00:00So here's Mark Dagno, the coach of the Thunder, one win away from their first championship.
00:07We just, I think if you want to accomplish anything, you have to stack to it.
00:12You know, if you want to accomplish any goal, you know, it starts with what you can do today to step towards that goal.
00:21And we've tried to take a stacking mindset to everything we've done.
00:26You know, you can't, even when the team was rebuilding, you know, you can't fast forward that process.
00:31You have to be very present in the process and just stack days and stack possessions.
00:36You know, we want to win the game tomorrow.
00:38But the most important thing we need to do to win the game tomorrow is prepare today and prepare tomorrow
00:44and then play the first possession really well and then the next possession and then the next possession.
00:49And that's how we try to approach a game.
00:50That's how we try to approach playoff series.
00:53It's how we try to approach every single day and let that win the day.
00:58If you do that, then you can put your head on the pillow at night and know that you gave it everything you had.
01:02You know, the minute you start to drift mentally into the future or into the past, it impacts your ability to stack the next thing.
01:10And so we try to stay very disciplined to that.
01:12Yeah, I agree with that.
01:13I believe in stacking pancakes and Pringles.
01:16Me too.
01:18I stack my breakfast to the ceiling.
01:20Anyway, Scott, it was one of those things I was just listening kind of like when I was in school
01:25and I'm just like, yeah, I'm thinking about like a keg party or like, you know, something else.
01:29I don't know where that went, but Oklahoma City is better than Indiana and they're proving it lately.
01:33That's all we know.
01:34If they want to do well and cover, punch them in the face early.
01:38Just don't keep the Pacers in the game.
01:40Because if Oklahoma City goes up early, the Pacers are going to get throttled.
01:43You know, I want to look at it like this.
01:45Every team, even, you know, the Bulls and the Celtics, it doesn't matter who it is.
01:51Eventually, so they talk about how young they are and how they all love each other and they're all best friends.
01:57Well, so was Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan until now they don't speak and they don't talk.
02:03At the end, they all think they're better than one another and they get separated like marriages.
02:08Okay, secondly, the Celtics, don't tell me they're the same as when Tatum and Brown won it.
02:15They started drifting apart the year after.
02:18I believe now they're so young and stupid that they love each other and they're having a blast.
02:23They all do commercials together.
02:24They go out together.
02:25They eat.
02:25They drink.
02:26They party.
02:26They have, you know, girlfriends.
02:28They'll hold you.
02:28Everybody just, this is the greatest time of their lives.
02:31I believe eventually you're going to have the Shea and J-Dub.
02:36Like, you know, this guy J-Dub is becoming a star.
02:38He's going to become a superstar.
02:39And eventually, three years, four years from now, this isn't going to be the love affair that it is now.
02:45You've got to win now and then win again like next year or go for it again next year and then the year after.
02:51Because these windows of dynasties and love affairs and friendships, they all split apart like a watermelon.
02:59I mean, let's just face facts.
03:01They do.
03:02SGA talking about how they haven't done anything until they get it done.
03:07No, the cusp of winning is not winning.
03:09And the way I see it, winning is all that matters.
03:11So it hasn't been fulfilling.
03:13We haven't done anything the way I see it.
03:16But I've built great friendships along the way.
03:20I've had a lot of fun playing basketball.
03:21And I think that's where you start.
03:22And the organization and the guys around me have done a really good job of building an environment that's fun to come to every day and really just focus on work and getting better.
03:33And I think that's why we made jumps.
03:34So remember Shaq and Kobe.
03:37Remember the Pistons and Isaiah.
03:40They splintered apart.
03:42It happens to every team always.
03:44You wonder when it'll happen to the Florida Panthers.
03:47Right now they're all best buddies and everything's great.
03:50They keep winning Stanley Cups and they go to the Stanley Cup Finals three years in a row.
03:55So eventually it becomes about money and guys, you know, time, how much they're playing, how much burn, how many shots, how many, you know, shifts in hockey.
04:08It's all the same, Cam.
04:09Eventually these teams splinter.
04:11You're right.
04:12That's why you have to win, though.
04:13Look at the Panthers.
04:14If they splinter, say, who cares, man?
04:15We went to three Stanley Cups and won two of them.
04:18Like, that's the whole thing.
04:19You know how hard it is to go back to back?
04:21Oklahoma City hasn't done anything until they win.
04:22So you're absolutely right, Scott.
04:25You have to get it done because you don't know when your window is coming back.
04:28And that's the thing.
04:28When I look at the Oilers or all these other teams, you go to the finals, you've lost Stanley Cup Finals back to back to the same team.
04:34You're probably not going to get there next year.
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