11/10 | G12: Oklahoma City Thunder at Dallas Mavericks - 8PM CST

[NaturalThunder]

Wow. What a shot by Barea. What do we have to do to trade Felton for Barea.


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Coming into tonight, Barea was averaging 7.7 PPG with a 31/22/73 shooting slash line. His BPM is -5.5, his DPM is -3.8, and his TS% is 39.5%.

He's 34 years old and has reached official scrub status. He's just having an out-of-body experience (relative to his play this year) against us tonight.

[ThunderBolt]

Well this was a predictable performance. I’m not surprised. Getting sick of George not realizing he can’t creat his own shot.

[Dadouv47]

Let's remove the 3 point line in the NBA and we could win a ring.

The Thunder are 10th in 2pt shooting in the NBA. Toronto and GS are the top 2. There was a theoretical discussion about this late last season by ESPN and their conclusion was that it would actually just give GS a bigger advantage. The last few years GS has been better, compared to the rest of the league, at shooting 2pt shots than 3pt shots.

How it would give Gs a bigger advantage? It would be easier to defend against them.

Gs is probably top 2 partially because opponents are focused to defend the 3 against them. But yeah they have elite mid range shooters as well (cupcake...)

[NaturalThunder]

Can't wait to see what our ORtg is in the 3 games without Westbrook. I know we'll be 2-1 after tonight in those three games, but we've yet to crack 100 points in any of them.

[getrichordie]

Can't wait to see what our ORtg is in the 3 games without Westbrook. I know we'll be 2-1 after tonight in those three games, but we've yet to crack 100 points in any of them.

I don’t know, but no one can shoot on the Thunder tonight. They keep talking about it being the 3rd game in 4 nights and that may be a factor, but hot damn. How many open 3s have we missed?


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[getrichordie]

Damn. Schroder just elbowed the **** out of Powell.


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[getrichordie]

Schroder gonna get ejected?


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[bondom34]

Can't wait to see what our ORtg is in the 3 games without Westbrook. I know we'll be 2-1 after tonight in those three games, but we've yet to crack 100 points in any of them.

Should be 102-103. Was 102.1 and so far tonight it's 102.8.

[ThunderBolt]

George does a good job illustrating how much variation there is between max level players. He’s been so underwhelming most of the season.

[Kizz Fastfists]

How it would give Gs a bigger advantage? It would be easier to defend against them.

Gs is probably top 2 partially because opponents are focused to defend the 3 against them. But yeah they have elite mid range shooters as well (cupcake...)

They could still shoot "open 3s" even if it is only 2 points. They have players that can get to the rim at will in Steph and kd. Yes, OKC has Russ that can do it. The point being that most teams would be trying to get back to shooting in the paint and the defenses would be more congested, but GS would still be against that trend as a long "2" would be as good a shot for them, i.e. Klay, Steph and KD, as a shot at the rim would be for a lot of players.

The only rules set I can think of that would somewhat balance out GS would be 6v6. Think small school girls high school in Oklahoma. You have 3 players on each side of the court and they can't cross the court. This means you always have a set defense. There is no fast break. GS would have to choose between using Draymond on offense or defense. It would be interesting to theory craft out how some teams would actually adjust to that. OKC would have been great for that before the Roberson injury. You never add Melo and go with Russ, PG and Kanter on offense. Then you have Adams, Roberson and Grant on defense.

[getrichordie]

Nooooo! The streak is over :[

Hopefully Russ will be back soon. Our offense needs him badly.


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[getrichordie]

Thunder stat of the night:

Felton 3/12 from the floor and 1 for 6 from 3.


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[Jstock12]

I think Doncic will win the ROY.

[Dadouv47]

Grant has been pretty solid and consistent this season, glad we paid him (was expecting Patterson to finally play well with the Thunder but not gonna happen)

[Osirus89]

The freaking Mavs.
They haven't been a good team in 5 years, but they are the devil whenever it comes time to play OKC. Especially JJ Barea.

The 2nd quarter decided the game. The worst thing about Russ being out isn't just missing the best player on the team, but that it also seems to empower George, Felton, and Patterson to "create offense". What an tragedy watching those three was for this game.

[Thundershock88]

Figured this was coming. Dallas has more talent than their record indicates, and OKC was just fatigued tonight. The energy wasn't there. Didn't get the steals, didn't close out at the 3 point line. Can't win like that. Just gotta regroup and win the next series of easier games.

[Dn4sty]

I hope Felton is included in salary filler for a trade, as that’s likely the only way he is off this team.

OKC didn’t deserve to win this game, but it sure didn’t help that the OKC bench had zero ability to even contribute as Ray kept jacking shot after shot.

[bondom34]

I think Doncic will win the ROY.

He should, dude's just amazing. Stand totally by him being by far the best prospect.

[getrichordie]

Thunder has 96 FGA tonight. Dallas? 77.


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[Old Man Game]

Bad game. Just couldn't make anything. Adams's was a warrior though. People say he looks like Khal Drago but let's be real here. Steven would make Khal his butler.

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