The third time's the charm - First Round Series vs Portland

Funcrusher · Post #661 » by **Funcrusher** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:20 am

Pillendreher wrote:FGA for Adams in this series: 14, 8, 5, 6

why do this to yourself?

Sinobas · Post #662 » by **Sinobas** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:21 am

How can you guys stand to cheer for such a bunch of d-bags? I've never seen a worse group of them in all my time watching the NBA. Taunting Lillard, dunking at the end of the game when you're ahead? I've watched hundreds of NBA games and don't remember EVER seeing a player pull such a classless move as what George did in game 3.

And yet the Blazers had a chance to come out and throw that sh back in game 4, but they didn't, they won with class. The Thunder are the scum of the nba.

Sinobas · Post #663 » by **Sinobas** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:25 am

Thundershock88 wrote:Blow it up. **** this team.

You should want to blow your team up. Even if they come back and win the series, they're the biggest **** in the NBA (except for Steven Adams, he's cool)

Thundershock88 · Post #664 » by **Thundershock88** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:51 am

Sinobas wrote:How can you guys stand to cheer for such a bunch of d-bags? I've never seen a worse group of them in all my time watching the NBA. Taunting Lillard, dunking at the end of the game when you're ahead? I've watched hundreds of NBA games and don't remember EVER seeing a player pull such a classless move as what George did in game 3.

And yet the Blazers had a chance to come out and throw that sh back in game 4, but they didn't, they won with class. The Thunder are the scum of the nba.

Oh please. It's the playoffs. It makes for good entertainment. These teams just flat out don't like each other.

Funcrusher · Post #665 » by **Funcrusher** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:55 am

I dunno, I've already looked past this season. I had no expectations we would do anything meaningful in the playoffs so in that way it kind of softens the blow. But I will say that this off season will most likely determine whether or not I continue to actively follow this team. At some point, I cannot continue to emotionally attach myself to this embarrassment of a franchise, I just can't. It's been pretty tough to do that after last year anyway, which is why I'm not on this board often anymore.

Presti has to realize that absolutely none of this is working, from roster construction to coaching to team culture to drafting, and that a major overhaul of approach is needed. That starts with firing Donovan. If he can't do something as simple and elemental as that their's just no point in investing any further energy in this team. And provided he does fire Donovan, there is still massive work that needs to be done to steer this franchise back in the right direction. I don't know whether we shouldn't just tear it down altogether and trade Russ/PG, it remains to be seen what direction we should go and I honestly wouldn't feel bad if we do decide to rebuild. But another year of this, and yeah, I'm just done.

Post #666 » by **bondom34** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:58 am

Sinobas wrote:How can you guys stand to cheer for such a bunch of d-bags? I've never seen a worse group of them in all my time watching the NBA. Taunting Lillard, dunking at the end of the game when you're ahead? I've watched hundreds of NBA games and don't remember EVER seeing a player pull such a classless move as what George did in game 3.

And yet the Blazers had a chance to come out and throw that sh back in game 4, but they didn't, they won with class. The Thunder are the scum of the nba.

Why would you troll, you know it just gets you in trouble.

And your team literally used to be known as the Jailblazers.

Revived · Post #667 » by **Revived** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:25 am

I think it's funny how people are saying Westbrook has been trash his whole career just because he regressed due to age. LeBron regressed due to age too, guess he's been trash his whole career as well?

Westbrook just looks young but he's in his 30s now. His game relies heavily on his athleticism so of course he isn't as good as he used to be.

Funny how not being as good as used to be = OVERRATED TRASH WHOLE CAREER

The guy has huge holes in his game and it's fair to question if his playing style suits being the 2nd or 3rd best player on a championship winning team but all this other slander that's being thrown his way his complete nonsense.

Westbrook, the person, I do think needs to humble himself. Him (and Schoeder) jawing with Lillard didn't do the Thunder any good and I do think he needs to stop thinking that he's above criticism and start treating media with some respect.

More and more athletes are going into the media industry after retirement and Russ plans on doing that then he will not want to burn bridges now imo.

Post #668 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:42 am

I wonder if presti is packing for his post season contemplative road trip yet.

CROklahoma · Post #669 » by **CROklahoma** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:06 am

Westbrook has given up in the middle of the game, he played without an effort, similar to KD in 2016.
Wonder if there is something else in that behaviour.

I also loved how Felton guarded McCollum on several occasions, when it mattered the most, when we tried to stop them scoring in 4th.

Once again, we cant play Kanter Billy !

Post #670 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:12 am

Utah looked really good last year in the playoffs until they weren’t playing us. We make Portland look better than they are.

Post #671 » by **The Sebastian Express** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:18 am

Sinobas wrote:How can you guys stand to cheer for such a bunch of d-bags? I've never seen a worse group of them in all my time watching the NBA. Taunting Lillard, dunking at the end of the game when you're ahead? I've watched hundreds of NBA games and don't remember EVER seeing a player pull such a classless move as what George did in game 3.

And yet the Blazers had a chance to come out and throw that sh back in game 4, but they didn't, they won with class. The Thunder are the scum of the nba.

Hey. Don't do this.

sleestak33 · Post #672 » by **sleestak33** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:24 am

Terrance Ferguson has been outscored by McCollum 105-22 in this series and it's such a massive mismatch that OKC really had no chance. You're simply not winning a playoff series starting a 20 year old scrawny kid like Ferguson who just isn't ready to be a starting NBA shooting guard, much less in the playoffs where it's much more physical. They should have gotten somebody for that starting role instead of Schroder who is basically the same player Westbrook is. Their roster is just flawed. This series is over.

spearsy23 · Post #673 » by **spearsy23** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am

Donovan's a bad coach and this is a bad team. Those aren't mutually exclusive

Old Man Game · Post #674 » by **Old Man Game** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:40 am

spearsy23 wrote:Donovan's a bad coach and this is a bad team. Those aren't mutually exclusive

And Russ and George can't hit even their good looks when given them. It's an entire recipe for disaster.

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Post #675 » by **slick_watts** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:43 am

spearsy23 wrote:Donovan's a bad coach and this is a bad team. Those aren't mutually exclusive

of course not. one is much easier to overcome than the other though. we've actually seen the former overcome in 2015-16. teams with bad coaches have won titles. there's no getting around roster construction.

Old Man Game · Post #676 » by **Old Man Game** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:43 am

Sinobas wrote:How can you guys stand to cheer for such a bunch of d-bags? I've never seen a worse group of them in all my time watching the NBA. Taunting Lillard, dunking at the end of the game when you're ahead? I've watched hundreds of NBA games and don't remember EVER seeing a player pull such a classless move as what George did in game 3.

And yet the Blazers had a chance to come out and throw that sh back in game 4, but they didn't, they won with class. The Thunder are the scum of the nba.

I've enjoyed watching your team. Lillard is great and he's handling Westbrook's garbage really well. And yes the trash is particularly lame when the other guy is cooking you.

But there's no reason to go overboard with your rhetoric. Scum of the NBA? Get a grip.

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Old Man Game · Post #677 » by **Old Man Game** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:47 am

slick_watts wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:Donovan's a bad coach and this is a bad team. Those aren't mutually exclusive

of course not. one is much easier to overcome than the other though. we've actually seen the former overcome in 2015-16. teams with bad coaches have won titles. there's no getting around roster construction.

When your supposed boy genius G.M. Doesn't catch on that shooting is important until about 18-24 months ago, yeah, the roster is going to have problems.

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Post #678 » by **slick_watts** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:51 am

oreojenkins wrote:Wish more people would realize roster construction is the #1 problem.

right. for all of billy's faults, he did lead a team to a playoff win w/o hca v. the spurs in 2016 and the team nearly pulled off another major upset against the warriors. so we know, for a fact, that a team coached by billy donovan can be successful.

Old Man Game · Post #679 » by **Old Man Game** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:06 pm

slick_watts wrote:
oreojenkins wrote:Wish more people would realize roster construction is the #1 problem.

right. for all of billy's faults, he did lead a team to a playoff win w/o hca v. the spurs in 2016 and the team nearly pulled off another major upset against the warriors. so we know, for a fact, that a team coached by billy donovan can be successful.

All I took from that is a team with Kevin Durant can be successful. The fact we haven't even really come close to making it out of the first round since, once again just underscores how he essentially was the team and without him we really don't have one.

Post #680 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:14 pm

Let’s quitting setting the bar so low that a team “can” be successful in spite of a bad coach or bad roster. Fix all of it.