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OKC Strikes Back in Game 2! - Playoff Discussion · Bring The Thunder Podcast

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What's going on? Yo, welcome to the Bring the
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Thunder podcast. I'm here with Sapir Thunder talk
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and King Capers man 1111 OK C gets it done at home, 123 to 107
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over the Indiana Pacers. Very similar to the first game
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where we were hovering 141518 point lead the whole game and
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they were trying to come back. This time we were able to hold
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it and finish the game and the Pacers ended up pulling their
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starters with like with like 4 minutes left in the game.
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Thank God. Quick start before we get into
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detail. Shay with 34 five and eight on
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over 50%, four steals. Jada better but not great. 19
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five and five got to line 9 times that was.
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That's good. Jet 15 and 6/6 of 11.
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Better, but not great. Dort one for three with three,
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but all over on defense. Case in four points, but all
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over on defense, two guys off the bench.
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Alex Crusoe had 20 points tonight.
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I'm going to get to that in a minute because there was
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something set in the preview. But 20 points, four of eight
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from three. Yeah, in 27 minutes.
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Aaron Wiggins, 18 points, 4 rebounds, 6 of 11/5 of eight
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from three. That's 9 threes from two guys
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off the bench. That's the difference.
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And then Hartenstein, pretty solid defensively tonight.
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Three points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists.
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But his plus minus was through the charts.
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He had a great effect on the game.
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A few other guys scored in the end.
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And then big Ken Rich Williams, minutes, 8 minutes.
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But like actual minutes, not, you know, garbage time minutes.
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Couple big plays, big rebounds, big, a couple of assists, I
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think. Yeah, yeah.
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Two assists. Everything, what we were looking
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for pretty much came, you know, it came alive in this game.
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I'll let Zabrier talk about Wiggins first all.
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Right. I got you.
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I got you. So I don't know, man.
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Wiggins, we've been saying, we've been saying that he needs
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to be having more minutes. He did that. 18 points.
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I feel like all the guys that we talked about in the preview did
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exactly what we were looking for them to do.
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Russo 20, Gate of 19. Obviously Wiggins had the 18 and
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Holmgren stepped up and had the 15 big points.
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Shay also did exactly what I had asked him to do, which I was
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really confused why he wasn't getting the assists.
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You know, drop your points down a little bit and he didn't even,
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he didn't really didn't drop off anything.
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He had 34 points, but he dished 8 assists, 5 rebounds and a
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really key stat. He hit a 3000 point season
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milestone and he joins Kobe and Jordan as a legend.
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So he's already entering A stratosphere that I don't think
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people will be able to understand until after the
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season's over. But we'll get into that
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obviously a lot later. But I'm I'm just super excited
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about this win. I honestly don't know what Rick
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Carlisle is probably thinking in this moment like.
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I could probably answer that. What do you think?
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I think it was clear that he's thinking that we got one, we
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stole one, we weren't even supposed to.
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Let's go home. He pulled the stars with four
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minutes left. Yeah.
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He knew the job, they got the job done.
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No matter what happened tonight, they already got the job done.
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They already got one on the road, which is the toughest
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thing to do, especially this time around the year.
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So his mindset is we did our job, let's get out of here
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healthy and go get ready for game three.
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That's probably what it is. It's a good coach because.
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Anything that happened Joe was icing on the cake if they won
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this game. Exactly like Tyrese after game
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one was saying let's get greedy. So like they already got 1.
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You know 2 would have been great for them, but whatever capers,
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I'm going to let you go and then I'm a then I'm going to be
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bragging about myself. But oh.
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Boy, I'm going to make it sure, because I do want to hear what
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you got. I'm interested to hear what you
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got to say, but I appreciate it though.
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What do we have? 6 guys in double figures
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tonight? Five guys in double figures
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tonight. I liked how they splattered the
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menace out. I'm so happy again.
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Again, I don't dislike him. Thank God there was no AJ
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Mitchell tonight. He didn't get too he didn't get
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too creative in a good or bad way with his lineup.
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The only negative in my opinion that I took away from this game
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and it wasn't even that bad because of how we won, was they
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still had Isaiah Joe on McConnell.
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But I guess you could call that nitpicking.
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So I don't want a nitpicking to win that.
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We won by 15, you know what I mean?
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We made them pull the starters out with like 4 or 5 minutes
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left. But I'm really excited.
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The only problem is, is now we have to go on the road.
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It's split one to one. They haven't been in the finals
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in what, 20 years? 25 years.
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That. Crowd is about to be rocking for
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both of those games. Rocking.
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Yep. So, I mean, I thought the
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Thunder crowd tonight was rocking.
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It was rocking bro. They, I could hear it throughout
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the whole game. The fans showed out and they as
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bad as Chet and the guys wanted to win.
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I feel like the fans wanted this to win even more.
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And I feel like that energized this the type of play we had,
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because at times in this game we had some moments where it didn't
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look the most tip top type of Thunder basketball.
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But I want to hear what Joe's got to say.
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Yeah, I. Already know what he's going to
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say, but yeah, go ahead man. Before I get much field
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appreciate everyone joining the live we'll get to a lot of your
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comments soon. We're just going to recap the
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game and little I want to recap our game preview a little bit.
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We were talking we did the game preview yesterday.
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If you didn't see that, you can go check it out if you want, but
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I think Savier and I hit it right on the head, bro.
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Savier called for more Aaron Wiggins and he called for more
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more play making from Shane. From the team.
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From the team. We had tons of play making.
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We had 25 assists, I believe tonight, yeah.
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Much better than the first game and myself.
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I I like to brag when I get a chance.
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We were having this conversation of where are we going to get
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like, who's it going to be? Who's going to be the guy who
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consistently knocked down shots to come in space to floor and
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not, you know, allow Indiana to have a mismatch.
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And I said, it's Alex Caruso. I said he's got to have almost
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30 minutes a game. Comes in tonight on 27 minutes,
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20 points, 3 rounds, 3 rebounds and an assist. 443 pointers and
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four free throws. Absolute playmaker tonight.
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Allowed the team to have multiple playmakers on the floor
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with his spacing because he's a he's a threat from three.
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He's a consistent threat from three all playoffs.
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He's shooting over 40% still. So I'm just really happy with
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the performance tonight from him.
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Wiggins for sure. Hopefully he continues to get
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the minutes. You know how Mark likes to play
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him 20 and then play him three, but I think off the bench from
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now on. Oh, I also called for Kenridge
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Williams, by the way. I also did call for Ken.
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I was waiting for you to say that.
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I forgot about that. I think from now on, like we
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wanted Caruso, Heartstein, Wiggins and Kenridge off the
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bench. That'll be it.
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Maybe Isaiah for like 3 minutes. He he continues to get like 3
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random minutes throughout the whole playoffs.
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I don't. Know he got 6 1/2 minutes and I
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think his minutes definitely need to go to Jay Will like it's
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clear that the way this series is gonna be won is through
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passing and controlling the boards.
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Those were the two key points that I pointed out in the
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preview and when we hit on those I'm gonna look at the rebound
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numbers with 50 rebounds. If we can get 50 rebounds, 25
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assists every game we can win the series.
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That's what I said about the play style like our play style
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has to be that style of game where we're controlling the
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possessions. It's not so much of, hey, we
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need to go all in on turning them over.
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We'll get that naturally. And even if we don't convert
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those, what matters more is the rebound battle because even if
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you're not converting your turnovers, you can still get a
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lot of possessions. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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And how, how many points off turnovers do we have tonight?
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You have that up. We caused, we caused another 15,
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which was great. Today was just about getting
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back to, you know who we are. The one thing we're going to
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need on the bet on the road, sorry, not on the bench on the
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road, is J Dub needs to play like he did and Chad needs to
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step it up like he's been on the road and.
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Obviously. But Chad, Chad on the road's
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been huge for us throughout this playoffs, and he's going to be
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ginormous in Indiana. Like you guys said, that crowd's
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going to be lit. I think if we could slow them
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down early, we can take control of every game in this series.
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I'm not saying we're going to win out, but it's two games
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back-to-back where it was the same script.
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We were blowing them out the whole game, at least 14 plus and
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then we closed it tonight. First game, Albert went nuts.
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But it's just it's just about, I mean, Mark did the right thing.
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He found the right match ups tonight when they threw Thomas
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Bryant. We were throwing double big and
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it was working. It was working.
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We turned her off the floor. We were throwing one everything,
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all the rotate, the rotation looked great, Players look
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great. We should, we should be up to
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oh, but here we are one one. The key, the key moment came
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when we had that 19 to two run in the second quarter that led
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to like. It was 19 to 2.
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It was 19 to 2. It was a 19 to two run that led
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to a 23 point lead. That's really where we tipped
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the momentum. It was pretty decisive for us.
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So I thought that was the key moment that we definitely need
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to point out. And also we held Tyrese
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Halliburton in check mainly throughout the 1st 3/4.
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Three points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds through 3/4 triple or
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quadruple threes. Not looking good for him.
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And then also for game one, I think we're 18 and two in the
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postseason following a loss, so. So let me ask you this.
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What's up, man? I hear you bring up Tyrese
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Halliburton and I wanted, well, matter of fact, this is
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questions for both of you actually.
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And the trace. Based off of the way we played
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superstars or the opposing team star player, this whole play
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offs right. Whoever it was where there was a
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Grizzlies, Wolves, doesn't matter.
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How are we playing Tyrese Halliburton?
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Same way. The same.
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Are you sure though? I thought I mean, I don't.
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Think we're loading up the the the way we.
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Do well. Well, you don't, because he's
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not a prolific scorer. That's what I'm saying, so
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that's what I'm asking. Until it's time to win the game.
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Yeah, it. Was time to be a prolific
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scorer. But yeah, like he had 12 points
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in the fourth quarter tonight. He had five before that.
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But I mean, it's just a bunch of different bodies and we're able
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to switch. We're cutting off driving lanes
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for him and making him be a passer.
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What's he's? A and a jump shooter.
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And a jump shooter. He's a great passer.
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He's not a great jump shooter if he's hot damn.
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But we're forcing him to shoot the ball and kind of forcing it
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out of his hands. Like it's like fine, if you're
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going to shoot the three, shoot it 'cause he's way he's much
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better player when he's able to get in the lane and either get
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his floater up his layup or kick out.
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And if we keep him on the perimeter it it's it's pretty
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much the same way we regard everyone.
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We play a team defense, we switch, we swarm the ball and we
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make them jump here. We did the same thing with Ant
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and what was the first game and had like one shot in the
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painting game one of. The Yeah, literally like 2.
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Like that's what we do. I mean, Jokic is a bit different
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because it's a different position, but.
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I feel like one thing we did better is every time he got the,
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we won limited on him on the boards, which he couldn't push
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pace, pace in this game. And then on top of that, we also
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had one person spying him in a way where if he is going to push
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pace, we're going to stop him and slow him down.
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So I felt like that was a quick adjustment that we made
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throughout this game where it's like, OK, we know who their
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primary guy is and they kind of just focused in a lot more on
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him. And then that pretty much just
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killed their whole game plan. When he's not going, they don't
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really don't have much and I think they need to make an
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adjustment of something with their starting line up where I
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think I mentioned their best key point that they can do is add
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more play making into it. And honestly, I would start a
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guy like TJ McConnell or something next to him because he
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is a great primary ball handler in point guard.
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I mean, they need someone that. Can I see your point?
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It's Nemhard. Nemhard.
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He played point guard, he's played point guard and when he
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is on, he's. You might want to leave TJ where
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he's at bro. We saw him in game one.
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Nemhard isn't a traditional point.
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I'm talking about a traditional. A traditional playmaker point.
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Guard. They need a traditional play
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making point guard, yes, that is him.
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But when you only have one of them, you can limit it.
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When you have two of them, it gets harder.
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That's the point. Right, but that's why.
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But that's the thing, Like, that's why we were so confident
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coming into the series 'cause this team is playing outstanding
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basketball, really great team ball, but they're not as
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talented as the teams we played in the past.
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Yeah, yeah. That's what they, that's what.
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They lack. Well, there's not as.
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Preceding the ease. They're just not as talented as
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we are like. That's who you know.
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We have way more play making ability across the board that
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that's why I was shocked with the way we played.
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When I looked at the final scoreline of or like the assist
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line last game, I was like dumbfounded.
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That's where I was really like more angry with the team where
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it's like, yeah, we that's not how we play.
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So I'm glad we kind of switched that up.
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Also, we shot 55% from the field today.
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They shot 44. We also shot 50% from deep.
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That's unusual for the Thunder. We only took 18 shots from the
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three-point line. They took double us and they
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shot at 40%, which is around what they've been doing.
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So we also made our free throws. I was really happy about that
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88% from the free throw line. So I feel like just cutting the
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edge on the board's rebounding battle early, that just helped
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us a bunch because even if we're not turning them over, they're
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not getting extra possessions, things like that.
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So it's still a struggle though. And I think we're guarding this
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team. It's like it's, it's
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interesting. I didn't like I already went
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over Halliburton. We guard and I'm hard the same
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way we guard all all guards in the NBA.
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If he's going to cook, he's going to cook.
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Well, he's we held him the eight shots tonight in 32 minutes.
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So I mean, he shot 50%, but only 131 in.
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So that's how we have to guard Siakam.
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Siakam, we're just going to throw hella bodies at him.
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We learned tonight if Kasen gets stuck in the switch, he held his
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own until someone came out. He was letting.
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Out Kasen tonight. He was letting Siakam get into
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the paint before he caught the ball last game tonight.
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He wasn't allowing him to really get there.
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And if he did get there, there was already another body and
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we're just going to live and die with Miles Turner shooting the
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ball no matter where he shoots you're.
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Just going to have to bro. He's not a high volume scorer.
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That's what I. Have to, yeah.
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No one was arguing with me about that, about Miles Turner.
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I was like, we're going to live with that guy shooting all day
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long because I don't. If Miles Turner beats us in the
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series, great. But I just don't see that
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happening, obviously, especially across the couple games.
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The thing I'm most shocked about is Pascal Siakam.
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Like, I thought he's a lot better than he showed, you know,
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in the next series how good he was, and maybe that's just
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because of how bad the Knicks defense is, but man.
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Well, that's that's one reason. Another thing is see, Akham's
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always been All Star caliber, but he's so on and off like he
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could go for 40 and then he could go for a game like this.
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15 points he went three of 11. He shot 9 free throws.
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Great defender. He's he he's always getting at
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least like 2 blocks, it seems in this series so far, but he's a
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really good player, bro. Another thing I want to pat
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myself on the back here is I'll be toppings one for 8:00 tonight
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and that's what I expect most of the game.
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Like I not maybe not one for 8:00 but bro like.
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Not PJ Washington Junior, though he.
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Went five of eight from three in Game 1.
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He went one for 5:00 tonight. That's what we if he's hitting
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five threes, it's going to be tough to beat him.
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It's going to be tough to beat him.
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But he's not like that. He's not.
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This team doesn't have a bench that could really compete with
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ours. We saw that tonight when our
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bench unit first came in. That's where the run really
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started to happen. McConnell had 11, but like a
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couple baskets in the last couple minutes of the game.
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Obi had three points, Matheran had 14.
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But he's not a three-point threat.
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So we don't really, I mean, we could go back and forth with
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twos. As long as they're not spraying
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threes on us, we're fine. Like I'm fine with I'm I'd
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rather have Matheran have 14 than Obi shoot 55 for eight from
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three. I mean, he only shot 2 threes.
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Matheran Ben Shepherd or whatever the hell his name is,
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is irrelevant. Thomas Bryan is irrelevant.
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They took him out of the game once we started exploiting his
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defense. He's miserable on the defensive
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side of the ball. And if he wants to shoot a
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three, so be it. It's, it's, it's mismatch
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central. That's what it is.
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We we if, if Jaydub could score 25 on the road, we're going to
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win both games bro like. Yeah, he he's going to have to
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though, in my opinion. But but yeah, you're right
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though. I mean, their their bench can't
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compete with our bench and Thomas Bryant is miserable on
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defense. What?
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I mean, you never know, man. He's got to wait till Wednesday.
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And then I could also be picking though, like we won by 16
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tonight. I know it was a little bit more.
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The lead got kind of cut in the last two minutes when we didn't.
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Bench game in. You could also be picky, like
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with Caruso and Wiggins both scoring almost 20 points, 20 and
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18, and we won by 16. Are we supposed to win that game
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by 25? Like that's another way to look
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at it, but I think we're just dominant.
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Yeah, I was going to mention the the turnover.
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We had 15 turnovers on them and we converted that into seven
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points. So that's much better.
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Like you know, for the at least the ratio, we're still not
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converting as much as we need to.
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That's why I said we don't need to focus so much on the
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turnovers, but I do want to pull up the game charts like I
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normally do really quickly. We had.
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When the one, they are really good defensively getting back.
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You mentioned it in the first game recap and my brain was just
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so all over the place. I got to watch it really tonight
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and when we're coming off turnover, they already got 4-3
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or four guys back. Sometimes we're rushing it,
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sometimes we hold it. I'd like to see us hold it and
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get possession. But you were right on that.
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Wait, so we we forced 15 turnovers and how much look?
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At the rebound battle right here.
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We cooked the rebound back. Well, no, we did not this game.
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Two. Yeah, we did.
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No, it was 2. Hold on.
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It's only two rebounds. Yeah, but that's good, though.
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We're usually like. That's got to be skewed late.
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That's got to be skewed because of what happened late then.
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Well, a lot of. More than that, A.
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Lot of Indiana, Indiana gets a ton of offensive rebounds
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because they shoot long shots and that causes long rebounds.
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And if we're not boxing out, which is really hard to box out
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when you're running all over the place for 14 seconds as the
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reason goes up, that's where it comes in.
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But I'll take listen every OK C series we don't even win the
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rebound battle. We have to keep it within 7.
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That's what it is. Yeah, Yeah.
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We don't have to win the battle. I'm never going to say we need
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to win because in the regular season, we rarely won the battle
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from the rebounding perspective. But as long as we kept it close
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or decent and against worst teams, we usually turn them over
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and convert way higher rate. But against this team, they have
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great transition defense. So that's not happening.
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So that's where the rebounding actually does matter.
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And so I'm glad the whole team kind of locked in on that.
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And then obviously the assist battle, this is where the games
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are going to be won between these two stats, these this stat
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is directly correlated to this. So we did pretty well.
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We also had 13 turnovers ourselves, kind of uncharacter.
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A lot of them were early. Yeah, a lot of them were early,
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but also they were kind of weird turnovers themselves.
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But we shot much better in this game.
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We shot closer to we kind of matched their style in this
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game, shot great from the free or free throws and then point
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points in the paint. That's really another key factor
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that directly correlates with the assist battle because if
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we're getting in the paint, that means we're also getting a bunch
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of assists. So I really like to see that
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we're beating them. We're the more aggressive team.
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That's also what it shows. They're gonna get their fast
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break points. We kind of matched it with the
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second chance points here. So right, I thought it was a
21:50
overall even battle, but this is kind of the way we this this is
21:53
the exact style copy paste for the next three games.
21:57
And we sweep them like 5-1 gentleman sweep, whatever.
22:01
But if we do this, boom, easy. Like no question about it.
22:06
So I do expect one of the Indiana games.
22:09
I think next game we take it, but I do expect game. 4.
22:16
I do expect game four to be really, really close.
22:20
I think that's the one where it's going to be like coming
22:22
down to the last couple seconds and if we can win, obviously
22:26
game three and four, I know we'll close it out.
22:29
So I'm hoping for that. Man this game got me pumped up.
22:34
It's just about starting. It's crazy again, sorry.
22:40
It's about starting fast offensively and on the road, not
22:44
letting them hit the 1st 5 threes.
22:47
They hit their first five threes.
22:48
It's going to be a long game. If we could hit our first couple
22:50
shots, hold them, you know it's going to be hard.
22:54
Both games are going to be hard fought.
22:56
And not just battling. Even tonight was hard fought and
22:59
we were blowing them out. But I'm super confident.
23:03
I think it also is much easier. Indiana's fucking fantastic.
23:07
Like the atmosphere in Indiana. The fans are great, but I think
23:11
it's easier to play in Indiana than it is than it is in
23:14
Minnesota and Denver. I may be wrong, it's going to be
23:17
loud, but I think we'll be much more comfortable on the road
23:20
against Indiana. I can't think anymore.
23:26
Just win the damn games. I'm having a breakdown over
23:29
here. Yeah, let's go through some of
23:31
these comments. Parker Mayo started off saying
23:36
Tyrese was stressing after the game.
23:39
Not sure if y'all saw when the camera panned over to him after
23:42
he realized it was over. I actually noticed that before
23:45
even the game was kind of starting to end.
23:47
They panned over to him a bunch of times when he went to the
23:50
bench and he kind of just, he looked really like upset,
23:56
distraught. It didn't give calm.
24:00
They lost. They lost the finals game.
24:02
I'd be stressing too. Yeah, but it's.
24:05
Not very easy to be like, all right, we just lost the game by
24:07
20 Com we're definitely going to win the next because they know
24:11
they're they probably know they're not better than OK C OK
24:13
C won 68 games. I'd be stressing too.
24:15
I'll also be stressing if my coach pulled us with four
24:18
minutes left when all playoffs. Yeah, no in the.
24:20
Last four minutes. I don't really understand.
24:22
Surprised by that. But that just shows you right
24:25
there though, Joe. That shows you right there.
24:28
They did what they were set to do.
24:29
In their minds, they did what they were set to do.
24:32
Because you're right, he doesn't do that.
24:36
Carlisle doesn't pull them that early into the 4th.
24:38
Well, you know what I mean. It wasn't early, but you get the
24:40
point. Like he doesn't do that.
24:43
He was like, he wasn't fucking. We did our job.
24:45
Let's stay healthy and. Get and they're banking on these
24:48
next two games, bro. I was expecting them to play it
24:53
out and try to gain some momentum because I I felt like
24:56
they were playing really well up until the point he pulled him
24:58
off. So I was kind of confused why he
25:00
did that. You were kind of cutting the
25:02
lead a little bit slowly and I was like yo, like why is he
25:05
taking them out? It wasn't even, I think it was
25:07
at like an 1820 point lead even at that point.
25:09
So I was. Like Halliburton had a three to
25:11
Halliburton had a three to cut it to 17 I believe at 4 minutes
25:14
left, which God damn that's reasonable for.
25:18
Them right, I know. But maybe it isn't, maybe it
25:22
isn't. Maybe I'm just bugging.
25:24
We got Steve's up in the chat. Right now, What else, Steve?
25:27
How you? Doing.
25:28
Yeah, we got. Home Bros also returning.
25:30
What's going on, Broom? Yeah.
25:33
And then once. Ended the way game one was
25:35
supposed to Sonny D let's go let's start man that's.
25:39
A cold picture. Alsambra also mentioned
25:43
hopefully we can replicate this. That's pretty much what I was
25:45
saying too. We can.
25:47
If we can replicate this, we can steal the next two pretty
25:50
handily. Yeah.
25:52
Well, here's the thing. We replicated it again.
25:53
We, we, it's very, we played better tonight, but again, we
25:59
were still up 14151617 points last game all game.
26:04
So yeah, the games were a bit different, but the score was the
26:08
same until the end. So two games in a row we played
26:12
the same exact game besides blowing it in the fourth
26:15
quarter. I think Indiana's very good in
26:18
the third quarter, but we held them, we won the quarter by one
26:21
this time and then we finished the game off.
26:24
So I think. Oh, a Nuggets fan.
26:28
Yeah, we got a Nuggets fan. He's good.
26:30
He he's been in the chat. Sometimes he roasts us.
26:32
Sometimes he's nice. Nice.
26:33
He was nice. Oh.
26:34
Wow, awesome to see. Also we got Bradley who's always
26:40
in the chat as well and he's always giving us great stats
26:43
which I appreciate that I'm not the only stat dude on here.
26:47
So SGA 13 games, 30 plus points has the most points in the first
26:55
two games in his finals career, surpassing Allen Iverson.
26:58
I think he also he has the most points surpassing Allen Iverson
27:02
in game one as a debut game. So Shay's, I'm telling you guys,
27:08
Shay's entering a different stratosphere and the
27:14
conversation I hear around him is way lower than where people
27:19
need to be putting him. Because I'm going to have to
27:21
start hopping on some of these podcasts or something, man,
27:24
'cause it's getting getting ridiculous.
27:28
Yeah, Shay's at 3K points. That's what I mentioned earlier.
27:32
Joins, obviously, Kobe, Michael, I'm not going to go through the
27:38
rest of these comments, but they're pretty fun.
27:42
You guys got any other closing remarks, I feel like?
27:45
It's pretty. It's one.
27:47
Win any questions? What do you guys think?
27:50
That post me that you sent me earlier on Instagram?
27:53
Did you see swipe a Cam in the comments?
27:56
I saw he was. Crying.
27:58
He was crying talking about how Denver would have beat us and
28:01
done us in in four or five. He's been.
28:03
He's been crying on his timeline on X since he lost.
28:07
He's been crying on Player's Choice for the past 24 hours.
28:12
He was crying this morning or whatever he was on talking about
28:16
Shay and probably about that offensive board that he let
28:19
Pascal have. This dude is so attached to the
28:23
Thunder and Shay because it actually disrupts Jokic's
28:27
legacy. Like focus on your own team,
28:30
focus on your own player. Like, I hate the this is what I
28:34
hate about NBA discourse a lot. Where you have LeBron James,
28:39
then you have to, if you're a fan of LeBron, you got to pull
28:42
down Michael's. Yeah.
28:44
And if you're a fan of Michael? You gotta pull LeBron down.
28:47
Like, dude, they're freaking legends.
28:49
They're top two top three players.
28:51
Same thing with Shay. He's top two, top three right
28:53
now. No, no, no, top 2, not even top
28:56
three. He's top 2 right now and
28:58
arguably #1 player in the world. And obviously I'd have a problem
29:02
with that too if a guy like this was surpassing my favorite
29:06
player. And I think that's what 29 other
29:07
fan bases have a problem with Shay and our team is we keep
29:11
surpassing them. And we saw that with Russell
29:14
Westbrook when he won his MVP and he still gets hate till till
29:17
this day. And I think the Shea and Thunder
29:20
hate is going to quadruple next season.
29:22
I can't wait for it. Especially when I win.
29:25
Yeah, I don't really. I don't really care anymore.
29:28
I'm. Going to get a shirt?
29:30
I'm going to get a shirt with a quote with that quote of as the
29:34
Thunder win more games, the more hate we get something like that.
29:38
I'm I'm going to get that on a shirt, man and wear that next
29:41
season. That's.
29:42
Just how it goes, bro. It's whatever I'll close with.
29:47
The NBA kind of sucks. The NBA itself is great.
29:51
I love the NBA. But for you to put the Larry
29:55
O'Brien Trophy on the floor? Oh.
29:58
Man. It was like an animated.
30:00
Yeah, final trophy. Ridiculous.
30:03
That's just like here, fuck it, you guys been asking for it
30:06
here. Like that was fucking terrible.
30:12
That bothered me a lot, honestly.
30:14
I actually thought they were on the floor for a second and then
30:16
I was like, Oh no. And yeah, I, I mean, that
30:22
bothered me. There was one more thing that
30:25
bothered me, but fuck it, we want We're one-on-one heading
30:28
into Indiana and I'm excited. I'm excited.
30:32
First finals win since game 1/20/12.
30:34
So I. Know, yeah.
30:36
Happy. Tonight right give a quick you
30:39
don't have to give a preview predict next game.
30:42
What do you guys think, capers? Go first, want to be tough.
30:45
I'm listening to me. I'm going to say it again for
30:47
everybody who missed it or didn't hear it.
30:50
They have not been in the finals since 2000.
30:55
This is their first home Finals game since then.
30:59
It's 1 to one. That crowd is going to go
31:03
berserk, at least at the very least for that game.
31:06
It's going to be extremely tough to win that game.
31:09
Not saying we're not, not saying we can't.
31:11
It's going to be extremely tough in that building.
31:14
We're going to find out what this OKC team is really made of
31:18
next Wednesday. Now as AI, guess you could say a
31:21
prediction. I predict that game to go.
31:23
I don't know who's going to win it.
31:25
I predict that game to go all the way down to the wire,
31:29
somebody's going to have to make shots, somebody's going to have
31:31
to get stops and rebounds. I don't know who's going to do
31:34
it yet. I'll sleep on it and let you
31:36
know. Like I said, this game just
31:37
ended, what, an hour ago? So that's my prediction.
31:42
That's a good point. I'm sure we'll do a preview too,
31:44
but yeah, it's. Going to be tough.
31:47
That game is going to be tough. It's whoever wrote.
31:53
That guys, that was me. That was good for me.
31:59
I, I think I think Capers is being funny bro.
32:04
I think you know him saying they haven't been to the finals and
32:09
since 2000. It's going to be really soul
32:14
crushing when they lose. Yeah, it's.
32:16
Going to be tough, tough on Indiana fans when they lose.
32:19
I think we win the game. I think if J, Dub and Chet play
32:22
well, we win, and I think it's as simple as that.
32:25
Jada plays better on the road, by the way.
32:27
I think he does. I think he like he does.
32:29
Oh no, his stats in the Denver series on the road destroyed
32:33
them. So even in the Minnesota series,
32:36
I noticed he plays really well on the road.
32:38
I don't know what it is. I think it's like.
32:40
Game four he played very well. Yeah, I don't know what it is,
32:42
but he plays well. I.
32:44
Don't know but I'm going to take OKC to win game 3.
32:50
Pretty, I think it'll be down the stretch again, but I think
32:54
it'll be more like, Oh my God, Indiana's within 8, Indiana's
32:58
within 6, but nothing more than that.
33:00
I, I think if we play the right way, I was going to say because
33:03
Shay's proven to me like he's going to, he's going to be there
33:07
no matter what. He's the best player in the
33:10
world right now. I don't give a fuck.
33:14
And it's all up to J Dub and Chad.
33:15
And if they play well, we're just going to, we're going to
33:17
win. So I'll take an OK C win, but
33:20
I'll break it more down in our preview.
33:22
Yeah, I'm hoping we win the next one.
33:24
If we win the next one, it's going in five.
33:27
If we lose the next one, we're going in six.
33:29
Regardless, we're winning the series.
33:31
It's not going seven games. If you're putting live bets or
33:34
whatever, or adjusted bets, go ahead and you know you can put
33:39
that down on me, no worries. I I don't think I don't know if
33:44
I can handle a Game 4 being down to 1 again.
33:46
I don't think I can do it again. Let's just go ahead.
33:50
Just go in one game bro. I, I can handle it.
33:53
I, I, we, we went to Nugget series and I think we're, I
33:57
think we're just the better team from the eye test alone.
34:00
The stats don't have to even back us up that much.
34:02
It's, it's, it's obvious. I mean, we see it.
34:05
So it is the finals. One thing I do agree with Caper
34:10
is that crowd, man, that crowd's gonna be.
34:12
People don't realize our crowd is feisty and we had a long
34:19
stretch of games. So there's history of people
34:21
noticing that the Thunder crowd is like like that.
34:25
But the Pacers aren't really in the playoffs like all that
34:28
often, especially not in the NBA Finals.
34:30
That crowd is going to be absolutely nuts.
34:33
I cannot wait. I'm excited to see how they play
34:36
so. I have somebody telling me who
34:39
works in the WNBA. He'll remain anonymous, but he
34:43
said OKC wins in six when Caitlin Clark isn't in Indiana
34:49
for Game 6 because apparently she's not going to be available
34:51
to be at the game. That's what he said.
34:54
He also said that J Dub's going to go for 26 and Thunder win the
34:57
next game, so we'll see. Hope he's right about the next
35:01
game. I think in both game one and two
35:04
for J dub, he's not he's he's honestly missing some really
35:09
easy shots that he typically hits.
35:12
He's just missing. Like he's got nervous.
35:15
You could see it on his body, some of his passes early.
35:17
He was like, I don't know, like he was throwing it to the ground
35:20
and shit. But he'll, he'll be all right.
35:22
He's playing a little quick and I think he just needs to slow it
35:26
down just a tad. And for whatever reason, he does
35:31
that on the road and I think he'll hit the shots that he's
35:33
been missing in the first two games.
35:35
So I'm not too worried about him.
35:36
The other guy, Chet, man, Chet, come on, man.
35:41
Like I'm wearing your jersey right now.
35:44
Look at this. We need you.
35:47
We need you to be locked in playing the way you played
35:50
today. I saw he made a huge effort on
35:55
defense like he was he was closing out on shooters like the
36:00
way we need it in game one, honestly.
36:02
Playing great man. Yeah, if he shuffles his feet,
36:05
plays defense like that on the perimeter and then we know what
36:08
he's going to do down low. I need another game like that in
36:11
terms of effort. The points and stuff will come
36:14
for him because he's just naturally a really good player.
36:16
He's gonna hit his shots, he's gonna do his thing.
36:18
We get him the ball. That's the other thing.
36:21
They made an effort to get him the ball.
36:22
Hartenstein got 4 assists. That one lob to him was huge.
36:26
A lot of kick outs to him as well.
36:29
So we need to continue feeding the the guy that we know is that
36:32
skilled. And that's where it's confusing
36:34
to me why we would ever go away from beating a guy like Chet.
36:40
Usually a lot of points. They made it a point to get him
36:43
going early. Him and him and Cason.
36:46
Really. I mean.
36:47
Because not only that, he looked confident, guys, he looked like
36:51
he didn't have nerves. He looked like he's been there
36:54
before. Yeah, he settled in now we got
36:57
to do it on the road. Yeah, you have.
36:59
We got to remember this is all these guys.
37:01
First finals run, I mean, in game one, Lou Dort had five
37:06
steals, 5 threes in his first debut game.
37:09
Fayed 38. Like these guys are playing at a
37:13
crazy rate for the age that they're at.
37:15
Like Chet should not be playing at this level.
37:19
Like he shouldn't be competing with a guy that's a 10 year vet
37:23
in Miles Turner. Like that shouldn't even be a
37:26
conversation. That should never happen in the
37:28
NBA. But he's doing that and so kudos
37:31
to him and hopefully he keeps that up.
37:34
The one part of his growth that I want to see, I had to worry
37:38
about this in the regular season.
37:39
I mentioned it where his ball handling needs a little bit of
37:42
work. I need him in the lab this
37:45
summer. Turn into KD, get your handles
37:48
up it. Ain't going to happen, bro.
37:50
No, no, no, it ain't going. It will, it will.
37:52
He's already really good at handling the ball against lesser
37:56
teams in general, but he gets his handles up a little bit more
38:02
and he can get to the rack a little bit more.
38:04
That's where his game's going to expand and the Thunder itself is
38:08
going to probably win 70 plus games if he can do that so.
38:12
Yeah, if they can work with him. I agree.
38:14
Not fully KD but. Not fully, not fully on that
38:17
level, but I'm saying like. I I guess your point, yeah.
38:20
As long as he's able to make it, you know, where he's not getting
38:24
ripped a lot and the ball's stolen, where people are a
38:27
little bit more afraid of his ball handling because right now
38:30
they really don't fear. Like when he has the rock and he
38:32
puts it on the ground, they're attacking him, you know, trying
38:35
to get the steals. If he can get it a little bit
38:38
tighter, like, yeah, this team's going to skyrocket.
38:43
They'll continue to work on his shot, his handles, and his post
38:46
game. He's going to be a fucking
38:48
beast. But for now, I think we're all
38:52
set. No more comments.
38:54
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