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Monday Bolts – 1.21.13

by Royce Young on January 21, 2013 at 10:15 am 213 Comments

BoltsLogoNew1Spencer Lund of Dime on why KD is better at the last shot than LeBron: “Listen, we’re not trying to say Durant is a better player than James. Part of the reason LeBron got so many looks at the rim last night, and throughout this season and last, is the way he and his Heat teammates — when they’re dialed in (which isn’t as consistent as Miami coach Erik Spoelstra would like)–have forced so many turnovers, which lead to easy transition dunks and layups at the rim. In fact, they started last night with four consecutive dunks after forcing the Lakers into 16 first half turnovers. LeBron’s ability to defend four positions and hassle opposing ball handlers with that deadly trap on the high screen and roll, plus his vision on offense, make him a better all around player than Durant. But with the game on the line and with only one shot attempt at victory, Durant is a better option.”

Andrew Feinstein of Denver Stiffs: “Russell Westbrook is making a great case to be included in the “most hated Nuggets’ opponents of all-time” conversation alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Manu Ginobili. Those of us who have followed this Nuggets/Thunder series since its inception several seasons ago have known what a punk Westbrook is the entire time. But in tonight’s 121-118 Nuggets overtime victory, Westbrook took his “punkassness” to another level … The referees did everything they could to help the Thunder out – sending them to the free throw line for an astonishing 48 attempts – but even with help from the zebras and an offensive onslaught from Durant and Westbrook, it just wasn’t meant to be Oklahoma City’s night.” Keep Reading…

Denver picks off the Thunder in overtime, 121-118

by Royce Young on January 20, 2013 at 10:54 pm 312 Comments

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Welp.

You can file that one under “great game,” but only for the reason that it was super close and went to overtime. Because really, it was a sloppy mess of a game that was an absolute foul fest. The two teams combined for 48 turnovers tonight and 61 total fouls called. That’s 1.2 a minute. That’s a lot.

Three of those 61 are pretty big talking points for the Thunder though. After getting a good number of favorable calls for most of the night — Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant took 38 free throws combined — the whistle turned on the Thunder in the extra frame with three illegal screen calls going against Oklahoma City. Keep Reading…

Thunder vs. Nuggets: Pregame Primer

by Royce Young on January 20, 2013 at 4:41 pm 1,916 Comments

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OKC Thunder (32-8, 13-5 road) at Denver Nuggets (24-18, 15-3 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 – 113.0 (1st), Nuggets– 108.3 (8th)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 103.0 (6th), Nuggets – 105.9 (15th)
Pace: Thunder – 92.6 (8th), Nuggets – 94.1 (5th)

View from the enemy: Roundball Mining Company

A couple things working against the Thunder tonight: 1) The Nuggets are very good at home and 2) the Nuggets are probably still a little unhappy about the whipping OKC put on them a few days ago. In looking over this six-game road trip, this one in Denver kind of looked like a potential swing game to me. A 2-0 start could really put 5-1 or for sure 4-2 in play. A loss makes a successful trip much more challenging. Keep Reading…

TGR 88: 3 up, 3 down

by Thunderground Radio on January 20, 2013 at 9:21 am 674 Comments

DTTGRThunder fans! Thanks again for taking the time each week to listen the podcast. The download numbers keep rising and we’re still having a ton of fun. We’d love to hear your comments about how we can improve each episode. This week’s episode we give or deep thoughts about the three games this past week as well as…

  • Should Serge Ibaka be an All-Star?
  • Has Kevin Martin hit a slump?
  • KD on Manti Te’o?
  • Have sports become too much about personal drama?
  • Is 3-2 in the five-game road trip sufficient?

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Ru$sell

by Royce Young on January 19, 2013 at 12:33 pm 1,085 Comments

Happy weekend. Thank you for your support of Daily Thunder. Kevin Durant, you guys.

This just needed its own post. It’s too good.

Oh, I forgot to add this: In an issue of Us Weekly or something, Westbrook said he liked listening to Taylor Swift before games. I asked him about that and he said he likes Taylor Swift and Katy Perry before games. I said, “Are you being serious?” and he said, “Yeah, they got good stuff.” So no big shock to see him singing along with Ke$ha.

Behind 52 from KD, OKC survives in Dallas, 117-114

by Royce Young on January 19, 2013 at 12:43 am 355 Comments

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Survive and advance.

That’s the kind of feel tonight’s game had for the Thunder. Just win the stupid thing and then get the heck out of town. With it kicking off a daunting six-game road trip, starting 0-1 in maybe the most winnable game would’ve been fairly terrible.

For a while, it appeared to be of the mostly ho-hum-taking-care-of-business variety. Then it went into holy-crap-what-a-bad-loss territory. Then is just became an awesome game in general. One thing we definitely learned: If the Thunder are up three with a few seconds against the Mavs, prepare yourself for five more minutes. Keep Reading…

Thunder vs. Mavericks: Pregame Primer

by Royce Young on January 18, 2013 at 5:10 pm 2,137 Comments

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OKC Thunder (31-8, 12-5 road) vs. Dallas Mavericks (17-23, 11-7 home)

TV: ESPN; 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: 8:30 CT

Offensive Rating: Thunder – 113.0 (1st), Mavs– 103.6 (20th)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 102.9 (6th), Mavs – 106.7 (22nd)
Pace: Thunder – 92.5 (8th), Mavs – 93.9 (5th)

View from the enemy: The Two Man Game

To the road they go. The Thunder take off for six games away from the comfort of The Peake playing the Mavs, Nuggets, Clippers, Warriors, Kings and Lakers. But it starts in Dallas with a semi-resurgent Mavs team.

On the brink of complete implosion, the Mavericks have somewhat righted themselves as of late. They’ve won four straight breaking a stretch where they had lost 10 of 11. The Mavs have been disappointing for sure, but they have lost seven games in overtime this season, so they’re not too awful far from being a .500 team. Keep Reading…

Checking in on the Thunder narrative

by Michael Kimball on January 18, 2013 at 1:04 pm 217 Comments

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(Editor’s note: Michael Kimball is an occasional Daily Thunder contributor and Thunder season ticket member whose archive can be seen here. Regular readers will recognize it as the work of Patrick James, a name he used at DT when working full-time for his then-employer, The Oklahoman. He graduated in 2007 from the University of Oklahoma with a journalism degree and was a student media colleague of Royce Young’s, including a brief stint as Royce’s cruel and unfairly demanding supervisor. You can follow him on Twitter here.)

Roughly halfway through the season, Kevin Durant is an All-Star starter, Russell Westbrook is on the verge of being named as a backup, a third Oklahoma City player is on the bubble and the Thunder are sitting pretty in the playoff race.

What else is new?

The answer for most close Thunder watchers is, well, sort of a lot, but sort of not much at the same time. It’s kinda complicated. Let’s go ahead and get the words “James Harden” out of the way right here, because that’s obvious. Some things have changed. Keep Reading…

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