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Thunder (39-12, 16-9 road) at Jazz (28-24, 19-6 home)
TV: FSOK (Cox 37, HD 722, Tulsa Cox 27, DirectTV 679, UVerse 754)
Stream: Click here
Radio: WWLS The Sports Animal (98.1 FM, 640 AM, 97.1 FM Tulsa)
Time: 7:00 CT
Offensive Rating: Thunder – 112.7 (1st), Jazz– 106.5 (9th)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 102.6 (8th), Jazz – 107.3 (22nd)
Pace: Thunder – 93.4 (8th), Jazz – 91.2 (19th)
View from the enemy: Salt City Hoops
It’s not easy to blow one team out, much less four straight. I wouldn’t expect the current trend of Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant sitting in the fourth to continue on tonight, as the Thunder take on a solid Jazz team that’s very good in their own building.
The Jazz don’t lose at home much, but the Thunder are actually one of the few teams that have had past success against them in Salt Lake. Outside of the Tony Brothers Fiasco, the Thunder have won three of their last four in Utah. Not a typical feat.
Utah coming in: Lost at Sacramento on Saturday.
Three Big Things
1. Inside. Obviously the major matchup is the interior battle between Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap versus Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins. Perk played Jefferson wonderfully in the first meeting, holding him to just 7-18 shooting, with most of those attempts coming outside of the paint.
2. Short hands. The Thunder get back Kevin Martin tonight, but the Jazz will be missing Gordon Hayward and Mo Williams, meaning Utah will have a lot of trouble handling matchups against OKC. Hayward can’t really defend Durant as it is, but he was probably their best option. Now, they’re really screwed.
3. Roll on. The Thunder have major momentum working for them, but with a big game against Miami and then the break to look forward to, focusing on this one could be a challenge. They’ve been stomping people as of late, but just because you did it to one team doesn’t mean you’ll do it to another.
Tip at 8:00 CT. Go Rolling.
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Just ran thru some stats. We commit 20 TO's, only had 15 assists and got out-rebounded 26 to 38. Thats not a formula to on the road vs jazz! KD after the game.."we gotbour ass kicked". Westbrook? Well he looses his patience with the media
LBJ + 21 Bosh +34 Chalmers +41 Wade +19 9 TO's #hatetheheat
lakers only up 3 on phoenix :) Come on Phoenix make your draft pick from the lakers better!
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@MJOKC Your sense of humor is lost on most of us over the age of 14.
Young grasshoppers
@OkcBaby So a grasshopper hops into a bar, and the bartender asks him, "What'll you have?"
The grasshopper replies, "I don't know... what do you recommend?"
Bartender: "As a matter of fact, I have a drink named after you!"
Grasshopper: "I didn't know there was a drink called "Steve."
With Durant at PF: 116.6 ORTG, 94.6 DRTG. Nope, don't play those lineups at all....
@[censored] scotts intuition game is a mess
RT @darnellmayberry
The Thunder loses to the Jazz. Russell Westbrook loses his patience with the media. Kevin Durant says "They kicked our ass."
YAY
@OBoy Jones III @darnellmayberry Oooo, testy Thunder. I like it. LOL
@OBoy Jones III @darnellmayberry How did Russ lose his patience? Not answering Darnell's dumb questions?
Only 4 more games with the alt unis
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@MJOKC Good night, no hard feelings. It's the internet.
@[censored] @MJOKC Hell-- you two guys showed more emotion than our team tonight. At least you guys brought your TSN lunch pails.
@MJOKC #fakeflagged http://goo.gl/At1VM
@MJOKC
You're so charming tonight.
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@MJOKC
Same for mine.
All I want is effort every night, you play BB for a living! #CHI #DEN you won't see them getting killed in the paint and not challenging shots! #we'respoiledIknow One of my favorite HUMAN SPIRIT video's hope u enjoy, can forward to about 2:50 Christopher Maloney's The X Factor ...: http://youtu.be/k1T9-I3wx8I
just got home from the gamee, I will take the blame for this one. Its all my fault!
Did you wear your alternate jersey too?
@Barry Amenema Nope but if I had one, it would be in my fireplace right now and I would be roasting some marshmallows off of it
Thabo was 14 for his last 22 ..9/13 on threes...
And he gets 2 shots tonight..Great coaching..Welcome back Martin..
Putting aside our 20 turnovers and the fact Utah had 19 more fg attempts---the thing which stands out to me the most was the fact Jefferson and Milsap outrebounded Perk and Serge 17-4. I thought as a team this was our second worst game of the season. Our worst being the home loss to Brooklyn. Reggie was the lone bright spot, plus the late hustle of Liggins. I'm not going to obsess over this because this should just basically be a pride deal with some of the players. They know who didn't bring their lunch pails tonight. It seemed like every time I looked...we lost most every battle for the 50/50 balls. That's not on Brooks. That's on the players who didn't come ready to play tonight.
@El Prez I think Liggins nickname should be "Lunch Pail"
@Sup' Bruh' That's awesome. I love that. Liggins would be a primo penalty killer if he were a hockey player.
screw this, I'm going to watch New Girl. Laters guys
Brooks needs to learn how to establish a way to make the Thunder play better team Defense. Why is it hard for him to comprehend that the overall team defense is weak? We have the rebounding and blocking down. why can't we get team defense done? It's been 4 years and I haven't seen any progress
Perkins and Ibaka both wilted like a pot of cooked greens tonight. Collison wasn't much better but he seemed to be trying. I think we could have taken the game if we went small. The big lineups weren't doing anything for us.
@[censored] I can't explain how bad i thought Serge was tonight. I expect these kind of games from Perk.
@[censored] Scott Brooks being Scott Brooks. Can't be helped, he like continutity for some reason. I just want a coach who's been proven, not growing with us. He hasn't been able to come up with creative plays or make the team play better defense. He needs to put in work like they do
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Jazz are one team where Perkins has to play good or he has zero value.
@ThunderWins yup them and the grizzlies
@[censored] We would have been killed on the boards and in the post
@Lost Ones @[censored] That's a myth. We were +7 vs. Memphis in 3.65 minutes, team who is supposedly bad to go small. Durant is better defender and rebounder than Ibaka, so we don't lose much.
@[censored] @Lost Ones @Sigmund Gotta side with [censored] going small may not be smart but we sure couldn't do worse than what we did.
@Lost Ones @Sigmund We sure defended them great with two bigs in the game!! Who is allergic to defense, again?
@Sigmund @[censored] 3.65 minutes great stats buddy
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@OBoy Jones III @Lost Ones @FF_pickups @MJOKC Even if he couldn't, haven't Martin and Thabo in the game together would have helped the three point defense. Our best lineups are small lineups for a reason.
@MJOKC @Lost Ones @[censored] I agree going small against a line up like the Jazz isn't the smartest thing. But Perk and Ibaka had 4 boards between them? you think we would have fared much worse with a small line up? put in Liggins and his hustle and that may rub off on the others and possibly force KD to get more involved on the boards. not disagreeing with what you are saying about a small line up against the Jazz, just saying we couldn't have done much worse.
@Lost Ones @FF_pickups @MJOKC @[censored] You guys don't think KD could have guarded Millsap better than Serge did? every basket he made was on a midrange jumper it felt like.
@FF_pickups You play to your strengths. Our strength tonight was not playing two big guys. Utah had something like 40% ORB tonight or a crazy figure. Going small with Durant at PF wouldn't have made it worse.
@FF_pickups @MJOKC @[censored] he's allergic to defense man
@MJOKC @Lost Ones @[censored] Justin's answer for everything is "let's throw some offense and 3 point shooting at it."
@Lost Ones I don't think so. Not any moreso than we were. Durant's comparable on defensive boards as Ibaka or Perkins and they clearly weren't cutting it. Small ball are our best lineups for a reason.
@Lost Ones @[censored] I was about to post the same thing. We can't go small against the Jazz. There are only a handful of teams that can FORCE us to play our worst lineup and they are one of them.
Thunder didn't rebound to their norm. They are a top rebounding team. They need to work on team defense (please learn from DAL) and causing turnovers. That's all I think they need to work on
Well i'm out for the night here in a bit. Disappointed in the effort of the starters tonight, Loved the way the bench didn't just roll over at the end. Not making excuses but as [censored] pointed out. 39-13 is nothing to be ashamed about. Possible 40 at the break? We are still on the path to get to where we want to be. Let's get ready to back our guys come Thursday! THUNDER UP!!
We lost tonight obviously, but it makes me even more pumped for the next one on national television...and am saying right now..this place is gonna go bananas on Thursday after we win. I can feel the energy already :)
I accidentally clicked on a picture of Nerlens Noels knee injury....it was not pretty.
@OBoy Jones III I didn't see the replay, but they said his knee bent backwards (I think). Really ugly.
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@MJOKC it was buckled at a really awkward angle.
@OBoy Jones III @MJOKC was it worse than the baron davis knee buckle?