2024-2025 OKC Thunder Games Thread

[Dadouv47]

finally playing some good basketball but Jokic is too good

[Dadouv47]

I'm SORRY SHAI

I"m SORRY JDUB

well series is not over

[bbms]

i'm congratulating everybody but this clown of a coach

[bbms]

chet best player on court btw

[Dadouv47]

50/40/78 and we barely won...no clue how we lost the offensive rebounds battle

[Dadouv47]

i'm congratulating everybody but this clown of a coach

you wanted more of Jwill and u got him in clutch time.

I think Mark did a poor job with Dort but Wiggins was terrible tonight (Cason did well but I'm not sure he would have been key in the clutch).

Waiting too long to bring Caruso in the 3rd quarter almost cost us the game

[Dadouv47]

after that CRAZY Jokic 3 I thought it was over for us...then JDub hits a 3 and Shai with a game winning shot. Feels good to watch them hitting those important shots damn.

[bbms]

i'm congratulating everybody but this clown of a coach

you wanted more of Jwill and u got him in clutch time.

I think Mark did a poor job with Dort but Wiggins was terrible tonight (Cason did well but I'm not sure he would have been key in the clutch).

Waiting too long to bring Caruso in the 3rd quarter almost cost us the game

that clown picked the worst **** time to improvise

good lord dort bailed him out

btw chet best player on court

[ThunderBolt]

I think I’m going to do a Michael Jordan mid career retirement on my thunder fandom. It’s just not fun anymore.

I might hang around for another game but this crap is too stressful.

[Dadouv47]

I think I’m going to do a Michael Jordan mid career retirement on my thunder fandom. It’s just not fun anymore.

I might hang around for another game but this crap is too stressful.

if this is the way Jokic is going to play for the rest of the series I might lose the few hairs I have left

[Dadouv47]

I still think OKC needs to add a legit scorer regardless of the outcome of this postseason. I was pissed at Shai but we are asking too much from him too.

[ThunderBolt]

I think I’m going to do a Michael Jordan mid career retirement on my thunder fandom. It’s just not fun anymore.

I might hang around for another game but this crap is too stressful.

if this is the way Jokic is going to play for the rest of the series I might lose the few hairs I have left

I still think this is going seven. As a fan, the best I can hope for is this gave the young guys some much needed confidence in tight games.

[Dadouv47]

I might hang around for another game but this crap is too stressful.

if this is the way Jokic is going to play for the rest of the series I might lose the few hairs I have left

I still think this is going seven. As a fan, the best I can hope for is this gave the young guys some much needed confidence in tight games.

well game 4 and 5 certainly gave some confidence to our players in clutch time but a potential game 7 might be another story. I have no clue what will happen at this point because of how unpredictable we look at times (and same for Denver)

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I have mxed feeling about this. I can hear the idea of closing out with Lu because he showed in the past that he can be clutch but it was still a mistake not to bench him earlier in the 3rd quarter.

[ThunderBolt]

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I have mxed feeling about this. I can hear the idea of closing out with Lu because he showed in the past that he can be clutch but it was still a mistake not to bench him earlier in the 3rd quarter.

Daigneault has been our biggest weakness this series. I’ve never been critical of him with the exception of being way too slow to bench Giddey last year. To say you don’t bet against Lu is a nice way of saying you are betting against the bother players on the bench.

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I have mxed feeling about this. I can hear the idea of closing out with Lu because he showed in the past that he can be clutch but it was still a mistake not to bench him earlier in the 3rd quarter.

Daigneault has been our biggest weakness this series. I’ve never been critical of him with the exception of being way too slow to bench Giddey last year. To say you don’t bet against Lu is a nice way of saying you are betting against the bother players on the bench.

if he's so in love with dort, either him or dort needs to go in the offseason. or both

[cjmcallist]

Other than 'making shots', I don't know how we won that game. Dort coming through big.

They took 15 more shots than we did - primarily due to offensive rebounds. No stats to back me up, but it feels like we're not creating the same turnovers we were in the regular season or even the beginning of the series. If we're not winning the turnover battle, the offensive rebounds will kill us. Given the play change in the playoffs vs. regular season, I wonder if this is an exposed flaw in the strategy?

I also haven't loved Mark's coaching, but I'm not quite as disgusted by it. It's not clear to me that Hartenstein can play more minutes than he already has. Joe already has a short leash, but he warrants some minutes to figure out if he's hot. Dort's minutes are trending down, Cason's trending up. The only two opportunities I see are less JWill and more Wiggins, and matching Hartenstein's minutes to Jokic.

[Dadouv47]

Other than 'making shots', I don't know how we won that game. Dort coming through big.

They took 15 more shots than we did - primarily due to offensive rebounds. No stats to back me up, but it feels like we're not creating the same turnovers we were in the regular season or even the beginning of the series. If we're not winning the turnover battle, the offensive rebounds will kill us. Given the play change in the playoffs vs. regular season, I wonder if this is an exposed flaw in the strategy?

I also haven't loved Mark's coaching, but I'm not quite as disgusted by it. It's not clear to me that Hartenstein can play more minutes than he already has. Joe already has a short leash, but he warrants some minutes to figure out if he's hot. Dort's minutes are trending down, Cason's trending up. The only two opportunities I see are less JWill and more Wiggins, and matching Hartenstein's minutes to Jokic.

I wanted that too but somehow Jwill is playing well (despite making some young player mistakes) and Wiggins was terrible yesterday.

To me the only obvious coaching mistake is playing Dort that much with the two big line up but other than that it's a bit tricky...some claim we should play more Jwill, other less etc.

[bbms]

i think the issue, and what drove me mad yesterday was the timing. 10-2 to start he needed to keep pounding what was working best (even sending the starters back would be better). he's had so much success with the first sub. cason+caruso was a great first sub g1. starters+jaylin was another in g2 (jaylin was +7 yesterday btw... his legitimacy is growing). cason caruso wiggins + jdub/ihart was a very successful first sub in g4.

i missed complaining about him not playing more his first sub lineups because he did much worse yesterday.

he had multiple battle tested successful options to go and keep pounding the nuggets after a dominating start. his first sub was some lineup that wasn't tested at all and honestly it made little sense. sga jdub caruso dort hartenstein. three guys nuggets are chosing to ignore their shooting with sga and jdub together?

that was in my opinion the reason was this game was so hard. he sent back stinker of a lineup that took an INSTANT 10 point salvo to go to another untested lineup (iirc it was sga, cason, joe, dort, chet) but this time it had cason (who's been one of the best players of the series) that had immediate impact with one or two turnovers, but at that moment, denver had gained momentum and confidence, and they built on it to recover jokic who was not playing well in the first minutes.

that made me furious. of course dort was playing way too many minutes and joe wasn't deserving.

but it's simple: pound what is working and try to build a blowup. play like the **** best team in the league. don't get cute. the experiment time is no more. playoffs isn't a lab. don't allow them to recover. he allowed them to recover and jokic had a monster game, and worse, i could feel sga was shook and he's not that well, he's feeling the pressure.

i think it's good that he has balls to stand by his convictions, stand by his struggling player. but this game is also important, build the lead, than integrate in situations for them to succeed.

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wtf is that?