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Are we the new trailblazers with all the injuries?

Loud_city wrote:Are we the new trailblazers with all the injuries?

All 2, neither career threatening?

spearsy23 wrote:

Loud_city wrote:Are we the new trailblazers with all the injuries?

All 2, neither career threatening?

It is an overreaction but still two years in a row.

Loud_city wrote:

spearsy23 wrote:

Loud_city wrote:Are we the new trailblazers with all the injuries?

All 2, neither career threatening?

It is an overreaction but still two years in a row.

It's definitely frustrating. I don't think it hurts us as much against the Spurs though, as long as Brooks keeps playing Adams. We can go small and if if Pop decides Tiago against KD is a matchup he wants to attempt to exploit I'll gladly take the ball in Splitter's hands. If Lamb can get some minutes or Caron is knocking down threes we may even be able to force the Spurs small. Unfortunately, I think Adams has to play a ton and I think Duncan can exploit his youth.

spearsy23 wrote:

Loud_city wrote:

spearsy23 wrote:All 2, neither career threatening?

It is an overreaction but still two years in a row.

It's definitely frustrating. I don't think it hurts us as much against the Spurs though, as long as Brooks keeps playing Adams. We can go small and if if Pop decides Tiago against KD is a matchup he wants to attempt to exploit I'll gladly take the ball in Splitter's hands. If Lamb can get some minutes or Caron is knocking down threes we may even be able to force the Spurs small. Unfortunately, I think Adams has to play a ton and I think Duncan can exploit his youth.

We stand no chance against miami if we get there (which at this moment is unlikely) but against indiana it will hurt as well with David west nailing 20 footers in our face all day. Against the spurs someone is going to have to guard either Duncan or Splitter that will be a mismatch. The thudner can not space the floor with both perk and adams on the floor the Duncan can eat up collison, durant or jones. If we win though it will be because of durant and westbrook and probally brooks making smart decisions being better then the spurs. However someone needs to go onto spurs fans and bookmark a thread saying that the spurs are finals bound just in case.

Terrible luck for both Serge and OKC.

spearsy23 wrote:It's definitely frustrating. I don't think it hurts us as much against the Spurs though, as long as Brooks keeps playing Adams. We can go small and if if Pop decides Tiago against KD is a matchup he wants to attempt to exploit I'll gladly take the ball in Splitter's hands. If Lamb can get some minutes or Caron is knocking down threes we may even be able to force the Spurs small. Unfortunately, I think Adams has to play a ton and I think Duncan can exploit his youth.

Why would Pop not go small also? If they play Leonard at the four, they can play 2 of Green, Manu, Marco which is significantly better than any wing combo OKC can put out there if they go small. And that would for Adams on Duncan if Brooks insisted on playing Adams. That is a recipe for disaster since Adam's biggest weakness imo is defending pnr type plays. Duncan and Parker are two of the best at running it.

A small glimmer of optimism, just because I want to:
1. This team always plays San Antonio well, so why not now?
2. Reggie in particular is ballin' every time, hopefully he goes off.
3. The Clips were a terrible team to play Butler against, the Spurs it may be a bit better.
4. Adams/Collison lineups much?
5. Steal one game, then home court is suddenly OKC's advantage.

Just gotta see how it plays out.

bondom34 wrote:A small glimmer of optimism, just because I want to:
1. This team always plays San Antonio well, so why not now?
2. Reggie in particular is ballin' every time, hopefully he goes off.
3. The Clips were a terrible team to play Butler against, the Spurs it may be a bit better.
4. Adams/Collison lineups much?
5. Steal one game, then home court is suddenly OKC's advantage.

Just gotta see how it plays out.

I obviously liked our chances better with Serge, but I agree, I think we'll be able to compete.

This was a good-looking line-up last night:
Westbrook
Jackson
Durant
Collison
Adams

kd 35 wrote:

bondom34 wrote:A small glimmer of optimism, just because I want to:
1. This team always plays San Antonio well, so why not now?
2. Reggie in particular is ballin' every time, hopefully he goes off.
3. The Clips were a terrible team to play Butler against, the Spurs it may be a bit better.
4. Adams/Collison lineups much?
5. Steal one game, then home court is suddenly OKC's advantage.

Just gotta see how it plays out.

I obviously liked our chances better with Serge, but I agree, I think we'll be able to compete.

This was a good-looking line-up last night:
Westbrook
Jackson
Durant
Collison
Adams

I'm hoping that lineup sees a lot of time. Butler shouldn't be useless this series either, and maybe there is a chance that whatever weird lineups are out there can mess w/ SAS just enough to win a game on the road.

bondom34 wrote:A small glimmer of optimism, just because I want to:
1. This team always plays San Antonio well, so why not now?
2. Reggie in particular is ballin' every time, hopefully he goes off.
3. The Clips were a terrible team to play Butler against, the Spurs it may be a bit better.
4. Adams/Collison lineups much?
5. Steal one game, then home court is suddenly OKC's advantage.

Just gotta see how it plays out.

I needed optimism. We have a chance but durant and westbrook need to average 60+ points or better for most of the series if we are going to win,

Loud_city wrote:

bondom34 wrote:A small glimmer of optimism, just because I want to:
1. This team always plays San Antonio well, so why not now?
2. Reggie in particular is ballin' every time, hopefully he goes off.
3. The Clips were a terrible team to play Butler against, the Spurs it may be a bit better.
4. Adams/Collison lineups much?
5. Steal one game, then home court is suddenly OKC's advantage.

Just gotta see how it plays out.

I needed optimism. We have a chance but durant and westbrook need to average 60+ points or better for most of the series if we are going to win,

If I told you 4 days ago they'd be trailing the Clips by 7 with 47 seconds left in game 5, you woulda never believed they won the series in 6 games. Gotta keep on playin, hope for the best.

bondom34 wrote:

Loud_city wrote:

bondom34 wrote:A small glimmer of optimism, just because I want to:
1. This team always plays San Antonio well, so why not now?
2. Reggie in particular is ballin' every time, hopefully he goes off.
3. The Clips were a terrible team to play Butler against, the Spurs it may be a bit better.
4. Adams/Collison lineups much?
5. Steal one game, then home court is suddenly OKC's advantage.

Just gotta see how it plays out.

I needed optimism. We have a chance but durant and westbrook need to average 60+ points or better for most of the series if we are going to win,

If I told you 4 days ago they'd be trailing the Clips by 7 with 47 seconds left in game 5, you woulda never believed they won the series in 6 games. Gotta keep on playin, hope for the best.

True but the spurs aren't going to cost themselfs the game like the clips.

comingbacktousa wrote:Terrible luck for both Serge and OKC.

spearsy23 wrote:It's definitely frustrating. I don't think it hurts us as much against the Spurs though, as long as Brooks keeps playing Adams. We can go small and if if Pop decides Tiago against KD is a matchup he wants to attempt to exploit I'll gladly take the ball in Splitter's hands. If Lamb can get some minutes or Caron is knocking down threes we may even be able to force the Spurs small. Unfortunately, I think Adams has to play a ton and I think Duncan can exploit his youth.

Why would Pop not go small also? If they play Leonard at the four, they can play 2 of Green, Manu, Marco which is significantly better than any wing combo OKC can put out there if they go small. And that would for Adams on Duncan if Brooks insisted on playing Adams. That is a recipe for disaster since Adam's biggest weakness imo is defending pnr type plays. Duncan and Parker are two of the best at running it.

At this point in his career Manu isn't significantly better than Reggie Jackson and Green or Marco can be cancelled out by Thabo being very good at chasing guys around screens. There's no significant advantage in a Reggie/Thabo vs Manu/Green lineup. A slight advantage? Sure. But not enough to swing a series. If SAS matches up small and wins they would have beat us playing big too.

Thunder will be lucky to win one game this series.

There are some pity people on the GB.

do you guys think Jeremy Lamb gets any minutes now? He could help fill some of that scoring void.

The problem is that lamb can't play a forward and we don't know how we would fit but I do agree that we should be playing more.

Loud_city wrote:The problem is that lamb can't play a forward and we don't know how we would fit but I do agree that we should be playing more.

they could start caron at the 3 move kd to the 4 and have lamb get the wing minutes off the bench?

nickforthreee wrote:

Loud_city wrote:The problem is that lamb can't play a forward and we don't know how we would fit but I do agree that we should be playing more.

they could start caron at the 3 move kd to the 4 and have lamb get the wing minutes off the bench?

I guess but we just really won't know untill monday how the rotations work out, ironically we probally need to time off more then the old spurs,