Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

Sam Vassini.

Bryce Simon is here.

We are breaking down the Oklahoma City Thunder's victory over the San Antonio Spurs in

game five of the Western Conference Finals, 127 to 114.

I don't know, pretty simple game, honestly,

to break down.

We'll talk about some of the more interesting things that we found in this game.

But by and large,

Shegel just Alexander shows up in a big way,

gets a bunch of foul calls,

which I'm sure will be a big talking point.

Alex Caruso,

again,

just a massive monster game for him. 22.6 assists,

move the ball incredibly well. Wendy probably played the worst game. We'll see him play,

like in a playoff game ever in his career, maybe. Goes four for 15, 20.6 rebounds. It gets to the line 12 times. Honestly, Bryce, this is just kind of an ugly game to watch. Right? Like, that's kind of just where it's worth starting. Yeah. I mean, I think the guys you mentioned, for me, I think Isaiah Hardenstein is a guy that when you look at the box score, like the box score looks pretty good tonight, right?

12 and 15 and he played 31 minutes, six offensive rebounds.

I just continue to find him so impactful in a series where like you can probably go back

and find tweets saying, oh, Isaiah Hartenstein's going to get played off the court in this series, and he's not

going to be able to, you know, play in this series where he only did

play 12 minutes in a game one double overtime. So I guess

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