Scott Brooks Played His Hand Too Soon

[Budkin]

Scott Brooks.

[101A]

At this point, OKC just has to hope the Spurs have a bad game. After tonight's game, I believe a good game from the Spurs beats the best the Thunder can offer. OKC got nearly 90 points from their big three, and Duncan had a poor offensive outing, yet the Spurs won. I don't really see anything they can do to stop the Spurs. When this team is clicking, there is simply no answer to them. They have to many diverse weapons. Their best hope is that the Spurs just don't play up to par. That is a strong possibility in one of the next two games. The team is human, and a letdown after 20 straight wins is to be expected.

Spurs HAVE had plenty of letdowns over the streak; they've just won those games

[Thompson]

He tries any of the things that got them back in the game (Hack a Split...) for an extended period of time and they will get systematically picked apart and he's gonna have to look for something else.

Pop: "Tiago, we're winning tonight anyway, so I want you to miss half of your free throws for this game."
Tiago: "Okayyyy..."
Pop: [evil twinkle in his eye]