KD is pretty much the coolest. He gives his mom kisses on TV, he takes pictures with fans, he plays flag football with random people and he always signs autographs for fans before every game.
Except for when you throw your shoes at him. I guess that’s where he draws the line.
(Though if you’ll notice, KD catches the pen the person throws down and appears like he’s ready to go ahead with it before a security guard runs over and takes the shoes. Of course he was.)
Shoes are only for throwing when you’re doing it at a political figure. Everybody knows that.
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/07/thursday-bolts-7-26-12/
happy now @ou_sas ?
@cleandoe Yup! :)
@Crow ...you're being mighty pessimistic today. We have the defensive capacity to stop Miami, we just didn't maximize it due to poor play. We don't need to add anything as much as we just needed to get our heads out of our asses. And as for rebounding...well, we just need to rebound with our heart!
@Bryson I know it is a blast and maybe too blunt for many but I just had a little time to put some thoughts out there for consideration or reaction, if folks want. there can be plenty of things to discuss or not discuss. that it what i came up with at the time.
@Bryson @Crow We had good all around defense, but we had no one who could have stayed infront of Battier in the time he was in there. Collison and going small was suppose to be our hope, but Collison hardly got time and Ibaka could hardly stay infront of anyone (battier and Bosh). And yeah we need to add post presence to atleast add some pressure in side, and I would not mind offensive rebounding at all, hopefully Cole Aldrich or Hasheem Thabeet can add that to our dynamic team. Or ibaka can stop settling for long jumpers and play the post up
Thunder had 4 games with good team offensive ratings against Miami and still fell 4-1. Maybe being good at scoring is not enough against them. Maybe you also need to be very good at rebounding or defense. They weren't. Has that changed? Doesn't seem like it.
@Crow A healthy Jeff Green would have done wonders during this last series. We just needed someone to stay infront of Battier. He was the most crucial pieace to the dismantling of the Thunder. Their 3 point defense has been bad for about 2 years already. I really thought thats what was going to do us in against SAS
@thelaughingwiseman maybe thompson or jones will hustle and provide some help but it is not what they are known for so far
Does any team have better than a 40% chance against a health Heat squad next playoffs? Maybe but I can't say for sure. If one does they will likely be top 5 or very near on at least 2 of the 3 of offense, defense and rebounding (broken out from the other two). Thunder weren't quite there last season.
Chicago was top 5 on 2 last season but run of the mill on offense even when Rose was around.
Miami was 8th on offense, 4th on defense. They were the best team standing. And should be better this season.
@OBoymuzik on defensive RAPM allen is near neutral and lewis is estimated as better than average in recent years.
@Crow i agree that we need to value rebounding more with our roster moves...but you said the heat are going to be even better...they will be on offense but won't allen and lewis make them significantly worse on D while they're on the court?
Defense barely top 10 once in 3 seasons and not last season? Sure, give the coach a big 4 year.
With the best or second best offense, Presti makes all his moves to improve offense. He is not doing it the old-school Spurs way. Not even close. It is more like the unsuccessful new-school Spurs or Suns at their peak.
@Crow Jones and Thompson seem like nice enough adds. But the team needs to win a title were defense and rebounding and neither helps with that and nothing else was done to address that from a personnel standpoint.
Westbrook and Durant turn 24 by the first month of the season and cease to be "real young" then. Jones is the youngest guy on the team.
Heat have 9 guys 28 and older on their roster now. Thunder 2. Typical champ is far closer to the Heat on age than the Thunder
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@SergeIblocka I'm calling BS on this
@SergeIblocka when he is not preening or complaining or enjoying his money and other stuff
@SergeIblocka does he watch tape hours a day in the offseason? really doubt it. that ain't "fun"
My workplace had "Thunder Thursdays" through the season, but I decided to make it so for myself today. I figure it's schedule-release day, the eve of the Olympics, and . . . Thursday!
@ThunderChick2010 I miss Thunder Thursday's. The one they used to do at Jersey Mike's was very tasty.
@ThunderChick2010 I wear Thunder playoff tshirts under my coveralls everyday!
@ThunderChick2010 I'm game for Thunder Thursday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/etan-thomas/revisiting-40-million-dol_b_1380575.html alright etan thomas. i see you.
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@OBoymuzik
Russ never loses his swag. Not even in his sleep :)
#MaintainTheMystery
@cleandoe i jumped on your comment as a springboard for mine but i didnt mean to jump on you or to appear that way
@cleandoe as u wish
@Crow ^^^ *dislike* :(
@cleandoe show more defensive swag, maybe things change. don't show more defensive swag they probably don't.
@cleandoe got better team D, got the ring
@cleandoe Russ never loses his swag... except in 3 of 5 games against Mario Chalmers http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2239674785/mchalmers15.jpg
how you like my ring russ? and sam and everybody
lets play "what would another player have done?"
Lebron-calls security
Kobe- Takes mental note of person, assassinates 8 years from now
Blake Griffin- Staredown
CP3-falls down
Love- steps on guys face
carmelo-eats shoes
Anthony Davis- "HUh?"
Harden-shoes gets stuck in beard
Ibaka-blocks it
Westbrook-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxCwG1JqHE (NSFW) (Also pretend the one girl is westbrook)
D Will- gets the guy kicked out of and then leaves (im reaching now)
@persiansooner13 metta world peace- takes the shoe thrower out to dinner OR goes crazy and starts a brawl...depends on the day
If I never hear the names Dwight Howard or Penn State again I will be happy. The media is out of control. Is Joe Sportsfan actually clamoring for this nonsense or is espn dictating it all?
@Tequila or Failure You should see how they handle the college Football landscape, it's like the SEC network but national!
@Tequila or Failure ESPN is dictating it all. They are ruining sports the way they drive the narrative on these stories.
@Tequila or Failure i'm so tired of the dwightmare that i enjoy it now it's funny...i think thats a sign i'm going insane but whatever
When people ask me who my favorite players are I never say KD, I like to keep it hipster with my answers usually, i dont want to say kobe/lebron/KD etc, but this is the kind of stuff I look for when I want to call someone a personal favorite. The guy right under me really made me think about it....here is person who gets SHOES THROWN AT HIM, not just one shoe either, a PAIR of shoes, and his first instinct is "I need a pen to sign these." Unbelievable. Royce should not have alluded to this in parenthesis, thats truly one of the most incredible things ive ever seen. KD is officially my 2nd favorite player now behind harden, apologies to Ricky, Hamed, Serge, and Kyrie. (Harden will never be replaced, we have gone through too much together)
Of course KD was going to sign them hes like Jesus.
it looked like KD really was going to sign them. I'm really glad the security was careful and took hold of them though. I do feel for the person who trough them at KD, I don't think they were trying to hit him, it seemed like a huge crowd was there, and the guy just tried and get them to KD. I think KD was relating to that, he even looked up to grab the pen that was tossed to him. I think he is much wiser than I give him credit for. KD is one interesting character, he is very much an anomaly in the NBA as well as in this world
@thelaughingwiseman wonder how the bad boy pistons would have reacted lol
@supreme35 They would have ate the shoes!
@thelaughingwiseman I logged on just to like that..
@thelaughingwiseman at one of the thunder home games I remember someone who was standing above the tunnel where the players come out dropped a jersey on james harden's head kind of cuz they wanted him to sign it...funny thing it was a KD jersey though...also i guess that's not as bad as getting a shoe thrown at you, lol
I would have been like "WTF MAN"!
@ElMexiThunder haha welcome back...
@bmuelle21 Seriously though, If i were KD i would have reacted far worse. Maybe even throw it back at the dude.