Oklahoma City Thunder @ Sacramento Kings 02/12/2010

[boobie miles]

KD's having his ankle iced.

Doesn't seem to have bothered his shot. Though could be a worry for tomorrow's game.

[slick_watts]

KD saving us from Brooks' genius Green - Ibaka vs. Cousins - Dalembert frontcourt...

[Krodis]

Well between the delayed shot clock violation, the Kings hitting some lucky shots, and Jeff Green's sheer existance, this game is going to be closer than I thought it would be.

[Krodis]

Well, that and general stupidity.

Why have Westbrook not been in?

[Thunder4]

Why is Westbrook on the bench down the stretch. Is he being disciplined?

[slick_watts]

Why is Westbrook on the bench down the stretch. Is he being disciplined?

Our coach believes in benching our All Star PG down the stretch.

[slick_watts]

Kings 8-2 run since Russ was benched.

[slick_watts]

Team got real lucky. Can't believe Brooks benched Russ. Indefensible...

[dream_catcher_9]

Durant with terrible body language to end the game. The kid needs to grow some balls, jesus.

[slick_watts]

Durant with terrible body language to end the game. The kid needs to grow some balls, jesus.

He pretty much single handedly won the game on a bad ankle, who cares about body language he had 35 points on 22 shots he can walk on his hands for all I care.

Your obsession with Kevin Durant minutiae is down right creepy. He's a freaking Top 5 player in the league winning 1/4 of his team's games on his own. You're like the crazy Sonics fans that used to complain about Gary Payton in the mid-90's because he caused too much trouble with teammates. The guy was the best PG in the damn league he can do what he wants as long as the team is winning.

[slick_watts]

At least Harden had 32 minutes. Progress on something!

[boobie miles]

Durant with terrible body language to end the game. The kid needs to grow some balls, jesus.

He had pretty big balls when he was knocking down all those consecutive shots in the last 5-6 minutes.

[dream_catcher_9]

Durant with terrible body language to end the game. The kid needs to grow some balls, jesus.

He pretty much single handedly won the game on a bad ankle, who cares about body language he had 35 points on 22 shots he can walk on his hands for all I care.

Your obsession with the Kevin Durant minutiae is down right creepy.

are you forgetting that there is the other side of the court you are suppose to play as well? Seriously, he plays like a guy scared of contact and pressure.

[boobie miles]

Interesting +/- numbers again tonight- similar to the Phoenix game. All the starters in the negative. All the bench positive with Collison +21, Ibaka +13 and Harden +12.

[slick_watts]

are you forgetting that there is the other side of the court you are suppose to play as well? Seriously, he plays like a guy scared of contact and pressure.

He took every shot down the stretch and begs for the ball to close games, yep! Afraid of pressure.

Defensively, he's fine. He's not All Defense, but he does not have to be. Even if he was a horrible defender (which he isn't) he'd still be a Top 10 player in the league.

Kevin Durant is far from the problem on this team, but as far as I can tell, it's the only problem facing them since it's all you ever complain about. KD was fantastic in this game, and this win belongs to him.

[Sinant]

Another game day, another game thread that ends with dream_catcher nitpicking Durant's game and slick falling into it

[slick_watts]

Another game day, another game thread that ends with dream_catcher nitpicking Durant's game and slick falling into it

Hey, no other action here.

[cajun joe]

I liked Harden in this one. He missed some shots, but was really active on d. Green was poor, but blandly poor at least. He didn't miss five open threes like he as a penchant to do sometimes. Strange game by Durant to dominate down the stretch and then miss those free throws. I don't know how someone could say he shies away from contact when he had 5 straight double doubles from the sf position coming into this game.