub that game too
Hey, thatās my birthday!
I had to do a double take to make sure I read that right.
I swear every single stat in OKCs favor is astronomically crazy. I know for a fact this series will be competitive, but stats say this is a sweep. Idk if there has ever been a finals where your gut says close series, but that stats say 4 or 5.
Lot of people donāt know the pacers have the NBAs best record this calendar year
Edit: one of the best teams. NOT THE BEST. Only lost 5 more games than the Thunder including the playoffs in 2025.
Oh ok so only a few months agoā¦. Wait what 2024!?
OKC fans are already getting as annoying as Knicks fans.
OKC definitely had an all time great season, 4th best all time. 2 of those teams didnt win in the finals.
Pacers had a pace of going for the second best record once the team got healthy, OKC is not playing a lottery team, but some of ya’ll seem to think they are.
OKC has the curse of the Sonics, a factor no one is mentioning
No JDub, Giddey and Hayward in the starting lineup. Not much to take from this.
For context
We went 29-1 vs the East last year
Our only loss was a single digit loss to the Cavs without Chet or Caruso
a team from the east has a 3.3% chance of beating them wether at home or away.
Thatās a crazy stat.
But if any team can, itās the āangels in the backcourtā pacers
I donāt understand how no one is even entertaining the pacers having a chanceā¦ the pacers are a very good team. They donāt really fall into the bad habits that our defense likes to exploit. They donāt over-dribble, they have great shooting/spacing, they have great pace, and hali takes care of the ball very well. They are also on an incredible run, and know how to come back from being down big. I really would not be surprised if this was a close series.
I think OKC pulls it out on 6, rooting for Indiana though
yes this serves the agenda nicely, well done
I was going to say āwell they havenāt played a team in the East for monthsā but then I saw ā2024ā and thought, āWTF?!ā