Kirk Goldsberry
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And to the point about the turnovers, the single biggest differential, the variance in this series is all on one end of the court, Zach.
It's all on the thunder end when they have the ball.
They are scoring 124 points in their wins.
and 96 points in their losses.
The Spurs are pretty good for 112, 113, 114, 112, 113, whatever that is.
But the variance there, and why am I bringing that up now?
Turnovers are the lifeblood of this team.
And we've said it for years, Bill coined the concept like, hey man, this is the first defense I really remember that can go on a run by itself.
They get a turnover, they turn into a bucket.
They get a turnover, they...
If you can control the turnovers and the chaos against the Thunder when you have the basketball, that really reduces their ability to score on the other end.
So I think what you pointed out in the first part of that thing, the Thunder absolutely need to get those turnovers in game seven.
And the Spurs, on the other hand, need to prevent it.
I think the SGA stuff you called out is the biggest story right now.
I mean, this is a guy that me, you, everybody else was saying was the best player in the world.
Just coming into the playoffs, he gave us no reason to change that after the first two rounds.
He is averaging, his last four games have been the worst four games of his sort of time as a superstar in this league.
He's averaging six buckets on 17 shots in the last four of these games.
That's not good enough.
And I went in, I was like, well, what's going on?