Exploring OKC's Potential for a 20+ Point Game Victory

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00:00I want to just start with the spread, the nine and a half number.

00:06Did you, do you think this gets to double digits, Tom?

00:09Do you think that it would go potentially to eight and a half?

00:12Do you think it's double digits?

00:13I think if, I think when people look at Thunder losses,

00:20games following Thunder losses, especially when they're at home,

00:23and combine that with how horribly they shot,

00:28especially from deep, you'd be like, I could see me pushing at 10 points.

00:33And that's just, and this is also a product of, we have two full days off.

00:36If the game was Sunday night, eh, maybe I could talk myself,

00:40you know, probably stay nine, maybe could move back to nine.

00:42You know, we did see that the Pacers have really good defense, you know, at times.

00:47But the fact that we have to wait all the way until Monday night,

00:50it moving to 10 does not surprise, or would not surprise me.

00:52So, the interesting thing is, we talked about this a lot last week on the show,

01:01how in every round, OKC has won a game by 30 or more, every single round.

01:06In game one, they lost.

01:12But it profiled like their usual 30-point victory because of the turnovers.

01:18I know it's impossible to believe that what should have been the 30-point victory

01:23is a game they lost, but it's what made the series so fascinating right off the bat.

01:26I just put it to you like this.

01:29There's three potential games left.

01:31Does OKC win a game by 20 or more in this series?

01:41No.

01:42I don't know, fellas.

01:44It's who they are.

01:45I know, but I think what you'll have is, I think you may have got the outlier really bad,

01:51not protect the ball at Indiana Pacers game in game one.

01:54So, I was looking into some Halliburton stuff, five turnovers last night.

02:02He's had five turnovers twice in this series.

02:05He had one five-turnover game in the first three rounds.

02:10He's had four turnovers in three of the four games.

02:14He had three games with four more turnovers in the first three rounds.

02:18He averaged under two turnovers per game in the first three rounds.

02:22He's had at least three turnovers in every game in this series.

02:28Now that we're four games in, is it just safe to say Tyrese is going to turn it over three,

02:34four times every game?

02:35Or is that one turnover game?

02:38And I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but it is.

02:40Is there a game where Tyrese can finish with zero or one turnovers against this defense?

02:44Probably not, but what's the question that we're asking?

02:49Will they win a game by 20-plus points?

02:51That's what your question is.

02:51Yeah, and I bring it up because Coach basically says,

02:54I don't know if they're going to be able to turn them over again at that rate,

02:56and I think it's a fair point.

02:57If they did that in game one and they couldn't win by 20-plus points with crazy turnovers,

03:04what is to suggest that they missed their chance at it?

03:06They had their shot at the apple to bite it, and they missed it.

03:11With all those turnovers, they couldn't win by 20 points.

03:12But I also think what's happening in this series is Indiana,

03:17I know this sounds crazy,

03:20I don't know if they want to really get into an athletic,

03:25like up and down, you just got to be doing it all the time now.

03:29I don't know if they want to get into that kind of like running up and down game

03:33because I don't know if it benefits them.

03:35It becomes more of a half-court game.

03:37Whereas the Knicks series, every time they got the ball,

03:39I mean, they literally were sending Obi Toppin at Paso Siakam

03:43and just flying them down the floor

03:45because Carl Anthony Towns couldn't get back on defense.

03:48It's a little bit different where it's a little bit more half-court basketball.

03:52So I think his turnovers, yes, could be up because of how he's being guarded,

03:58but I still think that they, Indiana, plays the game more close to the vest,

04:03and that's why I don't know if they can get a 20-point win.

04:05Thank you so much.

04:15Wow.

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