Tim Legler

He was going to affect the game defensively.

The functional strength and his ability to play through contact, stay on balance, get the shot he wants, it's incredible how much that has improved in the last couple of years to where now there really is no ceiling.

There's no limitation you can put on how great this guy can be.

And look, again, maybe it's not this year they're winning championships because the Thunder –

We're the number one seed for a reason.

They're really good.

They're very deep and they're incredibly well coached.

They're going to have something different that they bring to the table in game two.

But look, there's no doubt.

It's going to be a long run for the San Antonio Spurs as long as that guy stays healthy.

When that starts, we'll see what the Thunder have to say about that.

Yeah, and people said even the shot he hit, the three he hit late, the pull-up three off the dribble coming out of the backcourt, which did look an awful lot like the shot Steph Curry hit years ago, which was one of the greatest shots in regular season games I ever watched when the Warriors beat the Thunder in OKC and Curry hit that pull-up 40-footer.

It did look a lot like that.

Somebody asked me, well, what was the difference?

The difference, the ball was released from three feet higher than where Steph Curry released it from.

That was the only difference.

I think if I had to call out one surprise, it would be Denver going out as early as they did.

I think also...

You know, they dealt with injuries.

Boston being home already is a surprise to me, but again, they had a pretty critical injury, and that series flipped on its head in a way that I didn't really see coming when Joel Embiid returned to that lineup, and that really was the difference in the Boston-Philly series.