WCQF | (4) Oklahoma City Thunder vs Utah Jazz (5) | UTA 4-2

[dakomish23]

Every PnR OKC trying to trap the ball handler. Roll guy wide open. Either goes to the rim or kicks to open shooter in the corner.

Every time down.

[Pillendreher]

i'm going to chuckle out loud re-reading all the articles about billy donovan playing 5D chess in game one when he didn't play the paul george bench.

He played George + bench

http://popcornmachine.net/gf?date=20180415&game=UTHOKC

[dakomish23]

Mitchell blowing by PG the last few times. Kid’s first step lightning quick

[ThunderBolt]

Well that might do it.

[slick_watts]

we're not going to have an easy time beating utah when ricky rubio is outplaying westbrook.

[Pillendreher]

Refs taking over

[dakomish23]

Some of these fouls have been.....questionable

[slick_watts]

also this lineup is stupid. we have two non-shooters in grant and brewer in the game. abrines should be in instead of grant. billy is trying to accomodate melo here when he isn't even doing anything.

[dakomish23]

Refs taking over

Yep. Stay aggressive and maybe it works in your favor.

[dakomish23]

That’s game. Mitchell absolutely clutch.

[Thunder Up]

Russ getting forearm checked on every drive, never a call
Jazz getting ticky tack and phantom fouls galore all half

That fourth quarter was a Billy Donovan special right there

[spearsy23]

Definitely a threat in the playoffs, both Melo and the team as a whole. /green

[ThunderBolt]

Melo sucks ass. I would do anything to get him off the team.

[slick_watts]

so it happened. billy donovan and the team treating melo like a star lost the thunder a playoff game. other factors too, but playoff melo contributed 17 points on 19 shots while being a liability on defense. we played brewer and grant together with him in 4Q because billy couldn't justify benching grant and would not bench melo. with brewer and grant in the corners and melo doing nothing, the offense went nowhere. jazz just collapsed on the pnr every time.

welp!

[Pillendreher]

Losing homecourt like that... Just finish the quarter, but no, we gotta **** around. Fools.

[NaturalThunder]

Well, I won't say we won't win one of two in Utah, but it sucks that we've lost HCA.

Game one was definitely an anomaly for us. Game two is a better representation of these two teams. I know the Jazz didn't win soundly, but every time I checked the score they were winning which means they mostly controlled a playoff game on the road from start to finish. That's not a good sign going forward It doesn't mean we can't and won't win a game in Utah, but it doesn't give me a good feeling.

And a first round playoff loss should result in the immediate firing of dumb*** Donovan.

[bondom34]

so it happened. billy donovan and the team treating melo like a star lost the thunder a playoff game. other factors too, but playoff melo contributed 17 points on 19 shots while being a liability on defense. we played brewer and grant together with him in 4Q because billy couldn't justify benching grant and would not bench melo. with brewer and grant in the corners and melo doing nothing, the offense went nowhere. jazz just collapsed on the pnr every time.

welp!

I feel like someone predicted this...

[Pillendreher]

so it happened. billy donovan and the team treating melo like a star lost the thunder a playoff game. other factors too, but playoff melo contributed 17 points on 19 shots while being a liability on defense. we played brewer and grant together with him in 4Q because billy couldn't justify benching grant and would not bench melo. with brewer and grant in the corners and melo doing nothing, the offense went nowhere. jazz just collapsed on the pnr every time.

welp!

The guy who lost this game is wearing number 0.

[spearsy23]

so it happened. billy donovan and the team treating melo like a star lost the thunder a playoff game. other factors too, but playoff melo contributed 17 points on 19 shots while being a liability on defense. we played brewer and grant together with him in 4Q because billy couldn't justify benching grant and would not bench melo. with brewer and grant in the corners and melo doing nothing, the offense went nowhere. jazz just collapsed on the pnr every time.

welp!

I feel like someone predicted this...

Nah, he can takeover guys. Just coasting. First round games don't matter.

[NaturalThunder]

so it happened. billy donovan and the team treating melo like a star lost the thunder a playoff game. other factors too, but playoff melo contributed 17 points on 19 shots while being a liability on defense. we played brewer and grant together with him in 4Q because billy couldn't justify benching grant and would not bench melo. with brewer and grant in the corners and melo doing nothing, the offense went nowhere. jazz just collapsed on the pnr every time.

welp!

I feel like someone predicted this...

This season still might've been a success, or at least much more tolerable, if Presti had hired a competent coach instead of his buddy three years ago.