Thunder Fall To Celtics

0:00When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you. Navigating healthcare can fuel overwhelming, but you can count on real doctors, real nurses, real people, providing quality around the clock care when you need it most. They're in your corner. In communities across America, your neighbors, your lifelines, right beside you holding your hand and helping finances. That's what putting patients first actually means. Learn more at strengthinhealthcare.org Brought to you by the Coalition to Strength in America's Health Care. Now it's time for the Grand Casino Grand Play of the Game. Brought to you by the Grand Casino Hotel in Resort, Oklahoma's premier gaming and resort destination, with world-class shows, restaurants and entertainment, just a short drive east of O.K.C. And we have what called now. 100 call of time out. As Caruso's not happy that Brown got away with a clear hook, Sam gazelles over to talk to Caruso. Sit down, Sam.

1:00This doesn't involve you. Tade him one and done as he grabs the miss. Angling left on the dribble now, spins on Heartenstein. The crosses body scoops it, can't score it, but Spider-Man throws down the follow. A 192 Boston timeout gunner, as O.K.C. is having the fight take into them right now, and the Spider-Man stick back put two hands. Brown navigates inside of Wallace, into the pain, floats it up on the run, floats at home, and those would be finishing touches tonight as Brown base for another family. 117-109 Boston 45 seconds left. Shock lock off, Tatum rebounds a miss, and Boston's going to win it by 10. Final to that, TD Garden in, Boston Massachusetts, O.K.C.'s 12-game winning streak is done. They incurred their 16th loss of the season against 57 victories, and they're leading the lost column down to two over San Antonio for the top seed in the Western Conference, falling to the Celtics tonight. 119-109 at TD Garden in Boston. The Grand Casino Grand Plays of the game brought to you by the wonderful people at the Grand Casino,

2:00Spinozy's football home for unsportsman like Honda. Great place to spend tonight, use the old Sharman stick back if you choose. Do we get that on Urban Dictionary? Do we know what it means? No, I love that. By the way, Sam can sell Baltimore's own Sam can sell. Everybody's heard of that legendary, Baltimore Dunbar basketball team, Bugsy Boas, Reggie Lewis, Reggie, I mean, David Wingate. Sam was playing basketball in Baltimore that same exact time had to play against those dudes. Sam could roll, man. Sam could definitely play. He was great player. But I love the fact that Matt took a shot and shut up, sit down. Sit down. Sam, he's been an assistant for a long time. In fact, every time they play, you see Shay Gover and Hug him. He was Shay's only year with the Clippers. He was an assistant on that team. So they're tight. Yeah, I would expect him to be a head coach at some point. Yeah, you think somebody's going to give him a shot, but just getting back to the Thunder game because we haven't talked all out about it the last hour and a half or so. They just like every spot except for Shay and Lou.

3:03I mean, they they hit seven of 10 threes. The entire team combined hit five. That's it. I mean, that's it right there. They give up 99 points in the second, third and fourth quarters. There's your game right there. That's all of it. Yeah, listen, the Celtics were the better team last night. They were the aggressor and they just they they had help. And Jalen Brown was awesome, but he also had help. Guys were contributing. J. Dub was not good. Yeah, the guys who Jalen Brown was kicking it out too. They were not conscious. After once they got past first quarter, Shay talked about it in a piece of audio. We had earlier that first quarter was full as gold. But Austin was getting what they wanted. They just weren't getting. They weren't knocking them down. I mean, they get wide open looks. Yeah, listen, we we talked about this during the first take. Thanks to McBride. The last nine games to me. Well, it's it's twofold. It's win because winning is better than losing. And you have a very slim margin for home court advantage throughout if they don't get it. Is it the worst thing into the world?

4:05No, we can give you some reasons why we think that. But you based off what you saw last year, you would rather play as many games at home than not, especially that game seven. You'd like to have that game at home if it got to that point. But the other thing outside of just winning is J. Dubb needs to play nine games. He needs to play and he needs to play with the unit that he played with last night and the night and and Philly. But also how is he going to mix in with the bench guys? And how are you going to get AJ Mitchell's minutes mixed in? They have to play together. They've got to get that continuity going before they get into the playoffs. And I'm not worried about it because I do think J. Dubb don't figure it out. He was great against Philly. Philly's not good. The Celtics are a much better defensive team. They were really good defensively last night. And J. Dubb struggled a little bit. And I do think Mark Dagnott also needs these nine games to figure out some things, some rotations. And when you get into the playoffs, it's like everybody has a plan to take a punch in the mouth, the whole mic ties and thing.

5:06Like you get the playoffs, things change on a dime. You want to put an Alex Kruzel on a yoke. Exactly. You can nobody saw that coming in this year. No, you tear up the game plan and you just, you know, we're going with this plan now. And maybe a kind of Williams gets in there. And Aaron Wiggins and it changes. But you've got to get some continuity. So I think they have two fold wind games. Get the number one seed. Get continuity going. Yeah, just get J. Dubb comfortable. Whatever role he's going to be. Listen, he left the game the last season. He was the second best player on that team. He was Robin to Batman. He was an all star. And right now he's trying to integrate himself into a team that he's not played with in totality. He's not played with these guys. So everybody, everybody at the trough right now, who's been eating it and they've been getting those minutes, they're getting bumped down the trough. Whether it's right now, it's AJ Mitchell, AJ Mitchell bumped Kason Wallace down. Kason Wallace, I mean, everybody, their roles have been changing and morphing throughout the season. But I just think this need a little bit of time together.

6:06And by the way, that's not just offensively, defensively, they used together too. And both of those were on display last night. Teabag, we have audio proof of the thunder in a moment of honesty. I think it's Jay here, right? Which, you don't, I mean, you, you don't hear it like this. I mean, maybe I'm missing someone having talked like this about wanting that number one seed and how important it is. Because a lot of times we were like, as long as we're healthy going in, that's the most important thing. But the thunder, they talked about this afterwards. Yeah, and there's also, so we'll play the first clip. And there's also a follow up to to what Jay has to say here that we'll play after how important is home court throughout the Western Conference finals with playoffs to you guys. It's very important and not just in the West in the whole playoffs. We needed game seven at home against Denver, which is a top of the West. If you want to come out the West, you're going to have to beat them. And then we needed it against Indiana to win a championship.

7:07So it's as important as everything. And every team in NBA, that makes the playoffs and those that. Did tonight have a playoff sort of feel and intensity to it? Yeah, absolutely. Every time you play a Boston Celtics, you get a playoff field. No matter what day it is, no matter who's out there, they're super well coached. They have really good players. They give you, it's the, I think it's one of the pre-organizations in the league to play against. And they bring it every night no matter who's out there. Have a culture. They check on the boxes. And that's why they've been successful for the past years. So yeah, it's a game that you see where you really are and they test you. And we got to test tonight and we didn't pass it. I like the honesty. Pretty candid. He, and that tells you one thing also, he is not going to be sitting out games if he doesn't have to. He is going to play back to backs. You know, like Friday they got a game, but then they have a back-to-back Sunday Monday. It's really good competition. He understands what is at stake and they need to win.

8:08And I think for him, it's probably important to play with Jay to have a lot of minutes. Yes. Great man. Yeah, man. It's a, Jay has just gotten used to such a rhythm playing with AJ Mitchell off the ball. Well, somebody else is going to have the basketball on the floor. Who's going to be on the floor with him a lot more than AJ Mitchell is. So yeah, all of that just constantly changing and evolving, but it's going to be fun to watch. They'll be all right. And he did another thing he talked about, which was interesting. He talked about how it's good. He likes the fact that the spurs are on their heels because he said last year, because I didn't feel right going into the playoffs. I felt like I had too much time off. And I wasn't sharp. I'm like saying this coming from the guy who was the finals MVP and they want a championship, he still didn't think he was at his best going into the playoffs. So that's that's one way to look at it. We are the morning animals on this glorious Thursday, March 26th. Nice day. Don't care what you think. 91 for a high boy, Phil. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team,

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