2024 NBA Playoffs - West 1st Round: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #8 New Orleans Pelicans (OKC SWEEPS 4-0)

jkvonny · Post #661 » by **jkvonny** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:09 am

Jta444 wrote:Lol Thunder weakest 1st seed i can remember. KINGS (after beating the Lakers in the play in, have owned LAL for years now) Nuggets Suns Wolves Clippers easily sweeps this team

NyKnicks1714 wrote:Fox and Sabonis watching this and thinking what could have been

SpurNani wrote:OKC is food. I know the Kings are sick not to be playing them 1st round

WentzerWuver wrote:
MaliBrah wrote:
Jta444 wrote:

That's why my playoff predictions was based on losing to NO (even purposely if necessary) then LOSE the next play-in team (KINGS), who have owned the Lakers for the past few seasons, SAC to face OKC

Fixed it for ya.

namlede · Post #662 » by **namlede** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:10 am

JDub needs to be more aggressive , he has the ability to make plays. When Shai was struggling he should have got his number. Still a good game for his first appearance, Chet played well to for his first.

Post #663 » by **Michael Jackson** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:10 am

GeorgeSears wrote:The Pelicans don't have a PG. That's their biggest problem.

OKC doesn’t have a center.

Soonercrazy84 · Post #664 » by **Soonercrazy84** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:10 am

SFour wrote:OKC gets too much hate....they're a young team playing with house money

They are having fun and will be the face of the NBA for a long time and everyone is jealous.

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socal74 · Post #665 » by **socal74** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 am

So many dumb mistakes by Nance.

GeorgeSears · Post #666 » by **GeorgeSears** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 am

The Thunder are a good young team, and in time they'll be a great young team.

But the reality is that they're the no.1 seed because they had unbelievable health luck. They should be the 3 seed. But Murray missing 23 games and KAT missing 20 games was the difference maker.

jkvonny · Post #667 » by **jkvonny** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 am

Chuck Everett wrote:
jkvonny wrote:Finals score. 94-92. OKC wins.

'90s, early '00s type score.

Where's the old men yellin at the clouds guys "NBA sucks these days, no defense"?

You have it backwards. It's the young guys who think the rules don't influence how today's players score easily. As you can see, if defense is allowed, it's really hard to score. I mean Giddey was basically unplayable.

C'mon, man. I'm "old" too (Gen X in my late 40s).

It goes both ways, Ive seen yappin and complaining from both sides. Younger and older than 40s year olds.
Lol

NyKnicks1714 · Post #668 » by **NyKnicks1714** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 am

I can't wrap my head around this. How does Willie Green think that's the best play to run down 2? That's just not CJ's game.

durden_tyler · Post #669 » by **durden_tyler** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:12 am

Good/great teams survive even the worst of games of their stars (SGA tonight). The Thunder are for real and excited to see them in the 2nd round.

HadAnEffectHere · Post #670 » by **HadAnEffectHere** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:12 am

Zion, Herb, and Trey Murphy have some horrible teammates making a lot of money.

Wargreymon · Post #671 » by **Wargreymon** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:12 am

Win is a win. 2 points or 20+ it doesn't really matter. End of the day, you need to win 4 of 7. OKC is young and lack experience so expect some ugly games like this one.

jkvonny · Post #672 » by **jkvonny** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:13 am

jkvonny wrote:
Jta444 wrote:Lol Thunder weakest 1st seed i can remember. KINGS (after beating the Lakers in the play in, have owned LAL for years now) Nuggets Suns Wolves Clippers easily sweeps this team

SpurNani wrote:OKC is food. I know the Kings are sick not to be playing them 1st round

Fixed it for ya.

WentzerWuver · Post #673 » by **WentzerWuver** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:13 am

Bad last play call trying to set up McCollum to win the game with a Dame Time basket. He is not Dame and should have called a 2 point open mid pass scoring play for the tie for OT.

PaKwAn · Post #674 » by **PaKwAn** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:13 am

GeorgeSears wrote:The Pelicans don't have a PG. That's their biggest problem.

They don't have Zion. That's their biggest problem right now.

durden_tyler · Post #675 » by **durden_tyler** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:14 am

But credit the Pels for saving what was a boring blowout opening set of playoff games.

Sphynx · Post #676 » by **Sphynx** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:14 am

Trey Murphy in this Thunder team ontop of what they have + a Markkanen and I'd probably have them favourites for the whole thing.

Crazy thing is, they easily have the currency to get something like that done in the offseason.

Chuck Everett · Post #677 » by **Chuck Everett** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:15 am

After all the blowouts today, we actually have people complaining about this game.

PaKwAn · Post #678 » by **PaKwAn** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:15 am

They call it Dame time for a reason and not CJ time

Post #679 » by **SOUL** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:16 am

Last play was whatever but Pelicans lost it in the 2-3 minute mark prior when OKC couldn't make a shot, and then NO turned it over like three possessions in a row and couldn't grab defensive rebounds.

Then I think Nance missed a dunk, and then two other plays that had a wide open lane and decided to chuck a three instead.

Good fight from them, but I fear the Thunder are going to hit more shots in game 2.

WentzerWuver · Post #680 » by **WentzerWuver** » Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:16 am

HadAnEffectHere wrote:Zion, Herb, and Trey Murphy have some horrible teammates making a lot of money.

Who is that horrible teammate since fat Zion is the only guy I can think of but you already put his name as him having horrible teammates?!?

Who wins?