[Uthayakumar] OKC’s bench outscored the Spurs bench by 53 points tonight (76-23), the largest bench differential in a Conference Finals game in NBA playoff history.
Cannot believe the most useful scorers on the team are JWill and ‘Sold High’ McCain.
The Thunder start defense first players:
Dort barely shoots Hartenstein barely shoots Chet has been too scared to shoot this series Mitchell went out with injury
OKC’s bench is great, but it’s not like they have some crazy starting line up too.
The Spurs have better starters with Castle, Harper, Fox, they just aren’t delivering.
Dub is our starter if you’ve forgotten.
If we started defense first Mitchell wouldn’t start it would be Wallace.
Harper isn’t a starter.
There’s no way you believe that the defending champs who ran it back with the best record in the league have a worst starting lineup than the Spurs.
Hes not saying theyre worse, but that we tuck our firepower into the bench and frontload defensive players. This has been true the entire OKC tenure, Sefolosha v Harden, starting Roberson. Its just how the Thunder set up.
We COULD start Wallace over AJ, but we already have Dort starting. And Hartenstein. And DPOY runner up. So we only trot out a PG and a superstar, same as in Westbrook/Durant days with Thabo at the 2
You talking about the team with 2 fewer regular season wins and a much worse bench?
Yeah that’s exactly who I’m talking about. We had the 3rd most games missed and still were 2 ahead of them.
Our starters are far better than theirs especially when OP includes Harper in that when he isn’t even a starter
To add this starting lineup has been the best team in the league for two straight years.
I truly don’t think they have better starters, the matchups are definitely difficult tho
And people blaming wemby lmao
mr 6th man of the year has been damn near unplayable their entire playoffs run
“Keldon Johnson over me?!” - The entire Thunder bench, probably
deadass there’s like 7 players on the okc bench i’m taking over keldon johnson. mccain, caruso, joe, wallace, mitchell (he only started cause jdub’s out), jwill, and wiggins. if topic didn’t tear his acl and get fucking cancer i’d take him too lmao
Should of been Jaquez
Spurs at least know what to address much like OKC when they lost in 2024.
Yeah that met the eye test lmao.
Keldon has been disappointing in the playoffs. He’s got to pick it up or take a pay cut after next year if he wants to return.
It’s gonna be interesting to see how much of this bench gets poached when OKC’s big 3 get their extensions and if these bench guys keep up their playing on a different team.
I think Ajay goes and becomes a Jaylen Brown for a contender.
OKCs bench is winning them this series so far. If that continues, it’s clear that the bench matters more than their 3rd most important player who isnt playing much. They should trade JDub to a team with cap space for draft picks. To Nets for Egor, pick 6, best of next years picks, 29 Knicks 1st and 31 Knicks first. If they start cutting depth, they are going to lose their best trait.
I would say they couldn’t miss, but they just didn’t miss much.
What is this thumbnail lol
Its uthayakumar. Cmon man
the thumbnails to bluesky links show their pfp
It’s silly that people are dogpiling you for asking why the thumbnail is a random woman. That’s reddit for you
The reporter’s name is Keerthika Uthayakumar, weirdo.
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In fact it shocks me yall like Wemby so much when you bitch about the aliens across the border non stop
lol don’t go there Texas is us but worse
Good thing i aint either then 😘
We’d be talking about how great OKC’s bench is right now, if the league stopped the flopping bullshit.
I think Wemby had the biggest flop of the night.
So what
Do you want some cheese with that whine?
Give it a rest
Oh look, yet another Charmin soft brand new default name account with hidden posts. How…predictable.
Respectfully, get bent