Game Thread GAME# 16: THUNDER @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 25, 2021 - MONDAY, 7:00, NBCSNW

[AldoTrapani]

Oh yeah, that's realistic. The guy can never have an off night. I don't care if everything was perfect. No new kids. Plenty of rest. I mean everything being perfect, even the best of the best are going to have off nights.

Dude he doesn’t do shit he has a full team of nannies

 

[TBpup]

This team can't win when Dame shoots like that and this team really can't win... Player Dame, Gary, DJJ, Melo, Kanter, Ant, Nas and Giles only. Those eight guys are not going to beat almost any team. Then throw in a terrible shooting night from Dame until the very end and you get an obvious loss. It shouldn't have even been that close. Hats off to Ant and Gary for showing up though.

Missing a ton, but OKC's roster is garbage. We have the best player on the court by far. We had the best big on the court by far. We got 20+ from 4 players.

Defense matters...(to everyone but Stotts)

 

[BigGameDamian]

We have the Rockets Thursday. That's going to be a tough game.

 

[DDolla]

We will not see another win in 2 weeks

 

[hoopsjock]

 

[PHXBlazer1]

We had 8 players enough said. Okc aint a trash team at all

They traded away all their players for draft picks..full on rebuild. They are trash, but still NBA players, and they wanted it more than us.

 

[Chris Craig]

We have the Rockets Thursday. That's going to be a tough game.

Loss

 

[riverman]

Bullshit. He is paid $25 million a year. He needs to play like a star every game. No fucking excuses.

wow

 

[Cugel]

Zero defense. Making Mike Muscala look like Ray fucking Allen.

 

[TBpup]

Please show me when I mentioned the Laker win yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that, or the day before that, or the day before that.

I'll wait.... Unless you're just making stuff up. You wouldn't do that though, right?

Perhaps not you so if not, that is incorrect. But I see that Laker win brought up over and over again and it is not representative of the team this year. Very much an outlier. Best win of the season, but so many other garbage efforts sadly cancel it out.

 

[riverman]

I'm not going to say OKC is garbage....they played a hell of a game. We got beat, we didn't lose on purpose...we got beat...plain and simple.

 

[blazerkor]

We will not see another win in 2 weeks

I would take action on that. I mean seriously, you're predicting a seven game losing streak? I think we'll win the next one if RoCo and Hoodie can play.

 

[TBpup]

I'm not going to say OKC is garbage....they played a hell of a game. We got beat, we didn't lose on purpose...we got beat...plain and simple.

There is no one left in OKC. They traded everyone but SGA for something like 17 1st round Draft picks in the next number of seasons. They are garbage....they just happened to beat us.

 

[PHXBlazer1]

We got beat by a tanking team that tries, and has a decent coach.

 

[ehizzy3]

We should not be giving up 120 points to this OKC team.

 

[Chris Craig]

Stotts wouldn't play hood on a back to back even if it cost us the game

 

[Serbian]

They traded away all their players for draft picks..full on rebuild. They are trash, but still NBA players, and they wanted it more than us.

Disagree. Muscala is the next steph curry well at least against us... Dort is nasty , Alexander , they not bad team they beat the nets, and lost to Jazz by 1. If we had Rodney hood and Dame doesn’t have worst shooting night ever we win. We had 4 potential starters out. The season is very early our bench getting great minutes and experience. Rocco and Hood will be back and we got 3 days off. We will beat Houston and bulls on road.

 

[riverman]

There is no one left in OKC. They traded everyone but SGA for something like 17 1st round Draft picks in the next number of seasons. They are garbage....they just happened to beat us.

They deserve respect...they may not be fan favorites but they beat us....give them props..I don't care who suited up...they put the ball in the hoop and kicked our butt

 

[Tince]

Perhaps not you so if not, that is incorrect. But I see that Laker win brought up over and over again and it is not representative of the team this year. Very much an outlier. Best win of the season, but so many other garbage efforts sadly cancel it out.

Appreciate you owning it, you're a good man! My point was: With Dame/Nurk/CJ we've only lost to one sub .500 team, so I throw the Bulls loss into the same category as the Laker win.

I'm with you, this was ugly. I know you have higher expectations than me on a night like tonight (I took OKC on the moneyline). Going to have a lot more rough ones over the next two months.

 

[Serbian]

Stotts wouldn't play hood on a back to back even if it cost us the game

Exactly pathetic

 

[Chris Craig]

Disagree. Muscala is the next steph curry well at least against us... Dort is nasty , Alexander , they not bad team they beat the nets, and lost to Jazz by 1. If we had Rodney hood and Dame doesn’t have worst shooting night ever we win. We had 4 potential starters out. The season is very early our bench getting great minutes and experience. Rocco and Hood will be back and we got 3 days off. We will beat Houston and bulls on road.

We couldn't beat the Bulls at home with a full roster

 

[TBpup]

They deserve respect...they may not be fan favorites but they beat us....give them props..I don't care who suited up...they put the ball in the hoop and kicked our butt

I give them their props. A garbage team beat us. Good for them and their effort.

 

[Serbian]

We couldn't beat the Bulls at home with a full roster

We blew that game up by 20. The bulls have cooled off they used to loose by close margins but now they getting blown out

 

[Pinwheel1]

I said it at the time and still think that the Clippers would have been better off matching Kawhi with Alexander than with Paul George. That guy can ball.

 

[Tince]

Exactly pathetic

He was hurt. Pathetic of you.

 

[blazerkor]

Missing a ton, but OKC's roster is garbage. We have the best player on the court by far. We had the best big on the court by far. We got 20+ from 4 players.

Defense matters...(to everyone but Stotts)

Can't disagree with any of that. There isn't any excuse for why we lost tonight but there are reasons. Our best defender was out. The guy who would have started at SG was out. That best player by far on the court played about as bad as he is capable of for most of that game.

That being said you are right, there are no excuses for losing to a team that is that much worse than us but obviously there are reasons why it happened.

 

[Tince]

We couldn't beat the Bulls at home with a full roster

Our only loss of the season with Dame/CJ/Nurk to a sub .500 team. 1 loss.

 

[Chris Craig]

We blew that game up by 20. The bulls have cooled off they used to loose by close margins but now they getting blown out

Not by us

 

[TBpup]

Stotts appropriately called the 1st half defense...."Pathetic".

 

[Tince]

Stotts appropriately called the 1st half defense...."Pathetic".

He did... also said there are "no excuses" for the loss.

He looks like he's at the end of his rope.