2016 Playoffs Round 2: OKC Thunder vs. San Antonio Spurs

[Dadouv47]

chances of resigning KD just increased so much

[HeartSouloma]

I kind of feel bad for duncan getting blocked like that

Dude looked upset body language wise

I mean he's old.. Duncan has an impressive career and I have the up most for him and his team.

[RunOKC]

I want this to be OKC's year SO badly. I'll go with my heart and say OKC in 6.

[Adelheid]

Congratulations to OKC and its fans for toppling a formiddable team.
And all to be honest, I'd rather see KD/WB stay in OKC rather than joining GSW or any other contender teams out there. The league needs more parity.

[bwgood77]

chances of resigning KD just increased so much

I don't know if you watched all the after the game handshakes, but Pop, with a smile, said something to him, and KD smiled back, saying something. I would love to know what that exchange was.

I THINK Pop is classy enough not to make some sort of blatant recruiting pitch there, but he probably did so in some sort of way, like "hell of a series you played..you guys can beat the Warriors if your team utilizes you the right way." I don't know...I thought long and hard about that last part....about how he might phrase it in a way that could make KD give SA a thought.

But I've always thought he would stay...used to think for sure...then more lately this season was a bit concerned maybe he might have other thoughts. Hopefully Westbrook keeps feeding him. Would love to see you guys beat GS. I like GS, but would love to see you guys win it all.

With the two teams left (expecting Cleveland) it will take a big rebounding edge and being very efficient. And of course pick Curry up on D by the time he passes half court.

Donovan seemed composed though. He seemed to call timeouts right when needed and they soon after were able to halt the run....partially on luck, but they did slow it down...for the longest time I couldn't understand with a 20+ pt lead they were jacking up long shots and trying to go to the rim early in a clogged lane with a lot of time left.

Most of that stopped after the timeouts. Their turnovers are killers sometimes though. That's not something you can really blame Donovan for. You could tell he was trying to keep them from forcing things.

[bondom34]

GET HYPED!

[NaturalThunder]

What's funny is that the final margin of victory in this game and game four were the same (14 points). But game four was back-and-forth, nip-and-tuck until about 5-6 minutes to go and this game was never in doubt by halftime.

[NaturalThunder]

Also, this lends even more credence, once again, as long as both Durant and Westbrook are healthy, OKC's floor is the WCF. Unfortunately, just to make the Finals, we'd have to beat two historically great teams. I probably won't happen, but even in an extremely frustrating, up-and-down season where it felt like OKC never really lived up to their potential, they still made the WCF after knocking off a 67-win team in round two.

All season the talk was about how the WCF was a foregone conclusion. It'd be the Warriors and Spurs playing for a trip to the Finals and the first two rounds were just a formality.

[bondom34]

Also, this lends even more credence, once again, as long as both Durant and Westbrook are healthy, OKC's floor is the WCF. Unfortunately, just to make the Finals, we'd have to beat two historically great teams. I probably won't happen, but even in an extremely frustrating, up-and-down season where it felt like OKC never really lived up to their potential, they still made the WCF after knocking off a 67-win team in round two.

All season the talk was about how the WCF was a foregone conclusion. It'd be the Warriors and Spurs playing for a trip to the Finals and the first two rounds were just a formality.

And I love hearing Brendan Haywood on NBATV saying he can't see any way Durant can leave.

[Bergmaniac]

Congrats, guys, great job.

I loved how Andre Roberson stepped up last night to silence his critics. Awesome game by him. He even hit an above the break 3 (only the 11th one in his NBA career). That is when I knew you had this game in the bag.

[Old Man Game]

Games like last night make you realize how ridiculously awesome a role player Roberson could be if he could just consistently hit shots. I know I know, he's already valuable. But I'm talking one of the handful of must coveted role players in the league if he was a solid shooter.

[CoffeeCakez]

just dropping by to say congratulations! you did it guys...that was beyond impressive. hats off!

I was getting sick of the spurs team but you guys sent them packing. Westbrook is a **** beast, wish we had a guy like him at LA

[NetsWorld]

call me crazy but i think we have more chances against the warriors than against cleveland... ( match up wise)

If OKC advances past GSW, Cleveland will get annihilated match up wise. LeBron cannot guard Durant and Westbrook will penetrate Cleveland's entire defense. The x factor in a Cle-OKC series is Westbrook. He will have his way with the Cavs. Thunder would win in 5 or 6. The bigger concern is Golden State.

[Dadouv47]

GSW is by far the better team, but sorry match up wise cleveland is terrible for us. They have great rebounders so they can kill all our edge on rebounders ( TT killed adams last time, and that's not easy to do), love killed Ibaka, irving vs westbrook is far from easy and lebron vs durant, well...no one can really tell who will take advantage. Besides they also have a deeper bench.
Maybe it could be the opposite, because we all know ibaka can play at a really high level ( not like during regular season) and adams is stepping up big time, but if you think only in theory about match ups, Cleveland is not good for us.

Anyway, not the time to talk hours about that. We have a huge task before...

[Kiwi_thunder]

GSW is by far the better team, but sorry match up wise cleveland is terrible for us. They have great rebounders so they can kill all our edge on rebounders ( TT killed adams last time, and that's not easy to do), love killed Ibaka, irving vs westbrook is far from easy and lebron vs durant, well...no one can really tell who will take advantage. Besides they also have a deeper bench.
Maybe it could be the opposite, because we all know ibaka can play at a really high level ( not like during regular season) and adams is stepping up big time, but if you think only in theory about match ups, Cleveland is not good for us.

Anyway, not the time to talk hours about that. We have a huge task before...

Yeah I wouldn't put too much stock in the regular season results. A lot of the rebounding issues with TT were just lack of communication and poor boxing out by Serge. I could really see the Kanter / Adams tandem being used to great effect against this team. Apart from TT, Love will a good rebounder is soft, Mosgov has fallen off a cliff etc. However, we need to get through GSW to see them and that is going to be a real challenge.