Since you think it’s normal for Jaylin Williams to score 18 and Jared McCain 25, at least one of those things should happen again in this series, right?

I’ll give you either. If either happens, you win. If neither happens, I win.

Loser is not allowed to post until the NBA finals are over.

Jaylin Williams has put up 2.7 and 4.3 bpm the last two seasons.

For defense.

His Obpm was 0.0.

Dude, Jaylin Williams was averaging 3.3 ppg in his 400 playoff minutes entering last night. He scored 18 pts on 7 shots in 22 mins. This is literally — in the doogie-approved sense — an outlier.

Dude, Jaylin Williams has put up 2.7 and 4.3 bpm the last two seasons. His playoff numbers are low because they hardly need him. He would be one of the best players on our team. This literally proves my point.

OKC is having a hard time with nothing. Their two wins this series were with limited or no JDub. They literally have a spare guy with the same name. Then they have multiple spares for him. They’re wiping the floor woth competition far superior to anything we’ve played.

They won’t lose another game in this playoffs unless SGA gets hurt.

The level of talent they have on their bench makes this the expectation, not an outlier

Dude, Jaylin Williams was averaging 3.3 ppg in his 400 playoff minutes entering last night. He scored 18 pts on 7 shots in 22 mins. This is literally — in the doogie-approved sense — an outlier.

Jared McCain has a smaller sample but he had 77 total points in the playoffs this year before scoring 24 last night.

Two bench guys go off like that this deep in the playoffs as often as Haley’s comet comes around.

Quietly the Thunder are having a hard time supporting SGA offensively without Jalen Williams. Chet isn’t a go-to score, and they got 7 points from Hartenstein, Mitchell, and Dort.

They also have the monkey off their backs by already having a chip in their pockets.

We have some things to throw at them that they don’t have great answers for, and shooting variance might work in our favor, but this is where little things like KAT’s brain farts, Mitch’s FT issues, Hart’s inconsistency, Brunson’s defensive limitations, and our bench having less variability in size and length (Deuce, Clarkson, Alvarado, and Shamet are all guard-sized players) give OKC a significant edge on paper. Our best asset is the force of will in our collective.

OKC is the deepest team in the history of teams. There has never been a team with more good players on it. It’s astonishing.

Not to say they are the best team of all time but it can’t be a surprise when someone comes off their bench and plays a great game.

I don’t what the combined salary of all the guys on the team right now will be in three years but it’s going to be a huge number for a bunch of guys with almost no national recognition.

Whats funny about OKC is they don’t seem to have a single guy other than SGA who anyone had heard of in college. Well, Chet. But actually SGA was pretty anonymous. Maybe that is part of the strategy.

They got career best playoff games from two bench players at the same time, while a third bench player (Caruso) continues to shoot out of his mind. This is not normal, even for them.

The level of talent they have on their bench makes this the expectation, not an outlier. Their bench consists of about 10 players good enough to be our 6th man, or start for most teams.

OKC needed the best whistle of hartenstein’s life to win that game.

Officiating being rigged in their favor is not a matter of luck. It’s repeatable. The “tactics” that are working against Wemby are the same ones that worked against Jokic last season. They continue to get away with murder while SGA just grifts and grifts on the other end.

I think they have enough to even the series… they really need one of their PGs to be healthy, though.

They do not have enough to win the series. They likely will not win another game. OKC spotted them 15 points on their home floor and won more or less effortlessly. Their top guys are barely playing a regular season minutes load. They are very far from their limits.

Again, it’s hard to overstate how far ahead they are even of the next best team in the league. The injury to a 20 year old Spurs rookie is a significant factor, while the injury to OKC’s second best player is completely inconsequential. They could lose 4-5 more of their interchangeable athletic wings and still cruise to a ring.