Thunder WIN 2025 NBA Title! SGA’s Dynasty Begins? 🏆 | Game 7 Breakdown - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

The Oklahoma City Thunder are NBA champions after defeating the Pacers in Game 7. We break down:   - SGA’s MVP performance** (31/10 in clincher) and his all-time season  - Jalen Williams’ rise as a co-star (40 pts in Game 5)  - Chet Holmgren’s resilience (hip injury comeback)   - Why OKC’s future is terrifying (all core players under 27)   👇 **Subscribe for NBA Draft coverage!**    #Thunder #NBAChamps #SGA #JalenWilliams   #NBATrades #Pacers #EasternConference    #NBAFinals #Thunder #Pacers #Haliburton #SGA #NBAPlayoffs #Haliburton  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00quick trigger finger just uh can't wait to talk about this so the NBA championship is now done

00:15and the Oklahoma City Thunder well not as easy as we thought it would be are the champions um just

00:22a very good performance and yes there is the thing hanging over this entire game of Tyrese

00:28Halliburton getting hurt and the understanding that yes that sucks but I do want to just drive home

00:36how good this Oklahoma City Thunder team really was um in this game and throughout this entire

00:43series SGA was in complete control of everything that that you saw there another excellent performance

00:50and you look at the numbers and it doesn't look that great honestly but he just had such a great

00:56sense of that game and it was just he is a whatever the defense um gives him flows with the game and

01:03just okay where can I attack all right fine gonna uh three point shot ah maybe it's not falling let's

01:07drive and see oh we're gonna get cut off all right let's hit from the mid range like he just has such

01:11a great control of everything that is out on the floor his playmaking ability was on full display

01:17in this matchup as well and it was it I had said coming in that it felt like a bit of a coronation

01:25now I said that coming into the series and I said that going into game six and we finally get it in game

01:30seven but this is really driving home that this is one of the best players in the NBA and he has an all-time

01:36great season when you look at regular season MVP regular season scoring title and

01:42postseason MVP or finals MVP I should say like very very few people hang out at that table and SGA

01:50is one of the ones who is going to be sitting there now and rightfully so like just the all-around game

01:55is spectacular offensively we just went through it how good he is at kind of controlling every little

02:02aspect of the game defensively he comes up with a good help defense block at some points there he is

02:07just a solid solid solid all-around basketball player and he doesn't get a lot of the attention

02:13because it's like there hasn't really been a whole lot of time with him as a superstar like it has just

02:21like jumped up in the last few years but there hasn't really been that um oh can he can he not

02:26everything has kind of followed a progression very smoothly and I don't want to say very easily because

02:31he has obviously worked very hard at it but it was just well he went from being a pretty good promising

02:36player to oh this is a really good player to oh this is one of the best players in the league and

02:39now he's a champion like there hasn't been that real stumbling block for them maybe the playoffs

02:43last year but there hasn't really been that stumbling block for him or for the rest of this team

02:48to really be like okay what is he what isn't he he's just gone out there and been awesome the whole way

02:54and so a huge credit to him for um leading this charge with Oklahoma City and getting them now

03:01into a spot where they are once again NBA champions um but it wasn't just him other players stepping up

03:08when they needed to as well and I mean look it was mainly just him in game seven because it just

03:15seemed like once he got comfortable everything in Oklahoma City ran through him and I understand

03:21like everything always ran through him but this one was especially like oh no he's got it he's fine

03:25he's fine just you want me to have the ball no you you have the ball oh Shay thinks I should have

03:29the ball okay well something must happen and he goes up and scores or something along those lines

03:33right like it because Shay was so comfortable and so calm in this game everyone and everything just

03:39flowed through him and almost deferred to him maybe a little bit too much on the offensive side but

03:44it's a game that they won after a strong third quarter relatively comfortably although a couple

03:48tense moments there late down the stretch but um other guys do step up in this series um Chet was

03:56shaky I I don't think there's any question about that but he grew into a role that worked for him

04:01and that is another part of this team like talked before about how scary it is that this team has just

04:07won the NBA finals and Shay got better as this went on and he may even have another level to get to if

04:14that three-point shooting can find a little bit more consistency um Jaden Williams obviously found

04:20another level and he very much improved as this series went along and series postseason whatever

04:26as it all went along and for Chet I don't think he necessarily got better um I think getting this

04:32experience is going to be gigantic for him and just playing NBA basketball is going to help him out

04:37quite a bit but I I think what was very interesting to see about this team is just how they were able

04:43to handle every situation and they were criticized in game one for adapting to the Indiana Pacers

04:49styles like no you guys are the favorites you dictate how this is going that's like okay but um

04:55that's not I mean that I mean that that is kind of how they've done it but they just do so well at

05:02oh what's that thing you guys are good at oh we can take that away and that that has kind of been

05:05their game plan all year and to be able to adapt to situations they're very impressive at it and I think

05:12they did that again in this series because Chet was not this offensive dynamo that people were hoping

05:17for him to be he was very good defensively but offensively there wasn't a whole lot so what did

05:24they do they adapted their situation around it and adapted their system around it so it is not just

05:29what the other team does it's like okay Chet doesn't have it this night well now we can do x y and z and

05:34to be able to have those counter punches when you have a 31 year old a 27 year old and otherwise you are

05:40a just a wee little baby team and the second youngest team or the youngest team in the NBA finals in like

05:4540 years that's very impressive and it is terrifying how impressive that was and then Chet falls into his

05:52um falls into a spot his rim protection great offensively like there is just they're just scratching the

05:59surface with him and just to be able to have him play sustained basketball is going to be very important

06:04for him and the development of this team as they try to take another step uh like we said before like

06:09Williams was great uh Caruso and Wallace were the perfect fits for this team as was Hartenstein like we we talked

06:14about it in the offseason when they made the move trading Giddy for Caruso and then signing Hartenstein

06:19it was like that's it like they're they're set they they have checked every box that they need to

06:25check that this is now basically a perfect basketball team and for the most part they were they only like

06:31what were they nine and two coming off a loss or something like that or 11 and two like they were

06:35just they were fantastic in all of these different scenarios they were brilliant and a huge credit to

06:41them for that and a huge credit to the team building but then you look even in this game

06:45Caruso with a good read gets a steal Wallace is just bullying people at a couple of different points

06:50Hartenstein is running point on a lot of different ones the movement is constant and relentless on both

06:57ends of the floor like they just they found the right pieces and everyone fits in it so very effectively

07:03and it's it is a masterful job of uh roster construction masterful job of coaching and a

07:10masterful job of playing the sport as well uh swig of water for the work of men

07:13so you really do have to credit this team for what they have kind of done now because it's it's amazing

07:22well what has been built out here uh if you're enjoying this video or podcast or whatever make sure

07:28you share it with your friends uh who doesn't love having a bit more of a sports conversation

07:32so uh share this video with them and just a couple people you don't like just to throw them off

07:36as well so the bigger part of the conversation now the bigger picture I guess with the Oklahoma City

07:42Thunder is what are they capable of um Zach Lowe was on Simmons after the game seven and was saying

07:50like that there may not be or may not have been a team in sports history that has been set up for

07:55the future as well as the Oklahoma City Thunder are with all the future picks that they have with

08:02the youth uh that they have and already having an NBA championship with an MVP and a team just

08:09that just seems to fit perfectly um this is a scary good team and could be for a very long time now one of

08:16the last times we said that was about these guys famously in 2012 after they lost in the NBA finals and

08:21then everything went to hell um to hell would be a bit of an exaggeration but that was that that was

08:29the team right like with Rhett with Westbrook with um Harden and with Kevin Durant who we'll talk about

08:34in a little bit um those were supposed to be the guys that really like brought this team into the

08:40next decade of great success for the Oklahoma City Thunder and it didn't work and they were able to pivot

08:45out of it and get a superstar in Shea Gilgis Alexander and build this team up very effectively

08:50so you don't want to just say okay well they're definitely going to be back and it's a dynasty in

08:55the making because we do that a lot with championship teams the last one we didn't do it with was the

09:00Raptors because there was a rather prominent fellow who was potentially on his way out but aside from

09:05that it's man who's who's going to beat this Nuggets team Celtics like this is the first of two three

09:10four championships maybe you know the Milwaukee Bucks all right they've arrived they got Giannis

09:14here we go um we've done this with a few teams now but this one feels different this one feels like

09:20they are a truly dominant team in the making and the fact that they were young and got better as the

09:27playoffs went on they faced adversity going to a game seven against the Nuggets going to a game seven

09:31of the NBA finals here they dealt with a lot of different situations and they handled it all

09:36swimmingly so they if they want to make some kind of a big move they have the draft capital

09:40capital to do it uh they do have a couple contracts that are coming up so big decisions are going to

09:45have to be made but they they are in a phenomenal spot to be able to do that just a wonderfully

09:52constructed team and are now the 2025 NBA champions just a reminder that you can catch uh new episodes

10:00of Couch Potato Diary all the time uh as we're putting them out quite a bit throughout the weeks uh it's

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