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Did you enjoy that 16 hours of being the #1 seed Thunderup?
Take the 1st seed. It's a tougher path for us.
He who laughs last, laughs loudest.Did you enjoy that 16 hours of being the #1 seed Thunderup?
You're probably right but that will still be the Heat laughing all the way to their back to back.
Nah its called reality.
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hey thunderup how are the thunder gonna beat the heat? tbh
Miami has to go cold. Lebron needs to remember the playoff choker he was in year's prior to him ringing I reckon.
We have to be peaking at the right time. Last year I could have become a millionaire if each wide open missed shot from our players was worth a dollar. Our role players came back down to earth in the finals and stunk it up. James Harden choked like I've never seen a player with that much potential choke.
Chalmers needs to remember he's Chalmers and not the second coming of Isiah Thomas.
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Perkins needs to be planted onto the bench. He singlehandedly was the reason Bosh went off against us.
sounds like what has to happen for the spurs to beat the thunder tbh...ibaka needs to stop knocking down jumpshots like he's dirk...westbrook has to shoot them out of the series and collison and perkins need to remember who they are and not knock down 17ft jumpers...
When will you people realize Serge Ibaka's jumper is not a fluke? Serge Ibaka is the best 16-20 foot jump shooter on OKC's roster and probably top 3 in the NBA among big men from this range. Serge Ibaka is shooting 47% on the season from 16-23 feet - that's FIVE percentage points higher than Tim Duncan and SIX percentage points higher than Kevin Durant - yes I realize KD's are much more contested, but the fact is Serge Ibaka is a legit top tier perimeter shooting big man and you shouldn't be the least bit surprised if he goes 10-12 on you in a game.
It's not a fluke. Any NBA player should be capable of hitting a wide open 16-20 foot jumper on a consistent basis. And he gets as many wide-open midrange jumpers as anyone, thanks to Durant and Westbrook taking the defensive attention away from him.
It's like the way people were enamored with David West a couple years ago for hitting all those wide open mid-range jumpers that Chris Paul created for him.
more like the spurs need to play some defense, instead of thinking like their fans "we are the spurs, therefore we are en led to opponents missing wide open mid-range shots"
Yer nuts. When the others, Durant included are shaking uncontrollably come May he'll be destroying will and "urging" others to go away from the rim. Like Chandler in TX. two years ago.
You're right in that an NBA player should be able to hit wide open jumpers consistently, but nonetheless a frontcourt player that hits outside jumpers at that clip is still pretty impressive. And Ibaka's jumpers have become much more contested than they once were. When a guy starts shooting near 50% from the perimeter, the defense starts contesting more. Where I think Ibaka can really cause additional problems for a defense is if he starts becoming more efficient off the dribble, which he has shown some of lately. In the past it was pull the trigger on the jumper immediately or pass it. He's starting to show some pump fakes, a jab step, and occassionally taking his man off the dribble. His ability to finish off the dribble isn't exactly remarkable, but he's decent enough at it and athletic enough to pull it off some. I think this is the next step in his game - showing he has more offensive capability than just the outside jumper.
Not everything is in a stat line, a box score, or, a television screen.
He kills them on offense, Chandler at least was a good dive man on pick and rolls. Perkins is beyond useless on that end now
Perkins catches a lot of from fans and I do admit he has his limitations and has games vs certain opponents where it seems as though OKC wouldn't be any worse off if he just sat on the bench, but he also has stretches where he does things no other big in OKC can do - like holding Duncan, Jefferson, and...it was one other pretty good low post scorer, cant recall- but Perk held those 3 guys to a combined 31 points in 3 consecutive games on about 25% FG shooting. That's the stuff people dont stop and consider.
Mark my words one they take him out of the rotation they will soar. Much like Miami did when they threw in the towel on Joel Anthony. Asamof if Birdman was playing in Perk's place..
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