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EJ and the guys were talking about the fact that OKC almost NEVER gets an easy shot. They rely too much on individual creation, and when one of their creators goes down, they're up creek.
...as the ty coach that he is. His game plans had to get simpler with the loss of The Chimp, and he went the opposite way. Lol at getting cute in the 4th quarter at home trying that Hack Asik crap when his jumpshooting team needed rhythm to come back. Dude challenges VDN and D'Antoni for the worst decisions and the only reason he hasnt been exposed yet is because of the refs and miraculous shots. OKC will lose this series.
EJ and the guys were talking about the fact that OKC almost NEVER gets an easy shot. They rely too much on individual creation, and when one of their creators goes down, they're up creek.
He strikes me as someone who is best as an assistant. Still, I want him to remain because I'd hate to see OKC with a good coach, especially with the ref help.
In the games that Coach Bud was HC, he came across much more competent than Brooks. Knowing OKC, i wouldn't be shocked if they try to make an offer to Bud if they fire Brooks.
Watch both Boston and Houston rally from down 0-3 to win their series. That would be hilarious!
Where did 'The Chimp' moniker come from? Is it a spurstalk creation bc never heard it before.
Doesn't seem so smart without Harden and Westbrook.
As a Spurs fan, of course I welcome this move. But till today, I still don't understand it even assuming Westbrook is not injured.
You just don't trade your #2/3 player who is 23 and hasn't hit his peak yet, unless they have problems with your #1 player, which they did not. As good as Harden was, he even accepted the bench role. All he need is just a couple more million dollars a year. That's very reasonable.
Plus, their major opponent is the Heat, which means Perkins can be amnestied if they can't afford all of those players. LeBron them had to plot together to build a big 3, yet OKC just gave up their own big 3. That negates all the good moves Presti has made in the past.
Monkeyball - Low IQ style of basketball involving an over reliance on physical attributes and dunk shots to play the game. Examples of monkeyballers: DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin, Russell Westbrook (It doesn't help that Westbrook does have ape-ish facial features)
People were too quick to proclaim Presti a genius. Trading Harden was a terrible move, even more so when you look at the pitiful package they got in return.
also when the refs don't bail them out they up creek
I wouldn't call Westbrook monkey ball - guy's got a sweet jump shot. The others - sorry that their teams have to pay a bunch for them because of the scarcity of good big men.
He has definitely improved his jumper over the years ala Parker, but it is nowhere near as consistent. I still consider him a monkeyballer because when he doesn't know how to take what the defense gives him. He will force the issue when there is no need to. If you hit consecutive jumpers (3 or more), don't start driving the lane if the defense is still giving you the jumper and isn't letting you drive. That is low IQ basketball.
White and monkey don't belong in the same sentence.
Well as much of a Thunder basher as I am, that was actually not a bad move. From my understanding, they couldn't agree on a reasonable contract, so the thunder actually got something out of him instead of letting him walk for nothing. I knew/still know that OKC can't keep all that talent for long before egos take over. They drafted well and wont be able to afford to pay everybody. Ibakas next IMHO, this team's star power will eventually split up, Atleast some of it. But the harden move wasn't bad because they would have lost him anyway
If they had to trade Harden, this one with the Rockets is not a bad one. But the problem is they didn't need to go there in the first place. When the discrepancy is just money, that's the least you need to worry about. Unless Harden had beef with Durant and wanted to be Alpha dog like Marbury with KG, you don't trade him away.
From the Bulls to the Lakers to the Spurs, you don't see a team winning championships by trading away great players for good players plus draft picks. That kind of move can only help you when you are still in the growing process, and you trade away your aged-superstar for some future up-and-coming players. But OKC just went to the Finals, and Harden is 23 which means he is the present and the future.
That's not at all what happened. There was plenty of discussion back at the time of trade, but they could have easily kept Harden. They were eventually going to have to let one of their higher paid players go, but it didn't have to be Harden and it didn't have to happen when it did. Harden is currently in the last year of his rookie contract. If they did nothing at all, he would have been a restricted free agent this summer. There was zero danger that he could walk with OKC getting nothing in return. They had plenty of options besides selling Harden for pennies on the dollar.
The most useless & horrible "Hack-job" EVER!
Jan Vesely has potential, but he can't really get minutes to prove that white can monkeyball too.
When someone inbounds the ball from under your basket to you and you dribble and shoot a brick from 36 feet in the middle of the 2nd quarter. You are a monkeyballer.
Blake griffin. Jayson white chocolate williams.
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because it's a racist term
can't stand it personally but it's an open forum
From the Daily Thunder:
But let’s look at went horribly wrong tonight. Start with the painfully stupid decision to not just Hack-a-Turk, as Kevin McHale dubbed it, but to stick with it despite cutting the Rocket lead to six with 4:16 left. Asik made nine of his 14 free throw attempts in the fourth, giving the Rockets nine free points. After OKC had it to two possessions with four minutes left, the Thunder continued with the strategy, and gave the Rockets three added free points.
For a team that preaches defense, calls it their backbone, and was pretty damn good at it in the regular season (top five in defensive efficiency), the Thunder sure as didn’t trust it tonight. Yes, James Harden and the Rockets were scorching the Thunder on that end of the floor. And yes, Omer Asik isn’t a very good foul shooter (56 percent). But instead of forcing the youngest team in the postseason to execute in the halfcourt in an elimination game, on the road, with 18,000 rapid blue-shirted people screaming their faces off, Scott Brooks sucked the life out of the arena and put the Asik at the line four more times.
http://dailythunder.com/2013/05/thun...story-107-100/
Half of Blake Griffin.
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