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Bump, edited OP, tbh
Just saw on ESPN that Durant is saying that he (Durant) is going to have to be much more aggressive on defense. Since he is not that accustomed to doing it, I predict that he will foul a lot. What is a question mark is how many fouls he will get called for.
I also predict that Perkins will go after at least one of the Spurs tonight. Maybe more.
Bump, edited OP, tbh
I won't be able to watch the game
Spurs by 11 despite some reffination in the second half.
GO SPURS GO!!!!!
record it idiot
Yeah and then wait all day till the evening to finaly watch it without knowing the result, which would be like 14 hours, idiot?
I am able to do that ... its hard but makeable ...
I would. I'd also turn off my phone and not get ST or any other online sports outlet. Not easy to do.
Living in SA and trying to do that is tough...That's how it is for the RS for me. Sometimes i'll have to record the game while the wife and I are out. It's almost unbearable tbh... to the point where I have to turn my cell off.
DVR and big games don't mix well. Every time I try and do this I break down and check the score.
I'll be working unfortunately is there any where I can listen to the game on my iPhone 5s
That sucks, why?
let's go get it!
Let's GO SPURS ! :flag
Let's GO SPURS !
Apparently, some little bird (and another 10,000 analysts) let it slip that the Thunder were playing without Serge Ibaka. The Spurs apparently heard the news as they set the tone in Game 1 by thrashing Oklahoma City in the paint with a staggering 66 points that more than doubled up their up-front production (32). The Thunder were able to stay alive for stretches by long range efforts from Durant, Westbrook, and Fisher, but were never really able to find a way to stop the Spurs offensive machine.
For Scott Brooks, he has a game plan that needs scrapping, without a lot of plan Cs, Ds, or Fs. The Thunder had their most effective stretch in the third quarter of Game 1 going big, but that same look got picked apart in the first half. Their small ball lineups leave gaping holes on defense that the entire team is accustomed to Ibaka covering up. Expect a few curveballs from the Thunder lineups, as well as for the defensive switches to start to come.
The Spurs main priority is to stay focused. They've done nothing but take care of business so far, and they need only to look to Indiana to see how quickly tides can change. Come out with the same intensity, focus, and execute.
Remember 2012.
FTT.
5.
Stephen A. Smith says OKC should go Small in order to try and beat the Spurs tonight....
Asked if OKC wins tonight? He simply replied "NO".
Im not sure if I agree with him about OKC going small, I think that would be bad for OKC, TBH.
His prediction is agreeable though.
I personally think they have to go small in order to have any shot. Over the long haul, IMO, that is the hardest line up for SA to match up with. If Ibaka was playing it would be the no brainer line up IMO. So losing him, they shouldn't go away from their best other 4 because of that.
Many think they should go big, which is the other option, but I personally think the that gives the Spurs an even bigger margin for error offensively even if going big might work a little better defensively for OKC.
Yup, staying big would force OKC to either a) take out Fish b) Not have Sef to guard Manu/TP. Their best lineup IMO is a small ball lineup w/ Collison at the 5. He's their best big on offense and their best PnR defender.
Their best way to defend SA right now is to dare Tim to beat them in the post or w/ a midrange jumper. Two things I'm not sure Duncan can do over the course of a game, let alone a series.
OKC will start the game with their big line-up and switching on everything, just like Dallas did, and like they did last night for a bit in the third quarter.
If we can sort out the switching against them faster and better than we did against Dallas, I think the series is settled. But they are still longer and more athletic than Dallas, and I expect the switching to give us turnover problems which will lead to transition baskets for OKC.
In other words, I expect to me a much more difficult game than the first one. I hope that we win it, though. I think we really need to get into their heads.
And Baynes needs to counter Adams whenever they use him.
Even if Westbrook and Durant averaged 30 points each, they would still need 40-45 points combined from everyone else to win a game in this series because no way in they're going to hold the Spurs under 100. If Fisher wasn't doing Fisher things against the Spurs, game one would have been truly ugly.
Go Spurs!! Fluck this Thunder team.
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