On today's show, let's talk about the Mavs versus the Thunder.

It's Lockdown Mavs, Locked on Mavrex crossover.

I'm Nick Engstead, host of Lockdown Mavericks podcast.

Joining me, Ryland Stiles, the Lockdown Thunder podcast were both of Locked on NBA

game night every night of the week.

Go check out that show.

Let's talk about this game because there's some stuff at stake in this game. It's an NBA Cup game. First game of the knockout rounds.

But these two teams have faced each other, obviously, in the playoffs last year and

already the season once.

But this is, this could be again, the Western Conference Finals preview coming up this

season.

Let's start asking some questions about the Oklahoma City Thunder.

What has been the

biggest change for the Thunder this season? Adding some new players, adding Caruso, adding Isaiah

Hartnstein, you've gotten him now for some games. What's been the biggest change for the

thunder from last year to this year? Yeah, what's crazy is we haven't really gotten to see the

biggest change from last year to this year because they just were like two ships sailing in the night of like

Chet was healthy at the start of the year. He goes down against the Warriors and now is

lost for a major chunk of the regular season and then Hartinstein comes back and in between

there you had J. Dumb moonlighting as a center. Caruso's been in and out with injuries, but he's

back now and in the fold.

So I really think that we won't really know much about this matchup, which I do think

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