OKLAHOMA CITY — Rick Carlisle saved telling his gamers “18 days, 18 days,” not solely as a technique to mentally put together his gamers for the lengthiness of the NBA Finals, however maybe as a technique to additionally take them away from the underdog mindset.
As a result of whereas nearly no one believed the Indiana Pacers may take this sequence this far, there doesn’t appear to be this “nothing to lose” feeling. It looks as if each the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder and the Pacers acknowledge they’ll be companions in historical past Sunday night time, no matter Recreation 7’s end result.
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