GT: Denver @ OKC

[Fudge]

Hi

[JimmyMcAdocious]

How many teams going to drop 40 in a first quarter before the end of November? Jeez.

[Fudge]

:roll:

39 point first quarter.... you kidding me? These bastards were hitting everything.

[KG215]

It's like Denver played that quarter with all their shooting sliders jacked up to 100. Every f***ing jumper they threw up went in.

[kurple]

like the thunder aint hitting everything 5/7 from 3

[O_City_Thunder]

I really like Jeremy Lamb. I think he's going to turn into a pretty good player.

[Fudge]

like the thunder aint hitting everything 5/7 from 3
That's cause they're da Thunders.

These guys are the fcking Nuggets, they shouldn't be hitting all these shots they're getting.

EDIT: :roll:

[Fudge]

This is ridiculous. :roll:

[KG215]

Alright, I give up. Just gonna be one of those nights where the Nuggets make everything.

[NuggetsFan]

Expected a Nuggets loss, Thunder defense might suggest otherwise. As a Nuggets fan I can feel your pain :lol

[Fudge]

Let's go Russell Westburke and Kavin Durand!

[Fudge]

I fcking hate Thabo Sefolosha so much. Probably just as much as Perkins.

[NuggetsFan]

Great play by Perkins right there :oldlol:

[ZMonkey11]

Westbrook with that 3 stroke.

[Fudge]

Y'all see GOATdrick Olajuwon there before that 3?

[LONGTIME]

**** you Lawson :lol

[Fudge]

Get GOATkins out of there.

[KG215]

F**k this game. Every time we get within 3-4, the Nuggets make a few more bullshit contested jumpers, we turn it over a couple of times, and it's back out to a 10 point lead again.

[O_City_Thunder]

Our defense sucks :facepalm

[Fudge]

Randy Foye and Ty Lawson for MVP!!!!!

[ZMonkey11]

****ing perkins

[Fudge]

Perkins. :roll: :roll:

[LONGTIME]

**** you Thabo and **** you Perkins :mad:

[KG215]

But Westbrook drives and draws the same amount of contact, and it's nothing.

[Ai2death]

^ Isn't home cooking suppose to work the other way?

[Fudge]

Find a more inconsistent player than Ibaka. Dude goes to having a 15/20 game to...Scrubaka.

[LONGTIME]

OKC offense and defense :facepalm

[Fudge]

Durant :roll: Pathetic ass

Fk these Nuggets. Bitchasses are hitting everything. See that shot Lawson just threw up on a deadball? FK** U MEN!

[LONGTIME]

KD go to move :oldlol:

[Fudge]

Lawson's such a little pha.ggot. Of course he'd have a career night against us. :oldlol: EVERYBODY DOES!

[LONGTIME]

OKC one and done offense :cry:

[ZMonkey11]

Lawson's such a little pha.ggot. Of course he'd have a career night against us. :oldlol: EVERYBODY DOES!

Showing Westbrook how efficient PGs do it. :( :(

[RRR3]

Lawson's such a little pha.ggot. Of course he'd have a career night against us. :oldlol: EVERYBODY DOES!
Lawson is averaging 21 and 9 this year.

[LONGTIME]

Beautiful pass KD :facepalm

[RoundMoundOfReb]

OKC offense is ugly to watch.

[NuggetsFan]

But Westbrook drives and draws the same amount of contact, and it's nothing.

Yeah your an OKC fan. You don't ever get to complain about FT's. Games can go the other teams way and it wouldn't make up the advantage you guy's have seen.

Denver gets FT's to the hoop, KD gets FT's for ripping his hand through another guy's hand :lol

[NuggetsFan]

Lawson's such a little pha.ggot. Of course he'd have a career night against us. :oldlol: EVERYBODY DOES!

Lawson is coming off a 28/17 game. Averaging 21 and 9 on the season. Averaged 21 and 8 in the playoffs last year.

FAR from a career night.

[b1imtf]

How has Lamb looked so far?

[ZMonkey11]

Omg Nate

[LONGTIME]

Walk it off

[kurple]

durant getting superstar calls as usual

[NuggetsFan]

durant getting superstar calls as usual

Dude the Nuggets are shooting 50% from the field and Lawson has 22 points, 22 points!!!!

Nuggets just playing insane right now :oldlol:

[b1imtf]

Brook :bowdown:

[ZMonkey11]

After you miss one 3, I don't think you should be allowed to overly celebrate when your teammate gets you the ball again after your missed shot.

[kurple]

refs taking over

[LONGTIME]

Refs :bowdown:

[ZMonkey11]

Westbrook Givin Up The Body!!!!! Daaammnn!!!

[LakersDaBEst]

Let Fisher shoot a 3, he will drain it

[WWRWestbrookDo?]

Goatbrookkkkkkkkkkkk

[LONGTIME]

KD quit shooting threes damn

Edit: never mind :lol

[imdaman99]

Westbrook will get on the floor to get that. Dude puts his body on the line. Would cut off his own leg to win the game :oldlol:

[ZMonkey11]

KD quit shooting threes damn

KD WITH DAT 3!!!!

[b1imtf]

Ice

[WWRWestbrookDo?]

lets goooooo

[MP.Trey]

That shimmy :oldlol:

[Fudge]

Nooooooo this ***** KD just did the shimmy after that . :roll: Cold blooded

[O_City_Thunder]

Finally!

[kurple]

i guess the basketball gods just dont want denver to win this one. 16 missed FT`s, and shit like that durant 3? come one

[russwest0]

KD quit shooting threes damn

Edit: never mind :lol


I was sayin the same thing :lol

[inclinerator]

kevin durfreethroww

[k0kakw0rld]

Westbrook will get on the floor to get that. Dude puts his body on the line. Would cut off his own leg to win the game :oldlol:
Something the Knicks players are lacking Heart, Passion, desire to win.

[MP.Trey]

How many offensive boards Denver gonna give up?

[LONGTIME]

**** that shit

[ZMonkey11]

Brook Lopez should get some rebounding lessons from Westbrook.

[kurple]

shaw should make everyone shoot 5k free throws tomorow

[Fudge]

Kavin Durand to ice dis one...

[ZMonkey11]

put them bitches on skates yo

[Young X]

GOATbrook

[MP.Trey]

Kavin Durand to ice dis one...
Rustle Eastbrock!! :banana:

[Fudge]

Omg Russ. Putting that ***** on skates!!!!!

[Jameerthefear]

durant wants them freethrows :lol

[DuMa]

lol Durant looked confused as hell why Jackson didnt give him the ball. Durant wanted those FTs

[O_City_Thunder]

Reggie Jackson never lets anything bother him. He doesn't give a fvck about KD screaming at him for not giving him the ball. :applause: :applause: :applause:

[LONGTIME]

Looks good to me

[dgaras]

confused. did adams get injured? why has he played only 5 min

[Jameerthefear]

What are they reviewing. That was goaltending...

[WWRWestbrookDo?]

westbrook is the best player in the game!:rockon:

[ZMonkey11]

Reggie Jackson never lets anything bother him. He doesn't give a fvck about KD screaming at him for not giving him the ball. :applause: :applause: :applause:

Let KD get that 40 pt game. Better than padding Reggie's scrub stats.

[russwest0]

confused. did adams get injured? why has he played only 5 min

Scott Brooks trollface.jpg

[Fudge]

Goaltend...clearly

[imdaman99]

Something the Knicks players are missing Heart, Passion, desire to win.
No kidding, how do we get Goatbrook to the Knicks? :oldlol:

[O_City_Thunder]

confused. did adams get injured? why has he played only 5 min
Lord Perkins is the best center in the league.

[LONGTIME]

Refs mad :oldlol:

[Fudge]

Fck off Russ...

[NuggetsFan]

Westbrook giving Denver a chance :rockon:

[DuMa]

Russ you killin me bro

[LONGTIME]

Westbrook giving Denver a chance :rockon:

:no:

[k0kakw0rld]

GOATbrook with a 30-5-5 performance :applause: :bowdown: as well as Durant

[MP.Trey]

Lawson can't miss a free throw if he tries :lol

[NuggetsFan]

Story of the game for Denver. Missed FT's like crazy, try to miss one on purpose and make it :oldlol:

[DuMa]

thats like the 5th time this year already that i see NBA players deliberately try to miss the FT to get a oRbd and yet they make it in anyway.

[NuggetsFan]

:roll: :roll: :roll:

Shots + Ball right?

[LONGTIME]

Westbrook wtf

[WWRWestbrookDo?]

jesus christ westbrook

[b1imtf]

No way :eek:

[inclinerator]

westbrick

[Fudge]

Flopping little bitch! :facepalm

[DuMa]

lmao what drama

[NuggetsFan]

Flopping little bitch! :facepalm

Using that OKC magic :banana:

[Fudge]

Fckkkkk

[DuMa]

oh damn

[Jameerthefear]

thought it was shots and ball...

[MP.Trey]

So why didn't Denver get the ball back after those two FT's? The ball wasn't inbounded. Isn't that the rule?

[#number6ix#]

lob pass to hickson for the tie

[DuMa]

refs missed a foul as well. they have to be looking at the replay and think... oh shit. we're gonna get it later

[NuggetsFan]

Yeah I'm really confused. Was like WTF when Lawson purposely missed that. Why didn't Denver get the ball + shots?

[WWRWestbrookDo?]

longest 3 seconds ever

[NuggetsFan]

longest 3 seconds ever

Said your girlfriend...

[DuMa]

can Denver pull off a Jeff Green?

[#number6ix#]

delay of game on the refs

[Fudge]

Fck.. Just watch. Somebody's gonna hit it for the game winner. Just cause we have the worst luck with these kinds of scenarios.

[inclinerator]

fkkk

[Fudge]

Thank da lawddddd

[LONGTIME]

:applause: **** you Denver :lol

[LakersDaBEst]

shittest play ever. Brian Shaw, are you for real? :facepalm

[KG215]

Serge got away with a foul...

[NuggetsFan]

Shitty play. Should have just went for a Ty Lawson jumper or a Chandler pull up.

[Wavves]

:oldlol:

[#number6ix#]

why whould they run that play for him

[Jameerthefear]

stupid play by denver :/

[ZMonkey11]

JJ Hick with the turnaround fadeaway 3. Nicely drawn up.

[O_City_Thunder]

KD 11-27
Westbrook 10-25

Our superstars didn't shoot very well but we still got the win. :cheers:

[KG215]

Yeah, Serge got away with a foul, but why call a play for a lob to Mozgov in the paint?

[kurple]

bad play brian. but it could have been a foul on ibaka

[russwest0]

Thank god we overcame Perkins -11 this game

[WWRWestbrookDo?]

Said your girlfriend...

good one! now take the loss and gtfo of okc

[O_City_Thunder]

Good Game Nuggets Fans!!! :cheers:

[imdaman99]

if i was the nuggets, i would have went to whoever sefolosha was covering :oldlol:

[O_City_Thunder]

if i was the nuggets, i would have went to whoever sefolosha was covering :oldlol:
:lebronamazed:

[andremiller07]

Brian Shaw threw that game away so hard seriously, Evan Fournier was chopping up when they were running the offense through him so he takes him out for Wilson Chandler who did everything in his power to chuck the game away with awful shot selection.

Why the **** is Evan not playing 35+mpg the dude is by a wide margin there 2nd most talented player after Lawson who was a beast 2night, they should develop there future they have a potential stud SG/PG player and they not trying to max him out. Nuggets also need to play Mozgov way more he's a very solid C better than McGee when both are healthy.

Great job by Goatbrook as well and KD hit massive shots, but yeah Brian Shaw not sure wtf he is doing tbh. Also Collison got away with a clear foul on Hickson on that out of bounds review.

[NugzFan]

Either the nuggets are way better than I thought or okc is way worse. Not sure

:confusedshrug:

[russwest0]

Either the nuggets are way better than I thought or okc is way worse. Not sure

:confusedshrug:

It's one game in the regular season and Kendrick Perkins got a lot more minutes than Steven Adams so there is your answer

[KG215]

I don't know if I should be worried or just not care right now, but right now OKC is looking like the 2012 Thunder looked in a lot of regular season games. We're half-assing it or not even trying on defense for 2-3 quarters, being way too sloppy with the ball for 2-3 quarters, and then decide to just flip a switch in the 4th and win the game. If "flip the switch" OKC would've just shown up for about 2 to 2.5 quarters they would've had a few comfortably 20+ point wins under their belt already.

We were down 14 in the 4th at Golden State and nearly came back and won; were down 12 at one point in the 4th against the Wizards with like 3-4 minutes to go and came back and won; and we were down 9 or 10 in the 4th tonight and 8-14 most of the 2nd half and flipped the switch midway through the 4th and came back and won. We did that a lot in 2012 and it was really stressful watching that team. Not sure it's good for my health to endure another 82+ game season of the same type of basketball.

[NugzFan]

It's one game in the regular season and Kendrick Perkins got a lot more minutes than Steven Adams so there is your answer

No that didn't answer anything.

[BlazerRed]

I don't know if I should be worried or just not care right now, but right now OKC is looking like the 2012 Thunder looked in a lot of regular season games. We're half-assing it or not even trying on defense for 2-3 quarters, being way too sloppy with the ball for 2-3 quarters, and then decide to just flip a switch in the 4th and win the game. If "flip the switch" OKC would've just shown up for about 2 to 2.5 quarters they would've had a few comfortably 20+ point wins under their belt already.

We were down 14 in the 4th at Golden State and nearly came back and won; were down 12 at one point in the 4th against the Wizards with like 3-4 minutes to go and came back and won; and we were down 9 or 10 in the 4th tonight and 8-14 most of the 2nd half and flipped the switch midway through the 4th and came back and won. We did that a lot in 2012 and it was really stressful watching that team. Not sure it's good for my health to endure another 82+ game season of the same type of basketball.

Definitely see where you're coming from. Very similar thus far. They did make the finals that year though.

[KG215]

Definitely see where you're coming from. Very similar thus far. They did make the finals that year though.
It's exciting and really stressful at the same time. It's at least a little bit encouraging simply because we've seen in most games that OKC is still really damn good when they're locked in. I mean they were down 14 (can't remember if it was early 4th or late 3rd quarter) on the road against a Golden State team that was shooting the lights out. Then they locked in on defense, the Warriors didn't make a 3 in the 4th, and were able to come back and make it a tightly contested game by the 2 or 3 minute mark.

They had no business winning against the Wizards and I thought we were really f***ed after Westbrook got ejected and we were still down 10 points with 3 minutes to go. Then Durant, Reggie, and Serge just took over on offense, and the team as a whole played great defense.

Same thing tonight. Really had no business winning that game. Their defense was incredibly lazy and just flatout awful for 3 quarters. Yes, Denver was hitting some tough shots, but they were also getting plenty of open looks from 3, and their drives to the basket were met with almost no resistance from help side defenders. And then the 4th starts with a Fournier 3 to make it a 12 point game, and comeback seemed hopeless. But OKC wakes up and focuses on defense, and holds the Nuggets to 10 points over the next 10 minutes of the quarter -- basically before Lawson's two baskets and the FT's the Nuggets made with under a minute to go. But their defense during that stretch (with about 11:30 to go in the 4th to about 1:00 to go in the 4th) was active and suffocating.



Basically, I say all that to say this. There are some pros to a team who can play disinterested, lifeless basketball for 3 quarters, flip a switch, and erase a double digit 4th quarter deficit and win or nearly win the game. It's a sign that, when focused (think Miami numerous times the last few years), they're really freakin' good. But playing that way can also develop some bad habits and some nights you're just not going to be able to completely work your way out of a 10-14 point 4th quarter hole.

And I don't think it's 100% attributable to "we don't care" syndrome. I think some of it is OKC incorporating several young, inexperienced players into the rotation -- Lamb, Adams, PJ3, and Reggie to a lesser extent (first full season Reggie is a part of the rotation and he's getting a heavy bump in minutes). I also think some of it is due to Durant being two things: 1.) he has been listless and has coasted through long stretches of quite a few games and 2.) he's being even more intentional in passing up good shots to kick out to a shooter or dump off to a big. He said it last year at some point during the season, but he's more conscious about building his teammates' confidence during the regular season so they'll (hopefully) be confident in the playoffs. And this year, it seems like he's taking it a step further since there's so many young players getting relatively heavy minutes.

[SillyRabbit]

And I don't think it's 100% attributable to "we don't care" syndrome. I think some of it is OKC incorporating several young, inexperienced players into the rotation -- Lamb, Adams, PJ3, and Reggie to a lesser extent (first full season Reggie is a part of the rotation and he's getting a heavy bump in minutes). I also think some of it is due to Durant being two things: 1.) he has been listless and has coasted through long stretches of quite a few games and 2.) he's being even more intentional in passing up good shots to kick out to a shooter or dump off to a big. He said it last year at some point during the season, but he's more conscious about building his teammates' confidence during the regular season so they'll (hopefully) be confident in the playoffs. And this year, it seems like he's taking it a step further since there's so many young players getting relatively heavy minutes.

I see a lot of this happening TBH.

Durant has consistently passed up good shooting or driving opportunities in order to get other players involved.

Getting the younger players up and going is important, even if it is frustrating to see some of the ups and downs that they experience throughout the season.

Even though Westbrook is the top scoring PG in the NBA right now, he still isn't back to top shape, and once he is IMO, that will make an even more significant boost to the team.

Hopefully by the playoffs, GOATbrook is back to his elite form, Durant is being Durant, Ibaka continues to be a viable 3rd scoring option and the young new players have become comfortable and effective playing a more prominent role.

[BlazerRed]

OKC were also HORRIBLE in the first half on the defensive glass. They gave up so many points from Denver offensive rebounds.

I really don't think OKC should be cruising. Unlike Miami, they haven't proved anything. They should have a lot of hunger after the last few years and should be out to prove they're the best in the west and be destroying teams. It's a bit odd.. yes the youngsters do have a little to do with it too.
Not exactly sure on his shooting numbers, but it looks like this year Durant is shooting pretty terrible in comparison to last year too, and Westbrook seems to be a bit rusty on his finishing and his turnovers. I've noticed Serge taking less deep twos which seemed to be a constant thing last year and he was hitting them, whereas today I maybe saw him shoot 1-2.

Edit: Also whoever negged me from this thread for talking unbiased basketball "**** yeah. You're a ****", really?