[Injury] Dylan Harper heads back to the locker room after tweaking hamstring
The pace of this game is crazy after a 2OT game, players are going to be GASSED in the 4th.
OKC and Spurs are gonna kill each other, playing at 99 injury rate
New York’s goal really should be to finish off the sweep or win in 5while these two murder each other
Isn’t every teams goal to try to sweep lol
I swear the Thunder play worse after a longer rest.
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great news for the knicks or cavs
Okc will last longer. They had a much easier road
I obviously hope it doesn’t but the pace they’re all playing at scares me that an ACL or Achilles injury is coming. Everyone’s just flying around recklessly
Some analysts have been criticizing OKC for not shortening their rotation in these big games. Well this is part of the reason why you do that sort of thing so you’re not overworking your guys. In game 1 the Spurs played 4 of their guys 45+ mins while OKC only played 1. Tonight the Spurs played 4 of their guys 35+ mins, OKC only played 1.
McLaughlin about to play crunch time minutes… I’m fucking sick
From lots of guard depth to death.
JMac will deliver you to the promise land
McLaughlin looks like his dating profile says he’s 5’11”.
a title is like 70 percent injury luck
And because of that, anyone predicting or betting on these things is incredibly naive (could use another word there)
this is why i don’t get why people think it’s some guarantee the spurs and thunder will be the only teams to win championships for the next several years. injuries are a huge part of the playoffs and you can’t predict them.
We say this every year and a new team comes along or injuries happen.
Pretty much after every championship since the raptors, people immoeidatley jump to top 10 all time and dynasty talks. And they call u a hater when you point out maybe just wait til the next chip.
Only one justified was the Warriors
Yeah I think our non Wemby playoff games have shown we’re not winning a championship without him
i mean, we all thought the mavs would be contenders in the west for the next 5 or 6 years after they went to the finals, and then they fucking traded luka! anything can happen, you have to make moves to win every chance you get can’t wait out other teams
Fuck me for posting my predictions in a group chat I guess
The NBA seriously needs to shorten the regular season
They should, but they’re more about the money.
Players too though. If you shorten the season it would make sense that player contacts fall. I’m not sure they’d want that.
Right. This discussion is getting kinda tiring because no way do players or owners wanna leave potential money on the table, and that’s where it ends. We can complain all we want. They want max profit and you only get that by milking the product.
true, but that’s also where crazy depth helps, not having to play your stars as much, or being able to replace their production when they’re out
Even the kings made it to the first round when they had good injury luck that one year
Injuries don’t make an title easier or harder. How many of the last 10 NBA titles was won by an unpacked team cause everyone else got injured? The raptors are basically it. And the raptors were still really good.
You are 1000% wrong. Injuries play a massive role in the NBA playoffs literally every year.
Just in the last few years alone:
-Tatum, Haliburton, and Lillard all tore their Achilles.
-The Pacers very realistically could’ve won Game 7 healthy.
-Boston was absolutely still a title contender with a healthy Tatum.
-A fully healthy Bucks team would’ve been dangerous.
-The Knicks lost basically half their rotation with Brunson, Randle, OG, and Mitchell Robinson all hurt.
Go back a little further:
-Luka dragged Dallas to the Finals on one leg, and were capable of winning with a healthy Luka
-The 2018 Rockets were on the verge of taking down the Warriors before CP3’s hamstring gave out.
-The Warriors very likely 3-peat in 2019 if KD and Klay don’t both go down.
-The 2021 Clippers had a real championship shot before Kawhi tore his ACL — and they STILL made the WCF without him.
-2021 Nets were a millimeter away from winning Game 7 to the eventual champs AFTER losing their second AND third best players.
-The 2021 Lakers were favorites to repeat before AD got hurt, then inferior Phoenix beats them and makes the Finals.
-The 2022 Bucks lost Khris Middleton and STILL took Boston to 7; Boston goes on to win the chip.
Injuries are literally one of the biggest factors the playoffs. I’ll never understand how people who CLEARLY have NO idea wtf they’re talking about say the most ridiculous bullshi with absolute confidence. I can see casuals being a little wrong, or just having a different take on things, but to say nonsense that is the complete opposite of reality is bonkers
id say the nets losing to the bucks was probably a great example too, losing kyrie and harden? that was def a finals team
I mean series are definitely won off injuries sometimes but the OG was saying a title was luck. I’m saying look at the past teams who won and how many of them weren’t number 1-3 preseason to win
i feel like the throwing of a number like that meant that they were not being 99.9% realistically accurate and non-hyperbolic, but i could be 50% wrong.
That’s so disrespectful to how much the refs did for the Thunder last year. They deserve far more than 30%.
No Harper and no Fox, Castle’s gonna have like 20 turnovers if he has all of the primary ballhandling
Time for point Wemby
As much as I love Wemby he’s a worse ball handler than Castle
Chet vs. Wemby point guard battle lmao who gets to 20 turnovers first
Was joking
Crazy you guessed this perfectly hahah
lots of ppl and even spurs fans are going to clown and even bash Castle but I can’t fault him when he has to handle the ball and then guard Shai
kill me now
Give Dort or Chet a min, they’ll get you fans soon enough.
I just watch hartenstein grab someone from section 113 and slam them into the announcer stand. Refs gotta do something before he goes after them too
Look at Hartenstein slithering…
OH WATCH OUT WATCH OUT! RKO OUT OF NOWHERE
He doesn’t friendly fire
Fuck this
Without Harper they have no shot in this series. Especially with no fox
Fox is expected to be back in game 3 lol
I mean SA has an 8ft tall alien and Thunder probably lost J-Dub the rest of this series
But they’re gonna only have 1 ball handler
I’m sorry, any team that has Wemby don’t get excuses. Dude is already the biggest cheat code ever
Tf are you talking about? That means the one ball handler they have , he would have to play the whole game. And wemby can’t play the whole game. Slow af
I mean vassell can run point. Not as well but he can if he has to.
Thunder also got 3 extra teammates on the floor with whistles every night
Facts lmaoooo
damn they need him bad too
Unless keldon Johnson remembers how to play basketball the spurs are in trouble
Nah KJ is a playoff downer
He’s only good for home games
Well good news
Still funny he has an Olympic gold medal
Hope he’s ok as that’s two hamstring injuries this game already.
Sucks. I hate injuries. Hopefully it’s not major.
Oh man this sucks
Well fucking damn
That is not the way you want to see someone land on one leg, it honestly could have been a lot worse.
These two teams are the best in the league while healthy but if they go to war for 6+ games, the Knicks are in a prime position to win a ring.
More injury luck for the Thunder, shocking
You miss where they just announced their 2nd best player is out for the game? And probably will miss multiple games
And now the spurs 2nd most important player and 4th most important are both injured
Don’t disrespect SGA like that, he’s definitely their 2nd best
Is it Caruso’s team now?
I’m fully on board the Carusel
It’s definitely the Carushow
Dub and maybe Ajay are out too ………
Yeah, the Thunder should be fined, their draft picks, GM and coaches taken away.
Our 2nd best player is injured…
Fox and Harper are injured lmao
2 is more than 1, did you not learn this in oklahoma
Okay fox will be back, dub most likely not. Harper and Ajay we don’t know yet
Your second best player is Shai, your best player is the officiating team that are inventing fouls to carry you past an injury stricken Spurs team.
OKC has committed more fouls and have less FT’s so
and how is that the same as fox and harper being injured? oklahoma education system
Don’t think they have one of those
they are upset no one taught them what comes after 1
Low quality bait
OKC hardest road to championship
We lost dub and maybe Ajay………
Who tf cares about ajay 🤣
Moving the goalpost
Yeah right the suns and the lakers sure 😹😹😹
It’s been rough man - done all of this without our second best player for most of it.
So is it over for the spurs ?
Wembys good enough he can keep them in this.
Yup
The fuck do you know buddy
Fox and Harper out you only have a turnover prone castle left to handle ball. They’re fucked. They’re struggling with turnovers with Harper. Without him they’re fucked
You can keep saying “they’re fucked” however much you want but it won’t make it any more true lol
How are they gonna win with 1 ball handler??
Yupp he is gonna be out for a while smh. This sucks
Looks like a concussion, he tried to come back out and they pushed him back
It’s hamstring
Is that confirmed? It makes sense that concussion spotters wouldn’t let him return. If it’s a hamstring why would he have been allowed to go back?
Thought he had free throws, but they weren’t in the penalty so he headed back.
Ahh. That makes sense.
Not yet confirmed but he’s holding his hamstring on the prior play when he got blocked by sga
Confirmed now. Thanks.
Nah, they explained it was a misunderstanding about free throw attempts
Ah damn, Hope he’s ok
Get your eyes checked lol.
Woops, heard head to head contact and thought that was the case. My bad!
Are you blind?
Yep thanks!
Given the pace of games in the NBA now, 1 day between each seems irresponsible
Noooo Harper :(
Hope he’s alright, hate to see injuries
We’ll always have game 1.
What qrtr ?
Take the chains off point forward Wemby
What sucks to is that even if they win this series and Harper comes back it’s sad to say but most likely he will tweak it again if they make the finals. Literally j dub sat out the entire lakers series and reinjured his hammy this game so like even with all the rest Harper can get hamstrings are just so hard to actually heal.
damn
really hope he’s not out for the series, he’s been electric
Spurs second best player down
Nowhere did it ever say it was a hamstring injury
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stfu. Thunder are 12 deep. Aaron Wiggins, Isiah Joe, and Kenrich Williams would be solid rotation players for most nba teams
OKC is going to get blown out in Game 3.
Spurs still winning this game everybody stfu
Are they?
Ggs Spurs. Game 1 was amazing but you’re done now
Huuuuuuuuuge
Shits fake af. Man was ready to come back and play. Vegas and pulling strings you cant convince me otherwise.
He came back out bc they thought he had free throws and if you let someone else take them due to injury you can’t re-enter the game
He’s grabbing a rebound…? He ain’t swinging like Wemby on Naz lol
Spurs were never true contenders
What a stupid take