“I thought a lot during that [Finals] series about my experience as a broadcaster covering Oklahoma City and the Spurs in 2014,” Kerr says. “We play a lot like the Spurs did. And Oklahoma City was able to bottle them up because the Spurs were starting two bigs with Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter. When the Spurs changed things in the series, they won. They went small. It opened up the floor. That series reminded me a lot of our series because we just couldn’t get the spacing we normally get. It was Nick U’Ren’s suggestion to start Andre. We had been considering starting David. The more we thought about it as a staff, we liked the idea of Andre.”
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January 19, 2021 | 9:05 pm EST Update
Joe Ingles returns after three games injured
Andy Larsen: Both Joe Ingles and Derrick Favors are available for the Jazz tonight vs. the Pelicans.
Harrison Wind: Thunder coach Mark Daigneault on the big Jokic/Poku face-off: “Big Serbian night tonight.”
Drew Hill: Taylor Jenkins on De’Anthony Melton’s DNP yesterday: “I just wanted to try something a little bit different.” He was mixing up the rotation.
Wes Goldberg: Andrew Wiggins is listed as questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Spurs with right knee soreness.
Jason Anderson: Kings F Marvin Bagley III (wrist) is probable and C Hassan Whiteside (hip) is questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Clippers.
Chris Fedor: Despite being able to practice the last two days #Cavs Dylan Windler (hand) is still listed OUT for tomorrow night’s game vs Brooklyn. Darius Garland and Collin Sexton are both questionable.
