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Rolling Thunder: 30/08/2021

Well Thunder fans we almost did it! We almost did the unthinkable and made it to the NLL Finals without Kawhi Leonard. But, we’re going home.

In Oklahoma, we saw weeks ahead that we were going to have to face the conference finals without their MVP player of this season, if we made it that far, and we’d only have one real play to try and make it a series. It was forecast early that the opponent would be none other than the rampaging Phoenix Suns and their 3 headed monster.

What we knew:

- KD was going to be a beast.

- Butler and Lowry would step up at every moment that KD wasn’t the man.

- Their inside was their weakness.

- No one was going to be able to stop Lebron.

We went in with an open mind and tried to steal game 1 using some experimental settings, which if they worked, would have been great! But it failed to the tune of 29 points. So, we switched to the playbook and settings that we knew would turn Lebron into an animal. Our “Lebron 50+” settings.

It worked. Instantly. We took game 2 and game 3 emphatically behind Lebron going for 57 and then 45 respectively and suddenly were up 2-1 in a series we weren’t meant to win a game in!

Naturally, the Suns responded and despite Lebron going for what might even be a league wide season high 67? They levelled the series at 2-2, making it a 3 gamer!

Game 5 can only be described as wild. The Thunder led by 14 after 1, but that was cut to 4 at the half and then were down 9 at ¾ time, only to then still be down 15 with 2:30 to play…and suddenly something sparked an insane 17-0 run to win by 2…despite the Suns having a 60% expected win percentage!

Game 6 and 7 unfortunately for OKC followed similar paths where the Suns and all their fire power just overwhelmed the Thunder defence as Game 7 came right down to the wire, only to have a KD-less Suns squeak home, with arguably the FT shooting being the difference in the series.

Lebron in the end was only one man, and despite Carmelo Anthony averaging nearly 18 in the series, Lebron’s 52ppg (after the Game 1 change up) just was not enough up against the combined 76ppg from the Suns big 3 and the nail that was Gary Trent going for 23 in the final game.

Congratulations to the Suns for making it through to the NLL Finals and may the West be the ones hoisting the trophy this year!

- OKC News.

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