12/30 | G35: Oklahoma City Thunder at Dallas Mavericks - 6PM CST

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #1 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 8:41 pm

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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at DALLAS MAVERICKS

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Thunder: 22-12 | # in West
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Mavericks: 16-18 | # in West
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Pillendreher · Post #2 » by **Pillendreher** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:09 pm

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Post #3 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:10 pm

Is Alex in the hospital? How is a guy already out the day before the game when he’s sick?

CROklahoma · Post #4 » by **CROklahoma** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:08 am

The toughest game for us considering history.
Id rather have us play GSW at home than Dallas in any shape away, especially now that Luka is starting to establish himself early as an HOF type of guy in the league, and us just not being able to counter any of Dallas gameplans for us.
Coaching staff has to make some changes.

Post #5 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 2:24 pm

I hate these back to back home and home games. I dont know why the nba does it.

ducler · Post #6 » by **ducler** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:07 pm

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Osirus89 · Post #7 » by **Osirus89** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 8:09 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:I hate these back to back home and home games. I dont know why the nba does it.

I think they like them because neither team gets rest advantage. That’s always a point of contention with back to backs with teams viewing them as schedule losses. Home and homes remove that component and considering b2bs are unavoidable with the amount of games played, they probably figured it’s the best way to go about it.

Wes Matthews is out. Not sure if that’s good news or bad news considering his play. Wish it was barea.

Jstock12 · Post #8 » by **Jstock12** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 8:48 pm

Dallas is 14-3 at home, and 2-15 on the road. They're a garbage road team, but almost unbeatable at home...

Old Man Game · Post #9 » by **Old Man Game** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:58 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:Is Alex in the hospital? How is a guy already out the day before the game when he’s sick?

That's a good point. Lends further credence to the suspicion that this could be something fairly serious.

Old Man Game · Post #10 » by **Old Man Game** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:10 pm

This is how the results should look when a pro is shooting in an empty gym. Nothing but bottoms. I bring this up not to suggest Ferg will someday hit 100% of his threes, but merely to point out I think the building blocks are there for this guy to become a fairly competent 3 point specialist.

If anyone's ever watched Roberson warm up, you know not every pro can do this btw.

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Pillendreher · Post #11 » by **Pillendreher** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:38 pm

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Pillendreher · Post #12 » by **Pillendreher** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:13 pm

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Oh boy. I bet Nader's going to get rotation minutes from here on out because they think he could replace Patterson. :noway:

Old Man Game · Post #13 » by **Old Man Game** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:17 pm

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Oh boy. I bet Nader's going to get rotation minutes from here on out because they think he could replace Patterson.

I don't get trying to shoe horn him into a PF role. Seems like a massive stretch (no pun intended).

getrichordie · Post #14 » by **getrichordie** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:36 pm

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Oh boy. I bet Nader's going to get rotation minutes from here on out because they think he could replace Patterson.

I think they will give Nader some of Alex’s minutes and some of Patterson’s minutes.

Nader can probably defend a little bit better than Alex. And he can hit open 3s. We’ve seen evidence of this in Boston. No one payed attention because... well... it’s Boston and not Oklahoma City and Nader did not play well with starters in Boston (shocker! /s). He will be fine for us off the bench and I think he should be getting Patterson’s minutes unless we think it’s going to tank Patterson’s trade value.

I expect to see these lineups tonight:

Schroder-Diallo-George-Nader-Noel
Schroder-Diallo-Nader-Patterson-Noel

Diallo and Nader will probably guard the opposing 2s and 3s on second unit based on match ups.

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getrichordie · Post #15 » by **getrichordie** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:38 pm

Old Man Game wrote:
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Oh boy. I bet Nader's going to get rotation minutes from here on out because they think he could replace Patterson.

I don't get trying to shoe horn him into a PF role. Seems like a massive stretch (no pun intended).

The question is... why not shoehorn him in @ the 4? Patterson has been garbage. Let’s see what Nader can do... what’s the worst that could happen? Patterson gets a reality check?

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Pillendreher · Post #16 » by **Pillendreher** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:38 pm

Old Man Game wrote:
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Oh boy. I bet Nader's going to get rotation minutes from here on out because they think he could replace Patterson.

I don't get trying to shoe horn him into a PF role. Seems like a massive stretch (no pun intended).

They think he can shoot.

getrichordie · Post #17 » by **getrichordie** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:39 pm

Pillendreher wrote:
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Oh boy. I bet Nader's going to get rotation minutes from here on out because they think he could replace Patterson.

I don't get trying to shoe horn him into a PF role. Seems like a massive stretch (no pun intended).

They think he can shoot.

See my above reply. Nader can shoot, but that’s not the only thing at play here.

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Pillendreher · Post #18 » by **Pillendreher** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:44 pm

getrichordie wrote:Nader can shoot

There's little to no evidence for this. 60 something 3s as a garbage time player is not convincing me of some guy's ability to shoot.

But that's besides the point: This guy is not an NBA level player and should not see the court, period. Don't get caught up in some turd suddenly having "a game". It happens all the time, all over the league. Hell, we've been the recipient of a hell of a lot of scrubs suddenly coming out of nowhere against us. They're still scrubs despite those games.

Post #19 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:48 pm

Brad Stevens gave up on Nader.

Post #20 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:51 pm

Pillendreher wrote:
getrichordie wrote:Nader can shoot

There's little to no evidence for this. 60 something 3s as a garbage time player is not convincing me of some guy's ability to shoot.

But that's besides the point: This guy is not an NBA level player and should not see the court, period. Don't get caught up in some turd suddenly having "a game". It happens all the time, all over the league. Hell, we've been the recipient of a hell of a lot of scrubs suddenly coming out of nowhere against us. They're still scrubs despite those games.

Remember early after we picked up Brewer when everyone thought his three point shooting was so great and he was clearly better than Roberson?

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