3/25 | G74: Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies - 7PM CST

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3/25 | G74: Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies - 7PM CST 

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Re: 3/25 | G74: Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies - 7PM CST 

Post#3 » by Dadouv47 » Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:57 pm

Not able to predict anything about our team anymore. Won't be surprised if we win or lose by 25.
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Post#4 » by Thundershock88 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:13 am

Lmao. 9-0 Grizzlies start. Adams too dumb to pass out of a double team to a wide open man.
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Post#5 » by QPR » Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:25 am

You could make an argument that OKC has the four best players in the game (five if you rank Schroder ahead of Val) and yet they are down six at the half.
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Re: 3/25 | G74: Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies - 7PM CST 

Post#6 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:35 am

And now we're down by 18.

Screw this team and screw this season. Somehow, it's turning out to be a bigger disappointment and disaster than last year.

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Post#7 » by Dn4sty » Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:12 am

This whole game has been a mess.

No one has made shots or given effort, but ultimately this team didn’t come out ready to play yet again.

At some point I refuse to believe that OKC just has bad basketball players making dumb plays.

I think the rotten part of this team begins and ends with the coaching staff.
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Post#8 » by NaturalThunder » Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:17 am

So, in our last 5 games or so, we've blown a 20 point lead to the Oladipo-less Pacers, got blown out at home the Heat, and lost handily on the road to the terrible Grizzlies.


Fire Donovan. Today.
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Re: 3/25 | G74: Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies - 7PM CST 

Post#9 » by ThunderBolt » Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:17 am

Dn4sty wrote:This whole game has been a mess.

No one has made shots or given effort, but ultimately this team didn’t come out ready to play yet again.

At some point I refuse to believe that OKC just has bad basketball players making dumb plays.

I think the rotten part of this team begins and ends with the coaching staff.

Well maybe we can find out if Dononvan gets fired after his contract finally runs out since we already guaranteed next year. Then we can start rebuilding around a 33 year Westbrook who definitely won’t be declining.
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Post#10 » by hardenASG13 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:24 am

Didn't see this one, but 2 points from the 100 million $$ man! I bet his positioning, screen setting, and blocking shots before they happen was really good tho. Probably was Grant and Donovans fault that he played like a bitch again. Guy doesn't demand the ball at all, can't generate anything for others and has to play exclusively in the paint, on both ends.....for 25 mill a year! He's not a problem tho :crazy:
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Post#11 » by Anderson Silva » Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:34 am

Our First Quarters are officially a Massive problem. The players not being ready to execute is on the coaching. Fire Billy and tank the playoffs.
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Post#12 » by acheema0 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:51 am

hardenASG13 wrote:Didn't see this one, but 2 points from the 100 million $$ man! I bet his positioning, screen setting, and blocking shots before they happen was really good tho. Probably was Grant and Donovans fault that he played like a bitch again. Guy doesn't demand the ball at all, can't generate anything for others and has to play exclusively in the paint, on both ends.....for 25 mill a year! He's not a problem tho :crazy:


The first 4 words of this statement render everything else worthless.
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Post#13 » by Dn4sty » Tue Mar 26, 2019 3:30 am

acheema0 wrote:
hardenASG13 wrote:Didn't see this one, but 2 points from the 100 million $$ man! I bet his positioning, screen setting, and blocking shots before they happen was really good tho. Probably was Grant and Donovans fault that he played like a bitch again. Guy doesn't demand the ball at all, can't generate anything for others and has to play exclusively in the paint, on both ends.....for 25 mill a year! He's not a problem tho :crazy:


The first 4 words of this statement render everything else worthless.


I’m not a fan of the poster, but there is a bunch of truth in the fact that a guy makes $24 million only to score 2 points in today’s NBA. I love Adams, yet he can’t turn in performances like this.
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Post#14 » by Dn4sty » Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:30 am

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Post#15 » by Pillendreher » Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:18 am

Dn4sty wrote:This whole game has been a mess.

No one has made shots or given effort, but ultimately this team didn’t come out ready to play yet again.

At some point I refuse to believe that OKC just has bad basketball players making dumb plays.

I think the rotten part of this team begins and ends with the coaching staff.


I was watching/skipping through this game and that "Mhh, this kind of contrast in style vs trash teams reminds me of something" and then it came to me: It was the same last season. In the 2nd half of last season, we were playing some garbage teams and barely beat them and I remember thinking "Well, this is what it looks like when a team is actually coached". The Grizzlies are throwing a bunch of G-League players out there. They were without their two best players. And yet they were moving the ball, they were moving off the ball, they were attacking off the dribble. All those things we simply don't do. And we haven't been doing that for four straight seasons save for these random stretches where we suddenly play differently. And that's not on Westbrook or George or Schröder or Patterson or Adams. That's on the coaching staff and on the coaching staff alone. It's a **** disgrace, that's what this is.

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hardenASG13 wrote:Didn't see this one, but 2 points from the 100 million $$ man! I bet his positioning, screen setting, and blocking shots before they happen was really good tho. Probably was Grant and Donovans fault that he played like a bitch again. Guy doesn't demand the ball at all, can't generate anything for others and has to play exclusively in the paint, on both ends.....for 25 mill a year! He's not a problem tho :crazy:


The first 4 words of this statement render everything else worthless.


I’m not a fan of the poster, but there is a bunch of truth in the fact that a guy makes $24 million only to score 2 points in today’s NBA. I love Adams, yet he can’t turn in performances like this.


It's tough to score when the team is too stupid to get good shots inside and instead just opts to take more and more 3s each game. We took 36 3s compared to 23 non-2nd-chance attempts at the rim. In 32 minutes, Adams had one (!) non-2nd-chance attempt at the rim. We are so poorly coached, we have actually become too stupid to get our starting Center shots at the rim.
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Post#16 » by Pillendreher » Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:37 am

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It's always hilarious to watch Donovan trying to suddenly switch from empty platitudes to this weird "I too am responsible" act of his. He always does this when we're falling apart. How obvious.
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Post#17 » by JustOneFix » Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:05 am

These idiots are trying the best they can to get GS in the first round.

If they don't care anymore, why would I? I don't think I'll watch a single game anymore, I'm done...
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Post#18 » by hardenASG13 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:32 am

acheema0 wrote:
hardenASG13 wrote:Didn't see this one, but 2 points from the 100 million $$ man! I bet his positioning, screen setting, and blocking shots before they happen was really good tho. Probably was Grant and Donovans fault that he played like a bitch again. Guy doesn't demand the ball at all, can't generate anything for others and has to play exclusively in the paint, on both ends.....for 25 mill a year! He's not a problem tho :crazy:


The first 4 words of this statement render everything else worthless.


Why? When i look at the boxscore, I want to see more than 2 points from the center making 25 mil. I don't ignore games like this from the guy, he no shows all the time and gets a pass. Was he good or something? I'm guessing he played like a passive pussy again and didn't demand the ball, rather just waited around and tried to get offensive rebounds.
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Post#19 » by sleestak33 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:38 pm

The Thunder recipe for disaster: consistently take a bunch of dumb, forced shots (especially 3s by guys who can't shoot)...don't get Adams the ball throughout the game (7 shots in this one)...consistently show a low collective offensive basketball IQ (which goes along with the first point...don't move at all on offense just have one guy dribbling and then force a shot...and of course play really bad defense all game long. The recipe worked perfectly in this game.
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Post#20 » by Bergmaniac » Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:46 pm

This was unwatchable basketball, just so many dumb plays on both ends. Teams which are blatantly tanking and have several G-league players on 10-day contract usually look more organised.

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