2/8 - POSTGAME | Oklahoma City Thunder (81) - (106) Los Angeles Lakers

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Player(s) of the Game

Paul George | 29 PTS (11-25 FG, 5-12 3P), 9 REB
1
6%
Steven Adams | 13 PTS (4-11 FG), 9 REB
1
6%
Raymond Felton | 7 PTS (3-8 FG), 5 REB
0
No votes
Jerami Grant | 8 PTS (4-9 FG), 8 REB, 2 BLK
0
No votes
Daniel Hamilton | 5 PTS (2-5 FG, 1-2 3P), 3 AST
1
6%
Nick Collison | 4 PTS (2-2 FG)
1
6%
Kyle Singler | Attempted Poster on Zubac
3
19%
PJ Dozier | Wearing #35
8
50%
Other (specify below)
1
6%
 
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Re: 2/8 - POSTGAME | Oklahoma City Thunder (81) - (106) Los Angeles Lakers 

Post#21 » by dakomish23 » Fri Feb 9, 2018 1:20 pm

Reign23 wrote:since I believe melos shootings struggles come from playing way to many minutes, it isn't the worst thing for him to sit this one out. means no game from tuesday to sunday and soon there is the 7 day allstar break. should do him good.


Like many have pointed out here, without Roberson, it’s hard for PG & Adams to cover for both Russ and Melo.

They should def go back to the Melo bench unit. Give him 4 mins to start if it’s that important to have that monicker, bring Patterson in, then rotate them all out with Melo + bench unit.

Not sure why they went away from that in the first place. 68.7 TS% & 1.36 PPP in the 76 minutes it’s happened.
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Post#22 » by Reign23 » Fri Feb 9, 2018 1:29 pm

dakomish23 wrote:
Reign23 wrote:since I believe melos shootings struggles come from playing way to many minutes, it isn't the worst thing for him to sit this one out. means no game from tuesday to sunday and soon there is the 7 day allstar break. should do him good.


Like many have pointed out here, without Roberson, it’s hard for PG & Adams to cover for both Russ and Melo.

They should def go back to the Melo bench unit. Give him 4 mins to start if it’s that important to have that monicker, bring Patterson in, then rotate them all out with Melo + bench unit.

Not sure why they went away from that in the first place. 68.7 TS% & 1.36 PPP in the 76 minutes it’s happened.


yep that could be a good option.
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Post#23 » by ThunderBolt » Fri Feb 9, 2018 1:32 pm

It’s interesting that most of the hope for this team comes from Knicks fans.
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Post#24 » by Pillendreher » Fri Feb 9, 2018 1:34 pm

Knrstz wrote:It’s interesting that most of the hope for this team comes from Knicks fans.

They haven't followed the team as long as we have. Give them another couple of months. ;)
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Post#25 » by Reign23 » Fri Feb 9, 2018 2:06 pm

good lord guys :D follow our team a few months and then you realise that you are blessed.

(for example: we were 9 games under .500 before last night with our franchise player out for the season and hornacek didn't start one guy under 25 years old. jarrett jack, michael beasley etc for the win.)
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Post#26 » by spearsy23 » Fri Feb 9, 2018 2:11 pm

BadWolf wrote:How did Dozier and Hamilton look? Any chance there?

They looked like they could eventually be bench pieces for the Thunder. And since Russ will have declined and PG left we'll be blown out by 30 every night.
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Post#27 » by ThunderBolt » Fri Feb 9, 2018 5:26 pm

spearsy23 wrote:
BadWolf wrote:How did Dozier and Hamilton look? Any chance there?

They looked like they could eventually be bench pieces for the Thunder. And since Russ will have declined and PG left we'll be blown out by 30 every night.

The question is if they would be bench pieces for anyone else but the thunder
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Post#28 » by Pillendreher » Fri Feb 9, 2018 5:56 pm

Knrstz wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:
BadWolf wrote:How did Dozier and Hamilton look? Any chance there?

They looked like they could eventually be bench pieces for the Thunder. And since Russ will have declined and PG left we'll be blown out by 30 every night.

The question is if they would be bench pieces for anyone else but the thunder

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Post#29 » by spearsy23 » Fri Feb 9, 2018 9:03 pm

Knrstz wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:
BadWolf wrote:How did Dozier and Hamilton look? Any chance there?

They looked like they could eventually be bench pieces for the Thunder. And since Russ will have declined and PG left we'll be blown out by 30 every night.

The question is if they would be bench pieces for anyone else but the thunder

No, that was the real point.
“If you're getting stops and you're making threes and the other team's not scoring, that's when you're going to see a huge point difference there,” coach Billy Donovan said.

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