NBA FINALS: THUNDER VS. PACERS

June 13, 2025

Pascal Siakam

Indiana Pacers

Game 4: Postgame

Oklahoma City Thunder 111, Indiana Pacers 104

Q. Pascal, what did the fourth quarter feel like? You guys missed all of your three-point attempts, and you only got up one shot. What did they do to be disruptive in that fourth?

PASCAL SIAKAM: I thought we took some shots. We missed them, like you said. They made shots. They went to the free throw a lot of times.

We just didn't execute at the end of the game. We didn't get easy shots. The easy shots that we got, we missed them. And they made them.

Q. Carlisle said you guys just got stagnant on offense. Curious if you would agree with that, late in the fourth quarter. You've been good in those moments throughout the postseason. Would you agree it got discombobulated at the end?

PASCAL SIAKAM: We didn't execute well. Again, we missed some shots. Obviously that looks a way, when you miss shots. So it always looks like we didn't do what we were supposed to do.

We'll watch the film and try to get better.

Q. Rick said this was a big disappointment. How do you assess this loss in terms of it disappointment?

PASCAL SIAKAM: Yeah, obviously we wanted to win. I thought we played well enough for some stretches of the game to put ourselves in position to win, but unfortunately it didn't happen. I think every loss at this point, it's a disappointment.

Q. With the series now tied and a win necessary on the road, I guess can you talk about the mindset the team is going to have to go into to accomplish that?

PASCAL SIAKAM: We've got to go out there -- we've won some games on the road row before. So I think we've just got to go out there with our confidence. Like I said, we'll watch what we did wrong and try to get better at those things. At the end of it, we've just got to go out there and, again, do things that we've done in the past. So we have that confidence that we can do it.

It's going to take a lot and it's going to be hard, but I think we have the group capable of doing that.

Q. This offense features a lot of different players, and typically you're still guarded by a high-level check on other side. When you see the offense move elsewhere on the floor, what are you looking to do to impact in ways if you're not involved in an action?

PASCAL SIAKAM: I think continue to move. I think, like I said, our team is unique in the fact that we can just play.

But yeah, trying to find ways, seams out there, make plays, rebound. I think it's easy to just look at it like when we lose the game and we miss some shots, and it's like so ... But it doesn't matter. I think rebounding, turnovers, there's so many things in the game that we just didn't do right. It came at the right moment, they made the right plays and they won the game.

Q. You have four steals in the first quarter. How do you manage to get those balls so fast, so quick?

PASCAL SIAKAM: Just trying to be active. We're trying to play team defense. I don't know, might be luck. But just be in the right place at the right time.