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You forgot Thabo hatin, start harden talkin, bench underestimating.........
Freak it. We are Champ banner waving playoff bound. YEA BABY!! GO THUNDER

i think you guys would like to see the comments our first round rivals are makign about our beloved team.

http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/mb?sport=nba&a...

http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/mb?sport=nba&a...

Regardless of what happens in the playoffs, i really just want to say what a great season it has been so far. I'm happy that i root for a team where the guys care about winning, have a real passion for the game, and really do want to get better each and every game. With the fan support (with what i expect to be a raucous crowd in the playoffs) and the heart this team plays with, it makes it just a great team to follow. it's been a great season, and if u told me before the season started we'd finish with 55 in the regular season id have been pleased.

I know for some the perception of the season might change depending on how we do in the playoffs, and thats fine. but before the inevitable heat-of-the-playoff comments (the complaints abt the starting O , the back and forth w/ okc baby and cdub00, RW hero mode, Brooks small ball), i just wanted to say im happy to be a fan of this team.

@Sammy
I feel like the conception of Green around the league (including the broader universe of sports writers/pundits/bloggers that cover the league and fans) v. those of us who watch this team game in and game out demonstrates how much the general public pays attention to aggregate totals instead of the advanced stats. The book had been out on Green for a while with the advanced stats indicating he wasn't anything special. Yet his reputation as the "third best player on the Thunder" stuck nonetheless.

@Keith
That's fair. I can't believe the number of 'analysts' that were calling him the best player in the trade.

@Sammy
True. But look at how many articles have come out recently that showed Green being terrible in OKC. They are just justifying why he's not good, saying we should have seen it coming, but still funny. I mean, when he was here, media outlets called him one of our big 3, one part of the core members of our team. I think it speaks to how little sports "experts" and "analysts" actually pay attention to teams outside the biggest markets. Until truth is hitting them in the face, they are more than happy to substitute hearsay and fake eye test descriptions.

Justin is actually Danny Ainge. He was leading a PR campaign to keep Green's stock low. Now he's gonna make his move on Sefolosha, and BOOM!!!!!1

We already won!!!!!!!1 Boston, baby!!!!!!1

@Thunder247
Thanks.

@Thunder247
I think its for cutting down travel time....East vs West

Keith :@Thunder247

Isn’t it funny how once Green went to the scrutiny of Boston everyone in the world realized he was a detriment to the team?

No one would have noticed if Celtics kept winning, though. It's the change in record that highlighted Green's play, just like it was OKC's rapid improvement that masked it.

@Hawaiian Rob
Yeah, in the finals home court gets 1,2,6,7. Never really did understand why.

@justin
You were the grandfather, you created the movement. In fact I beleive that you were the one that actually got the deal done. All hail Justin...

Does that change to the other format with the 3 games in the middle just in the finals? I can't remember.

Manu is hurt..

I hope Mullens saved all his money because ouch, dude played against smaller front line players and they out rebounded him and shooved him around. His legit chance to show hes progressing and it was total fail. At least Aldrich helps shut down Pau Gasol, and Bynum plus rebound. Looks like Aldrich and Pliess are what we're working with now.btw all the trolls will say we lost to the bucks but will completely ignore the fact that we pretty much rest our starters.

Keith :@Thunder247Isn’t it funny how once Green went to the scrutiny of Boston everyone in the world realized he was a detriment to the team?

I noticed this as well.

@Skeletor
I like this idea....

@Thunder247
Isn't it funny how once Green went to the scrutiny of Boston everyone in the world realized he was a detriment to the team?

@Hawaiian Rob
1,2,5,7

This is positive in the long run. This team has never had more than a 6 game win streak all year. After 6 wins we have to blow one or two. We got that one loss out of the way. Now it's time to put up a streak against Denver.

@Hawaiian Rob
The first two, the fifth and the seventh.

Question mark

Thunder247 :@Dr
. Rumble
I like the idea of taring and feathering brooks anyways for the Green>Ibaka thing and now the Thabo>Harden thing.

Haha, I will join you in that venture.

That dude got paid 1.2 million to play basketball this season. Double damn. Which games will be home games in the first round.

@justin
Just think if he was getting starter minutes all season.

@Dr. Rumble
I like the idea of taring and feathering brooks anyways for the Green>Ibaka thing and now the Thabo>Harden thing.

Ibaka secured the lead league in blocks over Javalle McGee and (assuming he is 21) becomesthe youngest ever to lead the league in blocks, I'm sure.

And really now that I think about it, I am the most pissed because I have the Dallas game on DVR and was going to watch that game after this one to see if we got the thrid. Now I have to figure out what to do. Also I am pissed becasue James did not get to 60% TS%. I am crazy, sorry.

Thunder247 :@Dr
. Rumble
Yea, sorry I am a little bit pissed, I should not be but I just think that we should have just sealed it up with the starters after it was obvious that we were not going to win with our bench. I think it is disrespectful to the fans that paid money and who spent time to watch it. But I will quit complaining, it was a good season….

Haha no worries, we all want to see the Thunder win every game. Just think what we would say about Brooks if he put the starters in to win this meaningless game, and KD breaks his leg or something. Brooks would have been tarred and feathered in Bricktown for playing him.

okc baby :

Ozarkhick :
In order to IQ test Mullens, you would have to do stuff like put socks over his hands and then put cheerios on the table in front of him, and then see if he could figure out how to take the socks off, or if he just sat there and whined and drooled.

I beat the cheerio puzzle in 12 minutes and 37 seconds flat. What was your score, smart guy?
You seem to know alot about that

@Dr. Rumble
Cole is still assigned to the Thunder right? He was in a suit on the sidelines tonight.

We demonstrated two things tonight. Mullens is horrible and Nate does not need to see time in the playoffs and should be traded

@Dr. Rumble
Ibaka has played 2192 minutes this year before tonight and just about as many last year. He has never really been hurt. I would not have worried for a moment about another 15. Again, not a big deal and really I think most people will agree with you.

andrew :
Ya, I don’t really understand why we weren’t playing Aldrich in this game… At least give him SOME of Mullens minutes.

I truly think the franchise wants to win the NBDL playoffs and they think Cole will help them more than Mullens. So they have Mullens sit the bench for the Thunder while Cole plays for the 66ers. Who knows if this is true, but it kind of seems that way haha.

Injury...Its simple

@Dr. Rumble
Yea, sorry I am a little bit pissed, I should not be but I just think that we should have just sealed it up with the starters after it was obvious that we were not going to win with our bench. I think it is disrespectful to the fans that paid money and who spent time to watch it. But I will quit complaining, it was a good season....

How long is Lord Byron's contract?

@andrew
D-League Playoffs

@Thunder247

I do agree with this though. Mohammed is a player we definitely need off of the bench and also the oldest player on the team. It's dumb to not suit up Aldrich and play one of our bench guards for a few extra minutes instead of giving Mohammed 30+ minutes.

Thunder247 :
And really why have Mohammid, the oldest rotation guy on the team by far, play the most minutes he has played since coming here. Do you think that 21 year old Ibaka needs the freaken rest? WTF brooks

You do realize its not about rest as it is getting injured. You really think playing 15 extra minutes in a game is gong to wear someone out? We didnt play the starters a lot so they wouldnt get hurt, not to "rest" them.

Thunder247 :And really why have Mohammid, the oldest rotation guy on the team by far, play the most minutes he has played since coming here. Do you think that 21 year old Ibaka needs the freaken rest? WTF brooks

good point ....

Ya, I don't really understand why we weren't playing Aldrich in this game... At least give him SOME of Mullens minutes.

@justin
waste of tallent size and a ugly mustache

Can BD's line of night be his last line "Well it looks like we will be the fourth seed not the third. Still Grant, thats NOT BAD." As if we were really even playing for the 3rd seed, or anyone wanted the three seed. Wish we could have won, but I really could not care less that we lost. I hope your being somewhat facetious Thunder247, you cant possibly be really upset after this game can you?

@Keith

Seriously, I hope I never have to see him in a Thunder uniform again. At least Aldrich seemed to learn things. Mullens has been a professional for two full years and the best thing anyone can still say about him is, "well at least he's trying".

This loss is meainingless and I'm elated that we're playing Denver instead of Portland, but I'm annoyed that Mullens is even on the team. What a waste of resources.

I just hate how ESPN kept making a big deal about it, and never said that we didn't play our starters for most of the 3d and 4th.

And really why have Mohammid, the oldest rotation guy on the team by far, play the most minutes he has played since coming here. Do you think that 21 year old Ibaka needs the freaken rest? WTF brooks

Ozarkhick :
In order to IQ test Mullens, you would have to do stuff like put socks over his hands and then put cheerios on the table in front of him, and then see if he could figure out how to take the socks off, or if he just sat there and whined and drooled.

You seem to know alot about that

I'm ok with OKC giving this up to the bench. It was clear midway in the fourth quarter that Dallas wasn't going to lose to the Hornets. There's no reason to put starters or even big minute bench players in the position to get hurt.

Sucks that we lost, but it was a meaningless loss.

Ozarkhick :
In order to IQ test Mullens, you would have to do stuff like put socks over his hands and then put cheerios on the table in front of him, and then see if he could figure out how to take the socks off, or if he just sat there and whined and drooled.

Post of the year nominee.