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Post#221 » by Pillendreher » Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:49 am

spearsy23 wrote:I know they 'struggled' against Detroit last year, but does anyone really still buy Cleveland as a legitimate contender?


They are a very weird team. Irving is lowkey very overrated. If LeBron hadn't come back, he'd just be another scorer on a crappy team. Love is kinda restricted to spot up shooting. The rest of the team is not doing anything really.
They don't look like a dominant team to me.

Knrstz wrote:Utah looks like they just lost a lot of hope.


Didn't back down tho. Great game by them.
"I don't know of any player that, when the shot goes up, he doesn't want it to go in," Donovan said
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Post#222 » by Osirus89 » Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:45 pm

Portland is playing with a chip on their shoulder and supreme confidence. Warriors are in for a dogfight against them.
The Victor vs CJ McCollum debate is now fully dead. CJ is even playing some defense.
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Post#223 » by Pillendreher » Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:45 pm

McCollum giving it to the Warriors. Dipo should be taking notes.
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Post#224 » by bondom34 » Mon Apr 17, 2017 12:10 am

I kinda wanted the Bulls to pull an upset but right now really want IT to just tear it up.
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Post#225 » by ThunderBolt » Thu Apr 20, 2017 10:57 am

Once again we see the warriors are a better team without cupcake. If there is any way they can win the championship with him on the bench, it will add a little satisfaction to a frustrating year.
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Post#226 » by bondom34 » Fri Apr 21, 2017 5:49 am

Well could be worse. Could have gotten our hopes up all year like Raps or Celtics fans did and now be down.
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Post#227 » by NaturalThunder » Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:10 am

Gonna be a little bit depressing if we can't manage to steal at least one game from the Rockets after watching the Grizzlies take one from the Spurs last night.
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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Post#228 » by Pillendreher » Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:51 am

This series will be tied by Monday.
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Post#229 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:22 pm

I'm an Oklahoma state fan and I have no problem saying that Marcus Smart is a punk.
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Post#230 » by bondom34 » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:09 pm

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/dion-waiters-miami-heat-nba-is-lucky/

Still love Dion. Best to you man, get paid.

When I got to OKC, me and K.D. were together every day. Kev used to think it was funny, because when we got in the gym and played 1-on-1, I was trying to kill him. Straight up.
Go ahead and ask him who won our last game.

Ask him. He’ll tell you.

He won a lot, too. But I got him plenty.

Kev used to talk wild trash to me, too. People don’t know that about him. Of course, you know me. I’m coming at him fully-loaded. But he’d go right back at me. He’d try to post me up, and I’d be on some Philly Baby Rucker ****. I was pulling out every trick. I’d be squeezing his hips, right in the weak spot.

I loved it. I loved that team.


When I came back in January, I was so locked in it was crazy. I kept telling everybody, “All we gotta do is win seven or eight in a row, and we’re right back in it.”

Hell, I remember we played Kev and those boys in Golden State, and I had just come back. I was going at Kev hard that night, but they beat us. We went out to dinner after the game, and I told him, “Bro, we’re about to go on a run.”

He was looking at me like like, Yeah, alright.

I said, “Naw, I’m serious. We’re gonna rip off seven straight.”

He said, “Yeah, but we’re coming to Miami in two weeks.”

I said, “Yeah, that’s a W. Bet.”

He was laughing his ass off.

We got back home and won three straight, and then Kev and those boys came to our building.

We gave ’em everything they could handle. We weren’t scared. I saw right away how Kev was playing me, like he was daring me to shoot the ball. I told him, “Bro, I’m feeling good. You see the last four games? Y’all in for a long night.”

We’re talking trash like we’re playing 1-on-1 back in OKC.

Fourth quarter, 10 seconds left. Tie game. I got the ball in my hands with the game on the line, and I already knew what was gonna happen. F*** an overtime, let’s get up outta here.
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Post#232 » by Pillendreher » Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:13 pm


Let's get Randle.
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Post#233 » by Andre Roberstan » Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:14 pm

Pillendreher wrote:

Let's get Randle.


I'd like Randle for a hypothetical Thunder team that has more shooting.
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Post#234 » by Pillendreher » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:03 pm

Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:

Let's get Randle.


I'd like Randle for a hypothetical Thunder team that has more shooting.


The way Dre keeps going, he'll have to get better at some point. Can't get any worse :lol:
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Post#235 » by ThunderBolt » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:16 pm

Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:

Let's get Randle.


I'd like Randle for a hypothetical Thunder team that has more shooting.


You mean after we get portzingis? If we get randle, what do we do with sabonis?
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Post#236 » by Andre Roberstan » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:24 pm

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Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:Let's get Randle.


I'd like Randle for a hypothetical Thunder team that has more shooting.


You mean after we get portzingis? If we get randle, what do we do with sabonis?


Randle's been best as a small-ball center IIRC, though that's pretty small.
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Post#237 » by Pillendreher » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:26 pm

Knrstz wrote:
Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:Let's get Randle.


I'd like Randle for a hypothetical Thunder team that has more shooting.


You mean after we get portzingis? If we get randle, what do we do with sabonis?


Randle and Ingram might be the only guys I would want. He just popped into my head.
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Post#238 » by Andre Roberstan » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:32 pm

Pillendreher wrote:
Knrstz wrote:
Andre Roberstan wrote:
I'd like Randle for a hypothetical Thunder team that has more shooting.


You mean after we get portzingis? If we get randle, what do we do with sabonis?


Randle and Ingram might be the only guys I would want. He just popped into my head.


Larry Nance doooooeeeeeeee
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Post#239 » by Pillendreher » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:42 pm

Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:
Knrstz wrote:
You mean after we get portzingis? If we get randle, what do we do with sabonis?


Randle and Ingram might be the only guys I would want. He just popped into my head.


Larry Nance doooooeeeeeeee


In what role? Energizer off the bench?

PS: I also don't think Johnson is gonna just dump them. He's gonna try go trade them for a star. Maybe we could get 1 or 2 while facilitating.
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Post#240 » by Andre Roberstan » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:46 pm

Pillendreher wrote:
Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:
Randle and Ingram might be the only guys I would want. He just popped into my head.


Larry Nance doooooeeeeeeee


In what role? Energizer off the bench?

PS: I also don't think Johnson is gonna just dump them. He's gonna try go trade them for a star. Maybe we could get 1 or 2 while facilitating.


Oh, I don't think we'll wind up with any of them. But Nance is the kind of cheap upside player I'd target.

I think if Gibson comes back we're set short-term at the 4, but there are a lot of 4s I like.
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