Kirk Goldsberry

This team has had a first playoff run that is just incredible.

And the conventional wisdom, you've said it, I've said it for the last few months, is a team usually has to take their lumps.

Bill has said it.

And maybe they will.

And I think that's what game seven is really about, right?

are they going to be the first team in a very long time to just go from, Hey, we've never been in the playoffs to now we're in the finals, or are they going to have one of these teaching moments, uh, that a lot of these young teams have either way, those act to your point, they've already done a lot.

They're playing with house money to some extent.

I know the players and coaches don't want to think like that, but when we look back at what we were talking about with this group in October, I think that is where we're at with them.

I mean, you hit on all the things.

I have notes on all of them.

The turnovers for the Spurs just quickly.

A lot of that has to do with, not Emmanuel quickly, but just quickly, De'Aaron Fox coming back.

And the turnovers that Castle had, just the nightmarish numbers we saw.

A lot of that had to do with him being asked to do too much.

And a lot of the eyeballs of that Thunder defense just locking in on that young man.

As soon as De'Aaron comes back, Dylan Harper's bouncing around again.

They can't just be as laser-focused on him, but he's also done a good job at taking it.

But that's a great point of something that has changed.

That stat you pulled about the turnover differential since, I would say, since De'Aaron Fox returned to the series in Game 3, that's a really big point because...

When you look at the splits in this series, and I don't usually look at splits, but there's six games now, and we can start to tell a story here.