Tim Legler

And look, Oklahoma City, absolutely.

Not only can we get to, they can win this series.

There's no doubt about that.

They're that good.

But the San Antonio Spurs have something against OKC that most teams lack.

That is, they have the belief that they have what it takes on both ends of the floor against that team.

Because you need it on both ends against the Thunder at that level.

Very few teams actually believe they have enough against them.

The Spurs do believe it.

And that's half the battle in this league.

You've got to be convinced in your own mind that you can get it done, and they do.

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.