4/7: Trash | PG: Oklahoma City Thunder (99) at Phoenix Suns (120)

[ThunderBolt]

Oh he's pissed.

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Probably sick of trying to get assists with teammates who can't score.

[Pillendreher]

So out of the last 10 games, we've played against 4 good teams (Warriors, Rockets, Spurs, Grizzlies). We got waxed by both the Warriors and Rockets because our defense was flat out terrible. We dominated the Spurs only to allow one of the biggest comebacks of the season. And then we had to rely on Russ to come back against the Grizzlies after leading most of the game.

As for the other 6 games, we've got blown off the court by the freaking Hornets, needed two huge comebacks by Russ to beat the tanking Mavs and Magic and got spanked by the tanking Suns. The only really good wins were against the 76ers and the Bucks.

This is not what getting ready for the Playoffs looks like. This is the kind of **** you could see proven champions like the Cavs get away with, but not a supposedly young team who hasn't proven anything besides relying way too much on Russ.

Btw: It's funny that this post-ASB stretch is turning out just like last year's: We went 2-6, 10-2 and 3-5 last season. This year, we're at 3-0, 0-4, 5-0 and now 5-5. That's 53 % last season and 59 % this season.

[ThunderBolt]

So out of the last 10 games, we've played against 4 good teams (Warriors, Rockets, Spurs, Grizzlies). We got waxed by both the Warriors and Rockets because our defense was flat out terrible. We dominated the Spurs only to allow one of the biggest comebacks of the season. And then we had to rely on Russ to come back against the Grizzlies after leading most of the game.

As for the other 6 games, we've got blown off the court by the freaking Hornets, needed two huge comebacks by Russ to beat the tanking Mavs and Magic and got spanked by the tanking Suns. The only really good wins were against the 76ers and the Bucks.

This is not what getting ready for the Playoffs looks like. This is the kind of **** you could see proven champions like the Cavs get away with, but not a supposedly young team who hasn't proven anything besides relying way too much on Russ.

Btw: It's funny that this post-ASB stretch is turning out just like last year's: We went 2-6, 10-2 and 3-5 last season. This year, we're at 3-0, 0-4, 5-0 and now 5-5. That's 53 % last season and 59 % this season.

Our two "good" wins were against a depleted 76ers team and a bucs team missing their best guard. Our lack of an offensive scheme has killed this team.

[Pillendreher]

So out of the last 10 games, we've played against 4 good teams (Warriors, Rockets, Spurs, Grizzlies). We got waxed by both the Warriors and Rockets because our defense was flat out terrible. We dominated the Spurs only to allow one of the biggest comebacks of the season. And then we had to rely on Russ to come back against the Grizzlies after leading most of the game.

As for the other 6 games, we've got blown off the court by the freaking Hornets, needed two huge comebacks by Russ to beat the tanking Mavs and Magic and got spanked by the tanking Suns. The only really good wins were against the 76ers and the Bucks.

This is not what getting ready for the Playoffs looks like. This is the kind of **** you could see proven champions like the Cavs get away with, but not a supposedly young team who hasn't proven anything besides relying way too much on Russ.

Btw: It's funny that this post-ASB stretch is turning out just like last year's: We went 2-6, 10-2 and 3-5 last season. This year, we're at 3-0, 0-4, 5-0 and now 5-5. That's 53 % last season and 59 % this season.

Our two "good" wins were against a depleted 76ers team and a bucs team missing their best guard. Our lack of an offensive scheme has killed this team.

We could easily be 2-8 on a weak schedule. We should be out there using this stretch after the ASB to form a cohesive unit and get to the next level, yet we've lost games by double digits already 5 times. We've had the weakest post-ASB schedule, yet we're out there with the +1.8 NetRtG. We've also had that stretch where we blew out teams 3, 4 times in a row mind you.

This is really troubling to me. This team should be out there fighting and trying to prove they're better than just Russ. But it's like we don't even show up anymore against sub .500 teams. Phoenix won two games against us and both were decided by effort. Simple as that.