J.D. Skeets

Fun stuff here from our guy Schumann.

I don't know if he's here in the chat this morning, but he said, there has been at least one first-round sweep in each of the last 23 postseasons.

And appropriately, it was the defending champ Thunder to keep the streak alive here because they're going to be our only one from this first round to get the sweep.

The Thunder scored 126.9 points per 100 possessions over the four games.

It was, by a wide margin, their best offensive series of the seven that they've played over the last three years.

So they took care of the ball and they gave themselves plenty of second chances, as Schumann noted.

But that's pretty crazy.

Like the Thunder, we've seen them over the last couple of seasons here in the postseason, obviously going all the way last year.

This is their best offensive.

series against a good defensive team in the suns but they're missing some key guys uh for sure and look they they put up a fight no one was picking phoenix to win this thing most people were picking a suite and that's what it was in the end but besides that game one blowout most of the other ones even that game four last night it was fun when phoenix took a lead like in the second quarter

It was like a seven-point lead.

Whoa, okay, they're being tested a little bit.

And guess what?

They aced the test because they had the lead back by halftime.

They shot 54% from the field, 50 from deep, and 87% at the line where they went 26 for 30.

So pretty good team numbers shooting the ball.

Right, they know they've done it.

They hold themselves that way.

Yeah, maybe.

And I guess with the Lakers, we did have a little news that Austin Reeves might return here for game five.