00:00All right, so I think a lot of people saw this coming, actually, game one,
00:04with the Spurs beating the Thunder, because, I mean, maybe they just simply have their number,
00:09but what's funny, Gilbert, is that I see people saying that the Spurs are going to win again
00:13tonight. I don't know if you feel the same way. The Thunder are six-and-a-half-point favorites,
00:16totaled 216-and-a-half. It feels like Shea Gilgis-Alexander is the MVP of the league,
00:22but they've run into an absolute freight train with Victor Wimbayama, who's arguably playing
00:27as well as any NBA Finals MVP has played, through one game, albeit through one game.
00:33If Wemby plays this well, Gilbert, the Spurs are going to win the NBA championship. I mean,
00:38at this kind of level, when a player gets there, I mean, this is like Dirk, this is like LeBron,
00:43Dwayne Wade, like winning championships, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant. I mean,
00:47we are having that conversation right now. And it's crazy we're having that conversation. He's 22
00:51years old, which is pretty incredible, but it's hard to argue with that, Craig. This is a guy who
00:56we're seeing play like the best player in the world. It's either him or Shea, depending on who
01:00you ask. And we talk so much about the Thunder being a team that feel inevitable. Doesn't matter
01:05what you do, how well you play, what goes right for you, what goes wrong for them. They always have
01:09a chance. Well, Victor Wimbayama feels like an inevitable player. And that's what we saw in game
01:14one. Every time the Thunder bounced back and took a lead or whatever it was, they ran into Victor
01:19Wimbayama. 41 points, 24 rebounds, no answer for him offensively or defensively. Talk about
01:25Shane not necessarily having his best game. A lot of that had to do with the presence of
01:29Victor Wimbayama defensively. Chet Holmgren did not have his best game, did not play like
01:34an all-star or the all-star that he is or supposed to be because Victor Wimbayama takes that matchup
01:39personally. So when he's focused like that, which is crazy to say for a guy in his third season
01:44at 22 years old, they can reach those heights and they have had Oklahoma City's number this
01:49season. They're five and one against the Thunder now. Yeah, agreed. All right, Gilbert. So this
01:53is it. This is the last chance that you'll ever get OKC at this point of the playoffs is plus
01:59money
02:00to win the championship because if they win tonight, it's back to minus the rest of the playoffs
02:04plus 120 to win the NBA championship. Are you going to get off OKC, Gilbert, or are you staying
02:10on here and doubling down on the plus? I still trust Oklahoma City. This feels similar to where
02:16they were last year, albeit around earlier, but they lost that game one to the Nuggets and it was a
02:21disastrous loss. Aaron Gordon had that game winner and a lot of people had a lot of questions about
02:26the Thunder and how they matched up and if they were going to have enough to deal with Nikola Jokic.
02:30Now it's a different international center, a different MVP candidate that they're dealing
02:34with, a different way to lose down the stretch. But we saw that series go seven games with Oklahoma
02:40City ultimately just had enough. They had more than what the Nuggets had. I think that's what's going
02:44to happen. I think they're going to outlast the San Antonio Spurs in this series. The Thunder did play
02:49well, but Jalen Williams could have played better. Shea could play much better. A.J. Mitchell could
02:53play much better. And I don't know how much of that is a credit to the Spurs and what they
02:57did
02:57defensively or the Thunder having some rest that they're dealing with after sweeping their first
03:01two rounds. So I fully expect them to bounce back tonight and I fully expect them to bounce back in
03:05the series, even if the series goes to distance. The Spurs' time is coming, just not yet.
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