Options May Give Thunder The Edge

Oklahoma City vary line-up so that they can win possession battle against opponents

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INDIANAPOLIS - Nothing is settled in the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals through two games, with the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder trading wins as the best-of-seven series shifts to Indianapolis for Game 3 on June 11 (June 12, Singapore time).

"Now the goal is to get to three games," Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said.

"It's first team to three. Kind of like it's a blank slate, a scratch — 1-1, 0-0, and it's first to three."

Most Valuable Player Gilgeous-Alexander drove the Thunder to victory in Game 2 after Tyrese Haliburton's heart-stopping floater ended Game 1, his fourth game-winner of these playoffs.

Gilgeous-Alexander has 72 points through two games, the most ever in the first two games of a Finals debut.

Haliburton limped through parts of the Game 2 loss, with Oklahoma City pressuring him with multiple defenders and trying to force the ball to Pascal Siakam or Indiana's other offensive players.

Haliburton said on June 10 he does have a "lower body thing" impacting him but plans to be on the floor when Indiana host an NBA Finals game for the first time since losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000.