10/27 - POSTGAME | Oklahoma City Thunder (116) - (119) Minnesota Timberwolves

[Thabo Sefolosha]

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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES
• Record: 2-3
• Standing: #
• http://www.nba.com/games/20171027/OKCMIN
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SUMMARY
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Thunder Upcoming 5

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10/28/17 @ CHI 7PM CST
10/31/17 @ MIL 7PM CST
11/3/17 VS BOS 8:30PM CST
11/5/17 @ POR 8PM CST
11/7/17 @ SAC 9PM CST

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[bondom34]

Good night everyone.

[spearsy23]

Steven Adams is out best player, as **** as that sounds.

[ThunderBolt]

We kind of remind me of the superteam that was the Knicks last year with rose, Melo and Noah.

[ThunderBolt]

Steven Adams is out best player, as **** as that sounds.

That was my hot take and I got shut down. He guards three guys at once.

[slick_watts]

it is downright insulting to fans who know a thing or two about basketball that billy donovan would claim pre-game that "carmelo anthony is a good defensive player". and then go on to play andre roberson 9 minutes against a team that roasted us before.

once again, the effect of not having andre roberson on the wing is seen ad nauseum. there was zero communication on the perimeter defensively, grant made incorrect rotation repeatedly putting other guys in awkward spots (leading to fouls), and most important, there was nobody in the game to cover for russell westbrook and carmelo anthony's laziness. i mean, there was one play in this 4Q where jeff teague and taj gibson executed the slowest pick and roll of human history. melo and russ still decided to switch it. and of course the wolves score.

aside from the issue with not having dre on the court, rw giving this game away in 2Q playing like bad russ was a disappointment. the sentiment that the thunder (and russ) are a team that can sleep walk and win games in 4Q is flawed and not conducive to winning. watching rw and others play the game at times like it's a circus performance is disappointing.

again, aside from the rotation problems, this is what looks like a poorly coached team with poor discipline and a leader whose bbiq comes and goes depending on how much the other player is scoring on him.

another sequence that comes to mind is josh huestis making a three, then the team running plays for him like he's ray allen or larry bird. the failure to realize that every possession counts separates the thunder from the best teams.

[Dadouv47]

I'm pissed but I still believe we shouldn't panic too much. I hope Roberson will be 100% soon and playing more minutes, because we need his defense badly. Offense is not that bad. Don't want to blame Melo and PG13 (they were great before 4th quarter). Westbrook was trash defensively and only good on offense in last quarter. Westbrook-Felton was working well, then Billy had to screw it up.

[spearsy23]

Melo takes 9 seconds to get from the defensive end to offensive half. If you don't believe me watch the possession he walked the ball up the court with no defensive pressure, it should've been an 8 second call.

[Thundershock88]

Crazy those guys put up those stat lines and we still lost. It will be alright, these guys will figure it out.

[Osirus89]

Steven adams is showing consistency which I guess is one of the few positives from this mess of a game.
Refs were garbage, but I still can't blame them as much as the rebounding and the bad interior defense when Steven isn't in the game.

I really hope Andre is coming back from injury. I sincerely want to believe that Donovan isn't that much a simp. We shall see.

We better be scouring the land for a decent reserve center. When Adams isn't in the game, the rebounding goes off a cliff. The team is a better team than they were when they started the season, so there is slight improvement but..this team needs to make up ground over the next 10 games or 4-5 seed will be the ceiling. Minny is a decent team, but they honestly should be beating this team at this point in the season just based on having better depth even if their defense sucks.
Teague/Butler/Wiggins/Gibson/Towns vs Russ/??/George/Melo/Adams. 5 > 4

That ?? is a serious issue right now.

[slick_watts]

billy donovan says he had huestis over andre roberson in the game for more length.

you cannot make this up. this is probably one of the most incompetent statements i've ever heard from a coach before. it'd be like saying he put raymond felton in over russell westbrook because he wanted more weight.

[DoubleJ13]

If I have learned anything from these games so far, it's that I don't know what a foul even is anymore. That was the turning point of this game. Wolves had 20 FTs at half because the refs put them in the bonus 3 minutes into the 2nd quarter calling 3 straight fouls on Furg because he's a rookie.

[ThunderBolt]

billy donovan says he had huestis over andre roberson in the game for more length.

you cannot make this up. this is probably one of the most incompetent statements i've ever heard from a coach before. it'd be like saying he put raymond felton in over russell westbrook because he wanted more weight.

Andre Roberson has a 7’0” wingspan. Josh Huestis has a 7’1”wingspan. What a moron.

[Thundershock88]

Huestis>Roberson tbh.

[Dadouv47]

billy donovan says he had huestis over andre roberson in the game for more length.

you cannot make this up. this is probably one of the most incompetent statements i've ever heard from a coach before. it'd be like saying he put raymond felton in over russell westbrook because he wanted more weight.

OMG. We have a serious problem then. Would have been better if Roberson was injured. Donovan probably wasn't worried about Butler being hot.

[slick_watts]

billy donovan says he had huestis over andre roberson in the game for more length.

you cannot make this up. this is probably one of the most incompetent statements i've ever heard from a coach before. it'd be like saying he put raymond felton in over russell westbrook because he wanted more weight.

Andre Roberson has a 7’0” wingspan. Josh Huestis has a 7’1”wingspan. What a moron.

it doesn't even matter what their wingspans are. the statement is operating under an assumption that aside from the wingspans (his criteria) they are more or less equal. or else why make the switch? it assumes that huestis could approximate or even exceed roberson on defense if only there were a situation where a greater wingspan was more appropriate.

that's obviously such a nonsensical, irrational assumption to make. it seriously casts his rotation decisions into a negative light.

[jambalaya]

4 way tie for 9th place.

[jambalaya]

They need more & better 3 point shooting, more drives, more than 1 assistmaker, more rebounding, less fouls.

One approach would be more Abrines & Patterson and probably Felton and less to none Grant and probably Huestis.

If Melo didn't start you could potentially have 3 of the big 4 on court all times and never have to play more than 2 subs. I'd look at it.

[Old Man Game]

another sequence that comes to mind is josh huestis making a three, then the team running plays for him like he's ray allen or larry bird. the failure to realize that every possession counts separates the thunder from the best teams.

Yeah, that was pretty bad. People give him credit because he "looks" like a shooter, i.e. the jumper itself looks fairly textbook. People thought the same thing about Jeremy Lamb years ago. If it doesn't start going in more often everyone's patience will wear thin with him on that side of the ball pretty fast.

[Old Man Game]

Tough loss. We're going to watch them play like an advanced rec league team all year aren't we?