Thunder's Playoff Loss: SGA's Confidence and Future Games

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00:00All right, SGA had 33-10-8 in the loss last night.

00:04First loss of the playoffs, of course, for the Thunder after they swept the Grizz.

00:08But down 1-0, 68 wins this season.

00:12Here's SGA.

00:13We've got nothing to worry about.

00:14We're going to be fine.

00:15Shea, obviously, taste of adversity here tonight.

00:19What's your expectation of how this team will respond to tonight?

00:24Yeah.

00:25This should be good.

00:26This should be fun.

00:26But we're going to find out what we're made of, what we're really made of.

00:32And we couldn't expect it to be smooth sailing, this whole journey.

00:35No journey in life is, and we know that.

00:38And today is a bump in our own, unexpected.

00:41No one expects to lose, especially that way.

00:43But it's the game of life.

00:45So it's about how you respond to getting knocked down,

00:48and that's what we've got to do next game.

00:51Well, there you go.

00:52So he's very serious.

00:53And he's apparently drawn up battle plans for the remainder of this series.

00:59Let's see if tomorrow night they can show up and win.

01:03Westbrook was wearing that hat again last night, by the way.

01:06He had that Crocodile Dundee hat on.

01:09Crocodile Dundee.

01:09And, yeah, Westbrook was looking good in the game afterwards as well.

01:15As far as the series goes now, despite losing the first game,

01:18Thunder still big favorites, minus 320.

01:23They are at the Nuggets plus 260, and they've already got a game.

01:26So there you go.

01:28People's books still expect the Thunder to take care of business in this series.

01:31Yeah, I don't know.

01:35I see no reason not to invest in the Nuggets at that price.

01:40You know what I mean?

01:41What do you have to lose to throw a few bones down on them?

01:43And they've already won a game, and they're going to go home.

01:46And they're going to be hard to play in Denver in the ball arena.

01:51We've already seen it.

01:52We've already seen what they're capable of against the Clippers.

01:56And they're going to give the Thunder, it would appear to me, after last night,

02:01it's pretty obvious they're going to be a pain in their ass.

02:04No matter what, every night.

02:06Every night.

02:07I guarantee you, I think tomorrow night they're going to do the same thing.

02:11They're going to be a problem.

02:12You know why?

02:14Because they have Joker, and they have all these pieces that know how to play with him.

02:20That's the difference.

02:21They know how to play with this guy.

02:22They all know where to go on the floor, in the space, in the spots, to get buckets.

02:31And especially Westbrook.

02:33He knows what he's doing out there.

02:35Gordon is a massive problem for the Thunder.

02:39In fact, I don't know how they deal with the two of them.

02:45You cannot tell me that anyone on that team can guard Djokovic, or whatever his name is.

02:50I mean, it's just unbelievable.

02:52Djokovic is, he's unguardable.

02:56And they put whoever on him.

02:58They can't guard both of them.

03:01They can't.

03:02Can't guard them both.

03:02I mean, I think Gordon is enormous.

03:06And so is Porter.

03:08Porter reminds me of Durant in the sense of his ability to get a shot off from anywhere deep

03:15without anyone blocking it.

03:17Because he's so tall and so long, and he shoots back here like this.

03:21When he gets up in the air, whap, he lets it fly.

03:24When is the last time you saw anyone ever block him?

03:28No one can handle Jokovic.

03:30No one can handle Gordon.

03:31No one can handle Porter.

03:33And you can barely guard Murray.

03:35And now Brown has become a pain in the ass.

03:38They're a pain in the ass for this whole series.

03:40It's automatic.

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