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That song is great. 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:03.859 He's also a huge Oklahoma City Thunder fan. I'm 00:02:03.859 --> 00:02:06.340 recording this right after game four of the finals. 00:02:07.179 --> 00:02:09.419 And with the series is now 2 -2, shout out to 00:02:09.419 --> 00:02:12.159 Oklahoma City Thunder for pulling an Indiana 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:17.060 Pacers on the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers at one 00:02:17.060 --> 00:02:23.460 point led the game 103 -99 with 320 left in the 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:28.280 fourth quarter. It finishes 111 -104. Oklahoma 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:32.669 City closed the game on a 12 -1 run. that ultimately 00:02:32.669 --> 00:02:36.449 sees Indiana miss three free throws by Benedict 00:02:36.449 --> 00:02:38.849 Matherin. I think he's had such an amazing game 00:02:38.849 --> 00:02:41.449 three. He had probably the worst time to have 00:02:41.449 --> 00:02:44.370 a bad free throw shooting night in game four. 00:02:44.430 --> 00:02:46.610 Like I said, he was one for four down the stretch. 00:02:46.629 --> 00:02:50.189 I think he was one for five in the game. He picked 00:02:50.189 --> 00:02:54.729 a bad time, an awful time, a truly awful time 00:02:54.729 --> 00:02:59.930 to have a bad shooting night. In which case, 00:02:59.990 --> 00:03:02.569 he's going through it a little bit. You know, 00:03:02.569 --> 00:03:04.189 kind of look at statistics first and then kind 00:03:04.189 --> 00:03:06.189 of talk about what I've been seeing in the games. 00:03:06.409 --> 00:03:08.729 Obviously, in game three was a huge win for the 00:03:08.729 --> 00:03:11.710 Pacers. It was a game that a lot of people, I 00:03:11.710 --> 00:03:13.409 mean, going into it, myself included, going, 00:03:13.509 --> 00:03:15.409 Indiana's not going to win another game. They 00:03:15.409 --> 00:03:17.710 got game one. Oklahoma City took care of business 00:03:17.710 --> 00:03:19.789 game two. Okay, we're going to reset ourselves. 00:03:19.909 --> 00:03:21.650 They're going to win game three, win game four, 00:03:21.689 --> 00:03:26.330 go back to OKC and win in five. My original prediction 00:03:26.330 --> 00:03:28.729 was OKC in five. I thought it would be 2 -0 going 00:03:28.729 --> 00:03:31.250 into Indiana. Indiana will win game three. And 00:03:31.250 --> 00:03:32.669 then Oklahoma City would take care of business 00:03:32.669 --> 00:03:35.110 in four and five and the series is over. But 00:03:35.110 --> 00:03:38.370 obviously, Indiana won game three. They handled 00:03:38.370 --> 00:03:41.110 Oklahoma City the entire game. Never really blew 00:03:41.110 --> 00:03:43.349 Oklahoma City out. The biggest lead so far in 00:03:43.349 --> 00:03:45.210 this series has been Oklahoma City in game two. 00:03:45.729 --> 00:03:49.370 However, Indiana never had a double -digit point, 00:03:49.449 --> 00:03:51.610 never had a double -digit lead until the third 00:03:51.610 --> 00:03:55.030 quarter of this game. But they're 2 -2. They 00:03:55.030 --> 00:03:58.069 led for .3 seconds in game one. They led pretty 00:03:58.069 --> 00:04:03.229 start to finish in game three. However, I'm going 00:04:03.229 --> 00:04:06.009 to run through some numbers real quick, and then 00:04:06.009 --> 00:04:08.830 we'll get into, like I said, what I saw, what 00:04:08.830 --> 00:04:11.909 I'm looking at for games five and six, or what 00:04:11.909 --> 00:04:15.650 I'm looking at for game five in particular. Start 00:04:15.650 --> 00:04:17.149 off with Oklahoma City. They're a big three. 00:04:17.269 --> 00:04:21.689 Of course, Chet, J -Dub, and SGA. SGA goes for 00:04:21.689 --> 00:04:24.329 35 points, three rounds, and four assists. No, 00:04:24.889 --> 00:04:27.610 sorry, zero assists. 35 points, three rounds, 00:04:27.629 --> 00:04:29.230 zero assists. This is a game where I thought 00:04:29.230 --> 00:04:31.550 Indiana did a hell of a job in making Oklahoma 00:04:31.550 --> 00:04:33.509 City play one -on -one. I think that's something 00:04:33.509 --> 00:04:36.290 they need to try to replicate in game five, but 00:04:36.290 --> 00:04:39.689 we'll get into that. J -Dub with 33, seven, and 00:04:39.689 --> 00:04:43.160 three. I'm sorry, with 27, 7, and 3 on 8 for 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.720 18. Shea shot 12 with 24. Of course, he did his 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.860 number. He shot 10 free throws, made all 10. 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:54.699 Congratulations to him on that. J -Dub, like 00:04:54.699 --> 00:04:59.600 I said, 24, 7, and 3. He shot 10, 11 free throws. 00:04:59.620 --> 00:05:04.879 He made all 11. And then Chet with 14 and 15. 00:05:06.750 --> 00:05:08.750 Got a block and a steal in there. He went 6 -6 00:05:08.750 --> 00:05:10.269 from the free throw line, 4 -9 from the field. 00:05:10.910 --> 00:05:15.569 What I do notice, I'm sorry, I'm going to wait 00:05:15.569 --> 00:05:21.470 on that. Tyrese Halliburton, 18 points, 2 rebounds, 00:05:21.490 --> 00:05:25.329 7 assists, 5 big turnovers. He shot 7 of 15. 00:05:26.069 --> 00:05:29.350 Miles Turner went 3 for 10. He was 12, 2 and 00:05:29.350 --> 00:05:35.399 2. He was 0 from 6 from 3. Pascal Siakam, who's 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.660 kind of been the Indiana driving force. If Pascal 00:05:37.660 --> 00:05:41.319 plays well, they win. He was 28 -5 with five 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.199 steals and a block, but all five of his steals 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.800 came in the first half. They kind of figured 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.300 out a way to neutralize him defensively. Benedict 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:53.939 Matherin, he actually shot five for eight from 00:05:53.939 --> 00:05:56.720 the free throw line. The problem is he missed 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.879 three out of his last four. From the free -throw 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:01.639 line. He picked a horrible time to miss his free 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.759 -throws. Obi Topic was going for four from the 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:05.680 free -throw line. So, looking at the free -throw 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.660 battle itself, moving over to the team stats 00:06:08.660 --> 00:06:11.120 here, you guys, when I look at that, Indiana 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:12.620 missed eight free -throws. You lose the game 00:06:12.620 --> 00:06:16.279 by seven. I mean, if you do nothing else, you 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.819 make, you know what I'm saying, you make your 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:20.779 free -throws and you win this game. I also look 00:06:20.779 --> 00:06:22.699 at, you know, I look at a certain thing, I look 00:06:22.699 --> 00:06:25.110 at field goal opportunity. Oklahoma City shot 00:06:25.110 --> 00:06:28.189 47 % to Indiana's 42. Three -point percentage. 00:06:28.209 --> 00:06:30.670 Indiana shot only 30%, but Oklahoma City shot 00:06:30.670 --> 00:06:34.509 17. Indiana was 11 of 36 from three. OKC was 00:06:34.509 --> 00:06:37.230 three of 17. Oklahoma City shot 38 free throws. 00:06:37.269 --> 00:06:39.850 Now, probably eight of those came when the fouling 00:06:39.850 --> 00:06:42.389 was happening. But again, they shot 38 free throws. 00:06:42.449 --> 00:06:45.310 Indiana shot 33. We spoke about Oklahoma City 00:06:45.310 --> 00:06:47.389 being 14 points better from the free throw line 00:06:47.389 --> 00:06:51.279 in terms of percentages. Oklahoma City out -rebounded 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.560 Indiana. Something we noticed big in game one. 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:55.139 Of course, I can talk to you guys again in two 00:06:55.139 --> 00:06:56.680 or three, but something we noticed big in game 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.680 one was Oklahoma City played a smaller lineup. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:04.740 Indiana killed them on the boards. Assists were 00:07:04.740 --> 00:07:06.959 easily Indiana. I spoke about that. You know, 00:07:06.980 --> 00:07:09.259 Shady didn't have an assist. If you went down 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:11.459 the list of Oklahoma City players, none of them 00:07:11.459 --> 00:07:14.100 had assists, really. They only had 10 as a team. 00:07:16.320 --> 00:07:18.240 Points conceded off turnovers were very even. 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:21.439 Turnovers were even, 16 apiece, 25 -23. Indiana 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.220 advantage on points off turnovers. Fassburg points 00:07:24.220 --> 00:07:26.420 was one point different. Indiana won that. Points 00:07:26.420 --> 00:07:28.319 in the paint. So big things I want to talk about 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.279 in this game is points in the paint. Oklahoma 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:35.100 City won that by 14. I want to look at rebounds. 00:07:35.100 --> 00:07:37.899 Oklahoma City won that by 10. I want to look 00:07:37.899 --> 00:07:40.680 at free throws. Oklahoma City won that by 9. 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.600 I want to look at... Pure field goals. Oklahoma 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.040 City made three more shots. Indiana's biggest 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.939 advantage was it was plus 24 for the three -point 00:07:49.939 --> 00:07:52.199 line in terms of points. That is the only statistical 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.339 category in assists that they lay, which makes 00:07:54.339 --> 00:07:56.240 sense because you're assisting a lot of those 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.040 three -point shots. Whenever you play a lot of 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:00.379 in -the -paint basket or you're not making a 00:08:00.379 --> 00:08:01.939 lot of threes, your assist numbers are usually 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:04.540 low because those are usually drives or those 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:05.620 are pick -and -rolls. You know what I'm saying? 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.060 Those are usually attacks to the basket. They're 00:08:07.060 --> 00:08:08.759 rarely dump -offs or they're offensive rebound 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:12.350 buckets, not really assisted baskets. And so 00:08:12.350 --> 00:08:16.250 the fact that, you know, Indiana in the modern 00:08:16.250 --> 00:08:19.209 NBA, you're plus 24 from the three point line. 00:08:19.449 --> 00:08:24.350 You should win that game. I mean, the world will 00:08:24.350 --> 00:08:28.670 tell you, oh, you're plus 24 from the three point 00:08:28.670 --> 00:08:33.929 line. You should win that game. But I always 00:08:33.929 --> 00:08:37.460 want to look at a player's plus minus. And I 00:08:37.460 --> 00:08:39.299 wanted to go through that last on my statistical 00:08:39.299 --> 00:08:40.720 breakdown because we're going to talk about the 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.600 game a little bit. And then we're going to move 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.779 into game five and kind of what I expect from 00:08:45.779 --> 00:08:49.519 the rest of this series. But Chet Holmgren and 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:53.159 Alex Caruso easily had the biggest plus minuses 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:56.440 for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Chet and Caruso 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.139 were both plus 14. Isaiah Hartenstein was minus 00:09:00.139 --> 00:09:03.500 seven. Dort was plus three. But J -Dub and Shea 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:05.659 were both zeros, which means when they were in 00:09:05.659 --> 00:09:10.200 the game, the game was even. I mean, SGA played 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.919 40 minutes, J -Dub played 36, and they were even 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.639 minutes for both of them. They probably played 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.580 a lot together. And then you look at Harden's 00:09:20.580 --> 00:09:23.379 time with the minus 7. And then you look at Andrew 00:09:23.379 --> 00:09:31.139 Wiggins' plus 5. In 11 minutes, Williams, Kyron 00:09:31.139 --> 00:09:32.759 Williams, who was on the Pelicans at one point, 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:36.190 was a plus 7 in just 11 minutes. You know, so 00:09:36.190 --> 00:09:38.049 that means he was a very valuable minute to me. 00:09:38.090 --> 00:09:40.570 They won a good bench stretch there. And then 00:09:40.570 --> 00:09:43.509 flipping over to Indiana, your biggest plus is 00:09:43.509 --> 00:09:46.830 always their biggest plus is Pascal Siakam. He 00:09:46.830 --> 00:09:49.450 was plus seven. He was plus seven in 35 minutes, 00:09:49.669 --> 00:09:54.870 which means in 13 minutes he lost by, oh, God, 00:09:54.929 --> 00:09:57.710 14 in the other 13 minutes he went on the floor. 00:09:59.610 --> 00:10:02.370 Andrew Nembhard was plus three. Those are the 00:10:02.370 --> 00:10:04.429 only positive players. Oh, Halliburton is plus 00:10:04.429 --> 00:10:08.470 one. Obi Toppin was minus 15 in 29 minutes. I 00:10:08.470 --> 00:10:12.110 mean, that's a big number because the next person 00:10:12.110 --> 00:10:15.409 to him is Shepard. Brendan Shepard was minus 00:10:15.409 --> 00:10:19.649 10 in 12 minutes. That's not great. But to be 00:10:19.649 --> 00:10:23.149 a minus 15 as a 30 -minute player, 29 -minute 00:10:23.149 --> 00:10:25.710 player, that's big. Especially if you look at 00:10:25.710 --> 00:10:29.070 a minus 10 number from a 12 -minute player. That 00:10:29.070 --> 00:10:32.210 means when the game was in there, it was... It 00:10:32.210 --> 00:10:35.570 was dark for those two on the floor. So that 00:10:35.570 --> 00:10:36.830 is something that Indiana is going to have to 00:10:36.830 --> 00:10:39.750 figure out. Oklahoma City went double big and 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:42.450 it doesn't seem to be that effective considering 00:10:42.450 --> 00:10:45.289 that Isaiah Hardenstein was a minus seven when 00:10:45.289 --> 00:10:50.509 he was on the floor. It definitely did not seem 00:10:50.509 --> 00:10:54.970 that effective. It's something that I think may 00:10:54.970 --> 00:10:57.529 end up sending Mark Dagon all back to the drawing 00:10:57.529 --> 00:11:00.500 board. He went double big and he won. But he 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:03.019 went double big and it wasn't working. They kind 00:11:03.019 --> 00:11:05.539 of won the game in spite of going double big. 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.639 So I think that's something that Mark Dagonal 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:10.779 is going to have to go back and maybe redraw 00:11:10.779 --> 00:11:13.679 the drawing board or maybe start it and don't 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.139 play it long. You know, something where you still 00:11:17.139 --> 00:11:19.360 utilize your rebounding advantage, so on and 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.720 so forth. Because there were moments there, and 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:23.679 I see the plus and minus, but there were moments 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.220 there in that game where Isaiah Hardenstein made 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:28.019 like three big plays in the second quarter, like 00:11:28.019 --> 00:11:30.279 almost back to back to back. He had a tippet. 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:31.940 He had a slap. He had a slap rebound. The old 00:11:31.940 --> 00:11:34.399 Tyson Chandler slap rebound. He had a tap rebound 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:38.460 out. He got an offensive rebound that set a screen 00:11:38.460 --> 00:11:41.720 for a bucket and then came down and had a great 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:43.519 walling over the fan. It was like back to back 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.980 to back what he was able to do. So I think that 00:11:46.980 --> 00:11:50.539 the double big lineup is the Oklahoma City's 00:11:50.539 --> 00:11:54.419 best lineup. Typically, it's usually it's most 00:11:54.419 --> 00:11:57.559 flexible because the check can shoot. Now, Chet 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:01.840 is going to be on, to me, hellified rehab. If 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.000 I'm the Oklahoma City Thunder, Chet's rehabbing 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.559 from now until we play the next game. Chet is 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.360 on a rehab. Chet is not doing it. From Friday 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:17.259 night in his local town, it's about 1048, to 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:20.779 Monday afternoon, which is when they play. I 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:22.659 mean, they play Monday night. But for Monday 00:12:22.659 --> 00:12:27.480 afternoon, Chet is on a 24 -hour rehab. Because 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.679 he repeatedly rolled that ankle. He rolled it 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:34.100 against, coming down a fast break, Siakam tried 00:12:34.100 --> 00:12:36.240 to cut him off. Siakam actually doesn't hit him 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.080 up top. Foot happens to catch Siakam footing 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.779 away by, and he rolls. And he rolled it over 00:12:41.779 --> 00:12:47.240 about three times. He turned it over about three 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.399 times. In a regular season game, when he rolled 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:51.820 it over against Siakam, he's probably done for 00:12:51.820 --> 00:12:55.720 the night. But, like, SGA told him, like, we 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:58.700 need you, man. Get up. Like, you know, we need 00:12:58.700 --> 00:13:00.580 you. Like, we can't win anything without you. 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.580 So I think that's going to be something to watch 00:13:03.580 --> 00:13:05.559 out for. I'm not sure it's going to be very, 00:13:05.620 --> 00:13:07.759 you know, nationally media talked about. But 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.179 I do think that's going to be a huge issue. Potentially, 00:13:11.179 --> 00:13:13.600 the fact that Chet, again, rolled his ankle over 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:17.639 at least three times. It rolled over repeatedly. 00:13:19.019 --> 00:13:22.240 I mean, every time he went down, he was grabbing 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.980 at his shin ankle area. I hope for Oklahoma City. 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:28.559 It's not a high ankle sprain. I'm hoping it's 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:38.360 something that he could battle through. I'm hoping 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:42.860 it's something that he could, like I said, it 00:13:42.860 --> 00:13:44.080 doesn't hold him out of the series. I don't want 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.539 the series to be changed for injury. There's 00:13:45.539 --> 00:13:47.480 only one player injured on either side that I 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.100 know of, and it's Walker for Indiana. that's 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:52.360 that that he wasn't probably gonna play this 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.759 series anyway right so that's something that 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:00.019 you know so far this series now did both teams 00:14:00.019 --> 00:14:02.860 get there due to injury at oklahoma city no i 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:07.000 think indiana yes with boston boston coming apart 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.059 physically kind of you know greased the wheels 00:14:11.059 --> 00:14:12.840 for the entire east and then of course you know 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.940 it went down with cleveland again also kind of 00:14:15.940 --> 00:14:19.240 greased the wheels for the entire east but The 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.519 two teams in the finals have been healthy. We've 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:23.379 had a lot of finals ruined over the past, not 00:14:23.379 --> 00:14:27.879 ruined, but severely altered over the past 10 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.100 years of injuries. I mean, if you look at the 00:14:31.100 --> 00:14:33.299 Warriors' first title, they don't play a starting 00:14:33.299 --> 00:14:36.320 point guard the entire playoffs. You look at 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:38.860 Kawhi's title against Golden State, the only 00:14:38.860 --> 00:14:41.139 player left on the team was DeMarcus Cousins 00:14:41.139 --> 00:14:46.529 and Stephen Curry. I mean, like I said, there's 00:14:46.529 --> 00:14:48.450 been injuries. Injuries happen in the past every 00:14:48.450 --> 00:14:50.049 year, but there's been injuries affecting final 00:14:50.049 --> 00:14:54.389 series at an unfortunate pace over the last couple 00:14:54.389 --> 00:14:56.289 years. And those two jumped out at me. Warriors 00:14:56.289 --> 00:14:58.950 with Kyrie. Warriors beating Kyrie without Kyrie 00:14:58.950 --> 00:15:02.889 in love. And then Kawhi beating the Warriors 00:15:02.889 --> 00:15:09.809 without Klay and KD. So, you know, pretty wild 00:15:09.809 --> 00:15:12.950 there, but I'm glad Indiana and Oklahoma City 00:15:12.950 --> 00:15:15.029 are healthy. So that's what I was watching out 00:15:15.029 --> 00:15:18.009 for. In short, if you're Oklahoma City, going 00:15:18.009 --> 00:15:20.590 into game five, that constant rehab of Chet. 00:15:20.830 --> 00:15:24.610 He rolled it against Pascal Siakam. He rolled 00:15:24.610 --> 00:15:26.750 it probably two more times and turned over on 00:15:26.750 --> 00:15:29.850 him. But he's a warrior. I gained a lot of respect 00:15:29.850 --> 00:15:33.169 for Chet because most guys' finals are not when 00:15:33.169 --> 00:15:36.409 that ankle turns. And it turned. It rolled over 00:15:36.409 --> 00:15:38.929 pretty good. They're tapping out, right? Like, 00:15:38.950 --> 00:15:44.740 I'm done kind of thing. I'm out. You know, because 00:15:44.740 --> 00:15:46.899 he had rolled over. I mean, it was a legitimate 00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:50.039 roll. He kept battling. He kept fighting. Credit 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.580 to SGA. You know what I'm saying? Major credit 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:56.940 to SGA. Tonight was a night, and I don't know 00:15:56.940 --> 00:15:58.480 when the last time he hasn't had an assist in 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.000 the game, but tonight was a night they, you can 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.059 tell, they made a concerted effort to make him 00:16:03.059 --> 00:16:05.720 a driver. If you're going to go, you're going 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:09.720 to go. Because the most dangerous thing, a high 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:14.909 -level ball handler. can't have is options is 00:16:14.909 --> 00:16:17.389 i'm driving down the lane and i see that help 00:16:17.389 --> 00:16:19.509 coming from the corner and i know my corner man's 00:16:19.509 --> 00:16:22.690 open or you know i'm driving down the lane and 00:16:22.690 --> 00:16:25.190 in the big and the big man steps up and now my 00:16:25.190 --> 00:16:27.049 guy's in the dunker spot like the worst thing 00:16:27.049 --> 00:16:30.690 you can have you can give a an elite player as 00:16:30.690 --> 00:16:33.450 options you want to make them as one dimensional 00:16:33.450 --> 00:16:36.549 as possible so when sga was driving they were 00:16:36.549 --> 00:16:39.159 going to make him either drive it Or kick it 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.120 all the way out. Like, reset the play. Just opposed 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.100 to driving it and kicking it for a three. Or 00:16:44.100 --> 00:16:45.919 driving and kicking it for a dunk. Or driving 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.220 and starting to ping pong it. Like, no. You're 00:16:49.220 --> 00:16:52.279 either going to go all the way to the rim. Or 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.059 you're going to reset the play. And I thought 00:16:55.059 --> 00:16:57.360 Indiana did a great job of that. I think that's 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.460 a strategy they probably need to use, you know, 00:17:00.460 --> 00:17:02.580 the rest of this series. Is we're going to make 00:17:02.580 --> 00:17:05.660 you SGA. We're going to make you one dimensional. 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:09.430 You're going to be a scorer. And that's the old 00:17:09.430 --> 00:17:12.509 LeBron rule. Remember when LeBron first broke 00:17:12.509 --> 00:17:14.329 into the NBA, that's what a lot of people tried 00:17:14.329 --> 00:17:17.410 to do to him. You know, when he became, you know, 00:17:17.430 --> 00:17:19.369 when Superman had his powers and the words of 00:17:19.369 --> 00:17:24.210 Reggie Miller, we're going to make you beat us 00:17:24.210 --> 00:17:28.099 scoring. because the worst thing we can do is 00:17:28.099 --> 00:17:31.119 have you kick it to Mike Miller for two threes, 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.759 and J .R. had a couple of threes, and Mario Chalmers 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.299 makes a three, and Kevin Love hits two, and Kyrie 00:17:39.299 --> 00:17:41.259 hits three catching shoots, and it's like, now 00:17:41.259 --> 00:17:45.000 everybody's hitting from everywhere. That's the 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:46.839 worst thing that can happen. SGA, it's kind of 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:50.970 like, no. The worst thing we can do is J -Dub 00:17:50.970 --> 00:17:54.549 hits two to three, and Lou Dort hits two, and 00:17:54.549 --> 00:17:58.349 Chet hits two, and you hit one or two, and now 00:17:58.349 --> 00:18:00.670 Kaysen Wallace hits one. So now those guys who 00:18:00.670 --> 00:18:02.210 are playing great defense, they're playing even 00:18:02.210 --> 00:18:04.029 better defense because now they're making open 00:18:04.029 --> 00:18:07.210 threes. And so I think that that was a smart 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:11.210 decision to make SGS score. To me, one person 00:18:11.210 --> 00:18:17.950 has a limit. And it sounds kind of crazy. But 00:18:17.950 --> 00:18:22.109 to me, one person has a point limit. Like, you 00:18:22.109 --> 00:18:27.930 know, to me, SGA by himself is only going to 00:18:27.930 --> 00:18:33.650 get to 40, 45 at the most, which is a lot of 00:18:33.650 --> 00:18:36.210 points. But by himself, he's only going to get 00:18:36.210 --> 00:18:38.390 to 40, 45. When he becomes dangerous with 80 00:18:38.390 --> 00:18:41.170 of those assists, he's got 30 and six of his 00:18:41.170 --> 00:18:44.210 assists, threes. So now he's got 48, 50 points 00:18:44.210 --> 00:18:46.930 responsible for. Instead of, you know, him trying 00:18:46.930 --> 00:18:49.690 to work and get to 40. So, I mean, that's just 00:18:49.690 --> 00:18:51.910 decisions have to get made. I think that Rick 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:53.789 Carlisle is one of the better coaches in NBA 00:18:53.789 --> 00:18:55.609 history. I don't think he gets enough credit 00:18:55.609 --> 00:19:00.460 for it. He was actually. He was actually the 00:19:00.460 --> 00:19:03.000 man involved with the 0 -4 Pistons. And then 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:04.619 he was involved with Reggie Miller's Indiana 00:19:04.619 --> 00:19:08.480 Pacers. And then, of course, what he did with 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.420 the Mavs, with the Dirk title run year, and what 00:19:11.420 --> 00:19:13.579 he's doing in Indiana this year. Rick Carlotta 00:19:13.579 --> 00:19:16.359 is a hell of a basketball coach. And I think 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:19.299 that strategy, whether it was him or whoever 00:19:19.299 --> 00:19:21.900 he listened to, that strategy of we're going 00:19:21.900 --> 00:19:24.140 to make them attackers, we're going to make them 00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:32.819 scorers, was big. This series, before I move 00:19:32.819 --> 00:19:35.720 on to the next game, this series was supposed 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:40.420 to be 2 -2. It just was. Outside of the fact 00:19:40.420 --> 00:19:42.380 that it ended up being 2 -2, it legitimately 00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:46.319 was supposed to be 2 -2. Think about it. The 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:48.740 Indiana Pacers lead for .3 seconds in game one. 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.079 I mean, Oklahoma City outplayed them on the point, 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:58.079 on the scoreboard, the entire game. Halliburton 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:00.920 hits the shot. So that game is supposed to be 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:03.819 1 -0 Oklahoma City. Then you come back and you 00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:06.460 win Oklahoma City. So that should have been 2 00:20:06.460 --> 00:20:09.859 -0. You lose game three, OKC. So it should have 00:20:09.859 --> 00:20:13.079 been 2 -1. This game, Indiana has you fairly 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:15.759 dead to rights. You shoot three for 17 from three. 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:17.720 You have a seven -point deficit entering the 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:19.799 fourth. You have a four -point deficit with 320 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:24.359 left. And you win low -key going away in regulation. 00:20:25.569 --> 00:20:27.829 you were supposed to lose the game. So in the 00:20:27.829 --> 00:20:32.710 end, it was supposed to be 2 -2. I mean, again, 00:20:32.849 --> 00:20:35.630 we did all that. Both teams were supposed to 00:20:35.630 --> 00:20:38.710 serve at home, hold serve at home, which means 00:20:38.710 --> 00:20:40.950 we didn't have a series at all. Theo added, if 00:20:40.950 --> 00:20:44.029 it's not a series, somebody loses at home. I 00:20:44.029 --> 00:20:53.670 think that we got a game seven. I do. I think 00:20:53.670 --> 00:20:55.089 the Oklahoma City is going to win game five. 00:20:55.109 --> 00:20:59.210 And Indiana is going to scrap, claw, and beat 00:20:59.210 --> 00:21:02.309 down the door to avoid losing it in Indiana. 00:21:02.490 --> 00:21:04.950 And then all the chips are in the middle of the 00:21:04.950 --> 00:21:09.410 table for game seven. All the marbles, all of 00:21:09.410 --> 00:21:14.410 the everything is pushed right into the center 00:21:14.410 --> 00:21:17.289 of the Oklahoma City court. Winning takes all. 00:21:17.430 --> 00:21:19.569 Here we go for game seven of the NBA Finals. 00:21:20.789 --> 00:21:22.430 And we'll see what chips fall where they may. 00:21:24.779 --> 00:21:27.839 A couple of points, you know, just quickly. I 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:30.940 was wrong. History was wrong. No, I was wrong 00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:32.099 in my prediction. I said, of course, he in five. 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:34.740 I wasn't alone in that prediction, but I will 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:38.940 admit I'm wrong. I will admit I was wrong. And 00:21:38.940 --> 00:21:45.119 secondly, my historical take on the OKC Thunder 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.660 is wrong as well. I can make a case for J -Dub 00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:51.359 being top 12. I think the easier case is for... 00:21:52.299 --> 00:21:54.779 Shea being the best player in the world, while 00:21:54.779 --> 00:21:59.619 I think it's Joker, you can make a case if he 00:21:59.619 --> 00:22:03.559 wins the title with the MVP, he would have had 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:08.740 the best season. He also beat Joker. No, he beat 00:22:08.740 --> 00:22:10.980 the guy who beat Joker. Regardless, Joker's out, 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:16.579 right? So you made the case. Indiana, if Indiana 00:22:16.579 --> 00:22:18.759 wins, it goes into the arbitrary seasons. It 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:22.140 goes into... The 0 -4 Pistons. You know what 00:22:22.140 --> 00:22:24.440 I'm saying? It goes into one of those weird years 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:31.319 in history. Who knows what's going to happen 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:33.339 these last three games. If I had to make a pick 00:22:33.339 --> 00:22:34.859 right now, which I'm going to. I'm going to make 00:22:34.859 --> 00:22:37.380 a pick right now. It's a best of three, and OKC 00:22:37.380 --> 00:22:40.539 has two of the three at home. I mean, it's just 00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:43.339 that simple. This is why the regular season matters. 00:22:43.420 --> 00:22:48.670 It is a best of three. The second youngest team 00:22:48.670 --> 00:22:52.910 in the finals ever is in the best of three, and 00:22:52.910 --> 00:22:54.950 they have two of the three at home. Oklahoma 00:22:54.950 --> 00:22:56.910 City at this point does not have to win and gain 00:22:56.910 --> 00:23:01.089 Bridgefield House again. They just got to win 00:23:01.089 --> 00:23:05.470 in Oklahoma City, gains five and seven, and they're 00:23:05.470 --> 00:23:08.190 the NBA champions. And Oklahoma City's in a frenzy. 00:23:08.390 --> 00:23:10.390 And Shea Gills Alexander's the greatest thunder 00:23:10.390 --> 00:23:13.869 of all time. And, you know, so on and so like 00:23:13.869 --> 00:23:16.900 that is what's at stake. Crazy part about it 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:19.599 is Oklahoma City wins, of course, SGA's final 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:24.559 MVP. If Indiana wins, it's Pascal Siakam right 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.099 now. He's leading the team in points and rebounds. 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:29.339 They're also leading him in assists. He's close 00:23:29.339 --> 00:23:32.519 to him in assists. Right now, the final MVP if 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:35.539 Indiana wins was Pascal Siakam. With the fourth 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:38.200 quarter looming, I was prepared to come on and 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:41.380 say Indiana's up 3 -1 and the final MVP currently 00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:46.339 is Pascal Siakam. I mean, like, Shout out Pascal. 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:48.799 I mean, if he ends up with two rings and a final 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:55.440 MVP, conversations would need to be had. Because, 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:58.819 no, Kawhi got two final MVPs, never mind. He 00:23:58.819 --> 00:24:01.220 doesn't have the same postseason resume as Kawhi, 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:03.880 but Kawhi has two final MVPs. So that's fair. 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:08.200 But, like, you know, conversations at that point 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.289 would need to be had, need to be discussed. In 00:24:11.289 --> 00:24:14.049 the event that Kawhi, not Kawhi, Pascal Siakam 00:24:14.049 --> 00:24:16.230 ends up with a second ring and a finals MVP. 00:24:17.609 --> 00:24:20.970 But the NBA is off for the weekend. You know, 00:24:21.029 --> 00:24:23.609 we get to not have, there's no basketball on 00:24:23.609 --> 00:24:26.569 Saturday or Sunday. A little weird, but it is 00:24:26.569 --> 00:24:31.289 what it is. And then we crank up Monday night. 00:24:32.609 --> 00:24:35.859 The YouTube show will be back very soon. But 00:24:35.859 --> 00:24:39.259 I am excited. I'm over the moon excited for this 00:24:39.259 --> 00:24:42.940 next game. These have been very low watch finals, 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:45.859 low rated finals. They've been, I mean, very, 00:24:45.980 --> 00:24:48.740 very low rated. I'm talking like 8 .1 million 00:24:48.740 --> 00:24:51.599 viewers. And they're always remarking, oh, it's 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:53.220 the lowest since COVID. It's the lowest since 00:24:53.220 --> 00:24:55.180 before COVID. It's the lowest since before COVID. 00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:57.240 The bubble is the only thing lower than this. 00:24:57.299 --> 00:25:00.180 Like, you know, which I thought the bubble being 00:25:00.180 --> 00:25:03.009 low watch was always weird. Because what else 00:25:03.009 --> 00:25:05.970 were you doing? Outside of LeBron being in the 00:25:05.970 --> 00:25:08.930 finals, that's what I watched. What else were 00:25:08.930 --> 00:25:10.730 you doing during the bubble? Like, what else 00:25:10.730 --> 00:25:12.369 were you doing during COVID besides watching? 00:25:12.410 --> 00:25:15.170 I was feeding for live sports. I mean, that's 00:25:15.170 --> 00:25:18.309 why the last dance did so well. Outside of being 00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:21.210 a Jordan thing, no one had anything else to watch. 00:25:21.630 --> 00:25:25.710 And as a Michael Jordan, things are so closely 00:25:25.710 --> 00:25:29.890 guarded. ESPN built it up for months. It came 00:25:29.890 --> 00:25:31.670 out early. I remember when they were saying, 00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:33.710 like, it was so early. They were still editing 00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:36.009 episodes, like, the night before they came out 00:25:36.009 --> 00:25:39.829 on TV. Like, that's how, like, you know, 11th 00:25:39.829 --> 00:25:42.509 hour and 35th minute they were with The Last 00:25:42.509 --> 00:25:45.450 Dance. They were editing episodes the night they 00:25:45.450 --> 00:25:50.450 came out. But anyway, this has been a lowly rated 00:25:50.450 --> 00:25:52.970 finals to get back on topic. But it's been great 00:25:52.970 --> 00:25:55.750 basketball. Game two was the worst game. Yeah. 00:25:56.769 --> 00:25:58.710 Game one, you had the shot from Halliburton. 00:25:59.180 --> 00:26:03.380 Game three, you had the Pacers -Avalanche. Game 00:26:03.380 --> 00:26:06.359 four, you had the comeback by OKC. Like, you 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:09.339 know, there's been just three out of four games 00:26:09.339 --> 00:26:10.960 have been really, really good games. Like I said, 00:26:11.059 --> 00:26:14.000 OKC controlled games, too. They just own that 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:16.339 game. But it's been really, really great basketball 00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:20.549 so far. They're battling, right? And it's kind 00:26:20.549 --> 00:26:23.490 of been Pascal Siakam and the Pacers versus SGA 00:26:23.490 --> 00:26:25.829 and the Thunder. I still think Oklahoma City 00:26:25.829 --> 00:26:28.569 pull it out. I just think go seven now. My original 00:26:28.569 --> 00:26:30.890 prediction was five. Indiana won again. They 00:26:30.890 --> 00:26:33.089 weren't supposed to, which was game one. If they 00:26:33.089 --> 00:26:37.750 went back to OKC 3 -1, it's over. But because 00:26:37.750 --> 00:26:40.029 it's got to go back to Oklahoma City and it's 00:26:40.029 --> 00:26:42.049 got to go back to Indiana, I think it's going 00:26:42.049 --> 00:26:44.329 to be Oklahoma City in seven. I don't think game 00:26:44.329 --> 00:26:45.450 seven is going to be close. I think they're going 00:26:45.450 --> 00:26:47.319 to blow them out in game seven. But, of course, 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:49.299 we'll talk before then. Obviously, obviously, 00:26:49.339 --> 00:26:54.579 obviously. But this is your owner and host, Justin 00:26:54.579 --> 00:26:57.019 Jackson. That's all I have for my Game 4 reaction. 00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:59.480 This is your host, JJ, signing out.