3/2 - 8PM CST | G63: Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns

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3/2 - 8PM CST | G63: Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns 

Post#1 » by Thabo Sefolosha » Thu Mar 1, 2018 10:39 pm

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Re: 3/2 - 8PM CST | G64: Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns 

Post#2 » by Thundershock88 » Thu Mar 1, 2018 11:46 pm

Suns won one game the entire month of february. Easily expecting a loss.
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Post#3 » by Pillendreher » Fri Mar 2, 2018 9:30 pm

Yeah I think this will be it. We've been daring Karma to punish us too often lately.
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Post#5 » by Osirus89 » Fri Mar 2, 2018 11:18 pm

Pillendreher wrote:Yeah I think this will be it. We've been daring Karma to punish us too often lately.

I want to say there is no way they lose this game, but who am I kidding...
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Re: 3/2 - 8PM CST | G63: Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns 

Post#6 » by slick_watts » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:30 am

back to back plays early on russell westbrook actually switched with adams off the ball. len outmatched melo for an offensive rebound on the first one and on the second melo was in position at the rim to contest a shot but he just stood there.

those two clowns are a joke on defense.
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Post#7 » by Thundershock88 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:35 am

This team lol. Portland is going to tear us a new one tomorrow. Might as well sell my tickets.
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Re: 3/2 - 8PM CST | G63: Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns 

Post#8 » by Thundershock88 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:41 am

Suns are eating in the paint.
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Post#9 » by NaturalThunder » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:41 am

Oh look, we're playing another team who is actively tanking at this point in the season and we're down by 7 in the second quarter.

We've played what feels like 10 of these teams in a row and we've yet to blow any of them out because we're pretty much as sucky as they are.
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Post#10 » by Thundershock88 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:44 am

Billy too dumb to put some size in the paint.
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Post#11 » by spearsy23 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:55 am

slick_watts wrote:back to back plays early on russell westbrook actually switched with adams off the ball. len outmatched melo for an offensive rebound on the first one and on the second melo was in position at the rim to contest a shot but he just stood there.

those two clowns are a joke on defense.

Why is Steven immune to this criticism? Supposedly he quarterbacks our defense, which would include calling out screens and switches. Why is he willingly leaving the paint? I don't see how there's any answer that doesn't involve Donovan wanting the team to switch.
“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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Post#12 » by Thundershock88 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 2:57 am

Melo gets no calls.
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Post#13 » by retrobro90 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:02 am

OKC went from one of, if not the best, transition defense in the league to what we're seeing tonight against perhaps the worst team in the league. I'm having blow it up fantasies already and we're not out of the first half.
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Post#14 » by ThunderBolt » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:04 am

I’ll be honest, I’m very pleased with what I’ve seen this half, albeit for different reasons than many who are watching.
bisme37 wrote:If there were magnets in basketballs so strong they changed the path of the ball as it flew through the air, wouldn't the ball then stick magnetically to the rim when it got there?
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Post#15 » by Thundershock88 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:08 am

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Post#16 » by NaturalThunder » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:08 am

We suck. We suck so bad. Whoever we play in the playoffs will make quick work of us.
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Post#17 » by slick_watts » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:12 am

spearsy23 wrote:
slick_watts wrote:back to back plays early on russell westbrook actually switched with adams off the ball. len outmatched melo for an offensive rebound on the first one and on the second melo was in position at the rim to contest a shot but he just stood there.

those two clowns are a joke on defense.


Why is Steven immune to this criticism? Supposedly he quarterbacks our defense, which would include calling out screens and switches. Why is he willingly leaving the paint? I don't see how there's any answer that doesn't involve Donovan wanting the team to switch.


because none of our other players initiate a switch with adams the way westbrook does. not even felton, when he happens to share the court with him. this is very much a westbrook specific thing.
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Post#18 » by Thundershock88 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:13 am

Don't worry guys, Randy Foye..err Corey Brewer will save us.
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Post#19 » by retrobro90 » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:18 am

slick_watts wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:
slick_watts wrote:back to back plays early on russell westbrook actually switched with adams off the ball. len outmatched melo for an offensive rebound on the first one and on the second melo was in position at the rim to contest a shot but he just stood there.

those two clowns are a joke on defense.


Why is Steven immune to this criticism? Supposedly he quarterbacks our defense, which would include calling out screens and switches. Why is he willingly leaving the paint? I don't see how there's any answer that doesn't involve Donovan wanting the team to switch.


because none of our other players initiate a switch with adams the way westbrook does. not even felton, when he happens to share the court with him. this is very much a westbrook specific thing.


Is that why Raymond guarded Dirk and Dwight Powell the entire game two nights ago?
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Re: 3/2 - 8PM CST | G63: Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns 

Post#20 » by slick_watts » Sat Mar 3, 2018 3:22 am

retrobro90 wrote:
slick_watts wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:
Why is Steven immune to this criticism? Supposedly he quarterbacks our defense, which would include calling out screens and switches. Why is he willingly leaving the paint? I don't see how there's any answer that doesn't involve Donovan wanting the team to switch.


because none of our other players initiate a switch with adams the way westbrook does. not even felton, when he happens to share the court with him. this is very much a westbrook specific thing.


Is that why Raymond guarded Dirk and Dwight Powell the entire game two nights ago?


that's one game.

i'd order the issue of responsibility here as 1 ) donovan 2 ) westbrook 3 ) adams.

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