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stunted · « **Reply #826 on:** May 26, 2016, 10:24:43 PM »

Grats dub!

Dub · « **Reply #827 on:** May 26, 2016, 10:30:06 PM »

wetwillie · « **Reply #828 on:** May 26, 2016, 10:30:48 PM »

can you imagine if GSW win the next two? Would be amaze to see the OKC meltdown.

stunted · « **Reply #829 on:** May 27, 2016, 12:32:36 AM »

schadenfreude

wetwillie · « **Reply #830 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:32:08 PM »

Holy crap, game six delivers

michigancat · « **Reply #831 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:40:48 PM »

Quote from: wetwillie on May 28, 2016, 10:32:08 PM

Holy crap, game six delivers

Hope they ask Durant about Curry's D

michigancat · « **Reply #832 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:41:36 PM »

But man, what a game. The NBA is the rough ridin' best.

TownieCat · « **Reply #833 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:44:12 PM »

The worst KD game I've ever watched.

TownieCat · « **Reply #834 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:45:50 PM »

One bucket in the last 5 min and it was a rough ridin' put back by Roberson.

chum1 · « **Reply #835 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:48:08 PM »

Klay was on a mission. Just read that his older brother played for Asbury at Pepperdine.

chum1 · « **Reply #836 on:** May 28, 2016, 10:49:53 PM »

Quote from: TownieCat on May 28, 2016, 10:45:50 PM

One bucket in the last 5 min and it was a rough ridin' put back by Roberson.

Yeah, they sort of self-destructed. Might not have won even if they hadn't, but they could have kept it closer.

OK_Cat · « **Reply #837 on:** May 28, 2016, 11:27:43 PM »

KD will never win a 'ship. Good riddance, loser.

michigancat · « **Reply #838 on:** May 28, 2016, 11:37:02 PM »

KD still hit some amazing shots.

michigancat · « **Reply #839 on:** May 28, 2016, 11:48:18 PM »

https://twitter.com/BruhReport/status/736768057742221313?s=09

stunted · « **Reply #840 on:** May 29, 2016, 01:34:17 AM »

this has to be the most amazing series ever

Powercat Posse · « **Reply #841 on:** May 29, 2016, 03:08:31 AM »

Quote from: michigancat on May 28, 2016, 11:37:02 PM

KD still hit some amazing shots.

He was 10-31 FG. He is shooting 42% on FG 27% on 3pt and 3.8 TOs in playoffs this year.
Carrer stat are 48%, 38%, and 3.2 TOs

Go watch the replay. 99-96 Okc up. Durant is double teamed, if he hits wide open Ibaka it's a layup or 2 FTs. Instead, pass behind him and a KD turnover. Then KD gets back and doesn't play Defense. He should have picked up Curry in transition , who was closest GS guy to him. He doesn't, Curry gets uncontested 3pt and KD barely moves to try and challenge shot.

Only way Okc wins game 7 is if Westbrook does his magic in late 3rd and late 4th qtr (like he did game 5 at SA and game 1 at GS).

chum1 · « **Reply #842 on:** May 29, 2016, 10:15:24 AM »

Durant could absolutely go off in game 7. There are two players on each team that could.

michigancat · « **Reply #843 on:** May 29, 2016, 10:23:34 AM »

Westbrook could also go off in the first half or for an entire game. There's lots of possibilities, really.

Powercat Posse · « **Reply #844 on:** May 29, 2016, 11:30:32 AM »

Late in game, GS had made 19 3s and Okc was like 3-22 from 3pt, and yet Okc was up 99-96.

Both Okc superstars had a TO after that point and both led to transistion 3 pt makes.

Okc just could not distant that 5-7 point lead, then once the game was tied, they totally panicked and were a train wreck the final 3 minutes

kim carnes · « **Reply #845 on:** May 29, 2016, 12:01:35 PM »

Last nite was big for me

Skipper44 · « **Reply #846 on:** May 29, 2016, 04:51:25 PM »

Quote from: stunted on May 29, 2016, 01:34:17 AM

this has to be the most amazing series ever

it's incredible, minimum 4 1st ballot HoFers all in their prime. You have to go back to the 80s Cs vs Lakers series to match that

TownieCat · « **Reply #847 on:** May 29, 2016, 06:31:37 PM »

The 2013 Finals was pretty incredible, but yeah, this is fun too.

Probably the best WCF since 2002.

TownieCat · « **Reply #848 on:** May 29, 2016, 06:33:51 PM »

This series has also had 4 blowouts

GregKSU1027 · « **Reply #849 on:** May 30, 2016, 04:18:29 PM »

I feel like I have said this on goEMAW before but this season is the Thunder's make or break season.
Kevin Durant's Contract for OKC will end after this season, his contract being $20,158,622 to be exact is crazy. A lot of people think that he will chase the rings if OKC doesn't win it all this year, I am one of those people. This team means a lot to me and I would hate to see KD leave OKC behind and pull a lebron. He has mentioned that he would like to have his number retired in OKC so if that means anything to the GM at OKC they would do as much as they could to keep one of the founding stars on board.

OKC would have rings if James Harden wouldn't have been traded. The trade occurred in the fall of 2012 right after a preaseason game against the Dallas Mavericks. I was in attendance and it was when I first realized how much I loved the NBA and especially the OKC Thunder. As soon as I returned home that night I turned on SportsCenter to see if my family would have been on TV that night. To my surprise, James Harden had been traded. He was traded along with four other players for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and a 1st round pick from both the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. The seasons before the trade with Harden were disappointing needless to say, 09-10 was a loss in the first round in the playoffs, 10-11 a loss in the western conference finals, 11-12 was a loss in the finals to the seemingly unstoppable Miami Heat. The year of the trade, the thunder lost in the western conference semis to you guessed it, the Houston Rockets. Since OKC traded Harden, KD has been MVP and they lost in the western conference finals to the spurs. Last year Westbrook lead the team single-handedly and won the scoring title with the absence of KD.

This year the Thunder have been poised as an underdog against the thought to be juggernauts of the west, Golden State and San Antonio. They routed the Mavericks in the opening round of the 2016 Playoffs 4 to 1, then moved on to the next juggernaut the Spurs who everyone thought it would be game over for the OKC squad and Kevin Durant would be moving out for good. But the OKC Squad returned to Prime-time form to beat the Spurs in a series of 6, 4 to 2. And here we are where the team and the fans have been wanting to be for a long time. Game 7 against one of the greatest teams to be assembled.

IF OKC wins they keep their leader and star Kevin Durant and the team keeps building around him and RUSS
IF OKC loses they lose KD and the team crumbles around him.
A lot is at stake for the forward momentum of this team as well as the town of Oklahoma City, and the game of Basketball