12/19 | G30: Oklahoma City Thunder at Sacramento Kings - 9PM CST

NaturalThunder · Post #61 » by **NaturalThunder** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:20 am

Russ over the last five games:

4 steals
4 steals
6 steals
5 steals
6 steals

5 steals per game

NaturalThunder · Post #62 » by **NaturalThunder** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:21 am

Also, Paul George had a really slow start the first 10-ish games.

He''s been out of this world ever since. This may be the best version of PG ever.

Osirus89 · Post #63 » by **Osirus89** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:23 am

The best thing about PG playing at this high of a level is even if he comes off of it a bit, he'll still be ridiculous.

Finally a win against Sac. Who knew all it took was Shumpert being out.

Dn4sty · Post #64 » by **Dn4sty** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:23 am

So the Kings do realize that allowing OKC to dunk all night is a really bad idea.

Dn4sty · Post #65 » by **Dn4sty** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:24 am

slick_watts wrote:diallo got absolutely crushed defensively. he is not close. reminds a lot of ferguson last season. ferg got beat on and off today too but diallo was just running around in circles out there.

One game does not a season make. He’s struggled for sure, but he’s also had big moments and flashes.

Post #66 » by **slick_watts** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:27 am

anyone notice how not sticky the ball was with the second unit without schroder? george passed to patterson, noel, grant, abrines, diallo, everyone while also managing to get his own offense. obviously we cannot stagger westbrook and george like this all the time, but i thought the quality of shots teammates were getting with westbrook out today was so much better than what we get when schroder runs the team, even when schroder is in -with- george.

Post #67 » by **bondom34** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:31 am

Wow steals too. 17 in 4 games

PG needs MVP votes so far

DoubleJ13 · Post #68 » by **DoubleJ13** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:56 am

The box score for this game is hilarious to look at.

Grant put up the most sneaky 22 points in the history of anything.

RunOKC · Post #69 » by **RunOKC** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:10 am

Poor Russ, can't get 1 vote with that statline... and it's 100% correct. :lol:

Adams and PG were phenominal

spearsy23 · Post #70 » by **spearsy23** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:34 am

Ferg with double digits shot attempts is a good thing.

Pillendreher · Post #71 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:36 am

Dn4sty wrote:Ferg quietly shooting the 3 ball pretty well as of late

His splits are like 40 % from 3 with the starters and 26 % from 3 with anybody else.

Pillendreher · Post #72 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:40 am

slick_watts wrote:anyone notice how not sticky the ball was with the second unit without schroder? george passed to patterson, noel, grant, abrines, diallo, everyone while also managing to get his own offense. obviously we cannot stagger westbrook and george like this all the time, but i thought the quality of shots teammates were getting with westbrook out today was so much better than what we get when schroder runs the team, even when schroder is in -with- george.

Yes I'd say it looked much better just from an offensive flow standpoint. One could make the argument that they did not miss Schröder at all tonight. One game with George being on fire (again), but still. Schröder needs to fix that. He is a point guard, not Jamal Crawford just chucking away.

Post #73 » by **bondom34** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:43 am

NaturalThunder wrote:Russ over the last five games:

4 steals
4 steals
6 steals
5 steals
6 steals

5 steals per game

Other than shooting there really shouldn't be any complaints.

And PG has now had 2 of his top 7 career scoring games this year. Really 2 of his top 4 but he's had 43 a few times

Pillendreher · Post #74 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:46 am

Paul George as a main creator has been much better this season than last year. It felt like he was a walking turnover whenever he started dribbling last year. This year, not so much.

Pillendreher · Post #75 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:53 am

Read on Twitter

Great day for my fantasy team since I also have Hield.

QPR · Post #76 » by **QPR** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 7:01 am

"Reminds a lot of Ferguson last season"

So... a rookie?

getrichordie · Post #77 » by **getrichordie** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:12 am

#firebillydonovan /s

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getrichordie · Post #78 » by **getrichordie** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:23 am

slick_watts wrote:anyone notice how not sticky the ball was with the second unit without schroder? george passed to patterson, noel, grant, abrines, diallo, everyone while also managing to get his own offense. obviously we cannot stagger westbrook and george like this all the time, but i thought the quality of shots teammates were getting with westbrook out today was so much better than what we get when schroder runs the team, even when schroder is in -with- george.

It’s not shocking. George is better than Schroder and fits in better on 2U than Schroder does. Schroder’s game and George’s game are completely different.

Schroder is not the best fit for our bench, but that’s what we have to work with right now.

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Pillendreher · Post #79 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:39 am

Read on Twitter

Russ is back.

Post #80 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:08 am

slick_watts wrote:diallo got absolutely crushed defensively. he is not close. reminds a lot of ferguson last season. ferg got beat on and off today too but diallo was just running around in circles out there.

You’re not wrong but if Ferguson hadn’t been given the opportunity last year then we would probably be watching Corey Brewer again this year. He’s a rookie and a very raw one at that. If Roberson were healthy he would probably be in the G-league. He definitely needs some moves on offense to instead of taking the ball to the basket 100mph.

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