Happy weekend. Thank you for your support of Daily Thunder. It’s too bad it’s not hot outside.
From the Nigeria game, the Thunder trio combining on a lovely little fastbreak. Russell Westbrook with the thievery, KD with the lefty lob and James Harden with the two-hand finish. It’s just fun times when those three are doing things together on the floor for this completely ridiculous team of awesome players.
Also, consider this your open thread for today’s game against Lithuania. Tip-off is at 8:30 a.m. CT on NBC Sports Network.
OK, I'm not trolling this time
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/08/team-usa-escapes-lithuania-99-94/
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@MisterJohnsonOKC
Me too.
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/08/team-usa-squeaks-past-lithuania-99-94
coach K plays KD long time but doesn't play him as core.If KD got enough shots when he was hot maybe we could see Davis 10 mins in 4th quarter
Embarassing win against Whitey.
This whole dream team debate is getting tired out.
Good game
I think Davis needs minutes. People look for him when he is out there and he finishes.
He makes us a better passing team just by making himself available so often.
@Zach99 I don't know why Coach K is using him like he's a real NBA 12th man. Just because he's not the main guy doesn't mean you should just use him in blowouts. He's a good inside presence ffs
I'd have rather seen Harden in there than Deron Williams. He's a better facilitator.
@Old Man Game no he's not
@Old Man Game
(Answered your question on the last thread.)
@ThunderChick2010 I went and read it. That's cool. I actually really like smaller cities and towns in Western Oklahoma.
@HardenIsMyManCrush @Old Man Game
I always feel like I've stepped back into the 70s every time I go in there . . . Gotta take our perks where we can get them!
@ThunderChick2010 @Old Man Game Heck yeah you are. I stop at DQ everytime I'm in Chickasha which unfortunately isn't very often.
@Old Man Game
I learned from DT last spring that I'm envied for living in a town that still has a Dairy Queen. :)
4-0 USA wins
Can I get a quick score update?
@ThunderChick2010 http://scores.espn.go.com/olympics/boxscore?gameId=1065 ESPN actually keeps the gamecast relatively up to date.
@ou_sas
Thanks. I generally only open game streams on my desktop, but I'm away from it this morning. Are we eventually going to get games on NBC--or some place on basic cable?
@ou_sas @ThunderChick2010 Generally but when we were up 2 it said we were up 20.
@ThunderChick2010 we won
@ThunderChick2010 99-94 USA Final
@ThunderChick2010 fin 99-94
@cleandoe
See? I read your comments. :)
@ThunderChick2010 This doesn't prove anything ;)
For people that want KD to shoot more, they sure don't pass him the ball.
lousy american scoring pg play, saved by lebron
C Paul, 3-9 from the field, O FTAs. D Williams 4-12, 2 A / 2 T0.
R Westbrook 3-7, 0 assists.
@Crow Apparently Coack K told them to stop worrying about facilitating and attack. They sure did listen
@supreme35 an off game by many. durant drifted
@Crow As if Russ plays the 1 for USA. He did what he was meant to for his role. Not his fault that no-one was creating ball movement til late in the 4th
@Crow I didn't mean in terms of games. I meant in terms of shots. One bounce differently and instead of 'shooting barely above 40% FG' , he has got almost 60% FG. It's just not fair to say it was a bad performance on his behalf, because of that.
@cleandoe i didnt say or act like one game was a big sample size (your interpretation); but since you brought that up, i increased the sample size.
@Crow What does that have to do with this. Then, he has the ball and chooses what to do with it. For me a fg% from 7 shots is not a good enough indication of his shots
@cleandoe westbrook above 45% raw FG% just one in 5 tries against miami
@cleandoe westbrook has lots of game below 40% in the NBA. about 30% of the time last regular season and 40% of the time in the last playoffs.
@Crow If no-one is passing him to ball what can he do. Plus you're acting like his fg% is such a big sample size. One more make and it's 50%. It's not bad
@cleandoe kobe sucked it up
@cleandoe is 1 FTA and shooting barely above 40% FG doing what he was meant to for his role? that's not good for a "sg"
@Crow lebron is the best player in the world hands down
These are the same players that told Kevin to shoot more?
@supreme35 They waited for him to get cfold to start passing to him, than hitting him while he was hot
#fuzzylogic
@supreme35 Now they won't pass him the ball
@KellOne there has been a lot of times they haven't. today was just even worse.
Hidalgo Texas the place that we are playing one of our pre-season game is the last town before the mexican border
Oh here we go
That was nice Lebron.
Hate when Deron and Kobe are out there. Neither make anyone else on the team better.
Seriously need another playmaker out there.
@Zach99 Give Russ the ballhandling role. At least then we'd have more open 3s and more time on the clock than 4 seconds to make a play.