Thunder dominate in Game 5 win over Spurs, move 1 win away from NBA Finals
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to the Oklahoma City Thunder ’s Game 5 win over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Western Conference Finals. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
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All the talk for 24 hours was, "Oh, San Antonio figured them out.
Oh, they've got the turnover thing figured out.
It's all fine.
Watch this, Wemby's gonna dominate."
And then what did we get last night?
I'm not sure 127-114 does justice to how in control he was throughout the entirety of this game.
They take down the Thunder, Wemby looks like a shell of himself, and suddenly OKC is one game away from really pissing off the entire NBA world and going back to the NBA finals.
I would just like to say that we did point this out on the show yesterday, that if you're overreacting to just one result, you haven't been paying attention to this series.
What did we say yesterday?
When this series ebbs, it flows.
When it zigs, it zags.
We can see San Antonio on the mountaintop at the absolute peak of the basketball world, and then what do they do?
They plummet right back down to the depths of the basketball world.
But this has just been the nature of the series, the peaks and the valleys, that we see one ga- one team make adjustments from game to game, and then the other team make adjustments from game to game, that we saw San Antonio not turn the ball over as, as h- of as high of a clip as they had previously.
We saw San Antonio keep Oklahoma City's shooting in check in game four.
We saw Wemby go absolutely off and get production from the top to the bottom of the lineup, and then what did we see yesterday?
Oklahoma City's shooting is right back where it was previously that we're accustomed to.
We see Oklahoma City shoot four, or shoot 32, but make 14 threes.
We see Oklahoma City's bench pop off, Alex Caruso for 22 points, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander looking every single bit of the MVP that we're accustomed to Sh- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander looking like.
We're seeing Isaiah Hartenstein keep Victor Wembanyama in check.
We see this checklist of And, and we see it, and I think it's very, very obvious and very apparent of both of these two teams.
They have a little checklist of things that they have to do in order to win basketball games.
And for the Oklahoma City Thunder, it's SGA looking like MVP SGA.
It's getting production from the bench, and it is keeping Victor Wembanyama in check.
They checked all of those boxes last night.
