Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers 11/03/09

[The J Rocka]

Wolves fan here, just wanted to stop by and congratulate u guys on how ur team played tonite, nothing but positives to come this season

[wizkid27]

Well... it's hard not to be encouraged by such a close game with a very good team. But then breaking it down and watching the details tonight, there's a lot of bad things that jump out... turnovers, bad shot selection, lack of ball movement, multiple-minute dry spells, etc.

It was a great game to watch, and I think anybody objectively evaluating our schedule at this point would have to say that 2-2 was the upside of the expectations 4 games into the season. I'll take 2-2 with a somewhat close loss in a poorly played game against POR and then an OT loss to LAL in a not-so-great game by Westbrook/Durant.

[Ontario]

Some people will be happy with this loss, but OKC should have closed this out, they were given every opportunity. Next day off nothing but split roster scrimmages mimicking 2:00 and under situations... do 50 of them!

What I really found frustrating though, aside from Kevin's shooting, was the amount of over dribbling Westbrook is doing, when you combine that with 4 other guys not moving around a whole lot without the ball there is no ball movement, no cutting to the basket, no open looks. Just a lot of jump shooting and one pass then done offense that really makes a lot of the game easy for the Lakers defense, also all that dribbling gives tons of opportunity for turnovers and Laker traps.

The Thunder hustled their way into a win then gave it right back. Hopefully they learn from this as the atmosphere was great it was a taste of what a playoff game might feel like down the stretch but anyone who says "great effort but that's why they're the champs" wasn't watching the same game as me.

[Clangus]

Yeah I dont see a close loss to the champs I see a missed opportunity.