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Post #1 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Feb 8, 2021 1:16 pm

Post #2 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Feb 8, 2021 1:55 pm

Another weird situation with those health & safety protocols.

Hope at least one of Lebron/AD can play.

Have to be honest that I'm having an hard time watching our games lately because I badly want us to have a terrible record. Guess I will be able to enjoy SGA/Dort playing well in 10-15 games if we get a bad record

Post #3 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Feb 8, 2021 2:04 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:Another weird situation with those health & safety protocols.

Hope at least one of Lebron/AD can play.

Have to be honest that I'm having an hard time watching our games lately because I badly want us to have a terrible record. Guess I will be able to enjoy SGA/Dort playing well in 10-15 games if we get a bad record

It's often a lose/lose situation. When we win, we are hurting are odds for a good pick. If we lose, it's often in a very lackluster performance from most players. Until we get a true core, it's not going to be that much fun.

Post #4 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Feb 8, 2021 2:30 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:Another weird situation with those health & safety protocols.

Hope at least one of Lebron/AD can play.

Have to be honest that I'm having an hard time watching our games lately because I badly want us to have a terrible record. Guess I will be able to enjoy SGA/Dort playing well in 10-15 games if we get a bad record

It's often a lose/lose situation. When we win, we are hurting are odds for a good pick. If we lose, it's often in a very lackluster performance from most players. Until we get a true core, it's not going to be that much fun.

Pretty much. At least first wins of the season were mostly on SGA/Dort performances and Bazley wasn't that bad as well. Also it was ok to win some games at that time...

ducler · Post #5 » by **ducler** » Mon Feb 8, 2021 9:48 pm

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thedoppelganger · Post #6 » by **thedoppelganger** » Tue Feb 9, 2021 4:00 pm

Lakers played with the intensity of a Sunday afternoon rec-league game, shot 24% from 3, and thankfully decided to try towards the end. Wouldn't be surprised if LeBron sat on Wednesday now after playing 2OT and OT games in 3 days, so hopefully AD is back.

SGA's continued improvement across the board on the offensive side is fantastic to watch, especially as a lead playmaker which was my biggest question mark for him coming into the season. Crazy to think if we were actually trying to win games, he would probably be our 5th different All Star in 6 seasons.

Post #7 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Feb 9, 2021 4:40 pm

thedoppelganger wrote:Lakers played with the intensity of a Sunday afternoon rec-league game, shot 24% from 3, and thankfully decided to try towards the end. Wouldn't be surprised if LeBron sat on Wednesday now after playing 2OT and OT games in 3 days, so hopefully AD is back.

SGA's continued improvement across the board on the offensive side is fantastic to watch, especially as a lead playmaker which was my biggest question mark for him coming into the season. Crazy to think if we were actually trying to win games, he would probably be our 5th different All Star in 6 seasons.

For sure. Also think SGA would be an all star if he was a selfish player.

Play well Lakers tomorrow plz

Post #8 » by **ThunderBolt** » Tue Feb 9, 2021 4:55 pm

I’m a huge fan of Shai but I was open to the possibility of trading him in the off-season depending on what happens with the draft. I don’t feel that way any more. Sam needs to make sure we get shai another all star level talent this off-season. Period.

Post #9 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Feb 9, 2021 6:55 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:I’m a huge fan of Shai but I was open to the possibility of trading him in the off-season depending on what happens with the draft. I don’t feel that way any more. Sam needs to make sure we get shai another all star level talent this off-season. Period.

Yeah I think we can't really trade SGA anymore...but on the other hand we have a small window to draft players that could peak while SGA is at his best. So if we aren't able to draft some really good players, we will have to decide between trading picks for good players or trade SGA.

Post #10 » by **ThunderBolt** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:12 am

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jake_swivel · Post #11 » by **jake_swivel** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:51 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:

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If SGA’s knee is hurting, doesn’t there seem to be a lot of reasons for a lengthy rehab? We are tanking so poorly.

Post #12 » by **ThunderBolt** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:25 pm

jake_swivel wrote:
ThunderBolt wrote:

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If SGA’s knee is hurting, doesn’t there seem to be a lot of reasons for a lengthy rehab? We are tanking so poorly.

Young guys like to play. This is about as much as we can hope for. Now watch LA sit AD and Lebron and we end up with a win.

mcscotty · Post #13 » by **mcscotty** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:57 am

Great series guys! This team has so much potential. Diallo, Dort, and SGA are 3 big time players all on the same timeline. With all those picks and Presti at the helm, Thunder basketball will be back in no time.

jambalaya · Post #14 » by **jambalaya** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:48 am

Dort and Diallo show effort and have some good games but are still debatable as long run / to be "paid" core pieces for a hoped for good or great team. Even average team really.

Post #15 » by **Dadouv47** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:05 pm

Boy those games made me really anxious. I miss last season it was fun.

I still believe Diallo won't be a good NBA player but he improved so much that I'm fine to give him more minutes. Pretty impressive season for him.

Post #16 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:33 pm

jambalaya wrote:Dort and Diallo show effort and have some good games but are still debatable as long run / to be "paid" core pieces for a hoped for good or great team. Even average team really.

Dort isn’t near as appealing to me now that his three point shooting is back to pitiful. His three point shooting has dropped 10% in less than a month.

Post #17 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:35 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:Boy those games made me really anxious. I miss last season it was fun.

I still believe Diallo won't be a good NBA player but he improved so much that I'm fine to give him more minutes. Pretty impressive season for him.

Teams should be able to rest their players, overlook us and still win by 15 points. This is absurd.

Post #18 » by **Dadouv47** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:08 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:
jambalaya wrote:Dort and Diallo show effort and have some good games but are still debatable as long run / to be "paid" core pieces for a hoped for good or great team. Even average team really.

Dort isn’t near as appealing to me now that his three point shooting is back to pitiful. His three point shooting has dropped 10% in less than a month.

I think Dort is also taking some really bad deep/difficult shots and not only Catch and shoot 3's so I'm not worried about that.

Post #19 » by **Dadouv47** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:12 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:Boy those games made me really anxious. I miss last season it was fun.

I still believe Diallo won't be a good NBA player but he improved so much that I'm fine to give him more minutes. Pretty impressive season for him.

Teams should be able to rest their players, overlook us and still win by 15 points. This is absurd.

Yeah that's the problem. Teams overlooking us, effortless while we are always 100%.

I was scared after the first games of the season but Horford is still a very good basketball player. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a decent trade for him next season.

No clue what to do about Williams. He's balling but I have no idea why he's on our roster in the first place.

We can't afford to keep Hill. I love him but we better trade him for peanuts.