Indiana Pacers – Haliburton three stuns Cavs! Pacers coming home up 2-0!

Indiana Pacers – Haliburton three stuns Cavs! Pacers coming home up 2-0!

I don’t know. How the hell did that happen? I got to go back and read through exactly what just happened because I don’t believe what I just saw. With all due respect to Jack Buck, I I think he wasted it on that call of a Kurt Gibson home run in in the World Series for the Dodgers. That was unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like that. This team’s ability to come back from the dead is incredible. What they did against the Bucks being down seven with 40 left. What What were they down here for God’s sake? I mean, my goodness. Um, this is just ridiculous. Uh, they were down they, you know what, they were down seven again with 47 with 48 seconds left. Down seven and they win it in regulation. That’s unbelievable. So, uh, N Smith gets the dunk on that offensive rebound, which Tony Brothers, what the hell is he doing? Call what you see, not what you guess. Anyways, uh, then they, uh, Jared Allen blocks Tyrese’s two-foot layup. Pacers get an offensive rebound. Siaka makes a layup. Cavs call timeout. Uh, Strus, bad pass. Andrew Nebart steals. Hallebertton makes one of two free throws with 12.1 left. He misses the second. He gets his own rebound with 1 second left. He hits a step back three and that’s the game. I They were down when he took that free throw. They were down two. And if he makes that second free throw, the game’s pretty much over. They’ve got 12.1 seconds. Pacers are going to foul. They could have gotten three. Brad Atkins says, “Who put Who put acid in my melatonin? What did I just see? Damn right. This is a a very very gleeful and unusual. Like I was all ready to talk about you know what they fought and boy oh boy they clawed their way back and they almost got back in it and then all of a sudden my wife’s screaming. I’m like what? What? Unbelievable. They just find ways to win. The Pacers are destined. They are hungry and humble and hallebert and can you believe it? But what I also can’t believe is that I think that Donovan Mitchell played the game of his life tonight. He laid it all out there to get this series back to even and it didn’t matter a damn. I tonight Donovan Mitchell 48 points took 30 shots. This game was over. The Cavaliers had a 3215 lead at the end of one. Patrick Hosfeld says, “Uh, great win. Hopefully Richardson can be uh this cl that clutch for Colts next year. Don’t count on it, Patrick. I’d love it if he was, but I don’t think anybody’s that clutch.” Clifford with with a donation. Thank you very much. A gleeful 120 119 postgame. I I am stunned. Rarely stunned. I saw eight points in 9 seconds. I saw the Pacers come back from seven down with 40 seconds left against the Bucks. I’ve seen a lot. That is the craziest I have ever seen in my life. That is unbelievable. The way this team finds a way to continue to play like Andrew Neheart, holy hell, worst game of his life. He went from in game one looking like he was an NBA all-star and to in game two looking like he couldn’t play dead and but he keeps playing. Ken, I want to go out for some drinks with you. I’m ready. Where are we going? Where are we going, Clifford? Um but he keeps grinding. He keeps playing. Does anybody on this team ever put their head down and say, “Oh my god, you know, it’s over. This is it’s never over with this team. They just continue to grind and grind and grind and grind. And I don’t know whether it’s Hallebertton is a leader. I don’t know whether it’s uh uh Carile as a coach. I have no idea. Jesse Johnson says Pacers know how to win games and that’s what’s going to get us a championship. Go Pacers. Hey, now that that sounds crazy. go get a championship as a four seed, as a team that won 50 in the regular season without a star on the team. And I’ll explain that again for people who just don’t get it. I did this morning and people took it the wrong way. I’m not crapping on Hallebert and I’m actually lifting him. I’m actually praising him and his level of play and his level of commitment to the team. Uh but we’ll talk about that in a second. Th this there is a and not a small chance but a chance that like I if the Knicks can can get a win another win in in Boston and take that series and it’s the Pacers and the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals I think the Pacers win that series. I the Pacers can get that done. And then they go to the NBA finals and I know we’re way out over our skis. We’re putting the cart before the horse, but this is a crazy unprecedented night after a win that was just insane. Tyrese second coming a Miller time. Hey, you know what? He’s done it twice in the same playoffs. It’s unbelievable. Yeah, I I’m not saying it’s better than Reggie. Tyrese’s got a way to go to get there, but jeez, at the age of 25 to pull off what this man has pulled off, Barco Media said this game had to kill the Cavs for the series, right? Do you think they can mentally recover from a loss like this? I don’t think so. But I’ll tell you what, if Kenny Atkinson is truly the NBA coach of the year, they should find a way. I don’t understand how Rick Carile doesn’t get a vote and I don’t understand how Kevin Pritchard doesn’t get a vote for GM of the year or or you know front office exec of the year. I think it’s preposterous. Rob Pelanka got votes. You know, JJ Reic got votes for coach of the year in LA. What are they doing? Uh here we go. Sports says this team has really good players that know how to play together. A couple of really close superstars. I I don’t think they are close to being superstars because I don’t think they want to be superstars. I think they just want to win. So here’s the way I think about Tyrese Hallebertton. Stars in the NBA eat light. They crave the light. Tyrese Hallebertton shares his light. I think that’s the difference. Stars in the NBA are all about them. They look in the mirror. Yay. Look at me. Look at I’m a conquering hero. They’re like Spartacus for God’s sake at the Coliseum. Oh, I’m tremendous. Thank you. Tyrese Hallebertton is humble. He’s a basketball player and he’s a member of a team that he’s trying to get to a place where they can win. I’ve never maybe the ‘ 04 Pistons a little bit like this a as a championship team. Almost all championship teams have a star of some kind. This team does not. And and I I don’t use star as a pjorative, but you know what? It’s not necessarily a moniker that people should be proud of. David Schwebold says when Hallebertton let that shot go at the end, you knew it was going in. Hell yes. Ken is amazing. I wish Leonard would have called that game with Boil. I do too. I hope Nancy was enjoying it. You know, I I I hope she is having a hell of a time watching this team play basketball and and Slick. absolutely would have loved that. Boom, baby. Boom. Boom. Boom. He’d still be yelling, “Boom.” Unbelievable. I mean, how do you even How do you even look at statistics a after a game like this there? They just kept fighting and they kept staying within contact. And you thought I thought in the first quarter I thought, you know what, the Cavs could wind up regretting this because what the Cavs have got going on is really a quarter where they should stick a dagger in the heart of the Pacers and leave them dead and bleeding on the floor, right? It should have been like 47-5. Instead, it was 3215 because Donovan Mitchell still can’t shoot. Donovan Mitchell 48 points, one of seven shooting threes. How’s that possible? They can’t shoot. They were 11 of 39 tonight. 28.2% from beyond the ark. Pacers 11 of 28. Pacers won the rebounding battle by one. Pacers had 28 assists, 24 for the Cavs. I just I am dumbruck. I cannot believe that they w they won that game. They led other than like Hallebert and getting two and I think they led what did they lead like seven to two and and then it all went caddyywampus right. Thank you, Ma Matthew, for the for the donation. And and you thought, okay, you know, you know, uh yeah, the race and the uh Eastern Conference final game on the same day, Indy500 and then Yikes. In all likelihood, well, yeah, that game would be here. Game three would be here because if the Pacers had won one more game against the Knicks, but then everything would have been flip-flopped and and the Pacers would have been playing the Cavs in in the Eastern Conference semifinals and or would have been playing the Celtics. I don’t want to play the Celtics. I’d much rather play the Cavaliers than the Celtics. I I just don’t like the Pacers as a matchup with the Celtics because of Horford and Turner. I just don’t like it. But this was awesome. Like that’s Max Strus played the game of his life. Hit those five threes four in the first half and then that one late I was going to say in regulation. Ah whatever. Uh give Alec Pierce some love. What are you tell when Alec Pierce makes a three for the Pacers. We’ll give him love during the Eastern Conference semifinals. Um and Hallebertton with 19 tonight. Turner with 23. I swear to God, I I remember one three from Tur. I don’t remember another point that that guy scored. I remember all kinds of blown chances, but I don’t remember the ball going in. That’s my own bias. I get it. Uh Nmith with 23. He was five of eight shooting threes coming off a game where he was four of six. That’s awesome. Nhard had eight turnovers, but 13 points and 13 assists, seven rebounds, 0 for four shooting threes. Seiakum was like they were gonna put out an APB for Pascal Seakum until late in that game. He had 12, six, and four. Turner had 23. His plus minus was 15. I spent half the game screaming at him. What am I doing? Um yeah, the bench mostly ineffective. Like this wasn’t a good night for TJ McCollum. I really liked Benedict Matine tonight and this afternoon I said they really needed a big game from him and he played some strong minutes for the Pacers in that third quarter when they needed to maintain contact with the Cavs to have any chance at all of winning this game. Matherin I thought was really good tonight uh with those 19 points. His plus minus was eight. McConnell’s was minus 15. That was not good. Jarus Walker he had a tough time. The Cavaliers did everything they needed to do to win this game, but win this game. Everything. Hallebertton that last rebound. Cripes needed needed to miss the free throw. Really needed to get the rebound and then needed to make the three. Check, check, and check. You got to put a team. This Cavaliers team does not put teams away. I know it sounds ridiculous for a 64- win team. You know what? in the regular season, maybe even the Pacers would have taken their lumps and said, “You know what? It’s not our night, guys. Take a powder. We’re going to have Jerus and and TJ and Obie and all these other cats come in and play and you guys get some rest. But in the postseason, you got to keep playing because they’re not dead until the clock is zero.” And tonight, they proved that again and again and again and again and again and again. Unbelievable. The when when Julie starts screaming, you know that something awesome is happening. She What a game. What a night for the Indiana Pacers. I can’t believe I was already think, well, you know what? They did what they had to do. They got the split, blah, blah, blah blah blah. No, I love N Smith in both games. And what do you what do you think this goes? I’m thinking Pacers in Fiverr. Do they have it at home? That’s the craziest question I’ve ever heard. I went on with Dan, but absolutely appropriate. I went on with Dan yesterday, the power hour. Boom, baby. Yes. And um you know, Dan said, “What do you got?” I said, “Pacers in five.” He said, “You out of your mind?” I said, “No, I think they win in five. I think they’re the better team. I think they’re a team like the Cavaliers all of a sudden started to act like they had done something before they had done anything and you can’t do that especially against this team. Don’t they watch? Don’t they know what happened against the Bucks? Don’t they know what happened against the Mavericks? Don’t they understand the way this team does not die ever? They fight and fight and fight and fight. I’ll tell you what, you mentioned N Smith. 100% right. Nesmith made that really unpleasant for Donovan Mitchell. Uh toward the end of that game in the fourth quarter when they were matched up on each other. I thought Nesmith went to war. I thought Nesmith was the badass of badasses and made things really unpleasant for Donovan Mitchell who kind of acts like he’s a little like Paul George. He’s kind of like, well, I’m Donovan Mitchell. Please do what I request. Are are you not listening? Do you not know that I’m number 45 in a Cavaliers jersey and I’ve requested that you people don’t play quite as hard as you are? He he has that look about him. This look of entitlement. Looks like he played basketball this past season, not the upcoming season, but the past season for the Indiana Hooers. That’s the level of entitlement that Donovan Mitchell I thought displayed tonight. I don’t know if that’s on the regular because I don’t want I don’t watch a lot of Cavs basketball. I know he’s a wonderful scorer and I I know that defensively he’s okay, but man, he gave everything he had tonight. That team had a huge lead and they couldn’t hold on to it and there he was. I think there’s something to Hallebertton being voted most overrated player. He’s turning into the most clutch player in the fourth in the playoffs and he has been. Why people would say that about him, I have no idea. How could anybody playing in Indianapolis be overrated? That’s like somebody in Sacramento being overrated. You know what I mean? Like Indie players don’t get any love ever. Jeffrey says, “Who do you like to see the Pacers play in the finals?” Give me anybody. I’m not choosy. I’ll take the Thunder. I’ll take the I’d like the Warriors. Like the Warriors would be fun and I think the Pacers would kick the Warriors ass. I think that’d be awesome. I think the Thunder is a little bit tougher a putt. Although, like, would the people in the NBA office and the people with ABC and ESPN crap themselves with an Oklahoma City Indiana Pacers finals? Geeh, you talk about a ratings nightmare nationally in Indianapolis. We get it. We understand what this team is and what they do there. They they’d have no love for that matchup whatsoever. If there was going to be calls that, you know, there was if if it winds up the Pacers and the Thunder, you cannot ever for time immemoriam accuse the NBA of fixing games because that would be that would be the series that they would least like to have in the history of their league. But it could happen. I’d also kind of like to see the Nuggets because I like to watch Jokic play. Like Joic, I think he’s awesome. He’s like a big fat. If Pete Maravic was born like with a thyroid problem, that’s what you got there. You got a big fat Pete Maravic making passes like this and woo woo woo woo. I like Jokic. Uh what else happened tonight? I think this has got to be as much fun as Rick Carlilele has ever had coaching basketball. Jesse Johnson says, “I do respect Mitchell for several reasons, but when the Cavs crowd was chatting overrated at Tyrese, the free throw line,” Yeah, he signaled to hush him because you don’t poke the bear. When the bear’s wounded, you don’t poke the bear. Fans can’t do that, you know. Yeah. drive home safely and you see the t you just you can see the team that has the lead when the drive home safety crap starts with a crowd that they’re like uhoh we you know we’re coming right the team that is fighting back they’re coming let’s go it’s all fun to be competitive Ballard I wondered how long it would take to get some Chris Ballard you know uh crap on here. And it didn’t take too long. It took 18 minutes and 35 seconds. Nicely played. A wonderful G. That’s This is the beauty of basketball, right? You’ve got a legit star. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, cheer for me, please. Uh in Donovan Mitchell and a guy who is a wonderful and talented basketball player. And then you got the scrappydoo Pacers who just get after it and don’t know their beat until the clock is at zeros. And as a result, they wind up winning games that they wouldn’t have won otherwise. We better enjoy this ride because this is this kind of I we still talk about eight points and 9 seconds, right? That was 30 years ago. 300 years ago, you know, we’re still talking about it. The old heads are still like, I remember my family went to Marsh and I I stayed home to watch and I saw Reggie hit that three after knocking John Starks to the ground. You know, this this is now this generation’s eight points in 9 seconds. And the Pacers aren’t just doing it once, not doing it twice. They’re doing it like six times. Coming back from when other teams would have just succumbed and said, “You know what? Put the uh put the quarters over my eyes. I’m dead in hell.” And they don’t. And it’s awesome. And I’m loving it. You the game on VHS. Good lord. have it transferred to a DVD or a dig digital file. Your VHS, your VCR isn’t going to work forever. Come on, Robbie. Um, man, was that fun, though? All right, we’ll talk about it tomorrow morning. Chanting is stupid. Fans, you got to know your place. Cheer for your team. Don’t poke the bear. Right. We Robbie with the original footage. We will talk to you tomorrow morning. Breakfast with Kent at 6:40. Remember to subscribe. You cannot win the George Hill Pacers jersey unless you subscribe. You’re you’re going to be eligible through subscribing. And in the comments, you type uh take the hill. That’s what you type. That’s your entry. We’ll draw what we’ll have the prize wheel on uh Friday afternoon. Here we go. sports says, uh, this is, uh, kind of teen, uh, kind of thing Reggie Miller deserved. I I’m sad that Reggie wasn’t on the call. I think he would have had a lot of fun with this. Awesome. Have a good night’s sleep. We’ll see you in a few hours. Sheesh. Crazy, right? Just insane. Uh, found you last year and you’re so much fun. Thanks, Ken. Take my money. Thank you, Jesse. I Hey, nobody has more fun doing this than me.

Pacers stun a playoff opponent that assumed the Pacers were beaten – AGAIN!