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The Thunder picked up a nice win at Golden State last night and every time Oklahoma City visits the Bay, it reminds me of a great moment in Thunder history — the first buzzer beater. Uncle Jeff has moved on and things are different now, but this is always going to be one of my favorite Thunder memories. Mainly because it seriously shocked the crap out of me that it happened.
Look @ that five: Watson, Westbrook, Durant, Green, Krstic.
Awesome. Also, a Robert Swift sighting!
I remember where I was when I watched this. Probably my first Thunder-gasm. As far as Season #1, this moment sticks out + a blowout victory @ Utah when the team "turned it on" after Christmas.
How far we've come in 3 short years.
thunder should draft solomon hill
@THUNDERCATS no thanks. He's not a bad player, but he'll probably go undrafted pretty easily. Physically, he's actually very similar to Lazar Hayward (ew..) except he can't shoot (not that Lazar has shown the ability in the NBA, but in college he was heralded as a solid spot up shooter). Thick but undersized and underathletic small forward with tweener skills doesn't translate well to the nba
Our OFG% is the 2nd best and FG% is the 3rd best.It is interesting so many people think thunder is an offense team.
lost of interesting WC match ups tomorrow... Lakers Wolves, who are 9th & 11th place... dallas and the spurs both have the same record... and denver and the clippers are 2nd and 3rd place... im rooting for a clippers win to put more distance between us and denver, but i want it to come in triple overtime so theyll be tired when we play them monday
Any word if azubukie has recovered from his correction surgery? Would be a nice guy to have even if for just a practice man... Better than reid and lazar
@thunderstruck87 then we'd have our Resident Okie that we have sorely missed for a couple of years :P
so during the wizards bobcats recap on NBATV one of the commentators said he was offended as a big man that mullens was letting his point guard grab rebounds over him... I was actually thinking the same thing as I watched the highlight before he said it... his motor is his biggest problem
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@deleted_1998213_Don'tStoptheSergeing Awesome find. Thanks for posting. I wonder if his younger brother is still playing and progressing? Maybe we could pull a Memphis and let one big man brother go only to draft the younger brother?
@deleted_1998213_Don'tStoptheSergeing this will make me not as angry over the next few games when serge drops passes thrown his way or pump fakes instead of taking an open jumper
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Cool - thanks. Who did that?
Cole currently has the 6th highest PER among centers (though unqualified b/c of a lack of minutes): http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/statistics?position=c&qualified=false&action=upsell&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2fhollinger%2fstatistics%3fposition%3dc%26qualified%3dfalse
@The_Beard_Knows Quick. Have Presti tell Otis Smith have Aldrich-Howard is a fair one-up trade.
wow the nicks and the nets have the same record now
Presti might not even use the player exemption money. Jackson is probably the one player in the rotation in the minus category. That wont cut it come playoff time. Could be insurance money for backup pg or other positions. Some nice players still overseas. Interesting though
@OkcBaby
An exemption to spend means to spend money you have to come up with. Permission to spend aside, is it smart right now?
@Crownme right, which means extra money we didnt have to spend. Maybe it could be used for a trade of some sort for a vet. But its still premature to go there. Still interesting. I look at it as insurance money just in case come playoff time.
This & the dunk @ Atlanta (on Smith) will always come to mind when I think of Jeff Green.
Way to go, 22. I can't wait until he's on the floor in OKC during some future game. I hope we start a good UNCLE JEFF chant.
@D@nny I was at that Atlanta game. Awesome moment indeed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCoCdImJHxk
@D@nny wow... that made me miss that man
Uncle Jeff hit several shots like this for the Thunder. I miss that. Also...after seeing Nate hit a long 3 to end the quarter, I was reminded when Maynor used to do that with a fair degree of regularity for the Thunder.
How does what happened to Biedrins happen to any NBA player? After shooting 32% from the line last year, he's actively avoided any contact at all on the offensive end. He's taken 4 foul shots this year in 247 minutes and missed all of them. He looks terrified of drawing contact and doesn't even look to catch the ball on the PnR, despite teammates looking for him.
Ahhh I remember this moment well. Maybe I'm spoiled but I can hardly believe we cheered on a team that: 1) didn't start Westbrook 2) played Robert Swift.
I just saw that the Thunder were granted an injured player exemption worth about $880,000.00 to sign a temporary replacement for Maynor! I wonder if Presti has anyone in mind? I think Heinrich (sp?) is a free agent, and is almost ready to return from injury.
@BeautyandThabeet Craig Smith would have been a perfect acquisition in December. I've always wanted a frontcourt bench scorer like Rhino, Landry, Booker, or even DJ White (though he has sucked on the boards). Smith is rebounding better than usual, limiting his turnovers and scoring a bunch of unassisted baskets this year. No way Portland deals him to OKC, however. oh well
@ATH JR Smith? Landry Fields? When do they get back from China?
@BeautyandThabeet@OBoy@ATH id love to pick up aaron brooks
@OBoy@ATH Oh yeah, I always get Landry Fields and Wilson Chandler mixed up...
@ILikePancakes@BeautyandThabeet I would much rather have a knucklehead like OJ Mayo or even Beasley, JR is too far gone
@BeautyandThabeet@ATH landry fields plays for the knicks, the china players get back sometime in march....theres JR, Aaron Brooks, Wilson Chandler(most likely signing to nuggets) and Kenyon Martin
@BeautyandThabeet JR Smith is a great talent but horrible knucklehead. I don't want to see him on our roster.
@BeautyandThabeet i'd just like to get someone that can either score or make plays for insurance, cook is extremely streaky and harden somewhat, if westbrook has an off game in the playoffs and cook and harden don't show up who's going to step up, Nazr? Lazar?
@OBoy@BeautyandThabeet
Lazar is outa here, maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but give me a break.
@OBoy Shooters are prone to streaks. That's just the nature of being a shooter. Also, FWIW, I think Harden has been our second most reliable player.
@OBoy@SammyThunderer We have the exemption, we might as well use it, even if the guy never sees any real playing time.
@SammyThunderer it's tough they've both had their share of poor games this year to me when westbrooks off he plays like an all-star having a bad game, might shoot too much but still attacking, harden plays like a different player and tends to give up when having an off night or not getting calls
hopefully we'll be fine with the roster we have now for a championship run, but I don't think it would hurt to bring someone else in
@BeautyandThabeet Earl Boykins!
@BeautyandThabeet I'd rather keep playing and developing Jackson, but if we do sign somebody, Hinrich would be great.
@SammyThunderer@BeautyandThabeet
Yeah man, It isn;t like really Jackson's fault we had to throw him in the fire, but it will be good for him man.
@BeautyandThabeet Wait, Hinrich is still with the Hawks. He played yesterday.
@Fezzy@SammyThunderer@BeautyandThabeet Huh? Kirk Hinrich is not a free agent - he's in the last year of a deal paying him about $8 million this year.
@SammyThunderer@BeautyandThabeet Would love Hinrich if we could get him
Why isn't Royce White considered a draft prospect? He's got size, athleticism, great numbers, huge assist numbers and he just outplayed Thomas Robinson. I haven't watched him at all... anyone know anything about this kid?
@SammyThunderer largely because of this (what i've heard around the big 12 anyways): http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7505656/iowa-state-royce-white-battle-college-basketball
@The_Beard_Knows If there's ever a kid that would benefit from a few buckets of royal jelly...
@SammyThunderer seriously. I was thinking the same thing. His baggage will require the right environment to blossom, I think OKC would be one of the few places capable of providing that.
@SammyThunderer I hear ya, but man I could use short shot myself.
@The_Beard_Knows I saw that. So he'll take some babysitting. It does seem like he's a genuinely good kid. Seems sensible to take a flyer in the late first for that kind of talent.
@SammyThunderer@The_Beard_Knows and really, I think his fight against the anxiety issues shows some pretty solid character. In the right environment (ie Loud City), we could be looking at the steal of the century. I mean dude's not even ranked in a lot of people's top 100 and is 47 in the sophomore class. Getting him in the late second would be awesome
@SammyThunderer@The_Beard_Knows agreed. It's a relatively humongous flyer, but if we can wait 30 years for Pleiss to come over or take Byron Mullens, whose issue was not working hard (which i feel is worse than legal issues and/ or other mental problems), then we can dang sure take a run at this guy. He's frikkin ridiculous