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OKC Falls in Game 3 - Playoff Discussion · Bring The Thunder Podcast

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  And do it all right, welcome in, guys.
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  Bring the Thunder podcast live on X and YouTube currently.
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  You guys can follow us on IG. I'm also live on TikTok right
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  now on my Thunder Talk account. We're going to be talking about
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  recapping the game. What my thoughts are, I think
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  tonight's just going to be me. And man, I watched the whole
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  game. It was a tough one.
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  Tough one, guys, tough loss right there.
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  We even it up a bunch of times and we just couldn't pull away
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  at any time. And then she also got limited
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  with the type of defense they decided to play with him.
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  They just played way more physical.
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  They locked him down. Nemhard, you know, pretty much
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  used up all his fouls and E Smith use up all his fouls
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  guarding him. And I think that's their best
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  strategy. Get physical with Shea, foul him
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  as much as you can, foul out if you have to, and just get Shay
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  tired as much as you can throughout the game because he's
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  going to have to play 40 minutes for us to even win this.
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  And then we have to rely on our other offensive guys.
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  So we had J Dub step up for 26, Chad 20, but they limited Shay
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  and then Kayson had seven in this one.
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  And then along with that, Dort only had 12.
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  He hit his threes, which is awesome, but Kayson didn't come
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  to the party. Crusoe had eight points.
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  Wiggins didn't join the party, 9 minutes, 0 points.
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  Hartenstein had 18 minutes and only four points.
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  That's pretty much unplayable behavior in my opinion.
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  Like at that point, I'd rather put in Jay Will or somebody for
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  offense, man. Like the offense is killing us.
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  Kenrich is not able to score like he used to.
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  He's great for hustle metrics and getting rebounds and things
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  like that. But man, the offense was dead
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  without Shay. To be honest, that's what it
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  really was. They double, triple team Shay,
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  said Lou Dort. If you're going to hit your
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  shots, Lou Dort hit his Kayson, are you going to hit your shots?
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  Good luck. Kayson went three for five, O
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  for one. He barely took that many shots
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  himself. Shay went nine for 20 in this
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  game. Honestly, this is on Shay, man,
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  24 points in a crucial game. Game three, that's super
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  winnable. Tied at so many points in the
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  game. He shot 45% from the field.
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  He's got to be better than that. You gotta be.
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  I mean, 45%, that's fine. Like nearly 50% cool.
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  It's just no one else showed up from the bench.
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  Our bench unit got out, competed.
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  We can look at Aaron Nesmith had seven points, Pascal's 21
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  tonight, Mao Sterner had 9, Andrew Neberhard had 8, Tyrese
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  Halliburton 22 points, OB topping with eight.
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  Ben Shepherd over here with four points, TJ McConnell 10 points.
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  But he was huge. He had so many steals.
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  Let me look, man had five steals in this game.
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  It felt like 10. It felt like TJ McConnell had 10
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  steals because he got every steal on the inbound pass.
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  How do you not know how to inbound pass and you're in the
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  NBA? I'm looking at you, Casein
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  Wallace. Come on, man.
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  You had two turnovers in the freaking second and first
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  quarters. You got to be able to inbound
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  the ball. And if you're not going to
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  inbound the ball, just be patient, call a time out and do
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  whatever you have to do. But they're forcing the ball
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  inbounds. They're pressing us high.
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  Mathrin has 27 off the bench destroying us.
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  We're supposed to be the number one defense and I still believe
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  that we are a number one type defense.
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  But they out hustled, played more physical.
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  I'm not going to mention or crash out about anything else
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  other than the fact that we got out, competed, outshot
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  everything. This is what we expected
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  honestly, for Indy to go home. They did their job.
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  They stole one from us then. Now they're trying to protect
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  homecourt. That's their best strategy.
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  And then they hope they can win Game 5 or something like that.
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  Game 4 is must win. Game 5 is must win.
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  Now for us, the pressure is on. This was the tilting game.
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  We haven't been back to the finals since 2012, man.
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  They're not seizing the moment. Shay is not seizing the moment
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  in this. Like you have two good games,
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  but you have to be consistent. You have to be consistent.
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  You have to at least score 30. I had him booked for 30.
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  The Pacers coach had them had him booked for 30 and he still
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  couldn't do it. Obviously they didn't allow him
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  to do it. I knew that was a precursor that
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  they were going to guard him much better.
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  I knew that. I knew they were going to guard
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  him much better. We knew they were going to throw
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  the kitchen sink at Shay and say the rest of the Thunder, can you
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  beat us? And tonight, the answer was no.
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  They stole one and now they stole another.
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  And this is how you throw away series, Man, seriously, I've
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  been here before. We won one game in 2012 and then
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  we lost the next four. We won the first game at home,
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  and we proceed to lose every game after that because you're
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  not locked in, you're not focused.
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  That's what it comes down to. Effort, energy, focus, turning
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  it over. How many turnovers did we have?
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  I can look at that right now. Come on, man.
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  Here, I'm going to share my screen real quick so you guys
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  can see with me what I'm looking at the box for.
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  Whatever. I got you.
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  All right, We're going to look at the box for real quick.
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  Yeah. Yeah, we know that.
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  We can look at the chat. We can look at the game charts,
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  the longest lead by both teams with 9.
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  There's 9 lead changes. We had the 9 point lead 15
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  different times and we couldn't freaking keep it. 15 times we
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  had a nine point lead and we couldn't extend or keep it.
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  Disgusting man. We out rebounded them.
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  They had more assists than us. They had more Seals than us.
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  They had more blocks than us, we had more turnovers than them.
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  We shot better, we shot worse from the free throw line and
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  points in the paint were about equal or we usually win it.
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  Second chance points, more effort by Indiana, fast break
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  points. We know they're going to get
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  them eventually. They're going to try to wear you
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  down as the series goes on. Benedict Mathurin is the leading
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  scorer of this game. I'm so happy that JW showed up
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  for this for 26. But man, where are you Shay?
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  Where are you, Shay? Man, that cannot happen.
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  That cannot happen, man. Disgusting loss right there.
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  Disgusting, disgusting. Take a deep breath.
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  You go back, reorganize, refocus.
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  You look at the next game and you hope that Shay, it's not
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  even on. Shay only got 2020 shots in this
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  game. That's the other problem.
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  He needs to be shooting 30 times to win this game or even get 30
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  points. They they took a page out of the
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  Thunder, Thunder's book and held him to under 20 shots.
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  Pretty much the 20 shots, if you only shoot 20 times, you're only
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  going to score 20 something buckets.
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  That's how it goes, man. If you don't get enough shots
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  off. And that's what they did with
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  Shay and the rest of the team. They locked down on defense.
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  They said J Dub beat us, Chet, good luck.
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  Chet shot 40% from the field. Need him to be better.
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  He had crucial turnovers. J Dub had four turnovers.
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  Shay had six turnovers. We're not a turnover prone team,
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  but we became one tonight because of the physicality that
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  I'm talking about. The more physical team, one,
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  they didn't outshoot us, didn't out rebound us.
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  They outplay make the outplaymaked.
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  They had more playmakers, which is the exact thing I mentioned.
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  We're lacking playmakers, man, Seriously, we're lacking
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  playmakers. All we have is J Dub and Shay
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  and a prayer. Chet's trying to be a playmaker
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  and handled the ball and he's turning it over.
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  Cason Wallace can't get a damn assist.
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  Come on man 24 minutes and all you get is 7 points.
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  Caruso no show -15 cason -10 no show.
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  J Dub Solid on offense, terrible on defense -9 Matheran his main
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  person that he was defending at 27.
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  Hardenstein where is Hartenstein?
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  3 rebounds, effort, one steal, four points, no assists.
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  What's the point in playing him? We bought him to get freaking
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  rebounds in the playoffs. Come on, man.
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  They've got to play better. They're they've, they have to
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  understand what type of game we're in.
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  We got a bunch of comments, man. I'll go through them at the end
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  here. But seriously, the it's just
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  effort from start of the game. I called it out.
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  They're Dal and Shay doing whatever.
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  They're aggressive with Shay. We have to be the same with
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  Tyrese Halliburton. If they if they're going to play
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  aggressive, we have to match it. They became aggressive from the
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  start. We didn't match it throughout
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  the whole game, the whole game. We're playing soft.
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  You can't win games playing soft.
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  You can't. You can't in the NBA Finals.
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  Doesn't matter about the refs. It does not matter.
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  The refs are going to make calls.
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  They're going to blow calls. They're going to do whatever.
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  You got to make your shots, get shots up and be the more
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  aggressive defense. That's what the Thunder have
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  been. They were the more aggressive
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  defense. They limited our assists.
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  They're literally playing Thunder basketball in Indiana.
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  We got Capers in here, man. Joining up soon.
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  Capers, you good to join up? Give me a thumbs up real quick.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Oh, no. OK, OK, OK.
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  Probably Capers needs a couple seconds because we're not done
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  crashing out. I'm on Bring the Thunder podcast
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  right now with about a bunch of people, TikTok Live.
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  We got about 100 people in here. We got probably 1,000,000 Pacers
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  fans in here, probably 1,000,000 Pacers fans on YouTube and X as
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  well watching us. Yeah, it was not in the books
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  for us to win this game, man. That's how it felt from start to
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  finish. And I'm not talking about the
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  referees, I'm talking about the players.
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  The referees are going to do one thing.
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  We had opportunities throughout this whole game.
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  We had opportunities to win this game, man, we played bad.
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  We objectively played bad. We've got to win Game 4.
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  It's a must win, must win. It's not even a win or go home
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  type of scenario, but it's a must win game.
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  You lose and you go down 3/1. This will be the 2012 Finals all
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  over again. We win one game in the NBA
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  Finals. That's what will happen if we
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  lose next game. This game, this game was about
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  effort. There's not XS and OS that I
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  could tell you right now. TJ McConnell's out competing us.
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  Mathrin's out competing us. Tyrese Halliburton is just sheer
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  willpower willing a bum team in the NBA Finals through round
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  after round after round, hitting after clutch shot after clutch
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  shot, nee Smith in the corner. Then we got freaking Tyrese
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  Halliburton at the top of the key hitting shots.
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  I couldn't even talk to my TikTok chat because I had my
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  hand over my mouth for the next 3 minutes because freaking Aaron
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  Nesmith had a crazy shot. They hit shots and when they
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  needed to. This team is the craziest
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  comeback team or clutch performing team I've ever seen
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  in my entire life. Honestly, this is a crazier run
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  than Dirk had with The Mavericks.
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  And guess who was the coach? Rick Carlisle.
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  Rick Carlisle coach against LeBron and made him look like a
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  bum. They stole one and then they
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  played defense on Shay like no other team has ever done in the
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  freaking play offs in his modern times of being an MVP level
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  player. That's the worst Shay game I've
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  ever seen. Against The Mavericks he was
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  magical. Grizzlies, magical.
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  Pelicans last year magical. Denver series magical against
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  Minnesota. Amazing.
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  But when it's time game three, the physical defense comes in
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  and you can't score. When your team needs you to
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  score and you can't even get Shay the ball.
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  When Shay needs to have the ball and Chats going in, hitting,
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  going, throwing up, wild layups and J Dubs going in the paint
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  and can't score, you lose games. You don't get your best player
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  of the ball with four minutes to go on every single possession.
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  Good luck. Good luck.
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  I know calls didn't go our way. I know I I watched the whole
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  game start to finish. I get it, bro.
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  I was complaining about him. Sarah, I appreciate the Rose in
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  the TikTok chat. They all competed us.
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  Someone in the chat and TikTok said they're better than us at
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  this point. Yeah, you don't have to actually
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  be better than the skilled opponent that you're playing
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  when you play harder. Hard work beats talent when
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  talent decides not to perform. Quote that I live by the Indiana
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  Pacers use. They outwork you.
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  They're not the better team. We're playing the O 4 Pistons at
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  this point. That's the type of championship
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  run they're on. They don't even have a *
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  superstar. They have a star.
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  They have Tyrese Halliburton. He's a great star, fantastic
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  star. I love Tyrese.
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  He's not a superstar. Pascal Siakam, past champion,
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  but he was the second, second best player on that championship
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  team with Toronto. He's not a first level player.
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  Who? Who the hell is Benedict
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  Mathuran going for 27 against this Thunder defense?
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  How do you even allow that in the finals?
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  I get you can't score offense, but you let him go for 27.
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  We're going to Oh my God, crash out central for real man Sky sky
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  in the YouTube chat. We weren't supposed to win this
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  one mentioned the terrible officiating Texan by nature.
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  Bring the Thunder podcast if you're in the TikTok chat.
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  I got 140 people in here. I got 40 people on the X and
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  YouTube got to win the game. Officiating was horrible.
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  That's right, Lil Tucker said. We played like crap.
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  It was horrible. Skye mentioned too many term
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  turnovers at the end of the game.
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  Travis, Yikes. The whole gang too sad to come
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  on tonight. I I think so, man.
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  I don't think anyone wants to crash out the way I'm crashing
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  out. Texan by nature, missing calls
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  is crazy, but also giving inbound turnovers did not help.
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  We did not help ourselves in this game.
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  Foul calls, yeah, man, we can't complain about it.
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  We can't complain about the flagrance.
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  We can't play about the missed calls here and there.
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  We got Ala Lakers fan that's sitting in Cancun right now said
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  OK, CKFCABC, Pacers and six. Have fun in Cancun, my guy out
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  hustled out clutched outplayed out hustled out clutched
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  outplayed out hustled out clutched outplayed out hustled
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  effort effort from the start. These guys did not want this
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  game and I'm talking about the Thunder players.
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  If you're watching this and if you're J dub chat Shay effort,
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  we haven't been back here since 2012 effort.
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  You can't lay a goose egg 24 points with six turnovers as an
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  MVP in an NBA Finals game Come on man Hotspot casino Pacers are
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  going to lose the next two Yes, I agree bro, we can win the next
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  ones. But man, we had 15 leads of nine
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  points. We should have won this game.
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  Isaiah Joe needs more playing time.
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  No, he never needs to see the freaking court.
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  Isaiah shorten the rotation. I don't want to see Isaiah.
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  I don't want to see freaking any of these guys.
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  Shay Caruso, Dort Chat, J dub Cason and a little bit of
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  Wiggins man 20 minutes of Wiggins.
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  That's all we need. Shorten the rotation Salmon man.
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  Roster. Blow these kids out of the park
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  man. I don't want to see anyone else
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  on the fucking court. Tired of it man.
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  They're not close to us. Hey, Gabe is freaking out, I can
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  promise you that. Hotspot said.
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  They out hustled us. This is what happened in our
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  last game when we played Dallas. Yeah man, you can't block out
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  and you don't get your boards when you really need them.
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  This is what happened. We got a resident Laker fan that
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  turned into a Pacers fan. Like every other fan that's
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  watching the NBA Finals right now is against the Thunder.
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  Typical OKC can win game 4. Completely agree.
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  I do believe in us. Let's see some other when did
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  you start this just wondering. I started about 20 minutes ago.
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  My guy, you're a little late. Bring the Thunder podcast if
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  you're on TikTok. If you're watching on YouTube
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  and X I'm on TikTok at Thunder talk.
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  So too many silly turnovers. I agree, man yeah, man, Travis
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  Joe is definitely losing his mind.
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  I I'm I'm sure OKC is shook scared to look Pacers and six.
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  We got Larocque who is a Campos. He's a seasoned Thunder hater.
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  We played bad hotspot casino because to start Wallace was
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  messing up his assignments. Players weren't hustling.
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  I completely agree. Ralph films that Chet sold yeah,
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  Chet. Chet sold a lot of buckets, man.
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  A lot of missed opportunities, a lot of turnovers.
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  Yeah, ridiculous. Chet sold us on a lot of
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  buckets. The important that full court
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  press was definitely hurting us in this game.
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  I got a bunch of chats in on my TikTok.
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  I'll go over those as well. Yeah, game one was ridiculous
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  and now game three we lose. This is how you blow series,
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  guys. You blow series like this.
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  Yeah, They're working harder than us.
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  And the Pacers are working harder.
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  Yeah, we play better. We have the better players.
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  They're more clutch. They're better in the clutch,
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  and they're playing harder. Outplayed out, clutched out,
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  hustled. Seriously, I'm going to put that
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  quote back up. I'm going to put that quote back
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  up because that's what it is, man.
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  Jagnault, he needs to adjust the defense.
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  He needs to adjust the defense. Too many corner shooters were
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  open in this game, man. Yeah, we got the next game
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  London in the chat, Spencer in the TikTok chat said J Dub is
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  not an all NBA player. I disagree with you.
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  He's an all NBA All Star. They didn't have the they don't
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  have the cardio to shorten their rotation, John.
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  I disagree. They're NBA players.
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  Like what are you even talking about?
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  What's when will the parade be end of the month if we win?
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  Why the hell are they holding the ball so long when we're down
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  with such little time? Trust me, I'm asking the same
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  thing. You're not just going for
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  threes. Why are we going for twos?
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  Why are we holding the ball? Why are we getting out hustled?
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  I got King Capers joining me. I'm sorry I'm late, fellas.
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  Late as always, but all is forgiven.
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  You're here. What a fucking night man.
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  Excuse my language. Did we?
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  I was crashing out like you, man.
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  I didn't see your stream. I was on playback TVI had a
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  bunch of Thunder fans in there. I I finally got it kicking off
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  right now. You got to join me.
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  I got resident Thunder fans in there now.
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  Got you bet. Yeah, bro, bro, it was fun.
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  Start off the game hot, going a little bit of a run.
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  What was our lead? 11 The first lead we had nine.
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  OK, I. Got a We had multiple 9 point
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  leads so we. Had nine point leads. 15 papers,
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  15-9 point leads that we couldn't extend.
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  Or couldn't extend them. Couldn't.
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  Extend them or keep them. Couldn't keep them bro.
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  Missing shots, turning the ball over, free throws.
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  J dub J dub. I had to say that twice.
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  J Dub did. Good bro.
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  Good. Yeah, 26 points.
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  Chet's the one freaking fumbling towards the I.
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  Was getting there. I was getting there.
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  Chet, what did we say? They both well I said if we
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  wanted to win this next game, they both had to play great.
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  Dub did do his thing. Free throws man whole team free
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  throws Caruso free throw Shay missing a free throw Dub
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  caisson. Tell us, what are we doing?
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  I agree bro. Oh.
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  My goodness bro, trust me. Bro we did not do our job.
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  They were making threes in our face.
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  They were making the right reads.
• 24:05
  Their defensive pressure, The one thing that was glaring to me
• 24:08
  this game, their defensive pressure was tremendous for a
• 24:13
  majority of the game. Like the way they were pressing
• 24:16
  and and picking us up at full court.
• 24:19
  And they were just making everything as tough as they
• 24:21
  could make it. And it worked.
• 24:24
  And then last take away, last take away that fourth quarter,
• 24:30
  What did that look like, Satvir? What did that look like Satvir?
• 24:34
  It looked like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook from back in
• 24:37
  the day, bro, ISO, give me the ball up top.
• 24:42
  Scream me, let me. No, they're not playing as a
• 24:44
  team, bro. It's too much one-on-one.
• 24:46
  Hey, I said that was the key to this series.
• 24:50
  I saw it in game one. When we don't get over 20
• 24:53
  assists, we lose. Every game that we're going to
• 24:56
  have under 20 assists, we're going to lose.
• 24:58
  If we don't play like a team, we're never going to win games.
• 25:00
  If Shay doesn't get enough assists in the game, we can't
• 25:05
  win games, man. It's just that simple.
• 25:08
  How many assists did we log in tonight?
• 25:11
  Like 1315. That's it.
• 25:14
  It wasn't enough, man.