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Post#1 » by dream_catcher_9 » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:00 pm

Offensive Rating: 7th at 107.1
Defensive Rating: 15th at 101.9

Id like to see the defense in the top 10 by season's end.

Here are some interesting numbers for our most used lineups.

Westbrook/Sefolosha/Durant/Ibaka/Perkins - 96 ORTG, 89 DRTG
Westbrook/Harden/Durant/Ibaka/Perkins - 122 ORTG, 121 DRTG

either James Harden is the worst defender in the NBA or this is too small a sample size.

a couple others....

Westbrook/Harden/Durant/Collison/Perkins - 129 ORTG, 109 DRTG
Westbrook/Harden/Sefolosha/Durant/Perkins - 119 ORTG, 107 DRTG
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Post#2 » by Krodis » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:32 am

Well this is the kind of first quarter I hope to get when playing a bad team.
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Post#3 » by vegajf51 » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:04 am

Krodis wrote:Well this is the kind of first quarter I hope to get when playing a bad team.

I agree!!
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Post#4 » by Blkbrd671 » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:49 am

Damn talk about a dead board
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Post#5 » by CKRT » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:57 am

dream_catcher_9 wrote:Here are some interesting numbers for our most used lineups.

Westbrook/Sefolosha/Durant/Ibaka/Perkins - 96 ORTG, 89 DRTG
Westbrook/Harden/Durant/Ibaka/Perkins - 122 ORTG, 121 DRTG

either James Harden is the worst defender in the NBA or this is too small a sample size.


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Post#6 » by slick_watts » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:57 am

Blkbrd671 wrote:Damn talk about a dead board


Not much to say about this game... ho hum... Thunder doesn't have a huge RealGM presence anyway. But we'll come out for big games.
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Post#7 » by fallacy » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:24 am

Blkbrd671 wrote:Damn talk about a dead board


to be fair, no one really wants to talk about Detroit basketball
**** Ron Artest
**** Marco Belinelli
Stephen Jackson aint bout dis lyfe
Patrick Beverly deserves to have his knee ripped to pieces
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Post#8 » by fallacy » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:24 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wtVkZ7rQg&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

Westbrook's no look behind the back pass to Durant
**** Ron Artest
**** Marco Belinelli
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Patrick Beverly deserves to have his knee ripped to pieces
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Post#9 » by Devilanche » Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:11 am

Aldrich should really get more minutes. Kind of need to get burned in for either playoff or next season.
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Post#10 » by MASH Transit » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:53 pm

^

Agreed. It makes no sense to me that Aldrich isn't the backup center. Seems he's undergoing the same handling Mullens suffered through. Being held out due to Nazr Mohammed's presence, which despite Mohammed's solid play this season, shouldn't be the case.
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Post#11 » by slick_watts » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:56 pm

Nazr's been awful, there's no reason Aldrich shouldn't be the backup center.
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Post#12 » by MASH Transit » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:49 am

Just realized today how bad Durant has been shooting from beyond the arc. He's at 32%, which was north of 40% about 4 or 5 games back. Dude has completely lost his stroke. He needs to get that up around 37% by the conclusion of the season.

That said, he's shooting 55% from inside the arc. He needs to go ahead and make the transition Dirk did. Not necessarily to the post, but he needs to limit his shots from three. Go from 4-5 to around 2-3. I hate those long contested jumpers.

Also, his TS% is suffering due to his FT and 3pt shooting
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Post#13 » by Devilanche » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:54 am

I remembered reading articles that declining (short term) % from 3s and FT as a player adopt/learn his post plays. Some articles about a player learning from Hakeem, not sure who's the player but we're probably seeing this transformation here.

Regarding Aldrich: It's not even full backup center slots that he needs, slowly easing him in vs games with the lottery bound team. Sure if Brooks is more comfortable playing Nazr against the Heats/Nuggets/Bulls of the league, he should but at the very least Aldrich needs to see more minutes in those other games, at least in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the games if not the full games. boy can't improve much on the bench or in the Dleague any longer.
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