WCQF | (4) Oklahoma City Thunder vs Utah Jazz (5) | UTA 4-2

Pillendreher · Post #341 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:54 am

Weird game so far.

spearsy23 · Post #342 » by **spearsy23** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:57 am

We just live and die by God awful shots

Pillendreher · Post #343 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:01 am

We need the Russ whisperer to do his magic.

bledredwine · Post #344 » by **bledredwine** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:05 am

Damn. The playoffs are so exciting this year. ..... The playoffs began right as I'm supposed to be applying for jobs in my field. I'm so screwed.

bledredwine · Post #345 » by **bledredwine** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:07 am

Come on Melo.

Channel your Nuggets days into this game.

bledredwine · Post #346 » by **bledredwine** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:09 am

Goal for the rest of the game: Very few turnovers, try to limit stupid shots.

Post #347 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:10 am

Gobert has Russ on him and Mitchell fires a three. We got lucky.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #348 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:11 am

bledredwine wrote:try to limit stupid shots.

This team lives and dies on bad shots.

Post #349 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:12 am

58% on free throws won’t cut it

bledredwine · Post #350 » by **bledredwine** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:13 am

Kizz Fastfists wrote:
bledredwine wrote:try to limit stupid shots.

This team lives and dies on bad shots.

This is true.

The passing and shots make me nervous sometimes. It's like the opposite of watching indiana, who has awesome passing, but less talent (Though Dipo is amazing, and my other favorite player).... and just keeps getting to the rim for easy 2's.

And Westbrook has an invisible jetpack, which can be a curse at times.

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #351 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:14 am

terrible

Pillendreher · Post #352 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:14 am

Russ gotta calm down and play within the team. He's either not engaged at all or too engaged defensively trying to get back at Ricky Martin.

Pillendreher · Post #353 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:19 am

Read on Twitter

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Plus 12 points off turnovers. That's 30 points based mostly on effort and discipline.

spearsy23 · Post #354 » by **spearsy23** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:27 am

Pillendreher wrote:

Read on Twitter
?s=19

Plus 12 points off turnovers. That's 30 points based mostly on effort and discipline.

Having a second big would be really nice right now. Is the buyout market still robust?

spearsy23 · Post #355 » by **spearsy23** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:28 am

Also they get into the paint at will. How do you switch everything and still allow so much penetration?

Kizz Fastfists · Post #356 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:30 am

spearsy23 wrote:Having a second big would be really nice right now. Is the buyout market still robust?

Dakari rotted on the bench all year instead of getting him ready. His size would be nice in this series.

bledredwine · Post #357 » by **bledredwine** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:30 am

Dammit. Gotta hand it to them - Utah is playing smart ball.

Post #358 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:32 am

This is going to get ugly soon.

NaturalThunder · Post #359 » by **NaturalThunder** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:34 am

spearsy23 wrote:Also they get into the paint at will. How do you switch everything and still allow so much penetration?

Oh, because we're terrible at it. We don't have the personnel to switch everything without Robes. Melo doesn't have the footspeed, Russ is a very low-IQ, too-gambly defender, and Adams, while serivecable as a "switch everything" big, isn't ideally suited for it.

Post #360 » by **slick_watts** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:35 am

had a feeling they'd work favors into the pnr more in this game. melo is getting exposed inside and out.

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