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@qrex
Id say a combo of the home crowd and the fact that they have had some time to get used to the idea of their best friend being traded to another team. They didn't even get to be home or anything before the magic game after hearing about the trades, so i'm sure they were pretty emotionally compromised still on friday. westbrook and durant in particular.

Plus Ibaka being thrust into a starting role against dwight howard with essentially no chance of having in game reinforcements.

It was just a bad situation for a couple of games. It'll be fine.

To all of my fellow Rick Reilly haters, have fun.

http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_...

All his worst qualities come out in this article. It talks a lot about the NBA too.

@james1
Don't put any stock in what you hear on the so-called "Sports Animal". Caller-driven sports talk is so bad. Do I care what "Steve from Norman" thinks about the Thunder? No. Give me insiders, experts, real analysis. Heck, they don't even send a person to practice or shootaround and they are the radio flagship station. Inexcuseable. WWLS is terrible sports radio.

Perkins vs Lakers in playoffs in crunch time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hioEOxAGtsE

We're going to have to win in LA regardless of seeding IMO

@RWisMyFavThunder
Maybe it was. I still don't think the Lakers this year are the same Lakers that won 2 straight championships. What was the difference in the Thunder team that the Lakers barely beat and the one Orlando blew out a couple of days earlier? Crowd?

@RWisMyFavThunder
They're now 3 for 3 after the all star break against playoff teams, including two road games in tough environments (Portland, OKC).

RWisMyFavThunder :
Why does everyone call the LA win a big win for them. They barely beat a depleted Thunder team

Umm.. because it is a big win, they got the tiebreaker against us.

Why does everyone call the LA win a big win for them. They barely beat a depleted Thunder team

I think it's funny how fickle NBA fans are. OKC talk radio callers talking about how the trade is bad now. We've been short handed in the only games since the trade against arguably the 2 best low post teams in the league. It might make sense to actually have the new guys start playing before you say it was a bad move.

We can make the offense work. Chicago won 7 championships with 2 real scoring options. Kukoc could score but his highest PPG average with the Bulls was 13. Those teams knew their roles and played within themselves so well. The Thunder are still figuring that out. One of the main common themes when we struggle is too much one on one and that's what happened again yesterday. Leads to TO's and bad offense. I think it's interesting that we are 26th in the league in assists. The bigs helping off on KD and Russ should lead to more easy buckets for our postmen. We don't capitalize on that enough.

@Hawaiian Rob
lol, yeah nobody will want to mess with us now.

Excellent video of Perkins going righty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCtDWGob1f8&pla...

@RWisMyFavThunder
we lose to two top 10 teams with two of the best big men(gasol,howard) without our new players and it is all doom and gloom.

@DSMok1

Yep... he's just a talking head.

@RWisMyFavThunder

It's just revisionist history. Green goes to the Celtics, naturally all of his strong points are emphasized. These national reporters don't watch a lot of Thunder games except maybe the ones they see on national TV.

The bottom line is who is better, Nenad Krstic or Kendrick Perkins? Who's better, Jeff Green or Serge Ibaka? If you could have Krstic and Green or Perkins and Ibaka who would you prefer in your starting lineup?

I have not been convinced Wilbon knows anything about the NBA in the columns I have read of his.

Mike Wilbon's response to the JG/Perkins trade is crazy,

"The more I think about Kendrick Perkins/Nate Washington for Jeff Green the more I'm confused about this trade. I don't like it for either team, actually. The Celtics negate their size advantage by dealing Perkins and Oklahoma City clearly misses Green...I mean the REALLY miss Jeff Green. Is Perkins going to be as effective for Ok City as he has been playing with Kevin Garnett? I can't see that at all. Green facilitates so much, or did with Durant and Westbrook. Okay, I don't want to be knee-jerk about this, but my first reaction is, Wow, this stinks for both teams. We'll see. Danny Ainge and Doc Rivers ain't crazy. They're smart men, astute men. I HAVE to give them some benefit of the doubt because they've earned it over time...but where we sit now I just can't see how losing Perkins is going to help the Celtics now. I don't care about next year (Ainge has to) because the Celtics should be living in the here-and-now. Trade Perk over the summer if you think he wants too much money. There will be takers over the summer for him. But win now with him....That's just me. I don't get this..."

And I don't get Wilbon's answer. Has he actually watched Jeff Green play

Is it just me, or is Harden really bad with his right hand?

I'm supposing that it's less essential for a lefty to develop his right hand than it is for a righty to develop his left (until they're in the NBA, that is).

In the final minutes of yesterday's game, Harden crossed-over Kobe, and it was sweetsweetsweet. He would have finished the play if he could use his right hand.

Don't mean to dog on him at all, it was a beautiful run out and dunk.

Imagine when he figures out how to pass with his left hand! lol

I don't believe that lefty talk. They said the same thing about LeBron. Just hype.