37-19 4th quarter is not gonna get it done
Disappointed but good fucking game.
OKC takes game 1. 8 more to go.
Apparently, they earned the home-court calls the Knicks haven't. Total BS that a team with 13 str8 wins needs favorable calls. Disgusting.
Alpha1971 wrote:How can OKC get away with all these fouls ?
We lost the game but it was a good test for us. Outside of the usual overplaying our starters our defense did well vs the Thunder.
Far tougher team when we are getting everyone involved - Bridges/OG also largely negated (by our own offense) in 2nd half.
Far too many easy strolls to the basket against all our guys hold for OG.
Hopefully OG elbow wakes up ok next few days.
Thunder DID NOT impress me --- Shae yes but rest not so much. J-Will yes.
5 bench points to their 44 is what killed us more than the refs, we have no meaningful depth.
VDesai wrote:Really bad 2nd half. Knicks let the Thunder D engulf them
Phuck… I wanted this game…
Ugh…
JB and Mikal looked spent near the end. Nobody really got Deuce's minutes tonite. OKC's bench came through. I dont know how we go deep in the playoffs like this in a seven game series, with limited bench use. Would like to see Cam and Shamet get more minutes. Or make a trade if necessary.
NYStateOfMind wrote:Apparently, they earned the home-court calls the Knicks haven't. Total BS that a team with 13 str8 wins needs favorable calls. Disgusting.Alpha1971 wrote:How can OKC get away with all these fouls ?
Blaming the refs is weak. They made the clutch shots; we didn't.
Lost 4th qtr by 18 muddafuggin points - holy mackerel.
Cam Payne against tough defenses is not going to cut it, he is just not that type of PG.
Long way to go, unfortunately.
And I’m almost at the point of believing it will be improbable without some change in the minutes distribution. This is unsustainable.
And to even lose by 10…
Ugh…
NYStateOfMind wrote:Apparently, they earned the home-court calls the Knicks haven't. Total BS that a team with 13 str8 wins needs favorable calls. Disgusting.Alpha1971 wrote:How can OKC get away with all these fouls ?
Holy shit - if we breathed too hard it was a foul --- RIDICULOUS and Kat can NOT buy a blanking call on his drives. Shae a low breeze kicks up and he's on the line.
Thought Precious gotta step up better, he had some chances
And this was them on the second game of a back to back
GustavBahler wrote:JB and Mikal looked spent near the end. Nobody really got Deuce's minutes tonite. OKC's bench came through. I dont know how we go deep in the playoffs like this in a seven game series, with limited bench use. Would like to see Cam and Shamet get more minutes. Or make a trade if necessary.
Thibs is too focused on winning the present game that he does not think about stuff like that. We should be getting the bench players right because running the starters into the ground won't work during the playoffs. The deeper you get the more you need the bench but we all know he won't touch the bench unless he is forced to by injury and when he needs them they will be out of rhythm due to never playing much.
Wonder how OKC would have matched up if we ran out Shamet for Hart and forced them to move IHart onto Towns or maybe OG.
Clean wrote:We lost the game but it was a good test for us. Outside of the usual overplaying our starters our defense did well vs the Thunder.
We have had a lot of good test we’ve lost so far. At some point you have to freaking win one. So far against the big boys, we fight but end up coming short.
Still love this team but the minutes distribution is starting to really piss me off.
Brunson was out when we started the quarter and we went around 4 mins with only 1 made shot
Teams can trap and hack Brunson without fouls. So we get to 6 on the shot clock 30 feet outside the basket.
We needed to have Josh or someone else initiate the offense. They took us out of our game.
Clean wrote:Uptown wrote:the 1st 3 quarters. we were winning because of ball and body movement and extra effort on D. Last 5 mi sandwiches, wr stopped moving the ball, over dribbling, and we got worn down by OKC depth...
is it worn down by their depth or lack of use of ours? With how much the starters play the later the game goes the more fatigued they will be vs teams that do rest their players.
Lil bit of both....all of out starters played over 40 mins...none of OKC starters touched 40...if we want a fighting chance to beat the elite teams, we have to use our depth or get guys in here that the coach will trust...
LivingLegend wrote:Lost 4th qtr by 18 muddafuggin points - holy mackerel.
Disgusting. Should never happen.
I don’t know, man…
