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I obviously know why, but it’s been interesting how big a deal people have made about James Harden scoring like crazy in Houston. Because Kevin Martin did that with probably better regularity with the Rockets too, and no one made much of it. He’s had a 50-point game in his career, and a 48-point game. And he once scored 32… in a half. What’s obvious, even through just 10 games, is that Martin can prolifically score. He’s picking his spots in different ways as a third or fourth option now, but there’s no reason the Thunder shouldn’t be taking complete advantage of his scoring abilities.
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/11/warriors-vs-thunder-pregame-primer-6/
Tonight will be interesting I have both David Lee and Curry on my fantasy team, so I want them to do well... but not too well obviously
@AIaska you can safely hope for points, hopefully you don't ask for too many rebounds and assists though.
DT loves Sosa
comments and posters, you might be a troller, that boy might be a troller
Royce loves Sosa, Thunder Up Sosa
They clappin like Magnolia
all this rhymes with sosa
DT loves Sosa
Bow Bow Bow Bow!
some Alec Burks from summer league if anyone is interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5T5SY9wqa8
all the videos of him from real games were dunks in garbage time with inspirational music, no thanks.
@OBoy Jones III The only way I'd be remotely interested in Burks is if he could replace Martin and OKC could use the Martin $$$ to get a big guy. But Burks hasn't shown anything and can't shoot so.
Glad Toronto won. They were losing just a little too much.
Cmon Browns beat them Cowgirls...
Rondo is averaging more assists than points
Guess the 18 assists (& a win) Jose got today was meaningless too.
@PJthe3 bka ... Assists are not meaningless, but they are an unfair assessment of a player. A player's shooting is entirely on them. They have to make the decision to shoot given the circumstances (distance, defender's proximity, chance of help defense, time on clock, etc) and then execute the shot. If they miss it is a combination of a bad decision and/or a percentage working against them.
An assist on the other hand is much more dependent on the player's teammates than the player. Westbrook plays at least half of his minutes with a spot up shooter in Serge, a spot-up/iso player in KD, a spot up "shooter" in Thabo, and an player that takes so long to shoot any assisted makes don't count as an assist (yes I'm exaggerating, sorry Perk, and please don't attack my player characterizations as they are meant to be solely from the perspective of Russ as the ball handler).
Rondo on the other hand plays with Garnett and Bass who are basically spot up mid-range shooters, Pierce who is a spot-up/iso player, and formerly perhaps one of the greatest spot up shooters of all time. I haven't watched the Celts this year, so I don't know who is playing in Allen's place, but you can be sure that Lee/Terry/Celtic X is probably a spot up shooter.
When you play with 4 spot up shooters as Rondo does, you know if you pass them the ball when they are open there is a high percentage that you will get an assist and your team gets a bucket. When you play with two spot up shooters (and Serge was kind of iffy prior to this year), a spot up "shooter" and a guy that you hope won't turn the ball over for at least two seconds, you have about a 25% chance of getting an assist when you pass the ball to the open guy.
@senseandsenescence I don't need a thesis on assists.. I'm very familiar with how they work ... My comment didn't even mention Westbrook nor did I imply that Westbrook had anything to do with it... It stems from a comment someone made earlier, which also wasn't in reference to Westbrook ... Either way tho, a person who gives assists generally deserves credit for FINDING the open man, getting them the ball when they are open, or helping to get them open ... These are 3 things which rondo is better than 98% of anybody at.
& my stance on rondo does not solely relate to assists .. I don't know who is the best PG, they all bring different things to the table.. Where 1 ranks them depends on their preference for 1 attribute over another... But if they all are at the table, you ain't tell me that rondos chip stack ain't equal to others (based on assists & rebounds & defense & etc)
@PJthe3 bka ... The TL;DR:
Some teams, notably the Celtics, are designed to take advantage of spot up shots which generate quite a few assists for the ball handler.
(Most) other teams like the Thunder do not have the shooters or the system for their PG to regularly rack up absurd numbers of assists.
Megatron TOUCHDOWN
Redskins are putting a hurting on Philly
I did not realize Denver is 4-6 already. Brings a smile to my face, as I *strongly dislike* Denver for a multitude of reasons.
@Tronchaser can we hear 1?
@THE SPORTS OPRAH They are some lazy S.O.B's to begin with. I could go on but TC got the main point.
@THE SPORTS OPRAH @Tronchaser
And how is he supposed to keep up with DT when he has to work? :)
@THE SPORTS OPRAH @Tronchaser
They make him work on Saturdays.
!! JOSE !!
17 assists. Dzamn lol
!! RG3 !!
Sunday afternoons feel so long when you know you'll be staying up till 2:30 watching OK. So much time to find things that are better to do than work.
supposed to be OKC
Yall got me watching so many Raptors games I call them MY Raptors now...lol
Play good guys...but not too well. LOL
Yall complaining about Serge's contract?
You see what Roy Hibbert did today? SMH
@THE SPORTS OPRAH Roy Hibbert suckssssss he's been the biggest let down for my fantasy team so far
@THE SPORTS OPRAH I didn't like that contract when they gave it to him. People get blinded by the height and forget he's average or below average in most areas.
@Jooseppi @THE SPORTS OPRAH but he gets taller each round of the playoffs don't you remember? he was 7 ft 8 by the end of the miami series!
@Jooseppi @THE SPORTS OPRAH BUT HE'S A POST SCORER! HOW CAN WE TRADE FOR HIM!??!?!??!??!??!
@senseandsenescence @Jooseppi @THE SPORTS OPRAH
Bet your comment was 'Awaiting Approval' for that Perk remark. :)
@ThunderChick2010 @Jooseppi @THE SPORTS OPRAH PERK FOR 48, BABY!
I would hope for more small ball, and hopefully Landry or Lee aren't dominating inside or it might be more Perk than we hope for.
Ideally lots of Thabo and little Perk and about 10 minutes of Lamb and PJ at the end ;)
@senseandsenescence @Jooseppi @THE SPORTS OPRAH
Hey Sense, as our resident line-up expert, are you expecting to see any noteworthy changes tonight?
@THE SPORTS OPRAH What did he Hibbert do?
I am laughing at Bynum getting injured while bowling.
@Skyline LOL yoooo Bynum was my before bed laugh last night.
Hibbert was 3/10 6 points, 6 turnovers.
No max contract C should put up those kind of numbers. Ever.
@THE SPORTS OPRAH @Skyline he has really rough start, he shoots on even worse % then russ (.379 before nyk game), an he is a 7'2 guy.
http://youtu.be/m3LcJrYJV9Y Kevin Martin got fined for flopping on this play
@Perk90X he could be a stunt man
@Perk90X Fined or warned? If he had a beard he could sell it better ; )>
@KellOne @Perk90X I thought he was only warned.
@Skyline @KellOne @Perk90X yall right, warned.
anyone buying and selling twinkles on eBay? lol
people are so stupid sometimes, easy money. Saw one box at a gas station for $5 bought it and sold it for $25. Thinking about checking out all the stores/gas stations in stillwater to see if anybody left any.
@bmuelle21 I noticed it too. They likely won't even go away. Hostess asked the bankruptcy court to let them auction off their assets, so another company (I heard some Mexican company wants it, forget the name right now) will just buy them and produce them
@Perk90X yep the company Bimbo is interested...and no I didn't just make that up.
@Perk90X @bmuelle21 Twinkies on Ebay selling for $100 per box.
@bmuelle21 that's crazy, i bought and sold a wii u for 600 today
@bmuelle21 For some reason, I find this sad.
Big day of basketball today...Thunder tonight and OkState playing in the Championship game against #6 NC State
@bmuelle21 i only see what big game you listed.