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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
8PM CST |
Location: Moda Center • Portland, OR
Thunder: 4-4 | # in West
| 19.5 PPG, 9.4 RPG, 11.8 APG
| 20.3 PPG, 5.1 RPG, 2.0 APG
| 21.3 PPG, 5.6 RPG
| 13.5 PPG, 8.9 RPG, 1.4 BLK
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Trail Blazers: 5-4 | # in West
| 26.1 PPG, 5.4 RPG, 5.9 APG
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Next Game: Tue, Nov 7 @ Sacramento Kings
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Either Russ plays defense or Lillard's gonna get us for 55.

For now, I'll take the following approach when predicting if we'll win or not:

Does our opponent suck? If yes, then I predict a win.

Is our opponent solid to great? If yes, then I predict a loss.

Blazers can't defend with Aminu out. Should be a comfortable win.

I'll be at this game for the 5th straight time. We have lost the last 4 here. The question is, does Russell triple double or not? If yes, we win, if no, we lose.

Does our opponent suck? nope

Does Lilard loves to put 40 on us? yes

Does Portland always beat us? Yes

Is their big 3 playing better than ours? yes

Does Westbrook always choke playing in Portland? yes

Okay...don't like our odds.

We have to win at some point against a western team. Why not do it against Portland I suppose?

Thank goodness Portland doesn't have any good bigs that stretch the floor. I think Dame, CJ, and Nurkic will get theirs, but hopefully the other blazers don't detonate on us.

You guys are like little children when a team struggles. It happens! Just take it easy and give the team some damn time; They will at least end up a 3rd seed with 53-54 wins. They WILL turn it on eventually and figure things out. The first half against Boston showed the potential. The second half, they just could not make shots and forced them. Hopefully this will be a bounce back win and they win the next 6.

OKCThunder wrote:You guys are like little children when a team struggles. It happens! Just take it easy and give the team some damn time; They will at least end up a 3rd seed with 53-54 wins. They WILL turn it on eventually and figure things out. The first half against Boston showed the potential. The second half, they just could not make shots and forced them. Hopefully this will be a bounce back win and they win the next 6.

It's funny isn't it? Most on here are so removed from how players or teams evolve in basketball. Okc will be fine. There are over 70 games left. Okc is stacked, and although struggling right now, that won't last too much longer.

Lets be honest, this team will be fine but you still need a high seed to avoid the Warriors early on. Both Houston & San Antonio are annoyingly stringing together wins despite missing Superstars.

A Top 3 seed is needed in a very tough conference.

According to Sagarin power ratings neither team has beat a top 16 team yet. One will get off that mark and one will go a little deeper.

This will be the point OKC drops below .500
Fortunately after this one comes the Kings, Mavs, Bulls. These 3 will definitely be in the race for the top 5 pick this year.

Ok I changed my mind (going to jynx us big time). PG13 will finally have a great game in a thunder uniform and we get the W.

Well this defence is just appalling.

Russ is an idiot if he thinks this team will go anywhere with his pathetic effort on defense. Lillard was at the three point line and by the time he laid it up, Russ was barely inside the three point line.

This is going to get ugly soon.

Our offence is....Seriously, what is it? What do we do? Anything discernible? Sure doesn't seem like it.

We are trash on both ends. We were lucky Melo hit some shots.

Considering how out of whack OKC looks on both ends I am actually surprised they are only down 8.