Durant was outstanding in the 2012 finals, the rest of the team, especially Harden led him down big time.
NBA 2016-17
- Thread starter ArmchairCritic
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I was talking about last year.
Yes Russ is selfish, yes Russ is wasteful and yes he does pad his stats terribly but so what? Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player I've seen at United in 50+ years of watching them and you could easily have been describing him. I watch more Thunder games than any other team apart from the Dubs and it is entirely because of Westbrook. IMLTHO with the exception of Steph Curry (when he is having one of those nights) he is the most exciting player in the game today. Just because he gets criticism (and most of it has at least a ring of truth about it) doesn't mean you can't accept how good he is. Sometimes he can be like watching a car crash, sometimes he can be the best thing since sliced bread. As that noted *********** Forrest Gump once said "..... life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." That is Russ to a tee and the NBA is far better for it.
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Am I having a déjà vu moment or did you post the exact same thing yesterday?
Not me guv!Am I having a déjà vu moment or did you post the exact same thing yesterday?
This is very true. His leadership is being underrated this year. To see Sabonis miss dunks, Adams drop simple catches, Roberson air-ball FTs/3s etc and still not berate them shows amazing self control. I would have lost my mind a long time ago. He's also maintaining averaging a triple-double and keeping the team winning (so far) despite going stretches without Oladipo and Kanter (arguably the Thunder's second best players).
42 minutes on the court, 10 points, 2-10 FG, 0-6 3P. Abysmal by Durant.
Another game where Warriors faced a tight score at the end and went on to lose. Dunno if it's the coach who cannot execute well in Q4s or if the players cannot deliver in clutch time. Curry missed the final lay up today.
Another game where Warriors faced a tight score at the end and went on to lose. Dunno if it's the coach who cannot execute well in Q4s or if the players cannot deliver in clutch time. Curry missed the final lay up today.
Drawing up the final play for a Draymond long 3 was really weird considering the other options they have.
This is something that could end up being a big problem. The Dubs win plenty of close games but they are the wrong type of close games. It's usually where they've had a big lead, gone to hell in the fourth quarter and then managed to hang on. In back and forth games like last night they've been horrible. Last night's game though was one of their worst all round. With the exception of Steph Curry, there was just a general malaise around the entire team. The Kings out shot them and more importantly also had more assists. Not a good night.
The 3 was the punctuation on yet another virtuoso fourth quarter from Westbrook, the league's top clutch-time scorer. After beating Memphis two nights before with a 15-0 run himself in the final three minutes, Westbrook scored 19 of the Thunder's final 22 points, finishing with a tidy 42, his eighth 40-point game of the season (tied with James Harden for the most in the NBA).
http://www.espn.in/blog/okc-thunder...-westbrook-scorches-the-blazers-in-the-fourth
http://www.espn.in/blog/okc-thunder...-westbrook-scorches-the-blazers-in-the-fourth
I wish we could all agree to agree on Russell Westbrook. He does lead the league in missed shots, he is second in the league in turnovers, he is 106th out of 116 listed in field goal percentage - all these things make him look bad. On the other side of the coin, he leads the league in points, is second in assists, and also leads the league in triple doubles and is essentially the heart and soul of OKC. So as I have asked numerous times previously in one form or another "why can't everybody be right?" Sometimes he can be an obvious ball hogging, stat padding, turnover machine, but at others he can be one the finest entertaining clutch performers in the NBA today. So in the words of that fine man of the people, President James Dale "Why can't we all just get along?"
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Cavs just beat the Wizards in overtime in what was a fantastic game throughout. Lebron would get the praise obviously but the pass from Kevin Love was sublime not to mention difficult. Kyrie stepped up after Lebron fouled out and was clutch as usual.
I was furious, but we threw everything we had at him defensively (including Tony Allen). He was just fantastic down the stretch and we couldn't execute on the other end.
On the upside, we've beaten every playoff team in the West with a win against the Spurs tonight, and with Parsons and Wright back, we're approaching full strength. If Conley and Gasol can stay healthy (sacrifices another chicken to the gods) I like our chances come April.
Miami Heat are ridiculous right now.
Knicks fans cheering for Metta World Peace at the end. Hilarious
Insane. Miami 12 win a row, hope they manage to get into playoff.
They've been ridiculous. Posted this on another forum lately but will copy it here because it's just, well, nuts:
Their record is even more crazy than I thought.
Between the beginning of season and December 1st, they went 7-12. It's poor but what you would expect from their current team. That would give them 30 wins over course of season.
Starting Monday 21th November they went on a 4-18 run until January 13th, this is plain tanking and completely awful. That's a 15-67 team here. Something happened in that Milwaukee game though, something inexplicable which turned the NBA around. Milwaukee have gone 2-11 (despite being in playoffs spot with 20-18 at the time) since then while Miami have gone 12-0, all the way for 82-0!
2K have introduced this "Start Today" mode in their game this year and around the beginning of year I thought I would start campaigns with Miami, Dallas and Philadelphia to try and pick them up from their dreadful records and maybe make playoffs with one of them. I'd never imagine doing as well as they have been recently even in a video game on a lowish difficulty level.
Yep they where completely awful from the beginning,its throw away in most of their games. They had no purpose and no serious intend to win early in the season.I really don't understand whats happening now with them,not sure how long this winning run would last.Out of this 12 game winning streak they some have managed to pull game against Houston and GS which is real surprise to me.
Trade deadline coming in a week. Some good players will be on the block - Ibaka, Nurkic, maybe one of Okafor/Noel if not both will be made available. Orlando will be trying hard to shop Ibaka IMO as he is not going to sign there after season. Are Orlando the worst trading team in the entire NBA?
Tobias Harris went for nothing, Oladipo went for nothing, Harkless for nothing. That's just dreadful.
Tobias Harris went for nothing, Oladipo went for nothing, Harkless for nothing. That's just dreadful.
Yeah their team looks dreadful on paper. I mean, Babbitt has been their starting power forward lately, they have McGruder playing on a regular basis lately. Waiters picked up some form but he wasn't even available last night, Winslow who's a good talent has not been available for a while, Bosh hasn't played all season long and lately they've not even had Haslem and McRoberts. It's not even the fact that they don't have a great team personnel wise, they don't even have enough fit players to field a proper roster and are forced to play players who were never considered NBA level.
McGruder went undrafted in 2013 and did not play in NBA before this spell at Heat. Babbitt has been a laughing stock and thrown around for nothing. Ellington has been a journeyman going from place to place without making impact anywhere. Then again, Hassan Whiteside was a nobody before he joined them, playing in China and D-League and got a minimum contract to resurrect his NBA career at Heat. He's now one of the best centers in the league and the best rebounder and shot blocker around.
Team is mediocre barring Dragic and Whiteside,Sorry to say this but to me Bosh and Haslem had already past it.Waiters and Johnson showing some promise.In spite of all short comings still they manage to play some decent team game lately.This team is screaming for good forward I hope which they could sort it next season.
Just saw the Charles Oakley video. Utterly embarrassing for the Knicks.
They were supposed to have a high draft pick but are now looking to make playoffs so this might not happen. Were a stonewall top five of the draft before this recent run of form though this draft is mainly about playmakers.
Cavs should have rested LeBron. I have no idea why he is playing such high minutes, they aren't going to be in any real danger of losing the #1 seed in the East. Good game for the Thunder though. If Adams and Oladipo and then one of Payne/Morrow/Abrines can contribute consistently like that we'll have a shot of beating most teams.
Thought the Boston and Portland game was quite entertaining too. Especially the majority of the 4th. A shame that Portland couldn't quite match them all the way until the end.
Thought the Boston and Portland game was quite entertaining too. Especially the majority of the 4th. A shame that Portland couldn't quite match them all the way until the end.
Durant's gonna be back at Oklahoma for the first time on Saturday. Would be a bit hostile I imagine.
This is one of the best games I've seen OKC play and even though Russ still played very well I thought you got some really good contributions elsewhere. I've got to ask though, "What does Andre Roberson do?" He plays over 30 minutes per game yet he doesn't rebound that much at 5/game, his assists are virtually non-existent with only 1/game, his shooting is dire (thankfully he doesn't shoot much at only 6 attempts/game) and he's below Andre Drummond and DeAndre Jordan at the free throw line at an absolutely pitiful 41.5%.
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This will be a tough game all round for the Warriors, especially on a back-to-back after playing the Grizzlies who they've already lost to the both times they've played them this season.
What happened with Lebron yesterday? He is sure going to be in Shaqtin' A Fool. Missed two easy dunks, got brutally dunked once, got brutally blocked and OKC stole the ball from him twice in the last quarter. One of the worst performances of him recently.
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Ty is an idiot to play him, Kyrie and Love yesterday.
Roberson is a frustrating player. He's absolutely elite defensively. He has had some great performances against Harden, LeBron and others throughout the season. But he is still a huge liability on offense. It is essentially like playing 4v5. I think he is a FA this summer and it wouldn't surprise me if he gets more money elsewhere. I think getting Grant from Philly was basically insurance in case Roberson leaves. He is younger and has a much higher ceiling offensively than Robes. It's annoying when we play the Warriors because they can just put Curry on Roberson and allow him to sag off and look for steals in the passing lanes. But on the flip side we need Roberson to try and guard Curry and Durant because he's the best we have.
EDIT: Did Draymond actually get a triple-double without points? Insane
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Yep. Needed 6 points for quadruple double. Had 5 blocks as well.
No idea why he didn't went for it, and Warriors to just pass the ball to him until he manages to score 10 points. They were winning +20 anyway.
The last time a player managed a quadtruple double is on 1994. Would have been great if Green did it.
The last time a player managed a quadtruple double is on 1994. Would have been great if Green did it.
He was obviously exhausted from the Wizards game. The big three should not have played, as already pointed out.
Heat have 13 wins now. Bucks are dreadful, allowing 47 points to Lakers in first quarter. Wow.
After last season expending a lot of energy going for 73 it seems like they've almost made a conscious effort to say this time records/stats don't matter. Remember Curry's three point streak ending but he still came out of the game with about 4+ minutes to go, similar with Durant and his streak of 20+ point games and even Klay came out after 3 when he scored 60. I guess this is just one more example.
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Just saw the highlights from Pelicans vs Timberwolves. Davis and Towns had both a crazy night, with Davis winning in the end.
woo SPORTS tonight
It's an automatic win for OKC if Russ dunks on Durant's bitch ass
Mr. Triple Double got his today with 11 turnovers.
47 points - 11 rebounds and 8 assists too. Effectively doing it by himself too.