Tim Legler

They're very confident against that team.

They made the plays they had to make the other night, the end of Game 1.

Let's see what the Thunder's response is going to be in Game 2.

I love that point you just made because that's the thing that stood out to me from the beginning about him.

Embracing that level of pressure, the scrutiny that comes with the hype that you had coming into the league, being picked number one, all of that.

The thing I loved about it, he said one time in an interview, he used the word responsibility.

He looked at it as his responsibility as the number one pick.

coming into the league to lead this franchise back to that place that they had been for so long.

You don't hear guys talk like that.

Like, bring it on.

I want that.

Most guys will talk around that, actually, because they're trying to get their feet wet and they're trying to live up to it, but without necessarily pointing the finger at themselves or

and saying, yeah, I'm kind of built for this, and I'm not going to stop until I get there.

That's what his approach has been the entire time.

Man, is it easy to rally around that from a coaching staff perspective, the role players on that team.

When your best player carries himself like that and wants all the responsibility and the light shown on him in good times and bad, it is so easy for everybody else in that locker room to fall into place, and you develop this incredible chemistry

which they've been able to replicate very similar to what they had in the Duncan, Genevieve Parker days.

Well, yeah, we saw the tape.

And when you're looking at the tape and you see him, then you start to see him a couple times live, and you're kind of going...

Wow.