1/17 | G44: Los Angeles Lakers at Oklahoma City Thunder - 8:30PM CST

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #1 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:53 pm

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LOS ANGELES LAKERS at OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER

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Lakers: 24-21 | #9 in West
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Thunder: 26-17 | #3 in West
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Post #2 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:14 am

Great lob by Dennis. Unfortunately Noel can’t jump 18ft high. Once again the bench is blowing a lead.

NaturalThunder · Post #3 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:22 am

Our bench is a complete and utter disaster.

The biggest dumpster fire of all-time bad.

Our 39-27 lead after the first quarter is completely gone less than 4 minutes into the second quarter as the Lakers start the 2nd on a 20-5 run (and counting). Every single bench player is already in double digit negative plus/minus and none of them have played more than 8 minutes.

NaturalThunder · Post #4 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:23 am

I know it sounds extreme, but it feels like at this point the only way we have a shot in hell at winning a game, even against the absolute worst teams in the league, is play our starting five 40+ minutes every game.

Post #5 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:24 am

I don’t care if we win this game by twenty. Blowing a seventeen point lead to the Lakers with 8 minutes left in the second quarter is inexcusuasble.

Thundershock88 · Post #6 » by **Thundershock88** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:27 am

Good lord. We are bad right now.

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NaturalThunder · Post #7 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:27 am

This season as a whole has been more enjoyable than last season, but I can't recall a moment in back-to-back games where we reached a point lower than the 2nd and 4th quarters of the Hawks game on Tuesday and the 2nd quarter of tonight's game.

Against two of the five worst teams in the league (which the Lakers absolutely are without LeBron) we've gotten blown the **** out in those three quarters at an alarmingly embarrassing rate.

Post #8 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:28 am

Presti really is amazing with his ability to assemble some competent groups of players and then surround them by complete dog crap.

Post #9 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:31 am

The only thing worse than our bench unit might be Marv Alberts commentary.

NaturalThunder · Post #10 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:32 am

ThunderBolt wrote:Presti really is amazing with his ability to assemble some competent groups of players and then surround them by complete dog crap.

Players 4 through 9 or 4 through 10 have always been a huge question mark in the Presti era.

It's mind-boggling how he's never really been able to assemble a more than slightly-semi-competent cast 4-10.

spearsy23 · Post #11 » by **spearsy23** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:37 am

Since going 1/14 to start the season Ferg is at 40% from three.

Thundershock88 · Post #12 » by **Thundershock88** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:39 am

WTF is Russ doing?

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spearsy23 · Post #13 » by **spearsy23** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:40 am

Bench is -64. The individual players shouldn't be that bad.

ozwizard8 · Post #14 » by **ozwizard8** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:41 am

ThunderBolt wrote:Presti really is amazing with his ability to assemble some competent groups of players and then surround them by complete dog crap.

Its not about bench or such.
Its all coach! KD should've tweeted about coaching selection not about supporting cast.

Ivica Zubac is +22 in 8 minutes
S. Mykhailiuk is +17 in 6 minutes

and they didnt play with a 6th man of the year candidate or such. Compare todays lineups; Lakers bench is not better than Thunder bench.
These 2 players cant make OKC roster. Now they're playing for Lakers and they're getting that much point difference in a away game against one of the best defensive teams out there.
Btw OKC players come up with extra effort after that ATL loss. Its a national TV game too. 3pt shooting is great. They miss Lebron-Rondo. And still Donovan is so incompetent he manages to loss against D-league team level bench of Lakers.

I'm saying this starting 5 and main rotation players are really great group defensively. And offensively you have 2 of top 20 players of the league. IT DOESNT REQUIRE COACHING for that starting 5 get wins. WB-PG at their prime is enough to get that much of win on their own.

Post #15 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:42 am

We’re getting exactly what we could have hoped for from Ferguson over the last couple of weeks yet it’s still not enough to overcome the Lebron-less lakers and other below average teams. It feels like we could add Anthony Davis and we’d still play bipolar basketball.

NaturalThunder · Post #16 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:44 am

Lost a quarter 40-24 to the LeBron-less Lakers...at the Peake.

At least we didn't give up 45 points like we did in two different quarters to the bleeping Hawks two nights ago.

NaturalThunder · Post #17 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:45 am

Also, right now it seems as if something is seriously wrong with this team internally. You don't have the type of performances we've had in our last 1.5 games against really bad teams and there not be something at least semi-wrong behind the scenes.

This sucks.

Post #18 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:48 am

ozwizard8 wrote:
ThunderBolt wrote:Presti really is amazing with his ability to assemble some competent groups of players and then surround them by complete dog crap.

Its not about bench or such.
Its all coach! KD should've tweeted about coaching selection not about supporting cast.

Ivica Zubac is +22 in 8 minutes
S. Mykhailiuk is +17 in 6 minutes

and they didnt play with a 6th man of the year candidate or such. Compare todays lineups; Lakers bench is not better than Thunder bench.
These 2 players cant make OKC roster. Now they're playing for Lakers and they're getting that much point difference in a away game against one of the best defensive teams out there.
Btw OKC players come up with extra effort after that ATL loss. Its a national TV game too. 3pt shooting is great. They miss Lebron-Rondo. And still Donovan is so incompetent he manages to loss against D-league team level bench of Lakers.

I'm saying this starting 5 and main rotation players are really great group defensively. And offensively you have 2 of top 20 players of the league. IT DOESNT REQUIRE COACHING for that starting 5 get wins. WB-PG at their prime is enough to get that much of win on their own.

Who hired billy?

Post #19 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:50 am

NaturalThunder wrote:Lost a quarter 40-24 to the LeBron-less Lakers...at the Peake.

At least we didn't give up 45 points like we did in two different quarters to the bleeping Hawks two nights ago.

I guess a 67 point half by the lakers is a moral victory for our elite defense.

NaturalThunder · Post #20 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:01 am

Start off the quarter on a 6-0 run and then the Lakers hit back-to-back threes to spur a 10-2 run and now our 4 point halftime deficit has actually grown over the first four minutes of the 3rd quarter.

We're actually going to lose, at home, to the LeBron-less Lakers.

About to be 1-5 in our last 6 with three losses to the LeBron-less Lakers at home, the Wizards at home, and the Hawks.

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