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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Spurs Game 6 victory over the Thunder?
Coming up on the Zach Lowe Show, we got a special Friday show. Why? Game seven is happening in the Western Conference Finals. The San Antonio Spurs blew out Oklahoma City last night in game six in San Antonio. Everyone gets an off day to travel, or I guess the travel probably already happened for them last night. Back to Oklahoma City for the most eagerly anticipated game of the year so far.
Game seven, Spurs-Thunder. Last four have been double-digit wins. Game two was a nine-point win for the Thunder. I want a classic. I'm getting greedy. Enough double-digit wins. Let's have a classic.
Chapter 2: How has SGA's performance changed during the series?
It's Game 7. It's Shea versus Victor. It's the MVP versus the unsolvable Riddle. We got J-Dub back into the series. Did not look great. We'll talk about whether he even plays in Game 7.
Chapter 3: Is it time for the Thunder to consider a lineup change?
De'Aaron Fox... working his way back. Dylan Harper had a huge game, just a really fun series, but let's hope that we get a classic and waiting in the wings, the New York Knicks, Kirk Goldsberry is here. He was at game six. He's going to tell us about the atmosphere in San Antonio. We're going to talk about what happened in that game.
what the big trends in the series through six games have been, what adjustments we might see for game seven, even maybe a starting lineup change, and who should the Knicks want to win? Should they even care?
We kind of look a little bit at how the Knicks match up with both teams, and then we discuss Mitchell Robinson's broken pinky finger, potentially a big deal, quick takes on lottery reform, which expectedly passed the Board of Governors on Thursday, all coming up after this on the Zach Lowe Show. The Zach Lowe Show is brought to you by FanDuel. The conference finals are here.
Chapter 4: What does Chet Holmgren need to improve for Game 7?
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Chapter 5: Who should the Knicks root for in the upcoming Finals?
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The West has offered us so far in the playoffs this year, I believe, after the Spurs blew the doors off the Oklahoma City Thunder in game six in San Antonio.
Chapter 6: What impact does Mitchell Robinson's injury have on the Knicks?
Fourth straight double-digit outcome in this series. And the game two was a nine-point outcome. So we haven't had a thriller since the all-time epic game one. I tried to speak a thriller into existence for game six. Didn't work. I did predict the Spurs win. I thought it was going to be close. It was not close.
I'm going to try to speak a thriller into existence for game seven because we all need it. And the Knicks, the New York Knicks, just waiting, watching. Do they even care? The biggest story coming out of there is Mitchell Robinson's broken pinky finger and his potential availability for the finals, which is a huge, huge deal for the Knicks. We'll talk about that.
Kirk Goldsberry, you were at game six in San Antonio last night. What are you going to remember from the atmosphere, from the conversations after, from whatever?
Yeah, this young team keeps answering the bell. I didn't know what I was going to get going down there. I have such a great respect for OKC. The vibes in San Antonio are always reliable. They showed the nuns on the Jumbotron.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of lottery reform discussed in this episode?
Coincidentally or not, that sparked a massive third quarter run. But for me, in all seriousness, this is a team that's too young to be putting up this kind of fight. So they get beat real good up there in Oklahoma in Game 5. You don't know what you're going to get from these guys. And they come and they answer the bell.
So all playoffs long, Zach Lowe, this team has responded to losses against Portland, losses against Minnesota, and now losses against the defending champs. And they did it again last night. So I'm just struck again by how young these dudes are, but then how sort of ready they are to make these responses. And they did it again last night.
It's interesting how the narratives flip game to game. So game five, they lose in Oklahoma City, a game that was there for them to at least make close in the fourth quarter, and they couldn't do it. They committed a bunch of dumb fouls.
Chapter 8: What predictions are made for Game 7 between the Spurs and Thunder?
And the whole, like, well, this is the experience. This is the experience factor we've all been talking about. They're too young. The Thunder have the experience edge. And then in game six, season on the line, Wemby comes to the game dressed as a freaking monk, and they blow the hell out of the Thunder and force game seven. And so...
If they lose game seven and a couple of their young guys have shaky shooting performances and the Thunder role players who have struggled to shoot from three the entire series, we'll talk about Dort and whether he should even start game seven in a second, have an outlier shooting game. Will the narrative flip back to, well, look, the experience carried the day in the end, or like this team of...
Young guys in De'Aaron Fox and Harrison Barnes and a little Luke Cornett has taken the thunder to Game 7 of the conference finals. Is the experience thing just over? Have the Spurs debunked it? Or is Game 7 going to be sort of stupidly, narratively determinative?
Because to me, if you get to Game 7 and you win a game like that with your backs against the wall, I kind of think you've already proven you're pretty much ready to win the championship. Game 7 is a coin flip, whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so. I think this team, they've proven a lot. And if you talk to any fan, anybody around this organization, a coach, even a player, if you say, hey, back in October, we're going to have game seven in Oklahoma City to go to the finals. They would have been like, let's go. Where do I sign? This is beyond expectation. This team has had a first playoff run that is just incredible.
And the conventional wisdom, you've said it, I've said it for the last few months, is a team usually has to take their lumps. Bill has said it. And maybe they will. And I think that's what game seven is really about, right?
are they going to be the first team in a very long time to just go from, Hey, we've never been in the playoffs to now we're in the finals, or are they going to have one of these teaching moments, uh, that a lot of these young teams have either way, those act to your point, they've already done a lot. They're playing with house money to some extent.
I know the players and coaches don't want to think like that, but when we look back at what we were talking about with this group in October, I think that is where we're at with them.
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