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the Utah Jazz Jazz MBA insider. This

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is Locked on Jazz. Today, we look back

1:50

at Jamal Murray's rookie year, compare it

1:53

to Keontae George's rookie year, and maybe

1:55

take a deep breath and not worry

1:57

about Keontae George's struggles quite as much.

2:00

and look at Jamal Murray's path. We

2:02

look, Denver Nuggets are in town, 15

2:04

and a half point favorites. They are the best

2:06

in the NBA and the Western Conference. What

2:09

was their path to get here?

2:11

It's actually pretty linear. It's pretty

2:14

incredible. The Murray-Yokich combination, why

2:16

they are so special in the clutch this year, they're

2:18

even better and how they got to be the

2:21

number one combo in the NBA. Plus, it's a trends

2:23

Tuesday. I know it used to be a trends Monday,

2:25

but it's a trends Tuesday today. So we're looking at

2:27

all those things on today's edition of Locked on Jazz.

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3:22

let's look at Jamal Murray

3:24

for a moment and see if this can relieve us

3:27

of some of the concerns that

3:29

people are having about our guy, Keontae George,

3:32

in some of his shooting. So one thing you've heard me

3:35

say is that if you go under 40% from

3:37

the field, and you

3:39

go under 33% from three in your rookie year,

3:42

the path to success gets slim. There

3:45

aren't a lot of guys. Well, Jamal Murray was 40.4%

3:47

from the field and

3:51

33.4% from three. He

3:57

came out of Kentucky. Grew

4:00

up in Canada, great story with

4:02

his dad working him out all the time. Bunch of...

4:04

And he came out of Kentucky

4:07

where he did shoot it well. He

4:09

shot 45% for the field and 41% from three. And

4:14

so he did have that track

4:16

record, but he's similar to Chiante,

4:18

had a little bit of a

4:20

tough rookie here. Chiante is now

4:22

down to 38.6 field goal percentage

4:25

and 33% from three. He's

4:27

similar really. And on

4:31

the 16-17 Denver Nuggets when Jamal

4:33

Murray was a rookie, he... Jamal

4:37

Murray played about 20 minutes a

4:39

game. He started

4:41

intermittently early and late, but not

4:43

in the middle. So he didn't

4:46

have anywhere near the burden that

4:48

he had, that Chiante's

4:51

had on this team. And that 16-17

4:53

team was pretty good. Mike Malone was

4:55

the head coach. They

4:57

were good offensively, they were fourth best offensive team, they were

4:59

just bad defensively. And it

5:01

was a team that had Danilo Gallinari and Gary

5:03

Harris and Wilson Chandler and Will Barton and

5:06

Nicole Jokic and Jamal and Jamir

5:08

Nelson and they had Emmanuel Moudier

5:10

still and Jamal

5:12

Murray. And by the way, this is actually

5:14

what I think is one of the most

5:16

important things when you look at the

5:19

path of the Denver Nuggets is

5:23

they drafted Jamal Murray when they already

5:25

had Emmanuel Moudier. They drafted Nicole Jokic

5:28

when they already had Yusuf Nurkic. They

5:31

did a bunch of, you know what,

5:33

we're going to go see if we can find... Just

5:35

because we have a guy at that position doesn't mean

5:37

there's not one better we can go find. And they

5:39

drafted on top of people with great success. By

5:42

Murray's second year, he started

5:45

his 80 games in the 17-18 season and

5:47

he really began to

5:52

show signs. He was the eighth voted eighth

5:54

in motion-proof player. And he shot 45%, 38% from

5:56

three. So

5:58

it was a really... you knew quickly that there

6:01

was an immediate turnaround and that there was legitimately

6:03

something here. He was playing 32 minutes a night.

6:06

And so from a Chianti standpoint, where we

6:08

look at key and kind of some of his struggles

6:10

right now, and you know, Ben Anderson

6:12

is of the zone has pointed

6:14

out. Hey, it's ever since Jordan

6:16

Clarkson went off the stop playing and I've pointed out

6:18

it's ever since Lowry Mark and you know,

6:21

whatever it is in the last 17 games, it's

6:23

just been a real challenge for Chianti.

6:25

You can stretch it back and you go to January 1st

6:27

and the challenge still exists. So there, you know, let's I

6:29

don't want to be completely ignorant

6:33

to that there were some struggles

6:35

beforehand. If you can kind of decide where you want

6:37

to choose with Chianti right now in his last 44

6:39

games, he's shooting 39.7 and 32.3. So you know, but

6:44

if you really that's a little unfair because

6:47

you're going to take out that stretch when

6:49

he played really well, but you do get

6:51

into the stretch where post all-star break, you

6:53

know, Jordan's not playing much Chianti is not

6:55

playing much. You come back and

6:57

he has the bird since the last 15 games

7:00

when he's really had the bird and he's shooting 37% and 26% from three that

7:02

is drop and he's

7:06

playing 33 minutes night. He's exhausted

7:08

mentally and physically. He doesn't have anyone

7:10

else to carry the load and his numbers are plummeting

7:12

because of it. So his rookie year

7:15

experience is just much more difficult

7:18

than what Jamal Murray had to do as a

7:20

19 year old out of Kentucky. I do

7:22

think there are some real similarities

7:24

though in one body size into how

7:26

they came into league. Now mentality wise,

7:28

I don't know enough about Chianti yet.

7:31

Jamal Murray kind of mentality

7:33

is pretty well documented on just

7:36

kind of this relentless work ethic.

7:38

His father, uh, kind

7:41

of taking him through the tasks

7:43

as a, as a kid

7:45

and, and him, you know, out

7:48

at night in the Canadian cold

7:50

and all the work and kind of insanity

7:52

of it all. Um, and

7:54

when you look at Jamal Murray, this is something we're

7:56

gonna talk about a lot, but it

7:58

takes a while to understand. the pick and roll.

8:01

So if we look at Jamal Murray and we look at

8:03

him 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 20 then he

8:05

goes he misses the 20 21 season and then we have

8:07

to wait a second he might miss the 21 22 season

8:12

and then you look at his points per

8:14

pick and roll. This

8:21

is where we've talked about this before.

8:23

I think you have to begin

8:26

to understand what the burden is upon.

8:28

So on Kia. So if

8:30

you look at Jamal Murray and his rookie year his points per

8:32

pick and roll on a good team was point 94 points

8:35

per chance. His next year was

8:37

point 94 his next year was

8:39

point 93 and what I've said is it seems

8:41

to take about three to 5000 pick

8:44

and rolls before you get over

8:46

one point per possession which

8:48

is a really high level pick and

8:50

roll anything better. And that's exactly what

8:53

it was for Jamal Murray his fourth

8:55

season as a pick

8:57

and roll guard playing when he

8:59

started the year at four thousand

9:04

four hundred and eighty three pick and rolls

9:06

in his first three seasons of the year

9:08

and he averaged point 93 points

9:10

per pick and roll on his first four 5000 pick

9:12

and rolls. He

9:15

basically averaged point 93 and then in the

9:17

1920 season in his

9:19

fourth season at 5000 pick and

9:21

rolls he suddenly went to one

9:23

point one point oh and

9:25

then one point oh one point oh one

9:27

point oh four and this

9:29

year's at one point oh three as a

9:32

fairly dominating guard and maybe the best

9:34

combination in the NBA. So when we look

9:36

at Chianti the relevance to this is first

9:38

off yes you can have the year Chianti

9:41

is having to start the year certainly

9:43

he's below some thresholds in Jamal Murray but

9:45

his burdens been much higher and

9:47

you have to look at Jamal Murray and the first

9:49

thing is we should see some signs next year. Jamal

9:53

Murray turned it around pretty quickly

9:55

to 32 minutes a night they knew what they had

9:58

but you know even his third year. He shoots just 44% from

10:00

the field and 37% from three. And

10:03

it's not until, frankly, in the bubble against

10:05

Donovan that he really fully explodes in

10:08

those great games in 2020 that

10:12

he comes into his own and then he's

10:14

a totally different player. And they unfortunately tears his ACL in 2021, 22.

10:20

So when you look at that, that's the first thing is

10:22

that, yes, I think you can. The second thing is it

10:24

takes time. It takes 5,000 pick and rolls. I'm

10:27

gonna do this study for you this summer. We'll keep talking about

10:29

this. You'll hear this a lot. It's 5,000

10:31

pick and rolls for a guard to

10:33

be able to come through this. How do you

10:35

get to the level of Jokic and Murray? We'll

10:37

talk about that. And the linear path that the

10:40

Denver Nuggets have taken to get to be number

10:42

one is a good model. They come in tonight,

10:44

a 15 and a half

10:46

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10:48

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10:55

get started. We'll look at that combination

10:57

of Murray and Jokic and the Nuggets

10:59

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14:11

let's get to

14:13

it. Denver's

14:15

path is we hear

14:18

all about the pain and the suffering. I'm

14:20

actually a believer a little bit that

14:22

the untalked about thing in this league is

14:24

the scars that you get from losing and that teams

14:27

don't recover from them. So if

14:29

you look at Denver Michael

14:31

Malone becomes the head coach in 16-17 and

14:34

realizes he has something

14:36

with Jokic in

14:39

15-16. 16-17 is Jamal's rookie year and

14:42

Jamal plays the ninth most amount of minutes on

14:44

the roster. He plays 82 games he's 18 years

14:46

old he and Emmanuel Moudier kind of split time

14:48

and it becomes clear that

14:51

this is not Emmanuel Moudier's team

14:53

and so the next year they

14:56

led by Gary Harris and Will Barton and Jokic

14:59

now Murray is their fourth leading minutes player and

15:01

up to 17 points a game

15:03

and they have Wilson Chandler and

15:05

Paul Milsap and you know they're two best

15:07

players and now 22 and 20 with

15:10

some veteran players surrounding them but

15:12

those are and Moudier suddenly starts to

15:16

go down and they've made an unfortunate trade where

15:18

they just trade Donovan Mitchell to the Utah Jazz

15:20

which is good for us but bad for them.

15:22

So 17-18 they win 46 games and they

15:27

don't make the playoffs and there's a lot of

15:29

talk in the history of the Nuggets that they

15:31

actually look back at this year they played the

15:33

82nd game of the year against the

15:35

Minnesota Timberwolves to make the playoffs and they

15:37

lose in overtime and in many ways they

15:39

believe that's their like moment

15:41

that seals them to become

15:44

this team. The next year they vault

15:46

up to 54 wins so this

15:48

is now Jamal Murray's third year. Jokic

15:51

is now in I think his fourth

15:53

or fifth year they're becoming a

15:56

true combination and they

15:58

jump to 54. So they

16:00

go from from 33 in

16:02

Yoke just first year Jamal's years 40

16:05

then they go to 46 then they

16:07

go to 54 wins and

16:09

they win their first playoffs years

16:11

with a commanding game seven win

16:13

against the San Antonio Spurs before

16:16

losing in game seven of the

16:18

Western Conference semi finals to the Portland Trailblazers. So

16:21

they're kind of they're on their road at

16:23

that point and they've now Jamal

16:25

Murray is the team he's played their most minutes.

16:27

Yoke it's their second Harris

16:29

Barton Milsap Morris Beasley they're kind of

16:32

fiddling with pieces muti is long gone

16:34

now they may end up trading everyone by

16:37

the time it's done. The next year is

16:39

the bubble and they come

16:41

back to beat the jazz in which is the series

16:44

you just wonder like had Mike Connelly shotgun in and

16:46

the jazz been able to close that series out if

16:48

George Hill and the Bucks hadn't pressed the ball. And

16:50

the Bucks hadn't protested would and not stop those bubble

16:52

for a day. They

16:55

also come from behind given credit they also come from

16:57

behind against the LA Clippers in the next years and

16:59

they go to the Western Conference Finals so it's

17:02

very linear right they they lose game 82 they

17:04

get to the playoffs they win a series and

17:06

lose the second round they take one more step

17:08

and get to the Western Conference Finals. They're

17:11

on a very very linear path to who they

17:13

are as a basketball team at this point and

17:15

their roster is now will Barton Jamal Murray nickel

17:17

Yoke each Gary Harris and Jeremy Grant kind of

17:19

gets added in and then in 2021 Jamal

17:22

Murray gets her. And

17:26

this is where I think 48 games of the

17:28

season they're rolling and Jamal Murray

17:30

gets her and they were probably the

17:32

best arguably the best team in the

17:34

league they just traded for Aaron Gordon.

17:38

They were rolling they were about 15 games

17:41

above 500 or so and

17:44

Jamal Murray goes down with that horrific torn

17:46

ACL. They actually find a way to

17:48

win a playoff series and they get swept by Phoenix

17:50

in the next round in the 2122 season Jamal Murray

17:52

has never placed Yoke it's just so great

17:54

they still win 48 games and they

17:57

lose in the first round and this is

17:59

where I think people missed. the route of

18:01

the Denver Nuggets to the championship as they

18:03

talk about these two years, they shouldn't be

18:05

talked about. Jamal Murray is not there. I

18:08

mean, Jokic proves how great he is at this point

18:10

because they have the six best offense in the NBA

18:12

and they don't have Jamal Murray. So

18:15

that to me is like if you ever

18:17

wanted to know when Jokic became Jokic, that's

18:19

it. Because his best second

18:21

best plan, it seems will Barton and Aaron

18:23

Gordon's probably right in there also.

18:26

I mean, and they're still the six best offense

18:28

in the NBA. But the fact is, that's not

18:30

a linear progression. The linear progression is

18:32

that if you actually go back and look at

18:34

the Nuggets franchise with Jamal

18:37

Murray, so

18:39

they lose that game 82 to Minnesota. The next

18:41

year they win their first playoff series, losing

18:44

the second round. The next year they win. They

18:46

come back to beat the jazz and the Clippers.

18:48

They go to the conference finals. The next time

18:50

they're all together again for the playoffs, they go

18:52

to the finals. Like I

18:54

think what's super important about this team is

18:56

it has no scars. The

18:59

jazz had those terrible playoff scars and

19:01

frankly never overcame them. The Phoenix Suns

19:03

had playoff scars and never overcame them

19:06

under Chris Paul. The L. A. Clippers had

19:08

playoff scars with Chris Paul and never overcame

19:10

them. Everyone talks about how you

19:12

have to do what Boston did where they lost to

19:14

Chicago, a bunch of tie or Detroit and broke through

19:16

or whatever it was. Detroit had to be Boston to

19:18

break through in the Chicago. Maybe maybe

19:21

in that era, but in this year, I think

19:23

it's the opposite. I think it's the you end

19:25

up with the scars. It's really it's

19:28

a promise where, frankly, I think the Rudy

19:30

Gobert trade by Minnesota was brilliant because they were

19:32

beginning to get some scars where the cruise apps

19:34

for Zingus trade by Brad Stevens was brilliant. It's

19:37

in Drew Holiday. It changed who that team is.

19:39

It's not the same team. You're not looking at

19:41

the locker room thinking it's the same team. The

19:43

scars to me in this league

19:45

are as big a deal as anything else. And

19:49

that when you suddenly see the teams that have

19:51

Miami doesn't really have the scars, right? They've been

19:53

to the finals. Now, maybe they maybe they're beginning

19:55

to show signs of the fact that they they

19:57

lost in the finals. They've lost some things they

19:59

don't. don't seem to be quite right. Golden

20:01

State has held this thing together, obviously. But

20:04

if you kind of look back at Golden

20:06

State in their championship run, they didn't have

20:08

scars. They

20:11

didn't have scars either, right? They're Mark Jacksons,

20:13

their head coach. They

20:15

go to the conference semifinals. Their first time in the

20:17

playoffs, they go from 23-47 because Steph takes off. They

20:22

win their first playoff series. They lose their second. The next year,

20:25

they lose the first round. They fire

20:27

Mark Jackson, and then they go

20:29

to the NBA Finals. And

20:31

they haven't lost a playoff series until last

20:34

year other than the NBA Finals. They

20:37

have no scars. So

20:39

one of the things I think that's most important about that

20:42

path is it's scarless. And

20:45

that's where I think this gets super tricky. And

20:49

I don't know how you build a scarless path, but

20:51

it is worth doing. It's also why I think you

20:53

have to shake teams up, like if we look back

20:55

at the Jazz, in retrospect, the one

20:57

thing I would say on the Quinn Snyder era of

20:59

the Jazz is we just may

21:01

have ridden Joe Ingalls, Royce O'Neill, Derek Favre, these

21:03

guys we liked so much too long is that

21:05

they were all part of the scars. And

21:08

you had to do something the way Boston has

21:11

with Christoph Sperzingis and Drew Hollis. It just dramatically

21:13

changes the team. Milwaukee

21:17

has a title and then some bad

21:19

playoff losses. It's going to be interesting

21:21

to see because right now, it

21:24

doesn't feel good there. Now,

21:28

I think Chris Middleton's injuries are making it a problem and

21:30

Doc Rivers doesn't seem to have a grasp on what that

21:32

team is and there's all sorts of issues going on there.

21:34

We'll see when they get to the playoffs, what happens. But

21:37

it's an interesting concept. All

21:40

right, how much of Jamal

21:42

Murray and Chris Datsby, Jamal

21:45

Murray and Nicholas Jokic played together to become

21:47

this awesome. It's

21:49

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still have a great time every single night. All right, so

25:03

since Jamal Murray came in the

25:05

league in 2016,

25:08

the most pick and rolls in the

25:11

NBA have

25:15

been run by Trey Young and

25:17

Clint Capella, 3,120. The

25:23

second most amount of pick and rolls in

25:25

that time period are Chris Paul and DeAndre

25:27

Ayton. It's

25:30

kind of funny, back to 3,112. The

25:35

third most are Jamal Murray and

25:38

Nikola Jokic, 2,398 pick

25:40

and rolls run between the two of them. 2,398

25:47

on their second pick and roll of the

25:49

night will

25:53

be their 2,400th pick and roll

25:55

together of their careers. So

25:58

not only does Jamal Murray need to run 5,000. in

26:00

his career, but he's run 2,500

26:02

almost with

26:05

Jamal Murray. Interesting, I just thought this was

26:07

worth noting. The number three is Mike Conley

26:09

and Rudy Gobert at

26:12

2,308. I

26:15

thought this was actually a super interesting list. Darius

26:17

Garland, Jared Allen is five. De'Aaron Fox,

26:20

Damaris Sabonis is six. And

26:22

then a bunch of Chicago Bulls

26:25

of the group that

26:27

has run over 1,000 pick

26:29

and rolls together. These

26:32

groupings are not all together, but this is since Jamal

26:35

Murray came into the league. So those that

26:37

have run 1,000 pick and rolls together.

26:40

The number one combination is

26:42

Tyreese Halberton and Miles Turner.

26:46

So I thought that was, I was surprised by that, but that

26:49

tells you what level Indiana is functioning right now

26:51

in the league's offense. Steph

26:54

and Kayvon Looney, Steph and Draymond Green are two and three. So

26:56

it's funny, you don't think they run a lot of pick and

26:58

roll, but they have run at least 1,000. Luca

27:00

and Dwight Powell, Dame Lillard and Yusef Dirk,

27:02

it's James Harden, Joelle Embiid, and then Jamal

27:05

Murray and Nicola Jokic are

27:08

the seventh best out

27:10

of the 40 groups

27:12

that have run 1,000 pick and

27:15

rolls together. There's 40 groupings. The worst, by the

27:17

way, is De'Jante Murray and Clint Capella and then

27:19

Jalen Green and Alprens Shinkun, if you're wondering. And

27:21

Darius Garland and Jared Allen and Evan Mobley are

27:23

two of the worst as well. So that's kind

27:25

of an interesting little note that they've

27:27

actually run that many. So

27:31

just kind of an issue note. All right, well, that's their pick and

27:33

rolls. So there's got, oh, but wait

27:36

a sec. What they actually run most of the

27:38

time is handoffs. And

27:40

Jamal Murray and Nicola Jokic have

27:43

run 1,062 handoffs. 1,162

27:50

handoffs. There

27:57

are only 30. people

28:00

that have run 245 or more. There's actually only 26

28:02

that run 250 and they've

28:04

run 1,162. So

28:12

you take their pick and roll combination and

28:15

their handoffs and

28:17

they have combined to

28:20

run 3,560 combinations together.

28:28

When Chianti George rolls into a pick and roll with Omer, York,

28:30

Save & Tonight, they're going to be on like their 19th. 3,560

28:32

pick and rolls

28:36

or handoffs together. And

28:45

then if you want to get into it, like I don't

28:47

even know where the breaking point is because they've run so

28:49

many more than anyone else. But if we decide it's 250,

28:51

as I just said, so there's only

28:56

28 groups that have actually run that

28:58

money. The number one is actually Darius Garland and

29:00

Jared Allen, which is super interesting how much better

29:02

they are in pick and roll. But the Jamal

29:04

Murray and Nick Leokert are the six best. Steph

29:08

Curry, Draymond Green, Tyrese Halliburton, or

29:10

Tyrese Maxie, Joel Embiid, Devin Booker,

29:12

DeAndre Ayton, Seth Curry,

29:15

Ben Simmons, surprising, and

29:17

Jamal Murray, Nick Leokert, Jaylen

29:20

Brunson, and Julius Randall, Tyrese Halliburton, Miles

29:22

Turner. Tyrese Halliburton, Miles Turner,

29:24

two-man game NBA playoffs could be really interesting to

29:26

watch, by the way. That's kind of, of

29:29

those that have run it the most, Malcolm Brogdon,

29:31

which the bonus was the worst, McKell Bridges with

29:33

Nick Claxton's not great, RJ Barrett, which Jaylen Brunson

29:35

wasn't great. But

29:39

there's the difference. At

29:41

this point, and where does it

29:43

show up? I don't

29:45

know if I have if I got my numbers

29:47

printed out or not, but in clutch time this

29:49

year, the Denver Nuggets

29:52

in the clutch this year are so

29:54

far, are 26 and 13. I

29:58

mean, they are just so far and away. the best team in the

30:00

league in clutch, 26 and 13. Cause

30:04

Jamal Murray and Nikole Jokic are just

30:06

masters together. Absolute

30:08

100% masters. All

30:13

right. Uh, quickly trend. We

30:16

like to do trends. So

30:19

let's take a look at our trends last

30:21

two weeks. We'll do last 10

30:23

games in last two weeks of teams and

30:25

see where they look, what they look at right now and how

30:27

they look. The

30:30

number one offense in the last 10 games, the Boston Celtics

30:35

followed by the Indiana Pacers, the New York

30:37

Knicks, the LA Clippers, the Denver Nuggets, the

30:41

last 10 games and the Atlanta Hawks.

30:44

The teams that can't score right now are Detroit,

30:46

Portland, Toronto, Memphis, Washington, San Antonio. None of the

30:48

bottom teams are not surprising. Number

30:50

one defense in the NBA, the last 10 games is

30:52

the Dallas Mavericks followed by

30:54

the Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic,

30:56

Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets, Nuggets have

30:59

clicked in. Charlotte

31:01

is the worst defense in the NBA. The last 10 games were

31:03

29th, Toronto, 28th, Cleveland, 27th. Interesting

31:06

on Cleveland, Houston and Oklahoma

31:08

city slides

31:10

in there at 25th. Best overall team,

31:12

Dallas, Boston, Dallas, Minnesota,

31:14

Miami, Denver, New York, the

31:17

bottom Toronto, Utah, Detroit, Charlotte and

31:19

Portland. And over the last

31:21

two weeks. Oh,

31:31

sorry, pushed a button wrong. Over

31:35

the last two weeks, dun dun

31:37

dun dun, exciting. The number

31:39

one team in the NBA, Boston, followed by

31:41

Dallas, Minnesota, Golden State, Minnesota, or wait a

31:43

sec, Dallas, Miami, Golden State,

31:45

Minnesota and Indiana, top

31:48

offense, New York, Boston,

31:50

Indiana, Miami, Philadelphia, Joel

31:52

back and Dallas. Bottom

31:56

offense is Portland, Detroit, Memphis, Washington

31:58

and Utah. Best

32:01

defense Minnesota Dallas Golden State

32:03

Miami Orlando Denver so Denver

32:05

has totally clicked

32:08

in and Toronto Cleveland Charlotte

32:10

Utah 27th defensively Houston

32:12

and Oklahoma City interesting to see okay see that

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