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Team is poorly put together. Kobe's declining fast. Phil is the most overrated coach in NBA history. Thunder are damn good.
Its a bunch of things.
Team is poorly put together. Kobe's declining fast. Phil is the most overrated coach in NBA history. Thunder are damn good.
Its a bunch of things.
They were too slow. They're a slow team, when they can't control the tempo of the game versus a team like OKC, they're in trouble -> horrible defending the transition, horrible on the backboards.
They had bad spacing. They lack reliable outside shooters.
They will be fine in LA for Game 5. They will have the extra day to rest and it will make all the difference.
Lest we forget how suffocating their defense was in Game 1. All they need to do is replicate that effort and even a mediocre offensive showing will be enough to win the game.
The Thunder still don't know what it's like to play a game of this magnitude, and the Lakers most certainly do. LA will be ready and the refs will most certainly be on their side which will help big time. Expect to see the Lakers winning the F/T battle and thus winning the game.
Sweet Jesus, Dazed, I pray ye of great faith are correct.
Kevin Ding: Lakers will sweep Thunder
http://www.ocregister.com/sports/thu...on-lakers.html
The worst thing any playoff-qualifying team can feel is successful based on regular-season overachievement.
When it gets hard in the playoffs, as it assuredly will, that sense of satisfaction morphs into the grim reaper. The fleeting, subconscious thought: "It has been a great season," means a sigh gets exhaled when teeth absolutely need to be gritted to survive.
Maybe – just maybe – if a team is experienced enough to guard against human nature, then the damage from such a letdown can be somewhat mitigated.
Except the Oklahoma City Thunder is the NBA's youngest team.
Not the youngest playoff team. The youngest team.
So it'll be over fast, a trap door suddenly opening under the Thunder's currently happy but toddler-sized feet.
The Lakers will sweep the Thunder.
Serious basketball pundits everywhere are questioning the Lakers. Local Chicken Littles are running around and nervously glancing up at the sky. Those two worlds have collided and resulted in yolk falling on the heads of Ron Artest and DJ Mbenga.
Nevertheless, the Lakers have nothing to fear for now. Long, lean Kevin Durant will turn out to be the longest straw the Lakers could've drawn. The defending NBA champs will get plenty of time to rest their boo-boos and improve in practice before having to be truly playoff-ready in the second round.
Durant and Westbrook are Oklahoma City's best players, and they're both 21. The third- and fourth-leading scorers are Jeff Green and James Harden, who have a combined four years in the NBA. The Thunder has no playoff pedigree whatsoever except for scant minutes scraped together by Nick Collison, Nenad Krstic and Thabo Sefolosha.
There's simply no chance the Thunder's players show poise, and the way they wilted late in the season when home-court advantage became a real possibility to win was just a preview of coming-apart attractions.
That's only a problem if the Thunder care what it's like to play a game of this magnitude.
Wow, racist much?
IMHO, Brooks has outcoached KFC
Agreed 100%
Yep, Brooks didn't go the route of many in the past: play it for fun, act incredulous at every opportunity, play to the crowd off the refs.
Brooks doesn't castigate the refs and then storm off smiling like a fool. He makes his point, accepts the moment and goes to his people.
He's not trying to beat the Lakers, he's trying to win games. It's not personal. Uh, uh, Just business.
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If Brooks coached a decent game in game 2, OKC is up 3-1 in this series..he absolutely cost them the game with his coaching IMO..he ran a lineup without Durant, Westbrook and Thabo for the first 5 minutes of the 4th quarter with the Lakers struggling to score and Kobe being on the bench for half that time + Gasol being on the bench for that entire stretch..both teams played to an even score during that time, when the Thunder probably would have been in control had they had even 1 of their go-to guys on the floor at the time..
Then putting a struggling Jeff Green on Kobe in the 4th quarter was a horrible move..that was one of the few times Kobe has gotten in any kind of rhythm in this series..Green is significantly inferior to Thabo as a defender and he's been a horrible offensive player in this series..
I chalk it up to inexperience, it happens, but I wouldn't say Brooks is outcoaching anybody so far(outcoaching is kind of BS anyways)..
Or, if Phil had coached a decent game in game 3 we'd be up 3-1 in this series.
i bet you think the same way with FabioI bet your dad thinks the same about your mother.
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