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Tomorrow is the final day that you can vote. So let's go ahead and run it up. Let's show what nightcap the fam do and how we take care of our own. Thank you for your support and your continued support. Again, the series is headed back to OKC, but we have a 22 game Victor Wimanyama in 31 minutes at 33 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals, 3 blocks, 5 alter shots and 3, boy. And 3, 3 and 3 made 3 point shots, none bigger than the half court shot he hit right before the end of the half. LeBron James and KD as the only players in NBA history to reach those numbers in a playoff game. He was sensational tonight. He came out and if you remember early in the game he went to coach Johnson and say don't take me out. And he left him in there. I believe that's what he said. I don't know if he said that but you know, normally he normally comes out at the five, at the seven minute, six minute mark. But he ran it all the way down to about four minutes before he brought him out. And Wim is like, look, if he dies, he dies. But I want to live on that. But I'm going to down this hill. I am, I we are. I'm bringing this series back to San Antonio and we're not going to Oklahoma City. Down three one. We're going tied and when we come back, we're going to come back. We know for certain that we are coming back. Joe, what was so impressive not only about Wimy but the way they played today,
Chad
man. Oo. When you look at San Antonio and how they built and what they can do to you this defensively dismantle everything you trying to do take take away every option they ain't. Hey, look, look what we talk about. Them guards they got. Yep, they can attack the basketball. Boy, when I'M talking about Garden playing defense. When last time OKC scored 82 damn points in a game. We gonna look it up.
Ocho
Actually look it up right now.
Chad
Look, they don't even need no help bro, with Shay, you know what I'm saying? That's why I tell you Shay has to take and make tough two pointers in order for them to even be in the damn game. He ain't got. Hey, look, we talk about OKC and what they've done, what the bench done last game and won in the game. Damn, man. I mean it was just non existent tonight, fellas. I mean they just. I'm talking about nothing offensively, no momentum. They keep getting off to these slow ass starts and it's killing them. It's killing them, bro. It's killing. San Antonio understood the assignment. Especially Wimby. You got to love his approach to the game and how serious he takes it, bro. You know all he wants to do is win. Uncle Ocho, he know, he know he gonna get his numbers here just by being out there. Yeah, you know what I mean? He's just such a huge difference maker here. He probably only one had a good game today.
Ocho
Yeah, but I. I thought those guards defended such at an elite level. Castle was in Castle and they switched it off in Versaille Champagne. Those guys were defending. Even de' Aaron Fox took the challenge. They that when he got maxed matched up on Shea, he dug his heels in. Not today. Nothing cheap, nothing deep. We are not going to let you get on the edges. We're not going to let you bust through seams. That's not going to happen. Like Joe said, if you're going to take these tough shots and make them, we will live with that. But we're not going to let you get and ones. We're not going to let you attack the paint. And you notice Joe for like the first four shots, Hardenstein was shooting that thing. And then all of a sudden, hey, hey. Women kept getting closer and closer. That next day, you know, he shot it clear over the damn basket. They see him in there, it's like, nah, let me go on back up out here. It's danger, danger, danger. He alters, he changes your way of thinking all that. Oh, you. I'm gonna attack. Hey, nothing go bull jive. You see seven four and a half with a damn near ten foot wingspan. You bringing that back up out of there. You bringing it back up out of there. I was very impressed the way they played today, Ocho. You look at okc?
Chad
Yes sir.
Ocho
They did have five guys in double figures. But I mean think about it. They shot 33 from the floor, 18 from the three point line. They, I mean 82 points for this team.
Joe
Hey, that lets you know. That's how well the goddamn spurs played, Uncle Joe. Especially defensively. Hey, Jordan boy was sitting in that goddamn chair out there, you hear me, man? In that goddamn chair. And this is the funny thing, this is what I love about basketball. Now that I'm learning it and getting into it a little bit more to try to understand it the way I do football and soccer and how unpredictable these games are. Honestly, I know I picked the spurs to win the series, but based on the way the Thunder played last time, especially they bench scoring to such a high clip that they did. I, I really thought, I really thought they won't come in this game and repeat the same thing. And it didn't happen. Got the goddamn bird. Hey, Joe. They came off soon as the game started. They was all to a hot start. I'm like, yeah, God damn.
Chad
Yeah, be aggressive.
Joe
Everybody hitting their shots. I, I can't remember. I can't remember what the lead was in the first, in the first goddamn quarter. I looked up and blinked. I said, well, goddamn, did the goddamn Thunder show up the goddamn play. But hey, listen, Wimy was sensational, you know. And then one thing, they didn't turn the ball over. Unknown. They didn't turn the ball over. The spurs didn't turn the ball over a lot. I mean, when we had four outside of that look at Cassell.
Ocho
Yeah, I think the thing is they're going to make some mistakes because they're young. But you see Johnson, Johnson pulled Brian to the side and said, bro, we don't need that. You trying to go one on four, get a charge, then you get a foul, then you get a turnover. He called timeout, said, you know what? I ain't calling time out to rest. I'm calling time out to get your ass out the game. And then you understand, Harper, there are. Sometimes you don't need to go one on three. You go one on three, they snatch the ball from you. In a close ball game, those are things that hurt you. Now look, we won the ball game, but I'll never accept anything in a win. I wouldn't in a loss. So when they show them the film and there'll be some situations like, nah, guys, we don't, we don't. This is an unnecessary play. Kelton Johnson, we just got a rebound. We don't need you to pull a three with 20 seconds on the shot clock. That was an unnecessary play. And so it's things like that. But they're young, they're going too young. And sometimes you have to learn by fire. But Johnson was not willing to run the risk. Even though they were 8 up 18, 20 points. Joe, he's like, I ain't running the risk. I'm not gonna leave you in there and have them go on a run because I know what they can do, I know they can do. Because you look up, they had a big lead. Next thing you know, you see, oh, OKC's going on a 12 nothing run. They've gone on a seven nothing run. So the coach is like, nah, there'll be a chance, but for you to learn. But not tonight, not tonight.
Chad
Hey, and, and when you got your, when you got some of your top players or your top players, when I'm talking, speaking in wimy, bro, when you got them policing each other, yes, it makes everything a lot different, bro. What coaches really, I mean, they do their job, but the players, your teammates, when you get on one another and you take that constructive criticism and be better, that's what ultimately makes you a great team. I think San Antonio scares me so bad, bro, because they're so great defensively. And I ain't just speaking on Wimby, bro. I'm talking about them guards, the way they sat down and really, really played defense today. I mean, bro, that's championship caliber defense, bro. I'm talking about, that's against a two time mvp, you know what I'm saying? Like we a, we ain't just talking about no anybody. Like these dudes really can guard. And I think every game will bring a different challenge. And whoever wins game five, fellas, that's probably who gonna win the series. I'm just gonna keep it.
Ocho
The last time OKC scored 84 points, they scored 82. They scored 84 was December 12, 2021.
Chad
Damn. Nice.
Ocho
December 12, 2021. So almost five years ago was the last time they had this few points in a ball game.
Joe
Hey, Uncle Joe, you think, Listen, I know four players were in double figures. Wimy, Wimby had 33. But you think because they played defense so well, it took something out of them on the offensive end?
Ocho
Look, I mean.
Chad
Well, I just.
Ocho
Go ahead, Joe, answer that. Go ahead, Joe.
Chad
I don't know if I want to say it took something out of them, but it takes away your trigger points offensively, meaning, damn, if I could just switch everything and we can sit down and play defense and they Got to overextend. Help. Oo then we. We limit you to creating opportunities for guys around the meaning Shay. Now, we gonna live with Shay if he gonna take 20 shots or however many shots he gonna take to try to get his points. But we can't let these other dudes get off. Bro, did you see what they did to his last game? Off the bench, man. We can't have it. How the hell we gonna win? We let them dudes go. 76 points off the bench. It seemed like.
Ocho
Hey.
Chad
It seemed like San Antonio took that personal because they. Hey, hey. They didn't give up. Nathaniel. Off the bench. You hear me?
Ocho
But I think the thing we got to look at, both teams can defend now. So it's not like one team can defend and the other can't. It's not like this lopsided battle because they got four or five guys, OKC on the perimeter that could defend at elite level. Obviously, San Antonio, they showed you tonight, they got four or five, three or four guys that can defend an elite level, and they got something in the back that nobody else in the NBA has. I don't know if we've seen a team where they could defend like they can on the perimeter and. And they still have protection in the back.
Chad
You're absolutely thinking about it.
Ocho
It's almost like if you're playing baseball, you got Ozzy Smith at shortstop. You got Pudge Rodriguez behind the plate. Hey, you got Keith Hernandez at first base. You got Robert Alimore junior At second base. I mean, you got Brooks Robinson at third base. You just loaded. Those guys can play. And then you got Greg Maddox, who has 18, 19 time glow glover on the mound. So when you got that kind of guys that can sit down for that, Joe, I saw a situation. They a. OKC shot the ball. They got the rebound. Dude, right there. Boom. They go up again, shoot it again. They pass it out there. Boom. Guess what? They got the rebound again. They tried to throw it cross court. Vassal say, I know where you're going with you go try to get this thing to Jayla William for a spot up three. Yeah, I'm on you.
Chad
Yeah. Picked it. Yeah.
Ocho
Down the other way.
Chad
Hey. Yeah.
Joe
Hey. Playing that passing, playing that passing lane work good. Especially if you can anticipate with the ball going, Joe.
Chad
Yeah. I think when you look at it, you know OKC only shot 33% from the field, but, hell, San Antonio ain't shoot but 38, right. OKC shot 18 from the three. San Antonio shot 27. This was a great defensive Game, a great defense. Two teams that are very, very, very similar and built the same. It's just that San Antonio got Wimby, bro. But they, they, they, they. Hey, hey. And when he's exploding like this and he. And he's scoring like he scored tonight, this is when they hard to beat.
Ocho
Also, Joe, they ain't let Hardenstein and check. They ain't let them guys run Wimy off the spot. When he come across the lane and they nudging him. And what they was normally doing, they holding him down. Scott Foster blowing that whistle.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
If you notice the stuff that. The stuff that they let them get away with, especially in game two, they
Joe
didn't let that slide.
Ocho
That's why you see the throw discrepancy. You saw one team shot 18, the other team shot 32. Now, the problem is, now you get into a close ball game, y' all missing those free throws. They missed a lot of free throws, Joe. Those are easy buckets.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
Those are an opportunity for the clock to be stopped and for you to expand on your lead.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
You know what, Uncle Joe? I kind of feel bad for. For Hardenstein and Shed at times, obviously, because of the disadvantage that they're at when they're playing against Wimby because of height, because of length. And the ref wasn't holding the whistle tonight, Joe, you know, the ref wasn't holding the whistle tonight, and it's like, well, damn, now y' all at his mercy no matter what. Because in order to play against him, you got to be aggressive. You gotta.
Chad
You got to.
Joe
You know, you got to. You already know what I'm, you know. You know what I'm trying to say.
Chad
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joe
I don't know all the goddamn basketball terms and terminology to use, but it's like. It was, like, almost unfair. They don't have a chance if they can't add that other element to trying to stop him. And every time they try to do it tonight, the ref called a goddamn foul.
Chad
Well, look, you got. When you look at Wimby. Yeah, they fighting him. Hardenstein trying to fight him. But, man, look, it's only so much you can do. If I go look at the tape and see. And see the adjustments I gotta make, stand my ground. You see how he holding his ground in that post? You know, they leaning on him and all that. He leaning back on him. He's starting to understand, bro. He's learning. As this playoff goes on, like, he. I mean, I don't know if his play can get better because he's had some. Some huge games, but, man, it's going to be a be. This is going to be a pivotal game five and okc. And I'm not going to tell y' all no lie. San Antonio scares me. And I know we kind of in the moment because they just won a big game and they did a hell of a job defensively. But they play great defense on the road, too, man. You know, they get off the great starts on the road, too. So even in the, even in the Minnesota series, you know, in Minnesota, they getting off to 10, 0 runs to start the game. So I know what they capable of is just can they sustain it for 48 minutes.
Ocho
But I think the thing is, Joe, is that we'd have been very foolish and naive to think they were going to shoot the ball like they did in game three. I mean, Caruso couldn't miss. Jayla Williams couldn't miss. Nobody think about it. They scored 76 points off the bench.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
They outscored their starters. And that start, one of those starters is Shea and Shay had a phenomenal game. So for me, it's like, okay. And I'm sure Coach Johnson told him, say, guys, what do you think the likelihood. Let's just continue to play defense like we're playing and let's see if they can shoot the ball. If they shoot the ball like that again, if we play defense like we play, we. But let's shut off some of that water. Let's. Those wide open looks, let's try to run them off the spot. Jalen Williams had some of those same looks and they didn't go down. Wallace and Joe and Caruso had some of those same looks and they didn't go down. So let's play the averages. Yes. Guy with five of eight. Yeah. One guy went four of six. But that's not what the average is. So the likelihood of them being able to shoot the ball like that again. But I tell you what, you defend just like, you know, like we play. We don't normally give up open looks like that. That's not who we are. But if we defend like I know we can defend, we can beat that team.
Chad
Yeah. And you, hey. And you can see, you could just tell when you watched when, when you was watching the game today, you could tell that San Antonio watched the film and was like, listen, we are overextending. Too much help leaving guys wide open, not knowing why. Man. It wasn't none of that tonight, fellas. Hell, it wasn't a wide open looks tonight. Hey, them Guys. Them guys was getting right to it defensively. Probably why they didn't play great offensively. You know, they just leaned on Wimby. But okc, hey, they got their hands full, bro. They got their hands full because when you got two guys in your starting lineup who barely giving you points, man, it's just hard. And you hoping that check Homerich was going to come around and give you one of them big games. I don't even. I don't think he gonna be able to.
Ocho
Not with Wimby.
Chad
I don't even see it.
Ocho
Oh, I don't see it. You know what it's like, Joe? It's like when we play time, whoever time was guarding you not gonna get no balls. Understand that? Hey, get you some great cardio in. You're not gonna have to come in and run on Monday because all you're running gonna be doing on Sunday, but we not throwing it to you. So if Wim is guarding you, unless he comes. Now, if he comes to blocking, you see a couple of times he came to block a shot check. Got a rebound, put it back. Or guys come get a rebound. Because weak side. He's going to challenge everything. If he's close, he's going to challenge it. So that's your opportunity. But as far as taking him off the bounce, nah, that. That. That's not happening. And you have to understand also Wallace. Wallace is and now superhuman. Shack.
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Ocho
how guys and sometimes we see this a lot Ocho with guys. Guys come in and like oh man, if he was starting, no, he going against the second and third and fourth guys. Now he's got to go against one and two guys. He's going to got to go against Rafale, he's got to go against Cass, he's got to go against Champagne. That's a whole different damn ball game.
Joe
Yes sir.
Ocho
Then taking Harrison Barnes or taking Keldon Johnson because those guys don't play defense like those first three guys that I mentioned. Even tonight you look at de' Aaron Fox dig his heels in.
Chad
Yeah, they say hey, I mean D Fox let him in rebound and said he had 10 rebounds, seven points, 10
Ocho
rebounds, five assists, no turnovers, Luke Cornett, the nuns were there. They say, do you mind if we bless you? Take a look at the video, y'.
Joe
All.
Ocho
I see it. I see. Hey, hey, you know.
Joe
You know what's funny, too? Oh, they were really. There were none.
Ocho
For real?
Joe
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I was watching. I think. I think it might have been the third quarter. They panned to him in the stands, and I thought it was part of, you know.
Ocho
No, you thought people dressed up.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Remember what's. The Redskins. Oh, my God, Ocho, Remember the commanders. Remember the. What's the characters? They had the P. Oh, yeah,
Ocho
the whole. Yeah, I know. You're talking about. Yeah, yeah.
Joe
You know, and the Broncos had the guy. Yeah, I thought that was. That was. That was something like that, but I didn't know they were real nuns.
Chad
Hey, I see why Cornell was pissed off about the Magic City night here he hanging with.
Ocho
Hey, hey, guess what? They gonna be back in attendance on game six. They might even fly to game five.
Joe
This was four. Game five back.
Ocho
Game five, Tuesday. OKC game six back in San Antonio on Thursday.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Hey, Joe, if. If the spurs can.
Chad
If.
Joe
If the spurs can muster it up and steal one more. Not steal when. Steal one away.
Chad
Well, we. I mean, we've. We've seen them do it before, Ocho.
Ocho
Yeah. Yeah.
Chad
You know, I. I think in order for that to happen, Wimby gonna have to play big. And. And. And these guards really gonna have to take away OKC other offensive opportunities, bro. Meaning we gonna play a mono Emano one on one defense. We ain't giving no damn help. You on that island by yourself.
Joe
By yourself.
Chad
Make his ass take and make tough contested shots, man. Listen, the way they move when they feed today, boy, I ain't gonna lie as a guy who enjoys seeing great defensive games, bro, like, when you can really mirror a guy, you know, how y' all say in football, a db, that's like the hardest position to play because you gotta mimic what a guy doing. You gotta do the same thing on defense, but you gotta do it going backwards.
Joe
Yes, sir.
Chad
Bro, how can you. How can you know and understand and guess everything that the offensive guy is doing to where you can stay in front of him and you be right there on all his moves, his crossovers, hesitations, his hitches and all that when you got guys who can guard like that, bro? Them elite defenders, man.
Ocho
Yeah.
Chad
Hey, hey, I know we talk a lot about Wimby and what he brings to the table, but he. And he does bring a lot. He is the Difference maker. Without him, this is a backyard game and it's even. But with him, with him on the floor, him playing like the way he played tonight, it's hard to beat him, bro. When he get it going, man, because he opens up the floor, he draws so much attention to himself that you start to get these wide open threes for these other guys. San Antonio scary, bro. They've been scary all damn year.
Ocho
SGA shooting 31 of 79. That's 39% from the floor versus the Spurs. Now you talk about a guy that shot 53, 55% in the regular season. This man is shooting 15, 16% lower than what he shot on the regular season. In winning back to back MVPs. That lets you know how elite defensively this team is. And like you said, he get there. Cause you know, like a lot of times he like to pin the guys on his back. Okay, you pin him on your back. But go ahead. I'm gonna run you right in there. I'll run you to the job. I'll run you right there to the lions. Then going in there, there you go, go ahead. He get there, you're like, oh, let me. Hey, let me try to pass this thing off. Cause he already know, like, he did hit a couple of tough shots over Wimy. I will give you that.
Chad
Yeah. If you hit those, that ain't gonna beat us, man.
Ocho
Jumping, you shooting the ball 11ft in the air and you swishing up my nets. Good job, good job, good job. Hell of a plate.
Chad
Yeah. Cause he ain't gonna. He ain't gonna be able to make enough. He ain't gonna be able to make enough of them shots to beat you, know what I'm saying? Okay, cool. You may make two or three of them. Cool. But hell, as long as you don't make 10 of them, 12 of them, are we good?
Ocho
And the likelihood of you making 10 to 12 of them. Now look, he's a tough shot maker. And the great ones can make, take and make tough shots, but they're not. That's. That's not. They like to get going, making easy shots, then they'll expand. They're making him take, make tough shots from the jump, Joe. He ain't getting no layups. Hey, he ain't flying through the defense. Cause they're keeping him from playing on the edges. He wants to play on an edge. He's looking to crack a scene. It's like, nah, we're gonna shut this off, bro. You ain't coming through here. You ain't Coming through here. And if you do get through it. Hey, Wimby, throw it up in the front row.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Hey, Joe. I know, I know. Shay only had 19. He was 6 for 15. Really wasn't that well, but the shots he did make, Joe, when he put that ball on the float and get to his spot, it's dribble, dribble, or the guy tried to play aggressive to one side. He just take that corner.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Keep him pinned right on his goddamn hip.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
And if they too close, he'll pump the pull up. Oh, that. Hey, he got a. It's like a very smooth. It's not like it's not herky jerky, you know, Some players like. Like her, you know.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Everything is real, like, real smooth the way you do it.
Ocho
Well, he's trying to put that. What he's trying to do is he'll put that shoulder and try to dislodge you from the spot. So that's how he creates separation. He's going to put the shoulder down, he's going to drive. You're going to try to cut him off at the point he gonna give you that little nudge. Now he's created the separation that he needs to elevate and shoot the shot.
Joe
Hey, hey, hey. Ain't that how Mellow used to create separation, too?
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Hey, Miller was a little mess with that little shoulder now.
Chad
Yeah, yeah. Hey, but, but, but San Antonio got guys who know that know how to absorb them. Them bumps and still, you know, make it tough for you, bro. It's like some guys, offensively, if I make a move on you, boom, I can knock you out of the play, meaning you can't even recover. You know what I mean? These guys, they never get knocked out of the play, bro. They stay within the play. Yeah. You may make a good move on them. They still pursuing. They still on high pursuit. You know, they just got a lot of hungry dogs over there, bro. And I really think they really, really feel like this is an opportunity for them to, you know, win a title. If we just gonna keep it 100. And I know they wouldn't like it. They. They wouldn't want to know other way than going through okc, you know what I mean? But, boy, it's gonna be a tough feat. I think this gonna be OKC's hardest feat to try and overcome over the past few years. You know, if you could get through this spurs team, I ain't saying it's gonna be sweet, but damn it, it ain't gonna be like this I believe.
Joe
Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's. Let's backtrack now, before this series started, okay? Now, I understand what you heard, what you just said, Joe. Now, remember, you went up. Now y' all picked the goddamn Thunder to win this series. Remember that, huh?
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Okay, I'm just making sure. I want y' all to stick to your gun, okay?
Ocho
Don't.
Chad
Don't flip.
Ocho
No, but I. But I believe, Joe. I think deep down, I mean, sometimes you say. You say what? You say it on surface level, oh, we can beat this team. But I believe, deep down, I believe they can beat this. They can be okc. They play like they're not in awe of okc. Nah, they don't stand around. They. Hey, from the jump ball. Let's dig it up, bro. What you got?
Chad
Yeah, soon as that ball go up. Yeah, you're right. They after you. They at your neck. Look, all year, man, they. They've. They've competed at the highest level. They've been at the top of the Western Conference the whole entire year. Like, they know. They know they can compete with the best. They know they have what it takes to win a title. They just got to go out there and do it.
Ocho
Yes. And I think the thing is, like I said, they just. They just have to be my. Because here's the thing, Joe, the turnover, the. The ticky tack, silly turnovers that they had late in the third quarter, in the fourth quarter, they had such a lead, it didn't hurt them. You in a game, a nip tuck ball game, you down 2, you're up 2, you're down 5, you're up 5. Now, all of a sudden, that puts you down, you potentially down 7, you're down 10. Or it gives you an opportunity to be up 7, up 10. So in a situation like this, you think about it, and that's the thing that you have to learn, is that you still have to be critical of yourself. And even in a win, most people don't want to be critical of themselves because you say, hey, the objective is to win the game. But if you don't correct the small things when you win, they'll bite you in your ass. And then you're like, well, what? Well, you could have corrected it earlier.
Chad
Yeah, yeah.
Ocho
It's like a child. You keep getting him what he wants, and you don't correct that behavior. What happens? What happens? As he gets older? He gets older when you haven't corrected said behavior? Yeah, you got to you got to.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
And you watch him? I watch them. I'm just watching them, boy. They like. Nah, get I ain't. They fighting over screen. They running through people. They do it. Hey,
Chad
you see how physical it is out there, man? Hey, I'm talking about. Listen, I'm talking about even if you ain't got the ball and you setting the pick, you know how they push. They push, bro. I. You know, when you, when you make an adjustments in the playoff series, that's the one thing that the team's gonna always try to adjust to, and that's the physicality of the game, because that's gonna determine who wants it more. You know, I see these dudes running through screens. They ain't laying on the pick. They getting that leg. Hey, I'm talking about competition at his highest level. This is why we watch. This is why we watch.
Ocho
You better. Hey, you better. You better. Hey, I tell you what, when you set the pick, you better nail your shoes to the floor because they're gonna run your through. They gonna run through your ass. Excuse me. They not playing. They're not playing. They are not playing. So you sit a little lazy pick if you want to. But I was so impressed with the way they won the game. I mean, nobody shot the ball. Well, and that's because both teams, I thought, played outstanding defense. The difference in the ball game. And Joe, what we, what we say. We always say Hardenstein and Chet need to cancel out Wimby. Their points, their rebounds, their blocks, their assists needs to equal his. Yeah, Tonight they were 22, 16 and 5. Wimy was 33. 8 and 5, bro. He doubled. He basically. He triple down the triple y' all up. I mean, look, y' all got 22. He got 30. What? He had 33. 30. He got 33, Chad. Got to give more than that, Hardenstein. Hey, if Hardenstein gonna give me 12, Joe, I'm looking. That's a game that we could probably gonna win.
Chad
Yeah, yeah.
Ocho
You gotta realize we ain't running no plays for him.
Chad
Nope.
Ocho
He's shooting the ball late in the shot clock. Go back and look at his shots. All of them was under five seconds.
Chad
Man, okc, it's like chick homers. He ain't fast twitch enough, you know, for his height. Like he can't. It's like everything he do is so methodical and kind of slow that.
Ocho
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch when he shoot the three, Joe.
Chad
Yeah, that's how Championing blocked his three point shot last game. You know what I'm saying? It's like his moves are so methodical that it's kind of hard for him to get his stuff off. And that's just me watching. That's my observation. I'm like. Cause I'm looking at other ways how OKC can kind of offset this pressure. Hell, they can't, bro. They can't offset it because the Bigs Hardenstein and Check Homer, they gonna always be in check because of Wimby Hill, you know what I mean?
Joe
It's just
Chad
dispersions got so much, bro. I'm talking about from. From. From a competitive standpoint, and guys who look like. And seem like they really taking it personal, they taking a challenge, they taking on. You know what I mean? They. They understand their assignment, bro. And it's. It's a good thing to watch because we've seen OKC dominate so much so long, especially Shay at his position. We never thought that would. There would be anybody who could really, you know, sit in the chair and make it tough for him. We've seen Marcus Smart do a great job on him against the Lakers. He got that one game. He got out. And we knew that San Antonio had guys who could really guard, bro. And they showing it, bro. They are showing it.
Ocho
Go ahead, Ocho.
Joe
Thank you, Joe. All right. I'm just gonna say I. I just. I'm glad to see y' all give. Give us, you know, give us praise. You know, I'm not saying us as in I'm a part of the spurs, but I'm just saying since that's the team that I picked to win this series, I mean, it is very refreshing to finally see y' all give us our flowers. And what I knew was gonna happen before the series even started, huh?
Chad
We.
Ocho
We.
Chad
We've been giving them their props, though.
Joe
Yeah, I. I know. I understand. I understand what you're saying, Joe. And with all due respect, you know, even with those props, both of you, I asked specifically before the series started, are you sure you want to pick the Thunder to win this series? I asked you twice, and both times, yes, we're confident.
Ocho
Head back to okc, right?
Joe
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Simmer down there. Simmer down there. Simmer down. Slip it down. It's supposed to be two. Two. Oh. We know this was going to be a boxing match. We knew. We knew it was. But the one thing that separated the two teams was Wimby, and I. I said that. And when we had a game tonight, now, along with when we having the game he had tonight, didn't Young Bulls Played defense out the Yin gang, huh?
Ocho
Yeah.
Chad
The question is, Ocho. The question is, can they duplicate this performance in OkC?
Joe
And see, that's the problem. That's the problem. When I just said when we first started the show how unpredictable basketball is, where I was kind of nervous the way they got there. Okay. I gotta stop saying God damn, like seriously, uncle's becoming part of my God.
Ocho
Yeah.
Joe
Becoming part of my vocabulary. And people in the chat. I'm not saying God, I'm saying got.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
But anyway, how the game is so unpredictable. Joe, the bench. Oh, Would you say they had 76 left last game, Right?
Ocho
Yes.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Hey, Joe, I'm thinking they finna come and do the same thing.
Ocho
This game had 30.
Joe
It was a no show.
Chad
Yeah. I didn't. I didn't think that they would give 76. I just think every game is going. It's going to require somebody different to step up.
Ocho
Yep.
Chad
You know what I mean? And you had McCain with what he had 22, 23 last game. Caruso has been solid this whole postseason, but he didn't give you nothing tonight. So you got to get back to the drawing board. This is why it's a series and not one game. They got to go home, take care of home court, bro. They got two games they can potentially.
Ocho
Yeah.
Chad
You know, if it goes seven, they'll have two games at home. One game in San Antonio is. It's gonna go down to the wire, though. Boy's gonna go down to the.
Ocho
Well, they had What? They had 34 tonight. They had 76. OKC's bench had 34 tonight. That's 42 less than what they had the other night job. What's impressive. Think about this. OKC scored 48 in the first half. They scored 34 in the second. 34 points.
Chad
Yeah, man. Hey, hey.
Ocho
This is. This is a virtuoso.
Chad
Yeah. This is from a defensive stand Friday
Ocho
at the Sydney Opera House.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Hey, what you know about.
Ocho
That's what that is. That's what that was.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
That's the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Okay. Hey, were you cultured?
Chad
Hey, from a defensive standpoint on. You're absolutely right. You know, I think San Antonio knows and understand that they are capable of these type of performances defensively to where they just shut your whole offense down. You know, they've done it on numerous occasions throughout this postseason. And I'm sure they gonna. Hey, they gonna be looking to go into OKC and they gonna be looking to steal game five.
Ocho
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Chad
Damn.
Ocho
Was it 50 to 38? 50 to 38. So they scored 44. I spoke, I thought they thought it was 40, 60 to 48, but it was 50 to 38. Still. They only scored 44 points in the second half. 44 points in the second half. Let that. But oh, what's even more impressive, they scored 38 in the first place.
Chad
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ocho
38 points. That team. Yeah, we've seen that team score 70. We've seen that team score 80 points and a half.
Chad
Yeah, yeah.
Ocho
You got a two time league MVP, a four time first team, all NBA. Chet was on the all was all defensive first team. And I think if you made what, what do you make? Second team or third team? All NBA. Damn, he made third team, all NBA. So they got two all NBA selections on that team and they got two all NBA, two defensive NBA on that team and they got held to 38 points in the first half, 44 in the second half. That is crazy.
Chad
Hey, easy.
Ocho
The way they said, the way they defended tonight.
Chad
Hey, you got. Hey, hey. You gotta have guys who, I'm telling you, man, who do not mind taking that challenge, fellas. And that's what, that's what tonight was. They. Hey, hey, hey, hey. No, I don't need no help tonight. I got him, I got him. Hell, he make a tough shot on me. He make one, but I'm moving these puppies.
Ocho
Joe. Back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, early 2000, the one thing as a team we would always say our defense will travel because they wouldn't get too cold, it wouldn't get too hot, it wouldn't get too windy, it wouldn't get too wet. San Antonio, that what y' all did tonight, that'll travel because you can take and make shots. The wind might be blowing ocho. We ain't gonna be able to throw it like we once could. It. It might be a blizzard. The wind might be gusting at 60, 50, 60 miles an hour. It might be a deluge, but defensively, we can package that. We can put it. I can play defense on the moon where they ain't got no gravity. I can play it on Saturday. I can play it in the sun. It does not matter.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
What the spurs did tonight, that will travel. The question is, will your mindset? Because defense is a mindset.
Chad
Yep. Gotta want to.
Ocho
It's a mindset. Man, look here. Them jokers, babe, they were so.
Chad
Hey, but when you think about it, I ain't think OKC did a bad job defensively. I thought they played pretty good defensively as well. I mean, they only gave up 103 points once.
Ocho
You know, I played 31 minutes. Now, women went out with six minutes to go. Now, women say, I have some more for y' all ass, but I would save it. I don't. I don't feel like I really need to empty any more of these bullets because y', all, you know,
Chad
they can't. Hell, the OKC can't get no buckets. They can't score enough points. They could. I mean, think about this, bro. If la. If game four, your bench outscores your starters, your bench win that, your bench win you that game, you can't expect them to duplicate that same type of performance in. In, you know, in game four. I'm sorry. Like, you can't lean on that. And I know when they made subs, you know, you got guys coming in, especially McCain being aggressive. You know, you got guys coming in, trying to get to it. But it just. It just seems so hard for OKC to get a bucket. Like, they working extra hard for every point that they had to come by. And it's like. For the spurs, it's just like ball movement. Ball movement here. Throw it up the Wimby. Don't. Boom. Three. You know what I mean? It's like they score so easily and fluently that it's so hard for okc.
Ocho
And they.
Chad
Yeah, they've been down a lot, meaning to start the game, and they able to fight back. But, bro, you can't keep getting. You can't keep digging yourself in these holes, man. It's gonna be hard to get up out of there.
Ocho
So, Joe, the thing is that what they got. What happens at the spurs is that what they normally do when they get a big lead, they start turning it over. That's what it. What they didn't do tonight, what they normally do and what they've done in some of the other games is turn it over and allow OKC to get back in the ball game tonight. Yeah. I mean, they had 12, you know, one game. I mean, think about it. They had 12 turnovers a night the first two games. Stephan Castle was averaging 10 a game.
Chad
10. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ocho
Tonight. What. What. What do you have tonight? One turnover. I can live with that. I can live with that.
Joe
Yeah. Here, Fox has. I think Fox, if I'm not mistaken, Fox has zero.
Ocho
Dylan Harper, two turn. I can live with that. Yeah.
Chad
Those.
Ocho
That is what I can live with. If we get a lead, make them make plays. Let's get a shot at the basket. Let's not let them get out in transition. Let's not get them run because, you know, they like. They. They gonna start celebrating, feeling good about themselves. Let's try to make them feel as bad as they possibly can about themselves as long as we possibly can. You know, sometimes, guys, you know, we can't tell her she look good. Cause then she gonna give us our ass to kiss. Hey, die, dog. How look.
Chad
All right.
Ocho
She 15.
Chad
All right.
Ocho
I tell you. Soon as I tell you how she look. All right. Hey, real talk, though, you got to be careful getting somebody attention. Because guess what? The moment you give someone attention and you don't continue to give them that attention, what would they do? Guys, they'll seek it elsewhere.
Chad
We'll find it somewhere. Yeah, yeah.
Joe
Or.
Chad
Finding somewhere, huh? True statement, boy. True statement.
Ocho
Once you started, mama, you like that. She really is. But I. I did. It was like, man, I'm. I had to be like a pep club, everything. Baby, you going to bed? Damn, you got a mask on your face. What you mean how you look? You look like you got on pajamas with a mask going to bed.
Chad
Yeah, yeah.
Ocho
You got a bonnet.
Chad
Hey, damn.
Ocho
What the hell? But okay, you look good. But.
Chad
Yeah. Yeah.
Ocho
And so the thing is, is that the way they play tonight. Package that up. Package that mindset. You don't ever notice how some teams play defense. No matter what you look at the Ravens, and Ravens for the. For the last couple of years has kind of been an anomaly. But you look at. For about 20 years, the Ravens played defense. The Steelers since the 70s were known for defense. Some teams, you just. That's who they are.
Joe
Yeah. That's their identity.
Ocho
That is who they are. That is a mindset. And guess what? I go draft guys with that mindset. Be who you are. All right? We don't want you to change. We don't need you to be no wild boy. We got enough guys that's going to go out in the community. Boy, this was, this was. Joe, what did you think about Ms. Johnson getting old? Rookie Carter Bryant looked like he was in tears in his eyes, but women council both went over to talk to him. We got the video. Okay, well, we can't show that.
Chad
Hey, that's, hey, that's part of being a young guy. You know, you got vets. Who gonna, who gonna. Like I said, you're gonna police you. We. Hey, we gonna do the job then. And the coaches ain't gonna have to do it. You know, we gonna police each other, keep each other in line. And, and it's also gonna make him, it's gonna make him a better player, it's gonna make them a better team because the respect factor is gonna be. It's gonna be there. You know what I mean? I don't, I don't mind that. I don't mind that.
Ocho
I agree, I agree, Joe. But I, I. The thing is sometimes, you know, and I tweeted, I was like, yeah, take him out. And they're like, you need to get experience. Where they up? No, bro, the last thing I want to do is to have him to keep turning the ball over and have them go on the run and they right back in the ball game. Sit him down. You'll have an opportunity to talk to him after the game.
Chad
Says so.
Ocho
Look, I understand that you want to be aggressive and good thing, but that you have to understand you have to
Chad
pick and choose
Ocho
when the. Bro, you got a, you got a one on three, you pick up a charge, that's a turnover. We playing extremely well.
Joe
Now.
Ocho
You commit a file in the back court, then you doing. I'm like, hey, like, what are you doing, son? Listen, listen to me.
Chad
It's a, it's a learning curve for these young cats, bro, you know, because it's not a lot of times that you get rookies. Like San Antonio got two rookies on their team. And, and what's his name? Harper. And what's the other kid? You just. Brian Carter Bryant. And when you playing on these type of teams, bro, you have to understand something. When your opportunities do come, yeah, we up big, but you can't be out there trying to exhaust your damn. All your options trying out.
Ocho
We.
Chad
We playing on national tv. I'm trying to give me some shine, man. Listen, you want to stay in the damn rotation, your ass better play the right way, you know what I mean? Because it's a pecking, It's a pecking order early, bro. You have to earn your stripes. You have to Earn coaches trust. You have to earn and your teammates trust. There you go.
Ocho
What? What? Imagine you did that. You made them plays like that and you on Jordan team. Imagine you made those plays like that and you on Kobe's team.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Coach ain't the coach before they do even get to the coach. So. And. And that's the thing. Yeah. We look everybody, we want you to get. We want you to play and play hard, but we also want you to play smart.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
Understand the situation of the game where we are, the momentum of the game. Pull it back out. There'll be an opportunity for you to get you an easy one.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
This wasn't the time I. I commend right for doing that. Hey, Kobe, like. Hey, look at. Hey, look at me, son.
Chad
Yeah. Like they say, if I. If I don't say nothing to you, it's a damn problem.
Ocho
Don't worry about it. It won't be long.
Chad
You know what I mean? Yeah.
Ocho
When they stop talking to your old show, it won't be long.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
Hey, that's the worst thing.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
As an athlete, Joe, and obviously, you know, when a coach is always on you, he on you for a reason.
Chad
Yeah.
Joe
He on you for a reason. When he stopped talking to you, when he stopped correcting you, that's when you need.
Ocho
When he stopped correcting. You know what I mean? Somebody else about you.
Chad
Yeah. I'm tired of your. That's what.
Ocho
That's what that mean. Brian. Billy, tell us all he said, son. Don't.
Joe
Don't.
Ocho
Don't cut yourself. Let me do that. Yeah, don't cut yourself. Make my job hard.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
Plays like that, you make my job real easy. I don't know how hard it is to do the job. You understand when you assume that role that you know, that's a part of your job. You know, they always, Joe Ocho, you know, they always try to make you feel better. This is the worst part of my job. I can't tell. You've been coaching. You've been coaching for 10 years. Do you know how many players you've actually cut in 10 years? At least at the bare minimum, 200. That's at the minimum. That's just for. That's just training camp going into the season. That's not the count. Regular season. That's not counting off.
Joe
I would hate, I would hate to be a coach, Joe, you know, to be in that position. Why I have to tell the player, even though it's his childhood dream, you're not good enough to play for us without without saying it. You saw for the blow. It's all in this. Anything you say, anytime you say anything to anyone, and it's in a, in a negative way. It's all about delivery and how you say things.
Chad
Hey, I, I, I think if I was a coach, I wouldn't have a problem telling guys that. Cause that should have cost you your job, Ocho.
Joe
Damn, Joe.
Chad
I'm just keeping real. I'm saying if I was a coach, I wouldn't have a problem in policing players. Because you got to understand, bro, if you, if you're not policing these guys, holding them accountable, they gonna run over you as a coach, man. I'm telling you, I've seen it time and time again.
Ocho
Absolutely.
Chad
You have to be somebody that they, that they totally respect, bro.
Ocho
Yes, sir. They get mad at me because I tweeted. I told all the time, Ocho, dumb players get you cut.
Joe
Yeah. Yeah.
Chad
Oh, hell.
Joe
Hey, your team, you got a bad team naked. Your players get you fired, too.
Chad
Hey, yeah,
Ocho
we had a guy especially, well, Richard Smith told a story. He said, son, that effort right there, I'll get you cut and me fired. That's a lose, lose.
Chad
You're right.
Ocho
I bet. I, I don't know where Rich at, but I love Rich because he was brutally honest. And that's what I. Just be honest with me. If I'm doing good, say I'm doing good. If I'm doing bad, say I'm doing bad. If you see an area I can improve in, tell me I can improve in this area. Don't bull.
Chad
Hey, that's, that's why I got so, so much respect for coach Nolan Richardson when I played the University of Arkansas in college. Un. Oo. He. He's super. You do Y' all think un Chad. Y' all think un old school. This the damn Nolan Richardson, boy. Hey. Oo, yeah, tough cookie, bro.
Ocho
He.
Chad
He. He rarely. He rarely complimented us. Rarely. I'm talking about rarely, bro. He rarely complimented us. And boy, hey, we worked, homie. We worked. I'm talking about. He held everybody accountable from, from me on down. He didn't give a damn.
Joe
That.
Ocho
That's the old school, guys. Barney. Them boys did good. What the hell they supposed to do bad? Yeah, that's, that's how he fought the O. I mean, what. No, hey, they did something. That's what he's like. That's what they're supposed to do. He said, I'm not giving no compliments for something you supposed to do. Now, if you did something out of the Ordinary or the boys went to school. The boys said, yes, sir, no sir, yes ma', am, no ma'. Am. They open the door, okay? That's what they're supposed to do.
Joe
That's my grandma.
Ocho
What? Okay, I tell you what. Wait. You'd had great. You'd had great. You'd had great looking like me waiting on him to give you a compliment. I told you told me and my brother anything is better than nothing. But you two fellas.
Chad
Yeah, close to nothing.
Joe
Hey, boy. Hey.
Chad
Hey, man. Hey, you.
Ocho
Hey.
Chad
But you got to respect them old school cats. Is they way or the highway, bro? Like you, you, you're gonna get with the program. Yeah.
Ocho
Either get good or get gone. Look at my honestly because you know, my honest never grown, but you know, you get grown, don't know what you want to do. You want to go out. Hey, I'm grown now. I want to go out, man. Papa say, hey, don't grumble and stay. He said grumble and leave. He said, don't tell me what the SOB I am in my own house. Tell me what the SOB I'm at your house.
Chad
Right, right, right.
Ocho
Guess what? They got up out of there. You're not gonna come and party porterhouse like that there? Oh, no,
Joe
please.
Ocho
And they know it.
Chad
It's different.
Ocho
It was back then, you know, you had to ask, could you take somebody daughter out? It ain't. Oh, daddy, I'm going. No sir, right. You came there, you sat down on the couch. Mr. Barney, I was wondering if I could take you. If I could take your daughter out. Hey, what time you plan on having it at home, huh? That's what it was. No. Oh, hey, mom, dad, I'm going out. No. Woohoo. He gonna come in there, sit down and ask Barney Porter could he. Well, look here. Okay, okay. That caused a lot of. That caused a lot of conflicts in the. In the, in The Porterhouse and Rock 4, box 385. That man didn't play that. Yeah, hell no.
Joe
I could have
Ocho
he give a damn you somebody else kid. Boy took care. Okay. That meant those guys back then, they demanded respect. You understood it from the jump. All that loud talking and yelling and. And no, no, no. So it was, yes, sir, Mr. Mr. Barney. Miss Mary. Yes, sir, no sir. Yes, ma'. Am. Hey, have that girl home at 12. Yes, sir, Mr. Barney. Okay, yeah. Bring in that 1205 if you want to.
Chad
Hey, hey, hey.
Joe
You won't see again, huh?
Ocho
Well, look here. I swear, I can honestly say, Ocho, I've never seen anybody My grandfather died when I was 8. I could only remember from the time I was about four and a half, maybe five, until he passed. Yeah, I've never seen a man disrespect my grandfather. And definitely not nobody that we were married to. No, sir. No, sir.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
Grown me. Look here. He did not play that. He did not tolerate disrespect. He did not plot that Kiki kid. He was the first person I ever heard say, kiki kid that made it play. But you know what? I wish I would get my brother on here, but he be sleep, he could tell you I forgot this story. He say, man, you remember when papa told us how to cut the grass? I said, yeah. I said, but Spanky, all he did was. Did a strip down of the strip back up. So the first time me and Spanky cut the grass, I was small. I couldn't have been no more than five. Spanky cut.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
One side in the back. I had the smallest side. He get home, he get out the car, he walk out there and look at it. Hey, you two fellas come out here. We come out there. I was like, I thought he'd go, hey, did a good job or something. What is this? Say we cut the grass. You know what he told us was that. That how I showed you how to cut it. He wants you to cut down and the wheel. Overlap the outside wheel where you went down. That's how he. You did it. Like he said, do it, don't do it. He said, I didn't tell y' all do it like that.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
Hey, I need to take you home with some people that's a little bit older than me. It wasn't. Wasn't that. That other. That other stuff? He got mad cause we didn't cut the grass like he told us how to cut it. Like he showed us grass. Man, you make it like. Now, looking back, bro, that ain't an Augusta National. That's not Pebble Beach. It got weeds and everything. Growing the dog fennels and everything, bro. Come on now.
Chad
Hey, hey, you know, the older folks, they don't play by their yard now. They don't play by the yard.
Ocho
Boy, I could imagine you. We talked about that. That guy walking on the yacht. Boy, I sure wish that was Barney Porter Yard you walked in. I bet you wouldn't have did that. First of all, you'd never play by their yard. No, sir, that would have never happened. Joe, what do you think about the sport? Spurs, culture, seemingly women. Ms. Johnson off to pick it up where Timmy and Pop left off culture is only good.
Chad
Yeah, man. I mean, they. They. They headed in the right direction. I think they have a great players coach who the co. Who the players respect, first and foremost. That's probably number one for me.
Ocho
Yes.
Chad
When you got your players who respect the coach. Cause that'll take you a long time.
Ocho
Absolutely, Joe.
Chad
Yeah. And now you got, you know, your players policing one another. That's another recipe for, you know, championship pedigree. You know, I've seen it, bro. I know what it looked like. And the spurs have a bright future. I mean, hell, are they the youngest team still. They still the youngest team.
Ocho
2.7.
Chad
And to be. And to be playing this type of basketball, bro, in. In the Western Conference finals against the elite OKC team, obviously, you know, missing one of their all stars. But hey, man, they making it very interesting, fellas.
Ocho
They are. They. Like I said, but it's. It's a culture. It's a culture, but you better have great players. How did that culture look when.
Chad
When, When.
Ocho
When Kawhi left? When Timmy Duncan retired? There ain't no. There ain't no Manu. And Tony Parker. How does first culture look when Tom Brady left? How did Patriots culture look? You could say all you. All the culture, all that, all the stuff, but you better have players that can play.
Chad
Absolutely. Got to.
Ocho
Fox told the. Excuse me. Fox told the broadcast after. After the game. We lost game three. But that was the first time Paul walked into the locker room. He was like, nah, that's B.S. that's not how we play basketball. And obviously he had some choice words for us. That was the first time all season that he came into the locker room right after game and told us how he felt.
Chad
You can see it.
Ocho
You.
Chad
Hey, hey, you let them other guys get off. You let their bench play like that. We got to take their bench out of the game. Now we making live with Shay getting 30, 25. But the rest of them guys, they ass ain't eating tonight. They starving. We starving ass.
Ocho
Hell, yeah.
Chad
Yeah.
Ocho
But do you understand the level of respect that that man has to have in the condition that he's in to still be able to walk into that room? The coach allow him to address the team. You can see sometimes code like, this is my team. You don't need to address the team. But Pop is sober, loved. He's so respected. He demands such respect. He walked in there, said, man, y' all on some bull job.
Chad
Yeah. And the one thing you know, you know them players gonna respect that. They gonna respect that time Champion. Yeah. Come on, man.
Ocho
Coach Duncan, Parker, Ginobly, Kawhi. Five of the players that he coached going to the hall, hall of Fame.
Joe
Your resume speaks for itself.
Ocho
Exactly.
Chad
Yeah. And you got all these former guys who still live in San Antonio, they had to practice facility probably every day, you know, trying to coach up these young dudes, you know, give them some do's and don'ts, you know, teach them, teach them how to be a professional. So they. They got you, right? The culture is everything, bro.
Ocho
And I love the fact that, like you said, you know, a Wimby boy, you got two of the greatest bigs to ever play the game in. Robinson and Duncan right there, you can bounce anything off him. But what I love the most, he ain't afraid to go outside. Let me talk to Kareem about that footwork. Cause Kareem had better footwork than both of you guys. You guys were outstanding. But I want to learn how to play with using footwork and playing outside, man. Sky's the limit for this kid.
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Ocho
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Chad
Oh, yeah.
Ocho
They got it right.
Chad
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Young enough, he's young enough to where he's still in the loop. And like I say, he resonate with the players. Well, and that goes a long way, bro.
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Podcast: Nightcap
Hosts: Shannon Sharpe (“Unc”), Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson (“Ocho”), plus Joe (ISO Joe Johnson)
Episode Date: May 25, 2026
Time Range Covered: [02:30] – [74:28]
The Nightcap crew—Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson, and Joe Johnson—dive deep into the San Antonio Spurs’ dominant defensive performance in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, which evened the series against the Oklahoma City Thunder at 2-2. The guys break down the emergence of Victor Wembanyama as a historical force, the maturation of head coach Mitch Johnson, and the team’s defensive tenacity. They also discuss the heated in-game exchange between Coach Johnson and rookie Carter Bryant. The episode is packed with their trademark humor, sharp basketball analysis, and memorable locker room anecdotes.
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Stifling OKC Stars and Bench:
On-ball Defensive Intensity:
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This episode gives NBA fans a ringside seat into how elite defense, leadership, and culture can turn a playoff series. The Nightcap crew expertly blend humor with granular observations—whether breaking down Wembanyama’s game-changing influence or the importance of holding even young stars to high basketball IQ. If you missed Game 4, this discussion gives you all the color, numbers, and behind-the-scenes dynamics you need to understand why the Spurs are for real—and why the Thunder have their work cut out for them going home for Game 5.
TL;DR:
San Antonio’s all-time defensive performance, powered by a generational Wembanyama, stuns Oklahoma City and resets the West Finals chess match. Strong player accountability, Mitch Johnson’s no-nonsense style, and championship habits are on full display. The crew’s analysis is raw, insightful, and punctuated with classic sports wisdom.