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Thabo Sefolosha · Post #1 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Sun Jan 1, 2017 7:47 pm

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THUNDER at BUCKS
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Location: BMO Harris Bradley Center
Thunder: 21-13 | #T-4 in West
Bucks: 16-16 | #T-6 in East

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Thabo Sefolosha · Post #2 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Sun Jan 1, 2017 7:48 pm

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Post #3 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Jan 1, 2017 8:27 pm

Pretty excited about this game. Westbrook, Giannis. Going to be a great game I think

AussieBuck · Post #4 » by **AussieBuck** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 3:28 am

MVP matchup.

Post #5 » by **bondom34** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 3:36 am

AussieBuck wrote:MVP matchup.

Good luck man!

AussieBuck · Post #6 » by **AussieBuck** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 3:44 am

bondom34 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:MVP matchup.

Good luck man!

You don't mean that.

Will be interesting to see how the non-Giannis and non-Westbrook minutes play out. If you're shooters are on from 3 you'll get us otherwise I feel like we can make your guy work real hard for everything.

Post #7 » by **bondom34** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 4:01 am

AussieBuck wrote:
bondom34 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:MVP matchup.

Good luck man!

You don't mean that. Will be interesting to see how the non-Giannis and non-Westbrook minutes play out. If you're shooters are on from 3 you'll get us otherwise I feel like we can make your guy work real hard for everything.

Road game, and OKC doesn't have many shooters. This one will be tough, you guys look great. Wish I still had LP for just one game, my 2 favorite players to watch easily.

AussieBuck · Post #8 » by **AussieBuck** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 4:12 am

bondom34 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:
bondom34 wrote:Good luck man!

You don't mean that. Will be interesting to see how the non-Giannis and non-Westbrook minutes play out. If you're shooters are on from 3 you'll get us otherwise I feel like we can make your guy work real hard for everything.

Road game, and OKC doesn't have many shooters. This one will be tough, you guys look great. Wish I still had LP for just one game, my 2 favorite players to watch easily.

At the moment we have issues with teams that move the ball and play a heap of 3 point shooters. Our switching D is held back by a bad defensive frontcourt outside of Giannis but if you can't punish us from the corners we are alarmingly good on D. Like I feel we could beat the Bulls 9/10 times. Playoffs will be fun with Middleton back. Would be cool for you guys if you could bring in Milsap to help keep the team afloat when Russ rests.

spearsy23 · Post #9 » by **spearsy23** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 5:07 am

bondom34 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:
bondom34 wrote:Good luck man!

You don't mean that. Will be interesting to see how the non-Giannis and non-Westbrook minutes play out. If you're shooters are on from 3 you'll get us otherwise I feel like we can make your guy work real hard for everything.

Road game, and OKC doesn't have many shooters. This one will be tough, you guys look great. Wish I still had LP for just one game, my 2 favorite players to watch easily.

Hook your computer up to your tv, install adblock plus, and check Reddit for a link.

Post #10 » by **bondom34** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 7:17 am

spearsy23 wrote:
bondom34 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:You don't mean that. Will be interesting to see how the non-Giannis and non-Westbrook minutes play out. If you're shooters are on from 3 you'll get us otherwise I feel like we can make your guy work real hard for everything.

Road game, and OKC doesn't have many shooters. This one will be tough, you guys look great. Wish I still had LP for just one game, my 2 favorite players to watch easily.

Hook your computer up to your tv, install adblock plus, and check Reddit for a link.

May have to, I do at times but its behind the score feed on ESPN so I get ahead of myself lol.

AussieBuck wrote:
bondom34 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:You don't mean that. Will be interesting to see how the non-Giannis and non-Westbrook minutes play out. If you're shooters are on from 3 you'll get us otherwise I feel like we can make your guy work real hard for everything.

Road game, and OKC doesn't have many shooters. This one will be tough, you guys look great. Wish I still had LP for just one game, my 2 favorite players to watch easily.

At the moment we have issues with teams that move the ball and play a heap of 3 point shooters. Our switching D is held back by a bad defensive frontcourt outside of Giannis but if you can't punish us from the corners we are alarmingly good on D. Like I feel we could beat the Bulls 9/10 times. Playoffs will be fun with Middleton back. Would be cool for you guys if you could bring in Milsap to help keep the team afloat when Russ rests.

Oh that'd be a freakin dream and wish they could. Right now the 2 best shooters on the team are probably 2 rookies (Sabonis and Abrines) and Dipo can shoot some. I really wish Middleton was healthy but part of me wonders if Giannis would have been held back some with him this season, he's been amazing to watch. Never saw a guy legit play 5 positions.

RunOKC · Post #11 » by **RunOKC** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:47 am

I would agree we don't have many shooters (Dipo, Abrines Morrow), but we have a few guys who can knock down open shots that are created.

Dipo at 38% on 5.6 Attempts
Grant at 42% on 1.5 Attempts
Abrines at 35% on 3.6 Attempts (Climbing after his bad start)
Sabonis at 40% on 2.4 attempts
Lauvergne at 36% on 1.7 Attempts
Russ at 33% (Needs to stop shooting as many 3's as he does!) 5.5 Attempts
Morrow slumping down to 28% but I think he'll snap out of it if he gets back in the lineup.

This has to be about league average or so.

Pillendreher · Post #12 » by **Pillendreher** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:50 am

Abrines was our only guy shooting above 33 % from 3 in December tho.

Magic Giannison · Post #13 » by **Magic Giannison** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 5:09 pm

My favorite game of the year when two of my favorite players go against eachother.
WESTBRO VS GIANNIS!

Hoping for a great close game!

GREENE1148 · Post #14 » by **GREENE1148** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 5:39 pm

RunOKC wrote:I would agree we don't have many shooters (Dipo, Abrines Morrow), but we have a few guys who can knock down open shots that are created.

Dipo at 38% on 5.6 Attempts
Grant at 42% on 1.5 Attempts
Abrines at 35% on 3.6 Attempts (Climbing after his bad start)
Sabonis at 40% on 2.4 attempts
Lauvergne at 36% on 1.7 Attempts
Russ at 33% (Needs to stop shooting as many 3's as he does!) 5.5 Attempts
Morrow slumping down to 28% but I think he'll snap out of it if he gets back in the lineup.

This has to be about league average or so.

Good for 29th in the league in fact. :oops:

ducler · Post #15 » by **ducler** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 10:43 pm

Pillendreher · Post #16 » by **Pillendreher** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 11:11 pm

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greekbuck34 · Post #17 » by **greekbuck34** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 11:15 pm

bondom34 wrote:I really wish Middleton was healthy but part of me wonders if Giannis would have been held back some with him this season, he's been amazing to watch. Never saw a guy legit play 5 positions.

Giannis' usage and style of play(offensively) is the same since the last post all-star day when MCW picked an injury and Giannis started to run the show as a point forward(Lebron-like).

Like Lebron he thrives the most when he is surrounded with good shooters and Middleton is exactly that. Middleton will replace Snell as the main SG and Snell will take Terry's 20-22 MPG as a buckup SG.

In the end even if Giannis' PPG(23.8) drop a little his assists will definitely go up with Middleton back because we are not very consistent from the 3 point line this season. Maybe he will also have more triple doubles like last season.

Osirus89 · Post #18 » by **Osirus89** » Mon Jan 2, 2017 11:36 pm

greekbuck34 wrote:
bondom34 wrote:I really wish Middleton was healthy but part of me wonders if Giannis would have been held back some with him this season, he's been amazing to watch. Never saw a guy legit play 5 positions.

Giannis' usage and style of play(offensively) is the same since the last post all-star day when MCW picked an injury and Giannis started to run the show as a point forward(Lebron-like).

Like Lebron he thrives the most when he is surrounded with good shooters and Middleton is exactly that. Middleton will replace Snell as the main SG and Snell will take Terry's 20-22 MPG as a buckup SG.

In the end even if Giannis' PPG(23.8) drop a little his assists will definitely go up with Middleton back because we are not very consistent from the 3 point line this season. Maybe he will also have more triple doubles like last season.

Middleton is going to make that team really scary when he is 100%. All you guys need is a center and that's easily a top 4 seed team. Your gm needs a raise :lol:

From 2012 draft to now, He has hit on almost every pick.

Magic Giannison wrote:My favorite game of the year when two of my favorite players go against eachother.
WESTBRO VS GIANNIS!

Hoping for a great close game!

Should be a great matchup :thumbsup:

Post #19 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 12:18 am

Only 4 minutes of playing time but I'm impressed by our defense tonight.

Post #20 » by **bondom34** » Tue Jan 3, 2017 12:24 am

Yeah Robes doing a great job early.