SGA drops 40; Thunder go up 3-1 on Wolves
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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Summary
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, and Jaylen Williams combined for 95 points as the Thunder took a 3-1 series lead in the Western Conference Finals. Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Andrew Schlect react to OKC’s Big Three having a big night and how the Thunder defense flustered Anthony Edwards. Then, Es and Dave discuss the “fouling up three” approach to end of games and whether the NBA should ban it.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Andrew Schlecht
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Andrew Schlect and S. Barahenny. |
| 0:12.2 | Coming up, the Thunder are up 3-1, which means probably moving on to the finals. |
| 0:17.0 | And S and I debate whether we should ban fouling while up three. |
| 0:25.1 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:26.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:27.8 | Guys, extra good morning for Andrew Select. |
| 0:31.6 | The Thunder win. |
| 0:33.5 | What might have been the best basketball game of the year. |
| 0:37.2 | Game four in the Western |
| 0:39.3 | Conference Finals, they beat the Timberwolves 128, 126. |
| 0:43.8 | Andrew, I'm going to start with you because on the last show, when we talked about |
| 0:49.7 | the Thunder's loss, I said they needed more out of Chet. They needed more out of Jdub. |
| 0:55.0 | Was this the best OKC big three game that we've seen out of these guys yet? |
| 1:01.9 | Well, I think S might have a staff for us, but I'll say anecdotally, yes, this was an absurd game from those three, specifically from Shea, who had 49 and 10 in this one and a steal. |
| 1:15.6 | He was so surgical with his jumper tonight. |
| 1:20.2 | He was finding the mismatch and he was getting to his spots and it didn't matter who it was, whether it was Jane McDaniels or if it was Nickyla, Alexander Walker, it didn't matter who it was, whether it was Jaden McDaniels or if it was Nikkela Alexander Walker, it didn't matter. |
| 1:31.0 | He was going to get his jumper and it was going to go in. |
| 1:35.4 | He just had a ridiculous game. |
| 1:37.6 | And then J-Dub answered the call, as did Chet. |
| 1:40.3 | They both hit massive threes down the stretch. |
| 1:43.4 | Chet hit two threes tonight. Dub. Chet hit two threes tonight. |
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