WEBVTT - Nightcap - Hour 1: Thunder Take WCF Game 1 + Shaq Proves NBA is Rigged? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:02.080 The volume. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.360 Hello ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.280 another episode of Nightcap. The Western Conference Finals got underway 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.959 and what was a very close game at the half, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.120 the OKC Thunder run away with it in the second 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.560 half and win by twenty six one fourteen to eighty eight. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.640 Shay was sensational again, but he got contribution from Chad Homered, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.559 Jayla Williams, and Isaiah Hartenstein as they win one fourteen 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.639 to eighty eight. Y'all know me, I am your favorite UNC. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:47.880 Shannon Shark, my partner and co host, Lord Heaping. 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Thunderbeat the Wolves 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.560 SGA in Game one thirty one points, five rebounds, nine 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.480 siss three steals, the first thirty point game of the 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:46.120 Western Conference Finals by Thunder player since kd In twenty 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.560 sixteen points in the paint Thunder fifty four t. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.440 Wolves twenty nick. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.760 As I mentioned early in the lead in, this was 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.240 a very close game at the half and in the 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.799 second half, like the Thunder stepped on the gas and 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.200 made made the Wolves. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.240 Play for every time they turned the ball over. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.920 They made them play the ultimate price they cast in 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:11.360 they laying it up. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.200 They got fired of the making threes. What is it that? 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.200 How are the Thunder able to do this? 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.600 They like, get able to get to a gear and 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.359 seemingly other teams can't keep up with them. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.480 I think tonight, you know, I think Minnesota played right 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.639 into their hands and uh Minnesota kept the ball for 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.680 the free throw line pretty much the whole night, so 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.080 it was easy for Okay cees defense to play boxes 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.360 and elbowls. So anytime they had the ball up top, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.200 you know they they they're looking at three defenders, a 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.240 guy on the ball in two you know, at the elbows. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.400 And they had no driving lanes and and they didn't cut. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.440 So anytime somebody put the ball on the ground, you know, okay, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.560 see got active hands, they gonna get deflections, and that 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.880 those deflections normally in the stills. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.840 So I think, you know that first game is a 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:04.520 field game. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.680 You know, they got they gonna figure it out as 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.640 far as what adjustments they need to make both teams. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.160 But Minnesota got anew the ball, and they got to 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:13.560 change their offense a little bit. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.839 Yeah, because I'm looking at they only had two guys 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.080 in double figures, and it was five and thirteen, three 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.000 of eight from the three. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.880 Julius Randal was great again, twenty eight points. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.000 He was nine to thirteen from the floor, five and 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.040 six from the three point line, five and six from 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:28.040 the free throw line. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.520 He had twenty eight big points. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.000 But you got seven points from McDaniels, two points from 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.159 Rudy Gobert, seven points from Mike Conley. Like I said, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.400 only two players in double figures and when you got 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.680 the opposing team, they got four players in double figures. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.960 That leaves a lot. That leaves a lot for you 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.240 to try to make up from your bench. And if 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.320 you look at it, okay, see has the better of 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.039 the two benches. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.560 So now you're. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.320 Gonna really need to rely heavily on your starters in 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.680 order for you to have a chance to win this game. Oh, Joe, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.960 you looking at the Temple Wolves. I know you like 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.240 the timber Wolves, and add man, what disappoint wanted to 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.279 do most about what you saw from the OKC Thunder 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:02.600 the Night. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.839 Obviously from the Thunder the Wolve about the Wolve, yes, well, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.280 first off, offensively, right, everybody at the game started off 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.679 very slow. Obviously Julis Rendo had a good first half. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.640 But I need a man to be a little bit 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.680 more aggressive offensively. The rest of the team collectively as 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.160 a group. I'm not talking about the bench. I'm talking 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.880 about the starters. Before we even get to the bench, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.159 I need offensively, I need them to have better movement. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.599 You know, it seemed like everybody was very stagnant standing 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.960 in one place. I understand the picking rolls, but nothing 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.560 seemed like it was flowing smoothly, and they weren't working 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.400 as a unit, you know, cohesively. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.120 Outside of that. Listen the thunder deal what they need 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:37.400 to do. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.120 Defensively, they smothered them, and it seemed like every shot Nick, 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.360 I know, I'm not tripping every shot that the Wolves 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.680 tried to take. It not only was it contested, it 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.040 seemed like it was difficult, difficult for them to even 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.159 get a goddamn shot off. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:50.800 Yeah it was. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.880 Yeah, I'm looking at it every time they put I'm 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.000 looking at you had. Julius Randall had thirteen shot attempts. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.360 At Man had thirteen shot attempts. Nas Reed was one 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.360 for eleven, Deevin Cienzo was three or fourteen, Nikhil Alexander 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:05.839 Walker was. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:06.480 Three of eleven. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.800 That's not nearly enough shot attempts for your two best players, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.160 y'all in the low teams thirteen and fourteen and thirteen 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.039 and thirteen respectively, and you got two row you got 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.400 bench players that's getting more shots than you. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:19.800 Guys. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.880 They're definitely gonna have to change the game plan and 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.200 do something differently. Like you said, Julius Randall played really 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.520 really well tonight, but a man they'll need. They're gonna 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.720 need two or three guys to come along with Julius Randall. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.000 If Randall's gonna continue to play this well, and I 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.680 don't see any reason why he's not, because they don't 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.760 have anybody on the opposing team that can take it. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.480 He's too big of a boud it, he's too. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.080 Strong, he's too five for he's hitting his three point 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:44.760 and when he put three point shot and when he 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.760 puts the ball on the floor, who can stop it? 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.800 But when you look at this. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.479 When you look at this nick and you see a team, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.480 they held them to thirty five percent from the three 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.840 from the floor, twenty nine percent from the three point line. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.080 Beating OKAC with those percentages, well, you're not gonna beat 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.479 Okay see with that, with that offense. That's that's Okay one. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:12.440 So their offense was so predictable. Oh okay, see, just 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.920 just loaded up on them. So I'm I'm watching that game, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.200 and they're gonna have to find a way to get 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.840 uh Anthony Edwards out of the corners more, you know 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.200 what I'm saying, And coming up and being getting down 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.480 here him playing at the top of the court with 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.320 with two guys on this side waiting up, it's not 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.240 gonna work. And they're they're they got a good enough coach, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.240 they're gonna go watch them. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.440 They're gonna make the adjustments and all of that. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.760 Like with those guys getting those extra shots, with Connelly 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.160 and de Vincenzo and uh they with them getting those 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.000 it's that's not a problem because tonight they forced them 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.480 to take those shots, right, they force them because they said, 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.400 and you're not gonna beat us, and especially with you 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.080 just playing in one spot on the court, they gotta 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.360 move them around a little bit, get them in better spots. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.120 And you I saw on the seven half or ok 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.360 see what they did. They started coming out of the corners, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.480 getting more ball moment, creating a single side a little 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.760 bit easier, and they was able to get easier shots. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.800 So once they look at the film, coach, fence is 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.239 pretty good to make that adjustment. So Game one, you know, okay, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.120 see hell served, but I think Minnesota will come back. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.160 Game two, great a shore, What was your point you 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:25.560 wanted to make? 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:25.800 Now? 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.760 All I was gonna say, like Nick said earlier, obviously 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:33.560 it's game one. You wanted to me really win Game 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.120 one for me obviously being a Wolves fan, and really 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.640 going for the Wolves to win. This game is probably 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.439 gonna go to seven. I hate the fact that it 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.040 did lose it. To me, it kind of puts you 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.400 behind the eight ball. But again, like when boxing the 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.400 first four rounds, what's the first thing you got to do, Nick, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.840 You know, you feel your person out, you see what 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.559 they like to do, try to find a rhythm, try 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.679 to find a tempo, trying to find what works for 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:54.560 you and what doesn't. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.680 The fact that the Wolves. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.400 Lost it kind of it kind of it got me 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.000 a little Anti, a little upset, but I think we're 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.760 gonna be all right next time. Ant obviously thirteen shots 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.040 well enough, Julius Dranda was very efficient, and the rest 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.960 of the team collectively besides the fuck the bench, excuse 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.360 me my language, forget the bench. The starters need to 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.240 need to do what they need to do before even 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.840 worry about the bench, even though done to have a 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.360 better bench than the Wars. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.960 I mean, you got Jewish Rama has twenty eight. The 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.280 rest of the guys that played had sixty. You're not 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.640 beating Okac with two guys in double figures. That's not 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.800 gonna happen. Points in the pain Thunder fifty four was 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.560 twenty ant Man was scoreless in the fourth quarter, and 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.600 I thought they did Look, I thought they did a 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.040 good job on shape. Shay had thirty one points, but 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:40.960 it took him twenty seven shots to get those knick. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.760 So I, hey, I'm cool. I'm cool. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.360 I'm making him work for everything that he's getting. Jaylen 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.560 william seven or eighteen I can live with that. I 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.559 can live with that. But if I'm gonna make their 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.080 two best players be that inefficient, well that means I 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.840 need to be efficient. I need to take better care 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.280 of the ball. Because, like you now, when you're playing 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.480 at the top of the key, you got Shape who's 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.480 top three and steals? You got lou dort On ball 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.760 can defend you. Got Jaylen Williams can defend you. Bring 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.880 in Carson Wallace that can defend you. Bring in Wiggins 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.480 that can defend you. Bring in Isaare Joke that can 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.880 defend you. Got check the Hart and Stide that can 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.840 protect the rim. You better get some cut. I'm talking 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.120 about some hard cuts. I ain't talking about the little 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.160 laser as cuts. I'm talking about some hard cut diving, hey, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:28.560 picking and getting down the. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.880 Hill in a hurry. Because if you don't, they're gonna 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:31.480 leave you around. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.800 You're gonna stay around the three point line and then 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.560 ay again, fifty one threes. That's not the Timberwolves game. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.280 Fifty one three is not their game. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.959 I have another thing, all right, are either one of 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.559 you worried? I'm not really worried. I'm just saying about 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.880 and tweaking his ankle just a little bit. I think 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.960 that might have affected him as far as it's shooting 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.200 and being efficient as well, not really able to play 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.560 the game he really wanted to play after messing it 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.120 hurting and hurting himself a little bit. I'm sure he 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.200 probably one of that got it wrapped up, maybe took 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.280 a shot, whatever they needed to do, just so we 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.120 can get back in the game. You think that's gonna 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.360 affect them the rest of the series at any point, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:07.520 I don't. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:08.880 I don't think he will. I think he would be 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:09.199 all right. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.839 He get he get that day off themorrow, so whenever 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.720 they play again, I think he'd be fine. Bo Bunks said, Man, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.839 they got to move their rock man, and they gotta 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:17.480 play faster. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:18.600 You know what I'm saying. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.560 Yeah, if they hold Okay, see the one shot they 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.560 gotta get that thing up the court, and they gotta go. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.720 They got to create easier opportunities. If not, they gonna 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:27.760 be playing half court. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.280 And if that off, and you're playing five on four 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.840 because Rudy Gobert is not an option for you. Yeah, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.600 just but but he needed to get every goudy damn rebound, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.880 and I'll let that thing like Kurt Ramers and Kevin 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.559 Love and let's go. He had a guy played twenty 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.280 one minutes. He's seven foot two inches tall. He had 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.079 three rebounds tonight. He only had three more rebounds than me, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.199 and I got on, I. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.200 Got on this what I had, This is what I 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.000 had on the whole game. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.520 Right here, he had three more rebounds than me and 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.920 these So so this is what I said about that, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.440 because he's always in the health position, right, so he's 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.520 always coming up to the free throw line or the 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.400 smiley's face, so he's out of position in rebound. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.640 So in his defense, I'll give that hell. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.200 They missed forty one shots, he got they missed forty 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:21.280 one shots, and you missed fifty miss fifty four shots. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.200 So there's ninety three shots that you had a chance 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:25.480 to get a rebound and you only got three of 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.880 or ninety ninety one three. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.760 Damn, Nick, I. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.640 Just gave you the best description I can what we do. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:39.520 Hey, hey, you know what. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.640 Another issue is also that for the Wolf, as you 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.040 get further into the playoffs, obviously the teams you play, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.840 they get much better. Yeah, so not only do the 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.120 Wolves he do better shooting efficiently, efficiently and Julius Rando 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.480 obviously was good tonight, but the supporting cast, including Anthony Everards, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.880 who I say still well keep saying is the face 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.880 of the NBA. But Minnesota they got to you pay, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.920 you pay double for your turnover as well, a double 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.640 for your turnover, especially in the game like this when 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.600 you have a team when the actually can go off. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.160 Even though they kind of smothered him in the first 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.000 half and didn't he didn't really get going. He had 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.560 thirty one, but hell, it took him two hundred shot 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.360 just to get a thirty one. But they got a 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.439 turnovers on the offense and capitalize on on a on 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.400 a on the board as well. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.800 Yeah, they had seventeen turnovers, but three of them came 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.440 from uh but twelve of them came from three players. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.480 Jue Ramdall had five McDaniels had three and ad Man 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.160 had four. Now I'm not really concerned because like Julius, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.880 raandlerd and and and and gonna have turnos because they 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.000 handled the ball. They're your primary ball handlers. So they're gonna. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.400 Probably be three, probably four game. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.880 They would be nice if they kemp it the three 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.400 are under, that would be nice. But they're really not 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.160 true point guards, and so they're gonna have They're gonna 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.560 have turnover. Did you gonna get a cup of charging? 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.720 Uh? He gonna get it. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.960 He gonna get a walk because you go, he forget 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.320 that it's right for them to pivot, and he gonna 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.840 pivot back to the left and then he's gonna try 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.720 to dip up under you and gonna and he's like, yeah, yeah, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.840 we got you, bro. But Ni, you said something very interesting. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.240 You said they need to play faster. They need to 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:10.719 play fast, but they don't need to be in a 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.280 hurry because if you play in a hurry, you're gonna 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.040 play right in the Okay, see hands, And now they're 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.280 getting the ball out. And like you said, when they 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.840 turned the ball over, you gotta realize you got three 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.120 guys at the top. You turned it over. They gone 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.520 the baby big. That's not Hartenstein, that's not chat hungery. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.680 You got three guards at the top, you turn it over, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.040 they get a deflection and two three dribbles at. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.480 The rem easy basket. Easy basket, easy basket. I thought, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.240 I thought, like you said, I thought they played. They 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.560 played right into okay see hand. This game was very big. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.520 I said, Okay, we might have a game because I 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.200 was hoping after Game seven there used to be oh 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.480 game seven, game seven man Game seven has been being 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.440 blowouts lately, So that being said, now let's go back 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.960 there originally scheduled programming. I thought we were gonna have 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:58.960 a really good game, Nick, I really did. At the half, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:00.440 they were playing really well. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.160 And then with like. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.360 Four minutes into the third quarter, okay See stepped on 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.520 the gas and what was a four point lead for 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.200 Minnesota all all of a sudden turned into a three 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.600 point lead for okay See, a seven point lead. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.880 Next thing you know, it's twelve. Yeah. Yeah. I saw 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.680 a quick adjustment though in the second half, from the 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.480 first half, and that was from Okac's offense. They moved 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.680 the ball at a different position as to start. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.760 So the whole game Minnesota's offense started out so high 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.840 out on the court and they never adjusted. Okay, see 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.200 was pretty much playing the same way in the first half, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.960 but the coach coach went in made some adjustments, started 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.720 the offense a little bit, you know, from the top 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.800 to the corner, then back up to the top, and 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.600 they created a little bit more space. Then guys, once 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.040 you get that space, man be able to knock down 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.680 the open shots. And Minnesota they never had space all night. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.280 It was always clogged up. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.800 For those guys, they're gonna get first, They're gonna contest 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:06.000 everything because they got because at worst case scenario, you're 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.840 gonna have three defenders on the court. I didn't even 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.240 mention Caruso, who might be arguing that they're best defender. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.520 When you look at him and what he does as 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.040 far as taking charges, as far as guarding the perimeter, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.440 guard the big it does not matter. We saw what 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.000 the number, what he did with Yolk. They played the 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:24.920 old boxing one. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:25.400 Nick. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.360 I can't remember where the last time you saw boxing 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.520 one had to be high school. But they played a 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.400 boxing one primarily the entire game, and he did an 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.640 unbelievable job. Yo would feel for him on his left 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.280 for the next day. You know, he's already in front 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.120 of him, gone to the right. He feel touch him 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.040 on the right. Now he's back to the left. He 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.920 did a great job of that. And so when you 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:48.000 look at what OKC has up there, twelve thirteen guys 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.400 that primarily played sixth of them can defend at an 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.000 extremely high level. You're not gonna find that anywhere else 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.240 in the NBA. When you could come off the bench 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.720 and you got four guys that can define at an 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.760 elite level, and they can defend at the wing position, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.480 which very few teams have wing defenders. Everybody, I want 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.600 a three and D guy. How many three and D 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.400 guys they got? They got to Russo, they got Williams, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.840 they got Door, they got Wallace, they got Wiggams They 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.800 I mean, they they're loaded at that that position. And 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.360 you got two big guys that will protect the rim. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.359 They rebounded, understand their job to the pullets. Okay, C's 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.400 gonna be a tough out and I agree with you, Nick, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:29.240 I think they're gonna have to. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:29.480 Look. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.560 Chris Fincher is very good. I think he's named coach 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.240 of here. A couple of years back, he had to 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:34.720 cook the. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.720 Year m. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:46.880 Oh ash as oh. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.560 Oh oh choe, you got a cigar ash on your face? 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.640 I do yeah, your name Ojo. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.600 Right, Hey, hey, I appreciate you, man, I appreciate you 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.159 could mess it damn makeup. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.960 I got on fency right now too. I don't know 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.680 what that is, but you need to get it off. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.399 But look I'm good now. Yes, So Nick, what the 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:09.200 big adjustment? 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.119 Even with that adjustment, do you think the Wolves have 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.679 enough to deal with the with the thunder? 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.679 I think it's gonna be a long series and I 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.440 think they do. Like I said, I think they are 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.600