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No Dunks · The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week · 8 May 2025
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They played with force. They completely sped up the nuggets. I talked after game one that I thought Denver was out in transition way too much. They had 24 fast break points, only five last night in game two. Shea Gilgis-Alexander is dominating in this series. He had 34 last night on 13 field goal attempts, made as many free throws as he did shots from the field, 11 for 13 touchdowns.
from the field, 11 of 11 at the line, had eight assists, two turnovers. So far, he's averaging a Giannis-like 33.5 per game on 60% shooting. Like I said, there's no matchup for Shea Gilgis-Alexander, and he is dominating his matchup on the flip side. Jamal Murray can't find any space with Lou Dort putting the clamps on.
And then the other question is, how were the Thunder going to guard Nikola Jokic instead of Chet on him? They started with Isaiah Hartenstein on him, and then they just didn't guard anybody else. They completely swarmed him. You saw J-Dub getting him on the switch a lot, standing him up as much as he could. And then it was just help off literally everybody. They're not guarding Brown.
They're not guarding Westbrook. They're not guarding Watson. They're even risking it with Michael Porter Jr. They're just like... Maybe he can't get the shot up fast enough with his hurt arm. And kind of playing out correctly for them. Gordon didn't do much either. Only 17 points on 16 field goal attempts for Jokic. He had six assists and six turnovers.
Six of those assists, or a couple of those assists, were like... Full quarters as well. So he's got more turnovers than assists. He fouled out. You look at the box outs. There's three guys on them. They're just saying, we're completely taking away Jokic. Maybe somebody else can beat us. It ain't going to be Murray. And the other guys were not able to do it.
Meanwhile, the other guys for the Thunders totally, the Thunders, showed up. Caruso, he's had two good games. It was mostly just defense in this one. But Isaiah Joe hit four threes. I thought Wiggins was an absolute demon. He scored 10 points in the second quarter, and everyone felt like a highlight play from him. Case and Wallace, a couple of steals and a couple of threes.
This was a perfect Thunder game.
to be taken out of that toilet they would just clog that thing up enough enough and that's why Jokic had six buckets six turnovers and six fouls he seemed frustrated with the physicality in this one and the bodies and so many people swarming at him I mean like you said he got himself fouled out that last one was the one where he was like jumping on Jill and William's back if I remember correctly the end of the third quarter so game out of reach and if anything it's like good yeah sit him down for the entire fourth and get ready for game three but yeah he was he was frustrated
That's so many freaking points.
I mean, the Knicks scored 91 to win, right? Yeah.
Very different games last night, for sure. Yeah, I mean, what to watch in Game 3, I just go back to, like...
dort on jamal murray like they're gonna like jamal has to help out yokich and but that is easier said than done when you're not like when you're in the torture chamber man like he was all on him like it was like easily game plan shut that off and like dort lives for that and then we can worry about obviously throwing everybody else at yokich because we don't trust anybody else to shoot on that team but jamal is gonna have to be much much better in denver to try and get this back
I think at the best, obviously a split back at home, making a three-game series because you got that first one in miraculous fashion. So, I mean, look, they're going back. They got the split. That's huge. But this was an absolute beatdown that I think, again, maybe more people expected probably in game one. But maybe there was a bit of a rust factor there. Who knows?
Because they had had so much time off. They just weren't ready for the different type of matchup.
I don't have a whole lot else from this one.
I think Aaron Gordon should bring the ball up more. Okay. Yeah. Alleviate? Yeah, like let Murray come and get the ball off the second side action or something like that. Save his legs, bring in the ball up the court, maybe Westbrook initiating things. It's risky, buddy. It's a risky call.
But they need somebody else to handle the ball besides Jokic and Murray, especially if Murray's going to be taken out of the game by the physicality that Dort's bringing.
What do you think of the Denver, excuse me, the OKC crowd changing how they received Russell Westbrook? Game one, it was all ovations, applause. This one was more leaning into the booze. Maybe a part of that is because they lost game one. Switch it on its head here. Westbrook had a fine game. I mean, he's a minus 30 like all the other starters. I mean, he came off the bench.
So it's not like he had an impact on winning, but he was at least getting into the free throw line a little bit. What do you think about that move?
Not really. No. It was more pointed out of people in the arena. Yeah, like I couldn't feel one way or the other. Game one was it like, wow, we're loving Westbrook. Not really. Game two is boo, boo, boo. Not really. So I'm sure there's like eight people that Andrew Schlecht is hearing. That guy's booing. I'll write that down. No, just a beat down. And it was pretty impressive.
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