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Guess who the Thunder fans blame the loss on...
 
Epic meltdown by the Thunder. Very sweet.

Ed O.
 
Ed O said:
Epic meltdown by the Thunder. Very sweet.

Ed O.
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Heh. I knew I wasn't the only one getting pleasure out of watching them fail.

Vindication of sorts to see them collapse like that.
 
I don't hate KD. I want to hate him, but it's hard. But... hehe

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holy shit. He's on the verge of tears right now. literally sobbing through his post game interview. Fuck this is sad.

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yuyuza1 said:
I don't hate KD. I want to hate him, but it's hard. But... hehe

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Looks like he'd given up down 3 with 40 seconds left. Trade him! To Portland! For Oden!!!!
 
yuyuza1 said:
I don't hate KD. I want to hate him, but it's hard. But... hehe

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This makes me so happy.

The fake humble crap Durant pulls is annoying. I'm glad he's feeling like shit right now.
 
Nikolokolus said:
speaking of that ...
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That wasn't hard to predict. After any team loses, people tend to blame it on the coaches lack of offensive creativity, defensive soundness, or substitution pattern. Rarely is it because the other team had more talent or the players didn't execute.
 
Tince said:
That wasn't hard to predict. After any team loses, people tend to blame it on the coaches lack of offensive creativity, defensive soundness, or substitution pattern. Rarely is it because the other team had more talent or the players didn't execute.
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Well Kevin Pelton is actually an analyst and stats guy, so he's not just offering up some emotional fan rant about Brooks performance in the series. Coaching doesn't always matter in the regular season, but in the playoffs it can make a huge difference.
 
Brooks is HORRID on offense. When his absolute best offensive plays are getting the ball to Durant 30 feet from the rim (which he struggled greatly to do prior to this series) you know how fucking terrible the guy is.

Too bad for the Thunder but its certainly a case of their youth vs. the Mavs' experience. Durant and Westbrook are 22, Harden and Ibaka are 21(!). Its pretty amazing how good they are with a core of guys who would still be juniors or seniors in college. Picture these guys a couple more years down the road and with a few more deep playoff runs in their back pockets.

To add to that, Perk is 26, Maynor is 23, Sefolosha is 27, they've got a couple of raw 22 y/o C's in Cole Aldrich and BJ Mullens who look like shit so far but could develop. Their biggest holes are 3 pt shooting and lack of role players who are scoring threats. Not the most difficult holes to fill in the NBA. It shouldn't be difficult to find a journeyman veteran or two to fill those holes on short term contracts. You guys know as well as anyone that nothing is guaranteed but they look pretty damn set to run the west in the future.
 
Run BJM said:
Brooks is HORRID on offense. When his absolute best offensive plays are getting the ball to Durant 30 feet from the rim (which he struggled greatly to do prior to this series) you know how fucking terrible the guy is.

Too bad for the Thunder but its certainly a case of their youth vs. the Mavs' experience. Durant and Westbrook are 22, Harden and Ibaka are 21(!). Its pretty amazing how good they are with a core of guys who would still be juniors or seniors in college. Picture these guys a couple more years down the road and with a few more deep playoff runs in their back pockets.

To add to that, Perk is 26, Maynor is 23, Sefolosha is 27, they've got a couple of raw 22 y/o C's in Cole Aldrich and BJ Mullens who look like shit so far but could develop. Their biggest holes are 3 pt shooting and lack of role players who are scoring threats. Not the most difficult holes to fill in the NBA. It shouldn't be difficult to find a journeyman veteran or two to fill those holes on short term contracts. You guys know as well as anyone that nothing is guaranteed but they look pretty damn set to run the west in the future.
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Funny. You could have written the same thing about us two or three years ago. :sigh:
 
maxiep said:
Funny. You could have written the same thing about us two or three years ago. :sigh:
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Didn't want to beat a dead horse but I say it every time you guys kick Durant/Thunder when they're down:

You're all just bitter because you used to be the young, lovable NBA darlings that got their dicks sucked by ESPN at every opportunity. You all act like it was all well deserved when it was you guys doing damage in the playoffs (though now that I think about it I'm not sure you ever got out of the first round) and getting TONS of props for it but now that everyone's left you for the younger, sexier woman that is the OKC Thunder you can do nothing but arbitrarily hate on them.

I'm a hater extraordinaire but there's not much to dislike about the Thunder IMO. Hell of a job by Presti and a hell of a core of legitimately likable players (excluding Perkins though I do respect his tenacity and defense).
 
If OKC ends up losing this series, how would this meltdown compare to our meltdown in Game 7 of the 2000 WCF? Seeing that they had a 15 point lead with 5 minutes left, this is probably worse.
 
Run BJM said:
Didn't want to beat a dead horse but I say it every time you guys kick Durant/Thunder when they're down:

You're all just bitter because you used to be the young, lovable NBA darlings that got their dicks sucked by ESPN at every opportunity. You all act like it was all well deserved when it was you guys doing damage in the playoffs (though now that I think about it I'm not sure you ever got out of the first round) and getting TONS of props for it but now that everyone's left you for the younger, sexier woman that is the OKC Thunder you can do nothing but arbitrarily hate on them.

I'm a hater extraordinaire but there's not much to dislike about the Thunder IMO. Hell of a job by Presti and a hell of a core of legitimately likable players (excluding Perkins though I do respect his tenacity and defense).
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A fair point, but I know my hatred for the Thunder come from the fact that our Northwest rivalry was ripped from us. I used to love the Blazer/Sonic rivalry and hate what Clay Bennett and the NBA did to Seattle.
 
OneSport3 said:
If OKC ends up losing this series, how would this meltdown compare to our meltdown in Game 7 of the 2000 WCF? Seeing that they had a 15 point lead with 5 minutes left, this is probably worse.
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If this were a closeout game, you're probably right.

BTW, how come we never talk about Game 6 in the 1992 NBA Finals? That was an epic collapse by us.
 
maxiep said:
A fair point, but I know my hatred for the Thunder come from the fact that our Northwest rivalry was ripped from us. I used to love the Blazer/Sonic rivalry and hate what Clay Bennett and the NBA did to Seattle.
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Never thought of it that way. Seattle did get burned pretty bad and they definitely deserve an NBA franchise. Can't say I'm upset with adding OKC though, they've proven to be a worthy NBA city in their own right even if their fans do have a low bball IQ (lol this is in reference to Van Gundy saying OKC fans had a low bball IQ tonight). I hate Sacramento and the Sacramento Kings but I respect smallish cities that really embrace their pro teams. Makes sports more interesting with teams like Sac Kings, OKC Thunder, Green Bay Pakers, Buffalo Bills, etc.
 
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OKC collapse was worse than ours in 2000. OKC was at HOME with less than 5 minutes left.


maxiep said:
If this were a closeout game, you're probably right.

BTW, how come we never talk about Game 6 in the 1992 NBA Finals? That was an epic collapse by us.
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My sister cried after that game. We led by 15 going into that 4th quarter and they came back with Jordan on the bench. We only led by 13 going into the 4th quarter of the 2000 game.

I think people don't talk about the Chicago game 6 much because not many people thought we had a chance to win hack to back games in Chicago anyway so the loss felt inevitable whereas the 2000 Western Conference championship was literally only minutes away.
 
WTF was Thabo doing right here?

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yuyuza1 said:
No one watching this epic comeback?

WTF was Durant doing shooting that? Shoulda let it run oiut
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I watched it! My wife was watching and went to bed with the 15 point lead/4:30 left. Not that she really cared about the game, but I basically said it was over, yet watched the rest because that's what I do.

What an amazing performance by Dirk!
 
Run BJM said:
Brooks is HORRID on offense. When his absolute best offensive plays are getting the ball to Durant 30 feet from the rim (which he struggled greatly to do prior to this series) you know how fucking terrible the guy is.

Too bad for the Thunder but its certainly a case of their youth vs. the Mavs' experience. Durant and Westbrook are 22, Harden and Ibaka are 21(!). Its pretty amazing how good they are with a core of guys who would still be juniors or seniors in college. Picture these guys a couple more years down the road and with a few more deep playoff runs in their back pockets.

To add to that, Perk is 26, Maynor is 23, Sefolosha is 27, they've got a couple of raw 22 y/o C's in Cole Aldrich and BJ Mullens who look like shit so far but could develop. Their biggest holes are 3 pt shooting and lack of role players who are scoring threats. Not the most difficult holes to fill in the NBA. It shouldn't be difficult to find a journeyman veteran or two to fill those holes on short term contracts. You guys know as well as anyone that nothing is guaranteed but they look pretty damn set to run the west in the future.
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OKC has key players still on rookie contracts. Will, they be able to keep them all under a hard cap?
 
Durant 9 turnovers, Westbrook 6 turnovers, Durant chucking up shots, Westbrook blowing two key FTs ... wow, what a meltdown.
 
maxiep said:
A fair point, but I know my hatred for the Thunder come from the fact that our Northwest rivalry was ripped from us. I used to love the Blazer/Sonic rivalry and hate what Clay Bennett and the NBA did to Seattle.
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This. And also seeing Durant succeed only makes the Oden pick even more depressing. I don't care that we're not the "young, lovable NBA darlings." Who really gives a fuck about that kind of exposure. Having a winning team is all that matters.
 
maxiep said:
A fair point, but I know my hatred for the Thunder come from the fact that our Northwest rivalry was ripped from us. I used to love the Blazer/Sonic rivalry and hate what Clay Bennett and the NBA did to Seattle.
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You should direct your hatred at Howard Schultz, since he was the owner telling Seattle that the team wouldn't move, while emailing Bennett and the NBA about them moving the team after a sale. Bennett made a sound business move, and since I've been working in Seattle every other week, I've found that the sports talk crowd doesn't blame Bennett; they blame Schultz, and local and state government.
 
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