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Well I think you'll see changes. My guess is that (Thunder guard Thabo) Sefolosha will not start. You know the biggest problem I think for Oklahoma City in this series is they just have too many one-way players on the court all the time. You've got your options — do I go with my defensive guys or my offensive guys? But the Spurs players are almost all two-ways guys, and so they don't have to have those decisions.

So to me, Sefolosha (who has missed all nine of his shots and played just 26 combined minutes in the first two games) has just proven to this point that he's not (an offensive) threat. So the Spurs aren't guarding him. And he hasn't made a big enough impact defensively to keep himself out on the floor. I would start (second-year shooting guard Jeremy) Lamb, if it were me. That way you've got (third-year point guard) Reggie Jackson on the bench in a reserve role, and you also keep (veteran small forward Caron) Butler on the bench and bring him off. And then I think you don't make too many changes schematically.

I think one thing you have to be able to count on is your home floor. You get back there, you get rejuvenated, your crowd gets behind you. Westbrook and Durant obviously have to play a lot better, and I think they will. So assuming they play better and you make a lineup tweak — you get Lamb out there early and you put Westbrook on (Spurs point guard Tony) Parker, Lamb takes (Spurs shooting guard) Danny Green, Lamb (who had 13 points in 14 minutes in Game 2 while hitting six of eight shots) makes a couple threes and it opens up the game. Your crowd gets behind you, Durant and Westbrook go nuts, it's 2-1 (in the series) and you feel good about yourself again.

TheOriginalOriginal wrote:Spurs wont lose a game.