He is shocking everyone...

the number one pick in the 2024 draft played two minutes in a playoff game and missed all three of his shots and then he didn't see the floor again that night then in game two of the playoffs he didn't play at all 22 minutes the whole series and in july the hawks traded him to the dallas mavericks then last night that same player guarded the reigning mvp shake gildas alexander and the thunder lost for the first time all season His coach called it a masterpiece.

His best teammate, Cooper Flagg, said that he makes them 15 to 20 points better.

And the craziest part, he's doing it without the one thing that everybody drafted him for, and that is his jump shot.

Folks, Zachary Richerche is shocking everyone, and no one saw it coming.

Because the Thunder, they came in 4-0, and the Mavs put up 120 points on them and won by 24, while also simultaneously winning all four quarters.

Cooper Flagg, he had 26 points and 8 assists.

Kyrie Irving, he had 15 points in his first game back at home.

But watch who came off.

the bents and this game got ugly fast because in the second half dallas they had 17 fast break points okc had zero the mavs had 18 second chance points to okc7 and the mavericks ran them out of the building and showed what this team is truly capable of And those are effort numbers running, crashing the glass, getting your hands in the ball.

And there was one name that was all over, not only that stretch, but the entire game and really has had his fingerprint on the entire season thus far.

And that is Zachary Richer.

He put up 13 points on five of six shooting two of three from three, which is very important.

6 rebounds, 4 of them offensive, and he was a plus 16 in 29 minutes.

But his points aren't the reason we're talking.

It's not because he went 2 of 3 from 3.

It's not even his rebounds.

It was the job he did on Shea Gilgis-Alexander.

SGA came in averaging 27.3 points a game, and in the first half, he was 5 of 9.

And after halftime, a lot of it was with Zachary Richichet on him.

where he went two for 10, and Shea didn't even play in the fourth quarter.

The moment that says it all, there was three minutes, 23 seconds left in the third quarter yesterday.

Richer Shea, he strips the ball clean, Shea Gilders, Alexander, and then 10 seconds later, with the Thunder coming back on offense, Shea goes up for a layup, sorry, and Richer Shea, he sends it back.

that's a six foot eight wing taking the ball from the mvp and then meeting him at the rim on the very next trip you don't teach that that's something that clearly he has learned but more importantly is thriving with with the mavericks and that is defense okc after halftime shot 2 of 16 from 3 and the mavericks bench they outscored the thunder bench by a ton 43 to 19.

And here's the thing.

This wasn't a one-night fluke.