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Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. Got a jam-pack show for you guys tonight.

Game four of the Western Conference Finals goes back towards San Antonio, an undermanned OKC team after the announcement that A.J. Mitchell is out with the calf strain, leads them going deep into the rotation guys likerich Williams and and Aaron Wiggins getting a lot more playing time than they typically did. A very fascinating

game. The Spurs changed up their coverage. Several Spurs did not play or several Thunder players

did not play well. Several the Spurs guards, big bounce back from game three as they do a much

better job running the offense. And we're headed back to OKC with the two two series we're going to be breaking down that game from the perspective of both teams then at the tail end of the show jackson's going to come on and we're going to take some mailback questions from the chat so you guys have any questions from this series or the next series really anything drop them in the chat we'll get to them with jackson at the tail end the show. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. We have a goal to get 250,000 subs in this postseason run. And it would help us a lot 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 we have to start with the coverage

change specifically here. We talked about this. We didn't really get into adjustments much

in game after, immediately after game three. But in last night's show, after game three of Cavs Nix,

we did a discussion about what we expected to see tonight.

And we highlighted a couple of specific things.

One, A.J. Mitchell being out in the kind of way that could affect O.K.C.'s ball handling.

Two, would the spurs change their coverage in some way, shape, or form?

Specifically, one of the things I talked about last night was either defending one-on-one or

guarding ball screen actions two-on-two or any sort of ISO involving basically just

Wembe and the guy that he's, the guy that he's guarding, and Shay and the guy who's guarding him,

being kind of like the beginning of the chess match for most of the battles that would take place in game five or in game four.

And the reason why was just the idea of standing around and waiting for the thunder to miss threes.

It just wasn't happening.

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