Shai Gilgas-Alexander scored 35 points, which helped Indiana Pacors to come back from late deficit to India in the NBA final on Friday to beat Indiana pacers in the NBA final.
The best seven series are connected with 2–2 in Game 5 on Monday in Oklahoma City.
Seven entered the fourth quarter, but excluded Indiana from 31–17 in the last period to escape with victory.
Oklahoma City closed with 12–1 runs in the last three minutes.
Thunder’s coach Mark Dignulture changed his rotation slightly, making each half a Gilges-Alexander brake, and it was paid in the fourth.
Usually Gilgius-Alexander sits quickly in the second and fourth quarters, but on Friday, he sat late in the third and all of the fourth quarters.
With less than four minutes of time, the pacers led 101–97 before the Gilgas-Alexander took over.
The most valuable player of the NBA scored the remaining 13 points, making his field-gall efforts and all his eight free-three efforts made their team’s attempts to win.
Gilegeous-Aexander finished 12 out of 24 to 12, 10 out of 10 with three stolen, one block and just two turnover. He had no help.
The remaining of 2:21, Gilgas-Alexander widened into the basket, pulled at a distance of 14 feet and killed a half-jumper on Aaron Nemith to put forward Thunder for the first time in the second half.
Jalen Williams was also a big game for Thunder, finishing with 27 points and seven rebounds. He was 11-for-11 on the free-thro line. Alex Karuso stole a bench in 20 points and five stolen victories.
Oklahoma City Line had 34 out of 38 (89.5 percent), but only 3 out of 17 (17.6 percent) on 3-point efforts.
Thunder did not hit less than seven 3-pointers in any game during regular season or postson 2024-25.
Pascal Siakam led pacers with 20 points, which was warm in the first quarter with 10 points and four stolen. He finished 6 out of 15 from the ground with five theft and eight rebels.
Tierich Heliberton added 18 points and seven aid while OB Topin had 17 points from the Indiana Bench.
Pacers pushed a late in the third, his biggest night to take a 10-point lead with 24–14 runs.
Toppin hit a back-to-back 3-pointer during that stretch.
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