00:00You guys, I know you like the Spurs.
00:03Were you surprised they walked in in Game 7
00:06and got the double road case?
00:11Not surprised, no.
00:12No.
00:13No, because I think the only thing that did,
00:15because we did watch them,
00:17I think there was some coming into their own in Game 7 as well,
00:22but Game 1 was the one that was the overtime thriller, wasn't it?
00:27I think it's interesting how that series started
00:29and how it ended, Ron.
00:30I think we really watched the San Antonio Spurs
00:33come into their own against the best that the NBA had to offer,
00:38both with SGA and the overall team of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
00:42I mean, in Game 1, you watched Oklahoma City,
00:46you watched them throw haymakers late in the game,
00:49and most teams would have folded.
00:52The Spurs didn't.
00:52In fact, they punched back and ended up winning that game.
00:55I think when you look at how Game 7 went,
00:57it was similar, and the Spurs kind of had a comfortable lead
01:01for the majority of the game,
01:02and then they started throwing haymakers.
01:04Oklahoma City did start throwing haymakers.
01:07They got it to three by the start of the fourth,
01:09and it was a thought like, who's going to roll?
01:11Yeah, and the Spurs never folded.
01:14I think what is telling –
01:18Wimby gets a lot of the shine, and rightfully so, obviously.
01:23We all understand that.
01:25But, man, their shooters, ultimately, down the stretch,
01:30were unfreaking believable.
01:32It really kind of came down to Wimby's cast severely outplayed the cast of SGA.
01:45I mean, SGA was exhausted by the end of it,
01:48and you come out, Johnson had eight in the quarter, right?
01:52He hits two – they had five threes.
01:54Now, what's his name for OKC?
01:59He was trying – Wallace.
02:01Yeah, he was trying his hell, trying his ass off to try –
02:05I think he hit some threes in that fourth quarter.
02:07But everybody else, man, they got – Fox hit a big three.
02:11Harper hit some big shots.
02:13Cornette made the big block.
02:15Just everybody else picked up around Wimby to –
02:20Well, it just happened in that game.
02:23I mean, Champagny, or however the hell you say his name,
02:27he was – he hit a couple of big shots.
02:29I mean, that game seven, all the guys that we just mentioned,
02:34not named Wimby, all hit monster shots.
02:36Didn't just hit monster shots, they hit them in the fourth quarter.
02:38Yep.
02:38So, here's the deal.
02:40If two of those guys – if two of those guys –
02:44take your pick.
02:44There's five of them.
02:45If two of those guys are on their game,
02:49then they're going to be hard to beat for anybody.
02:51You put Wimby in the middle,
02:53and then you got all of those guys around them
02:55that are hell on defense, by the way.
02:57But all of those guys – Castle, we didn't even mention.
02:59Vassell – is it Vassell?
03:00Is that how you say his name?
03:01We didn't even mention.
03:02Like, those guys – if two of those guys are shooting it well,
03:05if they're knocking it down, that team's going to be hard to beat.
03:08That game seven against Oklahoma City,
03:10hell, there were five or six of them.
03:12Yeah.
03:12That was nails.
03:16Text line coming in.
03:18They were missing two of their players.
03:20That especially is going to hurt their depth.
03:21Yeah.
03:22They were missing two major players.
03:25They were missing three because Chet didn't even dress.
03:30That guy's a third-team All-NBA player and an All-Star.
03:34Like, you know, he could have helped.
03:37OKC left SGA hanging.
03:38The one thing that I did – and I know it's not going to change much,
03:44but I am really hating this, fellas – is I'm glad that SGA had a good game
03:50in game seven.
03:52He is 42 minutes, 35 points, nine assists, four rebounds, just exhausted.
03:57Nobody – I mean, nobody really came to play with him.
04:02And I just really hate this narrative that is really start over.
04:07That it seems as if his greatness is being taken down to him being a flopper,
04:16a guy that plays to the rules and the contact.
04:20And that is overtaking this dude who is a four-time All-First Team NBA player,
04:28finals MVP, back-to-back MVP, champion, scoring leader.
04:33Like, all of the – everything he has been, it is now the officiating stuff
04:41and how he's officiated is taking over almost to that's why he accomplished
04:46all of those things.
04:46And I'm glad he had a good game.
04:48And it feels like that just became the thing to say and do.
04:53Like, Jay Williams, man, that was BS what he did,
04:57where he made the video of showing SGA, you know, filing and taking
05:03and kind of over-exaggerating things.
05:05You could do that for every star player.
05:08You could do that for – it is how the game is being played right now.
05:14Now, we see him the most, and it appears he has benefited from the most
05:18because you certainly could do it for James.
05:20But I just hate that narrative of he's just like – he's using math to be this great.
05:26Yeah, I don't mind it being associated with his game.
05:29I just don't like it leading the story, to your point of like, I mean,
05:32this guy's greatness is not – I don't think it is dependent on, you know, the flopping.
05:39But I do see when you – he spends a lot of time on the ground.
05:43I think he does play that mid-range game than a lot of players,
05:47so he gets in that traffic.
05:49And I do think he – I do think he leans into that and plays into that
05:53and depends on getting to the line.
05:55But that's part of his – that's part of his game, part of his greatness.
05:58I don't – I think he'll always be associated with it.
06:01It's like when James Harden had that move where he'd rip up to take a shot
06:04any time anybody got inside, got an arm inside.
06:07I mean, he was trying to get to the – he was ultimately trying to get to the free-throw
06:10line
06:10when he did that, and it's part of – it's part of who he is as a player,
06:15stylistically who he is.
06:16And I don't mind it because it's hard to watch the game and not acknowledge it.
06:19I mean, he is seeking out – he is seeking out fouls constantly.
06:24But, I mean, shoot, it's part of the game.
06:26It's a – I think it's a skill.
06:30I just – I would urge you all – we'll watch the finals.
06:36I'm telling you Brunson does it.
06:38Yeah, I think they all do it to a certain degree.
06:41But there's – I mean, I think he – I do – I personally think he takes it –
06:44I mean, it's – it's a lot watching him.
06:48I mean, when it comes to that, the constant flopping, the constant on the ground,
06:52like willingly going to the ground, not getting knocked to the ground,
06:54but willingly going to the ground.
06:56I think it doesn't necessarily bother me, but it's blatantly obvious.
07:00Yeah, I just – I think it's disrespectful to his greatness that that is –
07:04that is what it seems like people are trying to relegate his –
07:07that's what it seems like people are trying to draw me.
07:07So, okay.
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