HMFFL wrote:OKC has been prone to giving up large leads and Westbrook has had to make several 4th period come from behind wins. I know this since I was betting his side and won due to him leading his team to victory. The most recent I was on was against Orlando. Houston should win every game by 6+.
Not this season. The reason for those Westbrook comebacks have been bad performances by the team as a whole, not blown leads. The Magic, Mavs and Nuggets manhandled us for 30 something minutes straight until Russ took over the game and the rest of the team decided to give effort.
This will be what it comes down to for the Thunder: Will the fight and give it their all, or will they not show up and get their asses handed to them?
DROB27 wrote:The rockets haven't been great since their 31-9 start .. I'm surprised people expect a quick series
Their NetRtG has been +3.9 since 1/1 and they've been the 7th worst team in 3P% over that stretch. In addition to this, their DRtG after the ASB is 19th in the league.
I only saw this myself today, but I guess you don't really think about it if you don't follow that team. I can see tem getting hot and blowing us off the floor like they did in the 4th regular season meeting, but I somewhat doubt that to happen 4 times over the next two weeks (especially since we have done a good job at defending against them after the initial offensive spurts in the first 3 games). Key seems to be to not let them get hot from 3 (they're 38-7 when they shoot better than 35 % from 3 in a game and 18-21 when the opposite happens).
"I don't know of any player that, when the shot goes up, he doesn't want it to go in," Donovan said
