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hahahah, Beano is close to serial killin everyone on the roster, he's on the tipping point.... I'm awaiting the internet memes to come out, as this one should be by far the best one.... after the Bulls loss last night
Everyone else on the Los Angeles Lakers had showered, dressed and bundled themselves to march out into the coldest night across the past two winters here. As the clock lurched past midnight in the losing locker room, the team bus gone, Kobe Bryant still wore his purple and gold jersey inside a tiny cubicle
then he tweets this ominosity Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata calms me down when I reach my breaking point
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^ I'm sure Kobe watches it every single night lately
just wrapping up watching the Clippers Thunder game..... and this is exactly the reason why I said the Thunder will not beat the Clippers in the Playoffs...
every single player on the Thunder gave it their all and played very well, Clippers without Chris Paul and it's still a game to the very end.
And on top of that, a few guys from the Clips had an off game as well
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^ I'm sure Kobe watches it every single night lately
just wrapping up watching the Clippers Thunder game..... and this is exactly the reason why I said the Thunder will not beat the Clippers in the Playoffs...
every single player on the Thunder gave it their all and played very well, Clippers without Chris Paul and it's still a game to the very end.
And on top of that, a few guys from the Clips had an off game as well
You know, regular season games really don't mean shit if you're trying to make a comparison for playoffs....I'm not disagreeing (or agreeing) with you that the Clips will beat the Thunder in the playoffs, but, in all reality, a regular season game in the middle of January simply doesn't mean anything....These teams will play with a different kind of effort, game plan, possibly a slightly different roster, and it will be a 7 game series with many, many game-to-game changes in strategy. Clips lost to OKC 2 months ago in OT too when both teams were pretty much healthy....Like I said, it doesn't mean anything, especially your argument as to why the Clippers would win: because CP3 was injured, some Clips had a poor game, and they still made a game out of it....big deal, Wizards beat Miami last month, should we crown them as Champs?
You know, regular season games really don't mean shit if you're trying to make a comparison for playoffs....I'm not disagreeing (or agreeing) with you that the Clips will beat the Thunder in the playoffs, but, in all reality, a regular season game in the middle of January simply doesn't mean anything....These teams will play with a different kind of effort, game plan, possibly a slightly different roster, and it will be a 7 game series with many, many game-to-game changes in strategy. Clips lost to OKC 2 months ago in OT too when both teams were pretty much healthy....Like I said, it doesn't mean anything, especially your argument as to why the Clippers would win: because CP3 was injured, some Clips had a poor game, and they still made a game out of it....big deal, Wizards beat Miami last month, should we crown them as Champs?
I'm making a matchup comparison between two teams that will probably meet in the Playoffs Western Conference finals. And today's game wasn't a typical regular season game for either of these teams let's be real.
So far until seeing today's game all I had was my assumptions based on what I've seen from these two teams this season.
But after watching the game I'm even more convinced that Thunder are outmatched come playoff time.
This game alone showed why, I mean the fact that the Thunder were on fire and playing at a pace that no team can keep up in a 7 game series (typically a team will have 2 games like this if they're lucky in a playoff series) and they barely won... that should tell you a lot..
And ok as far as Playoff intricacies like adjustments etc.... Scott Brooks' biggest flaw as a coach as is already widely known is the inability to make proper adjustments during a series, he just relies on Durant being himself and Westbrook the same... this team is dead in the water when they're down, I've seen it few times this season with my own eyes. And Vinny isn't much better than Brooks when it comes to this but at least he has Chris Paul on his side, the smartest player in the game... also Billups lest not forget
If the Thunder played mediocre and won, I wouldn't come to the conclusions I came too, but the fact that Thunder played as well as they possibly could and still barely got a win tells me more than enough....
I mean an off night from Bledsoe, Jordan, and Butler.... just one of these fckin guys alone playing their typical good all around game would have been enough to beat the Thunder tonight. And you STILL got Chris and Billups on the bench.... this is why I'm convinced, not because I'm a biased Chris Paul Clippers fan
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I'm making a matchup comparison between two teams that will probably meet in the Playoffs Western Conference finals. And today's game wasn't a typical regular season game for either of these teams let's be real.
So far until seeing today's game all I had was my assumptions based on what I've seen from these two teams this season.
But after watching the game I'm even more convinced that Thunder are outmatched come playoff time.
This game alone showed why, I mean the fact that the Thunder were on fire and playing at a pace that no team can keep up in a 7 game series (typically a team will have 2 games like this if they're lucky in a playoff series) and they barely won... that should tell you a lot..
And ok as far as Playoff intricacies like adjustments etc.... Scott Brooks' biggest flaw as a coach as is already widely known is the inability to make proper adjustments during a series, he just relies on Durant being himself and Westbrook the same... this team is dead in the water when they're down, I've seen it few times this season with my own eyes. And Vinny isn't much better than Brooks when it comes to this but at least he has Chris Paul on his side, the smartest player in the game... also Billups lest not forget
If the Thunder played mediocre and won, I wouldn't come to the conclusions I came too, but the fact that Thunder played as well as they possibly could and still barely got a win tells me more than enough....
I mean an off night from Bledsoe, Jordan, and Butler.... just one of these fckin guys alone playing their typical good all around game would have been enough to beat the Thunder tonight. And you STILL got Chris and Billups on the bench.... this is why I'm convinced, not because I'm a biased Chris Paul Clippers fan
I watched the same game as you and what I saw was a Thunder team playing great in spurts....They did not play a great game for a full 48 minutes.....They would play great for 8 minutes, take a convincing lead and make me think the game was over, and then let their guard down for the next 6 minutes allowing the Clips right back in it, but then pick it up right before the Clips got a real chance to complete a comeback......That's what I saw, and we both watched the game game....Sure Bledsoe, Jordan, and Butler may have had "off nights"....but the Thunder seemed to play like they just didn't give a shit for 40% of the game, or whenever they managed to gain a convincing lead....
So who knows, maybe if Bledsoe, Butler, and Jordan played a better game and actually made it tough for the Thunder to re-gain their convincing lead, we would've seen the Thunder playing at 100% for the entire game....I'm sure you've experienced that before, haven't you? Gain a convincing lead, then start taking it easy and getting complacent, thinking the game is over, until the opposition actually makes another run at you...
I guess then, we saw the same game but a different one at the same time.
Because I saw the Clippers giving it their all fighting the whole game to keep the lead manageable in order to get within striking distance (which they did in the 4th) and the Thunder fighting just as hard fending them off all night long, because every team knows a 10 point cushion is nothing, but I saw both teams going one hundred. Except First quarter was a little lame yes and that will happen even in playoffs, but I didn't see anybody slacking or goin easy, it was non stop action especially the second half.
goin to bed now but I wonder if they play each other again before the season ends, gonna have to look that up tomorrow
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it sucks that the nba now lost its credibility a little bit when it comes to regular season...
I miss the days when Jordan took over the game as he didn't want to lose to the vancouver grizzlies... what was that? 18 pts in 6 minutes or something.. or every game was intense because everyone doesn't want to lose to anyone.
But now..it's more of a "it's just a regular season..it's ok.. they aren't trying for 48minutes" lol
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LOL.. agreed..so sad ahah.... but if lakers lose to a "crappy" team..ppl say lakers are a joke, etc etc.... but if miami loses to one..it's "who cares..it's the regular season".. and i'm not just referring to this season lol
I guess then, we saw the same game but a different one at the same time.
Because I saw the Clippers giving it their all fighting the whole game to keep the lead manageable in order to get within striking distance (which they did in the 4th) and the Thunder fighting just as hard fending them off all night long, because every team knows a 10 point cushion is nothing, but I saw both teams going one hundred. Except First quarter was a little lame yes and that will happen even in playoffs, but I didn't see anybody slacking or goin easy, it was non stop action especially the second half.
goin to bed now but I wonder if they play each other again before the season ends, gonna have to look that up tomorrow
I guess then, we saw the same game but a different one at the same time.
Because I saw the Clippers giving it their all fighting the whole game to keep the lead manageable in order to get within striking distance (which they did in the 4th) and the Thunder fighting just as hard fending them off all night long, because every team knows a 10 point cushion is nothing, but I saw both teams going one hundred. Except First quarter was a little lame yes and that will happen even in playoffs, but I didn't see anybody slacking or goin easy, it was non stop action especially the second half.
goin to bed now but I wonder if they play each other again before the season ends, gonna have to look that up tomorrow
OKC's biggest lead was 16 points, and it kept on going from 15ish points to 5ish back to 15ish back to 5ish....They never really had control of the game, and my bet is that they could've kept it around 15 if they didn't get complacent...
BTW, don't you find the Clips commentators so annoying? So biased, and, more often than not, so wrong.
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it sucks that the nba now lost its credibility a little bit when it comes to regular season...
I miss the days when Jordan took over the game as he didn't want to lose to the vancouver grizzlies... what was that? 18 pts in 6 minutes or something.. or every game was intense because everyone doesn't want to lose to anyone.
But now..it's more of a "it's just a regular season..it's ok.. they aren't trying for 48minutes" lol
sad..really
Nowadays, the studs don't REALLY start trying until the 4th quarter if it's a close game...back then, it wasn't necessarily all the different either....Only reason why Jordan went off for "18 points in 6 minutes or something" was because Mike James talked shit to him....
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