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LOS ANGELES – The minutes started dwindling in Game 1.
Maybe because the issues were masked with a win.
By Game 4 of the second-round Western Conference playoff series between Dallas and Oklahoma City, however, Josh Giddey admittedly saw the writing on the wall.
Then-Mavericks guard Luka Doncic, and to a certain extent Kyrie Irving, were hunting Giddey down when they had the ball in their hands. Whether they wanted him in pick-and-roll or isolation, it didn’t matter. They had found the hole in the Thunder’s defense and looked to expose it as long as Giddey was on the floor.