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Thunder host Pacers in winner-take-all Game 7
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Rick the Ruler
Has Rick Carlisle gotten enough love? I don’t think so. The Pacers head coach who led the Dallas Mavericks to an upset Finals victory over LeBron’s and Wade’s Miami Heat in 2011 is on the verge of turning the trick for a second time. You don’t have to convince Thunder coach Mark Daigneault that Carlisle is amongst the elite NBA head coaches, he called coaching against him “humbling.” You can add intensity to that list of adjectives. Up 28 points in Game 6, a pretty comfortable lead, Carlisle roasted Obi Toppin for failing to close out a three point shot. “You cannot do that shit”, or something like that. Toppin was subsequently removed from the game.