00:00Ah, you knew you were in for a dogfight yesterday.
00:02Game number two, Western Conference Finals in the NBA.
00:0531-31 at the end of the first quarter, and away we went.
00:08A double-digit lead for the Thunder at halftime.
00:10Double-digit lead disappears.
00:12The Thunder pull away late here to get the victory.
00:151-22 to 1-13, covering the minus 6.5 yesterday.
00:20We're now even at 1-1.
00:21We're headed back to San Antonio.
00:23Shea Gilgis-Alexander, you know he's only allowed to score 28,
00:26between 28 to 35 points.
00:28He hits his 30.
00:29Webb and Yama goes for 21-17-6 in the loss.
00:32We got a series now, Joe.
00:34Yes, we do.
00:36And listen, it didn't start out well, either, for OKC.
00:41I mean, all of a sudden, you know, they waited, what,
00:44over a month to get Jalen Williams back,
00:47and he's out there for two minutes, Donnie,
00:49and then apparently pulls his hamstring again,
00:51and now he was gone.
00:53So, you know, J-Wilg wasn't available for them in that game.
00:56Then Harper got hit.
00:59Yep.
00:59In the head, he had to be.
01:01So there was – it was a physical great game,
01:05and neither team could really pull away from one another.
01:08It's going to be a heck of a series.
01:10It really, really is.
01:11These two teams are clearly the class of what the NBA has got going on right now.
01:17Let's head to the post-game press conference here, Joe,
01:20to see what they were saying.
01:21I just – I just have sucked when I get two months of a break.
01:27I don't think it takes me other than that.
01:31I don't know.
01:32I guess I got to do a better job on my breaks,
01:36especially during the playoffs.
01:37I don't know if it's anything other than that, to be honest.
01:39Yeah, and I think it was, like, 42 seconds left.
01:43You hit that midi that you were trying to hit for, like, two minutes straight.
01:46A little bit.
01:47And you told the guys, all right, like, calm – calm down.
01:50You said it explicitly, but calm down.
01:52What did you – what did you feel in that moment to tell him that?
01:54No, I just – J-Wilg was yelling at me while I was shooting,
01:57and I was just like, bro, I'm shooting.
02:00I'm like, don't distract you.
02:02So, yeah, that's all I – it wasn't – I wasn't telling –
02:04I was literally just telling Jared to calm down.
02:06But that's what great shooters do, like, you know, when they're open.
02:08So, yeah, we have shit out of work there.
02:11I wear my sunglasses at night with a victory in game number two.
02:15Back to San Antone they go.
02:17And do we have more clips here?
02:18Let's go.
02:19Let's get some more clips in here.
02:20Talked about efficiency offensively, not just being shot making,
02:24but shot locations, assist to turnover.
02:27What did you make of the efficiency you had on offense generally tonight?
02:31Yeah, we were a lot better, obviously.
02:33I thought some of that was just us playing better.
02:37You know, we just didn't play a great game the other night.
02:40You know, some of that stuff, just watching it on film,
02:42you're sitting there like, if we say nothing and do nothing, we'll just play better.
02:46And then I did think we got some fundamentals in the game
02:49that are critical against this team, and it gave us some cracks.
02:52I just thought the overall flow tonight, rhythm, was really good.
02:56Put everybody at advantages.
02:57We had our foot on the gas.
02:59It was a real positive game in that respect.
03:01Down Fox, then Harper's out.
03:03What kind of pressure does that put on the rest of your backcourt in a game like this?
03:07A ton.
03:07You know, obviously this team is as good as anybody at turning you over,
03:11so when you're down some of your primary creators and initiators,
03:15it causes a little bit of an extra strain,
03:20whether that's who to play, what to play, what to run, et cetera, et cetera.
03:25And we'll just have to be sharper in that area because it's tough,
03:29fully loaded against these guys.
03:30So we obviously, 27 points off turnovers is not a winning formula.
03:36What is that, the lead singer of Guns N' Roses out there right now?
03:39A little Axl Rose, a little voice giving a problem, singing every night.
03:42Man, that coach needs what?
03:44What's he need, Joe?
03:44A couple of, some nice green tea or something?
03:47Sheesh.
03:47Yeah, you're going to need something, like, really, like, mixing, like, you know,
03:53what, cough drop?
03:54Do something with that.
03:55My goodness.
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