Is the Spurs’ Secret Strategy the Ultimate Key to Cracking the Thunder’s Defense?
Stay Out of Rotation
The Thunder are an elite team because of incredible talent, but also because all the pieces on the roster fit together nicely. They are very careful about which players to bring in, and every player in their rotation is capable of making the extra pass.
But most of their players are much better at leveraging an advantage than creating one. This is true of most rosters, of course, but the Thunder particularly have a lot of players who work as connectors but struggle when asked to try and create separation for themselves. This problem was exacerbated by Ajay Mitchell missing two of the three games against the Spurs.



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