Andrew Schlecht

And then two, you take all the creators besides Shea off the court and things just get a lot harder.

It was a lot harder for Shea.

It was a lot harder for everybody.

Even like Alex Caruso was a superhero at times during that series.

you could even see the Spurs begin to wear him down.

And a lot of it was this lack of creation that the Thunder had out there.

And when, if you don't have AJ Mitchell and you don't have Jada, the job of everybody offensively is really hard to wear.

Like Jared McCain become, he became outrageously important.

Like, I don't think the series goes seven without Jared McCain for the Thunder.

They just needed more creation.

But yeah, I don't think there's any thought of trying to move on from Chet Holmgren for the Thunder.

I think that they look at everything very holistically.

Whether that's right or wrong, I think that that's how they're looking at it.

They're going to have to beat the Spurs at some point in the playoffs, but I think that they believe that if they were healthy, they would have.

And so I don't think that they are looking at Chet as if this is a problem that we can't solve or he's broken or whatever.

he's the next Ben Simmons or whatever people you want to say about it.

I do think that this is somebody who they believe is resilient has shown to be resilient because he's come back from two pretty bad injuries.

He had a foot injury at the hip injury and he's shown that he can be a resilient guy.

And so I think that they're, they're leaning on that more than they are thinking about, you know, really changing the roster.

Yeah, that's been part of the struggle with him is offensively when you look at Chet's game and why I mentioned the creators is that he's been a play finisher almost only.