HE IS ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE…

Shea Gilgis Alexander is absolutely unstoppable for the Oklahoma State Thunder as he willed this OKC team to a crucial Game 4 victory against what the hell, Burton? What the hell, what the hell, Yonte? Like, dude, you gotta stop with all this choking nonsense. Oh, you choke, you choke, you choke the game away. No, Howard Byrd, you choke the game away. You couldn't make a shot in the final minutes of the game over here. You got locked down by Chet Holmgren, Lou Doerr, Alex Caruso, this whole Thunder squad locked you down in that fourth quarter. You couldn't do anything for your squad. Shea Gilgis Alexander proved to you why he is the best guard in the league. Why he is the best player in the league. Why he won MVP this season and why he's going to will the Oklahoma City Thunder to an NBA championship first time in franchise history. I don't care about Halliburton. I don't care about Pascal Siakam, Miles Turner, who I think is a great player, by the way. I love Miles Turner. Danobi Thompson, Flagrant Fowl, getting teed up as well there, like, Lou Doerr got out of Flagrant as well. Yeah, blah, blah, blah. Got a little bit chippy. But I'm here to break down why the Oklahoma State Thunder just won Game 4 and why they're going to win the NBA championship after taking away this crucial game here in Indiana. Before we get into all the quick moment recognize that 10% of you guys have hit that bell notification button. I want to get 500 of you guys to have that bell notification button turned on. We are a hundred, less than 160 people away from having that bell turned on. So if you don't want to miss a single minute of action here as the Thunder go on to win the NBA championship, go ahead, hit that subscribe button, hit that bell notification button, so you don't miss a single minute of the action here over at ThunderDigest without all the way. Let's go ahead get into talking about the Game 4 victory. And as you can tell, my voice is gone. I was at Loud City Live and Paycom Center. That was insane. To the dude that sat next to me and started doing the Halliburton choke celebration with me after we won that game, thank you. You were amazing. Loud City, once again, you guys crushed it out of the park if you guys were there. Well done. Well, well done. It was truly a great experience. But let's go ahead and look at some of these stats, okay? Here's the Thunderbox score. Something's gonna jump out at you right here immediately. Isaiah Hardenstein is once again back in the starting lineup, and I think that's the big thing that won OKC this game. Putting him back in the starting lineup. Yeah, he only had two points, okay? He had six boards as well, but he also had three assists. He helped get you rebounds there. The team ended up having 43 rebounds in this game. Yeah, they turned it over quite a bit as well. Still 13. I thought they had more than that. Yeah, they didn't shoot the three ball all that well. Three of 16 from deep, okay? But I think it was the fact that we had a presence down low for rim protection, forcing them to try to beat us with a three-point shot. And then also, it opened up the floor. It opened up more possibilities on pick and rolls, dribble handoffs, that sort of thing, alright? So I think Hardenstein, even though he didn't show it in the box score, I think he truly was a difference maker for this team here. Chet Holmgren, great game from him. 14 points and 15 rebounds. Also some great defense there at the end of the game. 6-6 from the free-throw line. He went perfect. J-Dub had an amazing game as well. He's really turned it up here in the NBA Finals these past two games. Seven boards, three assists, 27 points, alright? He did have four turnovers. He's got to limit those turnovers, but other than that, he's been playing fantastic. Then saving grace, Shea Gildress Alexander. 12-24. He hit a three-pointer as well. Perfect in the line with 10 free-throws there. Three rebounds and three steals. Three steals and a block as well, limiting it to two turnovers. 35 points in the victory. Everyone's like, take away his free-throws. What's he gonna do? He still had 25 points. He still had 25 points if you take away his free-throws. Alright, stop it with this nonsense. Lou Dort, perfect from the field. Hit that three-pointer as well. Three rebounds and a steal there. He did get called for the flagrant, but I will say, I don't condone trying to hurt someone. I don't think he was trying to hurt whoever it was on. I think it was on Obi Toppin, who the flagrant foul was on. If you saw what Obi Toppin did as well, you would be like, man, it should have been a harder foul, okay? I don't want to say the Pacers have been playing dirty by any means, but lowering your shoulder into someone, not even trying to go for the ball, that is a little bit suspicious. Alex Crusoe with 30 minutes off the bench. 7-9 from the field, okay? He had 20 points as well, and five steals. Absolutely absurd from him. The bench played great, you know, overall. Kenridge-Williams had some good minutes there as well. Aaron Wiggins had some good minutes. Kayson Wallace, he's still 19 minutes off the bench, not shooting the ball that well. But defensively, he has been playing well, in my opinion. Isaiah Jones didn't play much. Only got up one shot and missed it. He was also playing some good defense as well. Overall, as a team, they shot well from the field at 47%. Three-point-wise, you've got to shoot better. They're missing a lot of open opportunities. We're lucky to win this game with these kind of shooting numbers here. But rebounds-wise, doing well. Got to get more assists as well. And then 12 steals. You're gonna win a lot of games if you get 12 steals. But like I said, it doesn't help when you go 3-16 from the three-point line. Now, look at the Pacers right here. You're gonna notice a lot of things that stand out, like their three-point shooting. They went 30%, 11-36. They were shooting it very well in that first half. That second half fell off a little bit. I think some of that is just because of the defense as well. You look at what this Thunder defense did. They handled business, especially in that second half. That fourth quarter, especially. They only made, I think, one shot in the last five minutes of the game. That's impressive. That alone right there is impressive. We limited them to 33 rebounds. And like I said, you win the rebounding battle against Indiana, you're gonna have a good chance of winning the game. Okay, and that's what the Thunder did. They won by 10 rebounds. You're gonna win games doing that. They also had 11 steals. They also had three blocks. Defensively, very on par with us. It was a very on-par game. All right, blow for blow, shot for shot there. That's what it was looking like. Indiana just made more three-pointers than the Thunder. That's why they stayed in this game. If they shot the three like the Thunder did, the Thunder would have won by 30 points. But Indiana shot that three ball very, very well. Tyrese Halliburton had a good game. Andrew Nembhardt, not as good of a game, but he still played good. Turner played decent as well. Aaron Neesmith ended up fouling out. That was huge right there. Pascal Siakam played well. The bench, Obi Toppin was 17 points off the bench. That was a little bit, you know, scary to see. But other than that, they were doing what they need to do. Limiting some of the key guys like TJ McConnell, Ben Shepard, Benedict Matherin. All right, those guys right there, limiting them. That was huge. Getting the flagrant foul and technical foul on Obi Toppin as well. Baiting him into getting that tech, and that was a clear flagrant. It was a flagrant. Okay, he committed a flagrant foul on Alex Crusoe down the court. There was no reason for him to shove Hartenstein there, though, at the end. There was no reason for him to shove Hartenstein. All right, he did that to himself. Okay, so getting him to draw that technical foul and having that Pacers team played shippy and a lot more physical really helped out the Thunder. They didn't hold their composure, whereas the Thunder, they held their composure the entire game. And there's some key stats and stuff that go along in this game, like clutch time points, okay? Pacers had 7, while Shea Gildas Alexander by himself had 14 clutch time points. That just shows the dominance of Shea. We are witnessing something special in Shea Gildas Alexander, but a lot of people don't want to admit it because they think he's a free-throw merchant. They don't believe in these narratives, you know, like, oh my goodness, he's an unethical hooper, that kind of stuff. He truly is special when you look at what he did tonight. 14 clutch time points compared to the Pacers' 7. Absolutely absurd. He is, you know, the main reason Thunder won there, due to his clutch time performance. Alex Caruso is another big piece. First bench player in NBA Finals history with 20-plus points and five steals in a game, and my kind of thing looking into it, seeing Case and Wallace start originally, I was like, look, I get you're wanting to go smaller, a little bit faster pace, and really put pressure on the Pacers defensively. I think if you want to do that, though, you should have started Caruso and Hardenstein and Wallace's place there, instead of just having Wallace start over Hardenstein. I think Caruso would have been the choice to start if you want to do that from the get-go. And then the final thing, right here, like, Chet Holmgren even realizing it, like, SJ scored 15 of the last 16 points, and Holmgren couldn't even believe it. I'm not gonna say that word, either. You guys know what it is. I didn't know that, but that's crazy. And it is crazy. That just shows you the kind of dominance Shea can take over a game with. It helps when you have a player you can rely on to do that. The Pacers don't have that. So if you can get in these clutch time scenarios, and yeah, Hall-Burton's made some great shots, but is he as reliable as Shea in, you know, clutch minutes? He's not. You have a guy like Shea being able to get you 15 of your team's last 16 points. 14 points in clutch minutes, all right, compared to the Pacers' 7th. Pacers just don't have anyone like that. Pascal Siakam, Tyrese Hall-Burton, all those guys are great players, but are they great clutch time players? Yes, Hall-Burton's hit some shots, but before this postseason magical run he's had, has he been known to do that? No. He's been known to fail on clutch time. Maybe he can prove me wrong in a Game 5 or Game 6 here if he does play well in clutch time, but even tonight he didn't play all that well in the final minutes of the game. But that's all I got for this video. Once again, sorry my voice is like almost gone and everything. All right. Let me know what you think the team needs to improve on to go out there and win the NBA Championship as I now think taking this Game 4 in Indiana. I don't want to say it's secure than to win the championship, but I don't see any way they lose Game 5 or Game 7. I don't see it, how they lose at home. That's all I got for this video. See you guys in the next one.