OKC Thunder vs. New Orleans Hornets 11/29/2010

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Re: OKC Thunder vs. New Orleans Hornets 11/29/2010 

Post#41 » by wiff » Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:19 am

Hey guys, I made it back from my Thanksgiving Trek last night and finally had a chance to sit down and watch a little of the Thunder since last Tuesday. I missed the Dallas and Indiana games completely. I saw about 5 minutes of the 4th quarter in their last two games.

But damn tonight the last five minutes was amazing. What was it about 81-75? Great comeback tonight, I saw about six amazing plays in the closing of tonights game. That 3pt shot was huge for Westbrook. I hope that gives him more confidence in his three ball.

Westbrook's mid-range game is amazing right now. He is like a Puma with the ball. He's everywhere. But that three ball was a nice little "say Uncle" arm twister towards the end of the game.

Ibaka'a block on Paul was epic. Ibaka made a solid block on West too. I think Brook's is going to roll with Ibaka, Green, Durant, Thabo and Westbrook to close out games. It really seemed like I was working tonight.

Thabo seems to be playing better than Harden these days. Thabo is giving a little more offensively to go with his stingy "D", while Harden still needs to shave his damn beard. Or he needs to be a full time slump buster.

Heck Durant might need to grow a beard for his offense these days, but damn his "D" tonight on West was great. I saw Durant on a Jim Rome interview where Rome claimed he saw a video of Durant in the weight room and said he saw Durant with a few plates on the bar of the bench press.

He asked Kevin if it was 300lbs or 325lbs, Durant said something like that and he is in the weight room getting stronger. In the KD neighbor stuff you see Durant taking out the trash with his shirt off. The dude is so long but the kid has a solid foundation of muscle now. Yes he is still thin but he is much stronger than he was.

And it looked liked it when he was playing "D" on D West. This team gets much better defensively if Durant can cover the PF's in the paint.

Prime example of this team getting better. Westbrook hit a 3 and Durant locked up the paint.

By the way saw Westbrook's statline of 43pts, 8rebs. and 8dimes :jawdrop: That is a fat stat line. I'm going to go read the thread.
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Re: OKC Thunder vs. New Orleans Hornets 11/29/2010 

Post#42 » by slick_watts » Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:25 am

Good to have you back, wiff. You caught our best defense of the year to end this one.

I thought Harden's defense was pretty good in this game. Most of NOH's big runs came off points in transition. Except for some mistakes in the half court on over helping out defense was very good the whole way. Just transition was bad.
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Re: OKC Thunder vs. New Orleans Hornets 11/29/2010 

Post#43 » by fallacy » Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:41 am

By the way, cp3's flopping was starting to piss me off
**** Ron Artest
**** Marco Belinelli
Stephen Jackson aint bout dis lyfe
Patrick Beverly deserves to have his knee ripped to pieces

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