Best Of Query & Company - Wednesday 6/11/25

Today’s Best of Features: (00:00-16:08) – Indiana Pacers radio network analyst Eddie Gill joins the show to explains what has gone wrong for Indiana in games one and two, highlights how the Pacers can get Pascal Siakam involved more often, identifies when Tyrese Haliburton has the offense operating at peak efficiency, considers Haliburton a facilitate first point guard over a score first point guard, and reveals what he was doing 25 years ago when the Pacers last hosted an NBA Finals game.  (16:08-30:28) – ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne joins Query & Company to explain what interested her most about telling Pacers assistant coach Jenny Boucek’s story about balancing coaching and being a single mom. Ramona highlights some things that she learned when putting together this story together, believes that Coach Boucek could be the first female head coach in NBA history, and states that both of these teams are here because of the level of respect and togetherness that they have compared to some of the other teams that were in the NBA Finals. (30:28-51:48) – Andrew Schlecht from The Athletic joins the show to highlight the various defensive schemes that the Oklahoma City Thunder have seen over the course of the season to try and slow down their offense, believes that the main priority for the Thunder defensively is to shut down the paint to take away Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam, explains why moving Isaiah Hartenstein to the bench has benefited the Thunder in the series thus far, and reveals how the city is feeling about the Thunder making the NBA Finals and how they feel about facing the Indiana Pacers. Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.