2/24 - POSTGAME | Oklahoma City Thunder (80) - (112) Golden State Warriors

[Thabo Sefolosha]

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OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER at GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
• Record: 34-27
• Standing: #5
• http://www.nba.com/games/20180224/OKCGSW
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SUMMARY
BOXSCORE
OKC:

GSW:

Thunder Upcoming 3

Spoiler:

2/22/18 @ SAC 9PM CST
2/24/18 @ GSW 7:30PM CST
2/26/18 vs ORL 7PM CST

HIGHLIGHTS

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| NBA.com | | Thunder.com | | ESPN.com/NBA

[InTheSabonus]

Sometimes, you have to remove the sports fans lens and accept that even the most unlikable players can be good dudes off the court. Like Durant donating 10 mill to charity.

But just to be clear. Zaza Pacheapshot is, without any kind of reservation, human trash. On/off the court does not matter. Continually attempting, and sometimes succeeding, in causing harm to other people, makes you a **** **** excuse of a **** of a person. There is no justifying his actions. Off the court does not matter. He goes out and seeks to seriously hurt people. He could lose the use of his legs in an accident and I'd just call it karma.

**** that scum, and **** him forever.

[Dn4sty]

Sometimes, you have to remove the sports fans lens and accept that even the most unlikable players can be good dudes off the court. Like Durant donating 10 mill to charity.

But just to be clear. Zaza Pacheapshot is, without any kind of reservation, human trash. On/off the court does not matter. Continually attempting, and sometimes succeeding, in causing harm to other people, makes you a **** **** excuse of a **** of a person. There is no justifying his actions. Off the court does not matter. He goes out and seeks to seriously hurt people. He could lose the use of his legs in an accident and I'd just call it karma.

**** that scum, and **** him forever.

Zaza seriously looks like he rarely showers and his body is covered in acne.

[Dadouv47]

I hate Zaza more than Cupcake

[Dn4sty]

I’m not really that mad at a game like this. I don’t think it’s possible for OKC to shoot this poorly again (especially PG13). This game was 70-66 in the 3rd quarter (OKC even took the lead briefly).

Then the wheels fell off when shots weren’t falling.

The worst part about the game is the behavior of the Warriors. It starts with Draymond and filters down to trash scrubs in Zaza, Swaggy, Javale, etc....

[Osirus89]

I think I have and 1'd every post in this thread so far.

Screw Zaza pachulia. You ain't sly.

It is amusing that Golden State is so fired up to play OKC when they are fighting with the Rockets for the 1st seed. Seems like the focus is misplaced. I don't fear Golden State in the playoffs. That doesn't mean that I think we can beat them. I just don't fear them. I don't think any team should fear them. That crap is self-defeating. Get on the court and put up or shut up, but all this extracurricular garbage can go kick rocks.

Did Paul George really have as many points as Josh Huestis...
Well done PG. Well Done.

[bondom34]

I honestly was at a hockey game and saw Zaza all over twitter. Didn't see a single other thing tonight but what a jerk. Totally unrelated but at least you're not Minnesota's goalie. He got this all night.

Read on Twitter

[Old Man Game]

We just didn't look right all game. We hung in for awhile but it just felt inevitable that eventually the Warriors would pour it on. Sure enough. Not sure what our problem was beyond our general come and go season long malaise.

[Jakeopp]

Watch on YouTube

[anthony00]

Read on Twitter

[DoubleJ13]

I don't know how it stayed so close for as long as it did. Russ & PG couldn't get going & the defense was worse than the other 2 games against them. Fell apart when Adams left in the 3rd since he was the only reliable thing going & then Nick Young happened for a couple minutes.

Wish Russ would have just sat out those 2 games before the break. Think his ankle has still been bothering him & that was before Zaza "fell" on him. He just isn't playing like himself since then & doesn't look confident in it or something. I'm so used to Russ crossing half court, seeing what's in front of him, & attacking. Hasn't really been doing that & seems content to slow it down right now.

[Pillendreher]

This was bound to happen. Defense was okayish, but we gave up way too many open 3s. They missed a bunch of them all game long. Could have been over in the 2nd quarter, honestly.

Offensively, we were horrible. George couldn't hit a shot and we just stood around, not really doing anything most of the time.

[Pillendreher]

Russ has been horrible since Robes went down btw. 49.8 TS% over the last 4 weeks.

[thekaoswithin]

Main offensive difference last night: this game, they did a great job of keeping Russ out of the paint. The key feature of our 2 Ws was Russ just tearing into their bigs over and over; today almost everytime he tried driving he had to pivot at the FT line and try again because he couldn't get inside.

PG being ice cold didn't help either, obviously.

[Pillendreher]

Main offensive difference last night: this game, they did a great job of keeping Russ out of the paint. The key feature of our 2 Ws was Russ just tearing into their bigs over and over; today almost everytime he tried driving he had to pivot at the FT line and try again because he couldn't get inside.

PG being ice cold didn't help either, obviously.

The Cavs outschemed us as well. They were overloading on Russ with 4 guys and basically cut him off from the paint. Not having anybody out there but Adams to set screens is really hurting us with that approach by opposing teams.