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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at TORONTO RAPTORS
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Everyone. All 5 starters get it for me. I vote Russ but just all of them.

I gave A+ for our trade with the bulls, expecting to see Gibson solving a lot of our defensive problems, but I didn't expect to see him so good on the offensive side. He's Impressive right now. If we play like that in the playoffs, we will beat the beard.

We shot 56% from 3-pt line and 52% from 2

Gonna have to find a replay somehow, someway to watch tomorrow morning. I don't have to work tomorrow so I have all morning to watch a replay of this game before college ball starts.

Oladipo has been in fine form. He needs to be a 20-23ppg kind of guy to make himself an acceptable second option, and he's doing that lately. A lot with him has to do with confidence, and now he needs to make sure he maintains that confidence. He can make big shots, throw down huge dunks, and as long as he remembers that he'll develop into somebody worthy of his contract.

A bit better of a defensive effort from Adams, at least he was getting back to his physical play/annoying opponents. But he's still looking a bit lost team defence wise/switching, which used to be something he could hang his hat on. We need the Steven Adams that could switch on to Curry and reject a 3 point attempt back.

We have to keep Taj. Have to. He's really good for us, and Sabonis is, uh, not so good. He showed some positive signs in junk time, but before that he was just awful. Got to learn to keep his head up and not a couple of early mistakes dictate the rest of your game, instead of just hanging the head and letting the mistakes pile up. He should be benched completely, or preferably getting some d-league minutes, but we don't have anyone else better than him to be the backup 4. Grant isn't that.

This game was just the Russell Westbrook show though. He made sure the team just got buckets when it was looking a little shaky at times in the first half. Just effortlessly getting assists, or scoring himself when nobody else was getting anything done. MVP performance from the most valuable player in the league.

Yeah I really realllllly think the move this summer is keeping Taj and VO, move Kanter if you gotta.

Apparently the Raps had a players only meeting.

bondom34 wrote:Yeah I really realllllly think the move this summer is keeping Taj and VO, move Kanter if you gotta.

I'm going to assume that re-signing Roberson will be what prevents us from signing Taj.

Which would make it a sign Roberson v keeping Kanter in order to keep Taj situation. Personally I think it wouldn't be as clear cut as keeping Roberson, but regardless of what I think, I have to imagine Presti would prefer to keep both Roberson and Kanter over signing Taj.

InTheSabonus wrote:

bondom34 wrote:Yeah I really realllllly think the move this summer is keeping Taj and VO, move Kanter if you gotta.

I'm going to assume that re-signing Roberson will be what prevents us from signing Taj.

Which would make it a sign Roberson v keeping Kanter in order to keep Taj situation. Personally I think it wouldn't be as clear cut as keeping Roberson, but regardless of what I think, I have to imagine Presti would prefer to keep both Roberson and Kanter over signing Taj.

I'd agree, the only 2nd thought I have is it seems un Presti like to trade for a guy midseason and let him walk. K Mart was even a full season.

Not bad.

NaturalThunder wrote:Gonna have to find a replay somehow, someway to watch tomorrow morning. I don't have to work tomorrow so I have all morning to watch a replay of this game before college ball starts.

Nbahd.net

This was one of the very few games this season where you clearly ad better ball movement than the other team, Raptors offense was just horrendous. Ibaka looked like the mediocre Ibaka who played for us this season in most games and not the Superman he was when he came to OKC in November.

But credit to your guys, all the starters were great, Russ had probably his best passing game of the season, that first quarter especially was ridiculous. Gibson is a great fit. Dipo is on one of his usual hot streaks, hopefully it can last for a while.

Christon with 0 points in 21 minutes, good news is he only took 1 shot.

Bergmaniac wrote: Dipo is on one of his usual hot streaks, hopefully it can last for a while.

He's playing with more force. Good to see him being more aggressive.