12/25 | G33: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 2PM CST

[bondom34]

Wasn't watching but could someone just report him?

I mean it's pretty blatant trolling.

Dude is a grown man trolling message boards with his life

[Pillendreher]

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We lost the 2nd chance points battle 9-23. We lost the battle from 3 by 15 points. But sure, let's sit our stretch 4 with Abrines already not playing.

[ThunderBolt]

Wasn't watching but could someone just report him?

I mean it's pretty blatant trolling.

Dude is a grown man trolling message boards with his life

Report to who? We have no one moderating this board. If a mod from another board shows up they would know whats going on.

[anthony00]

james harden is so much better than russell westbrook in today's nba. teams figure out how to defend guards who can't shoot. d'antoni is putting harden on westbrook without a second thought. harden can lead a team of scrubs to respectability on offense while russ is struggling mightily to do anything without george in the game.

pretty crazy.

merry christmas, all! see you guys tomorrow.

You said you wouldn’t be on here

I know his comments piss a lot of people off but is he really wrong with this? I don't like harden either but hes right. I want russ to be better but hes just not. It sucks but it isn't slicks fault even if he likes ot rub it in.

he was wrong harden was 15-35 they were both inefficient lol

[anthony00]

james harden is so much better than russell westbrook in today's nba. teams figure out how to defend guards who can't shoot. d'antoni is putting harden on westbrook without a second thought. harden can lead a team of scrubs to respectability on offense while russ is struggling mightily to do anything without george in the game.

pretty crazy.

merry christmas, all! see you guys tomorrow.

go away this must be a troll post

[RalphSampsonJr]

Didnt watch but how did Capela get 10 orebs?! Did he just dominate Adams? For a great rebounding team like OKC that is unacceptable

[Pillendreher]

Didnt watch but how did Capela get 10 orebs?! Did he just dominate Adams? For a great rebounding team like OKC that is unacceptable

Out of place a lot of times. And also too slow to get to the boards. They don't even play big guys but still got to balls quicker because we were aslepp. That's what kept them in the game and we didn't clean it up.

[anthony00]

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[ThunderBolt]

I'm kind of sick of Presti's roster construction style. I don't think it's black and white on whether it works or he should be fired because of it. I'm not of the mindset that defense is worthless either. The idea that you can teach and athletic guy to shoot doesn't seem much different than saying you can teach a shooter how to play defense properly. The Spurs seem to be a good example of this. Obviously neither approach is 100% successful but i'm sick to death of watching garbage offense year after year.

[Pillendreher]

Since I've complained about this a couple of times over the last two weeks, I went ahead and looked at this. We're 16-2 if we outscore the opposing team by at least 5 in points off turnovers and 2nd chance points combined. That doesn't sound like much, but hell, we just need those extra easy points. You can't expect to win games regularly if you're this inconsistent offensively without getting extra easy attempts at the basket.

[RalphSampsonJr]

Didnt watch but how did Capela get 10 orebs?! Did he just dominate Adams? For a great rebounding team like OKC that is unacceptable

Out of place a lot of times. And also too slow to get to the boards. They don't even play big guys but still got to balls quicker because we were aslepp. That's what kept them in the game and we didn't clean it up.

Thats okcs bread and butter. You cant be letting teams do that as we wont out shoot many teams especially if they are getting extra possesions like that.
Hopefully they are just feeling the 3 games in 4 days..

[NaturalThunder]

We didn't lose that game because the Rockets are better than us. We lost that game because of stupid crap. This team still can't shoot and we still don't have the necessary focus against good teams to consistently beat them.

[ThunderBolt]

We didn't lose that game because the Rockets are better than us. We lost that game because of stupid crap. This team still can't shoot and we still don't have the necessary focus against good teams to consistently beat them.

Im calling it now. We will trade Abrines for Stanley Johnson. Presti can't help himself.

[Dn4sty]

We didn't lose that game because the Rockets are better than us. We lost that game because of stupid crap. This team still can't shoot and we still don't have the necessary focus against good teams to consistently beat them.

Im calling it now. We will trade Abrines for Stanley Johnson. Presti can't help himself.

Good.

[NaturalThunder]

We lost because our offense was trash and any of our star could deliver, not because Harden is a great player.

I'd say it's a mix of both. Gotta give Harden his credit. Dude is averaging 32 points on 21 shots this season. We're watching an all-time great offensive player.

Right, but today he scored 41 on 15/35 (43%) FG and 5/16 (31%) 3P shooting. His TS% was 54% That's very inefficient. That's a Kobe circal mid-to-late 2000s night. Good on the surface, sure. It's gonna grab headlines and get people talking because he had a lot of "wow" moments, but everyone ignores the 20 shots and 11 3s he missed.

Harden "going off for 41" (as ESPN's frontpage put it) is not why we lost. I would gladly welcome a team trying to beat us with one player scoring 41 points on 53% TS. That's horribly inefficient basketball. What beat us is that the fact that Harden's 41 points on 54% TS is inefficient enough to suffice when he has a teammate **** us up the @@@ all game on the glass and give Houston repeated second chance opportunities.

Make no mistake, Harden's 41 points tonight was not the reason we lost. I'd gladly welcome one player on the opposing team scoring 41 points on 54% TS most nights. But if a teammate grabs 22 rebounds and 10 OReb? Nuh uh.

[ThunderBolt]

We didn't lose that game because the Rockets are better than us. We lost that game because of stupid crap. This team still can't shoot and we still don't have the necessary focus against good teams to consistently beat them.

Im calling it now. We will trade Abrines for Stanley Johnson. Presti can't help himself.

Good.

Abrines sucks but we don’t need an athletic 28% three point shooter.

[Kizz Fastfists]

Im calling it now. We will trade Abrines for Stanley Johnson. Presti can't help himself.

You are undershooting. Luke Kennard, Johnson and Leuer for Abrines and Patterson. The Melo TPE works for Leuer's contract to balance salaries. Kennard is Singler 2.0. An unathletic white guy from Duke that can't shoot. Johnson is the obvious athletic freak that can't shoot. Leuer is a smart big that isn't particularly good at anything specific, but has a high BBIQ and is a solid big off the bench like Collison.

Abrines and Patterson shot 40% from 3 for Detroit and Abrines goes on to become a JJ Redick clone for them. Keep in mind it wasn't until his age 26 season that Redick really became the player he is. Next year will be Abrines' age 26 season.

[Raijin]

Didnt watch but how did Capela get 10 orebs?! Did he just dominate Adams? For a great rebounding team like OKC that is unacceptable

He didn't dominate Adams at all.

Nene played all 17 of his minutes against Adams.

In the 11 minutes Capela played against Noel, he pulled in 6 offensive boards.

We also gave up 2 offensive boards after Adams had stopped Harden on switches.

Not saying Steve was great on the glass, but we can't rebound for **** with him off the floor. Basically our bench sucks at everything right now - which is not unusual.

[Dn4sty]

Im calling it now. We will trade Abrines for Stanley Johnson. Presti can't help himself.

You are undershooting. Luke Kennard, Johnson and Leuer for Abrines and Patterson. The Melo TPE works for Leuer's contract to balance salaries. Kennard is Singler 2.0. An unathletic white guy from Duke that can't shoot. Johnson is the obvious athletic freak that can't shoot. Leuer is a smart big that isn't particularly good at anything specific, but has a high BBIQ and is a solid big off the bench like Collison.

Abrines and Patterson shot 40% from 3 for Detroit and Abrines goes on to become a JJ Redick clone for them. Keep in mind it wasn't until his age 26 season that Redick really became the player he is. Next year will be Abrines' age 26 season.

The sick version of Redick huh?

[Kizz Fastfists]

The sick version of Redick huh?

If Abrines doesn't play another game this year he will have still played in more games in his first three seasons than Redick did.