Pacers Edge Knicks, Siakam Wins MVP: Eastern Finals Recap

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00:00as we expected i mean i think you may have called like every game right in the east finals or close

00:05to it uh so the pacers do lose to the knicks in game five they come back and they win game six

00:12they end up winning the eastern conference and by the way it's pascal siakam who ends up winning

00:19the eastern conference finals mvp and the larry bird trophy he was fantastic and look siakam has

00:25had a good year gilbert but he is now taking his game to another level which i i think probably has

00:32pacers fans not optimistic they're going to beat okc i don't think that that's the case but i think

00:38at least it gives them a fighting chance if both siakam and halliburton go off in the finals

00:44absolutely and i think that siakam's consistency and that championship dna that we see come from

00:51his time in toronto and what he did during that championship run in 2019 he's familiar with this

00:56stage he's not going to back down from this stage and he's going to be able to contribute at this

01:01stage and the big thing about oklahoma city is their depth it starts with the mvp and shea gilders

01:06alexander and obviously jaylen williams is an all-star and i know we'll talk about the thunder

01:09in a moment but the big thing for the pacers is can their star duo keep up because they do have the

01:15depth pieces to hang with oklahoma city but it does start up top and you have to have big games

01:21from your two stars even have a fighting chance like you said but seeing siakam step up the way

01:26he did should give you some type of confidence maybe not optimism but confidence

01:29so