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G22: Oklahoma City Thunder at Atlanta Hawks | 6:30PM CST 

Post#1 » by Thabo Sefolosha » Mon Dec 5, 2016 10:08 pm

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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks have a tough task as they try to end a swoon that has seen them lose nine of 10 games and six in a row, the last two in blowout fashion.

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Post#2 » by Dadouv47 » Mon Dec 5, 2016 10:18 pm

Not a good feeling about this game. We have a lot of difficulties against teams that plays small with a lot of guards.

But Adams used to dominate Howard badly. Hope he will do it again :)
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Post#4 » by Thabo Sefolosha » Mon Dec 5, 2016 11:00 pm

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Post#5 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Dec 6, 2016 1:06 am

Lauvergne really has a knack for looking like a serviceable bench player one minute and then looking like one of the worst rotation players in the NBA the next. That was an incredibly stupid sequence on his part. Lazy bounce pass to Kanter through traffic gets stolen, then he gets back on defense and weakly fouls Millsap who makes a layup.
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Post#6 » by Osirus89 » Tue Dec 6, 2016 1:07 am

Such sloppy basketball from both teams. Good news for Thunder is Atlanta isn't shooting well.
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Post#7 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Dec 6, 2016 1:08 am

On another note, our bench came and did an excellent job and got us the lead by the end of the 1st quarter.
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Post#8 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Dec 6, 2016 1:16 am

I'm still not sure why Semaj Christon even gets to wear an NBA uniform, never mind actually step on the court during an actual NBA game.
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Post#9 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Dec 6, 2016 1:19 am

Ok, Oladipo just threw down a really nasty dunk. Wow!
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Post#10 » by Osirus89 » Tue Dec 6, 2016 2:13 am

NaturalThunder wrote:I'm still not sure why Semaj Christon even gets to wear an NBA uniform, never mind actually step on the court during an actual NBA game.

Get well soon Cameron

Westbrook got another triple double. I'm starting to get desensitized to how good he is.
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Post#11 » by oken » Tue Dec 6, 2016 2:37 am

Grant just overforces things... and why set him up for a 3 pt of all people?

We are setting Grant they are setting Korver for pull up three...jeez.
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Post#12 » by oken » Tue Dec 6, 2016 2:45 am

Damn that ankle hurt again... damn..
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Post#13 » by oken » Tue Dec 6, 2016 2:50 am

It's not even possible to expect Oladipo to carry the ball. Maybe he should work with Enes to learn how to do it.

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Post#14 » by oken » Tue Dec 6, 2016 2:57 am

Nobody can score except Wb. He tres to get others going but they all suck so he has to handle things himself again and again.
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Post#15 » by oken » Tue Dec 6, 2016 3:00 am

Oladipo tries to handle the ball only the second time in 5 minutes and he fumbles it again. He is worse than Waiters in that regard I presume. At least Waiters carried it to the rim somehow and fumbled it there.
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Post#16 » by oken » Tue Dec 6, 2016 3:04 am

Glad we won the game by 3. Westbrook looked seriously gassed at the end and he was begging for someone else to step up and at least carry the ball but there was only Oladipo.
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Post#17 » by spearsy23 » Tue Dec 6, 2016 3:06 am

Poor play over the last couple minutes but good win. Don't know why we cleared out for vic on the last play.
“If you're getting stops and you're making threes and the other team's not scoring, that's when you're going to see a huge point difference there,” coach Billy Donovan said.
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Post#18 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Dec 6, 2016 3:09 am

We tried really hard to blow that one. Up 14 after three quarters. Up nine with two minutes left in the game. Our end of game execution in the final two minutes was atrocious. We just dribbled around in one spot for 20 seconds then let Russ, and one time Oladipo, do something and it went very poorly.

Still, second night of a back-to-back, on the road, and we got the win and Russ got another triple-double. Six straight with a little more daunting four game stretch coming up than we're used to.
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Post#19 » by Dadouv47 » Tue Dec 6, 2016 3:15 am

Westbrook is insane.
Props to Donovan as well. Making great adjustements to put the players that WB needs to have with him at the right time. He was bad last regular season but he improved so much
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Post#20 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Dec 6, 2016 3:19 am

Now, that we won the game, can we talk about Oladipo's dunk of the year candidate from the first half?

That was an absolutely nasty dunk.

Said in a thread about which point guards would make OKC better if they replaced Westbrook:
Coxy wrote:I think with a PG like George Hill, they'd be better than current.

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