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The funny thing is Shai actually has a decent squad around him, the issue really is that he is dribbling for far too long and isn’t circulating the ball as much. Maybe it’s because his teammates haven’t been shooting that well but playing iso and spamming middies is clearly not helping either for the thunder. SGA needs to pass around the ball more and get his teammates involved more

@@akshayar2467 that is not true at all, he's passed out so many times and we've had so many open 3s, our shooters are just not hitting them

Hell yea 😂

Sounds like you don’t follow Thunder basketball. Okc’s offense isn’t “forcing anything due to the Mavs defense”. They are simply missing a lot of normally open rhythmic 3 pointers! They are not being “shut down”. When those normal open shots start going down, game 1 type of results will happen without turning the Mavs over.

Deepest Mavs team ever I think. Imagine starting next season with this team...

I think Kyrie is secretly injured, there is just absolutely kinkther reason he isn’t taking shots, he isn’t taking three or long range two’s I reckon he is facilitating and secretly getting a lot of rehab on this injury in hopes it’s fine for WCF or finals

you can see the bias just looking at this series alone. Sga losing with a 30 piece, less rebounds and way less assists is seen as a young star needing help. The even younger luka with slightly less points and way more offensive facilitation for his team is seen as a ball hog who dribbles too much.

@@ellieswagaye they just hate Luka to be the 'face' of the NBA for another, what, 10/15 years? and that's alongside another white they hate,Jokic. lmao the NBA talking heads are lowkey being racists for a few years now

@@ellieswagayethe difference is the efficiency of SGA is better and the usage is lower Luka runs a much more Heliocentric offense

@@AngelLV2 so odd to me how a more heliocentric offense manages to be so much more effective at getting the team involved. Much higher usage too, dude is a phenom who cannot be compared.

With company of Stephen A, Keyshawn and bunch of losers who can' see winners like.....ever

The collective alertness and ability to recover is really impressive.

Alot of players are hurt, gotta keep it moving

@@alexham28 At Okc ?

@@adergas1 no just around the league it's the playoffs

​@@alexham28Almost none of them as important as Luka is for Mavs. His PIE numbers, last I checked was no. 2, right behind Joker. OKC otoh, has been the healthiest teams this season, hell, Chet was boasting about his attendance at the end of the regular season. Shai is playing with a stacked crew.

As mavs fans I agree, but injuries do happen to players tho.. Bucks played without Giannis and Even Dame also injured.. 76ers played with Injured Embidd.. We should be thankful that Luka injuries arent as serious as Maxi or Giannis or Embidd injuries

airballing open shots isn’t an experience issue…

@@HuanNguyen-th3sg how comfortable you are shooting is definitely affected by playoff atmosphere. You’re a casual if you say it’s not. Ask Josh Giddey or even Dante Exum. Exum was tearing it up towards the end of the season. Now come playoff time, they’ve given most of his minutes to a 3rd year player.

@@HuanNguyen-th3sg It is, cause shooting is as much a mental thing as a talent thing.

@@Smido83 110% true honestly any nba player shoots better from anywhere than someone who is not a pro. Ben Simmons and Shaq have videos on socials about nailing 3s over and over but in a game free throws were allready hard for them. We could probably never understand the stress of shooting with a whole arena screaming at you

​@@HuanNguyen-th3sg🤦

i think the age and inexperience thing is massive protection for them as well. I mean luka is younger than sga, lots of dallas' lineup is younger than okc's, and okc's lineup has way more minutes played together than dallas'. Alongside the no help treatment sga is getting now its insane to see the narratives flip so quickly to save that team.

@@ellieswagayeOKC is literally the youngest ever 1 seed and youngest ever to win a playoff series sure SGA and Luka are roughly the same age but that doesn’t change the fact the rest of OKC is infinitely younger

@@AngelLV2 "infinitely younger" is insane and exactly what im talking about. Crazy narrative being painted to the masses. Lively is fucking 20, okc's rookie got 2 damn years on him. Mavs have the second youngest average age lineup behind okc, and would more than likely be 1st if kyrie old ass wasn't with em lmao. Told you bro its a narrative being painted, this is really 2 young teams squaring off.

⁠@@ellieswagayethat is a lie. Kyrie ofc is 32. So is THJ so is Maxi. DJJ is 27. Dallas has 5 guys the age of 25 and below getting real minutes. All of OKC guys getting real minutes in the playoffs are 25 and below. Everyone one. Dallas isn’t young. OKC is.

@@whoopiebob8782 uuuuhhh are you stupid? you understand average lineup age is an objective numerical stat? Look it up, dallas is right behind okc in second place for youngest. Sga and luka same age, lively even younger than their star center chet, okc also has 23 and 25 year olds like dallas. Again without kyrie then we'd def be younger on average. Maxi is out and thj trash so not like they count.

A little less honestly. Nobody feared Brunson like they do Kyrie.

@@reececisneros1622 1000%, not only is kyrie an upgrade but PJ and DJjr are super disruptive w the rim protection lively and gafford are giving you

@@reececisneros1622 pretty nasty stuff

They’re missing open 3s.. that has nothing to do with a tougher defense. They’re shooting far worse than the worst 3pt% team in the league so far in this series. They were ranked first in % throughout the season.

​@@changed_name1951 This isn't the regular season and Dallas doesn't give up that many wide open 3s

@@changed_name1951 honestly might be just highlight bias but its the second or third game recap where I see dalas blocking several 3 point attempts idk if it is just me but that can kinda break your confidence in the 3 ball

​@@changed_name1951 they scared of the closeouts (look at djj's block on Chet as an example) + Dallas Is allowing 30% less of the amount of Wide open 3pt chances that okc got per game in regular season (23 open 3s a game in regular season to 16 open 3s a game against Dallas in playoffs)

@@changed_name1951 yeah, but if you feel constantly pressured, you'll even rush the wide open shots. It's a ripple effect.

Dallas offense have been off in both series, tbh.

and also too skilled. Luka and kyrie have been centerpieces to their impenetrable defense. Despite not getting some highlight blocks and steals they fill the gaps and direct the traffic defensively perfectly while not being as big or long as the guys getting credited for it.

A trade for jarret Allen could be good

@@theobadji6282 No it would not

@@adybalanolomete why ? It would add physicality rim protection even more some rebounding

@@theobadji6282trading for Allen would not work due to how okc plays he doesn’t fit at all he just wouldn’t play that why okc haven’t gotten a traditional big because they can’t play in the system plus shai is best in isolation having a traditional doesn’t work due to shai not being a good pick and roll passer so the big wouldn’t be helpful offensively he just clog the paint

​@theobadji6282 That's exactly who I'm hoping they get.

What are you talking about? The issues is they’re missing open 3s. They aren’t even crying for calls like Luka has done all series, so your comment makes zero sense.

​@@changed_name1951 Why would OKC cry about anything when SGA is getting to the ft line every time Dallas attempts to guard him, let alone look his way when he touches the paint.

@@changed_name1951 tbf Id say OKC is playing as tough as Dallas is Luka might be talking to the refs more but they kinda went for his knees these past games

@@changed_name1951Luka has been getting no calls all series compared to the Thunder, stop whining you ran into a better team, if you can’t make open 3’s that’s your teams fault execute on opportunities Dallas has done that all series and it’s how you win in the playoffs

It’s not that simple 🤦🏼‍♂️😂 our lack of height is nullifying everything this team is good at. Not that they aren’t physical enough. Those are two different things my man

Right, they looked pretty confused...

I mean you’re one of the only sensible OKC fans. Any team this young ain’t making it to the conference finals. You just need more experience and now they’ve got it after this year! Plus that pick could be a great player and with all of the high draft picks on this team I would not be surprised in two years they’re in the finals.

Btw you stole game 4 lmao the mavs literally gave you the game

@@lando9670 Yeah that's what I said. We were down all game just like four of the five games we played only in game 4 we managed to clawed it back.

@lando9670. And Mavericks stole games 2 and 3 because Thunder literally gave you the games. Neither team has stole or been given anything.

hey its not over yet!!!! you saw what antman did, i may be a mavs fan but im thoroughly afraid that okc can force a game 7. And if they do come up short, it was an amazing series as well as a great playoff run for such a young team. At this stage of building the lineup, getting that postseason experience is priceless, so it really has just been a net positive.

OKC missing their open 3s is the reason Mavs are still alive otherwise they would’ve been swept. See how dumb your comment sounds?

​@@changed_name1951 Not even in your wettest dreams were OKC able to sweep Dallas. It should have been Dallas in 5, but they handed game 4 win to OKC.

@@swhoshing6237 Kind of a dumb exercise, because OKC isn't hitting shots, but if they hit their average 3pt %, Dallas would already be out of the playoffs 4-1, winning only game 2, and all others would have looked like a blowout like game 1. Saying "if it wasn't for OKC's defense" is also dumb, because OKC has been a top tier defense all season, so that's not really an anomaly in this series. OKC is the better team on paper, but their inexperience is showing a lot right now.

You’re commenting that under anyone critical of the Thunder. People can have different opinions

@@hestilllives192 to be fair as both this and like 15 other videos mentioned already Dallas is quite well equipped to deal with OKC and I would not consider OKC a clearly better team, even on paper. As you mentioned, it is quite a dumb exercise as Luka is hurt and plays quite badly and Dallas is still up a game right now. Like as you argue that the 3pt % is not there to OKC but if you adjust the numbers of Luka you can have a case too where it is a gentlemen's sweep most likely. Plus again Dallas has a very good defense idk why people just don't like to admit that. It is dumb to say that OKC is in the series because their defense only but in the same time their 3pt% went in part down cuz Dallas just defends them well

📢 DEFENSE📢DEFENSE📢DEFENSE

Health at the beginning of the season is one of the reasons they are 5th seed. They would be in the top 4 if they had Gafford and PJ from the beginning of the season, probably 1st.

Could be shot attempts, could be he plays at his own pace to get to his spots

That's because Dallas decided to let SGA get his and instead take care of the rest of the OKC players.

@@swhoshing6237 not that much. I’ve been watching the games and they’ve had a lot of open shots but can’t hit em

well his job is to create for his whole team, right now he's losing because he can only create for himself. Luka and kyrie showing there's levels to this shit

@@ellieswagaye bro his team is missing wide open shots and turning the ball over when he passes to them

How would Mitchell be a perfect fit for okc?

One of their biggest issues are there size and u want them to bring in a 6'1 sg?

They should've went with Markkenen

Mitchell don’t want to be in a small market team like OKC . He’s sick and tired of playing for small market teams . He wants LA , NY , or Miami

@@sting114OKC won’t be small market for long

He can’t really drive over Lively or Gafford though and Dallas has been using the three ball and lobs a lot so I’m not sure how much Chet could really do, it’s just a mismatch

I half agree with you, only because of their game 1 performance makes me hesitant to fully agree. Okc is simply just missing shots plain and simple, these are shots they've been hitting all year, even at the start of games with "fresh" legs they're missing. But this is a series and everything is much tighter and schemed for so I do agree the pressure is catching up to them a bit, but at the end of the day they are just missing, been watching them all year, these are shots they've been hitting all year, even with great defenses they played against they hit their shots. I think it's a combination of series fatigue (shutting down luka/kyrie except game 5), most of them playing 90% of the regular season Chet having now played 90+ straight games as a ROOKIE is unheard of. He's a hit a major wall, and even though I don't wanna admit it, experience as well, because Jdub has not been himself which is OK it's only his 2nd year. It's a lot being asked of this team right now and I still do believe they'll find a way to win next game, just cuz that's their DNA, but if they do, I think game 7 will be the biggest uphill battle for them. And yes the Mavs defense is great, but I think OKC is the better overall team they're just not playing like it, and I feel like I explained why. Edit: also haven't watched the video, forgot who's channel this was before I clicked it and his takes are underwhelming at best..

Exactly. Thunder didn’t play a playoff team in round 1 . Pelicans didn’t have Zion

Well he isn't being doubled or tripled team.

He gets most of his points from free throws lol and he doesn’t really get his team involved his vision is iso. He’s not him!

@@TheBenchmarkLeague-cq9jobro quit recycling KZfaq comment takes u sound dumb. bro doesn’t get majority of his at the free throw line and he gets some many free throws because he barely takes 3s and always attacks. I’ll give you the vision tho he needs to work on it for sure and find the open guy on time.

SGA FG% - Regular season - 53.5% - Turnovers - 1.7 per game SGA FG% - Dallas series - 49.6% - Turnovers - 2.4 per game He's not as efficient, and is turning the ball over more often.

I think the Pels would have won.

OKC in 6 anyways, Pelicans didn’t have a big enough threat

Dallas defense is embarrassing? Maybe pre-trade deadline. But since then they are the #1 defense in the league. Held OKC and Clippers under 100 pts multiple games.