OKC Triumphs Over Denver 112-105 During Pivotal Game Five

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00:00112-105 was the final. A couple late threes with about a minute left really put it away for OKC

00:07on TNT. Some help from Murray. Kick. Dort. Extra. Williams on the way.

00:13Come next. Thunder lead by three. High screen. Hartenstein. Shot clock is down to six.

00:23Gildas Alexander. On target.

00:25You know, Dort hit three in a row. Three threes in a row. And it's not like he's some kind of

00:35three-point specialist, but he hit four of eight in the game. They had so many guys. Caruso hit three

00:42threes. Everybody chipped in. Holmgren hit one at the beginning of the game. Shea Gildas hit one.

00:48Wiggins hit one. I mean, J. Will hit two. Bottom line is, they got it done.

00:55Like they do in that building. But it was certainly different. Remember the last game,

01:00game two, they put 149 up. And they had to work their ass off to get a buck 12 up.

01:05I'm telling you, they're going to lose in Denver. And it's going back there for a game seven. And

01:12you saw what happened. Mike said it. They were up eight. And they couldn't hit a shot. They blew it.

01:18And I don't know if you can have a game like Joker had. 17 to 25 from the floor, 44 points, 15 boards,

01:28and lose. Honestly, I think that if he does that again in a game seven, they'll beat him.

01:33They, uh, in the fourth quarter last night, uh, if you take Joker out, cause Joker, obviously,

01:40uh, he was, he scored some points. The rest of the nuggets combined were one for 17 from the floor in

01:47the fourth quarter. Everybody except Joker and Joker's great. Like, and I mean, he's making these

01:52circus shots from out at the top of the keys doing everything you possibly do. He can't do it all.

01:57Eventually someone's got to make a shot and border and these other guys. Uh, it was just brick city

02:03in that fourth, the last two games, Scotty, they have been outscored 63, 37 in the fourth quarter.

02:11OKC has outscored Denver 63, 37 fourth quarters have been the difference. The last two games

02:17in this series, SGA had 31.6 boards, seven dimes. It was all about getting it done at home and going

02:25up three, two. Like for me, first and foremost, like winning is the end all be all. That's why

02:31I play basketball. And I know that across the locker room. Um, so like whatever it takes to get that

02:39done is what our minds is on. And it's not just, it's not just me. It's not just coach. It's not

02:44just Sam. Like it's across the locker room. And I think that's why we've been able to win basketball

02:48games this year. Um, now we all know that we can't get ahead of ourselves and we got to play the play in

02:54front of us. If you want to get there, we can't skip those steps. And that's what we, that's what

02:58we focus on. Yeah. You know, I'm impressed by him, no doubt, but I got to tell you, I just look,

03:06Denver blew it. They blew it. And I mean, they had it right in front of them and they're not afraid

03:13of them. Look at the game. Look at when they won game one. Look when they got whacked in game two.

03:20Look what they did in game three. They kicked the Thunder's ass. Game four, Thunder get it done,

03:29goes home. They barely get it done by seven. They didn't cover 10. The Thunder and the Nuggets are on

03:38on par. They're on, they're on the same plane. They're in concert with one another. These two teams

03:44are dead even. And I'm telling you that game on whatever it is, Friday night, is that when the next

03:50game is Friday night in Denver at the ball arena? They will play their next game. Give me 14 seconds

03:56here to load this up for you. They are tomorrow night, Thursday night, tomorrow. No extra day off.

04:03All right. So, so Thursday night. So they play last night, Tuesday, Thursday. All right. So tomorrow

04:08night in Denver, you're going to tell me, like, I don't even, I don't know what the number is. I'm just

04:15telling you. I think Denver's the bye for me.