Ian O'Connor
speaker
134 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jun
Ian O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He turns into Shaquille O'Neal, goes for 40 and 20, right?
Like game four, the guards have it going.
So he turns into Anthony Davis and he's just dunking everything on rolls and he's dunking everything in transition.
Then you go to game six and seven and he becomes like a point guard.
He's like...
attacking isaiah hartenstein from the floor and takes like 13 jump shots in that game it hits a bunch of them and he can kind of shape shift into all these different roles but fundamentally the reason why his offensive floor is so much higher than it appears in the box score
If you just run a ball screen with him and he rolls hard and you're just get a guard who can throw a skip pass and you're going to get open looks.
And that is fundamentally what makes them so hard to guard is you just have these three-headed, you have this three-headed attack at the guard spot who runs these pick and rolls.
Wemby rolls hard and Champagny can hit the threes on the skip.
Devin Vassell can hit the threes off the skip.
They just play really well off of the advantage that Wemby creates rolling towards the rim.
I was super impressed with those young guys.
They dominated that game.
Even the couple of times that OKC took a lead, they took a little four-point lead late in the second.
7-0 run to end the half.
They took a little lead in the early third quarter, immediately blew the game open from there.
They rolled up in there and played like a team that thought they were better and controlled it from start to finish.
It's causing me to reevaluate my kind of opinion as it pertains to young basketball players succeeding in the playoffs.
Man, this is super fascinating, Colin, because there's so many different angles to this offseason for OKC that are worth considering in the sense that I think on the one hand, it's important to admit, and every GM should be self-aware, I think it's important to admit that Shea, J-Dub, Chet is not going to be as good over the coming years as Webenyama, Harper, Castle.
And it may not be close.
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