Rylan Stiles
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596 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Rylan Stiles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How many GMs will take out an op-ed in the Oklahoman and go into such great detail of what exactly Sam's looking to do, the exact players he's wanting to find and the exact team he wants to build and then to watch as this team got built and you realize how much it's not a happy accident. These players fit that exact archetype that he wrote about in 2019 and it's come to fruition now.
I think that it also helped to
usher out the paul george and russell westbrook era with that spunky fun chris paul team towards like okay this isn't all bad and then it did get all bad but again the fans weren't allowed in the stand so like the the swiftness of the rebuild certainly helped also you know you not being too hot right now helps a little bit too but like there could have been an alternate universe where you would have had to do a lot of uh rebuilding of your community much less your team had this spiraled on but it didn't
Well, I think that all we can do is take the players' words for it and they all say the right things and say what it means to them of like Che after winning Game 5 and winning his first conference finals and going to his first finals. He says that it was important to him and he had extra motivation to be able to do this in front of his home crowd and give them what they deserve.
And that he mentioned that after the Game 7 in Denver, One thing that stuck out then was like, it'd be unfair for us to let this season end for the fans, because they are the ones who are out here every day. We cannot let this season end for them. And so they always have treated the fan base as if it's a huge deal. So I think we have to believe them and say that it is, because J-Dub is right.
If they could get off work whenever this team is flying out of cities, like whenever they're flying out to Indiana at whatever time they're going to fly out, 3 p.m. or whatever on a Tuesday, they'd be out there sending them off like they're going to state. And they always are going to welcome them home, no matter how late it is.
I mean, they stood through a downpour the other day to welcome them home at the airport like that. That stuff is unique to OKC and I thought that Jada made a great point to also point out. It goes deeper than just that into like now that they're stars. They did that whenever they lost the play-in tournament. They do that at the draft intro pressers.
We all know that like these teams will draft players on Thursday and then fly them in Saturday and have a press conference. I Outside of those hotels where those press comments are at, whenever these guys haven't done anything for the franchise yet, they're out there supporting them and trying to love on them and get autographs and stuff like that.
So I think that that embrace is different because of what this market is, where there is no other pro sports team. There is no other main attraction besides OU football, which is also not 100% of the state. It's most of the state, but some people like OSU. So it's like this is the thing where everyone across the entire state loves and wraps their arms around.
in the final i think that there's two surprises one on each end of the floor for the thunder how does indiana defend sga and then how did the thunder defend the pacers and the thunder's defense of the pacers like i think a lot of people just throw that historically great defense line out there and kind of use that as their preview of the series yes they're historically great and this third defense is awesome and i'm not going to be the one to question how good they are but
what's been their their one thing that they do let up because mark's been open and honest about how in the modern nba it's impossible to take everything away these players are too good for two straight years they've conceded wide open corner threes and if the pacers can keep the turnovers down which is a great stat that they're the best turnover keeping team if they keep those down and i really trust halbert as a playmaker but also i think it's underrated a little bit is when he gets the ball out of his hands
I like a lot of the Pacers as secondary playmakers to keep the ball moving and then break down some rotations on top of the rotations that you willingly surrender to the corners. In the end, I can get red hot from three.
And does that force a young head coach first time in this setting to completely change what's been his identity and this team's identity for two seasons and stay home on those guys and shift how they defend? Ja, genau. with that same format by Denver. They didn't get burned with that same format by Minnesota.
So will they get burned this time against Indiana, who's been shooting the ball from three better than those two teams have by a long shot in this postseason? And then how the Pacers defend the SGA with all the different ways where Carlisle can approach it, with the different ways that he's approached it this season against guys.
I don't think you can just treat him like Donovan Mitchell and just tell him to knock himself out and go score as much as he wants, because he's much better than Donovan Mitchell. But by that same token... Do you cross-match Miles Turner onto Lou Dort and just say, if Lou Dort kills us and if he's our P.J. Washington, we'll live with it? Or, you know, and leave him at the rim?
Do you put Tress Nimhardt on him? How much do you want to help? I think that ideally, if I was Rick Carlisle, I'd keep Turner at the rim and just, if Lou Dort wins the finals, then it was never meant to be. I would keep Halliburton in the deep corner and then have our three best defenders, Nimhardt being point of attack on Shea, and then our other two best defenders, like a...
nie smith and a siakam on the slots to kind of dig in and gap on shay whenever he tries to get to the elbow and i have the pickup point be lower i would not pick shay up anywhere before he gets to the free throw and extended area i think that you saw minnesota in the tale of that series yeah their big win in game three they picked them up much lower why they didn't do it besides game three and like why they didn't do it outside of game three i'll never know honestly you cannot pick shay up too high
Yeah, I can see this being a situation like the Minnesota series where the Thunder start double bigs every game. That's their starting lineup. But I think when the final buzzer sounds and you review the minutes and the rotation, their starting lineup in minutes played was actually Chet Holmgren at the five by himself. So the double bigs were starters in name only.
I think that this is going to be how the series goes, where the Thunder are better off with just one center on the floor at a time. The Thunder can also throw their small ball lineup out there, which is Caruso and Kinrich, and see if anything sticks with that and scale up Dub and scale up Caruso.
That's helped them in the past, but I do think that at the end of the day, they'll be better off with just one center on the floor at a time.
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