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Game Thread & Preview: OKC Thunder At Golden State Warriors - Somebody Has To Rebound

Golden State Warriors (6-11) vs Oklahoma City Thunder (15-3)

Time: 7:30pm PST

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EvanZ already offered a scouting report for the Warriors' home game against the Thunder tonight and highlighted spot up shooting as a potentially key battle in deciding the outcome of the game.

However, in a game with little margin for error - and really, a need to do something better than average to add another big win to the Warriors' record - rebounding might be another key are to watch.

Darnell Mayberry of the Oklahoman points out that despite the Thunder's success this season, they've struggled on the boards so far this season. He tweeted about the issue yesterday after a win against the New Orleans Hornets, but wrote more extensively about the matter last Friday.

Star-divide

Entering Friday's games, the Thunder ranked 18th in rebounding differential at an even minus-1. Most alarming is the league-worst 13.3 offensive rebounds the Thunder has allowed, as OKC has yielded at least 10 offensive rebounds in each game this season.

The raw numbers do paint a slightly more dire situation than it actually is: as he mentions in that article, the Thunder do a great job of forcing opponents into missed shots with the second-best opponents' field goal percentage in the league at 41.5% as of today. That means opponents simply have more opportunities for rebounds at the Thunder's relatively fast pace to get offensive rebounds. So as it turns out the percentage of offensive rebounds that the Thunder allow (28.18%) is "only" 8th worst in the league right now. Nothing to brag about, but not as bad as it first looks.

Mayberry goes on to point out that all three of the Thunder's losses have occurred in games in which they lost or tied the rebounding battle with their opponent, which would suggest that maybe the Warriors have some hope for pulling off an upset if they can hit the boards hard. However, the bottom line is that they were still 7-3 in those games in which he observes they tied or lost the rebounding battle and if you consider the loss in DC against the Washington Wizards something of a fluke in a compressed 2011-12 schedule, it's not like this problem has reached crisis levels.

But back to the Warriors, there might be second chance scoring opportunities available against the Thunder tonight. And just as Evan points out that something has to give in terms of competing strengths (spot up shooting vs. spot up defense), something also has to give in terms of competing weaknesses - there aren't a whole lot teams worse than the Thunder in allowing offensive rebounds, but the Warriors (28.43% offensive rebounds allowed) are one of them. Furthermore, these two teams are among the five worst offensive rebounding differential teams in the league.

One thing we know for tonight is that the ball will bounce off of the goal and somebody has to go get it, even if neither team is particularly adept at doing so. If the Warriors are looking for an opening, following the path of the other three teams that beat the Thunder and hitting the boards hard might be a key factor, especially against a defense against which high percentage scoring opportunities can be hard to come by.

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I'mma miss the Reggie v Harden matchup..

But Udoh v Ibaka should be fun, GO UDOH AND GO WARRIORS!!! McGuire has to come up big this game!

A little off topic but...

Has anyone ever won authentic fan friday ticks?

No one that I know of
It's going to be a fun game tonight.

Keys to the game:
-Rebound well
-Keep Westbrook on the perimeter
-Keep Durant under 30 points
-Close out on shooters
-Good bench play

We need a big game out of Lee again, Monta needs to keep doing what he is doing driving to the basket and looking for his teammates. If Steph, Rush and Wright are wettin it from beyond the arc we always have a chance.

Final score prediction:

Warriors 96, Thunder 91

...Some defense would help as well, but now I'm asking for too much ;)
It all depends on the matchups

I think that as long as Wright keeps Durant honest by hitting a few 3’s, it will open up the inside a little for Lee. Other than that I’m not sure if the matchups work in our favor:
Curry v. Westbrook: Curry wins shooting, smart passes. Westbrook wins athleticism, quickness.
Monta v. Harden: Harden has seen nearly 29 min/game in January. Look for Monta to drive and dish, disrupt the passing lanes and rely on the front-court for help if he drives.
Lee v. Ibaka: Lee wins rebounds, post game. Ibaka wins defense, help defense, blocks.

If Durant break a leg, then we will win

I'm guessing Rev Jackson

puts McGuire on Durant to start, or at least logs some heavy minutes. I’d also think the Curry/Monta matchups you stated are going to be reversed.

Think hell use a lot of Rush actually

Stronger than Durant. potentially able to frustrate him being shorter too.

I swore I wouldn't watch another game this season after the Grizzlies debaucle...

That resolution lasted 3/4 of a game. Why do I love to be let down?

This is either going to be a tight game to the end, or a complete blowout by OKC, and if I were a bettin’ man, I’d put my money on the latter. LGW.

Is beans healthy? Are we gonna get another dose of Tyler?
I so hope for more Tyler
On a side note

Amare is so bad. I actually like DLee better and that’s sad.

Man I wish Dorell played like Durant…he seems so slow compared to most small fowards.

Who do you guys like at SF more, Maggette or Dorell?

Rush

lol Yeah i rather have Rush at SF also but between Wright and Maggette, who use to get to the free throw line all the time.

uh oh!

Lets do it!

Check this out

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=76lz5wr

I just know this trade would free up 20+ mil for the offseason!
but

they already have Gordon.

who's injured for another few weeks and didn't get an extension

they could use another SG that’s not Bellineli

injury is irrelevant.

they aren’t contenders so immediate needs don’t exist.

Gordon extension is a factor though.
which quarter will this game be over?
most games are over after the 4th quarter :)

Already done. Call it a night.

1st quarter

Warriors blowout :)

Harden's beard is out of control.
Please

No Curry soft and1 fouls.

This is a team who can literally foul him out in 10 minutes if he’s not focus’d.

Kevin Durant can foul out our whole team alone
Fitz needs to work on his Cantonese
Fitz should never speak Cantonese again
Haha

Even I could tell that was pretty rough.

Biedrins nice D at the rim
Lee could have had that rebound rather than slap it away
Replay please

let’s see if Curry really traveled

What Travel hell no
Wish they'd sqeeze in a replay for those calls
Wow, Biedrins actually tried a post play
HORRIBLE

draw the foul, andris

He's scared
i don't even care if he hits free throws any more

just show some aggression on the offensive end

Hey Andris there is this thing called going up
WE HAVE THE LEAD

that’s all folks, headed to bed now

Monta to DWright 33333333333333333333333

Saw that coming when Monta got down the baseline

can't stop that
Curry, finish your layup!
Ugh...

Curry is killin me with those fast breaks.

You can tell he’s really worried about it now.

Very timid looking
Damn, Curry just stole my signature layup!
Curry

alot of miss layup lately

How is he not worried about his ankle?
Beans never looks for the ball
What play was that supposed to be?
Monta speeding around Perkins,heh
thank you montaigh
Finally Monta

attack the basket

I don't know why people think Thabo is a good defender
Needed to work a pump fake in there
a pump fake fast break dunk?
I trust his ability to work a pump fake into anything
pump fake rebound!
hahahaha

next thing you know, he’ll pump fake in an interview

Thunder has show some signs of sloppiness

And we’re TRYING to take advantage

Warriors just need to keep this up and they can beat the Thunder
Pretty sure he should have made that
At least Monta passed to Biedrins on that pick and roll

but Biedrins was late again on the roll

or at least, he hesitated on the roll
Westbrook

slice like butter

someone needs to come to the ball there
Pop some squat Beans
Monta...

tends to go too early on the PnR. He needs to let the screener establish his position and then set his man up for it. He just goes as soon as the screener starts coming up.

such an easy coaching fix

that has never seemed to come

True...

It seems like Nellie used to always have the bigs slip the screens early, and I think it may have caused some bad habits for Monta.

Not surprisingly, Biedrins is now out
playing HORRIBLE
And we can't amnesty him
He does not want to be

involve in offense

Steph a little wild there
seriously.

That was dangerous.

at least there's energy and pace
Both teams have been sloppy so far.
This is horrible basketball
It's not that bad
napa valley casino

much better than cats. i will go see it again and again

Offensive execution...

There just isn’t much. At this point in the season I’d love to see them running some of their sets more consistently, but there is still lots of confusion and too much free-styling.

I think the coaching staff is focusing on defense
Nice fast break finish
there you go

DLee

Ugh, Curry reached in and foul
Curry with another reach foul

Stop that Curry

hey, that durant guy is pretty good
DWright is on Durant?

Gonna be a long night

Ugh, another offensive miscommunication
Durantula

owning Dwright

Durant owns everyone

Durant owns most people, and most people own Dwright

that was terribad
Turnovers!!!

WTH?

Haven't turnovers been an issue for a couple years now?
Haha

Am I no longer allowed to find them frustrating? ;)

Well I thought we would be on the acceptance stage by now
Not during the games.

each one still hurts.

it was your expression that made it sound like you were surprised

WTH? sounds like “what is going on?”
WTH! sounds like “i am frustrated”

;)

or you could go with WTH?!?!?!

haha

I'll keep that in mind!?!?!?!?!?!

Wait, that doesn’t work…

I need to work on my open thread punctuation.

Hey

I like to end questions with question marks, even if they are rhetorical. Haha.

haha thats why i suggested the ever popular "?!?!?!"
Hopefully this thread has a Warriors win in it
Lee nice quick finish
Geez, put in Jenk for curry!
looking like a long night
Those teardrop

use to be automatic

wright, durant stopper!
good team d on durant there to cause a travel
Nice D

on Durant

Goin to the casino after the game

Need a Warriors win to grant me some good luck haha

LOL the guy in the "Durant" shirt
Why would he sit right next to an OKC fan?
Ellis is outshooting Curry , he is 1-5 vs 0-5
Rush hour miss?!?!??
oh god, even rush is missing

we’re doomed

but the Warriors are attacking the turnovers
Lee with nice use of the pump fake
How the hell did Harden cut throught THREE defenders?
how did Ben Howland make so many guards look worse than what they are?
It's his system
it really sucks

explains why no one goes there anymore

Jrue Holiday trashing him on the way out didn't exactly help either.
he doesn't make them look bad

they just play at a really slow pace. the only people who think they were bad are the people who just look at box scores and dont watch the games

nah a lot of guys have been underrated coming out of his system

Love
Mbah a Moute
Afflalo
Jrue
Westbrook
Collison
Ariza

Malcolm Lee and Honeycutt pending

i watched almost every game of each of their college careers outside of ariza (who didn't play under howland)

and they were all really good. farmar could also be on there. there’s a reason a lot of those guys were on the teams that made the final 4 in 3 straight years.

also i don’t see how westbrook going #4 and love going #5 in a really deep draft makes them underrated.

Wow, how do you stop that Durant shot?
Haha...

Lee gives the most half hearted help on D ever.

I don't get it

Lee knows he is bad on defense… and yet he does nothing to try to improve

It's funny...

He’ll make the effort to move his feet and get to a spot and then he’ll just stop and choose not to challenge the shot. WTH!?!?!?

(was that better?)

sounds like the Andray Blatche syndrome
He goes for the rebound instead

You get stats for that.

(was that better?)

much better :P

Ok Nate

got chip on his shoulder

Call me crazy

But why is nate in for Curry when Ellis logged 40+ minutes in Wednesdays game and he’s still playing? Can we ever find any rest for this guy?

haha as soon as i say that he gets a sub out good call
When Curry isn't making shots he's playing bad...

…when Ellis is playing bad he’s just one shot away from getting a hot streak.

Klay nice to the rim
Klay looking good
Udoh nice box out to get the rebound to a teammate
Lee got credit for the rebound

Udoh gets nothing in the stat sheet for that one

I hope you guys voted for Brian Scalabrine for the All-Star game
too hard to spell in a text
the dj mbenga for all star team movment from last year was much better
OHHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
NATE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
Nate the Great

got his revenge

then he stares down the okc bench
ah, i see now

Nate got waived by the Thunder in preseason

not only that

he is a bench warmer never see any playing time

Getting his revenge!
Hell yeah

I read your blog dude

Hey he's back!
Only

when we are playing the Thunder

My net is limited to 30GB a month through Feb

So I couldn’t afford to waste the bandwidth to watch the Dubs. But I should be able to be back here in March semi-regularly.

Wow seriously?

How does that even work?

My Dorm over here in Austria got a really bad contract with the Internet company.

It’s BS, I know….but soon I won’t have to deal with it anymore.

Geez, Lee held on to that ball way too long.

worked out I guess.

Maybe that three is a sign
NATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and then he hit his dougie
Thaniel lol

simple catch and shoot 3 there

Lee+Wright= 6-6!!!!!!! Too bad our guards are off on the night the front line is scoring!
that beard is epic

should be in the all star game for that alone

How did Monta miss 4 shots already?

I don’t remember him taking that many

Missed shots are sneaky that way...

I don’t remember that many either.

James Harden… DAT BEARD…

Omg, how did that not go in?
Curry+Monta=1-10!
I like this unit
Tyler showing patience, kicking it back out when he got in trouble
Tyler long 2!

He can shoot???

wow, didn't know he had a J
he's got raaaaange
Tyler!!

Showing a nice touch from outside!

Nice job Tyler
Atta boy 2nd round!
I really really really hope Tyler develops into a reliable player

would be a nice story

Why couldn't Tyler play earlier?
i assume he was in learning mode
Nice D Tyler

when will Tyler be our starting center

The heck with Biedrins...get Tyler all the xperience we can this season!
Dang...

Another nice jumper after the kick ball

Argh, James Maggette somehow drawing fouls

Geez… can we please trade for DAT BEARD?

Harden > Curry.

(Tonight.) (So far.)

Dumb dumb reach in fouls
I gotta admit, Fitz - That was funny
START HIM
no more tank mode?
it hit a brick wall last game thread

Three pointer. WHAT A RUSH.

Wonder who will be our next year pickup that suddenly becomes a great 3 point shooter
Who's that OKC Rookie?
reggie jackson from BC

the man of the mysterious physicals that happen without proper documentation

Udoh give to Rush for a long 2
Take a step back Rush
he's heating up!
RUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!
that call was weak sauce
BOOO

reach-in calls

Damn almost had a break-away dunk right there..

Another Ghost Rider movie?
nicholas cage will be in any movie that gets him a paycheck these days

IRS doesn’t play

Is he still fighting the IRS?
he fought the law, and the law won
He should have already known to never fight the IRS.

They always win.

First one sucked and had Nick Cage. No idea why they thought it was a good idea to make another one…

Best unit of the year

I love this lineup right here

Refs are weak as hell..

Jesus christ what the heck! Piss off refs

RUSH TO JUDGEMENT
More Jeremy Tyler
First you take the Jumbo jack, then you add two tacos. What do you get?
JUMBACO! JUMBACO!
What Chinese did Curry just say?

Was that Mandarin?

If that was Mandarin I'll eat my hat

“Happy New Year” in completely butchered Mandarin. Good effort though.

Stephen Curry= Expert in Mandarin
Rush great rebound, should have pulled it back out
wow

refs got paid tonight.

either that

or they are bunch of rookies

Foul against us again

is this fix?

We should work on offense more
Klay great help defense for the steal
Finally foul

favor us

Finally the starting lineup I wanted
He's not going to save the franchise or anything...

but I like watching Klay play.

warriors get to the line

AND make 2 freebies? pinch me

Curry #3, argh
He try to get his average

specially he did not foul against the Blazer

Curry you have to stop fouling

Well time to bench Curry.

Curry has to be careful

Regardless of how bad it gets, Westbrook will charge to the line on every single play like Corey Maggette

that's easy

Curry will be benched for the rest of the half

Later on was implied, lol.
i know, i was being snarky
Great D-League Lineup...we could take the championship there...lol...
He just threw the ball out
Wow we can't rebound
Someone put some glue on Rush's hands
lebron needs to lend rush that talcum powder
*facepalm*

Brandon Rush

Another foul…

wow what is wrong with the

ball?

whats the foul???
And we foul again
3 on Curry early

After Rush passes it to a cameraman

Very impressive tank today
This is the worst basketball I've watched///
Didn't watch any of either Boston/Orlando game this week?
That game had too much lol in it
Orlando is not having a good week, Lost 93-67 to NO tonite
now THAT's a pick and roll, Monta and Lee
more of this, please
finally a decent play
Just pass the ball to Lee
Guards are having a bad night...
Rush is NOT a creator
i think it's just the way the play evolved

The Warriors had the Thunder defense around the perimeter, Rush saw the lane, tried to go for it

Omg, Rush had the right idea, but failed on the execution of the drive
holy cow

did kwame lend rush his hands!?!?!?!?

hahaha
what did one fish said to the other?

“glub glub glub, Warriors willl lose tonight, glub glub glub”

He was inspired by Kyle Williams
too soon, man. too soon.
Rush has been fumbling all night

So he tries to dribble the most I’ve ever seen him all season?

Rush need

to use Talc powder

Rush doing the right thing..

He just can’t hold onto the ball

Rush needs to slow down
his last name

said it all

Get Brandon Rush some Stickum!

For all the bricks, fouls, and turnovers, we’re still down only 5?

4 shooters + Lee on the floor
Finally

we Got Kevin Klay

Whoo Dorell another 3.

w0000000000 dwright
DWright WIDE OPEN 3

practice 3, created from Lee high pick and roll

YEEEEEESSSSSIR!
interesting that we're only down 1 with monta and steph combined 1-10
Klay is playing well
Not very pretty, but the "fast" break finish

only down 1!

Wright was right from the beginning of the game...
Wow we are hot from three

Warriors Girls in little Chinese dresses… hot. lol

i approve this message
feltbot is going to talk about the past few minutes in his recap

Playing Lee at center, running high picks for him, that’s what’s worked for us the past few minutes

The Thunder can't shoot from Three consistently

If the Warriors can force them to shoot from out there, they always have the advantage

Klay looking better and better

awesome tonight so far

I love Klay Thompson

Look a lot more comfortable out there!

If our guards were reasonably on, we would have a chance to steal this game
Ha Klay this Klay that! That boy is a high pedigree player imho!
Don't get too excited....he still can't creat his shot, or, take it to the hoop the way Reggie can!
And Biedrins has not been back in the game
Hasn't been missed either
Monta and Steph have 2 points

and we’re in this game. Our bench really is becoming a reliable unit

and Dorell and Lee having good games so far

Lee knocks so many rebounds away from teammates
We should have gotten that board with only one Thunder in the area
There's Perk's boneheaded play of the night.
Wow. so damn impressed with Klay tonight. BALLIN!
Oh my god, the rim spit out that Monta 3
lol perfect description
maybe the chinese god

is not with him tonight

Monta chucking
that was WIDE open
No doubt about that
We cannot defend the inbounds pass
Can we stop losing the ball?
Durant fumbilitis
haha durant has rushitis
Klay catch and shoot from the screen, nice
Dammit Rush stop fouling
So I guess our backcourt is set for the future

klay with shootitis? did i kill it?

i don't think light can escape from harden's beard
Klay off the screen AGAIN

Klay is on fire

Dang...

Klay can play.

you can't stop klay. you can only hope to contain him
Oooooh, Monta ALMOST with a classic hanging finish
Klay needs a Harden Beard
Like I said, Warriors are the PERFECT team to feed off of the Thunder's turnovers

Proving itself right now.

Yeah that how you play from now on

Monta attack the basket

i hate the way a lot of nba players play defense

they’re so terrible at defending left-handers simply because they’re used to defending right-handers. so easy to read the scouting report and try to take away that strong side

You cant let KD get that first step Dorell

KD doing work.

So...

We’ve got Steph Curry, Klay Thompson… anyone know how old Canyon Barry is by now? Maybe we should draft him too.

hardaway maybe?

Hardaway Jr. isn’t quite the player his pops was. At least not yet.

austin rivers to complete our NBA pedigree half-white, half-black backcourt lol
If Durant made that dunk

wow we gonna be on sportcenter

i dont get monta

hits turnaround post up fades easy, but open jumper?naw

Seriously.. can we please trade for DAT BEARD?

Not gonna happen.
Wow we cannot stop fouling
silly fouls all over
Monta touch foul, sigh
omg i agree with fitz
Harden

is a starter to some NBA team

Sigh, we're lucky Westbrook was out of bounds

another turnover

Lee's passing...

has been so much worse this season.

He is scoring more though
Definitely

But it’s strange how his passing has dropped off. You’d think being a more effective scorer would give him more opportunities for assists, but it hasn’t been the case. He’s just missing guys, and throwing the ball all over the place at times.

scoring is down around the league, pretty substantially.

I think it’s all a function of less practice time.

Monta, just God awful
Westbrook schooling Monta twice defensively
Why has no one made a Harden/Wilson beard commercial!?
Post Up fail Monta

you need to attack the basket

But everyone wanted him to post up more...

..wait no that was Lebron.

That was a bad pass from Monta on that break
Lee+Wright=8-8; Rush+klay=5-8. Curry+Monta=1-10

monta with the great pass to dwright

dorell never hits the 3 when the bad pass takes him out of rhythm
Ok Dorell, start driving in
We need another half court shot
MONTA ISO!!!!

and it worked!!!

Monta FINALLY hits one, barely, too

and it was a spinning hanging layup

I miss that MOnta

who attack the basket

hello there you are

monta needs to pull out the spin move more, the more he does it the better he plays
away from the jumpers, more attacking
That was high energy and fun

and sloppy, too

Is James Harden really Reggie Watts??
kimbo slice
idunno to me he looks more ready to bust out beatboxing

than to knock a fool out

getting beat on the boards and at the line

same old same old

not a bad half altogether, but it’s going to take a serious effort in the 2nd half if we want to win

getting beat on the boards and at the line

Yep, that’s the story so far.

klay looking good.

what about tyler? saw he made one jumper, and had one to when he couldn’t control it under the rim. other than that, how is he playing? or was that the extent of his burn?

had a chance at some putbacks, but couldn't tap them in

wasn’t a bad 4-minute run

I'm going to go grab a Jumbaco...

I’ll be back.

anyone agree that David Lee has the best chance to make the All Star Team?

Monta gets snubbed again.

Curry should make it but the ankle injury might hurt him?

  • takes Latrell Sprewell throwback Jersey off and throws it across the room *
Lee is the only one putting up any numbers/efficiency...
Nobody from a Sub.500 team will make it.

I’d worry about getting to that threshold first.

Agree...he asked who had the best chance...lol
Yeah, yeah.....
Honestly David Lee has no chance to make it

The forward position is stacked, he would have no chance even if this team was above .500

Monta Ellis doesn't score efficiently enough to make it

Steph has been injured too much to make it

So nobody from the Dubs would make it even if they were above .500

Tyler is the Man...forget DH!
word. only time will tell when Tyler goes ballistick and avg's 20 pts. 17 rbs.

DH=D12? if so. you dont even have to worry about that. He most likely will go to Dallas with Deron Williams.

Or…Lakers. Waaah.

screw DH he dont want us... we dont need him
Well, we DO need him, but cannot do anything about it if he does not want us!

lol

ya ( : i know.. its all i can do tho
Lets try to steal Andrew Bynum instead. LOL

(i think he is the best Center in the league)

Since that wont happen. I believe in TYLER!

In the offseason, let Clifford Ray and Rick Barry mold him into an absolute BEAST.

LGW JT!

I like Tyler...if this season is a waste, let's get him up against the best centers in the league....
i agree . play the boy..
Yep, he is bound to out-produce Biedrins, if the first 17 games are any indication...
WORD JT tha BIGGA FIGGA!
Keep running the offense through Klay when he's in.

Thunder lead expanded when we tried to post up Monta.

Yeah he was hot.

If he hits his first attempt in the second half, I’d look to keep playing through him.

We should be down by 10+

We’ve had some disgusting turnovers and gave up easy and1s.. I wonder if Durant/Westbrook will explode next half.

Thunder are 4 TOs away from their season average

And their average is 2nd in the NBA.

I love competition!
they are

trapping Steph

GO WARRIORS STILL! GET THIS WIN! BRB
DWright should NOT have passed it when he heard the whistle
Absolutely BRICKING everything
Lee saved that turnover
Wow...

they can’t hit anything.

at least...

they were creating turnovers, and getting offensive boards.

Ugh

this is like the 1st quarter

Whoa, I thought we didn't have a back-to-back-to-back this season

We have 1 at the very end of the season, @Dallas, @Houston, @Minnesota

houston to minnesota = crappy rest
yup like

final week of the season

What do Warriors

eat during half time… Jumbaccoo?

lol n wash it down with

oreo cookie shakes

stop it, that's too tempting

that sounds sooo good

I'm curious...

anyone actually try cramming a burger between two tacos?

I've done a mcchicken inside of a double cheeseburger.

The tongan special back in high school lol and only 2 bucks!

Haha!

That’s hilarious.

Challenge accepted.
Warriors looking sharper after that timeout
finally

maybe he’ll turn it around after making a basket

Not liking that Monta shot
DWright with the steal on Durant!
Beans may have the least pride I've ever seen in any man
And Biedrins is out of the game again
Bad shot from wright
early in the shot clock...

no ball movement, and a foot on the line.

I was wondering how David Lee was going to finish that fast break
Can we trade Beans

I’d be willing to take 9 million in basketballs and nike sneakers in exchange at this point

D Lee

point guard

Monta hits the TOUGH fadeaway shots, at the shotclock too
Dat post up move
Open jumper? Naw cant make that

Spinning Kobe shot? easy

We're in this game because of the Thunder turnovers
DLees best screen all year

was on his back

With Curry shooting poorly, i'd like to see him create more then 2 assists
Whoops, another Warriors miscommunication
uh...steph...

shoot it?

Ugh

ugly sequence

Curry from the corner!
Hands up!!!!! Geez
Technical Foul? Looked like a grown man move to me
Perkins

bully his way there

Durant missed that dunk because Curry was in the lane
Yeah, what the hell

Surprised he didn’t crush him

Come on Udoh! WTF was that
rebounds...

nobody leaves the floor, nobody boxes out…so discouraging to give up all these easy rebounds

Thabo is not the "best defender" on the Thunder
I like Curry moving away from his defender to try to get open when DWright drove
Haha

Jim trying to get free insoles with the on air plug.

Harden killing us
And somehow, James Maggette draws a foul
Apt comparison....two years ago.

He’s a lot more dynamic now.

Ref to Monta: "You gets no love"

“Get me David Stern on the phone!”

he really doesn't

hes not enough of a flopper/call seller

Ugh...

Harden is a magnet for reach in fouls. It’s like they just can’t help but try to stroke his beard as he runs by.

the beard makes him look clumsy and they think they can swipe him.

There you go Monta

you got your wish

if monta and curry can start making anything we can win this
Then same thing on Durant
Well...

Getting crushed on the boards and at the line, and shooting a lower percentage, but somehow with the Thunder turnovers and the three ball they still have a chance tonight.

Jim gettin political
Hmm...

I wonder how Jim would handle Occupy Oracle…

Look at Lacob

turn his back to the poor lady

Argh, help defense was LATE on Durant
Dorell expected defense to be baseline

and…it wasn’t

Warriors over the limit?

Is the sky falling?

Oops

I think I worded that incorrectly

Ugh, Udoh just can't board
and lee watches a guard outrebound him
We did the job of stopping the Durant drive

but not the job of rebounding

That Tyler coming to the table?
Robinson help defense on Durant, oh my

Said the ladybug to the giraffe

Udoh showing how to do something just to get to the line
Good effort from Udoh...

They pulled the chair on Monta. haha.

Some one pull a chair

on Monta

Udoh quadruples his rebound total for the game on 1 play
off rebound cmon
Would Beans really not help our rebounding?
he's in the doghouse for not playing offense
9.33 minutes for Beans, 1 board

You tell me

not to mention just 10 rebound

in about 75 minutes the last 4 games

But does that really make him that big a negative? At least when we’re getting killed on the boards?

Yes, if you don't do what the coach tells you to do

The coach has to set the example that not following instructions will not be tolerated, even if you can help in the rebounding department.

Here comes Klay
Hmm...

They didn’t get him in I guess.

it wasn't a dead ball
Yeah...

Coach ran him out real quick for some reason…

To the table I mean.
for offensive reasons

have another shooter

I know,

but he didn’t get in the game.

Westbrook owns Monta
I LOVE fitz comment.. "the thunder have 3 dismal years and they get 3 great picks out of it and turn it around"
The Warriors eternal problem...

Is that they’re always a 30-35 win team, instead of a 20-25 win one.

This is gonna be veryyy ugly

Warriors just can’t find a consistent rhythm offensively and cant get any stops

How about starting to box out?

Seems fundamental enough. Al Harrington boxes out better..

this is actually true...smh
Good strategy.

Don’t play the guy who was your best player in the first half the whole third quarter.

Its called “double decoy all in”

yea didnt get that
Need moar Klay Allen

Didn’t like how he wasn’t in at all in the 3rd. Could’ve stretched the floor and Monta hurt the team with some silly turnovers and killed some of the ball movement.

Come on Warriors

you guys are scrappy, beat the Thunder

Bad pass from Nate.
Sloppy pass/turnover
That was even worse than Steph's one handers
Not sure anything can beat that one..
Nate Rob, Diving like Gerald Wallace
Tyler fouls like a man
Collison has sucky free throw form
Collison

the last Supersonics

rofl at the bank by tyler
wow, the bank's open late in Oak-Town
tyler looking like baby Bosh
Haha.

Don’t think he called glass on that one, but I’ll take it.

Tyler taking that jumper to the bank.

im liking what im seeing from tyler
Tyler money in the bank
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH Nate!
Nate with a great stop on a dime move!
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH SNAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

NATE ROB PLAYING DIRTY DIRTY!!!!!

Nate shake-n’-bake.

Nate!

You gotta hit that jumper when your man is on the floor. good work

Nate needed to show more patience there
Rush has been horrid
that shot wasn't REMOTELY close

I can’t begin to stress how far off that shot by Nate was

Rush, AGAIN misses a dunk

let’s see if we collapse after that

lmao

they are entertaining at least

The Warriors should be up right now
The bench isn't We Believe

They’re not good enough to execute at a fast pace

3 consecutive stops

3 consecutive messed up transition opportunities

that hurts our chances

Which is why we're going to lose this game

And why we lose a lot of games

Rush is making Dorell seem like an All Star.

Dorell’s never been THIS bad.

Nah he definitely has.

follow your shot

good heck, I learned that in 3rd grade…

Oh Rush...

He can do some things very well. Handling the ball is not one of them…

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!

WE SHOULD BE IN THE FUCKING LEAD NOW! FUCKING PATHETIC

sorry for swearing
Consistently missing high percentage shots.

Go dubzΩz

We are tanking allright!
Damn this is some horrible basketball ..
westbrook and durant are both going to go well over their average minutes

i was thinking I hadn’t seen much of their full bench unit

Irish/Scottish bagpipe BGM on Chinese New Year? Really?

They're going to have Chinese music on St Patricks day
Klay Allen swish the 2
Don't take Klay out again
Klay better play the whole 4th since he sat the whole 3rd
klays jumper is lookin nice
Klay Thompsen wins most improved player

over 17 games

was that a block by klay?
Get that ball out of here
uh oh one of his

beard got tangle

Writhing in pain, then just jumps back up “nevermind.”

haha, i know, right?

“oh well this isn’t working”

Grab a rebound please

Still can’t secure a board.

Would love to see Monta run the point at the end with Klay and Steph on the wings.
Klay just made ESPN's not top 10
Warriors can fill the not top 10 from this game
Warriors fell asleep on the inbounds

HELLO!?!?!?!?

Klay ready to shoot FT
You can't blame Klay there

He was trying to trick the ref

How can the whole team be so lazy
they're not hardened, mentally tough yet
what do you do about Durant?
Steal it when he dribbles.
seems as sensible as anything else
I'll go back in a hole now.
Klay got swagged by Kd

Klay with two straight TO.

Harden's holding onto Klay EVERY time
Klay has to shoot

He cannot create

How many offensive rebounds was that?

Seems like 1000 to me.

watching warriors games you get used to it
We have trouble boxing out this season, too.

Against the Clippers as well.

Klay catch and shoot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Klay creating shot
I get scared everytime he dribbles
This game = lololololololollollolollololololololo
This is a preseason game right?
this game is a laundromat?
ok, monta and steph time

let’s see if we collapse or not

Wow...

The Thunder are giving them every chance to win this game, and the W’s keep saying “eh, no thanks, we’re cool”

It's happened a couple times this season
Rush at power forward

Ibaka is about to get locked down

Wow that was an ugly sequence

STILL CANNOT SECURE A DAMN REBOUND…

are u kidding me?

:/

Warriors playing small

defense must be all about speed and steals

not brandon rush's night
lol Lee horse collared him to the ground and the refs missed it
Rush has been the biggest Warriors killer tonight
it's silly that he's having a bad game and dorell is having a good one

but he’s letting rush play. usually it’s the other way around. maybe mark jackson is really trying to tank?

Ha, didn’t really even think of that.

Good inside D...

and then a boneheaded foul in the corner.

This game is too funny to watch
What a messy game

Thunder is like, “Here. Have the ball. We want you guys to make it a close game.”

thats what they do

theyre just so good at capitalizing on their opponents turnovers that it doesn’t matter

Was that a three point or two point shot?
biedrins is seriously in the doghouse huh? lol
Warriors still showing an inability to finish
Hi my name is Andris Biedrins

I’m sitting on the bench cause a David Lee, Brandon Rush front court is more effective than having me play. I love basketball, DUUUUUUURRRRR

Probably because you're on game threads during games, Andris!
We need a MEME for the king of Philly

It interrupts so many commercials at the height of an awkward moment with a big basket of beef.

Thank you DWright for not attempting to speak chinese :P
18 off. rebounds for the Thunder

10 for the Warriors.

I really just want this game to be over...

We aren’t rebounding, getting lose balls, executing plays. My eyes are hurting watching this rubbish

I'm not Chinese

but the Dragon seems like a cool year

Lotta Thunder fans at Oracle

I can’t blame them

You can't leave Durant open Klay
Looked like that should have been a switch.
better than doing stupid touch foul

it is called smart

OKC is taking control

Wow… I skipped laser tag for this garbage?

And the dubs are gonna lose this game...
Oh no

Lawler’s Law is going to protect the Thunder

Suddenly, we need a timeout
Thunder going for a kill
Sigh...I'd love to scream like that if I could alley oop a ball.
dam the camera man is right next to some annoyin kid or something
I'd call this game over....

but we all know what happened last April.

There is nothing more funny to me than when Durant yells and screams, seems so forced and unnatural
Durant always looks/sounds like ET when he yells after a dunk
the three is the game

the dunk is just icing on the cake.

Wow i hadnt realized it till now

But Curry has been pretty awful. Talk about 360 from Portland game

the game ends quick

when you mess up all your easy chances for points

Tyler's earning the coach's trust! Getting back in when I thought he'd be done with his requisite 5 min stint.
beans is

An overpaid waterboy.

Amnesty him!

Oh wait…

You're picking a scab
he's good for getting stuff

from the top shelf

stop FUCKING touch fouling
That was not a man sized foul by Tyler
beans is going to go full crazy
He would

If he cared about playing

our 2nd unit looks better than 1st unit

because our 2nd unit is better than other team’s 2nd unit.

and our 1st unit is like other team’s 2nd unit

You have a monstrous bench.
This game is over
The Warriors had their chances

but the Thunder are really good

Let's just say we are a lot worse than they are.....
my eyes don't lie

and this is true, their execution was always impeccable, notwithstanding the Warriors’ numerous surges

clearly moving on that charge

but theyve been calling it like that all year

and of course we give up an and 1 to make it worse

Oh Monta....

Was that REALLY a Dunk attempt?

looked like a layup to me....
He palmed it and extended....

looked like a really bad dunk attempt to me.

Where's the rebounding?!?!?!
on the bench lol
Too many of our guys just watch the ball.
That DWright 3 = tease
They sure know how to shut the door.
i think we kinda did that ourselves lol
For a while...

but now they are taking control.

Dorell with a 3… still too late to come back from this blowout.

Tyler on the floor at this point = good experience for him
we need Klay! we need Klay!
Durant just size us up

during the first 3 quarters then go for a kill on crunch time

and that's how you conserve energy and last for a long season
Would any of you guys put in 30 year old Adonal Foyle for rebounding in this game?
No...

but we could use some flat-footed shot blocking.

37 points from the bench

Wow…. That’s quite a bench you guys got there….

long live Sonics! F... Thunder!
they stole our mascot n turned him into a buffalo!
Go Sonics!

lived next door to key Arena for years back in the day.

Speaking of which

how was the Sonics like before they moved to OKC?

Tanked enough to pick up Durant

Then leave.

Google Quiz: He has kids in 8 different states, loves to drink and He's the REAL daddy of Blake Griffin?
Seattle SuperSonics: they're basketball bionic!
i wonder why we haven't seen jenkins?
Curry is better at turning the ball over.

Remember?! We tanking!

stop calling fouls that aren't there refs

the game is over, why do you want to make it a massacre?

DWright corner 3, there's slight hope

Dorell starts catching fire just as this game is out of reach.

further evidence of a great tank commander.
wooo... thunders is scare... go DW!
Good timeout for Brooks

Giving the Dubs no hope.

why tyler is in? sub for Klay, dude
we stlil need stops to get a comeback
hey, this durant guy is pretty good at basketball
Even Fitz talking like its a foregone conclusion at this point.
When is Fitz getting fired?
Never, deal with the devil.
yeah, we are all actually quite shocked we were pretty close
And Lee fouls out
wow! so Curry decided to let that little mice drive?!
On the bright side

New Jers and Nola won.

We're gunning for that pick baby!

Don’t worry, we’ll still go on the that late season run… =P

But Wizards lost
Are we really so good that we can't get Jenkins even a few minutes?
I really liked him too
He's competing for minutes over Nate and Klay

Unless someone gets hurt I don’t see him playing

I think pressure to win is squeezing his minutes/development.
Rebounds...

52-33 at this point…

are we trying to showcase Tyle for Kaman??
Why are we fouling
bright side: at least we didn't blow a 27 point lead

this is NOT a bar fight

no love for cj
DWright padding his stats
dwright knockin down three... little too late

Dorell still draining threes.

Great job Dorell

Too bad you couldn’t do it earlier

garbage stats!

just like when Kyle Orton posted more than 400 passing yards for my Broncos and we only had 16 points

You're killing me Dorell

I’m trying to leave, dog

Curry 3 padding his stats
It's only 9!!!!!!
10 points, 11 seconds?
DWright 3 padding his stats

Westbrook hits a 3. DAGGER.

Lol, let's just call a 3 Point Contest
Dorell Wright

why could you not do that earlier

LOL what a silly way to end the game

Dorell follows with his own 3?

Tyler got away with a foul on that rebound
Yeah looked like he grabbed Nazr down. Refs missed it.
asdfiaskdfjl curry I wanna punch you in the snatch!
No

in the ankle that gonna hurt more than his snatch

agreed

fuckin steph

Tyler, the Creator
WHY ARE WE FOULING

We are not coming back

either to send the message that we don't give up?

or practicing end of game plays

11 points, 12 seconds
tyler == iverson
I missed it, what happened with Curry?
Westbrook picked his pocket
No, Curry handed his wallet to Westbrook

Tripped up and lost control of his dribble.

*sigh*

we had a chance, but we threw it away

i know we’re not supposed to beat them, but the way we lose games is so disheartening

Curry still want to be the TO machine!
other then his last couple minutes he played really poorly

I think I saw durant do the discount double check

yea saw that too
Still not OVER!!!!
yes it is

don’t tease us

Zorgon is sweating bullets!!!!
I never give up!
Another high scoring game

I can’t look at a single Thunder fan at the game without thinking ‘bandwagon’.

of course they are

the zombie Sonics attract bandwagon fans, good night, thanks for having me everyone!

Doubt many people moved from Seattle to OK for a basketball team

This game was in Oakland.?

interesting ..
lol

its a lot of Warriors fans “second team”

see plenty of reasons why

life sucks so much more

when the dubs lose

MJ never call a timeout
hey, this durant guy might have a future in the NBA
Fun one to watch, but another fourth quarter collapse....

It was good guys, see you in March!

It was ridiculous how Dorell finally hit his shots after the game was out of reach
maybe because OKC not playing D anymore?
They challenged a couple of his shots

and he actually made a three off the dribble, which he doesn’t usually do

Monta and Steph: 12 assists, 7 turnovers
TO machines still alive!
PEACE ALL

Have a good weekend

Serge Ibaka: 8 offensive rebounds

Didn’t we get DLee to box out?

Who said Lee was good at boxing out?

no. We got DLee to score
we got him to rebound

lets not kid ourselves. he was supposed to be our rebounding solution

I thought they also said he would rebound

I guess he only gets those easy rebounds

the "empty" ones
he still gets his double digit rebounds

what more to ask?

I dunno

how about actually stopping the other PF from getting rebounds?

he did. just not tonight

others need to step in

Lee brings it on offense

Never on defense or on rebounding

Well

I’ve witnessed how strong Thunder is…again.

I think David Lee would be an elite power forward with a real point guard
No, elite pf's bring it against other top PF's.

Not with that defense he won’t.

Wait!

Do you mean Curry is not elite? Heresy!!

look who showed up as soon as people start trashing Curry..
welll hes clearly not lol

but more importantly, he’s not a

“real point guard”

Curry is spicy, not elite
No, Curry is not a true point guard
I know

Every time a middling power forward blows by Lee, or Lee fails to rotate on defense, I think, “man, Curry really sucks.”

No

Look at what Love did last year. That is what an elite power forward does.

... and cost more
1 more million a year

and two years shorter, really not that much difference

Love = underpaid

Lee = overpaid

i am sure you will said Love is overpaid if he played for Warriors

Do you even see what he is doing in Minnesota? He’s not a great defender, but he is elite at everything else.

I said that's similar to DLee

Remember when they have no Rubio? Love can have 30 rebounds and not helping the team.

That's not the reason the Wolves were bad

The reason was that everyone else on the team was terrible. Kevin Love was great, but everyone dragged him down.

this

johnny flynn was their starter…………

but everyone dragged him down.

at this point, hate to say it but feel like Curry and Monta is dragging him down too. Two tuneover machines who love to shoot crazy shots and do crazy passes. What can you say?

I guess it's a difference in perspective then

I’d still like to see Lee box out like Love boxes out

I wonder how much OKC paid those refs
Wow, Klay led the team with 3 blocks tonight.

Nellie Ball center baby!!!!

Klay is the best SG in the team
Those were some nice blocks too.
can kwame just come back already
Didn't he have a chest surgery or something like that?
I think tyler plays better than kwame
We really need to get rid of our players..

We’re hopeless

basically the whole team is a 2nd unit team

we are great when vs. other team’s 2nd unit, but we just have no answer for other team’s 1st unit

cause curry and monta are bench warmers.....
You guys have a strong 2nd unit, though

Not 100% about your 1st unit.

we don't have 1st unit. we have 12 people in the 2nd unit
Really?

Hmm…. You guys know the team A LOT better than I do, so I can’t really argue with that.

yes, really. I think it is better clear
As for us Lakers

we have a somewhat solid starters and Kobe. But our 2nd unit is questionable.

You mean 3rd unit. Even second unit guys play better than our sorry bunch of one-way specialists.

yeah. see all the 3's we made? that's the way to hide our weakness

… and we don’t have that much to hide…

Papa and St. Jackass praising Serge and saying Udoh didn't have it tonight.
i have high hopes for tyler
Jackson needs to make a judgement call about Beans

If your serious about rewarding players for effort and toughness, how do you explain continuing to start Beans? I’m ready for the Tyler era

the problem is...

make Tyler as a starter is not gonna help. Get it? It will just make us start hating Tyler.

Yeah, in my heart i said start Kwame but alas

Jackson is making it obvious that Bean’s starting is more about salvaging his pride then hoping he will produce. When Beans comes out, he might as well put on the jump suit and relax cause he’s lucky if he gets a few more minutes back in the game

thanks to...

the starting 5 for losing the game…i would have left the 2nd unit in for the rest of the game…

dude, our starting 5 is other team's 2nd unit

No one in Warriors uniform can beat the other team’s starters

Liking Tyler’s energy so far, but as soon as he starts getting regular minutes he’ll get exposed… =/

I like that he is getting minutes

But yeah, he’s probably a bench player right now

correct

Beans start or Tyler start or Udoh start; the result is the same. We are talking about rotating bench players, that’s about it. No differences.

Speaking of which, whats the deal with Earl Barron?
besides hes horrible
Emergency big man?

I don’t know.

christ what else do we need to register emergency, have the building burn down
he is our 3rd unit guy
we will need him when we are wining by 30
since wining 20 is not a sure win for us...
Getting Jeff Adrien'd.

Signed for the sake of signing someone… the Riley way of doing things.

coach just dissed andris
yeah he did.

he didnt say it, but in his heart he was thinking it

What was said?
The question was about Biedrins lack of minutes and no foul trouble

MJ said something like: Look at the rest of the box score and you’ll see.

asked why andris didnt play and we were getting killed on the boards

said look at the box score and his line and you will know why, he wants aggressive bigs that will be a force in the paint. doesnt care about his scoring . paraphrased

MJ said it is a process...

I guess he has no other answer

Shoot

I shouldn’t have looked at the Warriors’ schedule next month…..

I hope when Lacob said he may change his mind about this core if it continues to struggle (paraphrase)

he meant it

I really think it is time to trade Monta

He is great, but too small to be a SG. Klay has the size and Klay plays smart basketball. Not many turnover, good defense, and his long arms really make the other guy miss shots. Plus, no question about Klay’s offense.

If we want to rebuild like OKC, now is the time

Rebuild with Curry, Klay and DW

Get 3 top 5 picks

And trade a star for another top 10 pick and your on the right track… Oh and you cant screw up any of those picks and 1 has to be a superstar

How come we never thought of that before?

sounds good to me
we could have done it

Draft Monroe/George, never sign Lee, hold onto AR

We’d have more top picks and youth and trade assets AND money

Monta to Chicago for Bobcats top 14 protected pick and their own 1st round pick?
Their own pick is likely top 3

In this draft Monta wont get that

Top 12 is more realistic, but if we did that it’d be a sign of a total rebuilding of the core so Lee would have to go as well as Andris. Curry would be 50/50 depending on what you could get at the time

too small to be a SG

Revelations!

But to say Klay should be handed the keys now… Just no. And “long arms” don’t play a huge part in his average defense… And yes questions about his offense, he hardly can get to the rim

Trade for best value in terms of getting us in the right direction aka Biedrins and Lee should have their salaries cleared, Monta only for someone who legitimately can make us better by filling a hole and Curry for a legit high caliber player

hand the key to Klay now

so we can get our pick too. Just like what OKC did.

score at rim or not, it is all 2 pts. Look at KD, he does not get to the rim often.

yes he does

hes very good at it too

and klay hasnt shown the talent level to be given the keys

bingo

It’s easy to say trade him, it’s harder to find the RIGHT trade to make the team better. And salary dumps do not make us better. We have had plenty of salary in years past (including recently) to bring in big-name free agents and have been unable to convince players to come here. Salary doesn’t help you if no one wants to play here. You need to get a quality player back

People arguing for salary dumps aren’t necessarily saying they want to build exclusively through free agency. Cap flexibility goes a long way in helping with trades to get better players and retaining any good players you find through the draft.

In some cases clearing cap is good

Like Biedrins who is totally dead weight and Lee who is holding us back . His interior defense and rotations are the worst I think I have ever seen and his salary is a killer

Klay interview: "We're right there we just need to keep working"

Right where exactly?

Right there to keep our pick
I wonder how the Thunder will do

against the Clippers?

Win

I think they match up well

Man, this was a heartbreaker

I always feel so sad when the Dubs lose. They get close, but come on. There is only so much they can do without a center. Beidriens is a total joke. Coach put him on blast in the post game interview. He paused so long thinking about what to say. How can someone just bumble through when they see their teammates hustling and trying. He doesn’t even try!!

The warriors must get better but it can’t happen with this current roster. It just can’t. I am so frustrated right now. Steph was a disappointment tonight. I hate when he messes up and puts his head down. He knows he blew it. I hate feeling sad for my players.

Klay was great, though. Glad he might gain some confidence from this one.

Can someone explain the amnesty to me? I keep hearing about it, but not quite sure I understand

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