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In the finals G3 Little Tianwang Mountain Battle, is Harry s magic power effective? Alexander is determined to win the G3!

10:24pm, 11 June 2025Basketball

At 8:30 am on June 12, the NBA Finals G3 will start at home at the Pacers. This is the first time that the Pacers have hosted the NBA Finals at home since losing to the Lakers in 2000. The Pacers' team was not affected by the defeat in the last game. Instead, everyone seemed very excited and confident.

Halliburton limped when leaving the field after the G2 interview, which made Pacers fans worried and felt something was not good. Halliburton said today that he does have a "calf problem" that affects his condition, but it will not affect his playing in G3 at home. This also made the fans who care about it breathe a sigh of relief, and hope is still there.

coach Carlisle also constantly reminds young players during training not to be affected by the advantages and disadvantages of the previous two games. Except for the big score 1-1, everything that has happened is not important. We must look forward and make good use of our home advantage to play the game well.

"Home is like our sixth man, it brings us energy and unites us, which will be exciting," Nembhard said.

Toughness is a key trait shown by the Pacers this season. Carlisle emphasized that when maintaining offensive impact, we must reduce mistakes. Halliburton made 5 mistakes in G2 (to tied the playoff career record). Harry has always had stable ball possession and few mistakes. He also scored epic data such as 32 points, 15 assists, 12 rebounds, 4 steals, and 0 turnovers. But facing the league's top defense, they can make all teams in the playoffs make frequent mistakes. Carlisle said that he must try his best to solve these problems, and must maintain a very high spatial awareness in the game, but cannot play too conservatively. Too conservative is even more difficult to score.

Pacers only led by 0.3 seconds in the first game. Although they reversed and won, many fans thought that the Pacers were lucky enough to steal a victory. It makes sense. Look at the total of 96 minutes in the first two finals, and they only led by 1 minute and 56 seconds. Although the score was 1-1, the situation was still not good for them. Their task is to use their home court to boost morale, find a way to limit Alexander, and strive to win the G3.

Alexander also knew that they had two days to prepare, and the Pacers would definitely target themselves with a brand new defensive strategy. "The series is full of variables, it's definitely a tentative process, but there are too many adjustments, and it's hard to predict how they will arrange it for you, you can only be fully prepared and stay as sharp as possible," Alexander said.

It can be foreseen that the G3 Thunder's defensive strategy should continue the thinking of the previous two games unless the Pacers can ignore the Thunder's high-pressure defense.

Thunder coach Dagenut's tactical changes are almost completely guessed. It is said that he uses more than 700 lineup combinations in the regular season, with the most in the league.

Jaylen said: "We used too many different lineups throughout the season, and we are ready to play at any time, so no one will be surprised when the head coach wants to play in a small lineup and adjust his strategy."

Degnott is not worried about the tactics being understood. He believes that the only advantage of winning the game is to have as much ball rights as possible than his opponents, which is also the key to G3's 2-1 lead in the series.

G1 uses small lineup flexibility and tough defense to force the opponent to make mistakes to get the ball, which is the key to being able to lead the most of the game. G2 gains an advantage in rebounding by playing in a big lineup. What kind of lineup will G3 adopt? As Dagnot said, "We have flexibility, and each game is different."

It seems that those who can reach the finals are not ordinary onions, they all have gullies and confidence in their hearts.

NBA Finals G3 Little Tianwangshan Battle, Alas! There is no prediction, so let's wait and see!

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