Official Thunderef Meltdown Thread

[superjames1992]

Go. :cry

[SpursFan86]

We were contenders but one regular season loss changed my opinion:depressed
We suck now:depressed
Front office couldn't surround Tim with talent:depressed

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

Some positives are that the Spurs defended Durant okay and that Leonard isn't a pussy who is afraid to shoot a shot that isn't wide open or a layup.

[therealtruth]

Don't forget no Ginbiboli, no rings.

[tmtcsc]

Holy shit, I hope this a joke thread. Don't sweat this loss, OKC isn't shit and the Spurs didn't quit. This game was just what Pop wanted to get a mental re-set. I hope we get the Thunder in the playoffs but I'm not sure they will make it. Tonight was a glorified practice.

[superjames1992]

We would have won with Manu. :cry

[tmtcsc]

Lol, Thunder with their starters in the game. They are in for a rude playoffs awakening and I hope we get the chance to deliver.

[DJR210]

:cry

[Bill_Brasky]

Fuck I hate westchimp haha

[KawhiLeonard]

Clippers got it in the bag stay clam

[Richie]

Really disappointed with Belinelli in this game. He was awful

[Quiet Strength]

Planet of the Westbrooks

[ElNono]

come on son... if after this game you don't think the Thunder is an average team, I don't know what to tell you.... Kiwi isn't going to be in foul trouble every game

[hater]

props to the Thunder they took the Spurs cookie like a damn bully :lol

If Spurs gonna bend over like that after a little adversity, might as well go ahead and forfeit the playoffs IMO

[hater]

come on son... if after this game you don't think the Thunder is an average team, I don't know what to tell you.... Kiwi isn't going to be in foul trouble every game

if Kawhi guards Durant most of the game every game. I can guarantee you he will be in fould trouble at least 50% of the time.

[spursparker9]

David Stern controlling the Refs even after retirement.

[cjw]

Add another 40-50 minutes of the Big 3 plus Kawhi and not coming off a back to back in the playoffs, I put little into the result here.

Just gotta hold two game lead in loss column, which is helped by Thunder having B2B tomorrow in Houston, one at Clippers (I imagine Westbrook rests night before that game against Kings). Pacers game as well in.

[ElNono]

if Kawhi guards Durant most of the game every game. I can guarantee you he will be in fould trouble at least 50% of the time.

yeah, but even today he held him to 28 points in 26 shots, and this is with 4 days of rest... this Thunder team is weak, tbh... huge difference when they had Harden off the bench...

[atoyotagaspedal]

http://i.imgur.com/JlTHIPN.jpg

[KaiRMD1]

We should have tanked when we had the chance

[SpurPadre]

Skip Bayless shitting on the refs on twitter

[hater]

yeah, but even today he held him to 28 points in 26 shots, and this is with 4 days of rest... this Thunder team is weak, tbh... huge difference when they had Harden off the bench...

this team bullied and toyed with the Spurs. if they're weak, Spurs are a bunch of women tbh

[DarrinS]

meh, obviously spurfan cares WAYYYY more about this game than the Spurs.

I think Durant and Westchimp played almost 40 min. -- lol

[DarrinS]

Duncan 28
Parker 25
Gino DNP

[SpurPadre]

meh, obviously spurfan cares WAYYYY more about this game than the Spurs.

I think Durant and Westchimp played almost 40 min. -- lol

I care about HCA and with this loss, we gave the Thunder a decent shot at taking that away from us.

[DarrinS]

I care about HCA and with this loss, we gave the Thunder a decent shot at taking that away from us.

We'll see. I'm an older fan, so all this shit is gravy to me.

[spurraider21]

we've known all along that OKC is our toughest matchup, even moreso than Miami. they have the same perimeter athleticism, but with a solid interior defense. I think it also hurt that we were on the 2nd of a b2b, 5th game in 8 days or something like that, and OKC was coming off 4 days rest and the game was in Methland. A lot of factors against us in this game, but the team showed in the 1st that they can still grind out points against this team.

The issue is, we aren't going to get our fancy pocket passes for layups against them. That's been their gameplan against us for a while. They challenge us to score 1 on 1, and play the pnr in a way to give us jump shots, which we're going to have to take/make. Even if we aren't scoring, we defend them pretty well. The issue is when we start committing turnovers and they start getting runouts... we ended the game with 18 turnovers. They're the toughest matchup, but it would be foolish to say "the spurs can't beat the thunder"

[ElNono]

this team bullied and toyed with the Spurs. if they're weak, Spurs are a bunch of women tbh

crofl, the Spurs didn't play well, and they still struggled to beat us at their place... Beli did look like a woman though, but it's expected when Manu isn't there to hold his hand, as I've been saying all along.

[HI-FI]

yeah, but even today he held him to 28 points in 26 shots, and this is with 4 days of rest... this Thunder team is weak, tbh... huge difference when they had Harden off the bench...
still got that whistle though. how long that Favored Nation status last for?

[DarrinS]

meh, there was obvious bullshit in that game (as expected), but give the thunderefs credit as the did play good D

[SpurPadre]

We'll see. I'm an older fan, so all this shit is gravy to me.

I'm not that young. It isn't an age issue, but more power to you, bro.

[ElNono]

still got that whistle though. how long that Favored Nation status last for?

The Spurs can't do anything about that. They just gotta make their shots and play through it. It is what it is.

[Solid D]

Didn't see the game, yet (prior commitment) but just saw the box score. Yikes!
Spurs FTM/FTA 9/12
Thunder FTM/FTA 20/23

[Mikeanaro]

No need to meldown guys but I found that Danny Green no shoot when he was fouled very stupid.

[Horse]

Sterns ghost loomed large this game. back to back 5th game in 7 nights thunder off for 3 day aside. The refs, first half in particular were as bad as you will ever see. Which lead to Kahwi not starting the 2nd half and what a surprise the thunder go on a run in the 3rd quarter. No Manu and Pop threw the towel in early. The non-calls become layups against this team while we can't even look at them without a whistle. The nba agenda is so transparent fuck those cocksucking son of a bitches.

[JohnRambo]

Sterns ghost loomed large this game. back to back 5th game in 7 nights thunder off for 3 day aside. The refs, first half in particular were as bad as you will ever see. Which lead to Kahwi not starting the 2nd half and what a surprise the thunder go on a run in the 3rd quarter. No Manu and Pop threw the towel in early. The non-calls become layups against this team while we can't even look at them without a whistle. The nba agenda is so transparent fuck those cocksucking son of a bitches.
lol :lol
we can't even look at them without a whistle.

[spurraider21]

resting only Manu is so retarded :lol

either go for the win or don't. taking away one of your most valuable pieces in whats already going to be a tough road b2b game is retarded. if he wanted to rest, should have gone all out. imo we should have played everybody. i think things could have gone differently if we had an additional able ballhandler, which belli clealry isn't

[JohnRambo]

Didn't see the game, yet (prior commitment) but just saw the box score. Yikes!
Spurs FTM/FTA 9/12
Thunder FTM/FTA 20/23
FT is not that important. You can't imagine a team with such physical D fouls even less than Spurs.

[Hoops Czar]

Spurs losses are never their fault. It's either injuries, refs or Stern's fault.

[spurraider21]

FT is not that important. You can't imagine a team with such physical D fouls even less than Spurs.
inconsistency is the issue. we got hammered in the paint plenty, westbrook had some blatant reaches from behind parker, etc. the spurs were getting fouls called for the same crap on the other end.

although the officiating was already poor in the 1st half, we held a lead. we lost the game with turnovers

[TampaDude]

we lost the game with turnovers

Well, when one team can hack and foul at will and not get whistled, then they will have a decisive advantage in the turnover department.

[spurraider21]

Well, when one team can hack and foul at will and not get whistled, then they will have a decisive advantage in the turnover department.
i agree to an extent, but we kept trying to fit little bounce passes on the pick and roll when OKC was clearly playing that pass all game long

[superjames1992]

resting only Manu is so retarded :lol

either go for the win or don't. taking away one of your most valuable pieces in whats already going to be a tough road b2b game is retarded. if he wanted to rest, should have gone all out. imo we should have played everybody. i think things could have gone differently if we had an additional able ballhandler, which belli clealry isn't
+1...

[Solid D]

I wasn't trying to say it was the officials' fault. I haven't seen the game, yet. I just was noticing the FT differential. 11 more is basically the winning margin in the game, rt. there.

[DarrinS]

thunder: 20/23 ft
spurs: 9/12

you can either blame that on refs or lack of agressiveness

[heyheymymy]

no excuses thunder did what they needed to do

[Aztecfan03]

I care about HCA and with this loss, we gave the Thunder a decent shot at taking that away from us.

Decent shot is a stretch. They are still 3 games back and 2 back in the loss column.

[MR-Clutch]

Just so spurs fan realize were not the only ones that see the in the foul calls. discrepancy. Fans of all teams calling out the refs in the reddit nba game thread. http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2258i9/game_thread_san_antonio_spurs_5916_oklahoma_city/

[ElNono]

thunder: 20/23 ft
spurs: 9/12

you can either blame that on refs or lack of agressiveness

it's ok.. it's home cooking... we don't bring it up when it favor us... I though we were generally aggressive though... at least until the 3rd quarter...

[AFBlue]

Home court is needed to beat this team tbqh. Refs and Ok City = bad matchup for Spurs.

[AFBlue]

Spurs need to nut up too though...too much respect for Thunder inside guys leading to missed opportunities on O.

[dallasmaverickslose]

Can somebody explain the tech on Timmy? I only got to watch the first quarter, but I saw on the stat sheet the Timmy tech. Was he arguing about a call or something?

[Spurs da champs]

Man Westbrook was just running over Patty & Tony, no doubt about it, however, the game was lost with that horrendous lineup Pop threw out their to start the 2nd half.

[RD2191]

Can somebody explain the tech on Timmy? I only got to watch the first quarter, but I saw on the stat sheet the Timmy tech. Was he arguing about a call or something?

Kendrick Perkins pushed him in the back and Tim got a tech for it. No lie.

[dallasmaverickslose]

Kendrick Perkins pushed him in the back and Tim got a tech for it. No lie.

Any youtube clips on it? That's some major bs

[RD2191]

Any youtube clips on it? That's some major bs

Should be in the game thread or GIF thread.

[FireMicoHalili]

Read our passing lanes well. No excuses for that one. We got checked.

[lofds]

They let themselves get flustered by the swarming defense of OKC and TURNOVERS, TURNOVERS, TURNOVERS! They score 30 fucking points off turnovers and win by 12. Sure, you can't be perfect but even if they didn't go for those stupid little pocket passes in the heaviest traffic, they're in with a chance.

Fuck the refs for teching Duncan as well, that's some bullshit right there.

[playbonner15]

Any youtube clips on it? That's some major bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWgXWDxFLY

[Arc]

the calls i didn't like:

phantom foul on kawhi setting a screen
the tech on duncan
danny green non shooting foul
and the no call on chimpfuck tripping up patty and getting an easy steal n layup

the refs were not gonna let us win this game, but we looked done in the third anyway. b2b and 5in7 will do that to you.

[will_spurs]

One of the issues is that some of our shooters (mostly Green and Beli) are so used to getting WIDE open shots that they kept passing on decent shots, forcing some other players to take horrible shots to beat the shot clock. Green and Beli need to grow a pair and shoot when they get a decent opportunity, because those WIDE open shots aren't coming against such a committed defense, not matter how many extra passes you make.

Mills let it fly and the difference was obvious.

[cd98]

The passing wasn't crisp last night. Spurs will have to string together 4 perfect games to beat Thunder in the playoffs.

[urunobili]

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs6/i/2005/115/7/e/__Jump_Off_a_Cliff___Emoticon_by_neek_zique.gif

[ManuTastic]

we've known all along that OKC is our toughest matchup, even moreso than Miami. they have the same perimeter athleticism, but with a solid interior defense. I think it also hurt that we were on the 2nd of a b2b, 5th game in 8 days or something like that, and OKC was coming off 4 days rest and the game was in Methland. A lot of factors against us in this game, but the team showed in the 1st that they can still grind out points against this team.

The issue is, we aren't going to get our fancy pocket passes for layups against them. That's been their gameplan against us for a while. They challenge us to score 1 on 1, and play the pnr in a way to give us jump shots, which we're going to have to take/make. Even if we aren't scoring, we defend them pretty well. The issue is when we start committing turnovers and they start getting runouts... we ended the game with 18 turnovers. They're the toughest matchup, but it would be foolish to say "the spurs can't beat the thunder"

Good eyes. On top of this, last night we got some horseshit calls (two no-calls on Ibaka fouling Timmy on layups close to halftime, Kawhi's touch foul on the screen, and the idiotic double technical on Timmy and Fatty Perkins), and Beli couldn't hit the side of a barn.

[ceperez]

Good eyes. On top of this, last night we got some horseshit calls (two no-calls on Ibaka fouling Timmy on layups close to halftime, Kawhi's touch foul on the screen, and the idiotic double technical on Timmy and Fatty Perkins), and Beli couldn't hit the side of a barn.

Not going to blame the officials here.

Beli couldn't convert because he was covered.

Patty Mills because of his size is alway used to being covered, so he scored by finding his shot.

Green was also tentative, he should know that in this type of a game, he's shouldn't expect wide open shots.

It is a good thing they lost. Regular season wide open shots are not going to be there in a playoff game.

[RD2191]

Pop didn't give a shit about this game, if he did he would of played Manu and Kawhi would of started the 3rd. Pop saw what he needed to see in the 1st half of the game.

[superbigtime]

One of the issues is that some of our shooters (mostly Green and Beli) are so used to getting WIDE open shots that they kept passing on decent shots, forcing some other players to take horrible shots to beat the shot clock. Green and Beli need to grow a pair and shoot when they get a decent opportunity, because those WIDE open shots aren't coming against such a committed defense, not matter how many extra passes you make.

Mills let it fly and the difference was obvious.

[spurtech09]

I think it would of been a different game if the spurs had any energy.....spurs just ran out of gas while the thunder was on full gas.....plus you can add that the refs were giving the game away but that's just my opinion....spurs lost one game no biggie ....time to rest up and get back on track

[spurtech09]

I will make it easy for yall.....spurs were just tired

[LakerHater]

No big deal, Thunder had thier starters till the end & really couldn't put away our bench!

Not too worried, Manu coulda been out X-factor!

[G-Dawgg]

The Spurs are clearly scared of OKC. They get stagefright every time the two teams meet. They start uncharacteristically throwing the ball away and turning the ball over, they start missing easy chips at the rim, and missing wide open jumpers that they normally hit in their sleep.. they clearly get over excited and rattled. They scramble around and just can't seem to execute. They are clearly intimidated. Parker seems to be the most rattled of the Spurs, and he's our engine, he's our quarterback.... The Spurs do not appear confident when they play OKC. They seem very tentative.

[r0drig0lac]

if the refs do what they did yesterday, does not help the team to change their style of play, at the time of balance, the Spurs will be removed from the game. Yesterday was only five minutes full assaulto (like game 6), and voila, the game got out of control.

[G-Dawgg]

Don't blame it on the refs. That's a cop out..

[Dex]

Spursfan's go-to move with the Thunder is to blame the refs.

I'm not saying the Spurs didn't get jobbed in 2012 Game 6, but still...it's gotten annoying. The Spurs are going to have to learn to beat the Thunder with the refs, because they aren't going anywhere.

[SpursFan86]

Spursfan's go-to move with the Thunder is to blame the refs.

Seriously. Look at the game thread...half of the posts are people whining about the officiating. People completely ignore how our players were missing easy shots and making mistakes and just focus on every call the refs made.

[Seventyniner]

Can somebody explain the tech on Timmy? I only got to watch the first quarter, but I saw on the stat sheet the Timmy tech. Was he arguing about a call or something?

It was a double tech on Tim and Perkins. The lead TNT announcer was basically being a Thunder cheerleader the whole game and even he thought it should have been a tech only on Perkins.

[RD2191]

The refs had a strong influence on the game last night. Kawhi had Durant at 1-7 before getting fucked on a stupid call.

[heyheymymy]

refs are always gonna be bad, just gotta take that into account, spurs pulled the foot off the gas, or probably just ran out of gas, but look at the first half, that's prob how a playoff game would be against okc, plus manu, and a bit more effort and taking it serious.

[Brazil]

One of the issues is that some of our shooters (mostly Green and Beli) are so used to getting WIDE open shots that they kept passing on decent shots, forcing some other players to take horrible shots to beat the shot clock. Green and Beli need to grow a pair and shoot when they get a decent opportunity, because those WIDE open shots aren't coming against such a committed defense, not matter how many extra passes you make.

Mills let it fly and the difference was obvious.

:tu

[Dex]

26/30 threads on the front-page about last night's game or the Thunder. And that's NOT counting the Race to the #1 Seed thread.

Over a loss that most of us were expecting in the first place.

Yep, SpursTalk is back to normal, alright.

[HI-FI]

the calls i didn't like:

phantom foul on kawhi setting a screen
the tech on duncan
danny green non shooting foul
and the no call on chimpfuck tripping up patty and getting an easy steal n layup

the refs were not gonna let us win this game, but we looked done in the third anyway. b2b and 5in7 will do that to you.
pretty much this.

OKC was allowed to play beyond physical, barreling through niggas on steals, and Spurs were getting called for ticky tack bs.
It's a sobering loss but a needed one, Spurs need to realize the intensity and officiating that will occur at OKC.

[313]

pretty much this.

OKC was allowed to play beyond physical, barreling through niggas on steals, and Spurs were getting called for ticky tack bs.
It's a sobering loss but a needed one, Spurs need to realize the intensity and officiating that will occur at OKC.
It's unfair that we should have to not only worry about the opposing team, but also the refs. Life isn't fair, though. I still believe we can beat them in a 7 game series, with or without home court. As long as we win our games at home, I think we can steal a game in OKC.

[313]

One of the issues is that some of our shooters (mostly Green and Beli) are so used to getting WIDE open shots that they kept passing on decent shots, forcing some other players to take horrible shots to beat the shot clock. Green and Beli need to grow a pair and shoot when they get a decent opportunity, because those WIDE open shots aren't coming against such a committed defense, not matter how many extra passes you make.

Mills let it fly and the difference was obvious.


Pop didn't give a shit about this game, if he did he would of played Manu and Kawhi would of started the 3rd. Pop saw what he needed to see in the 1st half of the game.


I think it would of been a different game if the spurs had any energy.....spurs just ran out of gas while the thunder was on full gas.....plus you can add that the refs were giving the game away but that's just my opinion....spurs lost one game no biggie ....time to rest up and get back on track


:tu

[FromWayDowntown]

Second night of a late-season back-to-back on the road against a motivated opponent isn't so easy.

[Budkin]

Second night of a late-season back-to-back on the road against a motivated opponent isn't so easy.

The sad part is they still get those fucking calls on the road.