2016 Playoffs Round 1: OKC Thunder vs. Dallas Mavericks

[OkcMagic]

As a 1 seed with 65 wins, probably not.

You missed the point of my tweet... They didnt care because they had championship aspirations... unlike you fake ass fans

There's a difference between a fan and a blind homer. We all want this team to win, but blindly saying everything is great isn't true.

Im not saying everything is great... But most is.. I admit we have flaws but that doesnt stop me from believing we can take the warriors and spurs to the max and even beat both of them. Basketball isnt won on paper

[bondom34]

You missed the point of my tweet... They didnt care because they had championship aspirations... unlike you fake ass fans

There's a difference between a fan and a blind homer. We all want this team to win, but blindly saying everything is great isn't true.

Im not saying everything is great... But most is.. I admit we have flaws but that doesnt stop me from believing we can take the warriors and spurs to the max and even beat both of them. Basketball isnt won on paper

Nope, it isn't. And a combined 2-5 against those 2 teams isn't on paper either.

[OkcMagic]

There's a difference between a fan and a blind homer. We all want this team to win, but blindly saying everything is great isn't true.

Im not saying everything is great... But most is.. I admit we have flaws but that doesnt stop me from believing we can take the warriors and spurs to the max and even beat both of them. Basketball isnt won on paper

Nope, it isn't. And a combined 2-5 against those 2 teams isn't on paper either.

Chicago was once 4-0 against the Heat in the regualr season and we all seen how that turned out

[bondom34]

Im not saying everything is great... But most is.. I admit we have flaws but that doesnt stop me from believing we can take the warriors and spurs to the max and even beat both of them. Basketball isnt won on paper

Nope, it isn't. And a combined 2-5 against those 2 teams isn't on paper either.

Chicago was once 4-0 against the Heat in the regualr season and we all seen how that turned out

They were also injured in the playoffs.

[Cuban_Linx]

You missed the point of my tweet... They didnt care because they had championship aspirations... unlike you fake ass fans

There's a difference between a fan and a blind homer. We all want this team to win, but blindly saying everything is great isn't true.

Im not saying everything is great... But most is.. I admit we have flaws but that doesnt stop me from believing we can take the warriors and spurs to the max and even beat both of them. Basketball isnt won on paper

No it's won on the court... where we do stupid stuff like playing without a point guard, or playing with a Singler, or ignore every lineup that has worked for us and mostly play the bad ones.

I'm pretty sure we'd be way better off if it was played on paper since we should be a great team on paper but in reality we couldn't even take the Cavs to 6 games.

[perempe20]

why does Durant have to shoot so many jumpers when they don't fall? (even Waiters and Kanter can score from the bench.) at least he should have attacked the rim instead.

[bondom34]

Also I'm not losing my mind am I b/c people killing Russ for PnR coverage but I thought that's how Donovan wants it done. He was beat 2 times by my count and there's like 5 people are calling him out on.

[Old Man Game]

Watching the Spurs systematically destroy this shell of a Grizzlies team sort of makes our loss to the Mavericks last night even more annoying.

[bondom34]

Watching the Spurs systematically destroy this shell of a Grizzlies team sort of makes our loss to the Mavericks last night even more annoying.

This Grizz team is worse than Dallas too though.

[spearsy23]

Watching the Spurs systematically destroy this shell of a Grizzlies team sort of makes our loss to the Mavericks last night even more annoying.

This Grizz team is worse than Dallas too though.

Yeah, but that's like saying losing 100 bucks is worse than losing 50. They both suck.

[bondom34]

Watching the Spurs systematically destroy this shell of a Grizzlies team sort of makes our loss to the Mavericks last night even more annoying.

This Grizz team is worse than Dallas too though.

Yeah, but that's like saying losing 100 bucks is worse than losing 50. They both suck.

Dallas was actually pretty good down the stretch run though, think they won like 7 of 10. Memphis was Brooklyn/Philly bad.

[spearsy23]

This Grizz team is worse than Dallas too though.

Yeah, but that's like saying losing 100 bucks is worse than losing 50. They both suck.

Dallas was actually pretty good down the stretch run though, think they won like 7 of 10. Memphis was Brooklyn/Philly bad.

Nuggets, Knicks, Pistons, Wolves, Grizzlies, Rockets, Jazz is my retort to that

[bondom34]

Yeah, but that's like saying losing 100 bucks is worse than losing 50. They both suck.

Dallas was actually pretty good down the stretch run though, think they won like 7 of 10. Memphis was Brooklyn/Philly bad.

Nuggets, Knicks, Pistons, Wolves, Grizzlies, Rockets, Jazz is my retort to that

Grizz last 10 included losses to this Dallas team, the Lakers, Magic, and Nuggets, with a Suns loss a little before .

[KD35Brah]

This Harden E60 special is about to get me depressed....

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mnzaBWifqM[/youtube]

Maybe he comes back after his contract is done, that is if the team doesn't break up by then...

[Andre Roberstan]

Bear in mind with all of this that Carlisle managed to take the 2014 Spurs championship team to 7 games with a really bad team too. Carlisle is what everyone thinks Brad Stevens is in terms of getting the most out of the least in the playoffs.

[Andre Roberstan]

This is a terrific breakdown of the endgame offense.

TL;DR: Donovan's put together good sets, but there's a lack of misdirection and extra movement from the players who aren't involved in the immediate play. It's 80% of the way there, but the 20% makes all the difference.

http://hardwoodparoxysm.com/2016/04/20/oklahoma-city-thunder-clutch-offense-failures

[bondom34]

Single year
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_JkGXDXtu3cSLzplkQo4mDYOMLi-Sh2YfIb9nKeMNZI/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
And multi year
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12rcLDCaJSh_b1hA3UyLG5-neayTBl_weqNVCGM0LheA/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
RAPM. Adams top 5 defense

[Andre Roberstan]

Anybody see this article yet?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-oklahoma-city-thunders-kids-grew-up-1461107114

Interesting tidbits in there.

[Pillendreher]

This is a terrific breakdown of the endgame offense.

TL;DR: Donovan's put together good sets, but there's a lack of misdirection and extra movement from the players who aren't involved in the immediate play. It's 80% of the way there, but the 20% makes all the difference.

http://hardwoodparoxysm.com/2016/04/20/oklahoma-city-thunder-clutch-offense-failures

Great stuff.

[Dadouv47]

Can't wait for tomorrow night.
Knowing our players, I expect the thunder to open a night club on dallas's floor during the game ( and hopefully post game too).
LET'S DANCE !!