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[Knutsen]

Does anyone else see this ^ yet? If you wager, I hope you are listening.

EVERY GAME in a playoff series is a whole series to itself, and there is no such thing as momentum. And the most meaningful game is the next one, not the last one. At this point, if you think this series is over (either way), you aren't thinking.

The natural inclination is to overreact and think the last game told you what the next game will look like. But it didn't. Still.

IND has HCA. But now, it all rides on the next game - where OKC in only one game can re-gain HCA, or in one game IND playing at home can put a 3-1 stranglehold on the series.

That means BOTH TEAMS will be desperate to win G4. Neither can afford to lose. IND gets the advantage of playing it at home, and this time the venue does NOT change. But anything can happen.

Just saying. Be smart. Don't overreact.

What surprised me the most was that OKC and especially SGA looked completely gassed in the decisive last minutes. 

If the Pacers can repeat this constant attack on both sides of the ball, coming in waves at a frantic pace, and Daigneault continues to lose trust in his rotation like he did in the second half and in the Denver series I see a clear advantage for these relentless Pacers in game 4. Especially since there‘s only one day off for the only time in these finals.