Schooled

 Welp. Guess we all know now.

We know why the Oklahoma City Thunder won 68 games and lost only 14 this season.

We know why Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was your league MVP.

We know that when the Thunder rolls, it rolls, out there on the Great Plains.

SGA, Jalen Williams and the rest of 'em showed us just how it rolls last night in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, in which the Thunder schooled the Indiana Pacers by 16 and educated the large portion of America that was unfamiliar with them, Oklahoma City not exactly being the center of the universe. 

The final was 123-107, and, really, folks, it wasn't that close. Oke City had the Pacers down 25 in the first half and led by 18 at the break, largely due to a crushing 19-2 second-quarter run. The Pacers never recovered as the Thunder went gallivanting off into the sunset.

SGA?

Stacked another 34 points atop the 38 he scored in Game 1, along with five rebounds, eight assists, four steals and and a blocked shot.

Holmgren?

Awoke from his Game 1 slumber to add 15 and six boards.

Williams?

Nineteen points, five rebounds and five assists.

Just about everything the Pacers did better to steal Game 1, the Thunder did better this time. Even the P's bench, a reliable strength in this magical playoff run, was outshone by the Thunder reserves -- in particular, Alex Caruso and Andrew Wiggins, who ruined Indiana with 20 and 18 points respectively, and were a combined 9-of-16 from the 3-point arc.

Indiana did put all five starters in doubles again, and Tyrese Haliburton did what he could with a 17-point, three-rebound, six-assist, two-steal, one-block night. But the Pacers turned it over 15 times and looked helpless on the defensive end at times, as SGA, Holmgren, Williams and the rest consistently beat them off the dribble up top and made a freeway of the paint.

Not-so-fun-fact to know and tell, if you're from the Hoosier heartland: In the first two Finals games, the Thunder has led all but the last 0.3 seconds in Game 1, and led the last 38 minutes and three seconds of Game 2.

That's a sliver more than 86 minutes of the 96 played so far.

Yikes.

And also, on to Indiana, where that old basketball mojo better be geared up. Save our Pacers, Jimmy Chitwood.