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OKC didn’t score 83 out of respect for Bam

Respect to Bam

[Shams] Heat president Pat Riley says he would not consider trading Bam Adebayo for the whole OKC Thunder team

Wilt ☝🏼, Bam ✌🏼8️⃣3️⃣… OKC.

Bam could’ve swept the West easily

Lmao

I hope this becomes a running gag for as long as Bam’s in the league.

Shout out to Bam.

That’s actually a crazy stat

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I love how they scored just 82 points out of respect to Bam.

Biblically low

They really need J Dub and Mitchell back, I wrongly called J Dub overrated this post season due to how well they played without him in the regular season, but he’s really important for the Thunder, if they don’t come back, I think the Spurs take this series tbh.

wow

Damn I missed the boobs apparently. I was only able to watch highlights.

“This game had a 40 footer”

Cmon Wemby ain’t that tall

San Antonio’s hottest club is WEMBY:

This 7’4 French stick figure located in Texas’ crotch is a mix of Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Jean Valjean, and Gumby.

This guy has everything: odee hang pulls, The People’s Elbow, an Asian disposition, and the mentorship of an old white man who once angrily grabbed a microphone said “This is not who we are” to a crowd of thick Latina women.

The boobs sequel was great

Meanwhile Wiggins and McCain combine to shoot ³⁄₂₁

OKC can’t score more points than Bam in one game

For what it’s worth, as historically bad as the bench margins were, our losses were “just” by 9 and 15. We don’t necessarily need to outright win the bench matchup, we just need to not lose it as horrifically as they did in games 1-3 to have a chance at winning.

Not doubling SGA shut down the bench real quick. Let the MVP cook, he’s not scoring 100 points. It pains when role players cook us because they’re wide open

I also feel a lot better about Ajay Mitchell’s performance against us last round because the Thunder looked lost on offense without him.

Spurs cheating. They got +5 Holy power this game

nbc had a hard-on for those nuns

That was the difference. Everyone was flying around from the jump and never stopped.

Love to see it

This spurs team’s defensive energy is refreshing to see, loved it

And stopped turning the ball over 1000000 times, we did have a favorable whistle this game imo (although OKC did in game 2 so it evens out ig)

Both of us gonna be near death only to face New York and their fans.

Maybe we should all stop overreacting to this series game by game (including me).

A lot of us thought the Spurs were losing in 5 now due to inexperience. Insane that they put on this performance.

God may be real

The fact that the Spurs are playing SGA straight up instead of doubling and daring the bench to score on their own is doing them in. SGA never scored above 35 points against the Spurs in the regular season and averaged 5 assists. You know he’s not going to go off for like 40 points because he’s too consistent with hovering around 30 (which the Spurs can live with), so you make his bench do the work and they’re not as good 1v1 players with Wemby lurking in the paint

They were treating him like he was Steph on a heat check for absolutely no reason. Castle staying out of foul trouble helps. Him and Vassell finally played some disciplined defense and didnt fall for the fakes or the stop-start dribbles.

If we don’t have dub or Ajay probably we don’t have any other ball handlers we were turnover central

As long as JDub or Ajay don’t come back… it does. If either does then it changes the game plan again.

I thought it was just our bad defense last series, but Ajay Mitchell is very important to the Thunder offense. They can play SGA straight up and pressure him without Mitchell as a secondary ball handler.

Thank you, Magic

Big, if true

source?

The broadcast said this was the first game they’ve been to all season. Frost Bank could easily cover their tickets.

Through the power of prayer brother

Daryl Morey is a truth teller

He had a great game 2, but McCain’s shooting just 33% from the field and 21% from three this series.

He and Caruso are proof that you can’t rely on a role player every game.

All of Philadelphia: “But still though, fuck you🖕!”

It’s crazy how you guys just flip narratives game to game

Your takes are always good in the post games, very thoughtful and nuanced. I wonder if this was a one off shooting night for OKC or if the spurs really have clamped down on the secondary scorers. The last point is interesting for the spurs as well, since a large majority of their team have not been this deep in the playoffs before.

Great thoughts, well said

Two words: Castle is so important to this team

Castle is so underrated. I saw him in person earlier this year. His athleticism, energy, determination are so impressive.

Crazy thing is the Spurs also shot quite poorly, just not as poorly as OKC did (39% to OKC’s 33%)

Their offense rn is pretty reliant on 3 point variance when JDub is hurt or out, if only they had a 7 footer with an elite three point shot on the team…

We shot 27%, lets not act like that was the only issue. Your role players are finally regressing to the mean.

Why aren’t the Thunders’ role players just shoot 70% from 3’s to win the games are they stupid?

Spurs were sharpshooters with their ⁹⁄₃₃ 3s😤

3s were absolutely not falling this game

Jaylin Williams looking high af airballing in the locker room too

Kinda? We were rusty as hell game 1 and we swept the 76ers.

But rn we’re 0-0 and need to go 1-0 tomorrow to make it to the finals. One day at a time.

Stopped at 82 out of respect for Bam

Oh fuck you’re right

that’s what confused me the most. I would have thrown in shai just to try to get wemby back in. but i’m not an nba coach. but 20 points in 12 minutes is hit 2 3’s and get 2 stops and the spurs consider putting wemby back in to not choke the lead.

He’s been low-key easily our third-best player this series after Wemby and Castle. Dude’s a walking bucket when you need a tough shot and has been playing his ass off on D.

I mean he wasn’t good but they legit KICKED our ass never felt at any point in the game we stood a chance of coming back

It’s just good that the game wasn’t close because honestly the refs weren’t good at all. Very favored towards the Spurs.

I mean tbf foster was on his goat shit, but that loss was 100% on us. We fucking sucked

Nah spurs probably got a slightly better whistle tonight but absolutely not on the refs. When you lose by 20+ you got no one to blame but yourselves

I think it goes to show how fucking skilled these two teams are. OKC bullied the Spurs in game 3 and then the Spurs pants OKC in game 4 holding OKC to their lowest point total in a year and a half

Currently he is +50 in a series where its tied 2-2.
Kinda insane

By comparison, SGA is a -8 total

He played more because Keldon was starting a disaster class. Was smart to let Barnes play more and not force things

The plus minus says it all. They’re +50 this series with Wemby on the floor and he has a positive plus minus through all 4 games, yet the series still tied 2-2

He outscored them actually lol

Sometimes you need a bad guy to take down a worse guy.

And Spurs only shot ⁹⁄₃₃