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Man, we've got McKelley Barra here, as always, on Mondays, McKelley.

Last night, we saw a game that was enjoyable from the Oklahoma City Thunder.

This was the perfect moral victory for the Thunder in which you see them compete for 48 minutes you get good things out of your major building blocks in Shea Dorton Giddy and you get good vibes at a home

game in the arena you get somebody winning $ a home game in the arena.

You get somebody winning $20,000 hitting the half-court shot.

Just overall, just a wonderful night here in OKC.

It was a very, very good game.

I mean, I woke up at 5.30 with no absolutely, no expectations.

I thought, well, I usually look at the number of texts that are in the group chat and I said,

14. Oh, no. This is going to be a 70 points. Yeah, the DGD group chat was pretty, there was not a lot going on in it last night.

I don't know why.

I don't know if it's Sunday night game or what it was, but yeah.

Yeah, so after the first quarter said, hmm, okay, well, we lasted 12.

Now it comes there. Then, wow, then wow 24 wow 36 minutes of real basketball

this is this is awesome it was it was really great i mean starting with she just getting on track

right just after maybe the first quarter i don't know when it started to really click for him,

but he started to get in the lane.

I think honestly, it was when he wasn't playing with Derek Favors.

And that's going to be something to watch for is that having a big that can shoot, and this is something we talked about

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