OKC Thunder Fall to Dallas Mavericks, SGA Does Not Play, Chet Injury Update
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Can the Oklahoma City Thunder overcome their challenges without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? As the Thunder face off against the Dallas Mavericks, the absence of their star player due to a wrist sprain shifts the dynamics on the court. Dive into the latest updates on Chet Holmgren's injury and explore how Jalen Williams steps up in a pivotal role. Rylan Stiles breaks down the Thunder's resilience, highlighting key moments and the impact of PJ Washington's physical play. With insights into the team's evolving strategy and the Mavericks' formidable lineup, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the Thunder's current standing in the league.
Tune in to discover how these developments could shape the Thunder's season and what lies ahead for this determined team.
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I like the idea of sitting Shai for stints throughout the season. They have a firm grasp on the 1st seed, so why not? Allow Dub to practice being the main ball handler and allow the team to figure out how to win without an MVP level player in Shai. It'll be good for the growth of the players. Mark can also use those games to fine-tune rotations and lineups.
Raccoon squad here! Great commentary! I agree with your point that this game doesn’t mean much in how the games will be when both teams are fully healthy. I love this rivalry and I hope we can meet in the playoffs again!
No team wins every game. The Thunder record speaks for itself. We will definitely lose another game but we will definitely win many more.
I think you just proved you’re not apart of the squad. That doesn’t sound like boasting. That sounds purely like taking a step back and looking at everything as a whole
@@NorthThree6 we’re capable of looking at the big picture despite the image of us being raccoons 🦝🦝🦝😭😭😭
Raccoon squad by far the best rivalry love watching the games we play against yall win or lose
PJ - the god of Thunder
OKC and Mavs are two best teams in West. If healthy.
NAH, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME MAVS LAST SEASON. LOST PLAYERS TO ACCOMMODATE FOR KLAY. THEY LOST THEIR TOUGHNESS, SCRAPPINESS, AND SIZE WHICH WAS THEIR MAIN ADVANTAGE TO OKC LAST SEASON. MIND YOU, OKC TOOK THEM TO 6 GAMES AND THE MARGIN WAS AROUND 5 POINTS OR LESS. NOW OKC HAS CARUSO, HART, AND OTHER ADDITIONS TO THEIR ROSTER. CARLSON AND MITCHELL ARE VERY GOOD ADDITIONS TO OKC. THE COACH JUST DOES NOT WANT TO REVEAL HIS CARDS THIS EARLY. MOST MAVS FANS ARE JUST TOO IMMATURE TO SEE THIS.
19:27 Rylan last year PJ was a good defender and a streaky shooter but this year PJ has been a great defender, good rebounder, and a very consistent shooter. He’s been the mavs 3rd best player this season.
He has been really good! Also gotta give a hat tip to Nico I mean I can’t think of a single better complimentary role player to put next to Kyrie and Luka. He just works so damn well with Dallas
@ 100% Nico knocked it out of the park w that move…apparently pj put in a ton of work in over the summer w a shooting coach and they re-engineered his shot. It appears that it’s paid off. This is his best shooting percentage from 3 since his rookie season.
Anyways, I started watching during the mavs/okc series and when it comes to locked on host, you are up there with the very best of them 🫡
And straight up the “Draymond” for the Mavs…take it anyway you want to…
Thank you! Means a lot!
This game told alot about Jdub as a primary scorer and that hes just not there yet and thats fine "for now" but my main concern with him has been his inefficiency across the board this season, when theres games SGA isint dropping 30 or 40 a night or maybe a playoff series where Shai is struggling to score in, can Jdub be that primary number two option we need him to be to win a title?
I don't think so. It's a struggle to win at that level without SGA. Might even be a struggle with SGA in a seven game series in games where he might get bothered or keyed in on and shut down. He is a HUGE presence on the floor and tbh on a still young Thunder team no one has really emerged as a rock solid "number two" yet on the offensive end. Not Jdub, not Chet. As of right now the team needs to hope that even with SGA present their defense and role players are enough to support SGA. And they are in the regular season even if some losses are taken and storms weathered in his absence. But in a seven game series in certain match ups? Things could get rough without a guy SGA can look at and think "he's got my back." That said? I do think the Thunder have a better chance than most to get it done by committee. To really win a 'chip? In the playoffs that defense, high level role players, and different individual players stepping up on any given night to add a scoring punch be it Dort, Jdub, Chet, iHart, Joe, Wiggins...whatever and whoever...I think can get it done with solid coaching and leadership behind it. BUT...its yet to be seen. Ideally one or two players do emerge in the playoffs who can reliably be "that guy." But if not and the Thunder clearly exit on account? By committee and defense don't work? Decisions by Presti will need to be made. Hard but winning ones. Thunder have talent and draft capital to spare. No one player is not expendable for the right move imo except SGA and Chet. We'll no more when the postseason is done.
What you just said is why cam Johnson would be needed he would be that next guy to step up an yes thunder fans cam Johnson is a upgrade over Isaiah Joe don’t even try to say Joe is better cam Johnson is a three point shooter teams would fear an I dam sure no Dallas wouldn’t be able to stop us
i think he will be only a 3 not a 2
It's difficult to score when everyone knows you are that night's number one option and you can't defer to a true big.
Kyrie can make it work because he has elite handles to handle a double but JDub isn't there yet. JDub works better off the ball, just like Ant.
KAT and Conley provided good open opportunities for Ant to fly under the radar every now and again for a swift attack.
JDub is also off a back 2 back so we can't act like that's not going to slow them down against a fresh Mavs.
They had a good performance because they made Mavs work for it and if I recall OKC was down 20 points at one time. So they did great to get it tied up and only lose by 8.
He was a train wreck.
No Chet + No SGA + No IHart + No Mitchell + on a b2b after blowing out the best team in the east. To fly all the way to Dallas on tired legs, the boys fought. Not a bad lose🤷🏾♂️
No Luka, lively, hardy and Exum and we still beat the 1st sead
I respect Luka and Kyrie for their skill at the game and Dallas is a fine competitive team but the Thunder are #1 the best. We will see you in OKC next week.
@@James_utd123 Coming off a b2b while playing the best east team the night before 🤣🤣. Would be embarrassing if yall lost since they had Kyrie and at home 💀
@@James_utd123sga is better than Luka. Chet is better than lively. Ihart and Mitchell are better than exum and hardy.
@@James_utd123 this comparison is disgusting lmaoooo. Shameless fanbase
Just coming back to drop a LMAO at the Mavs losing to the Hornets, in case any of their fans felt overly smug in beating us without 3 of our 4 best players on a back-to-back.
As a Mavs fan, I'm just glad y'all rested SGA. We needed this win to stop the bleeding.
Do we need Cam Johnson? With all the rumors clapping about, the Nets may feel they have their golden chip and want too much for what Cam is worth. There's a reason no one else has tried to get him. We need to look all over the league for the best option. Plenty of teams would be willing to deal for draft picks and a few players. Lots of players would be willing to come to a well coached team that plays as a team and is headed for the playoffs.
The only bad part about that loss is having to hear from the casual Mavs fans
Dont mind the toxic fans
Lu Dort has really worked on his 3 point skills every year and its paying off. He's a great player who doesn't get much credit.
And he should not. Hes a dirty flopper
Total bullshit. Dort is a great defender and has turned into a good perimeter shooter.
Pj washington outplayed aaron wiggins on the last 2 games, when he was being guarded by jdub or kenrich he did not score a lot.
I just don't know why mark keep putting wiggins to guard pj and kyrie
Bro it makes no sense to me why Mark consistently sticks decisions when it's not working. Kenrich and jdub and even caruso is the obvious stoppers.
Did you ask PJ permission to post this podcast past your bedtime?
You’re like 40 years old saying this is crazy
Thunder just live so rent free in y’all’s heads
Who knew there were so many fake okc bandwagon fans.
Carlson is a lot better player than I first thought. He has some potential. Flagler has got to go. In his garbage minutes, he was totally against the Thunder way by shooting every time he got the ball even though he had no shot. He literally brought down our stats by shooting 8 bad 3's and 9 bad FG in a few minutes. If he can't be traded, cut him.
Forgot to say I was talking about him in the Cleveland game. Sorry to confuse everything.
Yeah it would have been embarrassing if it weren't funny and the fact that OKC already had the win.
We played our hearts and health out to a worthy Cleveland opponent after being on a hard east coast trip. Then got on a plane and went straight to Dallas to play that night. Dallas is a good team and our favorite rivals but Dallas is not Cleveland so get over yourselves. We will have many good games with Dallas for years to come and we are ready. Thunder up 💛
Are we concerned about his wrist? Or is it just one of those he landed on it and just needs a rest it?
Chet +sga+iheart= give me luka all day and it’s hilarious how all of sudden we count Mitchell I mean is laughable 😂😂😂
Proved again that JDub is not the second option and I’m glad you didn’t sugar coat this because this is concerning. If this situation happens again, hopefully IHart will be back. Not so confident of Chet’s return but we will see. The refs sucked…period.
I think we need cam Johnson
JDub is worth 10 Cam Johnsons.
@ you wouldn’t have to trade jay dub a trade for cam would Isaiah Joe a dieng an like 2 first round picks
JDub is after Chet in the true pecking order. So he actually did his job as the 3rd option.
If your 3rd option is thrusted to the main guy on a back to back it's going to be difficult to win because OKC doesn't have any consistent players after JDub. They have a great team but they don't have many iso players like Celtics. So all the Mavs have to do is lock in on JDub and try to wear him down. Plus there's no true big to clean up your shot. Credit to OKC for still rebounding well but how many more rebounds would have been had if IHart was there?? I remember a play where Dallas missed maybe 2-3 times and kept getting the rebounds which hurts the defense because they can see that their efforts are wasted.
Y’all should know number one seed means nothing…..so be happy y’all are number 1, once we get full strength we will be a problem for the whole league……PJ y’all can’t fu** with him bro!
OKC win percentage vs league this season .829
OKC win percentage vs Mavs last 9 games .333
Enough said.
🦬🌩️🥶🔶🌩️🔶🥶🌩️🦬
THUNDER 🆙
Lou Dort becoming a slightly better Draymond
This is aging BEAUTIFULLY after tonight 🤣💀
Mavs fans really gonna live this one up. Never seen a Play-In team so happy 😂
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Sensitive OKC fan as usual thinking they are good just cause they are a 1st seed😂😂😂😂😂
@@OscarRodriguez-kp1nw OKC way more depleted after a back to back against a team that’s actually a championship contender unlike the Mavs. Keep trying to find reasons why your team is relevant because it isn’t
@@PattyMcG It was still a close game buddy i don’t get why you’re making excuses when it could’ve went either way in the last 5 minutes of the game. Lol imagine saying we aren’t relevant lollllll jesus man you OKC fans are delusional af🤦♂️
@@OscarRodriguez-kp1nw why u in our comments go harp somewhere else
The Dallas Mavericks have certainly earned a reputation as the "OKC killer." Their history against the Oklahoma City Thunder, especially in the playoffs, is marked by some dominant performances and surprising upsets.
Only in the last few years. Overall, Thunder is 91-86 against the Mavs in all time games played
As a thunder fan, the Mavs definitely have the edge recently. Both are still developing, so time will tell if that changes.
Imma be honest. The refs were not good in this game. They let way too much go and that helped the Mavs more in my opinion. Calling so many fouls and Techs on Okc for light contact or something the other team is doing too. Like pj Washington should’ve been ejected before halftime. The refs utterly sucked and basically gave the Mavs the game once again. (This seems to be a trend against the thunder)
2 free throws the second half. I completely agree but that’s how it’s been all year. I noticed that a foul was called 5 consecutive trips .
@ yeah at this point I have to think that either the nba or just the refs themselves don’t want Okc to win.
I felt they got those swing calls. Joe got elbowed in the face twice and got called for fouls. But we gotta play better. Let the emotion get to us. We had four technicals
@ I agree that the mavs definitely got the 50/50 called. Like Kyrie running into jdubs elbow getting called a foul (imo that shouldn’t be on jdub) but most of those techs where weak or got called bc the refs let the game get out of hand by not calling techs or fouls on the mavs. Like the one on Wiggins where they double teched after not calling a tech for Washington taunting. Or all of the missed techs on mavs who were trying to injure Okc. (Gafford on kenrich) (pj on jwill) (and I think there was another from ph too).
Damn Does PJ know y’all up this late?
😂 you beat me to it.
This mf got an anime pfp tryna sound edgy. Only a kid would have curfew in their minds as an insult because that’s the margins of their life LMAO
Rent free
When y’all gon admit sga is only a good scorer ain’t nothing special about him apart from that plus bonus free throws
that was a good pod, sry for being mean bitd
if you want PJ to stop talking shit. stop him on the court. i guarantee he'll shut tf up if we do that.
You won, congregations but no excuses here. But just like the Cavs, we play again here next week. Do you want to bet on the point differential ?
how's the scoreboard buddy? 🤣
Thunder got a good team but I just hate Luke Dort, it's good to have him on your team but it's annoying af when you playing against him
That’s the point of Lu. He’s supposed to be annoying
Yall got PJ. Wtf you talking about? You should be annoyed at the refs for letting Dirt flop and play dirty
@@Marc-n5e Oh I think Dort is more dirty than PJ not to mention y'all got players like Wiggins and Isiah Joe they all similar
Don’t even try to talk about injuries we are literally a hospital rn we missing our best player Kyrie is at 50% with a lodged spinal disc our best center is gone TWO more players got injured mid game and we were on a 2-9 run leading to this game, brutal losses to Pelicans and nuggets 😭 spare me
Tbf both clubs have suffered injuries for the entirety of the season. I dont think he is making any excuses about the Thunder losing to the Mavericks. The Thunder had a lot of unnecessary TO that cost them to lose this game. It was a hard fought game by both teams. We didn't win this time, but we will make sure to bounce back the next game. Good game mate!
Are you dumb? Comparing missing Luka and Lively to missing Shai, Chet, and Ihart is crazy. Not to mention that we played a back to back while the Mavs were rested and playing in Dallas.
No need for the theatrics. As I said on the show both teams are missing massive pieces that completely change how the game would’ve been played. We don’t know for sure how this looks when both teams are at 100% and as I said on the show the Mavs are the biggest threat to OKC out west. Spare me the comment until you actually listen
Only a Mavs fan could be this dull.
You all lost to the damn Pelicans and played at home against OKC coming off a B2B vs Cleveland. Mavs fans are so slow they just don’t realize it. Just like they were wrong about “Pravi MVP” they are gonna be wrong again about this playoffs. Think about this….Mavs came off their Finals run, added Klay Thompson, and still are not the favorites out West even when they were healthy 😂
Jalen was a train wreck.
Shai must've given it his all with that 40 piece against Cleveland. As long as they don't have Chet, the team is going to rely on SGA. He's the charger to their iPhone. They can only get so far without him.
We should trade wiggins or joe for a shooting pf
😂😂😂😂😂 what happened mate
Explained it on the show that’s the whole point of the podcast
Dallas fans are so happy 😂💀😂
@@TexanByNature88you do understand that Dallas was the 5th seed and dominated the west in the playoffs, right? OKC was crazy lucky to get it to 6. Too bad there’s no banner for “regular season champs”
@@Thisisrancewhy do yall stay talking about last year?😭😭 if you wanna bring that up, let’s not forget the youngest team in the league with almost no playoff experience almost took the playoff experienced Mavs to game 7.
This upgraded OKC team is even better than last years team, and we have a historic defense and net rating.
@@Thisisrancemavs nearly went game 7 against the youngest playoff team ever, with no size, no rebounding, and obviously no experience.
To barely get past a team with that much of a disadvantage isn’t that impressive.
The thing about this team now, is that they have size, rebounding, and experience.
With the 2nd best point differential in nba history, the 2nd best net rating in nba history, 2nd best defense in nba history, all while not playing a single game healthy.
Realistic if both teams are healthy the mavs are not getting past OKC in a 7 game series.
Yall was talking about my cavs damn yall lost aready to our twin YALL CANT GET BY THEM LOL 😂 MAVS CAVS GETS go !!! LOL
People like you are the worst fans. We beat y'all , y'all team was at FULL STRENGTH. We lost to Mavs on a b2b without our best player AND NO BIG. Your take is so trash it wreaks of desperation.
@TheAdseabo go to yall last video when yall beat the Cavs now see what happened you couldn't even enjoy it 15 hours look what Mavs done did 😂
@@TheAdseabo as a diehard Cleveland fan whose actually living in Cleveland, I don't condone what my fellow Cavs fan is spewing about the thunder and them losing to the Mavs like that.. We got our asses destroyed the other night by OKC, we take our L's with humility out here, I give y'all props and say hey hope we can get that runback in the finals. Cleveland literally had their full roster for the first time all season and should have lost by 40. Now's not the time to gloat as Cavs fans to the thunder cus they took a b2b hard fought loss without the league MVP. Real Cavs fans ain't like that
@@floydmadeconoreathiswords6016 much respect. Some people don't want to give respect, even when it is fricken. I honestly feel like that first came helped us become a better team because of the competitive action. I really hope we see y'all in the finals. It's what the NBA needs. Two awesome small market teams with the stars of the new generation. The changing of the guard.
@@JimmyMack3370in Cavs terms, we were missing D. Mitchell, J. Allen, E. Mobley, and M. Strus.