Jason

It was a wild year.

the volume all right welcome to hoops tonight here at the volume happy saturday everybody hope all you guys are having a great start to your weekend got a jam-packed show for you guys tonight we're gonna hit both of the games from tonight's game three semi-final slate and then at the tail end of the show jackson's gonna come on we're gonna take some questions from the jackets

some other stories from around the NBA that we're going to hit, including Steve Kerr's two-year extension.

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All right, let's talk some basketball.

So this series is...

progressing as I expected it to, I predicted the thunder would sweep the Lakers.

There's just a talent deficit that becomes impossible to make up for in this sort of circumstance.

When I was looking at the rocket series, there's a certain amount of like, yeah, the Lakers have flawed players, but so does Houston.

And one of the things that I talk about all the time on this show is

is the way that your stars through what they do on any, any given possession through like just straight up offensive and defensive contributions, but also leadership and infusing your players with confidence.

They can usually like pull something out of flawed players in a way that like, I thought that was a real differentiator in the rocket series among two teams that had a lot of flawed players.

Problem is the thunder don't really have that type of roster.

The thunder are the most talented roster in the NBA by a wide margin.

And they have like a certain amount of like, this guy's just better at basketball than your guy by a lot.