Tuesday night edition of the pod got a big celebrity guest coming up rich show shall it hornets GM and food blogger extraordinaire but first I want to talk about was a really fascinating game between the thunder and the jazz and also get to a little news see all on that takes us might even do a question or two random question between me and Danny but let's get started with this game 194 the thunder took it overcoming a 17 point deficit to beat the jazz thunder really look

dead in the water late in the third quarter how are they able to come back to me it was about defense I thought that they did a much better job in that second half making the jazz take harder shots and then reaping those rewards sometimes in transition and I'm sure a lot of people point to Russell Westbrook and I'm completely fine with that he did have some some big moments certainly had a great final line in the game 34 13 and 14 which is just ridiculous that's Russell Westbrook but for me especially at the beginning of the fourth quarter this was about

defense yeah the time when Westbrook was not in and despite his best efforts they started that fourth quarter down 12 and actually made up six points of that deficit without him before he came back and then it was actually I agree with you as a defense a really odd game because at half time the jazz let it 47 39 and it was a crazy fast game 52 possessions for Utah 53 for OKC OKC managed only a 74 offense of rating and continuing their offensive

drugs and I agree with you their defense holding the jazz the 12 points in the fourth was huge but the first half was so weird because of the turnovers Utah had 13 steals in the first half they stole the ball from the thunder on 24.5% of the possessions and then the thunder had seven steals right back from the jazz as well so and nobody was getting on the offensive glass so all that leads to very short possessions when you're getting it stolen before you can shoot and you're not extending possessions with offensive rebounds but nobody

had any efficiency at all and the thunder just could not hit a jump shot they were four of 21 on jump shots in the first half despite getting a few inside and then when the jazz really broke out to that 16 point lead in the third they were humming from three point range OKC's often still look terrible and then it took Westbrook really starting to go into hero mode to bring them back late in the third and Westbrook's shots in the third were fundamentally different because what it looked like to me was that they were letting him get a

little bit more loose to the middle of the floor and so he was taking those kind of out free throw line pull up shots and yeah I mean there is the the merits that are on mid-range shots but if you're getting open once from mid range especially somebody who can make those who can make them uncontested then it's a fine shot I love it when guys can create layups or create files or things like that but but he was getting into rhythm on those and then that help opened up some of the other seven and another big difference in the second half was Stephen Adams's offensive rebounding items had five offensive rebounds in the second half

and that's against a Utah front line that had at least go bear or favors out there and it wasn't actually that much of both of them at least the beginning because in that third quarter didn't seem like when senator could go away from it fast enough

yeah and that was the case as well in that game against Washington starting those guys it's completely nominal at this point he took favors out less than three minutes into the second half there those guys started together and played a mere five minutes together it's the most comical front court starting quote unquote pairing

since Bogot and Dirk played together in the front court last year and finally Bogot who is probably a little I don't want to say less prideful but a little bit more self-aware about these kind of things maybe that than a lot of people was like hey it's ridiculous to start me and then take me out of the game a minute later so why don't you just start Dirk and I'll come off the bench but you know Derek favors that doesn't feel as when he was playing extremely well obviously before then they did close the game with Rudy Go Bear instead but I agree with you you know Adam

comes twenty points nine of ten from the field had the six offensive rebounds in the game was really a huge difference maker because especially late he really when it was close that's how the thunder able to score in the last couple of minutes and he really dominated Rudy Go Bear who's just returning from that knee contusion he also had ten screen assistance game which is one of the higher totals I can remember in a single game and some of that is just you set a screen for rest and he's going to shoot it but but it can work out and I thought the other big takeaway in this game was really good.

It was that Donovan Mitchell was given a really really tough assignment in this game he was largely guarding a lot of times he was guarding Paul George and even more of the time he was being guarded by Andre Robertson that is an unenviable double if there ever was one and he had just a really nice game overall it wasn't the setting

necessarily saying the world on fire like when he scored 41 now this is setting the world on fire you put up 31 points on twenty two shots where I was going was where I was going was like the box course stats weren't there but in some ways this was

more impressive to me that's where I was going but I agree with you like that's how I took it yeah he also had four assists and five skills he threw four or five great passes that

actually was probably the most impressive thing you know as someone who I have not seen as many games of the jazz during this recent run and so

locking in on him he really had some beautiful passes a few of which were flood he had a couple to favors on just straight

penetration where he's able to find him the favors he got stripped he threw this one pass and it actually was a little

low it was late in the clock he was driving in from the left side and somehow he like turned his right hand it looked like backhand

and through the past completely across the court to Joe angles in the corner and I've never seen him in really

through a pass like that before but it was a little bit low so angles wasn't able to convert it and they ended

up I think getting a shot clock violation on that position but I'd never seen that sort of imagination in a pass

before from him and so that was all very impressive and then just the ability to get up those 12 three point shots

it mad heartbreak was all over this on the broadcast and it's something that we've been discussing since we first saw him

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