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slick_watts wrote:the pelicans score 114.6pp100 this season without zion and with brandon ingram. the thunder are 39-4 this year when they hold the opponent below 115pp100. one of those was our november loss to the pelicans where we gave up a 20 point lead. herb jones had shai in prison that game. shai did better the other two games.

it's hard to think that the pelicans will have enough firepower to hang. this would be a colossal upset if the thunder lose this series or even if it goes to 6 or 7 games in my opinion.

Dadouv47 wrote:

slick_watts wrote:the pelicans score 114.6pp100 this season without zion and with brandon ingram. the thunder are 39-4 this year when they hold the opponent below 115pp100. one of those was our november loss to the pelicans where we gave up a 20 point lead. herb jones had shai in prison that game. shai did better the other two games.

it's hard to think that the pelicans will have enough firepower to hang. this would be a colossal upset if the thunder lose this series or even if it goes to 6 or 7 games in my opinion.

Shai only average 25 pts against the Pels with meh FG%. Need to see if he will be able to go to the free throw line as much as in the regular season as well.

It's cliché but it's gonna come down to our 3pt%. If we can shoot well enough from deep, it will be a quick series. If not, can easily go to 6 games.

slick_watts wrote:it shouldn't go to six games. the pelicans can't score without zion. we have a top 5 defense. if it goes to six games that's a major disappointment.

slick_watts wrote:

Dadouv47 wrote:

slick_watts wrote:the pelicans score 114.6pp100 this season without zion and with brandon ingram. the thunder are 39-4 this year when they hold the opponent below 115pp100. one of those was our november loss to the pelicans where we gave up a 20 point lead. herb jones had shai in prison that game. shai did better the other two games.

it's hard to think that the pelicans will have enough firepower to hang. this would be a colossal upset if the thunder lose this series or even if it goes to 6 or 7 games in my opinion.

Shai only average 25 pts against the Pels with meh FG%. Need to see if he will be able to go to the free throw line as much as in the regular season as well.

It's cliché but it's gonna come down to our 3pt%. If we can shoot well enough from deep, it will be a quick series. If not, can easily go to 6 games.

it shouldn't go to six games. the pelicans can't score without zion. we have a top 5 defense. if it goes to six games that's a major disappointment.

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

slick_watts wrote:it shouldn't go to six games. the pelicans can't score without zion. we have a top 5 defense. if it goes to six games that's a major disappointment.

It should be a 4-5 game series. Even with Zion NOLA was the easy matchup. The Thunder knocked NOLA out of the play-in games last year and should destroy them in a series. If the Thunder have a hard time with NOLA or lose the series there are serious issues with the team and/or coaching that will need to be addressed in the off-season.

Devilanche wrote:

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

slick_watts wrote:it shouldn't go to six games. the pelicans can't score without zion. we have a top 5 defense. if it goes to six games that's a major disappointment.

It should be a 4-5 game series. Even with Zion NOLA was the easy matchup. The Thunder knocked NOLA out of the play-in games last year and should destroy them in a series. If the Thunder have a hard time with NOLA or lose the series there are serious issues with the team and/or coaching that will need to be addressed in the off-season.

With Zion it was still the easy matchup only cause the west is that competitive this season.

Either way the team have some serious issues but it’s unlikely to be exploited this round.

We need an upgrade at the big spot and a bench threat this offseason.

Devilanche wrote:With Zion it was still the easy matchup only cause the west is that competitive this season.

Either way the team have some serious issues but it’s unlikely to be exploited this round.

We need an upgrade at the big spot and a bench threat this offseason.

Kizz Fastfists wrote:

Devilanche wrote:With Zion it was still the easy matchup only cause the west is that competitive this season.

Either way the team have some serious issues but it’s unlikely to be exploited this round.

We need an upgrade at the big spot and a bench threat this offseason.

Just to beat the dead horse a bit more, these issues were known long ago. They could have easily been addressed, by a competent GM, at the trade deadline. It was painful watching the Raptors do what OKC should have done with Olynyk. You can make an argument for P.J. Washington, Gafford and others. What you can not do is claim that Hayward made the roster better. It did set up Presti to trade away some cap space for a 2nd round pick this off-season. That is going to be so exciting.

Dadouv47 wrote:Might be an overreaction but Giddey is gone. I had some doubts about it but the fact that u can't really play him in game 1 of the playoffs...

Dadouv47 wrote:Might be an overreaction but Giddey is gone. I had some doubts about it but the fact that u can't really play him in game 1 of the playoffs...

RingoKid wrote:No Zion should make for an easy series win.