Great bounce back from OKC after the blow out loss in Game 4.
No JDub.
No Ajay Mitchell.
Thunder D held Wemby to 20 points on 4-15 shooting and 6 rebounds.
SGA, Chet, Hartenstein, McCain, Caruso, Wallace and Kenrich were excellent.
1 win from a return trip to the NBA Finals.
How is this any different than Ajay Mitchell’s flagrant foul on Castle in Game 3? Not even a basketball play. Just a straight-up dangerous shove on Williams. Yet you don’t see the same outrage or consequences
OKC is now +42 with Caruso on and -35 with him off in this series.
Once again, bringing absurd levels of defensive disruption with efficient, opportunistic offense.
Truly a consistently game-changing player.
What makes OKC such an insanely difficult team to beat is they have both
a) arguably the best player in the league
b) arguably the best bench in the league
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@WavyJonesLxckr@LegionHoops He's definitely evolved on D, Daignault has a great quote about OKC not going to put up with his poor D & him excelling at developing there
@LegionHoops Maybe because he’s all offense? Take a look at the other end of the court. I am a fan of his game but he’s a liability on D.
Okc uses him so well tho. He shares the floor with guys like Alex Caruso who can make up for his still developing defense.
Shai is a PLAYOFF DROPPER and I’m TIRED of acting like he isn’t. This is b2b postseasons where his regular season stat-padded 20 pt streak has been broken lmfao
@SkyedOKC You're just proving why he's not the most valuable right now. Up by 30 when shai has a bad game. If Luka or Jokić had a bad game it's curtains
Not worse. Not better. Just different.
These are not the personalities I grew up watching, or grew old playing with, but, man, these guys are having fun.
Hard to hate on that!
Clippers are pretty surely gonna be the 9 seed facing the Warriors in the 9/10 game
Two wins to get in and face the Thunder, one loss and the Thunder officially have a lottery pick
@BrickCenter_ OMG, this is amazing!
We just went to space, and flew around the moon, but F that…this!!!!
What? He filmed a TikTok? When he landed???
Mankind has truly peaked at this moment. I’m humbled to have witnessed this miracle. 🙏🏻
@BonittoClears@Three_Cone@Erianne___ Nuggets 3rd seed means OKC doesn't vs a single decent team until WCF.
Nuggets x Spurs 2nd round will be a blood bath.
Thunder quite literally kicked our ass so hard literally and physically, that they ended our season in 20 mins on a random Thursday before the playoffs even started.