India, June 15 -- Tyrese Haliburton creditedhis NBA Finals prowessto an surprising personality: Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry, who guided the team to four titles.

Haliburton's trainer, Drew Hanlen, reportedly showed decade's worth of Curry's defense strategy footage to help the Indiana Pacers point guard understand the Oklahoma City Thunder's game-play. It seems that this ploy may be panning out well for the Pacers who now carry a 2-1 lead in this year's NBA Finals following their 116-107 score win in Game 3 of the series.

Haliburton's scores in the Finals so far which read as a 17.7 points average, 7.7 assists, and 7.3 rebounds in three games against the Thunder is owed in large measure to the footage he studied of Cu...