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LOS ANGELES LAKERS at OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER
• Record: 30-24
• Standing: #5
• http://www.nba.com/games/20180204/LALOKC
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THE RETURN!

Dan Gilbert calling Presti for PG13 right now.

the mad scientist, when questioned as to why terrance ferguson continued to start, quipped that some worry a lot about who starts the game and not enough about who finishes the game.

the ferguson starters were -10 in 11 minutes in a 4 point game, tonight.

i know this kind of thinking is arcane to basketball purists such as billy donovan and russell westbrook-- the kind of guys who believe that (for example) carmelo anthony is among a group of players blessed with special powers. but it's hard to win any game when you're giving up 10 points in nearly a quarter's worth of clock. billy thinks the 4th quarter is more important. results say otherwise.

I'm old enough to remember when Steven Adams was our most important defender.

LOL Warriors about to beat this team by 40.


I'm going to get a weird, sadistic pleasure out of it. Go into that deadline at the lowest point.

Take that "play the position by committee" and shove it up your *** Presti.

And yes, Westbrook is choosing the lineups.

Osirus89 wrote:LOL Warriors about to beat this team by 40.


I'm going to get a weird, sadistic pleasure out of it. Go into that deadline at the lowest point.

Take that "play the position by committee" and shove it up your *** Presti.

I'm trying to think of other stuff to watch Tuesday night already.

bondom34 wrote:

Osirus89 wrote:LOL Warriors about to beat this team by 40.


I'm going to get a weird, sadistic pleasure out of it. Go into that deadline at the lowest point.

Take that "play the position by committee" and shove it up your *** Presti.

I'm trying to think of other stuff to watch Tuesday night already.

Just in case you want an artists interpretation

Billy knows the advanced stats. I'm sure he knows the Melo/Ferguson combo is hot garbage, so he's keeping them in the starting lineup to throw off the opposing team who has to play 5 on 3 every possession, which of course they're not used to. Strategy.

Russ-George-Melo-Adams since Robes went down:

vs Philly: 142.0 ORtG | 121.7 DRtG | +20.3 NetRtG | 22 minutes
vs Washington: 88.6 ORtG | 110.1 DRtG | -21.5 NetRtG | 30 minutes
vs Denver: 127.5 ORtG | 133.8 DRtG | -6.4 NetRtG | 28 minutes
vs New Orleans: 91.9 ORtG | 103.1 DRtG | -11.2 NetRtG | 29 minutes
vs Lakers: 97.1 ORtG | 99.9 DRtG | -2.9 NetRtG | 31 minutes

Overall: 106.4 ORtG | 112.4 DRtG | -6.0 NetRtG

It is amazing that Donovan apparently has no idea what has won us games this season. It has been the starters, period. If they get outscored, we're done. We're 3-22 on the season when we get outscored with Russ on the court.



"I think people get really wrapped up in who's starting games. A lot of times I worry about who's finishing the game, those kind of things"

Ferguson starters: -27 NetRtG over the last 5
Ferguson raw +/-: -41

"D'm Billy D'Oh and it doesn't matter who starts, haha"

This **** prick. It takes him 54 games to figure this out. You **** ****. Get back to College and stop **** up our franchise.

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This **** prick. It takes him 54 games to figure this out. You **** ****. Get back to College and stop **** up our franchise.

Un-freaking-believable.

Not only is this moron an NBA head coach...he's our worthless head coach.

Go back to college, Billy. That's your "lane"; stay in it. You suck as an NBA coach.

Seriously, how in the hell did it take this bleeping idiot this long to figure out that maybe we should play PPat and Adams together more often? Now we have to sit back and hope/pray this dip**** actually does it.

NaturalThunder wrote:

Pillendreher wrote:

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This **** prick. It takes him 54 games to figure this out. You **** ****. Get back to College and stop **** up our franchise.

Un-freaking-believable.

Not only is this moron an NBA head coach...he's our worthless head coach.

Go back to college, Billy. That's your "lane"; stay in it. You suck as an NBA coach.

Seriously, how in the hell did it take this bleeping idiot to figure out that maybe we should play PPat and Adams together more often? Now we have to sit back and hope/pray this dip**** actually does it.

This is not the first time he's doing stuff like this. Multiple times this season he's suddenly done things we've been hoping for when he really needed a win. I think at this point it's apparent that he doesn't care all that much about RS wins. Just when his job might be on the line he actually does things that improve the team.

Royce loves his "not saying these unlucky things caused the loss, but these unlucky things caused the loss" tweets.

QPR wrote:Royce loves his "not saying these unlucky things caused the loss, but these unlucky things caused the loss" tweets.

It's gotten so much worse this year. I really like Royce but Katz has become by far the best Thunder writer.

Shout to Horne too. But Katz is great on Twitter too

Russ was good outside of turning it over trying to get guys looks. PG made shots but just kind of drifted along in this game. Melo has been booty butt checks for awhile now & he doesn't like this matchp with Randle since Randle plays him physical. Adams is caught in no mans land trying to help everybody on defense & Lopez was getting good looks all game. Ferg ain't ready for this.

Grant is a mystry to me because his offensive game makes no sense so when it's working I'm confused. Felton has been off the last week or so. Patterson is out there but half the time it seems like he isn't really out there because he does nothing. Abrines has been alright for the last couple games. I feel like Huestis hasn't made a shot in 2 months.

Put themselves in position to lose by playing bad, & didn't help themselves with the complaining to the refs who seemed to really give the Lakers the benifit of the doubt because of the complaining which is becoming a thing almost every game now with 2 or 3 techs.