Andrew Schlecht

That better help.

You got to be better than this.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, and thank the Denver Nuggets for making the Thunder solve zone.

Because last year in the playoffs, the Thunder were put in zone that entire series, and it took them a while to figure out things that work.

One thing that works is having A.J.

Mitchell and Jared McCain on your team.

That makes it work a little bit easier now.

But they know a lot of ways to attack it.

They know how to attack.

Really, it was way too easy for them to attack off drives into that zone.

But also, they've done a good job of just entering the ball into the middle zone

of the zone passing out or turning and shooting like that.

It's, it's becoming like a little bit like clockwork for them.

And whenever the Lakers went into zone, the thunder attacks so fast.

Some of it is personnel-based, too.

And one of the things I think, and this should go on Shea's MVP resume, is he is a much better passer and is making his teammates much better this season.

Part of the reason for the Thunder's success is Shea's ability to see the court a little bit better.

And so that is also helping them out when they're attacking the zone.

I mean, really health is the biggest one because we haven't seen them go a long stretch of having all their guys.