Thank you for the grades, Bruno. It seems to me that they were realistic without being overly negative. I thought that OKC played as well as they could last night, and I was very impressed by them. I thought that the Spurs looked weak in several ways and I hope that Pop starts making them work harder in their practice sessions.
One of the things that I think this year will reveal is how well Pop coaches without Bud or Brown next to him. He has had Bud with him forever, and had Brown for a long time. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
Ok has a of a team and I don't think we would have beat them last year if not for the injury. I like our team but no way are we going to get close unless like last year every team we play against looses their top player to an injury. At this point if we have a chance to roll the dice and do a trade I would be all for it...Green/Bonner/CoJo..
They apparently reverted to the mean against Toronto
why do their role players always go ham against the Spurs though?
Well, we're the defending Western Conference champs. It has a nice ring to it, but it also comes with a bullseye on your back.
To me, OKC has two main weaknesses:
- Their bench is mostly a couple of young and relatively inexperienced players with Jackson and Lamb. Even if Jackson had good playoffs last year, I'm not sold on them being reliable players in a high level/intensity playoffs series.
- Aside of Ibaka, their bigmen suck. Perkins is a scrub. Collison is aging and hasn't been good this season.
In the playoffs, Thunder will surely go with Durant mostly playing PF because that's how they are the best and by far. Spurs should be prepared to face these kind of lineups.
I managed to tune in in the 2nd quarter and saw pop had tony, manu, beli, green and Duncan in there. I'm sorry but that lineup is collectively slow small and unathletic vs just about any team but especially okc. I don't think we've seen it in any other game, and pop trots it out in that situation? Crazy
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