Now that the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder series is over, we can go back and reflect on it as a whole. This matchup was hyped for much of the season, as many wanted to see if the Spurs could dethrone the champs. Say what you want about the Oklahoma City injuries, San Antonio came out and showed who was the better team. There were some amazing moments throughout this series, like the deep three that Victor Wembanyama hit in overtime of Game One, but did it actually live up to the hype?
We don’t get to see many matchups where both teams won over 60 games in the regular season, but we got that between the Spurs and the Thunder. Game One of this series was an instant classic and gave us a preview of what this series could look like, or so we thought. A double overtime thriller had people going insane, and rightfully so; it was one of the most entertaining playoff contests in recent memory. Game Two was also pretty close, as nine points decided it, but that was where this series took a weird turn, and each contest suddenly didn’t seem too close.
In Games Three through Six, all of them were decided by double digits, and a couple of those games were blowouts. That is a large sample size of contests that didn’t seem to have the same level of competitiveness that we were promised after Game One. The bar was set high by that first contest, and each game couldn’t reach that level again. Injuries on both sides could have played a part; the teams were figuring each other out, and the refs seemed to have different ways of officiating game by game.
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Will these lopsided four contests ruin the longevity and remembrance of this series as we look back on it in a few years from now? Probably not, but it was interesting to see how different each game was from the others. No one knew what to expect going into a contest. Overall, this was a great series to watch, with a compelling story. A young, up-and-coming San Antonio team knocked off an Oklahoma City franchise that was at the mountain top last season.
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