Bruh…
The OKC Thunder suffer their second loss of the 2025-26 NBA Season to the San Antonio Spurs in Frenchman Victor Wembanyama’s return. Losing 111-109 in the semi-finals of the NBA In-Season Tournament (NBA Cup), Gabriel Ebersole discusses the factors that led to the loss, Isaiah Hartenstein’s return, and how the Spurs’ supporting cast of Stephon Castle, Devin Vassell, and De’Aaron Fox did the Thunder in.
—
Thunder Digest covers the latest reports, news and rumors regarding the Oklahoma City Thunder. If you want to stay updated with every trade, move and tidbit on players like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams, Lu Dort, Alex Caruso, Isaiah Hartenstein, Cason Wallace, Isaiah Joe, Aaron Wiggins, Mark Daigneault and Sam Presti.
Thunder Digest gives Oklahoma City Thunder and NBA news and rumors like Chat Sports, Hoops Tonight, Kenny For Real, Dom2k, ThreeCone and others.
Have you ever wanted to break into sports media as a write or content creator? Apply to join the Digest Media team today here: https://digestmedia.ca/join-us/
for_digest_redistribution
—
Unchanged
—
NBA Trade Rumors, NBA Free Agency, NBA Draft, NBA Finals Preview, Fantasy Basketball Advice, NBA Betting Odds, NBA Jersey Review, Player Performance Breakdown, Sports Analytics, NBA Highlights, NBA News Update, NBA Stats, NBA Roster Moves, NBA Predictions
41 Comments
man shit happens. why do you think chet wasn’t on wemby every possession? was mark skeeming? or chet ducking?
Annoying that everyone was watching this game too
meh, no one really cares about this cup thing anyways, it was always looked down on since it was made. OKC is after the real prize at the end of the season which is another NBA title, the thunder didnt win the cup last year but they won the championship. Let the Spurs have their moment but after next week it wont matter, you know the 2 losses with the Thunder have only been by 2 points and its not cuz the other team was that dominant but rather OKC did it to themselves so they need to clean things up a bit going forward. Now that we got our starting 5 back its gonna be even better for us going into future games
That NBA Cup is overrated anyways, NBA Finals trophy is a way better trophy than the NBA Cup trophy anyways and the NBA Cuo championship comes with a curse called the Cup Curse where after said winning cup championship team makes it to the NBA Playoffs only to lose in the first round of the playoffs to end their season because that’s exactly what happened to both the Lakers and Bucks from after they won their NBA Cups!!!
Great analysis!
Horrible clutch calls
The OKC Thunders need to put Isaiah Hartenstein on Wemby all game long to tire him out. They gave him too much space to work on.
Your last video was titled "this is exactly what we have been waiting for" you were waiting for okc to take that L and they did lmao…
SGA, dort, Wiggins and Wallace combined to shoot 3-22 on threes an OKC was 9-37 and thats the game in a nutshell. If OKC is hitting 3s theyre completely unbeatable but if they cant throw it in the ocean like this game and the other team plays out of their mind they can lose occasionally. doesn't matter though because nobody has any chance in hell in a 7 game playoff series.
If you can save up a bit of money you gotta get a better mic man. Love the consistent content but I always tune in but leave early cause the audio quality
ngl i called this L i do not know if we will lose again
OKC will be fine 😂they were due for a loss…Now they get to analyze their flaws and adjust! The NBA CHAMPIONSHIP WILL GO THROUGH OKC OR SPURS FOR THE NEXT DECADE!!!
okc put all they're open shot 3 wasnt that much cause spurs is by far best defensive team cause okc is an oiled team thats they're greatness, players arent what your selling individually so no contest and spurs missed alottttttttttttt alotttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt of open shot and still got the win imagine
Fans and Wemby talking ish post game is the most infuriating ish since MVP fights last year. I hope to everything I love this pissed Shai and OKC off and really makes them play extremely aggressive.
Okc sucks
You thunder fans really can’t take a loss, always making excuses, SGA blamed himself when they lost, they blew a 16 point lead, they had good looks from three and missed a lot of times. So instead of whining about it, just learn the mistakes you did this game so you don’t repeat them
From a Spurs fan…. You have a really good analysis and though your an OKC fan, you keep it real even with this loss. Spurs and OKC will have many great battles for a lot of years. OKC is the team to beat. SGA is the best player in the league. And for the record, despite the fact that Chet is a main cog in the OKC game plan. He won't ever be better than Wemby. I think that every game these two teams play will for the most part, be super competitive and the Spurs will prove to be OKC's nemesis. Spurs have moved their highest goals up quicker than most expected.
here we go again. wannabe NBA broadcasters thinking they are subject matter experts. auditioning for jobs they will never ascend to. no one is going to knock and their door and offer them a job as a sports analysis. they are not revealing we all already have seen during the game. get a real job.
It happens, we gonna be fine, we lost 2 games so far and both were single possession games. We didnt shoot well this game, happens.
Yo, I’m a keep it honest. I didn’t even turn the game on until Wemby came in the game.
Lol. This guy acting like a nuclear bomb just landed in Oklahoma. They lost a game by two points. Chill, bro. It happens.
I think OKC fans finally realize Chet is not and will never be, as good as Wemby.
The most exciting thing about this game is that gives us an idea of what a great and long rivalry these two can create over the next 5-10 years. The NBA is at its greatest when there are great rivalries, and these two super young teams could be the next great rivalry.
Shout out to you Okc fans. This is the start to a long rivalry and I wouldn’t want it to be with any other team
Spurs fan here: Looking forward to seeing yall again next week, lets make this a fun rivalry 🙂
Okc will be seeing a lot of spurs yet..season is still very early so they can still make adjustments but if the spurs play & improve more they will be hard to beat
Spurs vs OKC: FTs > 32: 27
SGA: 4 FTs; SGA exposed once again as a BASIC player who needs flopping and carrying the basketball to be 'good'
5 TOs and 5 Assists.
You are a new basketball ball fan so it is hard to take you too serious a bad shooting night is to blame that is all
This might be like Lakers Celtics some day, Whoever is healthy will advance.
Trade Chet for Evan Mobley or Scottie Barnes
I am a spurs fan and to be honest it was the best game that spurs ever played
Depth the Spurs are the deepest roster in the NBA they have 8 guys averaging double-digit in points. Going to be a fun rivalry for years.
Spurs had a horrible shooting night, especially the first half. They stayed in it and grinded it out. SGA didnt get his usual ft parade and here we are.
Oh yeah, this was the first game this season that the spurs had their entire roster together .
wemby is chet's daddy
The Spurs don't need Giannis! GSG
chet holmgren still doesnt know how to create like a big in the paint. he plays like he thinks hes 6'6 and soo frustrating to watch because hes almost always taller than his matchups
I went to this game last night and it felt like a spurs home game.
WEMBY looked like Godzilla
It looks like OKC prepared ZERO for Wemby, which I dont understand. OKC played scared of him and refused to drive into the paint when he was in the game.
To defeat Wemby, you have 2 options
1. Shoot 3 pointers at a good rate
2. Drive into the paint against Wemby over and over again and put him in foul trouble
Lakers beat Wemby using the drive/foul approach. OKC is not good enough on 3 pointers against good teams. Against average opponents they are #5 in the league but against good defenses their 3p% drops from low 40s the low 20s. Same thing happened in playoffs last year.
If OKC is going to beat San Antonio, they are gonna have to drive at Wemby over and over again OR they are going to have to get a lot better at 3 point shooting. OKC wont beat them otherwise.
To all the NBA, Spurs, and OKC QUALITY fans in the comments, respect, I SEE you. But $#!t there's some NASTY either fans, bots, or both, SPEWING their vomit in some of the comments at this guy, who I think has a greater sports acumen than, let's be real, most of today's mainstream drivel. What'd he do to you, stupid, asinine bots (or people REALLY NEEDING JESUS BAD)? To the haters: you just give him crap because he's a Thunder fan, is that right? Sad if true. Subbed 🙂