What is going on? I repeat what is going on?
In one of the most unlikely scenarios the Indiana Pacers are only two wins away from winning their first NBA Championship.
The Pacers’ odds to win the championship before the playoffs began were 80-1. For those of you who are not degenerate gamblers like me, this means that for every dollar you bet on them you would win eighty dollars if they won the title. So, for example if you bet one thousand dollars on them to win the title, you would win eighty thousand dollars. That is an INSANE payout. I do not have all the records in front of me, but this would be the largest payout that I can find in the recent gambling era.
Game one was an absolute masterpiece. I have never been more shocked with an NBA outcome in my adult life. The Thunder were comfortably winning by ten to fifteen points for almost the entire game. This all changed with Tyrese Haliburton’s game winning shot at the very end of the game. This was the first time that a team won an NBA playoff game despite never leading for an entire second of the game. The Pacers only lead came with 0.3 seconds remaining. There have been thousands, I repeat thousands, of NBA playoff games throughout history. The fact that this has never happened before tells you just how unlikely their comeback was.
This Pacers team honestly feels unkillable. Any time the game is close they are going to come back and win. The only way to defeat them is to blow them out.
The Thunder were able to accomplish this difficult feat of blowing out the Pacers in the second game of the Finals. The second game looked a lot like how most NBA writers, Steviepoooooo included, predicted the series would go. The Thunder simply flexed their muscles and showed why almost every basketball “expert” called them the more talented team.
During the second game the Pacers looked like they were not up to the challenge of the younger more talented Thunder team. This all changed during game three. The Pacers used their exuberant home court advantage to catapult themselves to a 2-1 series advantage.
There is a saying that I like to say about college basketball. That saying is “There is a big difference between a team full of nineteen- and twenty-year-old and a team full of twenty-two- and twenty-three-year-olds.” The difference between these teams is their varying levels of both mental and physical maturity.
This series makes me feel like I need to amend this saying. Game three has me thinking that there is a huge difference between a team full of twenty-three- and twenty-four-year-olds and a team full of twenty-six-year-old to twenty-eight-year-olds. The Thunder are the younger team in this scenario.
Historically young teams have never had success in the NBA playoffs. Young teams need to go through some extreme hardships and heartbreaks before they can climb to the top of the mountain and capture their first championship. It is very possible that this could be what we are watching with the young inexperienced Thunder.
I am done making official predictions this post season. My prediction of Thunder in five has already been eliminated as a potential outcome of the series. I am going to do my best to enjoy the remainder of this series without losing any more money at the hands of the god damn Indiana Pacers.
That is all for me this evening. Thank you for all the love my site has gotten the past few weeks. Lets keep it up!
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