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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at BOSTON CELTICS
7PM CST |
Thunder: 43-29 | #4 in West
| 25.2 PPG, 9.7 RPG, 10.2 APG

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Celtics: 48-22 | #2 in East
| 12.9 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 4.8 APG

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Early game today, tomorrow off - hopefully they come out on point and take care of business. Even if the Celtics still don't have Irving and Smart, they will still put a fight, especially at home.

Pillendreher wrote:Early game today, tomorrow off - hopefully they come out on point and take care of business. Even if the Celtics still don't have Irving and Smart, they will still put a fight, especially at home.

49 wins is within reach if they win on Tuesday IMO

Dn4sty wrote:

Pillendreher wrote:Early game today, tomorrow off - hopefully they come out on point and take care of business. Even if the Celtics still don't have Irving and Smart, they will still put a fight, especially at home.

49 wins is within reach if they win on Tuesday IMO

Completely agree and they should win barring a significant injury. OKC is just now hitting their peak so I wouldn’t doubt if we hit 50 with the way we are playing. I think Lillard has calmed down as well, so beating POR isn’t out of the question anymore.

Let’s just hope Russ continues to do his thing and Brewer continues to make plays.


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HUGE!!! Should win. Feeling pretty good about where we are at.

No excuse to lose this.

So naturally I'm expecting a loss.

If there are two teams capable of defying the odds for and against them in this situation, it’s OKC and Boston.

Melo kinda overdoing it early with the 3s...

Very little flow so far. Once we get that, we'll run away with this one - defense has been very good.

Ok, I think I'm going to turn this one off for two reasons:

1.) The announcers have done pretty much nothing else throughout the 1st quarter other than talk about how much different this game would be if the Celtics didn't Kyrie, Brown, and Smart out with injury. I understand, that's their best player and, in total, three of their top five players. However, they still have an All-Star dressed out and playing and the game is in Boston. Can we at least act like this isn't some sort of current-Warriors situation?

2.) In contrast to reason number one, I'm going to be beyond pissed if we lose this game, which we'll probably do. It'd be a very Thunder-y thing to do; during a highly frustrating season and after a stretch in March where we look like we MIGHT have our crap together, it'd be just like the 2017-2018 Thunder to end a 6-game win-streak by losing to a very depleted Celtics team.


Also, Greg Anthony just called this a "defensive struggle" as the game came back from break. We have 20 points with 2.5 minutes left in the 1st quarter. We're not lighting it up, but we're still on track for 25ish points this quarter.

Pillendreher wrote:Very little flow so far. Once we get that, we'll run away with this one - defense has been very good.

Just gotta hope we don't let them find a rhythm first. San Antonio let the Warriors find a rhythm last night (w/o Curry, KD, Klay, and Draymond) and trailed by double digits in the 2nd. Fortunately for them, the Spurs got their crap together to still win by 15ish, but I'd rather not trail by double digits in the second half tonight. We're better than the Spurs, but the current injury-depleted Celtics are better than the current injury-depleted Warriors and this game is on the road.

Just do what I just did - switch to Fox OK.

Can we pool together to make a billboard somewhere on Billy Donovan's path to work that shows him the current on/off numbers when he has a lineup of Paul George + bench?

How is this guy this f***ing stupid? He claims to be a coach that likes and studies analytics, yet he's still trotting out lineups that, 70 games into the season, have proven to be huge net-negatvies?!

I really, REALLY hope he gets fired this season. The guy is a **** NBA coach.

Tonight's iteration of Paul George + Bench was -5 in the first half against the Celtics B team.

Congratulations Donovan. You are a terrible NBA coach.


And eff it, I'm going to call it -7 because we were still on defense when you finally realized your stupidity and took out PG.

We're playing like we're drunk

Pillendreher wrote:Just do what I just did - switch to Fox OK.

I can't. I'm having to stream the game on my computer as it is, because for some reason, even though it's a nationally televised game, it's being blacked out on Playstation Vue.

Get a freaking rebound.

The Celtics have 11 misses and 9 offensive rebounds this quarter.

Huge play by Brewer. Team playing too sloppy right now. Need to turn it up a notch.