The Oklahoma City Thunder have seen teams have outlier shooting performances against them in their last two losses, Mark Daigneault discussed what goes into that
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00:00 >> I mean the shots like the one he took one really deep,
00:04 he took one really contested, those ones in a vacuum.
00:09 You can't really do much about it, it's just like you're there.
00:13 An NBA player makes a shot and that happens every night on every game.
00:18 From our standpoint on what we can control,
00:20 I do think rhythm plays a part in how a game unfolds.
00:24 And that's where I think we missed an opportunity last night is,
00:28 we allowed them to catch an early rhythm in that game.
00:31 We allowed them to gain confidence inside the game.
00:33 And then when they make tough plays in that context, you have to tip your hat to
00:39 them, but you also wonder what it would have been like if we had started the game
00:42 tighter.
00:43 And against Houston, we didn't start the game tight.
00:46 We were able to get the game at Houston.
00:50 We were able to get the game in a good spot.
00:52 Last night we couldn't.
00:53 So it's a good lesson for us that sometimes you can turn the dial a little
00:59 bit and still win a game.
01:01 We don't wanna just give up when we don't start well.
01:04 But it incentivizes you to start well as well,
01:06 because obviously last night was a game that we couldn't get back into.