From Royce via text to me:
Zach Randolph was fined $25,000 by the league for confronting Kendrick Perkins, the league announced Monday. With two minutes left in Memphis’ 107-97 win over the Thunder, Perkins and Randolph were ejected for talking trash at the free throw line. The two then exchanged words in the tunnel by the team’s locker room.
The Thunder and the OKC Police denied an altercation happened, but after a league investigation, it was obviously determined enough happened to warrant a fine for Randolph. The next time the Thunder and Grizzlies play is January 31st in Oklahoma City.
Time for Bolts!
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/11/tuesday-bolts-11-20-12/#respond
Dag. Who has Kyrie on their fantasy team. Out for 4 weeks. He broke his finger
@The Sports Oprah I do in a different league
Gosh, I want to beat the Clippers from LA. Screw those jerks. But for real, guys: when I was in college, I had season tickets during Blake's two seasons at OU. Nobody would go to OU games, and it was really easy to get a seat up close to watch Blake dunk it all over the place. At the time, I never could have imagined a situation in which I would relish in that dude being defeated in the most humiliating fasion possible. But that's all I want this Wednesday. I hope he goes 0 for 25 and that Perkins dunks on him somehow (can Perk dunk?).
@D@nny We need to win to prove we can beat a good team, but they like memphis are good at things we suck at defending.
@f5alcon @D@nny @nny
yeah rebounding
@D@nny Perkins can dunk, with a trampoline.
@D@nny
the wind up on that Perk dunk would take the whole quarter. like a powerup or something.
@PerkPunt @D@nny @nny He must go Super Saiyan level 3 to even touch the rim.
@shiki @D-MC @D@nny @nny
long hair dont care.
@D-MC @PerkPunt @D@nny @nny too long hair
@alexsianez unfortunately my account manager can't do anything. They have started limiting the amount of people that they can get into the arena before they open the doors to the public and with the game being tomorrow night, as well as being a big game, they are already full.
You can try going early though still. If you are there right when the doors open I'm sure some of the people there will be nice enough to help you get some autographs.
@bmuelle21 I really appreciate you trying. THis is why I love Thunder Fans. Again Thank you very much. What time do doors open?
@bmuelle21 Too bad, but you are still da Man!
How about this guy...
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Rudy-Gobert-5878/
@okcjim
that euro? he is pretty slow and skinny right?
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@MisterJohnsonOKC @okcjim 7'9 wing span and can jump out of the gym. He won't help early but most of the guys outside of the top 2-3 guys have faults.
@okcjim @MisterJohnsonOKC
tall , skinny , fouls a lot, needs to work on his post game, cant rebound ( which we need). This guy screems project. But he can block shots and finish a lob which is nice.
@okcjim @MisterJohnsonOKC
sounds like Pj3 .... at 235 cant be a center , right?
Toronto with the 6th worst record right now.
@okcjim
perfect!
@okcjim Does anyone remember when Joe Dumars received the #2 overall pick in the vaunted 2003 draft right after winning the finals?
Detroit was a talented team and could have gone in any direction in the draft, but felt that center was the biggest need. They ended up drafting Darko Milicic in between Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony. With Wade and Bosh following later.
@rednuht @okcjim That will be worst nightmare for any GM. Also, I remember GM Prechard loved KD, but drafted Oden according to their needs....
@HerseyHawkins @rednuht @okcjim
yup but that had more to do with Paul allen than KP. Prichard wanted to draft KD after he recieved several reports stating the poor structure in Oden's legs.
@okcjim Go Raptors!
@Mrs. Daily Thunder That must have been a long ass text message.
@AlexR44 HA! Yes it was.
Gortat must want a big contract.can we give him?
it is better to keep Tor's pick and get a cheap rookie
@shiki The good news is that Gortat is showing he isn't capable of creating his own offense. The bad news is he isn't capable of creating his own offense, much like Ibaka he would have to be set up.
We could afford Gortat if Presti was willing to use Martin's salary slot. This would mean that Martin would be gone, so your essentially adding him to the scenario after this season.
The need to upgrade Perkins wouldn't be so acute if Brooks was actively developing PJ3 or if we had a better back up center. I'd prefer to focus in these areas rather than trade Perkins a million times before the trade deadline.
Isn't Gortat already pizzed that he's no longer the #1 option on offense? What makes folks think that he'll be okay with being the #4 or #5 option in OKC?
@shiki beasley is not a top 50 player, he doesnt belong in the nba, 13ppg on 16 fga, shooting 37% and 25% from 3
@TaoMaas KD and russ are both top 10 players,are beasley and Dragic top 50?
@areayewhy And Dragic.
@MisterJohnsonOKC @TaoMaas Isn't that what Ibaka is currently having? Do we want to dilute that?
@TaoMaas it's not that he's not the #1 option. i think he's pissed with iso ball from beasley.
@TaoMaas he probably isn't a number one option on any team in the nba he just needs to suck it up.
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@rednuht gortat is not as good an on ball defender but he is number 2 in blocks and would be the best rebounder on our team.
@f5alcon So you've given Gortat Martin's salary slot and given Martin, Perkins salary slot and we're at the tax.
While I like the individual pieces, I'm not crazy about the team they form. Substituting Martin and Gortat for Harden and Perkins from last years finals teams seems to make us less physical, less defensive oriented and a little soft overall. I can't forget how physical the playoffs are and we become a very quick but light team in this scenario. I'm not sure it's the right direction.
@rednuht worst case yeah, but more than likely we get martin at 8-9 million and have the room for gortat at 12 million
@f5alcon So Martin is resigned at $12M per, which is equal to his current salary?
@rednuht He has gortat in perks salary spot and us just going 3 million into the tax
@MisterJohnsonOKC You've got Gortat in Martin's salary slot, now what do purpose to pay Martin?
What if Gortat performs just ok, do you think he'll sacrifice?
@rednuht @shiki We have Thabeet.
@rednuht he played once in the regular season
@HerseyHawkins @shiki Orton has the superior instincts and intellect for finding open spots in the offense.
After playing in just a single game in preseason, I'm not sure what he would have to do to garner playing time from Brooks? Walk on water?
@shiki
I don't think Toronto will be bad enough to get a Top 3 pick. But I also don't think they'll be bad enough to get a top 6 pick. Washington, Detroit, Cleveland, Orlando, Sacramento, and New Orleans all will probably be worse than Toronto.
So would a deal of the 7th pick, Dallas's pick, and any one of Reggie Jackson/Jeremy Lamb/Perry JonesIII be enough to sway someone in the top 6 to switch with us?
@AlexR44 I dont know much about NCAA,but from draftexpress or NBAdraft many centers in lotto.
and Dario Saric is available in this year draft
@AlexR44 @shiki its also a lotto
@AlexR44 @shiki
Doubtful. None of those guys have been getting playing time. I just don't think they have much value right now.
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@MisterJohnsonOKC They have 4 teams that are worse than them right now.
@MisterJohnsonOKC they are in east.
@MisterJohnsonOKC @shiki Yeah. But it is always fun to dreaming ;)
@shiki Especially, if we have a chance to get Zeller or Noel.
@HerseyHawkins @shiki Noel is not very good. Not sure if you've seen him play this year or not...but not worth a top 2 pick.
@BallSoHard @PerkPunt I will be very happy with Shabazz, too.
@BallSoHard @HerseyHawkins @shiki
i dont liek noel either. ether Zeller or shabadazz