Thunder-Lakers Reaction: OKC has 70 win potential + Jokic & Nuggets dominate, Steph leads Warriors W
Jason reacts to the Oklahoma City Thunder dominating the Los Angeles Lakers behind an impressive day from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and a defense that stopped Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. He discusses the Lakers’ struggles in the context of OKC and why getting LeBron James back might not be enough. Then he breaks down Nikola Jokic getting 55 points in a Denver Nuggets victory over the Los Angeles Clippers and Steph Curry leading the Golden State Warriors to a bounce-back win over Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs.
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Timeline
0:00 – Start
2:00 – OKC dominates Lakers
20:01 – Nikola Jokic 55 point game
32:39 – Warriors bounce back
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20 Comments
Jokic on their first 11 games on 2 pointers, 101/129 FG. Crazy.
Mailbag: Hey Jason! When are we going to get to see you on an episode of DNVR? Would love to see you on the couch at the bar with the DNVR guys. Best crossover ever!
As a thunder fan I truly believe this iteration of the Thunder is the perfect regular season team. Some of the best depth we've ever seen, and full roster cohesion and versatility. I would for sure bet on them breaking 70 wins but I think the Nuggets are gonna clip them in the WCF. They almost beat us last year with an almost completely injured starting lineup and they've gotten so much better this year with their off season acquisitions
Points per 100 possessions is 150 !! Points per without is 104
Nuggets are NOT in okc tier
The Thunder bench is far and away better than their opponents' bench. That's why the non-Shai minutes are still off the charts. If you did a school-yard pick 'em of the Thunder Roster to make 2 teams, both teams would make the playoffs. The two starting lineups would be: SGA, Chet, Dort, Wiggins, Joe and J-dub, Hartenstein, Wallace, Caruso, Mitchell,
Can we talk about the suns more there on 5 win streak
The whole nba 25-26 story: sga vs joker is the real finals, east have sixers and heat as cute comeback stories and every other team outside of okc and nugs are just secondary contenders…game over😅
Man okc doin all this with all those out with injury???
Joker had 25 points in the first quarter…
6:07 THIS is the problem with Best player on the best team.
they could have gotten 73 games last year but they rested all their starters closer to the playoff.
Luzempic continues to be the most overrated 1 side of the court player in the league. Love seeing him exposed against superior competition.
Mailbag: Why don't more teams Press the Nuggets? Brown and Picket are both subpar ball handlers and even Murray will throw the occasional bad pass when pressured….I know teams like the Timberwolves and Thunder will, but why don't most teams? It stresses me out to watch it and seems to do a good job throwing off the offense. Love the show and Welcome to Colorado.
The poor eastern conference isn’t even relevant anymore
Mail bag: I believe the difference between us and serious contenders is Defense, but importantly team defense. I truly believe Smart could be the general on Defense and with better JJ schemes I could see better team defense. Can we really have a general on defense as in 6th man role ?? With JJ prioritizing spacing with Rui as a starter ? Would Rui be a starter on a OKC or Denver ?? Isn’t the better call is to bench Rui for Smart once Bron returns ?. Smart has a more important long term job than Rui on the Lakers. Smarts tenacity needs to bleed into the starters and trickle down to the rest of the team making it our defensive identity
Not going to talk about the crazy bias refs in the warriors win? 16free throws for Steph… 12 for the entire San Antonio team. Also 10 alone for jimmy bulter
Yall Lakers people are DELUSIONAL about Reeves.
This dude is at best a sixth man type and there's not a single contending team that would take him as even that. OKC's the team to beat and Alex Caruso is their 9th guy. So, no one who knows what they're talking about would take AR over AC, so that makes him OKC's 10th guy at best. The only teams that concern OKC would be a healthy (NEEDING vanvleet) Rockets and Nuggets. Neither of those teams would put AR even as a sixth man, either.
Then there's this silly Lakers fanboy idea that Lebron matters. The teams worse with him on the floor but even if not, he's not saving anyone's day. Oh with Lebron you're losing 13 instead? No, like 35.
im confused on the james harden hasn’t been as good. his shooting hasn’t been this good since he was in houston
Steph 16 FT’s, Jimmy 12 FT’s.
Entire Spurs team 16 FT’s.