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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at CHICAGO BULLS
7PM CST |
Location: United Center • Chicago, IL
Thunder: 2-3 | # in West
| 22.6 PPG, 9.2 RPG, 12.0 APG
Bulls: 1-3 | # in East
| 15.2 PPG, 6.5 RPG, 3.0 APG

Next Game: Tue, Oct 31st @ Milwaukee Bucks
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SUMMARY
Thunder Last 5

INJURY REPORT

PLAYER OF THE GAME

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The outcome of the game can only be either bad or not bad. I can’t inagine anything that happens I would feel too excited about.

Losing this one would be beyond terrible. Don't care about b2b, bird on plain, Billy **** Donovan... no excuses.

We're probably win on talent alone.

we're 30th on drb% now by a long way. most of the struggles appear to swirl around melo's presence. we're allowing 31%+ orb with him in the game. there's one exception to this, and it's when he's in with the starters (read: andre roberson). we're league average drb% then.

efg differential is getting better. however we're losing badly at the line, and the drb% which we could probably stand to be worse than previous years, can't continue to be worse.

slick_watts wrote:we're 30th on drb% now by a long way. most of the struggles appear to swirl around melo's presence. we're allowing 31%+ orb with him in the game. there's one exception to this, and it's when he's in with the starters (read: andre roberson). we're league average drb% then.

efg differential is getting better. however we're losing badly at the line, and the drb% which we could probably stand to be worse than previous years, can't continue to be worse.

This should not happen tho. Melo has always been a decent enough defensive rebounder with the Knicks.

Adjusted DREB Chance % (taking into account deffered rebounds):

13/14: 82.5 %
14/15: 84.0 %
15/16: 85.0 %
16/17: 79.8 %

And now 17/18: 54.5 %.

Russ is our only starter with > 70 %. Last season we didn't have a single rotation player below 70 %.

Thunder organisation always valued rebounds and ft percentages, and now we are trash at both of them. Go figure...

We also used to put our opponent over the foul limit and go to the line the entire 4th quarter, and now we let our opponent doing this to us. We should definitely take care of stupid fouls, and also WB and PG13 should be more agressive in the beginning of quarters. That's why Westbrook being more agressive all game long is so valuable to our team (I know he can't be 48 minutes on attack mode but waiting for the last quarter to go for it isn't the right thing to do).

All five Bulls starters would be bench players on the Thunder. If you lose tonight ... I recommend hemlock. But I do not think you will lose.

Based purely on talent the Thunder should crush this team. If it’s not over by the end of the 3rd.......

Easy win tonight. Anything else is truly a letdown.

Is Payne playing? Because I'm not ready for him to drop 30 on us.

InTheSabonus wrote:Is Payne playing? Because I'm not ready for him to drop 30 on us.

He could probably do it in a cast against this defense.

Thundershock88 wrote:Easy win tonight. Anything else is truly a letdown.

Is any win easy with Donovan coaching?

The one thing Donovan's great at is his interviews. Says so little with so many words but to some it makes him seem really smart.

Why isn’t either teaming wearing white?

Roberson driving and kicking out is what he needs to do.

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

Thundershock88 wrote:Easy win tonight. Anything else is truly a letdown.

Is any win easy with Donovan coaching?

One of the few matchups we may have a coaching advantage tonight. Alvin Gentry is another one.

Can we just get someone with the balls to tell Russ to at least put a hand up on D?

Russ sucks this year.