Rob Mahoney

It was interesting because they did kind of sputter to a start.

It was such an ugly start to the game before they were talking about it on the broadcast how they thought maybe that was a little bit of tightness or they were just kind of settling into their record groove as the game was going on.

You mentioned Durin.

I still think he is finding his rhythm in situations that aren't as simple as like

there were a few different plays in the first half where he was trying to attack one on one from like 13 14 15 feet away and just really really kind of clumsily get into his spot but I want to talk about Kyle our friend and his window Carter Jr.

I was like, oh my God.

There's something that I think is going to be a recurring thing for me.

It'll come back in something that we're going to do later, but I think that

they did a good job of getting during into some simpler situations, which was the last part of the point I was making before where they, they're getting a little more creative with how they're screening for Cade.

You know, we talked a lot in the first game about like the, just the straight up, you know, I hesitate to call it one five because Cade is six, seven, six, eight.

It's hardly, it's hardly a,

point guard center pick and roll.

But for them, it's 1-5.

And, you know, that was an easy situation for, you know, the Magic weren't like outright bringing another guy to the ball, but they were just like hugging the paint.

And, you know, for a guy who isn't like terribly dynamic in his ball skills, Durant just kind of like was, you know, looked like he was in a neck brace, just kind of didn't really know what to do.

And they were getting really creative throughout.

I wrote down just a few different ways that they were

In a sequence at one point, they were doing double staggereds, and then the second guy would reverse the pick, and then Dern would seal, and then it was like Duncan Robinson.

They were just really creative in opening up the paint, putting Tobias Harris and putting whoever it was in both of the quarters.

I thought that Brickerstaff did a better job about this than that.