2024-2025 OKC Thunder Games Thread

Post #481 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Apr 7, 2025 12:03 am

well bookmakers are less worried than me after this performance. Still concerned about a potential match up against the Lakers because they have a perfect roster to bother us.

Mr Thunder Nick · Post #482 » by **Mr Thunder Nick** » Mon Apr 7, 2025 8:46 am

Chet is such a good talented player , but (and my feeling is for some time) he is too soft by rebounding the ball. A guy with his size does grab much more an with more energy.

bbms · Post #483 » by **bbms** » Mon Apr 7, 2025 9:24 am

tough loss, impressed by how well the lakers actually played defense into us. i would take with a grain of salt because the lakers shot 70% from 3 in the first half, but how ineffective the offense was when their shooting came down to earth is concerning

we could force the turnovers we need to seal close affairs, though

earlier in this season it took the thunder lose the nba cup for mike d to stop the wiggins underutilization

hope it doesn't take a playoff elimination for him to learn that this heavy chet+hartenstein utilization isn't inspiring confidence

Post #484 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Apr 7, 2025 10:57 pm

bbms wrote:tough loss, impressed by how well the lakers actually played defense into us. i would take with a grain of salt because the lakers shot 70% from 3 in the first half, but how ineffective the offense was when their shooting came down to earth is concerning

we could force the turnovers we need to seal close affairs, though

earlier in this season it took the thunder lose the nba cup for mike d to stop the wiggins underutilization

hope it doesn't take a playoff elimination for him to learn that this heavy chet+hartenstein utilization isn't inspiring confidence

part of me hope it's just OKC trying that line up and coach D trolling the league but I fully expect us to start that 5 in the POs

bbms · Post #485 » by **bbms** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 1:08 pm

i hope he is just trying to run it to gather data and improve these setups that he couldn't do all season but eventually he'll go to what has worked best (1 big, 4 guards).

okc media won't have the right to question him since they've been all glaze and asking 0 questions about this

chet became just a spot up shooter and defensively he becomes misplaced too.

personally i see just cleveland as a matchup worth playing two bigs on heavy minutes. we got smoked vs lakers

Post #486 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 8, 2025 4:19 pm

bbms wrote:i hope he is just trying to run it to gather data and improve these setups that he couldn't do all season but eventually he'll go to what has worked best (1 big, 4 guards).

okc media won't have the right to question him since they've been all glaze and no criticism of that choice.

chet became just a spot up shooter and defensively he becomes misplaced too.

personally i see just cleveland as a matchup worth playing two bigs on heavy minutes. we got smoked vs lakers

maybe denver too but not sure. Just can't play this line up against other teams for sure it's a mistake. I don't mind some minutes of Chet + hartenstein when Shai/JDub are on the bench but that's it.

Post #487 » by **Dadouv47** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 10:12 am

JDub is really looking better on offense. That's the best version of him I have ever seen...attacking the paint in a smarter way and faster. Just gonna come down if he can hit his shot or if he's gonna brick everything like last playoffs.

Chet not being 100% is a problem..no clue how much he can improve before the POs begins.

bbms · Post #488 » by **bbms** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 10:47 am

couldn't catch the game, too tired.

how was it?

Post #489 » by **Dadouv47** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 6:02 pm

bbms wrote:couldn't catch the game, too tired.

how was it?

great offensive performance, same defensive struggles.

Doncic was ejected early so tough to say what would have happened.

JDub is doing very well attacking the paint lately and yesterday was the case too. Shai was way way better than the last two games and Dort making 3's.

We are lucky we got Hartenstein because he looks better than Chet lately. Signing Hartenstein was such a great move from Presti despite the fact that I still don't understand why they are starting him.

Zagor · Post #490 » by **Zagor** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 6:43 pm

I don't like lineups with Chet and IHart together. Chet doesn't look like himself when he plays PF position.
In second quarter when he was center and Caruso was in, they smoked Lakers.

Post #491 » by **ThunderBolt** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 6:55 pm

Zagor wrote:I don't like lineups with Chet and IHart together. Chet doesn't look like himself when he plays PF position.
In second quarter when he was center and Caruso was in, they smoked Lakers.

It's this year's version of Giddey in the playoffs lineup.

Post #492 » by **Dadouv47** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 8:34 pm

Read on Twitter

Chet needs to play, good call (no clue why Caruso and JDub are playing though)

Post #493 » by **Dadouv47** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 8:37 pm

Who should we root for? I just want to avoid the Warriors in the first round and Lakers in the second round (would be better to avoid Lakers/Gsw/Nuggets in the second round but that's almost impossible)

bbms · Post #494 » by **bbms** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 8:52 pm

i think the current table as is, is almost optimal.

i'm still not convinced the lakers are that hard of a fit. i don't think they can keep thunder's pace for a 7 game series. the key for the first game was how poorly we rebounded plus how hot they run on 3s on the first half, and obviously the double bigs issues.

thunder got their turnovers seamlessly and this has been the way for this team's success. bench needs to bring more though.

still the ones i'd like to avoid would be gsw, minnesota and denver.

Post #495 » by **Dadouv47** » Wed Apr 9, 2025 9:34 pm

bbms wrote:i think the current table as is, is almost optimal.

i'm still not convinced the lakers are that hard of a fit. i don't think they can keep thunder's pace for a 7 game series. the key for the first game was how poorly we rebounded plus how hot they run on 3s on the first half, and obviously the double bigs issues.

thunder got their turnovers seamlessly and this has been the way for this team's success. bench needs to bring more though.

still the ones i'd like to avoid would be gsw, minnesota and denver.

3 offensive weapons and a ton of athletic PFs is a problem IMO but I hope u right.

Can't believe Nico Harrison wasn't "able" to get Reaves into that stupid trade.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #496 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:14 am

Dadouv47 wrote:3 offensive weapons and a ton of athletic PFs is a problem IMO but I hope u right.

Can't believe Nico Harrison wasn't "able" to get Reaves into that stupid trade.

Nico wasn't trying to build Dallas. He was setting up an old friend with a championship window and screwing Mark Cuban.

Devilanche · Post #497 » by **Devilanche** » Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:34 am

Kizz Fastfists wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:3 offensive weapons and a ton of athletic PFs is a problem IMO but I hope u right.

Can't believe Nico Harrison wasn't "able" to get Reaves into that stupid trade.

Nico wasn't trying to build Dallas. He was setting up an old friend with a championship window and screwing Mark Cuban.

Mavs are no longer mark Cuban though .

Kizz Fastfists · Post #498 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:00 am

Devilanche wrote:Mavs are no longer mark Cuban though .

He's still a minority owner and he had said he'd never trade Luka. This was Nico showing that he had the power and Cuban no longer had a say. It was childish and stupid and living in Texas with the things I've heard about the trade I'm a bit surprised Nico hasn't been hurt by a fan.

Woerzboerg · Post #499 » by **Woerzboerg** » Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:40 am

Dadouv47 wrote:Who should we root for? I just want to avoid the Warriors in the first round and Lakers in the second round (would be better to avoid Lakers/Gsw/Nuggets in the second round but that's almost impossible)

I'm rooting for Lakers vs GS in the first round, so one of them would be a first round exit

(preferably the lakers)

Also I'm rooting for Grizzlies or Kings in the first round for us. Rest ist mir egal.

lethalizer · Post #500 » by **lethalizer** » Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:44 pm

I'm not really worried about any Western team in a 7 game series, we'll basically grind teams as the series go on.

But yeah, if the first round is Lakers vs Warriors, that would be pretty cool, not gonna deny that one.