2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST

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Player(s) of the Game

Paul George | 45 PTS (12-22 FG, 6-14 3P), 11 REB
17
74%
Jerami Grant | 8 PTS (3-9 FG), 8 REB, 2 STL, 2 BLK
0
No votes
Steven Adams | 6 PTS (3-6 FG), 9 REB, 2 STL, 2 BLK
2
9%
Terrance Ferguson | 15 PTS (6-9 FG, 3-5 3P)
3
13%
Russell Westbrook | 21 PTS (8-21 FG), 12 REB, 11 AST
1
4%
Dennis Schroder | 17 PTS (6-13 FG)
0
No votes
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0
No votes
 
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#41 » by Thundershock88 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:18 am

Harden blatantly pushing off. No call. What a **** joke
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#42 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:20 am

Houston bench when healthy : Faried, Nene, Austin Rivers, Green, Shumpert

We have Schroeder, Noel and 2pat. Nice...
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#43 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:22 am

This game is over. Our defense sucks. Russ is old and Presti didn’t finish the roster.
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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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#44 » by Raijin » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:22 am

Nader has to be the biggest scrub in the NBA.

Bench is brutal.

Game is gone.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#45 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:23 am

This is going to be a blowout. We'll end up losing by 20+.

Time to turn it off. Harden is having the single-greatest scoring run in NBA history and we can't do anything about it. Sucks that he used to be on our team.
Said in a thread about which point guards would make OKC better if they replaced Westbrook:
Coxy wrote:I think with a PG like George Hill, they'd be better than current.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#46 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:24 am

What really sucks is that this blowout turned from a close game into a blowout with Harden on the bench.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#47 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:25 am

NaturalThunder wrote:This is going to be a blowout. We'll end up losing by 20+.

Time to turn it off. Harden is having the single-greatest scoring run in NBA history and we can't do anything about it. Sucks that he used to be on our team.

All we can hope for is Dre makes a speedy recovery, Alex comes back soon and we make some decent moves at the decline. In Presti we trust.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#48 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:26 am

Adams is a lot like Otto Porter. Very nice player but overpaid.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#49 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:27 am

Dadouv47 wrote:Houston bench when healthy : Faried, Nene, Austin Rivers, Green, Shumpert

We have Schroeder, Noel and 2pat. Nice...

Our bench...

Wow.

That's, combined, either 0.5 or 1 decent player between three players and none of them are good three point shooters this year.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#50 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:27 am

Good call, Presti, on standing pat at the deadline.

Moron.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#51 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:28 am

Thanks JVG. Finally someone to say that it's concerning that Westbrook is shooting poorly. All those bull**** about ''it's coming back soon'' for months now
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#52 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:28 am

Well to be fair Westbrook is playing elite basketball compared to Adams/Grant/Schroeder
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#53 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:29 am

Jeff Gundy speaking truth about russ. I can’t fault russ if his body isn’t what it used to but quit being so freaking stupid and shooting. We don’t need 5-20 performances each night.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#54 » by Thundershock88 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:30 am

Refs piling on at this point.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#55 » by Dn4sty » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:31 am

Dennis Schroder walking away and leaving Harden wide open Is beyond terrible
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#56 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:32 am

Dennis ''6MOY'' Schroeder
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#57 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:33 am

Eff this.

Why didn't we make a trade? We have the worst bench in the NBA. We're, at best, the 4th best team in the West as currently constructed. What the heck was Presti thinking?

We have to find someone on the buyout market that can hopefully knockdown 3s and positively contribute for us off the bench or we're a 1st round exit...again.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#58 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:33 am

The one thing we are elite at is technical fouls.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#59 » by NaturalThunder » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:35 am

October 2012 we had Durant, Harden, and Westbrook on our team.

Seven years later we're left with, by far, the worst of those three players.

Good job Presti.
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Re: 2/9 | G55: Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets - 7:30PM CST 

Post#60 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:36 am

Man I hope we rebuild after this year. We’re so depleted in assets we get this close and do nothing to improve the roster,
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