How OKC Donner prepares for the NBA playoffs, breaks between the rounds

Memphis, TN – After their victory 4 on Saturday to end the thunder of the Memphis Grizzlies, the members of the thunder approached the boxes of insomnia in the changing room in waves. Dozens of cookies, an unusual sight in your quarter to celebrate to make it a quarter of the way through the off -season.

And why not? They ended their first round in front of someone and now wait either for the Denver Nuggets or the Los Angeles Clipper to get them out of hiding. As is apparently common for this Thunder squad, it will have an unusual amount of time to burn off the chocolate chips and snicker doodles.

The semi -finals of the conference have long lasted with the potential to rise until May 3 to 4. According to Aaron Gordon’s AT-Rim game winner on Saturday evening for Denver, this series was knotted with 2 with the potential for seven games.

After OKC completed his first round in a four-game swey by April 26, this could mean 7-10 days between the games after a series in which there was a single day a day between every game.

Ten days are a long time to hear elevator music.

“We will always take it,” said coach Mark Daignault after Thunder 117-115’s victory on Saturday. “We try to win every game. You cannot choose how the series unfolds. We set our best foot forward and make the results what they are. But it is obviously physically good to rejuvenate yourself. Boys, I am sure that it is with small things so that they get well and allow the preparation time for the sample.”

Daignault noticed that he had the feeling that the team kept up well with the downtime after the regular season, a one -week gap when it was waiting for the game results to discover his opponent. It was forced to do the same a year ago when it ended as the youngest seed No. 1 in the history of the league and connected its time ago with the New Orleans Pelicans.

This series was also a sweep, which means eight days between the series victory and the opening game of his second round series with the Dallas Mavericks.

“We made some progress in relation to our process, but we made a good deal of preparing for the series,” said Daigneult. “We played well in the game 1. I think we have the relative rhythm and the sharpness as much as possible without games.

The thunder will not be exactly his thumb. It will prepare for two capable competitors, one of whom emerges from their first round after they have been pushed closer to the edge than OKC.

The winners in the first round, even if he smuggled boxes with cookies on the way out of the changing room, are known about what the break offers good or bad.

“To be honest, it could work against us in both directions,” said MVP finalist Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. “It could add a little rust, or it could give a little freshness. I think the attempt to find a balance between these two will be important in the next time – as long as it is so until we are waiting for the next series. But we always say that the times between the games are the days when we have to win in the playoffs, and we will try to fight this next little breaks.

“Just try to be a better team than we tonight. We were this series.”

Joel Lorenzi covers the thunder and the NBA for the Oklahoman. Do you have a story idea for Joel? It can be reached at [email protected] or on X/Twitter at @Joelxlorenzi. Support Joel’s work and other Oklahoman journalists by buying a digital subscription from subcribe.oklahoman.com today.

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How OKC Donner prepares for the NBA playoffs, breaks between the rounds

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