3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers

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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#21 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 3:27 am

And the Corey Brewer experiment begins with a 7-0 Blazers run to take the lead.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#22 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 3:30 am

So, are we ever going to know or understand why, in his 10th NBA season, a career 82% FT shooter inexplicably turned into a 75% FT shooter?
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#23 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Mar 4, 2018 3:44 am

Josh Huestis is so freaking worthless
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#24 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Mar 4, 2018 3:52 am

With no Melo, tonight is a good night to see if this team is worth even trying to salvage in the offseason.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#25 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 3:55 am

Well, this quarter has been an unmitigated disaster. In about 90 minutes this will wrap up a disastrous sports night. Hogs lost at Mizzou; UNC got outscored by 20 in the second half and lost to Duke; and it looks like at this rate we're going to lose to the Blazers.

It's happened before, but 0-for-3 Saturdays during basketball season always make it difficult to fall asleep at night; especially when UNC loses to f****** Duke.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#26 » by Thundershock88 » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:11 am

NaturalThunder wrote:Well, this quarter has been an unmitigated disaster. In about 90 minutes this will wrap up a disastrous sports night. Hogs lost at Mizzou; UNC got outscored by 20 in the second half and lost to Duke; and it looks like at this rate we're going to lose to the Blazers.

It's happened before, but 0-for-3 Saturdays during basketball season always make it difficult to fall asleep at night; especially when UNC loses to f****** Duke.



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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#27 » by getrichordie » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:36 am

This a **** playoff game. I'm having such a good time just watching this. Westbrook has to calm down or he's going to get ejected.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#28 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:37 am

Russ has missed so many dunks this year.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#29 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:40 am

Russ is just out of control. Currently 6-21.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#30 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:49 am

Every year if/when we play the Blazers in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back it's essentially a schedule loss. Even when we had teams that were actually good, if/when we played in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back (because Portland has been, at worst, competent every year over the last decade or so), it's been a schedule loss.

There's the obvious second night of a back-to-back fatigue is a factor on top of our players' body clock being two hours ahead. This game started at 11:00 PM OKC time.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#31 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:51 am

Steven Adams isn’t even quick enough to contain this scrub connaughton who I’ve never freakin heard of. Maybe switching isn’t a good idea. Notice that we haven’t seen Nurkic guarding Russ?
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Post#32 » by Labinot41 » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:52 am

NaturalThunder wrote:Every year if/when we play the Blazers in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back it's essentially a schedule loss. Even when we had teams that were actually good, if/when we played in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back (because Portland has been, at worst, competent every year over the last decade or so), it's been a schedule loss.

There's the obvious second night of a back-to-back fatigue is a factor on top of our players' body clock being two hours ahead. This game started at 11:00 PM OKC time.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#33 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 4:57 am

Yeah, this one's over. Up three after the 1st quarter, outscored (so far) by 13 in quarters 2-4.
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Post#34 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 5:07 am

Labinot41 wrote:
NaturalThunder wrote:Every year if/when we play the Blazers in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back it's essentially a schedule loss. Even when we had teams that were actually good, if/when we played in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back (because Portland has been, at worst, competent every year over the last decade or so), it's been a schedule loss.

There's the obvious second night of a back-to-back fatigue is a factor on top of our players' body clock being two hours ahead. This game started at 11:00 PM OKC time.
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Did I say we were a good team? Everything I said in my post is 100% true. A back-to-back game for the Thunder in Portland is always a schedule loss. If we win it's gravy in past years because we'd win 55+ games regardless.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#35 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Mar 4, 2018 5:07 am

Grant has played really well tonight.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#36 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Mar 4, 2018 5:22 am

On another note...

I've done a really bad job closely following the NBA as a whole this year. I didn't realize the Blazers had climbed all the way to 3rd in the West. They aren't even that good historically speaking. If they're the third best team in the West, regardless of their record, they're a bad 3rd best team in the West.
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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#38 » by Kizz Fastfists » Sun Mar 4, 2018 5:27 am

Dn4sty wrote:I had no idea you could predict the future. I hope you put all your money in Portland tonight.


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Post#39 » by Labinot41 » Sun Mar 4, 2018 5:33 am

NaturalThunder wrote:On another note...

I've done a really bad job closely following the NBA as a whole this year. I didn't realize the Blazers had climbed all the way to 3rd in the West. They aren't even that good historically speaking. If they're the third best team in the West, regardless of their record, they're a bad 3rd best team in the West.
Haha so salty my friend, Thunder terrible this Year. Russell Westbrook terrible again. PG will leave

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Re: 3/3 - 9PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers 

Post#40 » by Shem » Sun Mar 4, 2018 8:55 pm

NaturalThunder wrote:There's the obvious second night of a back-to-back fatigue is a factor on top of our players' body clock being two hours ahead. This game started at 11:00 PM OKC time.

It was 9PM OKC time, not 11. ;)
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