Holy crap.
The Thunder advance to the 2012 NBA Finals
Headlines
- Perk donates $25,000 to help build shelters in schools
- Report: Mo Cheeks to interview with the Pistons
- Thunder land the 12th pick in the 2013 draft
- Thunder donate $1 million to aid with disaster relief
- Kevin Durant donates $1 million to disaster relief
- Serge Ibaka named first team All-Defense
- Report: KD reaches settlement in ‘Durantula’ lawsuit
i cried at the end of this movie. born and raised in okc. everybody making fun of us. saying that were country. how u like us now? THunder Up!
TC!!!
What a ride this has been. All the ups and downs, I think I got an ulcer haha I have never had so much fun rooting for a team!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfRF9yk-aUc&feature=youtu.be
Probee already has a BiG commercial for the Thunder going to the Finals.
Fun music for tonight . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8zslGAqy5k
@ThunderChick2010 Do you have a Russ cover? I exclusively listen to Russ singing now.
The same clip is starting to wear on me.
@ThunderChick2010 Love it!
tonight we are young.
@Tronchaser @ThunderChick2010 Young and feeling 10 foot tall and bulletproof!!!
@ThunderChick2010 If you haven't listened to their first album, I can't recommend it highly enough. Fun/The Format (the original band that broke up) has been my favorite group as long as I can remember. They are just really fun to listen to :)
@ThunderChick2010 I love this song. Every time that commercial comes on with this song I sing a long like a weirdo haha
Dancassidy35, are you out there? I left the game broadcast at halftime for a restroom break (watching from Tropicana in LV) when we were down by fifteen. The casino was blaring Don't Stop Believin' which I took as a good omen. :)
All I can say is WOW. What a game, what a series, what a comeback! This Thunder team has a lot of grit that's for sure. Whoever we play it isn't going to be easy, but one thing's for sure. We know our Thunder wont go down without a fight.
Oh. My. God.
I think the question of who we play in the Finals is similar to the same question we were asking up to the last day of the regular season: who do we play in the first round? The team to whom we are clearly superior and would have an advantage over (though obviously no guarantee to win) or the team with a thousand storylines abounding, and a better chance to beat the Thunder.
That being said, I'll take the narrative. I wanted the Mavericks so we could expel the demons, so we could move on knowing that our team was that much better than the year before. Then the Lakers, who forever have been the icon of the West, the most recognizable team in the NBA, who we've slowly caught up to, but that loss in 2010 still stung. They still claimed to be better, and we set that to rest and we seem to have truly ended their rule, and pried away their iconoclastic status. Then came the Spurs, who sneaked up to take first place, and home court. There was the winning streak, the coaching, the system, and the history. Historically, the Spurs haven't "given us trouble" or "pestered us". They have dominated us. Up until an unprecedented four game winning streak, they had our number each and every time on the court.
And now we stand, with two options. Behind the first door, what seems to be the easy way out. The matchups are in our favor, and a loss would be disappointing. But this year, and really this franchise, has been about growth. These playoffs have furthered that. Not just 10 of the last 13 champions, but the three teams who have been in charge of half of the NBA for over a decade. Royce pointed it out: it's time. It's no longer "when they get there", we're staring a potential dynasty in the face. It's first page will be written over the next 4-7 games. Give me the team that has been our mirror image as much as our opposite. The frightening athleticism teasing at the unlimited potential. But they have been the villain of the NBA, and we stand ready to take them down. They are the biggest obstacle to our future, and after banishing the past, I only hope we can step over them to reach our destiny.
@Jo_Cro Definitely a good post for sure! I like the way you think! Couldn't have said it better. Bring it all on. Let's see what we are made of!
@Jo_Cro. What a great post.
When I see a video with no recap, I don't see an NBA blogger with nothing to say, I see an NBA blogger who's ready to make a statement.
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/06/a-moment-in-the-making-thunder-win-in-six-over-the-spurs-107-99/
@Jooseppi nothing to see here anymore folks...please disperse
To think some less than fortunate kids in Africa will go the rest of their lives thinking the Spurs won the 2011-2012 Western Conference Finals. I hope they also get to find out the Celtics win the Title.
@Toiletpaperroll I'm stealing this.
Royce tweet @dailythunder
The Thunder are going to The Finals. Newest BIG remake by @probeeCTS: http://youtu.be/VfRF9yk-aUc
watching the spurs bench is worth the price of admission itself....pop chewing out splitter was so epic and duncan grabbing steven jacksons jersey and chewing him out like he was a 18 year old rookie was awesome too
@OBoymuzik Splitter was horrible in this series.
@justin_mia He was bad, but where in the world was Bonner also? Between Green, Bonner and Splitter there was nothing there.
@justin_mia indeed...splitter was the star on ibaka's spanish team before he got to the nba right?
@Jooseppi @justin_mia oops, i remember something about splitter in ibaka's little documentary a year or 2 ago....ah who cares
@OBoymuzik @justin_mia No they played for different teams.
@OBoymuzik I watched the game with my dad and he was absolutely floored that Splitter walked away from him during it. He said he would have kicked me off the team if I would have done that in the YMCA league.
http://youtu.be/sRhh_WS2n4E
trophy presentation on the stadium big board
when i saw that Russ wasn't warming up for the 2nd half i knew that we would make it a close game...sometimes that dude is too pissed to warm up
@OBoymuzik He also didn't come out to mid court before the game with the ball kids and refs.... you knew he was trying to get dialed in.
@Tronchaser he hasnt all series
https://instagr.am/p/Lj5Pl8N0Hu/
I never doubted that the Thunder could come back. This team has taught me never to count them out. But they came within 0.4 seconds of being down by 18 at halftime. That 3rd Quarter was incredible!
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@WhoSpurinyourcherrios
That's right eat that crow. I had to do it earlier now you eat it little man.
@ElMexiThunder but crow is a nice poster, dont eat him
@f5alcon @ElMexiThunder Your hahahaha post on ESPN cracked me up.
124.9 offensive rating for Thunder in the second half.
Durant-Westbrook-Harden, 11-19, 40 points, 10 assists, 17 rebounds in the second half.
@Skyline Uh...that's just insane.
@courtsense @Skyline That must be the stat line of Sky's 2k12 Spurs-Thunder Game 6 second half rematch.
i know the celtics would be an easier matchup...i know this
but i think i want the heat, my reason is that even if the heat lose tomorrow during the NBA finals there is gonna be so many storylines about them....how spo is going to get fired...trading wade or bosh etc etc etc
@OBoymuzik Also Durant being better than Lebron. It bothers me that media can't celebrate a win without comparing it to past failures (Blazers/Oden and Lebron). Can't we just appreciate two really incredible players? And it's not like every team can win a finals. Championships are crazy hard to win
@FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik I don't like LBJ, but I actually feel sorry for him. Though The Decision was a stupid PR move on his part, nobody of his talent and achievement deserves all the second guessing he receives from the media.
@EVDebs @ThunderStruck2412 @courtsense @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik I used to not like lebron, then he came to okc during the lockout for our charity game when most other stars skipped it.
@ThunderStruck2412 @courtsense @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik All that being said, I don't like the Heat, I don't like LBJ, and I look forward to seeing them eliminated from the playoffs, this round or next.
@ThunderStruck2412 @courtsense @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik This. The Decision plus the party were really boneheaded. Other than that it's all been narrative-driven media autopilot. Seeing the way the media treated Russ during last year's playoff run gave me a better understanding of the dynamics of this kinda thing.
@courtsense @EVDebs @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik I disagree with that statement. The party at their arena when they all signed was a bad PR move...but other then that? Not sure what he's really done to warrant the criticism he does garner. Simmons had a great article in Grantland about it.
@EVDebs @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik Problem is, he brought ALL of it upon himself.
@FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik The only way to evaluate a player's performance is ultimately to measure him against his peers. When you're as good as Durant you don't have many. So we get LeBron vs. Durant a lot.
@justin_mia @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik Also for those about to jump on me, I think LeBron is better but I wouldn't trade Durant for anybody in the world for a number of reason.
@justin_mia @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik I think LeBron is a better player, as well. I'm talking about the BS, like after Durant's game 4, people we're saying "Well that's the difference between him and LeBron." Well, no it wasn't, let's go to 2007. Or even on the other side, when they talk about Durant's scoring without acknowledging all the other things LeBron is asked to do. Stuff like that. Comparisons for context are great and welcome. Comparisons for BS aren't.
@justin_mia @Jooseppi @OBoymuzik Agreed. My point was simply on the actual way the comparison is made. Individual skill sets vs crediting an individual as better because they have a championships. Champs are used as measures after careers are said and done. And that is where Lebron is gonna get hit if we win
@FREE_COLE @Jooseppi @OBoymuzik LeBron is a better player than Durant. I'm okay with that. It's a huge, huge credit to Durant that he's been able to close the gap to the point that a discussion can be made about this. Durant has other qualities that may make it easier to construct a team around him, though.
@Jooseppi @justin_mia @OBoymuzik Yeah. I mean Justin, you and I were some of the only people willing to concede KD wasn't mvp over Lebron. Individually, it's a fun comparison game. But champs require so much more.
@justin_mia @FREE_COLE @OBoymuzik The discussion rarely has to do with actual play though. I don't think there's anything wrong with it in the context you are describing and I've seen you lead such discussions on these threads, and they are perfectly fine. It's all the BS that takes priority which is an issue.
@justin_mia @OBoymuzik Yeah I understand it's inevitable. But how about we wait till it's all said and done? Or at least, not crucify lebron because KD succeeded. I'm totally cool with comparison in a positive way. KD vs Lebron is an interesting debate, and honestly a great compliment both ways. But let's compare their individual performances, not championships, which are subject to so many other factors.
And Lebron's what, 28? He's got time.
@OBoymuzik The Heat would be a sweeter victory, but getting the championship is most important. I'll take the celtics.