Zach Lowe

But obviously, the number one adjustment was

We're not, we're not getting too cute and putting our wings on when, but we're just going to garden with our centers and that's going to be Hartenstein.

And that's going to be chat a matchup that we've avoided.

We're just going to play regular man to man, big versus big defense.

And we're going to drop back on the pick and roll because

because that's what we're going to do.

And they tried to go under more on screens against Castle and Harper, which I think was smart.

They can't always do it.

The Spurs are very good at preventing you from doing that.

But I think they just decided, look, here's the trade-off we're making.

When we put wings on Wemby, we can switch a lot and try to gum up the San Antonio offense that way.

Um, and, and we lose that ability, but we're trading that for, we just have to keep him away from the rim.

And they showed us in game one that when we do have wings on him and we do switch wing to wing, he's just going to roll and they're just going to throw the ball to him and he's going to get the ball and he's going to get offensive rebounds.

He's going to live at the basket.

And I think that largely changed the shot diet the way that the Thunder wanted it to.

We saw him, like, Chet's dropping back.

Hartenstein's dropping back.

The rolls to the rim are just not there in the same way.

They're there.

He can roll, and he has gravity, and he's opening up threes for other people.