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Seats were awesome... Right behind Thunder bench and sat beside Bennett and in front of Presti... We were the home team but not really... Lots of Spurs fans... Which I expected... Driving home to OKC tomorrow.

okay, I'm Kev, your one man gang in the booth - I'm out . . . see ya next time!!!!

Harden and one (finishes with contact) . . .

Thomas for two (SWEET dish) from Harden . . .

Harden for three . . .

KD finally lifted . . .

geesh, our hedging out on threes (Thomas) is horrible . . .

KD is a great scorer but his ballhandling gets him in trouble - I can see why Brooks rarely gives him the ball up top late, he has trouble in traffic and is not a good enough passer to compensate . . .

Livingston is not adding to the team at all at this point . . .

I overestimated his potential . . .

Brooks is playing the starters HEAVY minutes . . . didnt we get blown out last night? If they were really tired then he shouldve played the regulars less . . . I don't like excuses, we are just getting whooped . . .

KD needs to call uncle - just making silly mistakes now . . . pressing in Austin . . .

Announcer just made a point, do you guys think them playing back to back nights have anything to do with how bad defense they're playing?

TGIOP
Thank God It's only Pre-Season

the illegal feed site is not working tonight

Durant is just cold . . . turning it over now . . .

SA is a GREAT passing team . . .

Ibaka with a follow slam . . .

even Thabo is going under screens (he almost NEVER does that)

sigh . . .

Our defense is frustrating

I wish Russ would score a bit more, but for now I'll be happy with a consistent 3-1 AST/TO ratio.

Anybody have a link to the stream? The one Royce posted goes to Golden State-Lakers.

Green (from RW) . . .

great floor game by Russ . . .

KD has gotten chilly . . .

Green is schooled by the rook . . .

where's the other post players??

Krstic (good look from RW) . . .

Thabo has his gameface on . . .

he's the only one . . .

Ginobli made Harden looked silly . . .

RW pressing now while behind . . .

starting to take bad shots . . .

Doh.

RH :The Thunder are athletic enough to survive at plenty of one-on-one matchups. Unfortunately the Spurs are such a great passing team, they expose our biggest weakness on defense – perimeter defense and rotations. They always make the extra pass and we rarely get there on time. Thoughts?

you nailed it . . . we are reactive instead of proactive on defense . . . without Weaver playing, we don't have ONE good defensive perimeter player outside of Thabo . . .

wecan agree to disagree . . .

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16 pt deficit is horrible even for preseason . . .

Is that feed on ATDHE.net working? I click on it and all I see is color bars.

The Thunder are athletic enough to survive at plenty of one-on-one matchups. Unfortunately the Spurs are such a great passing team, they expose our biggest weakness on defense - perimeter defense and rotations. They always make the extra pass and we rarely get there on time. Thoughts?

@Kev
I don't think we are in disagreement here- They are obviously not playing good perimiter defense- I'm just saying the Spurs are putting up a more outside shots than seems prudent, and if they were shooting at whatever percentage they normally shoot during the pre-game warm-up, we would probably be ahead of them right now.

Steve - we want the same thing, but putting a hand in a face is decent but NOT great perimeter defense - that would be rotating to force a jump shooter NOT to shoot . . . we aren't ready for the next pass - we wait until the next pass and then we think about it - that's how losing teams stay losing teams despite our good offense tonight . . .

Steve we have to agree to disagree - I know you have watched the game so there is a reason for that percentage . . .

Green, Durant, and Livingston have major problems rotating vs shooters that NEVER DRIVE (Finley and Bonner) . . .

they should at least run at them and make them put the ball on the floor once or twice - we are doing the same thing we did last season, and that's frustrating . . .

@Kev
Don't get me wrong, we need to do better on the perimiter, but these guys have been unconscious- with or without a hand in their face.

@Kev
They hit 11 of 14 3s in the first half. I know they have some good long range shooters, but that percentage is insane. Most guys don't do that good at the all-star game's 3 point shoot out. If they had shot 50% from three, which is a ridiculously high %, we would be up by 3.

Kev :

Warren :
Kev :Krstic looks lost against Duncan . . .

But he has been effective.

I meant on the defensive end . . .
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Spurs 11/14 from three . . . that’s horrible perimeter defense for a high school team . . .

So did I

Warren :

Kev :Krstic looks lost against Duncan . . .

But he has been effective.

I meant on the defensive end . . .

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Spurs 11/14 from three . . . that's horrible perimeter defense for a high school team . . .

RW still needs help on the defensive end - Parker just schooled him with a crossover (no screen) and broke down the rest of our defense - we give up another three in the corner . . .

Kev :Krstic looks lost against Duncan . . .

But he has been effective.

nice finish by RW . . .

good shot by RW . . .

Thabo is not even playing his usual (stellar) defense tonight . . .

this will be our problem this year . . . offense looks good, RW is playing well, KD is unstoppable . . .

and we are trailing by 8 . . .

defense has to get better . . .

Krstic looks lost against Duncan . . .

Krstic from 12 (from RW) . . .

first bad shot by RW . . . a record for him . . .

Steve H :Some of those early threes were from our guys not rotating fast enough- but this last half dozen or so have just been flukey shooting by the Spurs. I hope they jack up 3s like this when we play them for real.

flukey shooting?? That's all Finley and Bonner do is shoot threes - especially when we dont bother to rotate . . .

preseason shooting pct.

OKC 54%
SA 50%