Bean town drops 2nd home game

Boston gonna get swept.

Westbrook on pace for a triple double by halftime.

OKC is hanging in there against the home crowd and officials, playing smarter and more aggressive than in game 1. Hope they can pull off the win.

Never thought I'd be actively cheering for Westbrook.

Ulrich said:

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OKC is hanging in there against the home crowd and officials, playing smarter and more aggressive than in game 1. Hope they can pull off the win.

Never thought I'd be actively cheering for Westbrook.

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Okc against the officials?

Can we keep ref complaining off this thread? Staff?

Keep that noise in the Rockets thread

Okc fans sure are touchy

To the point where they call for lolstaff to protect them from someone complaining about refs? No.

Pahdz said:

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That's rich, this entire board is touchy about their teams.

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Might be the most accurate post of all time

I don't care what is posted, but You guys were already setting up the excuse if you lost tonight that it'd be on the refs, so it'd be nice to keep that vaginal bleeding to one thread.

I didn't think my comment would draw any complaints because Houston shot a lot more free throws in the first half even though OKC was posting up and driving a lot more. Doesn't seem all that controversial.

I meant this emoji... I don't want to derail the thread any more than it already is.

Pahdz said:

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I don't care what is posted, but You guys were already setting up the excuse if you lost tonight that it'd be on the refs, so it'd be nice to keep that vaginal bleeding to one thread.

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Why are you responding to me? I'm not playing tonight, I'm watching the games at my house.

Been debunked as to why his usage is so high. Put the guys Russ has and put them with James Harden and you'd have the same usage rate.

But let's have a Rockets blue star ignorance party.

Kawhi should be MVP. More wins. More life.

AggieSportsGuy said:

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Kawhi should be MVP. More wins. More life.

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That's it

Draymond is gonna get a tech at some point tonight. He's in an angry mood

I always felt like the key to beating OKC was to hope Westbrook would hit some early 3's. Kinda the same thing against Lebron.

Deputy Travis Junior said:

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AggieSportsGuy said:

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Been debunked as to why his usage is so high. Put the guys Russ has and put them with James Harden and you'd have the same usage rate.

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How do you "debunk" 43 shots on a night when he only hit 39% of them? That's bad, stupid basketball. The end.

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OKC's posts combined for just 17 attempts even though they have depth and size and they averaged over 50% from the floor and averaged more points per shot than Westbrook. Not to take anything away from Capella and Nene, but they foul at a high rate so the smart thing is to make them defend, try to get them in foul trouble (which would open the lane for everyone), and slow down the game so Houston has to play half court. But that doesn't get Westbrook 50-10-10, and that's why I can't say Westbrook is the MVP.

OKC has more talent than people give them credit for. Oladipo is overrated, but Adams/Gibson/Kanter/Grant is stout.

I really dislike Dramon Green & Stephen Curry. Their fans suck too... Go Spurs Go!!!

Got this from another thread, but I agree with all of it. So thought I'd copy it here.


Oladipo is completely terrible and Kanter is fine on offense, but should not see a single minute in a close game due to his defense.

Their second best offensive option is Steven Adams getting a seal/oreb for an easy layup after a russ drive and dish/miss.

Russ should probably pull up less or at least make sure someone touches his arm then flail so he gets more FTs like Harden, but its hard to nitpick when the the other options are so bad and hes being guarded so tightly.

Also, their dumbass coach played 12 guys last night and RUSS was +11 in the 41 min he played. If you can't hold onto an 11 point lead in 7 spare minutes then you're pretty ****ed no matter what. No reason that RUSS' performance should not have been rewarded with a win even though the 4th quarter was not efficient.

CactusThomas said:

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Okc fans sure are touchy

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Like Pahdz said, Rockets fans have a whole other thread to whine about officiating. I wouldn't go in there and complain about the Thunder not getting calls. That would be silly of me. Was hoping it would work the same for Rockets fans on the universal playoff thread, but oh well. Obviously I'm in the minority here.

mavsfan4ever said:

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Got this from another thread, but I agree with all of it. So thought I'd copy it here.


Oladipo is completely terrible and Kanter is fine on offense, but should not see a single minute in a close game due to his defense.

Their second best offensive option is Steven Adams getting a seal/oreb for an easy layup after a russ drive and dish/miss.

Russ should probably pull up less or at least make sure someone touches his arm then flail so he gets more FTs like Harden, but its hard to nitpick when the the other options are so bad and hes being guarded so tightly.

Also, their dumbass coach played 12 guys last night and RUSS was +11 in the 41 min he played. If you can't hold onto an 11 point lead in 7 spare minutes then you're pretty ****ed no matter what. No reason that RUSS' performance should not have been rewarded with a win even though the 4th quarter was not efficient.

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Good post. I thought they key stretch of the game was the three minutes Russ sat at the end of the third quarter. Usually that's when the Thunder would lean on Kanter to initiate offense, but he can't play (cuz the Rockets abuse him defensively) and the Thunder had no where to go. If not for a late-in-the-shot clock three from Oladipo, Thunder would have been shut out in that time frame. Rockets were able to cut a double digit deficit to three with ease.

Fourth quarter, Donovan didn't have much of a choice but to surround Russ with versatile defenders (Roberson, Grant and Singler (barf)) and hope Russ could carry the load offensively. The Rockets made some nice adjustments on D and Russ settled for too many contested jumpers.

Overall, I was very impressed with how the Thunder played the first three quarters. Donovan made the adjustments he had to make personnel-wise and the team played very hard (beat the Rockets to loose balls and controlled the boards).

Still think Rockets in 5. That was probably the best chance the Thunder will have to win a game in Houston.