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@Walter
And fans wonder why we can't get and offensive rebound after an miss,, maybe it's the fact that our PF and C are atleast 20 feet out shooting jumpers, when the rest of our team are 22 to 25 feet out waiting for the ball so they can do their job and work the perimeter.

Green did log some minutes behind Durant at the 3 spot tonight... I like Green a lot, but he is not a natural 4 and he has to compete with Durant for minutes a the 3.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this team will be playoff bound when someone takes Green's start PF spot and he settles into a role as the sixth man, playing 25 to 30 minutes a game at the 3 and 4. I think the Brooks could also do some good to make for time for Green at the 3 by shifting Durant to the 2 spot for short spells, with some combo of Kirstic/White/Collison/Ibaka at the 4 and 5.

Either that, or he would make a really nice sf for a team that does not have Kevin Durant.... and he could probably fetch a nice 4 or 5 in return.

@GAP

It's not just you GAP.

Why (for the love of God why?) have we not yet managed to snag an NBA starting quality 4 or 5 with something even resembling a LOW POST GAME?

(sigh)

Does anyone know who was guarding Sam Young at the end of the game? Was it Bowen?

Does anyone else think this who "replacement ref" thing is a huge ploy by the league? These scrub refs come in for the preseason, call an unwatchable, completely ridiculous game, and the fans hate it. Now, when the NBA brings back the same shady and ultimately bad refs they normally have (I think I read somewhere there is almost no turnover in NBA refs for the past 20 years), everyone will be happy again and claim how clean the whistles are.

It's all a crock, since Stern could care less about a well officiated game, but god knows he has to pretend to care and placate the masses somehow.

My point exactly, I think krstic and Green aren't good on the floor together at all. Plus if the NBA.com stats are correct (which I think that to be true) 3 of 10 in almost 26mins mostly jumpers from green is not what we need at the PF spot, but maybe thats just me.

Shocked that they gave minutes to Mullin over Ibaka. From what I heard, DJ White sounded mighty good out there. No biggie.

Despite playing almost 40 minutes combined, our starting power forward and centre pairing have not managed a single free throw attempt (NBA.com box). Does our front line consist of 3 wing small forwards?!?

I know its pre-season but...I'm just sayin'.

I defintely hope Bowen doesn't play for the Thunder in any upcoming games at all.

@Keith
yeah... and they are playing Ryan Bowen... so yeah... scrubs

I've never heard so many fouls in a game called in my life and i'm 29yrs old!

@Keith
Yeah, I think the last lineup I heard was Mullens, Thomas, Livingston, Weaver and Harden.

I can't see the game, please tell me Brooks is just playing the bench guys in the 4th and they gave up the game because Brooks cares more about the experience than the win (it IS just preseason).

what happen to the perimeter D

Something to keep in mind about Durant is that most guys take years to develop good defense (See Wade and Lebron). Not to mention, none of those guys guard the opposing best player for 90% of the game. Lebron gets sweet blocks in transition, and Wade gets the calls to do what he wants with pushing and hammering, but both don't do much overall until crunch time. The defense will come for Durant with time and coaching. But if he's still a bit below average this year, it's not a death sentence for our overall defense.

There's a conversation on the game here:
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/conversation?gameId=...
Some of the Memphis fans are saying that we're still terrible with the worst ownership and how we stole our team. Pretty funny...

On Weaver were the 5 fouls called.

5 fouls, come on these refs are calling everything on the Thunder!

Interesting that Livingston is putting in good minutes at SG....

Or atleast it sounds that way.

Yeah, Green is really not looking too good playing D.

Russel's really getting his hands on some steals!

At the half, Mayberry told me that sometimes Durant's defense was OK, sometimes Rudy Gay was blowing by him, but Durant was always in his face.

About time Westbrook steals something.

Durant's D isn't showing up yet.

Sounds like Russ is playing really well.

perhaps 9?

Make that 8 assists.

Lets stay positive. Westbrook has 7 assists in under 17 minutes.

the thunder are playing smart ball, 13/6 TO/A ratio, decent fg% and holding memphis down, they are just fouling out the wahzoo, otherwise this game wouldn't be close. But Westbrook's 7:2 A:TO looks great so far.

2/10 from 3 as a team...excellent...

Green is getting eaten up by Randolph...

@MartzMimic
Oh well we can try and set one up for Saturday.

Oh, I'm just talking about for these preseason road games that aren't on TV.

MartzMimic :
We really need to move this to coveritlive.com. I hate having to refresh constantly. Oh gosh, the Thunder Up song is definitely going to get old fast.

I would but I think you're limited with how many you can put up a week.

God bless Matt Pinto, but he needs a color man. Badly.

Here comes BJ

I'm glad our Thunder are finally playing some defense, even though we're fouling at an excessive rate.

Go to NBA.com for a live box score

At least KD & Harden is scoring.

Gosh, 3 fouls in the first few minutes by Harden!

I hate that they are forcing us listen to the radio.

I wish we could get a running box score...

We really need to move this to coveritlive.com. I hate having to refresh constantly. Oh gosh, the Thunder Up song is definitely going to get old fast.

...I want my Thunder TV!!!!

But WWLS will do for now...

For those outside the OKC area WWLS can be found among the stations that itunes streams by default.

stoned.... concussed... same thing....

@Andrew

Hey, cool, it's kind of like I made yahoo.

@Andrew
Awesome find... (although i'm sure you just googled 'James Harden OJ Mayo')

@Andrew

Thanks man. That was a good read.