The two words basketball fans love to hear: Game 7. The Indiana Pacers won Thursday night, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-91 to extend the NBA Finals to an all-or-nothing scenario for Sunday night.

Thursday’s game was not close. After the Thunder led on the road 8-2, the Pacers picked up the pace and dominated the rest of the game behind a team effort.

Many thought Indiana’s star player, Tyrese Haliburton, had to show up after going 0-6 and 4 points in a 120-109 loss in Game 5 to the Thunder. However, that wasn’t the story as to why the Pacers extended their season.

Haliburton was one of six Pacers in double figures, yet it was Obi Toppin off the bench who led the charge with 20 points. This is the same Obi Toppin who averages 8.5 PPG in his career and never averaged more than 17 minutes per game in his three-year stint with the Knicks before joining the Pacers last season. Between Toppin, Haliburton, Nesmith, Nembhardt, McConnell, and Siakam, these are a collection of underdogs who played as a unit to be one game away from their franchise’s first championship.

I was very impressed by this Pacers team. They are young, hungry, and didn’t quit when the game didn’t start their way. While Indiana doesn’t have the star power or the larger market, they play very old-school as a complete team. This isn’t a Big 3 basketball team and people should enjoy watching them play. For Indiana, they fed off the crowd and kept the attending fans energized throughout the entire game to will them to a blowout win over Oklahoma City.

With the arena being loud, turnovers turned out to be the main story. At one point, the Pacers led by 20 and had a +16 points off turnovers edge on the Thunder. Oklahoma City had 21 turnovers total, while the Pacers only had 11 and accumulated a lot of those in the 4th quarter when the game was sealed. The energy in Gainbridge Fieldhouse was electric.

In Game 7, the Pacers won’t have home-court advantage and must travel to the Oklahoma City Thunder and meet the reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander once again, who led the Thunder in Game 6 with 21 points. Gilgeous-Alexander was the league’s best scorer this year, so 21 of the team’s 91 points is a tremendous defensive effort by the Pacers, which also forced eight turnovers from the reigning MVP.

Gilgeous-Alexander must bounce back in Game 7. SGA could become the fourth player in NBA history to win the championship, MVP, and scoring title all in one year, joining the likes of Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Michael Jordan.

No matter what, this Game 7 will be historic. It’ll be the underdogs from Indiana or Oklahoma City’s speedy rebuild, while Haliburton or Gilgeous-Alexander get a championship credited to their legacy.

Nobody remembers Games 1 through 6, as long as you show up in Game 7.

Who takes the Larry O’Brien trophy home? We’ll have to marinate on this game for a few days before the final game of the NBA season commences.