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[G.Walker]

I remember what happened to the Spurs in the playoffs last year, too. Perhaps this doesn't bode well for a long playoff run. Sometimes disappointment brings maturity. This team has gotten really good, really fast. They're young to make a deep playoff run and we may be ripe for major disappointment, which might bring more focus next year. The sad thing is, we've had a really injury free year. If we screw this year up, there's no guarantee we'll have a similarly injury free year next year. Championship banners have eluded some very good teams and it's very premature to be planning where to place them or where to hold a victory parade.

I think the Thunder will be like another Dallas Mavericks, who made it to the western conference semifinals and finals year in and year out, to only get beat, and took them forever to win a championship.

[G.Walker]

Only 3 SG's in the league have a higher PER than Harden. Kobe Bryant, Dewayne Wade, and Manu Ginobili...what great company to be in...wow...

[Laramie]

The Thunder doesn't seem to have the fight they had when they faced Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago. This team will perform to its level of competition. Look for the Thunder to go far if they don't get overconfident and torpedoed in the first round.

[BlackmoreRulz]

Neat article from the Las Vegas Sun on what the oddsmakers think of the championship contenders...

The Thunder spent long stretches of this season looking like the most complete team, going 33-28 against the spread in the process. At 3-to-1, Oklahoma City has seen its future odds to drop more than any other team. Sports books opened the Thunder at 7-to-1 before the season.

[ljbab728]

With Chicago's loss tonight to Miami the top four teams overall are within one game of each other. It may end up exactly the way it is right now but it also makes for an interesting last few games.

[G.Walker]

I don't understand why Scott Brooks states that he is not concerned, and they just have to "continue to get better". He always says he doesn't care about the standings or who we play in the playoffs? What is he thinking?

The Thunder are 0-7 against playoff bound teams since April 1st.

The Thunder ended the regular season leading the league in turnovers per game.

The Turnover issue has haunted us all year, and has yet to improve.

Coach Brooks keep saying, "overall we had a great regular season".

Ok, yea we started off good, but its not how you start, but how you finish, and we finished like crap. Only beating teams that had no chance of making it to the playoffs.

We should have beat Denver last night, we had a better FG%, FT%, and 3FG%, the only thing that got us beat was the 18 turnovers, Denver made 24 points off 18 turnovers.

With that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if we got knocked off in the 1st round this year!

[BoulderSooner]

I don't understand why Scott Brooks states that he is not concerned, and they just have to "continue to get better". He always says he doesn't care about the standings or who we play in the playoffs? What is he thinking?

The Thunder are 0-7 against playoff bound teams since April 1st.

The Thunder ended the regular season leading the league in turnovers per game.

The Turnover issue has haunted us all year, and has yet to improve.

Coach Brooks keep saying, "overall we had a great regular season".

Ok, yea we started off good, but its not how you start, but how you finish, and we finished like crap. Only beating teams that had no chance of making it to the playoffs.

We should have beat Denver last night, we had a better FG%, FT%, and 3FG%, the only thing that got us beat was the 18 turnovers, Denver made 24 points off 18 turnovers.

With that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if we got knocked off in the 1st round this year!

negative much ...what do you want him to say ... we suck and i expect to lose??? ..

we also have the second most efficient offense in the NBA ....

[betts]

We might get knocked out, true. But,we might also turn on the kind of basketball we've played earlier this year against playoff teams. Definitely our biggest worry should be the Spurs, as they beat us twice to our one win over them. But again, this is a young team and sometimes they can get fired up for things like playoffs and bring a different game. This was a grueling season. We'll see how they respond to the change in tempo and emotion.

[Bellaboo]

Out of 16 playoff teams, only Chicago and San Antonio has home court on us. Not bad.

[jedicurt]

Out of 16 playoff teams, only Chicago and San Antonio has home court on us. Not bad.

with the way the thunder play, i actually think that hurts us in a NBA final versus the Heat.... with the finals being in the 2-3-2 format, i wanted miami to have home field, we go into miami and win 1 out of the two (in my opinion we beat them game 1 because we catch them off guard), then we have a chance to try and sweep them at OKC to end the series in 5... with us having the home field, i think it easily goes to 6 or 7 games...

[jn1780]

with the way the thunder play, i actually think that hurts us in a NBA final versus the Heat.... with the finals being in the 2-3-2 format, i wanted miami to have home field, we go into miami and win 1 out of the two (in my opinion we beat them game 1 because we catch them off guard), then we have a chance to try and sweep them at OKC to end the series in 5... with us having the home field, i think it easily goes to 6 or 7 games...

First things first: We need to actually get to and win the western conference title game.

[jedicurt]

First things first: We need to actually get to and win the western conference title game.

well true... i was just trying to make a statement that i'm not always sure that home field advantage is really that much of an advantage in the finals with the 2-3-2 format