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shakes0 wrote:

RingoKid wrote:No Zion should make for an easy series win.

RingoKid wrote:

shakes0 wrote:

RingoKid wrote:No Zion should make for an easy series win.

Too easy!

Dadouv47 wrote:Need a better Shai next series. Joe and Cason to hit some 3's, Hayward to stay on the bench. JDub is doing very well but I want him to be more selfish sometimes.

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

shakes0 wrote:told y'all you were getting way too ahead of yourselves talking about future rounds of the playoffs. Playoffs are a different animal and no amount of regular season success is going to matter once you get there. It's all about experience and taking your lumps and growing from them.

OKC looked every bit the part of one of the youngest most inexperienced teams in the league last night. Didn't look anything close to a #1 seed. Which is totally understandable.

Great win last night, let's be happy for any and all wins this team gets in the post season. Each one is a building block for future runs. Then again, each loss is a building block as well.

Like I said, just be happy if they get out of the first round. Anything beyond that is gravy.

The drastically superior team won in a sweep. This was as surprising as the sun rising in the East. Denver and Boston must need more playoff experience before they are ready, right?

shakes0 wrote:Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

slick_watts wrote:

shakes0 wrote:Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

Dadouv47 wrote:

slick_watts wrote:

shakes0 wrote:Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

with Perkins, Sefolosha and mostly Derek Fisher, there's no way they were as young as this current team.

and it's not only about age: Westbrook was in his 4th year in the NBA, Ibaka and KD 5th season...such a big gap between this and JDub/Chet experience. I don't think the lack of experience from JDub/Chet is gonna be the decisive factor but it's still an unfair/weird comp since OKC went to the WCF in 2011 and our squad in 2012 had way more experience. We look more like the 2011 thunder roster from a playoff experience and age.

slick_watts wrote:

Dadouv47 wrote:

slick_watts wrote:
set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

with Perkins, Sefolosha and mostly Derek Fisher, there's no way they were as young as this current team.

and it's not only about age: Westbrook was in his 4th year in the NBA, Ibaka and KD 5th season...such a big gap between this and JDub/Chet experience. I don't think the lack of experience from JDub/Chet is gonna be the decisive factor but it's still an unfair/weird comp since OKC went to the WCF in 2011 and our squad in 2012 had way more experience. We look more like the 2011 thunder roster from a playoff experience and age.

so it's experience, not age? what's a year or two of difference? what did perkins and fisher really bring the thunder in 2012? lol. come on. we keep moving these goal posts around so that there's a convenient excuse for the team if it falls short.

Big nick wrote:This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

Big nick wrote:This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than. Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

Big nick wrote:This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.