Series Thread: 4) Oklahoma City Thunder vs 5) Utah Jazz

[Mecca]

The numbers Westbrook and George are putting up (vs a good D) shows the potential for this team.

Potential of the duo, not the Team.

How do you not get Adams involved in the offense at all?

He should be the 3rd guy...

Seriously, what is Donovan doing in the huddles...

What is he doing in the practices?!?!

Do they have any set plays or is it just iso, iso, iso?

 

[msgkings322]

Potential of the duo, not the Team.

How do you not get Adams involved in the offense at all?

He should be the 3rd guy...

Seriously, what is Donovan doing in the huddles...

What is he doing in the practices?!?!

Do they have any set plays or is it just iso, iso, iso?

College coaches are almost never good NBA coaches, he's a perfect example.

 

[TJL]

No but he can try once he see the other losers on this roster are not doing shit

He's got more help than Lebitch. Can you imagine someone on the Cans scoring 36 points at this point besides LeBitch?

 

[Shanemansj13]

RW 45 points on 39 shots. Lebron 44 points on 24 shorts.

OKC definitely didn’t play that well but a huge win.

 

[Shanemansj13]

He's got more help than Lebitch. Can you imagine someone on the Cans scoring 36 points at this point besides LeBitch?

I would give that a 1 and a billion chance this playoffs lol. The 2nd scorer can barely get to 20

 

[wildturkey]

Games like tonight are why its so frustrating watching Westbrook play. You see that he's capable of so much yet stuff like what happened in the previous game always creeps up. You just want to sit him down and be like "Dude! You're like 99% there! Just do this one thing and you'd be god level!"

 

[msgkings322]

He's got more help than Lebitch. Can you imagine someone on the Cans scoring 36 points at this point besides LeBitch?

Everyone remembers why he left Cleveland the first time right? Dude was becoming the best player since Jordan and they were surrounding that with a pupu platter of Hughes and Goodens and Gibsons. Why in hell wouldn't he do that again?

 

[thunderc]

Had a very early flight this morning so went to bed at halftime. I’ll just say lmao at a lot of the comments, it’s easy to kick people when they are down. As for the officiating lmao, it’s been the worst I’ve seen the entire series and I assure it has not been to the Thunders benefit in the games I’ve seen. As for all the banging on Westbrook, before last night he had not been having a great series. For anyone wanting to question the Thunders motives in building a team around him though I’ll just say that there are 2 players in the league capable of beating another team pretty much by themselves on any given night. The other one is past his prime but can still do it. Yes Westbrook has some issues at times but I’ll take those issues with the true greatness that he brings. It can be frustrating as hell to watch at times but he is just capable of things I’ve never seen anyone else able to do.

 

[Heatles84]

Had a very early flight this morning so went to bed at halftime. I’ll just say lmao at a lot of the comments, it’s easy to kick people when they are down. As for the officiating lmao, it’s been the worst I’ve seen the entire series and I assure it has not been to the Thunders benefit in the games I’ve seen. As for all the banging on Westbrook, before last night he had not been having a great series. For anyone wanting to question the Thunders motives in building a team around him though I’ll just say that there are 2 players in the league capable of beating another team pretty much by themselves on any given night. The other one is past his prime but can still do it. Yes Westbrook has some issues at times but I’ll take those issues with the true greatness that he brings. It can be frustrating as hell to watch at times but he is just capable of things I’ve never seen anyone else able to do.

Westbrook is not the only one that can do this by himself - the Warriors have 3 guys that can score at will alone.

Westbrook's problems though is that he just doesn't utilize the tools around him on a lot of nights.

Lebron would easily be happy to switch places with Westbrook in terms of teammates.

 

[thunderc]

On his best night Westbrook can do more to impact a game than any of those Warrior guys and honestly it’s really not close.

 

[Heatles84]

On his best night Westbrook can do more to impact a game than any of those Warrior guys and honestly it’s really not close.

You're right it's not close.

Klay one time scored 60 points in 29 minutes.

Durant is considered by most the 2nd best player in the league for a while now. He's also going to go down as one of the most prolific offensive players in NBA history.

Curry will go down as the best 3-point shooter of all-time.

And these guys do it all at a much more efficient rate than Westbrook does.

 

[Heatles84]

Don't know how anyone could say a player can take over a game on his best night better than a guy who scored 60 points while only playing what equates to just over a half of basketball and is considered one of the best two-players in the league.

 

[thunderc]

You are entitled to your opinion, but you don’t know the game if you really feel that way. Thompson is a shooter, nothing more. Westbrook doesn’t do it often enough but his ceiling is higher than anyone in the league.

 

[thunderc]

So only Durant is going to go down as one of the most prolific offensive players in history, not Westbrook too? Careful, your answer might make you look a bit silly.

 

[Heatles84]

You are entitled to your opinion, but you don’t know the game if you really feel that way. Thompson is a shooter, nothing more. Westbrook doesn’t do it often enough but his ceiling is higher than anyone in the league.

You're biased because he's on your team. If Durant was still on the Thunder, you would say the same thing but swap Durant out with Westrbrook. Klay's a bit more than just a shooter, I'm willing to bet that most knowledgeable people aren't putting Klay in the same league as a player as Korver for example.

If Westbrook's ceiling is higher than everyone in the league. Why isn't he the best player over Durant and Lebron?

 

[Heatles84]

So only Durant is going to go down as one of the most prolific offensive players in history, not Westbrook too? Careful, your answer might make you look a bit silly.

Compare Westbrook and Lebron's games last night. Lebron does it at a much more efficient rate (a guy that you think Westbrook can be better than). Lebron didn't take anywhere near the same amount of shots that Russ did.

Durant for one is more efficient and his length and shooting ability is insane. Durant shoots over 38% on 3's alone compared to Russ' abysmal 31%. Russ is not a good shooter, he is athletic as hell and can get to the basket. I'll give him that.

 

[Wishbone]

Whatever happened in the locker room certainly didn’t help because holy shit this is an ass whooping I’m shocked that Russell is playing so bad in front of his home Crowd he has mentally broken down

They will probably call a timeout with two minutes remaining in the 4th and have the police escort his ass out of the building.

They started packing his shit up as soon as the halftime break ended.

Good stuff guys

 

[thunderc]

You're biased because he's on your team. If Durant was still on the Thunder, you would say the same thing but swap Durant out with Westrbrook. Klay's a bit more than just a shooter, I'm willing to bet that most knowledgeable people aren't putting Klay in the same league as a player as Korver for example.

If Westbrook's ceiling is higher than everyone in the league. Why isn't he the best player over Durant and Lebron?

I’m not a homer, I call out the team and the players all the time. Russ does things I’ve never seen done and I’ve been around a while. KD is great too of course, just a shame they choked off what they had when they had a title won a couple years ago. But then again KD couldn’t have left without the choke job.

 

[bksballer89]

Had a very early flight this morning so went to bed at halftime. I’ll just say lmao at a lot of the comments, it’s easy to kick people when they are down.

I'm sure you thought OKC would win down 25 midway through the 3rd

 

[bksballer89]

OKC fans crack me up. I want their team to win the series but please don't come on here quoting post from last night when you were not here to give us your thoughts on OKC chances of coming back down 71-46 in the 3rd.

Take your win and shut up. Do not come on SportsHoopla this morning acting like you expected OKC to make that crazy comeback and win the game.....BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T