OKC Thunder 2013 - 2014

[OKCisOK4me]

"Harrington is down on the ground with Westbrook standing over him. An opposing team member is not suppose to stand over a player when that player is down."

Absolutely nothing Westbrook could do about the initial positioning. That's just where they both landed when the play ended. Russell IMMEDIATELY tried to step over and away from Harrington but couldn't because HARRINGTON GRABBED WESTBROOK'S LEG AND HELD ON. Had he not done that, Russell would have been away from him in one second. But he couldn't because he was being held. Which also caused him to lose balance and allowed Nene to come over and push him down.

That could have been an injury right there. Russell could have twisted an ankle or even landed wrong and injured a knee. Not cool.

You're glad that the team used this to fire themselves up and win the game? So am I. But it might not have happened that way. Russell might have been injured, been out again for weeks or even months, and the game lost anyway. How does that scenario grab you?

Regardless of Harrington "helping Westbrook fall down" as stated by Grant Long in the replay that I just watched, I do also agree with Grant that it looked like Harrington was "motioning to someone on the bench". Your scenario doesn't grab me because in reality IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I'm not playing a game of 'what ifs'. I'm playing a game of 'what do I see with my own eyes based on the replay on YouTube'. How do you like that?

Pointless to argue it. Westbrook still has an attitude that could very well cost us games AND I'm certain Scotty Brooks already had a "come to my office and lets talk about your snafu" talk with him.

[Laramie]

Regardless of Harrington "helping Westbrook fall down" as stated by Grant Long in the replay that I just watched, I do also agree with Grant that it looked like Harrington was "motioning to someone on the bench". Your scenario doesn't grab me because in reality IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I'm not playing a game of 'what ifs'. I'm playing a game of 'what do I see with my own eyes based on the replay on YouTube'. How do you like that?

Pointless to argue it. Westbrook still has an attitude that could very well cost us games AND I'm certain Scotty Brooks already had a "come to my office and lets talk about your snafu" talk with him.

Putting Westbrook attitude aside, tell me again what you see in that Video(?):



I agree with Grant Long. Westbrook is trying to step over/away when Harrington grabs his leg and he was pushed by Nene. What does that have to do with attitude?

[OKCisOK4me]

Westbrook has attitude. We obviously know that. It's good for the team. It gets the team fired up. Mucho positive. I d-o n-o-t d-i-s-a-g-r-e-e o-n h-i-s a-t-t-i-t-u-d-e w-i-t-h r-e-g-a-r-d t-o i-t b-e-i-n-g a g-o-o-d t-h-i-n-g f-o-r o-u-r t-e-a-m. My point is he's a lil feisty and has issues controlling his temper. Every personality is different.....I get that, lol.

So let's move on, I shouldn't have even brought up considering this was on....

What day?

Oh yeah, Sunday.

This game was otherwise a snooze fest before this happened and I'm still talking about it....we're still hashing it.....moving on.

[Praedura]

Looks like Steven Adams is getting his first start in a regular season NBA game tonight.

That didn't take long!

Perkins will miss the next two games due to the death of his grandfather.

Report: Thunder's Perkins To Miss Games Due To Death In Family - News9.com

[Praedura]

Btw, if you're French and a Thunder fan, I guess this is the page to go to:

http://www.facebook.com/SupportersFr...omaCityThunder

[Praedura]

Clippers tonight. Gonna be a tough one.

[Bellaboo]

Clippers tonight. Gonna be a tough one.

Last year, we matched up really well with them, took all 4 games.....Hopefully it'll continue.

[OKCisOK4me]

Clippers tonight. Gonna be a tough one.

Steven Adams is getting his first start of the season.

[Anonymous.]

Back to back 9:30 central time games... Brutal

[HangryHippo]

Steven Adams is getting his first start of the season.

Only because Kendrick Perkins is missing the next two games due to the death of his grandfather. I felt your post was a little disingenuous in not sharing why Adams was getting the start.

[Teo9969]

Only because Kendrick Perkins is missing the next two games due to the death of his grandfather. I felt your post was a little disingenuous in not sharing why Adams was getting the start.

It was already posted earlier in the thread...

[adaniel]

Disappointing loss tonight, especially considering we were firmly in control in the 1st half. Complete BS call on Ibaka. He was having a pretty good night and his ejection was nothing short of fatal for us tonight. Oh well, I said 2 for 3 on this trip and I'll stick by that.

Barnes and Griffin are fake tough guys. I am so over Blake Griffin, and I hope he gets booed when the Clips come to OKC. I really do not care that he's from here. He is gaining a reputation as a cry baby anyway.

[Teo9969]

Such an aggravating game.

The only good thing I can take away from it is that we saw that the Clippers really are not a threat to OKC. With as poorly as OKC played for the first 18 minutes of the 2nd half, for OKC to even be in the game late was pretty amazing.

With Ibaka and Perkins, OKC runs LA out of their own building.

[Jake]

Ibaka was 6-6 from the field before the ejection. If OKC was at full strength, this would have been a W.

[Laramie]

Disappointing loss tonight, especially considering we were firmly in control in the 1st half. Complete BS call on Ibaka. He was having a pretty good night and his ejection was nothing short of fatal for us tonight. Oh well, I said 2 for 3 on this trip and I'll stick by that.

Barnes and Griffin are fake tough guys. I am so over Blake Griffin, and I hope he gets booed when the Clips come to OKC. I really do not care that he's from here. He is gaining a reputation as a cry baby anyway.

Very disappointing loss and even more disappointed that the officials didn't even take the time to review this high profile call incident on the monitor; especially in light that they made some ejections. Jeff Van Gunder got it correct; what was Serge Ibaka to do?

Didn't think I'd say this; so far the refs have been HORRIBLE the whole season. They definitely need to tweak the NBA's rule on the ball inadvertently touching the player after scoring.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:9974320


Glad Durant & Scott Brooks exhibited exempliary leadership because it shows character in that they focused on what they can control and didn't belly-ache about the officials. Making remarks about the officials would only resulted in fines and that money could be better spent at home.

Why are there always issues when the Thunder play a team from Los Angeles? How well I remember the incident with Ron Artest or 'World Peace' or somebody's piece?

The Clippers will get a taste of good old fashion 'Oklahoma City hospitality' when they come to the Peake on November 21. "Ooo wah, ooo wah, ooo wah did-he boy from Oklahoma City (Griffin)" will get a grand welcoming as well...

Serge Ibaka will be fine; Durant and the boys will continue to work on timing and finesse with their game.

Chalk this up as a good learning experience.

[Bellaboo]

Disappointing loss tonight, especially considering we were firmly in control in the 1st half. Complete BS call on Ibaka. He was having a pretty good night and his ejection was nothing short of fatal for us tonight. Oh well, I said 2 for 3 on this trip and I'll stick by that.

Barnes and Griffin are fake tough guys.[B] I am so over Blake Griffin, and I hope he gets booed when the Clips come to OKC. I really do not care that he's from here. He is gaining a reputation as a cry baby anyway.

Griffin sucks, all he can do is dunk. Barnes would get his skinny a$$ ripped by Ibaka if it came down to it, it was a case of the officials taking the easy way out. Griffin 'chicken winged' Serge, then Barnes came from nowhere and got involved. In the worst case scenario, Serge should of had a technical and Griffin should have had a tech....Barnes should have been ejected with a flagrant II, and missed the next game.

[OKCisOK4me]

Only because Kendrick Perkins is missing the next two games due to the death of his grandfather. I felt your post was a little disingenuous in not sharing why Adams was getting the start.

I only posted because that's all the update told me on my theScore app at the time but thanks big guy!

[Teo9969]

Griffin sucks, all he can do is dunk. Barnes would get his skinny a$$ ripped by Ibaka if it came down to it, it was a case of the officials taking the easy way out. Griffin 'chicken winged' Serge, then Barnes came from nowhere and got involved. In the worst case scenario, Serge should of had a technical and Griffin should have had a tech....Barnes should have been ejected with a flagrant II, and missed the next game.

1. Griffin does not suck…he can do a lot more than dunk. Dude had like 8 assists last night a good amount of rebounds and managed to bait our 3rd best player into an ejection.

2. Barnes should not have been ejected, nor should serge have. Nothing really happened.

3. Really and truly, only Blake and Barnes should have gotten techs.

[Laramie]

NBA needs more consistency with its officials. Russell Westbrook & Nene Hilario were both ejected for a push Westbrook received and for his push back (retailation) directed at Nene.

Now Ibaka is pushed and he get ejected in a game in which a third party (Matt Barnes) got involved when Ibaka was trying to get his hand from underneath the intentional clamped arm of Blake Griffin.

What next? Hope we get a better group of officials in Oakland tonight when we play the Warriors.

[BoulderSooner]

Westbrook and nene were ejected for getting there second tech. They both were t'ed up earlier in the game

[PWitty]

Man, another tough loss. The comebacks are great, but OKC's defense is going to have to pick up as the season progresses if they want to start beating some of these top teams on the road. Ranked 24th in the league through the first 8 games, giving up points at a clip of 104/game ain't gonna cut it. Gave up 110+ in back-to-back nights.

[Laramie]

Man, another tough loss. The comebacks are great, but OKC's defense is going to have to pick up as the season progresses if they want to start beating some of these top teams on the road. Ranked 24th in the league through the first 8 games, giving up points at a clip of 104/game ain't gonna cut it. Gave up 110+ in back-to-back nights.

A dagger exchange and a real heart-breaker when Russell Westbrook put us ahead 115-114 leaving 2.3 seconds to go in the game only to lose 116-115 with Andre Iguodala's response. Our back to back games in Los Angeles and Oakland-San Francisco was a real experience. Le'st view the videos and put these two losses behind us.

Andre Iquodala's dagger exchange with Westbrook. "Warriors Win Thriller Over Thunder At Buzzer.":

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:9979303

"Matt Barnes Uses Racial Slur In Tweet." (after game with incident involving Clippers-Thunder)

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:9975360

We have got to make so much noise at the Peake when the three West Coast plumbs come into Oklahoma City that they'll hear us in Los Angeles and Oakland-San Francisco.

[Anonymous.]

Emotional roller coaster last night.

Westbrook was on fire last night. Durant cannot get into foul trouble like that against good teams. Some of them were BS calls, but Durant gets a lot of BS calls on the other end, so no complaining. Just have to play the refs and how they're calling each night differently.

[Bellaboo]

1. Griffin does not suck…he can do a lot more than dunk. Dude had like 8 assists last night a good amount of rebounds and managed to bait our 3rd best player into an ejection.

2. Barnes should not have been ejected, nor should serge have. Nothing really happened.

3. Really and truly, only Blake and Barnes should have gotten techs.

Sorry Teo, But it was Barnes who baited Serge..Go re-watch and unprovoked he came in and pushed Serge..... I guess Griffin does makes good commercials....lol

[Laramie]

Emotional roller coaster last night.

Westbrook was on fire last night. Durant cannot get into foul trouble like that against good teams. Some of them were BS calls, but Durant gets a lot of BS calls on the other end, so no complaining. Just have to play the refs and how they're calling each night differently.

Yes, I thought that a few of the fouls called on Durant were ticky-tack fouls.

If you complain to the officials; that's how they reward you. They will show you who's in control of the game. That's why Perkins receives no mercy...

Durant needs to show his displeasure with some of those calls and move on instead of trying to make a satement by questioning the individual referee about his call. Most officials will give you that next 'toss up' call as a make-up if you will move on.