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But how much does this win tell you about your team?
Both teams felt really dilapidated.
And when you think about it, sure, of course, Minnesota's already feeling this because this is their community, but the Warriors had been there for a while.
I saw content from coaches.
on January 23rd when Minnesota had their ice out protest.
So they'd had been there for a while and they had been in the midst of everything that was going on in terms of the tension and just also the cold of Minnesota, the physical cold of Minnesota.
So it just, it's one of those wins where it's like, it's good for the record.
It's good maybe for morale long term when you're thinking about the numbers and stacking up in the playoffs conversation.
But in the moment, it's not one of those like rah-rah type of wins.
It felt a little bit like that for them, I'm sure.
But OKC, they got to figure this out.
I'll take the OKC end of this.
I mean, yes, we've seen that this team has had some injuries and had some absences since the beginning of the season.
When they were still dominating, they didn't have Jalen Williams.
So we're looking at this depleted frontcourt, and we saw, yes, that the Raptors were able to take advantage of it.
But it wasn't even just the frontcourt.
The rotations were slow.
It felt as if you had no Caruso on the wing.
You had no Jalen Williams on the wing.