Darnell Mayberry gives 10 reasons the Thunder can actually win this thing: “Russell Westbrook: He’s been the best and most consistent player in this series. Lakers guard Derek Fisher can’t guard him, and neither can Fisher’s younger, more athletic backups. Westbrook has gotten to the rim at will, posed problems with his pull-up jumper and has been a steady playmaker.”
Mark Heisler of the LA Times: ”Lakers: Toast. Even tied, 2-2, with home-court advantage intact, they’re browned on both sides with their crust trimmed off, spread with butter and jelly and just waiting to be devoured by the Thunder or whoever they play next, unless Kobe Bryant turns back into Kobe Bryant. The Kobe we knew always went down firing. The Kobe in Oklahoma City over the weekend looked like someone protecting an injury or injuries, coming off Game 3 when Kevin Durant shut him down at the end, and Game 4, the most ineffectual performance of his career.”
J.A. Adande: “The Thunder have turned all their negative attributes into positives. They’re shorter, but they’re faster down the court and to the ball, which translated into 24 fast-break points and 23 second-chance points Saturday. Their youth had them looking much fresher after the teams played four games in seven days. But the pace slows now, with two games in the next six days. And home-court advantage swings to the Lakers, with two games in Los Angeles if the series goes the distance.”
Chris Tomasson of Fanhouse: ”Not only are Oklahoma City’s players talented, athletic and seemingly have everything going for them but experience, they have motivation. “A lot of people didn’t expect us to be here,” Durant said. “Once we got here, I know people were saying we were going to be swept. We know what we were capable of.” But perhaps even those with the Thunder didn’t know they were capable of walloping the Lakers by such a lopsided margin. But was it too much? Find out Tuesday to see if the Lakers are able to beat Oklahoma City “convincingly.”
Darius from FB&G: “These were the free throw numbers for the Thunder and Lakers respectively. That’s right, the Thunder shot nearly fifty free throws and connected on an absurd percentage of them. Meanwhile, the Lakers shot their share of freebies, but were quite bad at converting. If you’re looking for a difference in this game, look here first. After the game, Phil Jackson said quite simply that before this game got away if the Lakers would “have made (our) free throws, like professionals are supposed to, (we) would have trailed by 5-7 points and been in this game”.”
Did you know: Phil Jackson is 15-0 when a series is tied 2-2. Yikes.
From SLAM’s recap of Game 4: “Brooks later admitted looking at the scoreboard in the fourth and thinking, “Wow, we are up by 29.” He also provided more insight into what makes this Thunder team go: The only pressure he puts on his players is to play hard and play for each other; that real toughness isn’t flexing muscles, but instead, making the right play every play; and that he never looks at his team as a young team, as if to say that if he did that it would be a ready-made excuse. Brooks isn’t one for excuses.”
Kevin Durant is on everybody’s mind I suppose.
Reader Clifton sent in the video of KD being drafted in 2007 and pointed out some of the foreshadowing in it. KD talked first about hard work when he was drafted and Jay Bilas said Durant would win multiple scoring titles and probably sooner than later. Just interesting to watch now.
I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking who the person was sitting courtside at the Thunder games. His name is James Goldstein and he’s basically and NBA superfan. I actually met him in Dallas at All-Star Weekend and he couldn’t have been nicer. Granted, he was a little odd, but he was really talkative and friendly.
@Jon
man thats just a sweet gesture. seriously unless you are a laker fan there is no way you can root against this team. they play hard every night. they respect the game. have great chemistry. genuinely care for each other and the team and organization. if you are an NBA fan in modern era where players sign onto multi million dollars and get babied and are used to player tantrums and player ego's as normal behavior, how refreshing is to see this team go old school and be humble, yet still maintain a swagger about them.
@thunder
Yeah they said on the broadcast that she was wearing it because Ibakas parents couldnt be there, and KD had his mom and two grandmothers there. Just goes to show you how close this team is.
PNT :@Dylan
I like it…I like A LOT!
So with dallas playing poorly in the playoffs, does this increase the chance that haywood doesnt not resign with them and we have a shot at him?
Royce, I was wondering the same thing about the bedazzled cowboy in the front row after the first Laker/Thunder home playoff and how he goes to all these games and gets the best seats. During commercial, I was flipping around and TV Land had him on a show "How'd You Get So Rich?" He does real estate and spends over $300,000 on NBA tickets each year. Random, non Thunder tidbit.
@thunder
where have you been the last 2 days?
btw did anybody notice durants mom's jersey in game 4? it said #9. guess who that belongs to?
cheblocka baby!!!
i mean how freakin big of a compliment is that-a superstar's mom is wearing not her son's jersey but another player in same team. ibaka is doing something right
@billyadams
only if they pay by a means other then credit card, otherwise the credit card is charged for the exact number of games at the end of each round, just checked and i have not been charged for the playoffs yet.
@Omar
zing!
@f5alcon
Didn't Thunder season ticket holders also pay upfront for all the playoff games?
Anonymous :@f5alcon
I think they are wondering how best to get out of their ticket commitment.
Yeah the fact that they prepay for the whole playoffs upfront is killing them.
http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/02/26/are-the-lakers-gouging-fans-for-playoff-tickets/
@Dylan
Eh... I could get over it for the Thunder. Just make sure the OKC logo is nice and big.
justin :
You should do orange.. the Raptors do the ’sea of red’ and it looks amazing, organge would probably look similar.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2443961619_b14a5d5e8e.jpg
We'll let you be the one to try to talk OU fans into wearing OSU colors. Gonna be a tough sell.
@justin
Sea of red was the stupidest thing ever, when you consider the color of the New Jersey net's Alternate away jerseys in that series.
f5alcon :
i wonder if the lakers fans can match out level of play if they roll out shirts at all
I went to game 1 in LA - they were hand out yellow shirts at the door but they were pretty weak. Had a ton of text on the front.
@f5alcon
Thats a lot of ed hardy shirts to make by tomorrow
Anonymous :
How about no shirts? That would be distracting, no?
Only for people ages 18-50. I really dont want to see some old guys chest or some under age girls.
OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!OKC!
i wonder if the lakers fans can match out level of play if they roll out shirts at all
Dark blue ...nah
Orange...pretty good
Black... looks good in person, not so much on TV
My choice? The actual color of blue in our team's colors...Oklahoma blue. It's bright, in our color scheme, and different than the game 3 shirts' royal blue.
justin :You should do orange.. the Raptors do the ’sea of red’ and it looks amazing, organge would probably look similar.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2443961619_b14a5d5e8e.jpg
That DOES look cool!
Orange shirts would look awesome on TV, and MidFirst is another big sponsor of theirs, and all the Midfirst lettering is orange. I think it would be cool if they said "Resiliency" or "Humility" or "Believe" on them too!
You should do orange.. the Raptors do the 'sea of red' and it looks amazing, organge would probably look similar.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2443961619_b14a5d5e8e.jpg
@Dylan
touche! that would be amazing!
@billyadams
The Game 3 shirts were more royal blue. I was thinking more like navy blue for Game 6. I agree that white looks best on tv (like a Loud City gospel choir). White or orange would have lots of contrast on tv. Thunder orange has more red in it than OSU orange anyway.
@Dylan
I like it...I like A LOT!
@Carl
Yeah, that's what we figured out. But it annoys me that I went to Thursdays game as well, but had to buy my ticket on StubHub because I couldn't get them when they went on sale to begin with. I'm back on at 3pm to try and buy whatever's left.
@Carl
I had a 10 game pack and no one told me about a presale.
If we win game 5, they HAVE to give out black shirts for Game 6. We can change the chant to KILL LA, KILL LA, KILL LA
@billyadams
No season ticket here. I had a 10 game package, which included a pre-sale option on playoff tickets. I went to Thursday's game and that apparently gave me a chance to buy same tickets before 3 pm today.
@Colin B
Like the Game 3 shirts? As far as the shirts go, the blue ones from Game 3 look the best, the white one looked the best on TV. We need a color with a lot of contrast like white or orange. I think enough of us OU fans could get over ourselves to wear an orange thunder shirt. I will (if I get to go that is)
@Colin B
I would prefer orange. A nice bright color might cause D.J. Mbenga to have seizure.
@Jon
Why are you still thinking it over. U need to elope, pronto!
I think orange shirts would be awesome but I know it probably won't happen since most Oklahomans either love or hate orange. Yellow is obviously out since we're playing the Lakers too.
In that case, how about dark blue?
I just saw on facebook someone say she got on at 10:15 and got 1 $12 ticket. What the heck is going on?!?! Did we slam the servers so hard that it took 15 min for the tickets to actually become available?
I bought 4 seats together for a friend @10:35 on StubHub. I just held my nose and paid the $136 service fee....
@RH
That theory seems by far the most logical, I bet everyone who showed up before 10 was guaranteed a ticket.
@billyadams
The season ticket holder emails are different, they say something like your tickets are ready to print, i dont have access to that email from work, so i cant quote it directly.
Ignore my previous comment...read the OP wrong.
@Carl
That kinda sucks because people who bought to sell for games 3 and 4 get first choice for game 6. Unfortunate. Guess I'll try again at 3. Thanks for the info.
the tickets all around my seats were being scalped by the owners, both games one set had laker fans, hopefully for the last game this round there are less of them.
@Carl
Those emails are just for Season Ticket holders that bought all their playoff tickets up front. This just gives them the ability to go online and get them.
I had an operation of 10 people refreshing from different internet sources. We all went for 2 each and all failed. I'm convinced they sold all of the grouped tickets at the box office this morning, which begs the question why they even had an online sale...
@Carl
I'll try again at 3pm. What could it hurt?
Wow i had three people trying to get through for me. None of them made it. I hate that they allow companies to go in and buy tickets it isn't fair.
@Jon
Don't get crazy.
I like toast.
As you know, the Thunder/Lakers Playoff series is now tied 2-2. Saturday night’s win means Oklahoma City will host game six Friday night. The exact time is still to be determined by the NBA.
Tickets for the general public are going on sale this morning, but because of your prior purchase of tickets for games three and four, we want to make sure you’re set for Friday night. We have pre-assigned you the same quantity of tickets you purchased for those games. Due to very limited availability, we have also pre-determined the seat locations. Only our Full Season Ticket Members are actually guaranteed the same seats for all home playoff games.
To take advantage of this offer, click HERE to log in and confirm your purchase. You need to act quickly, as you need to activate by 3:00 p.m. today or we will release these tickets to the general public.
The passion, energy and noise in the Ford Center is the talk of the NBA. We hope you’ll be part of it on Friday night for game six.
Carl :I just got an email that tickets go on sale to public at 3 PM.
From who?
I just got an email that tickets go on sale to public at 3 PM.