!!!!!!!This is a colossal choke by the thunder. Dame please pop a 3 and put these guys out of their misery.
Ask and ye shall receive. What a fucking game.This is a colossal choke by the thunder. Dame please pop a 3 and put these guys out of their misery.
BoomOKC really took a punch and was on the ropes with Portland un the penalty so early. Think Portland closes this out with Dame eclipsing 50. Buckle up!
30 feet? Don't short change my man.Dame sent the Thunder home with a buzzer beating 30 footer over Paul George, after 2 for 1ing them with a full court run up for a layup.
I mean, your going to have to get over George passing on the Clippers eventually, right?Westbrook is pure garbage. I'd put him below john wall. At least wall is out and not hurting his team on the court.
I know the Dame blowjobs, well deserved, will overshadow this but this is a historic choke. A league average point guard could have guided his team to a W in the 4th. Russ just kept with the garbage possessions. He's pure garbage. PG should ask for a trade
this is just like basic basketball. If they bench russ in the 4th, they probably win this game by 15-20. He was that stupid guiding the team.I mean, your going to have to get over George passing on the Clippers eventually, right?
Eh, to George's (dis)credit, he also missed two free throws and had a bad turnover that led to an easy bucket at the other end for Portland.this is just like basic basketball. If they bench russ in the 4th, they probably win this game by 15-20. He was that stupid guiding the team.
Feel bad for pg stuck with his trash ass for the 3 years.
The shot, the wave and this. Its a huge night in sports but he wins it by a landslide.
Westbrook is pure garbage. I'd put him below john wall. At least wall is out and not hurting his team on the court.
I know the Dame blowjobs, well deserved, will overshadow this but this is a historic choke. A league average point guard could have guided his team to a W in the 4th. Russ just kept with the garbage possessions. He's pure garbage. PG should ask for a trade
I literally said to myself when RW got his 5th foul that if that was his 6th the Thunder would be in good shape. What an overrated player -- good to see him completely shown up, hopefully he'll stop getting bjs from the media for a change.this is just like basic basketball. If they bench russ in the 4th, they probably win this game by 15-20. He was that stupid guiding the team.
Feel bad for pg stuck with his trash ass for the 3 years.
I forgot about those. WTF? Dude's a career 84.4% FT shooter who shot 90% for a season a couple years ago. Bricking both there really helped set up the comeback.Eh, to George's (dis)credit, he also missed two free throws.
You are talking in more global, team building terms. I'm saying this game, with all their warts, at one point up 13 or 15 in the 4th, hell up 10 with about 7 to go, any decent point guard with paul george on the wing could have closed this game out. Instead, we get another mental spazzed out choke job. He has one maybe two half way decent possessions down the stretch and they win it easily.Eh, to George's (dis)credit, he also missed two free throws and had a bad turnover that led to an easy bucket at the other end for Portland.
I'm not going to sit here and say it's not Westbrook's fault they lost, he deserves a lot of the blame. But to say a Darren Collinson type would have just won the game for OKC is ignorant of the broader problems that have been an issue for OKC for years. Ferguson/Schroder/Grant were doing nothing on offense; no real pick and roll action, no catch-and-shoot opportunities, nothing. They benched Adams to go small at the end and that actually took away their best half-court offensive set, which is the Westbrook/Adams pick and roll. OKC was extremely predictable at the end of the game on offense, all they needed to do was pack the paint (because they aren't afraid of any non-George shooter) and protect the rim on Westbrook drives. There was no plan B. A lot of that is Westbrook's fault, but Donovan, Presti and the other players have to take some blame too because this is a reoccurring problem for OKC in the playoffs. It's easy for the media to say this is exclusively a WESTBROOK problem, but I don't think Westbrook had a lot of better options down the stretch either.
You also gotta love PG calling out Dame for taking a bad shot ... while sitting beside Russell Westbrook.Yeah Paul, not a good shot...you were also down 3-1 to a team starting Enes Kanter, and you hitched your fortune to a PG who apparently can’t do basic arithmetic.
I mean, it’s a disadvantage matchup for Portland for sure, but I don’t know that Jokic’s strengths specifically hit Kanter’s biggest weakness (footspeed/defending in space). And Dame and CJ are going to put Jokic in the blender on the other end—this is a really bad matchup for him imo.Jokic should eat Kanter alive, right?
My main gripe with Westbrook is that OKC was getting the switch on George whenever they wanted, and any PG midranger or 3 against a switch is a better shot than what Westbrook generates. Obviously you can’t do that all game, but the 4th quarter of an elimination game is as good a time as any.I'm not going to pile on Westbrook here. While he could have done things differently down the stretch if Darren Collison were their PG for the first 42 minutes they are never in that position to begin with. Instead, I'll preserve 100% of the accolades/blame game on the shoulders of The Great Dame! He just carried a Blazers team who's (arguably) 3rd best player is Maurice Harkless to a 5-game series win over a really good OKC team. What we witnessed this series is LeBron-level/Iverson-level stuff of putting a team on your back and refusing to lose.
It's great to see underrated superstars like Lillard control a series and an underappreciated Enes Kanter play such a critical role. Special shout out goes to Seth Curry who isn't only overlooked as a key contributor to this team but overlooked in his own family!