East Finals Game 1: Celtics vs. Pacers Thriller Recap
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00:00Kyle, we definitely got our money's worth if we paid anything for that game last night.
00:08Wild shot at the end of the tie, wild overtime as well, 260 points in the NBA, can't ask
00:14for much more than that.
00:15Look, I'm a big fan of nostalgia and a big fan of these old series in the NBA where the
00:20finals used to be what, 88, 85, something like that, but my gosh, that game last night
00:25had something for everyone.
00:27Yeah, that was a far cry from the rock fights of the 90s.
00:32Like you said, 200 and something points put up after the overtime period, but I think
00:36that's just, those are two teams that the Pacers want to play fast and at the beginning
00:40of that game, the Celtics were willing to match that pace and I thought they did a good
00:43job of it at the start, but they quickly realized you're going to have to come up with some
00:47stops if you want to win a game and obviously, they pulled that game from the jaws of life.
00:51They had no business winning that game down by three points with eight seconds to go and
00:54Jalen Brown hits the biggest shot of the playoff so far, but I was really impressed
00:59with the way that they locked in on the defensive end down the home stretch of the fourth quarter
01:03and in overtime after really not playing any defense throughout the entire, probably 46
01:09minutes of that game.
01:11That's a game that the 2022 Celtics probably don't win, the 2023 Celtics probably don't
01:15win, but the 2024 Celtics, they found a way to get it done and I think that's what's impressive.