00:00but i think we all learned i'm not sure it's a valuable lesson but something interesting
00:05about sga and the thunder last night first off i give the spurs credit they came out
00:11ready for a fight they were very physical last night and i don't think of them as the most
00:18physical team i part of that because wendy's just not a big thick dude but when he's got balls
00:23when he's got a backbone he doesn't back down from physical contact but i thought the rest of
00:29the guys did a really good job anytime the thunder drove the lane there was contact now some of the
00:36contact was a little bit more than what you want and fouls got called and i think they were legitimate
00:41fouls i thought the refs did a good job last night and some was just good old-fashioned man on
00:48man
00:48you're a warrior i'm a warrior let's have at it and i think that set the tone for last night
00:56and then on top of that sga last night who i think by his own admission would tell you he
01:02had a really
01:02bad offensive game last night i think he took three free throws all night something like that
01:08single-digit free throws as great a score as he is and as great a player clearly as he is
01:16as back-to-back
01:17mvp award winner if you're not giving him the benefit of the flop whistle he only took three
01:25free throws last night as good as the thunder are and it seems like something that should be obvious
01:31to everybody but you rarely ever see it if he doesn't get to the line they're a beatable team
01:37there yes you're absolutely right about that now i don't think that'll happen again in game seven
01:42like you just mentioned but you never know and very very impressed that this spurs team has
01:48one they fought they have balls like you just said but also strategically they figure something out
01:54something i think the knicks are going to be able to use in the finals if it is okc there
01:58about how to defend sga and how to defend that offense i'm super intrigued about this game seven
02:03we're not supposed to be here this is all too early on the spurs side but i can't really count
02:08them
02:09anymore and the thunder looks so much more vulnerable now than he did a year ago when
02:14basically the whole world was saying they're about to win seven championships like it all they look so
02:19mortal all of a sudden yeah and because now you're in uh when's the last time i don't think they
02:24ever
02:24had a game seven uh last year obviously this is their first game seven uh this year uh the pacers
02:31took
02:31them to game seven in the finals i apologize for that but this is not a team with a lot
02:35of
02:35elimination game experience right and elimination games are completely different animal now if you
02:42want to buy into what the spread tells us uh i think it does tell us something last night the
02:47spurs were
02:47favored by three and a half obviously they covered that easily and that game is around obviously very
02:52barely played in the fourth quarter you know the big stars the thunder at rightfully so are favored
02:57uh tomorrow night but they're only favored by three and a half that's got to be the small spread
03:02they've had in the last two years for a home playoff game now that doesn't mean anything
03:07obviously there's a three point spread last night and the spurs won by 30 but when you have a game
03:13seven and i love it from a nick perspective i love it from an nba fan perspective there's nothing better
03:19uh in all sports i don't care if it's hockey i don't care if it's baseball i don't care if
03:23it's
03:23basketball the two greatest words in sports for all of us are game seven because anything can happen
03:30and you're going to have somebody that becomes a superstar on saturday night now it might be
03:35wemby who's already won it might be sj or jaylen williams who are already stars obviously in the
03:41league and sj is back-to-back MVP award winner but you can't you can't dick around with well we've
03:48got
03:48two to win one because if that's the mindset that mindset can cost your playoff series from a nick
03:56perspective look i think the spurs are a better matchup but it doesn't matter to me it's gonna
04:02be a tough sledding in the nba finals anyway and i think nick fans got exactly what we hoped for
04:07and that is a now very physical series a series that goes seven obviously whoever wins it on saturday
04:14night comes in obviously you know in a different spot physically than the majority of the nick roster is
04:20and i think it plays in the nick's hands
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