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Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast

Trading for Donovan Mitchell? + Thunder Playoffs Next Season?

Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast

The Athletic

Sports, Basketball, Hobbies, Leisure

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht and Michele Berra discuss questions from our listeners about Donovan Mitchell and his unhappiness with the Jazz, How long until OKC is back in the playoffs, a trade that makes sense for the Thunder and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host Andrew Schleck. We're part of the athletic podcast network with me today.

0:11.6

It's my good friend, Michele Barra. Michele was up. Yeah, it's Monday. We had play of basketball.

0:18.9

Did I actually was able to watch and to enjoy? So everything is great. I mean,

0:24.1

man, the basketball was great over the weekend. Oh, yeah. That was, there's so many fun games. I don't

0:34.4

even know how to pick like my favorite series to be honest. It was so good. But we don't have time

0:39.9

for the right now, Michele. No, no, no. We got to go to some questions. It's a short show today.

0:44.7

My schedule is jam packed. So we are just going to squeeze this show in. And here we go. We're

0:51.6

going to go to some questions. Thanks for asking on Twitter. This is a great playoff question.

0:57.2

This is from Pepsi United. What surprised you the most in the first games of the playoffs?

1:05.2

Well, I even watch every game, but I was able to catch Memphis against Utah the most part. And

1:12.1

that was extremely surprising. Yeah. Memphis is great. It's a great team, but Utah. I mean,

1:21.1

they have all the tools to beat that kind of team. I mean, it's not that Memphis has some crazy

1:28.0

pick and roll partner. Yes, like Miranda is awesome, but it's, it's weird. Granted, no, Michele. So

1:35.6

short bit in the air. Well, the mental stuff is weird overall. I mean, he's acting like he's

1:43.3

just content. He has been reported that he's unhappy with the Utah jazz with how they've handled

1:48.2

things. It's, it's just an odd situation because he said he was ready to go in media availability.

1:55.6

Like publicly said, I'm ready to go for game one. They made him sit. Go Bears being weird

2:02.3

about it. He's being weird about it. The jazz are being weird about it. It's, it is a really

2:08.7

strange situation in Utah right now. Writing time when you need that. Like, yeah, it's, I mean,

2:18.9

it's not nothing. I still would assume that they get it together and beat Memphis.

2:26.9

But I don't know, like that Memphis team not only has like a young talent to point guard in

2:33.6

John Marant. And then they've got really, really nice role players all around. Like they're almost

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