Game 3 Playoffs 2024: Oklahoma City Thunder (1-1) vs. Dallas Mavericks (1-1)

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Chet is going to be a heck of a player.  I don’t think Lively will be quite as good but they are going to have a lot of battles in the future.  Lively is a year and a half younger.  I don’t think he will ever have the guard skills Chet will have.  But they are going to have some wars.

It´s funny what a different perception I have of Chet. I think he´s an excellent defensive center around the rim. Pretty strong already, despite being rail thin, but much like Porzingis all that other stuff is just a media mirage (at the moment). If you chase him off the 3pt line you can easily force turnovers, when he puts it on the floor. And he´s not a good 3pt shooter under proper defensive pressure.

He´s 14-24 from 2pt range (58%).  3-13 (23%) from 3pt range in this series. 

He´s 29-48 from 2pt range (60%), 10-36 (28%) from 3pt range for the play-offs.

He has 3.0 BPG, but also  2.5 TOPG. I hope the Thunder use him like a Porzingis for the rest of his career. No matter how great your handles are, you are still 7´1 going into traffic with smaller guys poking at the ball. As a lob threat inside, he´s much more dangerous than as a floor spacer.