2018-2019 OKC Thunder Regular Season Pt 1: A Renewed Hope

[hardenASG13]

Yep. Blocks are the last line of defense. When you are the Center on 2 of the 5 best defensive lineups you shouldnt need to block alot.

But hey.. guys like to watch highlights and boxscores then draw conclusions.. while most of us watch 48 minutes and understand whats going on

this didn't age well. Most of you have no clue what you are watching.when relying on stats goes wrong. Adams is a joke for what he's paid.

Didnt age well how? Adams has been ****. No1s denying that.
This whole come on here when the teams playing poorly and act like you know better act is very sad.

on here plenty . You denied it, right on here, like a month ago, when it was also quite evident, which is why i mentioned it at that time! You said i didnt know what i was watching.

Just curious as to how such a negative board ignores and denys all his flaws for what he makes but is so quick to jump on guys like Westbrook, Schroeder, grant.....pretty much everyone but Roberson and adams. Hell PG was turned on at the start of this season after a few bad games on here! Ahhh wish I knew what I was watching like you

What pathetic comebacks

[Dadouv47]

Looks like we peaked too early (except for Westbrook). Adams is tired, PG13 a bit injured, Ferguson was playing way better on both ends 2 months ago (he's getting killed by every SG) and we had always someone from our bench to give us some small contribution.

Utah/Portland are on fire and Houston is starting to play well. Well we still have more more than a month to fix things but it doesn't look good (and if Roberson doesn't come back in a couple of weeks we can forget about him being relevant this year)

[Pillendreher]

Going back 7 games:



Looks like the main theme for this season is "You can't have both". It's like we can't have all around success: Whenever a negative turns into a positive, a positive turns into a negative. We finally start making our wide open 3s and we stop defending as a result. Our bench finally performs decently enough and our starters become garbage in the process.

[slick_watts]

[Pillendreher]

Raymond Felton is our 3rd best wing defender.

[ThunderBolt]

Raymond Felton is our 3rd best wing defender.

If there is one player that I know can devour some wings, its felton.

[slick_watts]

[Thunder Up]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

[Dn4sty]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

Nuggets and Bucks are no big deal. The Jazz on the other hand

[Pillendreher]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

[ThunderBolt]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

You should be a wizards or suns fan since you have no expectations for a team.

[Pillendreher]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

You should be a wizards or suns fan since you have no expectations for a team.

The key is to act nonchalant when they play bad and then come back with full force to tell the "haters" off when they're winning. That way all you do as a fan is win: Losing doesn't matter and winning trumps everything.

[hardenASG13]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

I mean, they have been playing without Paul George, and in his last 2 his shoulder likely was an issue based on his shooring. It has exposed their roster some, no question. But clearly he is extremely important to the team, and they were playing great basketball the last stretch where he was healthy. They are an interesting playoff team.

[Pillendreher]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

I mean, they have been playing without Paul George, and in his last 2 his shoulder likely was an issue based on his shooring. It has exposed their roster some, no question. But clearly he is extremely important to the team, and they were playing great basketball the last stretch where he was healthy. They are an interesting playoff team.

They have missed him, sure - nobody can deny that. But the underlying issues have been there for weeks, they just haven't been as obvious because we had multiple guys hitting 3s at a high clip for weeks. We stopped doing that and the offense has tanked over the last couple of games, especially with George out/not hitting 3s. But since we got trashed defensively with our main guys in, we didn't have a chance of winning because the offense couldn't fight back. And that's the main issue that has been plaguing this squad for weeks: Not being good enough defensively anymore. We can debate the cause/root for that all we want, but it is the current reality. Think about this for a second: The DRtG vs the Grizzlies of 92.2 was the best single game DRtG for the Thunder since January 2! In fact, it was just the 2nd time since January 2 that they held the opposing team at less than 100pp100p. Prior to the last 26 games, they managed to do that 12x, ie every 3rd game. And it's not like they just played bad offensive teams in 2018.

[Thunder Up]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

That post had nothing to do with this awful stretch of 4 losses, or being a “complete and utter homer” it has to do with the massive overreactions from 93.6% of this forum at any single thing that goes wrong at any given moment... and that **** happens

[Pillendreher]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

That post had nothing to do with this awful stretch of 4 losses, or being a “complete and utter homer” it has to do with the massive overreactions from 93.6% of this forum at any single thing that goes wrong at any given moment... and that **** happens

I rest my case.

[ThunderBolt]

I wonder if Bucks, Jazz and Nuggets fans are freaking tf out and melting down tonight

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

That post had nothing to do with this awful stretch of 4 losses, or being a “complete and utter homer” it has to do with the massive overreactions from 93.6% of this forum at any single thing that goes wrong at any given moment... and that **** happens

Last year was one of the biggest failed expirments in modern nba history despite people like yourself claiming it would end otherwise. You have no room to speak.

[Thunder Up]

This attitude towards stretches like this is so damn ridiculous, I can barely put it into words. You're not "edgy" because you act like it's normal that a team coming off winning 11 of 12 suddenly loses 5 out of 6. You're not more reasonable than the rest of us because you act like getting playing from behind every single **** game with Raymond Felton being about the only guy giving consistent effort defensively is just something that happens. The only thing you're accomplishing is to make yourself look like a complete and utter homer.

That post had nothing to do with this awful stretch of 4 losses, or being a “complete and utter homer” it has to do with the massive overreactions from 93.6% of this forum at any single thing that goes wrong at any given moment... and that **** happens

Last year was one of the biggest failed expirments in modern nba history despite people like yourself claiming it would end otherwise. You have no room to speak.

The biggest failed experiment in modern nba is happening in LA currently. The Thunder making the playoffs without the best perimeter defender in the NBA and then losing a series in 6 due to their star SF not being able to shoot a basketball is far from being one of the biggest failures in modern nba history, nor is my belief that they would win said series some foolish thought

[NaturalThunder]

Every freakin' game it feels like we're down by 10+ at the half.

So tired of this. Now it's going to be another uphill struggle in the 2nd half.

[NaturalThunder]

Apparently they just aren't going to miss anymore.