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Speaker 1: MAVs Thunder. So complete reversal of Game one in so
Speaker 1: many different ways, much tighter whistle. Game one, the Thunder
Speaker 1: shot twenty eight free throws, Shay shot thirteen. Game two,
Speaker 1: the Thunder only shoots seventeen and Shae only shoots six,
Speaker 1: So huge swing towards Dallas, and just the overall amount
Speaker 1: of physicality. Dallas did get to the free throw line
Speaker 1: quite a bit, but they were bringing a lot more
Speaker 1: physical force to the table. I thought they were the
Speaker 1: more physically aggressive team throughout reversal from Game one. Jump
Speaker 1: shooting swings heavily towards Dallas. Oklahoma City gets one point
Speaker 1: one zero points per jump shot in game one, Dallas
Speaker 1: only gets zero point nine to eight. Game two, Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City gets zero point nine to eight. Dallas gets one
Speaker 1: point three zero points per jump shot, massive difference.
Speaker 2: Right. PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington hits seven threes. Luka Doncic finally gets his pull
Speaker 1: up three point shot going.
Speaker 2: He hits five of them. Josh Green hits three threes.
Speaker 1: Tim Hardiway Junior, who's been broke all postseason, finally hits
Speaker 1: a couple of threes at a huge and one. In
Speaker 1: the second half, they finally get going. Right Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: ten for thirty, another huge swing towards Dallas. Rebounding In
Speaker 1: game one, Oklahoma City grabbed thirty nine percent of their
Speaker 1: own misses fifty four percent of all available rebounds, so
Speaker 1: dominant rebounding performance from Oklahoma City in game one. In
Speaker 1: Game two, Dallas grabs thirty one point four percent of
Speaker 1: their own misses and fifty two point five percent of
Speaker 1: all available rebounds. They win the offensive last twelve to eight,
Speaker 1: and they win second chance points fourteen to eight. So
Speaker 1: now again not nearly as dominant as Oklahoma City was
Speaker 1: in Game one, but Dallas does win the physical battle
Speaker 1: in game two. They can do much better still, but
Speaker 1: they won the physical battle in game two, and anytime
Speaker 1: you do that on the road, especially against an energetic
Speaker 1: crowd like that and a young athletic team, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: So another huge swing towards Dallas turnovers. A huge part
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma City's identity as a defense is to play
Speaker 1: passing lanes, be aggressive, force turnovers, get out in transition.
Speaker 1: In Game one, Dallas turns the ball over sixteen times
Speaker 1: and gives up twenty two points to the Thunder off
Speaker 1: of those turnovers. Game two, Dallas only has ten turnovers
Speaker 1: and they only allow eleven points off of those turnovers.
Speaker 1: Another huge swing towards Dallas generating close out opportunities. Remember
Speaker 1: in game one I talked about how the Dallas was
Speaker 1: now generating open opportunities for guys to attack close outs.
Speaker 1: They only had eighteen spot up opportunities in game one.
Speaker 1: They generated thirty one spot up opportunities in game two.
Speaker 1: Both Luca and Kyrie I thought did a magnet nificent
Speaker 1: job reading the game, identifying that their role players were
Speaker 1: feeling comfortable and making those kickout passes hunting looks for
Speaker 1: them to keep them in rhythm throughout the game. So
Speaker 1: all of that amounted all of those swings.
Speaker 2: Again, the.
Speaker 1: Much tighter whistle the jump shooting, the rebounding, the turnovers,
Speaker 1: generating close out opportunities. All these things swing heavily towards Dallas,
Speaker 1: and that amounts to a game that the MAVs basically
Speaker 1: controlled throughout. Okay, see he made some runs, they would
Speaker 1: bring it back to getting close. They briefly took a
Speaker 1: lead in the early third quarter, but Dallas led the
Speaker 1: entire first half, and from five point fifty six left
Speaker 1: in the third quarter they led the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: dominant win for Dallas to steal home court advantage and
Speaker 1: head back home for Game three. Luka doncic I thought
Speaker 1: that was his best game of the playoffs so far.
Speaker 1: Hyper Efficient finally got a step back three going early.
Speaker 1: Hit a big one late two in a ball screen
Speaker 1: where Dork got kind of caught on the screen. He
Speaker 1: dragged the screen defender out, hit him with the little
Speaker 1: step back on the left wing and knocked it down
Speaker 1: as a big shot in this game, a lot of
Speaker 1: really good skip passes to shooter, especially early in the
Speaker 1: game he was doing a beautiful job hunting PJ. Washington,
Speaker 1: and then a really good defensive game, and it was
Speaker 1: the whole team. The whole team was just do an
Speaker 1: amazing job chasing shooters off the line, being on a
Speaker 1: string in rotation, competing on the ball, forcing turnovers, getting out.
Speaker 1: They did a great job, but Luca in particular did
Speaker 1: a great job. Again, the defensive effort was there for
Speaker 1: the entire team, but Luca. I thought that was Luca's
Speaker 1: best game of the postseason in terms of total shot creation,
Speaker 1: controlling the feel and pace of the game, commitment to
Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor. Again, I understand he's
Speaker 1: had bigger scoring nights, but I thought this overall was
Speaker 1: Luca's best game of the postseason so far. I was
Speaker 1: talking about after Game one. I know he's banged up,
Speaker 1: but he just has to find the way to impact
Speaker 1: winning at a higher level. And he was even more
Speaker 1: banged up in this game. Hurd his tooth at a
Speaker 1: player kasse On Wallace kind of tripped him up in transition.
Speaker 1: It looked like he tweaked his ankle. Super banged up,
Speaker 1: but he just found away. He just found a way
Speaker 1: to help his team get the way. Kyrie Irving, I
Speaker 1: absolutely loved this game from Kyrie. Only took eight shots,
Speaker 1: but this to me is actually one of Kyrie's greatest
Speaker 1: strengths and one of the most important things for any
Speaker 1: basketball player, especially you young basketball players out here. This
Speaker 1: is one of the most important things for you to
Speaker 1: learn how to do, which is like you know the
Speaker 1: expression read the room, like identify what's happening in a
Speaker 1: social situation and act accordingly. I kind of feel that
Speaker 1: in a basketball game too. It's like reading the game right,
Speaker 1: and this is especially important on teams that have multiple stars.
Speaker 1: So for instance, this is something I actually think Kyrie
Speaker 1: is better than Luca at at this phase of his career,
Speaker 1: but Luca's young, and Luca's gonna get better at this
Speaker 1: as he gets older. But early on throughout the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Kyrie's been the one that's had it going. And what
Speaker 1: have we seen Luca do, Like he continues to kind
Speaker 1: of try to force the issue, keeps taking those tough
Speaker 1: step back jumpers even though they're not going in, and
Speaker 1: lucas aware of it. He went into the postgame presser
Speaker 1: during the last series and said, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: letting Kyrie down right now, and like so he's aware
Speaker 1: of what's happening. But Kyrie's got it going, and Luca
Speaker 1: at this phase in his career still was struggling to
Speaker 1: kind of figure out where he fit next to Kyrie.
Speaker 1: As Kyrie's dominating games tonight. It was very clear early
Speaker 1: on Luca had it going right, Like, hit a short,
Speaker 1: little mid range pull up jump shot early, hit three
Speaker 1: threes in the first few minutes of the game. Like
Speaker 1: he just very clearly had it going. And so Kyrie
Speaker 1: reads the room and he goes, Luca's got it going.
Speaker 2: PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington's got it going. Tim Hardaway Junior is starting to
Speaker 1: make some plays off the bounce. Everybody else kind of
Speaker 1: has it going, and so he took more of a
Speaker 1: passive role in the game, devoted the majority of his
Speaker 1: effort towards the defensive end of the floor, and operated
Speaker 1: more as a connective piece on offense. He only took
Speaker 1: eight shots, but he had eleven assists, two steals, and
Speaker 1: two blocks in a bunch of really big swing plays
Speaker 1: in the game. In the first half, there's a play
Speaker 1: he gets switched on to chet Holmgren runs up, swipes
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands, goes the length of
Speaker 1: the floor. Jalen Williams tries to block him off the glass,
Speaker 1: and he shoots a beautiful soft scoop shot up high
Speaker 1: off the window into the basket. Even what Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: typically gets per possession, you know, like roughly one one
Speaker 1: point one eight points plus the two you got on
Speaker 1: the other end, it's like more than a three point swing.
Speaker 1: On that play, there was a clean strip of Sga
Speaker 1: actually drives to the basket, just cleanly strips it off
Speaker 1: his leg out of bounds. In the second half, there's
Speaker 1: a play where Giddy had the ball to the top
Speaker 1: of the key and he went full ball denial on
Speaker 1: Shay and Shay tried to backcut him and wn't open.
Speaker 1: Kyrie was there. Giddy tried to force the pass. Kyrie
Speaker 1: stole it through a beautiful kick ahead pass to Tim Hardaway,
Speaker 1: hit him in stride for the layup. Once again, something
Speaker 1: over a three point swing based on Oklahoma City's typical
Speaker 1: efficiency per possession. That's a huge swing play in an
Speaker 1: NBA playoff game. Right very next possession, there's a trap
Speaker 1: of a ball screen on the right side and PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington gets a deflection. Kyrie's all the way on the
Speaker 1: other end of the floor and he shoots the gap
Speaker 1: towards the right wing where the pass was intended, steals
Speaker 1: the ball gives it up, gets it back in transition,
Speaker 1: then hits Tim Hardaway Junior for an and won three
Speaker 1: on the left wing. Like Kyrie was just unbelievable as
Speaker 1: a playmaker in this game. And I'm not talking playmakers passing.
Speaker 1: I'm talking like making basketball plays just in the game,
Speaker 1: just these various different ways, whether it's a rim contest
Speaker 1: where he gets a block, or it's a steal here,
Speaker 1: or a bald denial there, or a transition kick ahead there,
Speaker 1: or a driving kick here, like he just there was
Speaker 1: one in the early second half where he just toasted
Speaker 1: I think I think it was Aaron Wiggins. He beat
Speaker 1: like just cleanly beats Aaron Wiggins off the dribble, draws
Speaker 1: Shay and help off of PJ Washington. Just easy little
Speaker 1: scoop pass to the right corner to PJ Washington, who's
Speaker 1: been red hot all game, and he knocks down the
Speaker 1: corner three like just It was one of those games
Speaker 1: that was a textbook example of the lack of reality
Speaker 1: that exists in box score results. Sometimes I thought Kyrie
Speaker 1: was unbelievable in this game, and he didn't put up
Speaker 1: massive box score numbers. And again, what it most impressed
Speaker 1: me about it was he identified early in the game. Hey,
Speaker 1: my co star has been strong ugglin tonight. He's got
Speaker 1: it going. Also, my teammates do I'm going to change
Speaker 1: my approach in this game and do all of this
Speaker 1: other shit with the entirety of my being to the
Speaker 1: best that I possibly can. And he did, And I
Speaker 1: thought he was incredible in this game. PJ Washington just
Speaker 1: a beautiful two way game, had his jump shot going.
Speaker 1: He had seven threes, like we talked about, some tough
Speaker 1: ones too. Hit a jab step ISO three at the
Speaker 1: top of the key in the first half. He was
Speaker 1: brilliant defensively at two steals at a bunch more deflections.
Speaker 1: Didn't work in the post too, the natural matchups because
Speaker 1: of the way okay See starts the game. Jalen's on Kyrie,
Speaker 1: Dorts on Luca, right, they're putting sga on PJ. Washington,
Speaker 1: and they went to him on the first possession of
Speaker 1: the game in the post against Shae. I thought that
Speaker 1: was fascinating because at the end of the game they
Speaker 1: went back to him against Shae and he just bullied
Speaker 1: him under the rim and got an and one. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, Mark dagel Is probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to look to maybe swap that around and move potentially
Speaker 1: move Shaye over to Derek Jones Junior, because Derek Jones
Speaker 1: is less likely to do damage to him in ice
Speaker 1: or post up situations. He had twenty nine points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 1: four assists, with two steals, and was a plus thirteen.
Speaker 2: Not a bad stat line there for PJ. Washington.
Speaker 1: Derek Lively didn't do much in the box score, but
Speaker 1: I thought he defended really well, had some nice possessions
Speaker 1: in ball screens and in ISOs against Jalen Williams. You
Speaker 1: could tell his length was really bothering him. Had forced
Speaker 1: a couple of nice individual ISO possessions. ISO possessions against
Speaker 1: Shay and Jalen forced into some bad misses. Forced Jalen
Speaker 1: into a airball that, like the like was off like
Speaker 1: a foot to the left of the rim, just an
Speaker 1: example of his length and his ability to move his
Speaker 1: feet around. And then Tim Hardaway Junior and Josh Green.
Speaker 1: They just need those guys to hit shots, and they did.
Speaker 1: Josh Green, I thought, hit a couple of huge ones
Speaker 1: in the late first half as Oklahoma City was starting
Speaker 1: to kind of regain control of the game. On one
Speaker 1: of their runs, and then Tim Hardaway Junior like started
Speaker 1: off miss his first couple of shots, but he had
Speaker 1: like a nice driving close out on the right wing
Speaker 1: where he threw a lob to Derek Lively hit a
Speaker 1: little shot in the mid range, and then you could
Speaker 1: tell that it just kind of like loosened him up
Speaker 1: and he felt more comfortable and ended up hitting two
Speaker 1: threes huge one late in the game, I was running
Speaker 1: his lane in transition to just really nice game from
Speaker 1: the role players.
Speaker 2: Big win. You take home court advantage.
Speaker 1: Now heading home, you really need to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the home crowd and dominate the game physically. They won
Speaker 1: the physical battle in game two, but not to the
Speaker 1: extent that they're capable of. And again, the jump shooting
Speaker 1: is real, Like, you outshot the hell out of OKC
Speaker 1: in this game, and it obviously was a bit of
Speaker 1: an outlier. You're not expecting PJ. Washington hit seven threes
Speaker 1: at night right. Oklahoma City is the second best jump
Speaker 1: shooting team in the league by efficiency behind Boston. All
Speaker 1: season long, they were deadly jump shooting team. Dallas was
Speaker 1: fourteen so over the course of the next five games
Speaker 1: of the series, expecting Dallas to continue to outshoot Oklahoma City,
Speaker 1: that would be unusual, that would be a flukey type.
Speaker 2: Of outcome, right.
Speaker 1: So going back and if you're Oklahoma City, for instance,
Speaker 1: they're going to remain confident pointing to the shooting right.
Speaker 1: And so what you have to look at for game
Speaker 1: three is now we have the home crowd. This is
Speaker 1: where we have to really dominate the game physically, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to win three of the next five, right,
Speaker 1: And so I think it starts in game three by
Speaker 1: dominating the physical battle on the Oklahoma City front. Like
Speaker 1: I said before, They're gonna remain confident because they they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to point to some stuff with the
Speaker 1: shooting results right, still, some stuff they can clean up,
Speaker 1: some help out of the strong side corner. A few
Speaker 1: times in the game that they I didn't think they needed.
Speaker 1: Their transition defense was really bad, just not getting back,
Speaker 1: not getting matched up, lost some shooters there. Like I
Speaker 1: said before, they're gonna feel like they can shoot better
Speaker 1: themselves as well, even looking beyond the Dallas point. Some
Speaker 1: young guy mistakes too, some missed reads, a lot of
Speaker 1: challenging Dallas's rim protectors when they didn't need to, and
Speaker 1: there were open shooters and so just being more diligent
Speaker 1: with reading the floor. I thought it was fascinating that
Speaker 1: Mark Daginal build on Josh Gitty. Josh Kitty, I want
Speaker 1: to say it was like minus twenty one and eleven
Speaker 1: minutes or something like that, Like it was kind of
Speaker 1: a disaster when he was out there, which part of
Speaker 1: it was Dallas shot really well, but it also is
Speaker 1: just one of those things where Dallas isn't guarding him
Speaker 1: and he doesn't really have much value on offense unless
Speaker 1: he has the ball in his hands, and he's not
Speaker 1: an elite defensive player.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They started the second hand with Aaron Wiggins on the floor,
Speaker 1: so that was their like kind of bailing on him
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup, so to speak. I'd consider going
Speaker 1: big though. There was a stretch there in the first
Speaker 1: quarter where they went with Jay where they went with
Speaker 1: Jay will Jay Lynn Williams, i should say, and they
Speaker 1: put him next to Chet and put him on Lively
Speaker 1: and that allowed them to actually use Chet as a
Speaker 1: low man.
Speaker 2: All right, So one one.
Speaker 1: Sticking with my pick for now, still feel like Dallas
Speaker 1: is gonna get this series done in six games, but
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma City, I think is going to be pointing
Speaker 1: to jump shot. Result is a big factor for them,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna feel confident going into Game three. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: that's all I have for this set of videos today.
Speaker 1: I will be back later tonight after the final buzzer
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