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1. The Thunder is the better team. If anyone would like to argue that point, the prosecution presents five wins in six games as State’s Exhibit A. The prosecution rests.
2. OKC is one boxout, and one Russell Westbrook desperation jumper that hit the rim, from being unbeaten at home in the playoffs. I don’t know if that record will survive this postseason, but it will survive this series.
3. Kendrick Perkins is probably super pissed right now. Westbrook too.
4. Nene’s hairstyle is not postseason material. He looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid.
5. Tattoos, or at least getting them here or working here as a tattoo artist, was illegal in Oklahoma so recently that there has to be some carry-over effect. Bad karma for Denver in OKC. Especially Chris Andersen, who prompted my brother’s basketball-novice girlfriend to blurt out, “Whoa. Eewww. What the hell is that all about? That’s gross. What’s his problem? Why does that guy do that?”
6. It finally rained here this week. That proves the man upstairs is smiling on Oklahoma at the moment.
7. J.R. Smith is going to shoot too much. The man is coming off of a hot game … but shot 40 percent from the field on the season. He also appears to be in love with himself. Call it a hunch, but I think he’ll enter tonight’s game thinking he can be The Man, and he’ll shoot the Nuggets right out of it. If George Karl doesn’t bench him like he did in Game 2, I feel like Smith is going to keep shooting and keep missing. Smith shot 46 percent in Game 4, but he doesn’t often shoot well two games in a row (although, to be fair, he often does it for more than two games in a row when he does shoot well for more than one game).
8. Oklahoma City hardly ever loses twice in a row. It happened only five times all season. The Thunder lost three times in a row only once, and that included two games played without anyone involved on either side of OKC’s midseason trades.
9. The arena is going to be as loud as it has ever been tonight. We will not let them lose.
10. Why not? Next is now.
@DavyTheWise
In NBA games you can use Seattle jerseys if you play as the Thunder...but hey, thats a video game
ChilamBilam12 :
DavyTheWise :
DJ 7 :
I just wanted to say, to my fellow Oklahomans, especially the ones who live in the Metro area, Did you guys hear all that Thunder in the morning? I woke up to it, and smiled! I live right by the Arena, so when i was driving down the road pass it, and heard the Thunder crackle so loud, and have my windows shake from its vibration, seeing the lighting in the background of the arena, all i could do is smile and say LETS GO THUNDER!!!
Haha, i think thats called foreshadowing…
Think the Good Lord was throwing us a shout-out?.. Not that i think God spends to much of his time watching basketball, but if he does, you know KD would have to be he favorite player
@ChilamBilam12
Well leaving personal religious feelings aside, I def think the universe sends us signs everyday, its all up to your interpretation after that... :)
I think it would be cool to have a throwback sonics jersey personally. If it pisses of seattlites (?seattle-ons, im ron burgundy?), then so be it, team moved... sorry fellas.
Grey was cool.. black was nice too, but replace the orange with blue, and move the orange to where the yellow is. Orange/Black - well, that's just too OSUie, and we certainly can't have that.
Black was cool.
The entire 2011-2012 season will be in honor of breast cancer awareness. All teams will wear pink uniforms of varying styles to each game.
i liked all them cept the pink and the green ones. but the black and orange was just sick. also the grey .
@Jax Raging Bile Duct
:shakes fist"
@dragonbug82
I prefer The O.C. :-)
@Mark!
ahh, I don't remember those
@Mark!
i liked the orange and black jerseys the pink was just..no lol. green hell no, that would just make old sonics fans mad lol.
Don't most teams use the team name for home kits, and city name for away?
@Jax Raging Bile Duct
lol
Since we're talking about it, this was a fun short youtube video w/ alternate jersey colors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMtMm66VS2g
anonymous :
I never understood writing ‘oklahoma city’ on the jerseys. I can’t think of any other team that does that in any league. Of course, I also think the team should be called oklahoma thunder
There's a really, really good reason why no other team in the league would write "oklahoma city" on their jerseys.
@Smokey
So true. My brother refuses to get on the okc wagon just for that reason! I wear thunder gear every time I see him. Lol!
@anonymous
It oscillates. I checked out the old San Antonio jerseys to make sure my memory wasn't too far off and their jerseys went back and forth between saying San Antonio and Spurs... when they did make a change, that was usually part of it.
@anonymous
would you prefer Oak city like all the damn announcers seem to call us lol
ThunderHorn :
Also, Gallinari has a stupid face.
@ThunderHorn
and spinky emo hair :P he looks like Tom delonge from blink 182...cept i like tom so :P booo gallinari lol
Our colors don't have orange it's..... sunset red.
I never understood writing 'oklahoma city' on the jerseys. I can't think of any other team that does that in any league. Of course, I also think the team should be called oklahoma thunder
Greg :Road unis would be fine if they just said Thunder.
The "OKLAHOMA CITY" is there just to piss people off. Even Tulsa gets miffed about it. *giggle*
Also, Gallinari has a stupid face.
Road unis would be fine if they just said Thunder.
@Mark!
I've always thought our road jerseys were ugly, but have grown to like them for that very reason. A sort of grind-it-out get an ugly road win mentality thing.
But I think our home unis are excellent. We've got a yin-yang thang goin on.
our background is always orange when they show the logo, we need to incorporate that more :P. dont get me wrong i love the blue and white too.
@Mark!
Altho, as a counter point, the Toronto Raptors are a good example of a team that had too many colors and had a pretty dramatic change to the look of their jersey. I don't think our team's jerseys will be dated quite as quickly as team Jurassic Park, but just offering some hope to those that don't like our road jerseys :)
Personally, I'm not crazy about our road jerseys, but I do like our warmups (same colors except no yellow or navy, just bright blue, bright orange and white.)
@Mark!
That sounds reasonable, and I bet you're correct.
But it is fun to imagine.
The Spurs are the only other team without an alternate uniform I think.
No black jerseys. Black is trying to hard. Official colors only.
@Jax Raging Bile Duct
I remember this as well. I'm pretty sure the NBA league office has some marketing people who determine whether or not a team (and the league at large) would benefit from the change.
Given how little TV time the Thunder has had prior to this year plus our being a small market team without much exposure, I'd be shocked if we see very many jersey changes... and when we do, I'd be shocked if they were very dramatic.
Check out the Spurs' old jerseys.
Not trying to speak from a position of authority, just speaking my suspicions :)
I thought it was 3 years plus a small print caveat that said something along the lines of "If the NBA determines that the team brand would suffer due to the change, they have power to veto the decision".
I remember the discussion being that new franchises, or newly relocated franchises may have to wait longer than the normal 3 year period while the NBA works with the team to establish the team's brand.
dragonbug82 :
I know we will win tonight. We played like selfish brats the other day and lost by 3. After the coaching im sure everyone got, and the fact that were at home, its na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, good bye to the mcnuggets tonight. Im so sick of seeing them too good riddance.
@dragonbug82
+1
@ChilamBilam12
The Thunder is America's team. (This is somewhat questionable in areas outside of Oklahoma.)
I know we will win tonight. We played like selfish brats the other day and lost by 3. After the coaching im sure everyone got, and the fact that were at home, its na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, good bye to the mcnuggets tonight. Im so sick of seeing them too :P good riddance.
@Grolgar
Would make sense. Need to establish an identity before getting funky with the colors.
It's three years.
DavyTheWise :
DJ 7 :
I just wanted to say, to my fellow Oklahomans, especially the ones who live in the Metro area, Did you guys hear all that Thunder in the morning? I woke up to it, and smiled! I live right by the Arena, so when i was driving down the road pass it, and heard the Thunder crackle so loud, and have my windows shake from its vibration, seeing the lighting in the background of the arena, all i could do is smile and say LETS GO THUNDER!!!
Haha, i think thats called foreshadowing…
Think the Good Lord was throwing us a shout-out?.. Not that i think God spends to much of his time watching basketball, but if he does, you know KD would have to be he favorite player
@Grolgar
yeah that was the time period I was thinkng. 6 seemed too long. Maybe it goes to 6 after our initial change? who knows, but 3 sounded right to me
@clarkem
I thought we were supposed to keep the same jerseys/logo for 2 or 3 years. I swear I heard that on this board...
@Joel
I am pretty sure you are right. I don't know about the 6 years though..
The Knicks picked up Chauncey Billups' option for 2012, there goes one of our Westbrook replacement possibilities.
@Smokey
Sorry, wrong forum
Hulk Hogan was awesome in the underrated flick Suburban Commando.
@Smokey
Yea I'm usually very distracted on gamedays. I'm just glad we got the late game tonight. I am teaching the youth class at our church. So I can get home as the game starts. Always a good feeling to get to see all 4 quarters!
H2HHombre :
http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci_17936247
Great article written by the guy who called us “soft, arrogant, and non title contenders.” Makes me respect him more. Storms over the stadium for the entire game with loud cracking Thunder would be awesome. I hope all in attendance make that place the THUNDER DOME tonight!
He says "I like small towns" like I would say I like L.A traffic (that's a compliment)
No kizla, the okc bombing has nothing to do with our love of the thunder.
We oklahomans carry a large chip on our shoulders partly because we get misrepresented in the coastal media and if one way to get even is to kick the crap out of your beloved lakers we will do it!!
Didn't realize what an inefficient post-season Derrick Rose is having. Shooting 37% from the field on huge usage. That's ugly.
Get off Russ's case. He's been better than Rose this offseason, and their teams will be an identical 4-1 after tonight.
Sam Presti (OKC)
I'm not sure anyone is going to want to trade with me anymore.
John Hollinger
(3:59 PM)
Good point. The scary thing about Perk is that he's still recovering from the knee injury and learning a new system. As good as OKC looks, they're going to be a lot better next year.
Keith :Just throwing this out there, but even living near Detroit there have been huge thunderstorms going on all day. I like to think the woman upstairs is trying to tell me something.
The woman above me is always telling me to turn my music down.
Just throwing this out there, but even living near Detroit there have been huge thunderstorms going on all day. I like to think the woman upstairs is trying to tell me something.
@ThunderBelize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc