Jason Timp
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is that the Thunder looks small.
And it's not just on the glass where they were out-rebounded 61-40 and 15-9 on the offensive glass.
It's the guards.
A.J.
Mitchell, Jared McCain, Kaysen Wallace, Shea Gildress Alexander,
Dylan Harper and Steph Castle can physically overwhelm those guys.
And they got all sorts of good shots for them in the paint with Dylan Harper just driving and bullying, Steph Castle just driving and bullying.
And so as we kind of zoom out from one game,
it looks to me like the Spurs have lots of different ways to get good shots in this matchup, whereas the Thunder kind of have a very unique challenge in front of them that I think they're going to struggle to solve unless they just hit a bunch of threes and force a bunch of turnovers and get out in transition, which they did, and it didn't matter.
And so that's what scares me for their matchup looking forward in the series.
Yeah, to take it a step further, Keldon Johnson was bullying Jared McCain.
Devin Vassell, multiple times in the game, was able to get to his spot for a little mid-range jump shot.
There was a classic play that I thought demonstrated this, where A.J.
Mitchell ran a ball screen, got to his spot in the mid-range, and got scared to shoot over Steph Castle, and it resulted in a turnover.
And then on the very next possession, Devin Vassell ran the same kind of ball screen against A.J.
Mitchell.
A.J.
Mitchell defended it well, stayed in front,
And Devin just literally rose right up over the top of him and hit a 15-footer because he's like three inches taller.
And the biggest problem is because Victor Wimbinyama makes Isaiah Hartenstein unplayable,