Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vecini.

We are presented by the athletic.

Today on the show, it is a night game for me over here in Australia, a morning game for Andrew Schlecht over in Oklahoma.

It is the post-Chet Holmgren Renaissance morning.

Schlecht, first and foremost, how you doing today?

It's early where you are.

So let's jump in.

How are things going?

Oh, I'm doing great.

I got the coffee going. I have the, uh, still some, some post chat adrenaline still coursing through my veins. I'm feeling good. So it was great. We had planned on doing this, you know, a couple days ago, like before July 4th, we kind of planned on getting together this week and doing a podcast, right? And we were going to talk more about the offseason and everything. And we're still going to do that. That's going to be the second half of this podcast. But I mean, good God. Last night was one of the most fun Summer League viewing experiences I've ever seen in my life.

And it was in large part due to Chet Holmgren and the Oklahoma City Thunder starting the thin towers, Poku and Chet, starting Josh Giddy at point guard where he's just slicing and dicing

and doing whatever he wants on the cork, getting wherever he wants. We had Jalen Williams from

Santa Clara playing really, really well. We had just too much going on all at once it felt

like for a summer league team. Obviously, this will be a significant portion of the big thunder.

But, I mean, I'm just going to start here, Andrew.

I got texts from four different, you know, NBA scouts, executives, whatever last night,

asking me the simple question.

Is it started happening at the end of the first half and continued throughout the game.

Is what Chet Holmgren did last night the most impressive summer league debut for any draft

pick that we could remember?

And that, that's where we're at with what Chet did last night.

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