Blazers hand Thunder first loss + how high can Rockets go?
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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Dave DuFour and Zena Keita breakdown the Thunder's loss to the Trailblazers and Luka Doncic's impressive night against Wemby and the Spurs. Then, Will Guillory joins the show from Memphis to discuss Houston's start to the season, Kevin Durant's struggles, and why there's more to the problems in Memphis than Ja Morant.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Will Guillory
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 6, 2025. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Dave DeFourer here with Zena Keda coming up, the Thunderloose for the first time this season. |
| 0:17.1 | We're going to talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:18.6 | The Lakers get a big win over the Spurs. |
| 0:20.8 | And Will Guillory is here. Talk about the rocket start to the season. We're going to talk about that a little bit. The Lakers get a big win over the spurs. And Will Guillory is here. Talk about the rocket start to the season. And what the heck |
| 0:25.3 | is going on with Jha in Memphis? |
| 0:31.6 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. Another busy Wednesday night in the NBA. |
| 0:37.2 | Too much stuff to cover, Zina. |
| 0:39.8 | I know. That's a good problem to have. We're not going to have time to talk about the ridiculous Donovan Mitchell game. Anthony Edwards was back. We don't have time to get into that. We're going to talk about that, like, probably next week. Because he had a loss, So we'll keep that to the side. It was a loss. But the reason is because the Thunder lost their first game of the season unexpectedly. You know, when we were looking at the schedule, trying to figure out, when are the Thunder going to lose? None of us thought, hey, second night of a back to back. That's my bad. I just didn't look at the schedule sharp enough. They also sat some guys. All right. So Chet was out. Alex Caruso was out. Lou Dort was out. But, you know, the, the Thunder were not just out of this game. They were up 21 to, excuse me, 41 to 21 at the end of one, Zina. |
| 1:28.8 | Like, they look like they were just going to blow them out. |
| 1:31.3 | It was supposed to be business as usual. |
| 1:33.4 | And I thought you were being funny there when you said, |
| 1:35.4 | we didn't look as sharply at the schedule, of course, |
| 1:39.3 | Shaden Sharp did pretty well. |
| 1:41.2 | But his teammates, Denny Avdiah, who's been on a tear this season, just being |
| 1:45.8 | a great offensive focal point for Portland, 26 points, 10 rebounds, nine assists, just one off |
| 1:52.9 | from that. And then particularly 15 of 16 from the free throw line. And then it was a bench |
| 1:58.5 | conversation. You just talked about the fact that OKC didn't have the depth that they typically have. |
| 2:03.1 | Well, the depth for Portland is what really changed the game here. |
| 2:06.2 | Thinking about Jeremy Grant, 20 points off the bench. |
| 2:08.7 | And then also a name that most people don't think about, |
| 2:11.6 | drop wreath coming off and scoring 12 as well for Portland. |
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