Game Thread: Spurs @ OKC -- Game 4 - Sun (5/8) - 7:00PM CST (3:00AM Riga)

[Harry Callahan]

Kawhi will most definitely up Durant on Tuesday. Westchimp will get impatient. Game over.

[Kawhitstorm]

Or the Clippers the number 3 seed. But you know why they didn't gey the 3rd seed? 'cause they are a lesser team than OKC. Shhhh, don't tell anybody this. Apparently this is some kind of undiscovered secret around these parts.

Re is a more dependable 3rd scorer than Dion Butters & Tony isn't having flashback games against CP3.

[DAF86]

I have more fate in Austin Rivers scoring against Patty than Waiters showing up for 2 games in a row against a contender.

It doesn't have to be waiters tbh. It could be Foye, or Kanter, or Ibaka going 11 for 11, or Westbrook scoring 40, or 30 offensive rebounds, or anything else that can happen and you would call a fluke, tbh.

[oh crap]

Kawhi will most definitely up Durant on Tuesday. Westchimp will get impatient. Game over.

Cool! Durant got 41 tonight but he's going to the bed next game. "Westchimp" is pretty original. Got any lotto numbers for me, oh great one?

[Harry Callahan]

Waiters is a selfish, ignorant, loser. I'm not sure he speaks english.

[oh crap]

I'm not sure he speads english.

I'm not sure you do.

[DAF86]

Cool! Durant got 41 tonight but he's going to the bed next game. "Westchimp" is pretty original. Got any lotto numbers for me, oh great one?

2. That's the number of games KD has left as a Thunder player.

[Harry Callahan]

Cool! Durant got 41 tonight but he's going to the bed next game. "Westchimp" is pretty original. Got any lotto numbers for me, oh great one?

Obvious contrarian troll. Nobody actually likes the Atlanta Hawks outside of friends and family. Go to sleep skippy.

[Kawhitstorm]

It doesn't have to be waiters tbh. It could be Foye, or Kanter, or Ibaka going 11 for 11, or Westbrook scoring 40, or 30 offensive rebounds, or anything else that can happen and you would call a fluke, tbh.

Did I call Kanter/Adams feasting on Diaw/West or Ibaka making five 3s a fluke? (Waiters/Foye are Austin Rivers status players)

[SAGirl]

I hope you are right and Patty shows up at home.

[SASdynasty!]

Re is a more dependable 3rd scorer than Dion Butters & Tony isn't having flashback games against CP3.

Tony went for 20/5/5 in Game 7 last year against the Clippers.

[Kawhitstorm]

Tony went for 20/5/5 in Game 7 last year against the Clippers.

You mean the game Chris Paul left after he pulled his hammy & Tony wet the bed in the 4th quarter while Chris Paul went nuts?

[SASdynasty!]

You mean the game Chris Paul left after he pulled his hammy & Tony wet the bed in the 4th quarter while Chris Paul went nuts?

Parker went 4/4/1 in under 9 minutes in the 4th, including scoring the Spurs last basket. Yah CP3 went off in the 4th against Parker then Green then Kawhi then hits the game winner over Duncan. No one was stopping him. And no one else on the Spurs was doing anything in the 4th either.

[Kawhitstorm]

Parker went 4/4/1 in under 9 minutes in the 4th, including scoring the Spurs last basket. Yah CP3 went off in the 4th against Parker then Green then Kawhi then hits the game winner over Duncan. No one was stopping him. And no one else on the Spurs was doing anything in the 4th either.

Meanwhile, the athletic freak that is WestBrick plays turnstile defense despite being 100%.

This was the killer sequence by Tony at the end of Gm 7 when they had a chance to pull away:

2:51.0	T. Parker misses 3-pt shot from 23 ft		103-102
2:50.0	Offensive rebound by K. Leonard		103-102
2:48.0	K. Leonard makes 2-pt shot from 2 ft	+2	105-102
2:31.0			105-102		C. Paul misses 2-pt shot from 3 ft
2:29.0	Defensive rebound by T. Parker		105-102
2:25.0	T. Parker misses 2-pt shot from 4 ft		105-102
2:22.0			105-102		Defensive rebound by M. Barnes
2:12.0			105-105	+3	M. Barnes makes 3-pt shot from 25 ft (assist by J. Re )
1:52.0	B. Diaw misses 2-pt shot from 2 ft		105-105
1:51.0			105-105		Defensive rebound by M. Barnes
1:33.0			105-105		B. Griffin misses 2-pt shot from 4 ft (block by D. Green)
1:31.0	Defensive rebound by T. Parker		105-105
1:27.0	T. Parker misses 2-pt shot at rim (block by J. Re )		105-105

[spurs10]

Cool! Durant got 41 tonight but he's going to the bed next game. "Westchimp" is pretty original. Got any lotto numbers for me, oh great one?

2. That's the number of games KD has left as a Thunder player.

Yes Crap- 2 is your lucky number just like your name- #2.

[rasuo214]

Parker wasn't a problem today, he made some good shots. Just like Kawhi was huge for most of the game. Bottom line is other guys need to step up and help. Before Durant went supernova him and Westbrook were struggling and yet they kept it close because others guys stepped up, in previous games Ibaka has been huge as well. The Spurs haven't gotten a whole lot outside of Kawhi, Parker and LMA and that isn't a good thing.

[DenialTwist]

Parker as the leading shot taker and shotmaker is not going to win the spurs this series. It has to be LMA and Kawhi. Danny Green needs to make some threes. Spurs don't deserve to play the Warriors if they play like this. I say Thunder in 6. Next season they will have to upgrade their backcourt and either get rid of Parker and Green for a big name FA or look for a big man to help LMA down low for rebounding and defense. Duncan looks ready to retire, it's sad.

[Horry Hipcheck]

They were fouling the out of OKC in the 1st and getting away with it. A couple of those steals by Anderson were the results of questionable contact. There was a lot of contact early, Spurs were very aggressive going for steals. When the officiating adjusted the Spurs didn't. That's how OKC lives, and we know it and we allowed it. We didn't guard without fouling. We let Adams be more effective than Tim Duncan and unguarded basically. We allowed too many scrub players to shine. KD is going to get his, but you cannot allow Foye, Kanter, Adams and Waiters to all go off on you. You have to stop someone. We didn't and it's not because of the refs. If it makes you feel better to say it was, that's your out.

Uh, no, the context of the game shifted far more dramatically than just "the Spurs were fouling hard in the first and getting away with it". The first quarter was almost entirely KD and Westbrook bricking jump shots. Then when the whistles start hitting in the second, they were for ticky tack fouls that the Spurs were not being given at the other end. Their offensive rhythm changed, Duncan got his fourth after like 20 minutes of game time, and barely saw the court again after that. Pop went with West for most of the stretch. And believe you me, I'm plenty upset about that failure to adjust, but to cavalierly dismiss the change in officiating like it wasn't one-sided and suggest that that doesn't impact the game, is ridiculous.

[MilesTeg]

Durant is untouchable. That's the only reason they don't get blown out. With a fair treatment they can't even stay close to us because they just aren't that very good at basketball. Then again OKC is a team that consistently gets away with it, so we'll just have to play 5v8 and win. We've done it before.

[Harry Callahan]

Durant is untouchable. That's the only reason they don't get blown out. With a fair treatment they can't even stay close to us because they just aren't that very good at basketball. Then again OKC is a team that consistently gets away with it, so we'll just have to play 5v8 and win. We've done it before.

Agreed. I would like to know how many minutes the thunder were in the penalty last night versus the Spurs - the difference is likely staggering. Kawhi has do endure body blocks and people going for his knees and you can't fart on Durant or Westbrick.

[NameLess Scrub]

I wasn't even watching, but listening, and there were a couple of calls that just sounded bogus .

That said, I sounded like Kawhi was unable to execute at the end of quarters vs Durant.

Also, OKC won every quarter except the 1st.

[loveforthegame]

I wasn't even watching, but listening, and there were a couple of calls that just sounded bogus .

That said, I sounded like Kawhi was unable to execute at the end of quarters vs Durant.

Also, OKC won every quarter except the 1st.

Some very ridiculous calls.

Leonard actually carried his performance over from last game. Aggressive to the basket. Decisive. But once he banged knees with Kanter he wasn't the same player at all.

[polandprzem]

Some very ridiculous calls.

Leonard actually carried his performance over from last game. Aggressive to the basket. Decisive. But once he banged knees with Kanter he wasn't the same player at all.

And it's not a good sign when he said he had to push through it later on ...


All in all disappointing outcome tbh. When OKC was losing at the end of the games - now all of sudden they are killers? WTF is that?

[SASdynasty!]

Parker as the leading shot taker and shotmaker is not going to win the spurs this series. It has to be LMA and Kawhi. Danny Green needs to make some threes. Spurs don't deserve to play the Warriors if they play like this. I say Thunder in 6. Next season they will have to upgrade their backcourt and either get rid of Parker and Green for a big name FA or look for a big man to help LMA down low for rebounding and defense. Duncan looks ready to retire, it's sad.

Parker hasn't been the leading shot taker in any game this playoffs (including this one). Both Aldridge and Kawhi took more shots than him, as they have every game this playoffs. He just made more than them last night, but please don't act like Parker ever shoots more than Kawhi or Aldridge.

[spurs10]

I wasn't even watching, but listening, and there were a couple of calls that just sounded bogus .

That said, I sounded like Kawhi was unable to execute at the end of quarters vs Durant.

Also, OKC won every quarter except the 1st.

We were up by 4 going into the 4th.