Kirk Goldsberry

People were talking about how Cornette had his best game of the season by far.

He was plus 13 in those 13 minutes, which if you've been following that, I've been posting about it over and over.

But when Wimby's off the court, the Spurs have just gotten blown out.

It looks like a layup line for the Thunder.

It started in the Wolves series.

Portland really couldn't take advantage of it.

But as soon as Luke would come in and Wimby would go off,

The Timberwolves, their eyes would get big and they would start attacking.

And whether it was AO or Ant-Man or Jade McDaniels, here come the drives.

And it looks like Luke might be hurt a little bit.

But for whatever reason, the Thunder were able to start doing that again.

And last night, I didn't pick up on any exact adjustments, Zach.

But those Cornette minutes were very good for the San Antonio Spurs.

And that's another sort of wonky thing to watch in game seven.

The Thunder absolutely need to win those Cornette minutes because when you look at Wemby's on-off splits, he has a net rating of 11 points.

The offensive rating for the Spurs is right at 112 when he's on, but the defensive rating of the team is 102.

And so they've needed to go out and just destroy those Cornette minutes on the Thunder side to make up for that difference.

And when they didn't do that,

In the first quarter, and then again in the third quarter, that's when this game got out of hand.

So I wasn't smart enough to pick up on any sort of defensive adjustments specific to the one-man zone.