1/7 - POSTGAME | Oklahoma City Thunder (100) - (114) Phoenix Suns

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #1 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:15 am

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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at PHOENIX SUNS

• Record: 22-18
• Standing: #5
• http://www.nba.com/games/20180107/OKCPHX
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Thabo Sefolosha · Post #2 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:16 am

hardenASG13 wrote:How much are they gonna lose this one by, guys? Would be nice to get a win on this roadtrip

by 14

Post #3 » by **dakomish23** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:16 am

Suns
Mavs 2x
Kings

Should be 26-14. Instead, 22-18.

Can’t get these games back.

The bench might be the worst in the NBA

Osirus89 · Post #4 » by **Osirus89** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:30 am

I'm glad for this loss. Team started off the game too confident and fell behind on defense. Tried to turn it on but too much ground was lost on the rebounding and second chance points front. They also fell into the iso 1v1 garbage in the fourth.

Take this 14 pt L and realize that you haven't arrived and actually need to compete every night.
Our bench is also an infected elephant taint. Anybody and everybody except Patterson should be on the block for the bench.

I don't know how much longer the team can endure Dre being out. The cracks started in the Clippers game and now the seams are coming undone. There is no way this team can hope to win against Portland or Minnesota if he is still out of action.

Post #5 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:32 am

dakomish23 wrote:Suns
Mavs 2x
Kings

Should be 26-14. Instead, 22-18.

Can’t get these games back.

The bench might be the worst in the NBA

Don’t forget Orlando, knicks missing Hardaway and Porzingis, Charlotte and Brooklyn.

Post #6 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:35 am

I’m not too terribly disappointed. This is what middle of the pack playoff teams do. They’re inconsistent. The free throw issues are the one thing that really boggles my mind. Everything else makes sense. Play crappy defense along with iso ball and you lose. Pretty simple.

InTheSabonus · Post #7 » by **InTheSabonus** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 3:42 am

Thundershock88 · Post #8 » by **Thundershock88** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 4:46 am

InTheSabonus wrote:

I still can't believe Melo, and PG had to have a meeting to ask Billy Donovan what he wanted them to do.

Osirus89 · Post #9 » by **Osirus89** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 4:56 am

I would just like to take this opportunity to laugh at the notion that Laker fans have about bringing in Paul George. Let this game and so many other games this year be an example of him not being number 1 player potential. He is a very good number 2, but I would rip my hair out if I had to depend on him to be consistent every game which he would have to be for a bad team like the Lakers.

Post #10 » by **dakomish23** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 5:05 am

Knrstz wrote:
dakomish23 wrote:Suns
Mavs 2x
Kings

Should be 26-14. Instead, 22-18.

Can’t get these games back.

The bench might be the worst in the NBA

Don’t forget Orlando, knicks missing Hardaway and Porzingis, Charlotte and Brooklyn.

30-10 then

They can’t win them all but their list of losses is despicable

Post #11 » by **bondom34** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 6:14 am

InTheSabonus wins the internet tonight.

Post #12 » by **bondom34** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 6:15 am

Also a 2-1 road trip is fine. Just didn't expect this to be the L, but in all honesty just so it wasn't the Lakers, I kinda like the Suns and Clips.

Pillendreher · Post #13 » by **Pillendreher** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 9:07 am

This kind of loss has been coming for quite some time now. We've been making bad shots we were missing before and our defense has been quite underwhelming the last couple of weeks. Now this time the shots weren't falling and the defense was still below average.

Knrstz wrote:Leslie McAslin just said after several losses Russ, Melo and George had to ask Billy to tell them what he wanted them to play. Wow.

That doesn't surprise me one bit. Remember how Melo talked about that post game a couple of weeks ago? Him saying that made it pretty obvious to me that the plan was 'Eh, they'll figure it out'.

Pillendreher · Post #14 » by **Pillendreher** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 9:43 am

Last night also showed what I meant when I said this roster is unabalanced. Donovan was playing the following lineups:

Huestis-George-Anthony
Huestis-George-Grant
Huestis-Grant-Anthony

That's three SFs at the same time on the court with Russ or Felton being the only guard out there. That's not gonna work. You can't just subsitute guard play by playing even more forwards. Hell, our bench Felton-Huestis-George-Grant-Patterson is just Felton and four Forwards. We need to fix that. Half our rotation is constantly out of position like that.

Post #15 » by **ThunderBolt** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 2:27 pm

InTheSabonus wrote:

I saved this image for stress relief. :lol:

Post #16 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 4:43 pm

Pillendreher wrote:Last night also showed what I meant when I said this roster is unabalanced. Donovan was playing the following lineups:

Huestis-George-Anthony
Huestis-George-Grant
Huestis-Grant-Anthony

That's three SFs at the same time on the court with Russ or Felton being the only guard out there. That's not gonna work. You can't just subsitute guard play by playing even more forwards. Hell, our bench Felton-Huestis-George-Grant-Patterson is just Felton and four Forwards. We need to fix that. Half our rotation is constantly out of position like that.

I think the problem is less "we need more guards out there" and more "we need more ball-handlers/passers out there".

Pillendreher · Post #17 » by **Pillendreher** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 4:54 pm

Andre Roberstan wrote:
Pillendreher wrote:Last night also showed what I meant when I said this roster is unabalanced. Donovan was playing the following lineups:

Huestis-George-Anthony
Huestis-George-Grant
Huestis-Grant-Anthony

That's three SFs at the same time on the court with Russ or Felton being the only guard out there. That's not gonna work. You can't just subsitute guard play by playing even more forwards. Hell, our bench Felton-Huestis-George-Grant-Patterson is just Felton and four Forwards. We need to fix that. Half our rotation is constantly out of position like that.

I think the problem is less "we need more guards out there" and more "we need more ball-handlers/passers out there".

No disagreement here. We can't double down on the same type of players all the time. We already have three guys taking valume jumpshots and now we're also playing multiple guys who can't shoot at all while not playing a 2nd guy who can create and get to the hoop. It's gonna bite us in the ass sooner or later.

prizm · Post #18 » by **prizm** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 4:56 pm

Ferg bloopin on that open runway... you knew that doom was coming...

Also dragan ball was killin it... thought this was a automatic win... surprised...

Reign23 · Post #19 » by **Reign23** » Mon Jan 8, 2018 8:19 pm

okc just have to many bench wings/guards who can't hit the three. Huestis, Grant and T-Ferg. that will not work.