Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host Andrew Schleck. We're part of the Athletic Podcast Network with me today on this just

atrociously IC Afternoon in Oklahoma City. So where I'm from, McKelle and a very different part of the world.

McKelle, what's up? How's it going?

Well, it's going well. All things considered. And it's ready. It's really gray here for most of the days. Today we had a little bit of sun, so I consider myself extremely lucky.

And yeah, well, we have basketball sort of over the next few hours. So it's, yeah, it's a good day.

The news drop just moments before we started this podcast that Anthony Davis is not going to play tonight for the Lakers, everybody. Great. Yeah. Cool. Yeah.

Bronze questionable. Oh, it's infuriating. The thunder are getting the kind of luck that we would have just begged for years ago. Instead, they get it this year.

When the goal is to get a top five pick, what a travesty. It's because it's not luck. It's being bad. When you're bad, good teams are likely going to rest. Good players.

This is true. This is true. So I know, sorry for whoever's on Twitter, thinking that OTC is actually good. It's not. And it's better than expected. Yes, still not enough to when you are, when you have the chance to rest, Anthony Davis, and you think you can get away with the victory, then you do it. And probably a little bit on is going to play it.

Maybe Anthony Davis will play the next game. So we're going to see him anyway. And tonight it will be the Dennis and Tres show or the Robi show. Who knows.

So Robi is, you know, I think he's listed his hours still. His foot is sore. And he was wearing a boot on the bench the other night. Yeah.

As only a preventative measure, we were asking or did not before we even said anything to him, pregame the other night, he was like, all right, let me go ahead and unload all of this on you.

And he told us, and he told us like Isaiah is going to be wearing a boot. He said it's only preventative. We're not worried about his health. So just so you know, he's going to be wearing a boot. That's going to happen. So it wasn't a mystery to people that were on that call.

And so I honestly wouldn't be too concerned about it. They haven't been to they haven't had the only concerning injury they've had is George Hill. And honestly, that's that's a helpful thing to this team is to have no George Hill for a minute.

So yeah, they put the Lakers without I mean, they could they could win this game. And it's just trim. It's bad luck for the Thunder to play a team that is that should trounce them and they could rack up another win. I know.

So people are excited about that. That's fine. When that draft lottery comes around these wins this Houston win. The winning against Minnesota while fun in the moment while this game may be fun in the moment. It's it shows a if you're just rooting for those wins. It just shows a lack of vision for one what the Thunder would like to do. And then to the future of this team. And I know that having a team loses isn't fun. But ultimately.

If you start watching some of these guys in this draft. You have to understand that the more games they win the further away you get from getting any of these really good players.

Yeah. And to be completely honest with you, I said to John over the last Thunder of the dark episode that to me. A game like the one against Minnesota, the second night of the back to back. You need to win that game. Because yeah, mean is that he's not playing anyone. You have Shay that is clearly the best player on the court. You have harmy that was clearly the second best player on the court. Wow. I said that.

Pass me killing. I'm sorry. But this is this is what we have. Okay, let's okay. Let's stop. I don't stop you. I there's like these weird like apologists on all this stuff. Like there's no apology to me made like if you want in the moment.

When we made the analysis on honey. He wasn't making good passes. He wasn't making good place. He had tunnel vision and he couldn't shoot the ball at all.

But we have no vision. We had no vision on the future. That is what we missed. How could you? What did you see that made you think that this is even possible. And I talked to Mark about it. Like what.

A lot of this is opportunity for him. And it's the fact that he works really hard when you when you don't see it. Yeah.

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