Hey, yeah, I feel like Kobe in a fourth quarter.

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It's May 20th after game one of the Western Conference finals.

I'm here at Paycom Center with Rip Robson after the wolves dropped.

Game one final score was 114 to 88.

Britt, you said to me during the beginning of the fourth quarter,

this was the Thunder's signature game, not the wolves.

I think I agree with that.

What made it a signature performance from Oklahoma City?

Let's start there before going into the wolves.

The grinding.

You know, what they do best is multiple forms of attack on defense.

Their on-ball pressure is great.

Most teams choose between on-ball pressure or gap help.

They are physical enough and disciplined enough to make it work both ways.

They pressure you into needing to get off the ball,

and then the secondary players are ready to fill the gaps

and intercept any passes that you're trying to get out of from the double team,

or in some cases a single team.

You try to dribble and if somebody is at your side to lock you up and it gets frustrating.

And those types of turnovers that they generate when they do that are the type that go the other way for points.

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