'It's not the recipe to win': How the Pacers beat the Thunder in Game 1 of the NBA Finals anyway

A team should win with 24 turnovers and allowing 10 offensive rebounds; the Pacers did it with 3-point shooting

OKLAHOMA CITY – Tyrese Haliburton didn’t try to whitewash the bad out of the Indiana Pacers ’ performance in the afterglow of another come-from-behind playoff win Thursday night.

Speaking after his last-second winner pushed the Pacers past Oklahoma City 111-110, Indiana’s franchise-face point guard owned up to all that had gone wrong. Before adding a necessary caveat.

“This game, if you look at all the numbers, it's not the recipe to win,” Haliburton said. “We can't turn the ball over that much. We have to do a better job of being in gaps, rebounding, all over the floor.

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