Pacers vs. Thunder Game 7: a special type of history of the NBA finals is online – “This is for the championship”

Oklahoma City – Rick Carlisle continued to tell his players “18 days, 18 days”, not only as a way to mentally prepare his players for the arduous length of the NBA finals, but perhaps as a way to bring them also from the losing mentality.

Because, although almost nobody believed that the Indian Pacers could bring this series so far away, there seems to be no “nothing to lose” feeling. It seems that it is the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Pacers recognize that they will be partners in history on Sunday evening, regardless of the result of the game 7.

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In the modern NBA (four rounds of playoffs, at least three series of seven games), there were only one handful of game 7S in the finals. Usually, a team succumbs to exhaustion or accidents, or a flat team to understand its opponent and the series ends according to that script. But when the two teams dance for seven games, franchises and players somehow merge into one, becoming synonymous with each other in the collective minds of the observers and fans of the NBA.

Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.

Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson.

Magic and Larry Bird.

Lebron James and Tim Duncan.

Tim Duncan and Chauncey Billups.

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James and Stephen Curry.

Kobe Bryant and Kevin Gornett.

It is almost a silent club, an understanding among the players: knowing that they belong to history is a special thing.

The games are rarely beautiful and almost always close. The 1984 ending between the Lakers and the Celtics champion ended at 111-102 in the Boston Garden, the widest diffusion among the seven most recent games 7S-and every single game, except for that, was a Bitella directed in the fourth quarter.

Most of today’s participants have difficulty remembering the 2016 game 7 between Golden State and Cleveland, even if it happened only nine years ago.

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“The day I don’t remember necessarily. I remember where I found myself,” said Tyrese Haliburton. “I remember what the game, the energy of the game, to be with my friends and look at it all together. There is a mix of fans of Cavs, a mix of fans of Warriors.”

Haliburton was 16 years old, still in high school. Jalen Williams did not even remember out of hand that Cleveland and Golden State was, believing he had been to an Aau tournament that weekend.

“The biggest thing of the finals is that I remember many things around her,” said Williams. “I don’t remember the games. When you’re 15, I feel like you miss what is going on. You are more worried about your favorite player. Kobe was not playing, so I didn’t really care.

“But I only remember the buzz and everyone chose one side.”

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There is a buzz around this series, even if there have been valid complaints about the lack of aura in the presentation. The intensity, the exhaustion and in critical moments, there was excellence from the fighters on both sides. Neither teams has a player who has been in a game 7 of the finals, so it is practically impossible for anyone to appreciate the rarity of this even if gravity is included.

“Yes, it sucks, I probably can’t appreciate it until I get the result I want,” said Williams. “It is beautiful, however. Somewhere along the line, winning or losing, it will be nice to have your name engraved in history, regardless of what is happening. It is beautiful. But at this moment, it is very difficult to examine it.”

The pars beat the Knicks last year in a seventh decisive match on the road to advance to the finals of the conference. The Thunder crossed a 7 game against Denver a month ago – which actually seems three months ago, considering what has emerged since then.

But the wild emotional swings, does the momentum move during the game? It will be increased by ten times on Sunday evening.

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“I feel that tomorrow they will also feel a little different, just because obviously this is the last game of the season, this is for the championship,” said Williams. “Which game 7 taught me from Denver are the swings. Three you feel as if you are falling, do you know what I mean?

“You feel like if I were five. It is just like the oscillation of a game, and what is happening seems much bigger. It is a question of refinement your emotion and understanding the state of the game is great for the game 7.”

Thunder are not very emotional at all, so sometimes you wonder if they really understand what’s in front of them. They were unable to collect the emotion and concentration necessary in game 6, and the pacer grew up in trust as the series has progressed.

But the thunder feel as if they were preparing for this season, having a decisive game on their home floor.

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“We must understand that the work is done and we must trust the work,” said Thunder Mark Daigneault’s coach. “The muscle is built. We have to flex that muscle. This is what will go down tomorrow.”

Someone unlikely will emerge. This is what Game 7s revealed: the extremes.

From John Starks who becomes clank, clank, clank on the night of Houston or Draymond Green who has the game of his life is not yet enough to fight Lebron James and Kyrie Irving by completing a masterpiece of three games, the extremes of this will make you dry or rise in the night of Oklahoma.

The exhaustion sometimes takes over, more emotional than physical. Carlisle spoke of how difficult all this is, and probably how simple mortals cannot understand it.

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“[Hall of Fame coach] CHUCK Daly once said, if people had an idea how difficult it was to win a game in the NBA, in the regular season, a game would have had – you know, they would be shocked, “said Carlisle.” There are so many things that come to you and you are swimming upstream “.

Dady was at the end of the business of a cruel punch 1-2 in 1988 against Magic Johnson and his Lakers. Perhaps a blown call and the distortion of the distortion of Isiah Thomas prevented the Pistons from winning in six, giving way to a crack in the game 7, where the fans stormed the Los Angeles forum before the game was over and Pistons followed three.

And for this, the story has changed. The Lakers went back-to-back, the first time anyone in the NBA has made the company in 20 years. He gave way to a Pistons revenge tour the following year, sweeping the Lakers while Detroit won two in a row – but so many still feel that they could have been three because of the call.

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It is even exhausting to think about, as a moment can move history, any butterfly effect can develop due to this game.

The same can be said for the 2013 finals with Miami and San Antonio. Miami repeated, barely, and created the Spurs machine which trampled on the heat the following year.

And everyone knows what was born from the victory of the Cavs in the 2016 finals: Kevin Durant a Golden State.

“I think that especially for people of my age, this is Punta 7 game,” said Haliburton, referring to the 2016 finals. “I am excited to add to the historical history of game 7 and add to the history of our game.”

For some people, Sunday could be Punta 7 game for the near future.

This is what is in line.