Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder are ‘for real’ | Brother From Another

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder are ‘for real’ | Brother From Another

All right the score last night Vinnie the score last night between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Boston Celtics was 127 to 123 uh it was so much fun uh it has not been fun uh it’s been fun watching East Thunder um it has not been fun playing

East Thunder they they won that fifth straight eighth and nine games and during that run as you know Vin they have beat the twice they ended the Clippers AME winning streak beat the Wolves who lead the west by 23 and then just beat the best team in basketball record-wise and that would be

The Boston Celtics last night um like how good is this team is this like is this final four good or like why stop there finals good like it almost feels like this team is thinking about skipping that step we often talk about throughout history kind of got to like

You got to learn you got to go through pain you know you got to climb the mountain you got to deal with disappointment it’s like this team is like n damn that we here well I usually cover the Western Conference playoffs which for me usually means like Phoenix San

Francisco Los Angeles you mean to tell me I’m G have to make plans to be in Oklahoma City for an extended period of time it’s underrated you know what I’m saying maybe don’t don’t let go there we don’t have to go there but we don’t have

To go there but this team is for real like they have everything that you need they have youth which you actually do need in the NBA Playoffs you need Youth and energy because that equals stamina they have that in Shay gilis Alexander they have that in a rookie of the year

Candidate in Chad hren like Shay gilis Alexander might have the smoothest game this side of Kyrie Irving who has the smoothest game in the NBA and that is saying a whole lot he can get a shot up against anybody he’s not afraid to take on anybody and then you have a guy in

Chad Homen who pretty much Fs in all the boxes that you need including protecting the rim including running the floor including shooting the three from seven feet tall so while yeah the skipping steps things like like Mike I’m with you I thought this year was the setup year

This was the foundation year where maybe you win 50 games you get into to the top six you get a taste of the playoffs and then next year you’re really in the conversation they may very well be knocking one of these established teams way out the way at least into the second

Round and maybe to the Conference Finals but I tell you this this team does not fold like Boston was down 17 with about seven minutes left and they came roaring back Oklahoma City showed veteran Poise they the game got close and y’all did y’all notice Kristof porzingis took a

Corner three with his foot on the line that looked like it was a three and there wasn’t a national controversy over whether his foot was on the damn line his foot was actually on the line yeah the other guy’s foot foot was not on the

Line but this guy’s foot was on the line it was a shadow of they they thank you Ohio’s own Ohio’s own Michael Holly again in budging the facts what a surprise I’m just I’m just telling you but listen I would say uh you you mentioned something about uh OKC

And I like what you said about great great game last night and uh Shay Gil’s Alexander was so good that he made Drew holiday who’s a all League defender he made him look bad he made Drew holiday was off the floor that run you talked about Drew holiday last five minutes was

Not in there Payton Pritchard no defensive stopper he is in theame game for Drew holiday who was a minus 15 in the game but you said they show veteran Poise my one knock about OKC when it comes to the playoffs and you tell me if I’m overreacting to this Vinnie is they

Are missing that Stephen Adams type that Jeff Green that Al Horford who used to be that like a veteran who can just kind of hang around and get you through a game whether it’s with a timely shot or you know six unexpected points in a 10-minute stretch and a playoff game

Just knows what’s coming I don’t see a veteran who Who’s Who dealt with the rigors of the playoffs uh that you need every championship team needs that and they don’t have it I’m with you I I don’t disagree with you but do the Minnesota Timberwolves have that guy and that’s a team that’s

Leading the Western Conference in terms of record and they have one of you know obviously our favorite players and Anthony Edwards is Carl towns the guy that you’re going to say is going to be the Run stopper is Rudy Gober going to be the Run stopper I think we’re talking

About a vestage of the old NBA that comes up every now and again in today’s new NBA and I don’t know how much that experience is going to matter when it counts when they’re Far and Away a much better team than a lot of the teams

Below them like don’t get me wrong if they play the Clippers in the playoffs and the Clippers have all the three-point shooting and you got three guys that can create their own shot yeah that’s going to be a little trouble when you play the Denver Nuggets and you’re

Playing that fat man down there of course you’re going to be in some trouble but anybody else and I mean anybody else I don’t know how much trouble you’re going to have they’re going to have to go through and learn some lessons but you can learn lessons while winning games

Too um hey hey Mike how you feel about that uh that Clippers OKC trade just revisiting I know we’ve had some legendary arguments about that uh that’s how Paul George uh got to the Clippers and the O OKC has just stocked up the pantry with many many many many draft

Picks now I do feel like a prediction I once made I’m Pat myself on the back it said OKC will win a championship before the Clippers due with that huge with that huge deal how do you feel about that deal now Mike I mean obviously look I’ve always been a s prey guy

Because I’m a nerd you know I’m a processed guy I’m a I’m a you know I love the process in Philadelphia when it was going down so like Sam preev and all the draft picks I I I always love the way he moved you know what I mean so why

You looking at me like that did I I love the process in Philadelphia yeah I’m that guy yes I’m that guy I I understood what they were going for in Philadelphia I am a pro you look at me like you crazy all you are yes they just missed the

Difference is they missed I got it hey hey I got it prey didn’t miss piic the wrong but Hy did the Sams you know Sams Hy Hy missed I saw the vision I saw the vision and hell at the end at the end at

The end of the day at the end of the day they got and even though he slipped to third because he was hurt coming out of Kansas they got Kareem Abdul Jabar wi Chamberlain’s younger brother Mr 30 and 10 night at and Night Out himself Joel

And be so say what you want about Sam Hy they at least got Joel and beat out of the process I like it it was interesting wait wait my bad let me count the number of Eastern Conference Finals games the Philadelphia 7 I didn’t say it was a

Success I didn’t say it was a success I did not say it was a success I said it got embid and I say I understood the vision that’s all I was saying but I don’t want get I want get to srack what’s the vision Los is possible that a

That ain’t that ain’t smart Innovative oh that how how how unique how unus usual like nobody else does that I I mean you know like a lot of people do it they just they just don’t brand it the Sixers and Sam hanky their mistake was they branded it and people turned

Against it because they acted like they were Reinventing the wheel and like they were smarter than everybody else when tanking for draft picks and tanking to build your team to not be stuck in the middle is as old as time that was the mistake on the part of the 76ers they

Acted like they were doing something novel when they really weren’t anyway uh you had another another smart elic rebuttal V we can move on hey thank you for watching brother from another if you haven’t hit that subscribe button go ahead and do that now don’t forget you

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Vincent Goodwill joins Brother From Another to explain why the Oklahoma City Thunder are a force in the Western Conference, citing the play of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as a huge factor for the team’s success. #NBCSports #BrotherFromAnother #ShaiGilgeousAlexander #OklahomaCityThunder
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