Thunder roll Mavs | Celtics cruise | What is wrong with the Nuggets?
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
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Mo Dakhil, Seth Partnow, and Dave DuFour react to the Thunder pummeling the Mavs in Game 1 of their series and the Celtics taking care of business against the Cavaliers, discuss the Timberwolves dismantling of the Nuggets, and wonder why the Knicks are trying to run with the Pacers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:09.5 | Tuesday night, post game. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dave DeFour here with Mo DeKiel and Seth Part now. |
| 0:14.2 | We're going to continue this throughout the playoffs. |
| 0:16.8 | We just finished Thunder Mavs game one. |
| 0:21.1 | And that was a blowout, guys. |
| 0:23.9 | The Thunder look really good. |
| 0:25.9 | They won this game 117 to 95. |
| 0:30.0 | And part of the question that we had coming into the playoffs for the Thunder and Mo, |
| 0:36.1 | we hit this very hard, especially around the trade deadline. |
| 0:40.1 | What were they going to do about their big man rotation? |
| 0:42.8 | Was Chet going to be big enough? |
| 0:44.5 | Well, in the series against the Pelicans, no problem. |
| 0:48.5 | Game one against the Mavericks? |
| 0:50.5 | Wow, no problem. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm going to ask you guys a question about every single series in the playoffs. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm going to start after this game one. Can the Thunder rebound like this for the rest of the |
| 1:01.0 | series? They had 16 offensive rebounds, 36 defensive rebounds out rebounded the Dallas Mavericks |
| 1:07.5 | by 13 total rebounds. This was the thing that we were worried about with them, and they were able to counteract their lack of size with activity. Great game from that. I mean, there's no reason not to think they can't do that again, and they can't replicate this the entire series. There was nothing about it. I mean, some of these possessions were, these offensive rebounds were four offensive rebounds on one possession and they actually ended up not making the shot. That was early in the game. Um, but in general, like, I, there's no reason to believe they can't actually do this over and over again to the maps. And I think it's one of those things when you're watching it, you're going like, yeah, man, this is, I don't want to say this is going to be light work for the thunder, but like, this is a series that you look at and you go like, yeah, man, the thunder should win this. Like, this is something that I think is right up their alley and the way these young guys are playing. It's absolutely phenomenal. Yeah, they won the turnover battle, Seth. |
| 2:01.7 | They won the rebounding battle, and they kept pressure on on Luca and Kyrie all night. |
| 2:08.0 | I mean, this was this was excellent defense. |
| 2:10.1 | It was excellent offense from them too. |
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