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All right, welcome to Hips tonight here at the volume. Happy Saturday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys are having an incredible weekend. Well, we are doing the season series preview

for Spurs Thunder today. And this is probably the series that I've been most excited for, certainly

in my time covering the league as a fan, probably since the 2016 Western Conference

Finals or NBA Finals. Just two of the clear

best two players in the world going off against each other with two extremely talented

teams, both teams with legitimate weaknesses that they can exploit. What I think is really a

coin flip that could go either way. I don't think either team has some sort of clear, distinct, obvious advantage in this series. I just think this is going to be incredible. I cannot wait to break it all down with you guys. You guys know the joke before we started, subscribe to the Hoops and YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. We are on the pathway to 150,000 subs. It would mean a lot to me if you guys would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button. If you're already subscribed, like this video, sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. All right, let's talk some basketball. So the season series went dramatically towards San Antonio. They won four to one. Now, throw one of those games out because the Thunder ended up sitting all of their dudes in the final game of the season. So call it 3-1. Here's a quick breakdown of the four games. We had the in-season tournament semi-final. This was the Thunder's first real look at Victor Wemnon Yama, and they were completely overmatched. This is the game where every time Wembe was off the floor, the Thunder went on big runs, and then as soon as Wemby stepped back out there, they just immediately

dominated. And O'KC really struggled to get shots at the paint in the half court or at the

rim, excuse me, in the half court in this game. The Spurs were plus 21 with Victor Wembe and Yama

on the floor in a two point win. It was actually pretty close late. I rewatched the most of all of these games, give or take a few pieces here or there.

But I rewatched the crunch time stretch of this game. And the Thunder actually did a really good job,

swarming Victor Wemann, Yama, Alex Crusoe had a play where he stripped Victor on a pull up.

And Victor just somehow got it back and ended up making a shot. But Dort had this crazy helpside block on one of Victor's drives. And they were able to kind of keep things close. And they had a shot. Alex Caruso on a transition play had a point blank layup that, you know, at least would have given OKC a lead. Now, San Antonio would have had more opportunities, but could have potentially swung the outcome. He missed it. They went out the other end. I think one of the Spurs guards drew a foul,

and they were able to pull away from there. And Keen kind of put a pin in that because

those transition pushes were Wembe's lagging behind the play are really the best chance that Oklahoma

City has to score when he's on the floor. But clutch game in season tournament semis, the,

the spurs pull it out at the end. Second game in San Antonio. Actually, it looks like a blowout

on the surface, but it was a lot closer than you think. It was close for about two thirds of the game.

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