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Russell Westbrook | Victor Oladipo | Andre Roberson | Domantas Sabonis | Steven Adams
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Emmanuel Mudiay | Will Barton | Juan Hernangomez| Kenneth Faried| Jusuf Nurkic
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THUNDER at NUGGETS
8PM CST |
Location: Pepsi Center
Thunder: 8-8 | #T-6 in West
Nuggets: 6-9 | #10 in West

Next Game: Sat, Nov 26 vs Detroit Pistons
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Man we need solid outing desperately. Nothing fancy, just solid defense which fuels our offense.

Oh man we're so gonna lose this.

2016-2017. Thunder, we find a way to lose.

Still ugly, still bad defense, still stupid. None of that matters because we got freaking win!

good **** Russ!!

Finally, win #9

Wow great win!

glad we won but omg it's painful to watch. We need some defense. Sounds like we are missing ibaka more than we thought ( I know he was trash last year)

This has nothing to do with Ibaka. Defense has been trash no matter who's on the floor.

Pillendreher wrote:This has nothing to do with Ibaka. Defense has been trash no matter who's on the floor.

it has to do with the fact that Adams needs a good 4 to help him.

For the rest we can't ask much more from Roberson ( and neither from westbrook, or he won't be able to perform offensively).

Dadouv47 wrote:

Pillendreher wrote:This has nothing to do with Ibaka. Defense has been trash no matter who's on the floor.

it has to do with the fact that Adams needs a good 4 to help him.

For the rest we can't ask much more from Roberson ( and neither from westbrook, or he won't be able to perform offensively).

Problem is there's nothing showing this. Serge didn't make a difference last year. And his numbers are worse this year yet.

bondom34 wrote:

Dadouv47 wrote:

Pillendreher wrote:This has nothing to do with Ibaka. Defense has been trash no matter who's on the floor.

it has to do with the fact that Adams needs a good 4 to help him.

For the rest we can't ask much more from Roberson ( and neither from westbrook, or he won't be able to perform offensively).

Problem is there's nothing showing this. Serge didn't make a difference last year. And his numbers are worse this year yet.

I think I said Serge was terrible last year and we made a GREAT trade. Serge didn't make difference last year but he was helping Adams more on the inside than Sabonis or any other is this year.
I never said we shouldn't have traded Ibaka or something close to it, just that we need an average 4 at least ( Sabonis is a great talent but is far from that).

We had good interior defense and this year we are beyond terrible. What is the reason then?

Sounds that we need an average 4 even more than a wing player. We can't get stops even against terrible offensive teams.

Even with hitting 50% fg and 50% from the 3 we went to OT against the nuggets. We should have lost this game 95% of the time.

Dadouv47 wrote:We had good interior defense and this year we are beyond terrible. What is the reason then?

Sounds that we need an average 4 even more than a wing player. We can't get stops even against terrible offensive teams.

Even with hitting 50% fg and 50% from the 3 we went to OT against the nuggets. We should have lost this game 95% of the time.

Joffrey and Kanter are both awful? The defense hasn't been that poor with Adams. The other 2 are both horrendous defenders.

We lost both durant and ibaka, that's a lot of length and rim protection. Sabonis will need to become a much better team defender to make up for that. I think he will but it's going to take time.

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