SGA: “It felt like we had control of the game. We were getting good looks offensively. They had 103 points tonight. That usually does it for us. Just one of those nights”
He forgot to account for SCOTTIE BARNES
Are you talking about the guy who locked up and cooked the leading DPOY candidate?
Scottie locked down Scottie?
He is ahead in the polls. I’m not a Toronto fan, I’m just against these long limb mfers always getting the award.
Scottie got a big ass wing span 😂
Im talking about THE scottie barnes that gave us possession after rejump AGAINST HOLMGREN, AND offensive rebound after shead missed during clutch.
The Same Scottie who blocked Chet? DPOY SCOTTIE
Locking down a DPOY candidate shouldn’t be too difficult….are DPOYs typically known for being huge offensive threats
SCT BRN
SCT BRN you uncivilized swine!
Idk how you get out rebounded by a team with no center
Bad rebounding team in general missing Hartenstein. Raptors have a lot of big wings.
But ihart alone won’t solve this. The lack of a true power forward on the roster is really glaring sometimes. Idk why we saw Aaron Gordon and Siakam be as good as they were last playoffs and not even attempt to get an answer for those guys
Raptors have a lot of big wings.
We don’t really. Scottie, Ingram and Mamu were the only “big wings” we had.
Quickley is a 6’2 PG that you guys let grab 11 boards. It’s not a big wing thing lol
Edit: I’ve offended an OKC fan with this comment and I’m getting DM’s for it lol
Ooh yeah get em’, fact em’ up
I hate to burst your bubble but the starting lineups are the same height gang
just cuz Chet plays like he’s 6’2 doesn’t mean he’s actually 6’2
stunt on these hoes
Also I thought it was well established that he doesn’t rebound well consistently enough for his height lol but that might just be the thunder sub
Yeah that’s not what average means but excellent try.
The Raptors in the third quarter for a good like 4+ minutes ran a lineup of Shead-Walter-RJ-Dick-Ochai
The talent person there is Gradey at 6’7. It’s a PG and 4 SGs lol. The fact you guys didn’t go on like a 14-0 run during the time that lineup was on the floor amazed me
Yo that’s for real, saying that on a night when even CMB is sitting out is crazy cope
Brother we had Ochai Abaji playing the 5 for the last 3 minutes of the 3rd, with Chet on the floor. He’s 6’5 😂
And we ran out 185lb Ousmane dieng and krich as our backup bigs
Honestly this rebounding issue is a lot deeper than just missing ihart. So many times where thunder players just arent even close to a good rebounding position. Other teams can play small and still rebound fine.
Crazy how this is still the case when we collapse so hard on the paint
Because Chet is not playing to rebound he’s play for rim defense.
He has the best rim defense metrics in the league right now, and it means that normally he’s not in position for the rebound because he’s in position for the contest. When we have iHart it’s less of a problem because he’ll be in position for the rebound, but when he’s out we’re playing Chet in a defensive position and relying on a slimmed down JWill, who was never a big rebounder to begin with.
People are going to rant about fake team or whatever, but we have the highest or second highest minutes/games of injury in the league. We played another stretch of like 6 games with Chet and a 2 way as our only bigs. We have 7 players injured currently, 2 of which are starters and 2 more are fringe starters.
Amazingly, when half your team is injured, you’re not a complete team.
I’m familiar with the long list of injuries. Also Is this not true for other rim protectors like Rudy, Stewart, Quetta etc?
raptors quite literally have no center so it wouldn’t even be a difference there. I know injuries have kinda devastated the roster but the moment hart went down this issue of rebounding has been incredibly apparent and is the cause of the majority of your losses. If hart goes down in the playoffs then things are going to be grim. No one’s calling the thunder frauds other than trolls, but there is a clear reoccurring flaw here.
but we have the highest or second highest minutes/games of injury in the league.
I don’t know what this metric even is or where to find it, but I don’t believe it lol. If you look up the most injured teams this season (there are multiple metrics) Mavs and Philly are always top of the list. OKC is decently high too, as is the Raptors.
Also there was an awful lot of paint scoring and an awful lot of 0 blocks from Chet for your rim protecting theory to make sense.
It’s defensive rim pressure and dfg% around the rim and there’s stats for that on nba.com which he is one of the leaders in. Chet’s also averaging 2 blocks a game. So again just verifiable facts that your opinion is diluting
Topic and sorber haven’t played a minute and every single player including Shai has missed a game and ac, dub, caso, j will, I hart, krich, ajay, and Aaron Wiggins have all missed double digit games. I don’t see how that’s hard to believe
Sorber got hurt
Giannis?
Out rebounded by 14, they had double the points in transition and had 11 more stocks. Add in we shot 25% from 3 and I don’t see how you can say we controlled it.
Yea the guys didn’t hit their shots at all, but they were beating us in all the areas we beat teams.
For a lot of the game we did a lot of Thunder things, but when the ball doesn’t go in the hoop on all 12 of your wide open-ass three pointers, the game falls away. Then they can double Shai all game with confidence and the whole disaster snowballs.
But that’s not what happened. Raps went away from the doubles and let shai cook Walter and Gradey 1v1 the most of the second half. Raps stayed connected to shooters really well in the second half and forced OKC into multiple actions. That and then the make or miss run game + playing a shorter rotation seemed to wear guys down.
The game didn’t “fall away”. The raps took that shit.
Nah most of our 3s in the second half were pretty wide open and still we were like 2-14 coming out after half
Bro there were so many wide open threes missed in every quarter lol. Don’t be so sensitive, nobody saying ya’ll didn’t play better and deserve to win, but its very clear that we were able to create open looks consistently all game long. This game looks like most of our losses, where we don’t play up to potential and unravel down the stretch because of it.
We got a bit lucky with you guys missing lots of open 3s down the stretch when we double shai
It isn’t luck, it’s a viable strategy because our wings getting wide open 3pt shots shoot less efficiently than Shai when he is doubled and tripled.
How bout you admit that the Raptors played good
Those Clutch 3’s though. Shead’s at the end of the 3rd was nasty. Then the two in the last 2 minutes. We bricked all of our clutch 3’s. GG’s
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/good-well/
Your just mad they were too well this game and cant admit they played gooder.
True
Average SGA comment section
Honestly shits kinda crazy
batshit insanity! I tune it out apart from ragebaiting for funsies now and again
Lmao it’s pretty nuts
OKC opponents PPG is 108
He got stuck at he early season video JxmyHighroller pulled about OKC stats.
Last time they lost to a team that scored 103 or less was February 2023. He’s right. Holding a team to 103 is basically always a win
Scottie with that massive block to seal the game at the end against Chet was like watching him steal the DPOY award from him lol Barnes was defensive beast again tonight
Yeah, the problem is that you had only 101 points. That usually does it for the Raptors.
not always 🤣
Raptors have 7 games under 101 this season. OKC has 4 under 103 and only 3 before today. 🤷
Shai had one single FGA in the final quarter. Part of that is on him, but it’s insane the coaches couldn’t get him the ball at all in the clutch. I’d rather see SGA force up a contested shot over a double when his teammates aren’t knocking down 3s
He’s too ‘efficient’ for his own good sometimes. As a superstar, you gotta just take a few bad shots over the doubles
And I’ll be honest, did not feel like OKC had control of the game. They were playing at Toronto’s pace
I agree, Shai needed the ball more, but prob load management from last game.
Not load management if he’s playin
I mean not driving to the basket past double teams for a 3rd game in a row to prevent injury and letting his teammates hit wide open 3’s they get paid millions to hit my b
That’s a fair argument
Chet took an 18 second on the shot lock contested middle over Harrison Barnes that was blocked down 2 with 29 to go
How is that not in Shai’s hand
They doubled him a lot. He did make good passes out of it and OKC got open threes, but role players sometimes just don’t make them.
And I do agree that stars just have to force it sometimes. Especially when role players are missing shots. That’s whu efficiency isn’t everything. Sometimes shooting 13⁄28 is better than shooting 9⁄15. That’s why you have to also watch the games not just look at the stats.
They got that Pacers ass whippin hangover L.
Thank you for your service pacers 🫡
EAST BTA FROM BOTTOM TO TOP
They thought this team was better than the 2016 warriors
If they won more games this year they would be. But they didn’t
I’m not saying that they are but the thunder are significantly more injured than the warriors were.
No hart, dub, Ajay, or caruso today. 4 out if their top 7.
Jokic is out and Denver still wins . Stop whining and flopping thunder fans
Meanwhile the blazers have been hottest team in January with a hospital squad and far less talent. Stop making excuses.
And the thunder have still have had a higher netrtg than the blazers in January. Blazers getting hot for a few weeks doesn’t mean that the elite warriors team never dealt with significant injury problems throughout their season.
You’re missing the point. The team is still loaded and they had a bad game. I don’t like number one seed and reigning champs having a victim mentality.
how is saying injuries make it hard to set the win record an excuse? It takes plenty of luck to ever achieve that sort of win total for a team, injuries are a part of that. The thunder r still an elite team regardless but they’re taking about an all time record which injures will always affect no matter how good u are
Look at the lineups tonight do you really think Toronto had the better roster? Teams have bad games sometimes and others over perform, I’m not buying the injury argument in this case.
What does this even mean
You guys had a bad game and you’re making excuses about it. Thunder aren’t lacking talent, your team and fans are always apparently victims.
They aren’t lacking talent but half the talent is in the hospital, that’s not an excuse that’s a truth
Every team has injuries. You can’t have more losses in January than they had all season and think they’re any where near comparable
I’m not saying that they are more injured than the average team but they are definitely more injured than the warriors were.
Just give credit to the other team
Scottie MVP DYOP Barnes
How many more games can they lose to still beat the Warriors record?
Stupid Thunder Floppers.
Losing with BI & Scottie only scoring 13 & 10 points is really something else.
Forgot to account for the team not being able to shoot at all
He got shy at the end of the game, not going for his middy but opting to pass out after not creating anything. The other guys really couldn’t get a bucket except when Dort missed that shot up at the top of the key so badly he banked it in, and Chet got a put back from an OKC airball.
He forgot to shoot more free - trows.
What’s a free - trows?
I mean tbf we have control of basically every game we play, that’s why we’re the best team. We lose some here and there but like whatever so does every other team. I’m sure Shai and everyone else realizes this.
What about breaking 73-9 record?
haha what a fraud MVP
better team won today suck it you torontonian
weird to have a Raps flair and be hating on Torontonians
he trying to fit in with the hate crowd
No one hates on Toronto more than Torontonians
Brah shut the fuck up
Fake raptors fan wtf?
He’s not a torontonian.
Shais from the hammer
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What an ugly MF
interesting reply
I’m guessing jokic stan? He’s too good for fans like you
istg ive seen you in at least 5-6 comment sections saying this. like call him a flopper or whatever the insult is rn but making fun of appearance is weird
I am not onboard with those comments but Ocelot you know he is a Thunder Flopper which is worse than anything imaginable. Silly Thunder Floppers.
Oh hi pete haha wassap dude
Your biggest hater is here. How are you on this excellent day.
Haha I’m pretty good, I’m mildly annoyed at Mark giving the ball to Joe for whatever reason. Very snowy here rn! How are you, cheesing over the loss i hope
I am very happy and it is nice to hear you are holding up well. Enjoy the snow and fireplace. I will move on and torment someone else.
Aww thank you, we all have! I’ll seeya round have a good one
oh and i precciate u being an ethical hater if there is such a thing 😆
There is such a thing and thank you very much for the kind words. I dislike the Thunder Floppers more than anything as you know but people making fun of others for their appearance are the most cowardly morons in existence. I will go to war with you on that but only that.
You’re welcome very much! I respect that, also that you never stoop to “blaahh everyone in oklahoma is a methhead” type comments, you keep it to ball
Just message me if there are comments like that. I will throw in some Thunder Flopper comments but I will also back you up and go to war with you every single time and as you know I am unhinged so i never back down. Okay, as you know as a hater I have a job to do so I must go now.
Thanks! I just might 😋 ride off to war my pete in shining armor
So I can’t tell the truth now?
Obsessing over a grown man’s looks is surly something my guy
🙄 1. Appearance is subjective, there’s no singular “truth” besides the obvious symmetrical, clean, healthy, fit. poor dodge
2. constantly hateposting about a person’s appearance is strange. Is that something the average person does? No. Why would someone do that? “I hate this basketball player, they’re so UGLY. let me post about it”. Huh?
Do you watch only beautiful players or something? Appearance discussion has no place in the NBA, it’s a basketball competition for athletes. Aside from Steph and Ant none of the big names in the league are particularly good looking, Luka looks like my weeb friend from highschool lol. But if I hated him I’d say ohh he chucks shots and he’s lazy, I wouldn’t say he’s ugly
3. You can dislike him, his game, his team, that’s your prerogative, but specifically going after his appearance is weird and toxic. Why not call him a flopper or something relating to the game?
“Do you watch only beautiful players”
yes I solely watch Andrew Nembhard
I respect it i respect it, he makes my nemb hard
NBA fans attack Luka’s appearance all the time, calling him a fat bitch.
Ton of way better looking players than SGA. Steph, Wemby, Giannis, Devin Booker, even KD
It’s 2026, free yourself from the closet
SGA is an ugly MF
Calling a player fat is more offensive than ugly
That’s crazy, I guess people shouldn’t call players ugly or fat, that’d be very weird…
you continue to dodge the question, why are you focusing specifically on his appearance over and over? Shit on his game, he’s a game player not jerkoff material
And you dodge the issue that NBA fans mention appearance all the time like Zion, Harden, Lukas weight. Why are fans obsess with fat?
Ok, I’ll go ahead and directly address it despite it not being on topic. They probably shouldn’t do that beyond “I hope he gets in better shape” type comments, which are to be expected as this is a sport and these are athletes. Straight up calling them fat is rude and shouldn’t be done
Saying “Player X is really ugly” is also rude! and there is no explanation for it, you would never say “Ah I hope Chet Holmgren gets a nosejob” or something like you might say “I hope he hits the weights”.
what you’re doing and saying is weird dude, hate like a normal person