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Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast

Who Makes Sense for the Thunder at 6?

Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast

The Athletic

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure, Basketball

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the NBA Finals, Draft Scuttle and who fits OKC at 6


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0:00.0

Welcome to Down to Dunk.

0:10.5

I'm a host, Andrew Schleck, part of the athletic podcast network with me.

0:18.0

As always, on Wednesdays, it's my good friend Alex Spears.

0:21.5

Alex, what's up?

0:23.8

Good morning.

0:26.2

Good morning.

0:30.0

Now, game one, the NBA finals was last night, and the sons took care of business.

0:38.3

They did.

0:39.3

They were, I mean, they are a, they are a well put together team, you know?

0:44.3

Because I really are.

0:46.3

Because, you know, everyone, it felt like the Twitter conversation, if you weren't talking about how great Chris Paul was or how great DeAndre Aiton looked. You were talking about the Buck's

0:54.1

defense. And I get it because there were stretches in that game where it's like, oh my gosh,

1:00.3

Chris Paul is switching on to Bobby Portis every single time and scoring on him every single time.

1:06.8

And it's super frustrating in the moment. But on the other hand, if you look at that game as a

1:10.7

whole, like Bud tried everything.

1:13.5

Like, they did, they're switching, they did the drop coverage.

1:16.5

Finally, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, they go to the Janus at the five lineup.

1:20.9

Like, if anything, I came away from that thinking, like, the Suns just had an amazing game,

1:26.9

and the Suns are a really really good team

1:29.3

that's very hard to defend because they can beat anything because when you have two guys

1:35.1

who are so good in the mid range like can't really play drop coverage if you play switch like

1:41.0

every chris paul team throughout history is going to eat Switches alive.

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