Oklahoma City Thunder easily roll past Indiana Pacers to even up NBA Finals

The Oklahoma City Thunder evened up the NBA Finals on Sunday by rolling the Indiana Pacers, easing to a 123-107 victory that washed away some of the bad taste left by the Pacers’ dramatic win in the series’ opening game.

The Oklahoma City Thunder evened up the NBA Finals on Sunday by rolling the Indiana Pacers, easing to a 123-107 victory that washed away some of the bad taste left by the Pacers’ dramatic win in the series’ opening game. The Thunder broke away from the Pacers in the second quarter with one of the team’s patented extended runs, the kind of sequence that made OKC the NBA’s best team in the regular season and saw them lead the league in point differential. Led by MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s stellar performance and a strong showing by guard Alex Caruso off the bench, Oklahoma City made an emphatic statement with the blowout win. For SGA, the 34-point, eight-assist performance was a solid follow up to his 38 points in a losing effort on Thursday. The seventh-year player out of Kentucky is debuting in an impressive way in the Finals, hardly seeming to have put a foot wrong throughout the playoffs as he has dominated in each series. After the game, Gilgeous-Alexander told ABC that the strong performance in Game 2 was all about moving on from Game 1. “Basketball is a game of ups and downs, the season’s full of ups and downs, a series is full of ups and downs. It’s about the team that can stay level headed and get better throughout the experiences and they’ll come out on top,” he said.