Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Memphis Grizzlies 02/08/2011

[wiff]

This team is going no where in the playoffs. They simply can not execute in the half court or in crunch time.

And Durant is absolutely amazing but the guy SHOULD NOT BE IN ANOTHER ISO LATE IN THE GAME FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON!!!!!!!!

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BRING HIM OFF A SCREEN TO GET OPEN FOR A CATCH AND SHOOT! Those are automatic.

His ISO'S have got to be the worst of anyone in the league who has the ball in his hands so much.

[mid-post]

How do you guys put up with Brian Davis night in night out? The (Please Use More Appropriate Word) stats, the writing the game off at the end...he would drive me nuts. Grant Long is fine but Davis...dude's horrendous. He's not even terribly homerific, he just sucks in general.

[slick_watts]

This team is going no where in the playoffs. They simply can not execute in the half court or in crunch time.

And Durant is absolutely amazing but the guy SHOULD NOT BE IN ANOTHER ISO LATE IN THE GAME FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON!!!!!!!!

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BRING HIM OFF A SCREEN TO GET OPEN FOR A CATCH AND SHOOT! Those are automatic.

His ISO'S have got to be the worst of anyone in the league who has the ball in his hands so much.

How do you execute when you have Westbrook-Durant-Green-Ibaka-Collison down the stretch? Every play is a Durant pin down, Durant curl, or isolation. Green can't shoot, Ibaka not really, Collison not really. If Harden is in with that lineup instead of Green all of a sudden you have floor spacing and another ball handler. What a novel concept!

Instead, Memphis can trap Durant and Westbrook aggressively, sink into the paint to prevent dribble penetration, and practically ignore three of our offensive players.

Green did nothing for this team in the fourth quarter. Harden wasn't even in the game when the team needed three points to close overtime.

I seriously cannot believe Harden did not play to close this game, when we desperately needed a shot in the arm offensively and some floor spacing to make those KD plays work out.

[dream_catcher_9]

Give Memphis a lot of credit. They were tougher both mentally and physically tonight. Their defense was great especially Tony Allen, he was phenomenal on Durant. He is like a mini Artest.

[slick_watts]

Memphis was great but there's no reason they should have won this game.

[wiff]

How do you guys put up with Brian Davis night in night out? The (Please Use More Appropriate Word) stats, the writing the game off at the end...he would drive me nuts. Grant Long is fine but Davis...dude's horrendous. He's not even terribly homerific, he just sucks in general.

Oh trust me it's incredibly hard to listen to him especially going from one of the best in the business with Kevin Calaboro. He was the bomb!

And Slick it's true we need Harden on the floor. They really need a third scorer. As much as I love Ibaka I know he isn't a "scorer" and same goes for Nick. And Green well he just flat out sucks!

This team needs to make a trade.

And I'd be fine with a large shake up to.

Hang on to KD, Westbrook and Collison (because his contract is so user friendly starting next season), and put everyone else on the block.

This teams needs a third scorer in the worst freakin way.

Actually I'd love a 2nd option that was good enough to put Westbrook to being the third option.

[slick_watts]

The team definitely needs a third good player. I don't think they really need a third scorer ASAP, it'd be nice, but there are plenty of ways to improve the team's offense with the players they have.

With Thabo playing horrible, you'd expect Harden to see a lot of minutes in an OT game. Harden can shoot, he can handle the ball. He puts pressure on a defense. We have a guy you can use in those situations when teams are playing very aggressive defense on our KD-plays. You swing the ball to the weak side and punish them with Harden. Green had many open looks out of this action, a wide open three, a deep post up, open mid range shots, and he missed almost all of them. Harden had 13 points on 9 FGA in 23 minutes of play. He was 2-3 from 3PT range. You do the math. If Harden's on the court down the stretch of this game, there's no way Memphis can be as aggressive as they were defensively and beat us.

[cajun joe]

Until something is done about the Jeff Green situation, it's just hard to take this team seriously. Has there ever been a player that plays those kinds of minutes at that low efficiency? With two all star players, a third option should theoretically shoot at a really high clip since they aren't the focus of the defense. lots of open looks. Green gets the open looks, but doesn't produce. He's had a couple good games recently, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. What is Green's ceiling? Is he going to improve? Statistically, he's regressed his second year. I think Harden is going to eventually take over for Thabo...not sure about Green though...something tells me Green has his spot locked down as long as Brooks is coach.

[cajun joe]

I would also be pretty shocked if Green doesn't resign here after the season. He might take a little less money, but he gets to play with his friends and play like ass 80% of the time and not lose any pt...why would he want to give that up?

[wiff]

You know what makes this game even more disgustingly hard to swallow?

No Gay, no Mayo, 4th game in 5 days.

No reason that Memphis should have won that game "IN" OKC.