00:00Okay, so I'm going to take you out, Wes.
00:02How would Charles Oakley defend Wem and Yamba?
00:06How would a guy like Charles Oakley defend Victor Wem and Yamba?
00:12Basically, you got to stay engaged with him, you know, like checking Shaq.
00:15You know, I think that a bigger guy has a harder time, smaller guys checking.
00:20Because Wem, you got to drill the ball.
00:21We have to drill the ball.
00:23So a little guy, you can see how, not saying the tone, but OKC is playing a little more physical.
00:30I think that he showed last night that he's not ready for the moment.
00:34But he's ready for the game, but he's not ready for the moment sometimes.
00:39Because, you know, he had 40-something the other night.
00:41But come back and play your first game at home.
00:43And they came out the gate last night and, you know, jumped out on them.
00:48But OKC, surely they battle-tested.
00:50They came back with some guys off the bench.
00:52I never seen a bench score that many points in a playoff series.
00:55Because most times guys off the bench don't get that many minutes to score.
00:58But they're going to show you how deep OKC is.
01:01They're going to be a tough task, no matter who play them.
01:03Do you agree that OKC, probably the experience level and the experience factor, is probably the difference in the Western
01:11Conference Finals?
01:12Could it be that?
01:13Or do you just think that OKC is a better team?
01:18I think OKC was showing last night.
01:21But I don't know.
01:23It's questionable about who the better team.
01:26But they play well together.
01:28They know they're stripping weakness.
01:30They don't – the ball, you know, the ball moves.
01:32The ball don't stop.
01:33And that makes a team play defense.
01:34They might be the best besides all the players.
01:37Driving kicks, setting kicks, doing this.
01:39They make the defense work.
01:40And then you see how they run, they go on at the end of the game or maybe a five,
01:46six minutes here and there.
01:48They wear teams down because they're playing 10 guys.
01:50And the guys who come in, they've got the green light.
01:53So it's hard to prepare for them.
01:55But you've got to come back and just play hard.
01:58You've got to play the same way they play.
01:59Keep it up in your face.
02:01And they don't get beat off the dribble too often.
02:03So that's what I need to do.
02:05Tell me about SGA in your opinion, how good a player is he?
02:09And, you know, you saw him, especially in these last two games, kind of take control of the series a
02:14little bit.
02:15Impressed with him in the way that he commands the floor?
02:19Definitely.
02:19I'm impressed with him, how composed he be.
02:23He don't rush the shots.
02:24He get the ball up a lot.
02:25The ball come back to him.
02:27Not a great athlete.
02:28But he's got a way that he can play in the NBA at his age.
02:31I think that that little bump everybody crying about, that's how he played.
02:36James Harden takes two steps back, two, three.
02:38So the league letting you do something you do as long as you do it.
02:42And I think that what he's doing and his team, how they come together at all moments, no matter who
02:49up or who down, they keep one another going.
02:52And you've got to get it to the coaching staff.
02:54You know, last night you see how they got down.
02:57They just kept fighting, kept fighting.
02:58So they're going to be a, they're going to be a tough out.
03:02I take it out.
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