Andrew Schlecht

But he wasn't this guy.

And so to me, if you're giving him the time and space to develop, to show what he's capable of, he took eight threes today.

He hit four of them.

He's got a lot more to give.

And so if he can continue to provide that and provide it in smaller bursts whenever Shea and J-Dub get back, I think it just makes the Thunder a lot stronger.

Yeah, Mark Degnall was asked about this by my guy Joe Masato.

Just like, how did you decide who's going to guard who?

And they voted in their coaching staff meeting who was going to guard Donovan Mitchell.

And they voted six to five on that Dort was going to guard Donovan.

And I thought it was very interesting.

I even asked some of the players in the locker room, like, is that the way you would have voted?

And they said, no, no, I would not have voted that way.

Wow.

They would have voted Dort on Harden, which makes more sense.

We've seen a lot of that.

That is how Dort got his career started, was playing for the Thunder, guarding James Harden in the bubble against the Houston Rockets.

Yeah.

And so I probably would have voted that way, too.

He mentioned, you know, a couple of their coaches like that were like the deciding votes in this one.

It was it was a really cool anecdote.