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All right, let's talk about the Thunder defense, because I think they made even more changes on that end than they did in game one.

On the one hand, it felt like they worked in part because when Benyama did not get nearly as many shots at the rim in game one, 72 percent of his attempts were at the rim, according to cleaning the glass in game two.

31% of his attempts were at the rim.

On the other hand, the Spurs put up a better offensive rating than they did in game one by a lot.

A lot of that is just jump shooting.

They made their long twos and they made a lot more threes or they shot much better on threes.

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.