Oklahoma City Thunder Regular Season Thread: Part IV

KD35Brah · Post #1721 » by **KD35Brah** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:13 am

Good ol Waiters, 1-8

Post #1722 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:40 am

PLAY CAM MORE BILLY

I WILL SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS

I WILL HIRE A PLANE AND WRITE IT IN THE SKY

I WILL BUY AD SPACE FROM LAMAR TO PUT A BILLBOARD BY THE HIGHWAY

PLAAAAAAAAY CAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM

KD35Brah · Post #1723 » by **KD35Brah** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:43 am

These refs are **** ridiculous, how much help do the Spurs need?

KD35Brah · Post #1724 » by **KD35Brah** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:44 am

Lol Kawhi free falls as he gets blocked and gets 2 FTs, this is insane.

KD35Brah · Post #1725 » by **KD35Brah** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:01 am

Waiters and Foye are such garbage. 2 for 16, absolute trash.

KD35Brah · Post #1726 » by **KD35Brah** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:24 am

Even when they are playing like garbage Donovan is rding with Foye and Dion.

Lot less Singler, barely any Huestis.

Roberson gets abused a LOT for a great defender.

KD35Brah · Post #1727 » by **KD35Brah** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:26 am

Adams gets blown by a lot too, just a lot of dumb mistakes.

Post #1728 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:29 am

KD35Brah wrote:Even when they are playing like garbage Donovan is rding with Foye and Dion.

Lot less Singler, barely any Huestis.

Roberson gets abused a LOT for a great defender.

He's also playing against the best offensive player generally.

actively · Post #1729 » by **actively** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:35 am

KD35Brah wrote:Adams gets blown by a lot too, just a lot of dumb mistakes.

When they play with KD, Ibaka and Russ, they look good.

NaturalThunder · Post #1730 » by **NaturalThunder** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:02 am

Huh...lost by 4 to the Spurs, in San Antonio without KD, Russ, or Serge, and the Spurs were mostly at full-strength.

Makes me feel a lot less bad about that debacle against the Clippers a couple of weeks ago when they didn't have CP3, Blake, Jordan, or Redick and we nearly lost. We didn't even get a superhuman effort out of one player, let alone two, like the Clippers did from Crawford and Redick.

And if this doesn't justify Payne being a part of the playoff rotation in Donovan's mind, then I don't know what will.

Post #1731 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:05 am

I don't even care that we lost. That was great.

Post #1732 » by **jbk1234** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:10 am

NaturalThunder wrote:Huh...lost by 4 to the Spurs, in San Antonio without KD, Russ, or Serge, and the Spurs were mostly at full-strength.

Makes me feel a lot less bad about that debacle against the Clippers a couple of weeks ago when they didn't have CP3, Blake, Jordan, or Redick and we nearly lost. We didn't even get a superhuman effort out of one player, let alone two, like the Clippers did from Crawford and Redick.

And if this doesn't justify Payne being a part of the playoff rotation in Donovan's mind, then I don't know what will.

That last turnover was on Payne. I love the kid's potential but he still makes a fair number of rookie mistakes.

Post #1733 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:17 am

jbk1234 wrote:
NaturalThunder wrote:Huh...lost by 4 to the Spurs, in San Antonio without KD, Russ, or Serge, and the Spurs were mostly at full-strength.

Makes me feel a lot less bad about that debacle against the Clippers a couple of weeks ago when they didn't have CP3, Blake, Jordan, or Redick and we nearly lost. We didn't even get a superhuman effort out of one player, let alone two, like the Clippers did from Crawford and Redick.

And if this doesn't justify Payne being a part of the playoff rotation in Donovan's mind, then I don't know what will.

That last turnover was on Payne. I love the kid's potential but he still makes a fair number of rookie mistakes.

True, but if the choice is between him running the point and Foye, I know who I choose.

itzmrgigglez · Post #1734 » by **itzmrgigglez** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:20 am

How much wiill we see of Payne in the playoffs?

Got a lot more minutes than I expected and why did bully not play singler more? I'm pretty sure singler is gonna play more than Payne but maybe this was a test to trust him more.

More Payne and morrow in playoffs, with shorter Spurts of singler for defense?

Post #1735 » by **jbk1234** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:21 am

dbrandon wrote:
jbk1234 wrote:
NaturalThunder wrote:Huh...lost by 4 to the Spurs, in San Antonio without KD, Russ, or Serge, and the Spurs were mostly at full-strength.

Makes me feel a lot less bad about that debacle against the Clippers a couple of weeks ago when they didn't have CP3, Blake, Jordan, or Redick and we nearly lost. We didn't even get a superhuman effort out of one player, let alone two, like the Clippers did from Crawford and Redick.

And if this doesn't justify Payne being a part of the playoff rotation in Donovan's mind, then I don't know what will.

That last turnover was on Payne. I love the kid's potential but he still makes a fair number of rookie mistakes.

True, but if the choice is between him running the point and Foye, I know who I choose.

Yeah Foye's defense is pretty close to Morrow's. Frankly, what would concern me about this game is as a Thunder fan is how well the team played defensively with Durant and Westrbook on the bench. I mean the Spurs played Kawaii, Green, Duncan and Parker significant minutes. I've watched a fair number of OKC games and I have yet to see the big two lock it up defensively against good teams.

Post #1736 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:25 am

jbk1234 wrote:
dbrandon wrote:
jbk1234 wrote:
That last turnover was on Payne. I love the kid's potential but he still makes a fair number of rookie mistakes.

True, but if the choice is between him running the point and Foye, I know who I choose.

Yeah Foye's defense is pretty close to Morrow's. Frankly, what would concern me about this game is as a Thunder fan is how well the team played defensively with Durant and Westrbook on the bench. I mean the Spurs played Kawaii, Green, Duncan and Parker significant minutes. I've watched a fair number of OKC games and I have yet to see the big two lock it up defensively against good teams.

I'd actually disagree with you on Foye--he's an average defender. But if he's on the point it's so, so bad.

But our starting lineup is one of the best defensive lineups in the league by the numbers. It's not Russ and KD.

Post #1737 » by **jbk1234** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:29 am

dbrandon wrote:
jbk1234 wrote:
dbrandon wrote:
True, but if the choice is between him running the point and Foye, I know who I choose.

Yeah Foye's defense is pretty close to Morrow's. Frankly, what would concern me about this game is as a Thunder fan is how well the team played defensively with Durant and Westrbook on the bench. I mean the Spurs played Kawaii, Green, Duncan and Parker significant minutes. I've watched a fair number of OKC games and I have yet to see the big two lock it up defensively against good teams.

I'd actually disagree with you on Foye--he's an average defender. But if he's on the point it's so, so bad.

But our starting lineup is one of the best defensive lineups in the league by the numbers. It's not Russ and KD.

Again, I can only go by what I see but I haven't witnessed that in the 4th quarter against teams with decent offenses.

Post #1738 » by **bondom34** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:31 am

jbk1234 wrote:
dbrandon wrote:
jbk1234 wrote:
That last turnover was on Payne. I love the kid's potential but he still makes a fair number of rookie mistakes.

True, but if the choice is between him running the point and Foye, I know who I choose.

Yeah Foye's defense is pretty close to Morrow's. Frankly, what would concern me about this game is as a Thunder fan is how well the team played defensively with Durant and Westrbook on the bench. I mean the Spurs played Kawaii, Green, Duncan and Parker significant minutes. I've watched a fair number of OKC games and I have yet to see the big two lock it up defensively against good teams.

They've definitely locked down teams, the stretch a few weeks back when they won 8 straight or whatever was them locked in.

Post #1739 » by **bondom34** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:35 am

Also, note this game whenever people talk about the bench being the worst in the league. Remember it.

Post #1740 » by **bondom34** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:42 am

And Dion hopefully got some of the chucking out of his system.