Spurs-Thunder Game 7: Who will be the x-factor?
Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor provides an early look at Saturday night’s decisive game in the Western Conference Finals. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Looking ahead to that game seven on Saturday night, I'm, I'm very excited.
Clear out your calendar, folks.
You got your Saturday night plans already.
Who's gonna be the swing player?
Because tonight, Spurs win by 27.
De'Aaron Fox is one from nine.
He still struggled again.
He still looks like he's playing on one foot out there.
Is Fox able to have a De'Aaron Fox-esque game?
Alex Caruso in the series, he has scored in each game 31, 17, 15, zero, 22, and 7 points tonight in game six.
We have seen wild swings from some of OKC's role players, Jared McCain included, who was sensational in game five with an unbelievable third quarter.
Tonight, only 4 of 11, 13 points, a pretty middling performance.
Had some sloppy turnovers, I felt like, too, in that first half.
I mentioned Jalen Williams, J-Dub, on the OKC side earlier.
Is he gonna look more like himself?
Dillon Harper, talked about him already, 18 points in game six.
He had five in game five, four in game four, six in game three.
Look at way back-- Look back way back to game one, he had 24 in that game.
Who is gonna be these X factors in this game seven?
Historically, these are the guys that tend to win these games, and I, I don't know what to expect, honestly, because it has been a series of one game, one team blows the, the, the other team out, then the other team bounces back and blows them out again, and the story just flips the other way.
And naturally, that might makes, make you think, "Okay, this is gonna be an OKC blowout.
They're back at home.
They're gonna have the crowd behind them.
They're gonna have the friendly rims, the friendly bounces.
Everything's gonna go that way."
But not so fast, my friend.
We saw game one.
We saw what happened in game one, and who knows if we're gonna get another game like that.
