Logan Murdock

a series, like what's the scouting like during those types of environments and how do players kind of navigate their way through?

Because he goes from, you know, the first game shooting 12 of 31 from the field in the final game, he scores damn near half their points.

Right.

So like, how did, how do you, how do you, how have you seen players like that kind of figure their way through series?

Yeah, I remember there was one series that sticks out to your point about, you know, players kind of taking the lid off of a shot blocker.

And I'm thinking about like the 09, I think it was conference finals, Lakers Nuggets, where Birdman was like the shot blocking Saban at that time.

Right.

And it was kind of like everybody said throughout that playoffs.

And I remember Shannon Brown caught him on a fast break and just in his face, right?

Just dunked all in his face.

And that opened the floodgates for a lot, the rest of the team to just like not be as intimidated with Birdman as they once were.

Like, you know, I think Lamar Odom caught a potty during that, during that series as well.

But what I'm saying, I'll let this say is like, when you see your star player or a player kind of take it to a shop, like in a series like that, who's intimidating.

Yeah.

it really opens it up for everyone else.

And I thought you kind of saw that as the series progressed.

It's like, you know, the Knicks stopped being scared of Wimby after a certain point in time and they would just go whether they were getting blocked or not.

And that's something that OKC just didn't do.

They never kind of got to that point where they were like, OK, we're not scared of him anymore.

We don't even care if we get blocked.