Comments on: Game Day Oklahoma City

By: Tom Mandel

Tom Mandel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:22:46 +0000

Getabig — I watched the whole game, yes. Nick went 3-13 and had 2 turnovers. If those shots (most of which were forced) had been spread around the rest of the team, you would expect to make 6 of them, based on the % of other players’ FGAs. Both his turnovers (from dribbling right into trouble) led to uncontested buckets on the other end. Good enough for you?

I like Nick; he is a nice kid, and he is incredibly gifted athletically. Doesn’t make him an NBA player.

M2 — I understand that Dray has experience; he has one more year under his belt than Nick and Dominic. I put him among the young’uns, because he is part of the future team, the one we’re rebuilding to.

The rotations didn’t help last night either — once again, if Critt and Mike’s minutes had been switched, we might have won the game that way as well. For that matter, if JaVale had played 25 minutes instead of 12.

But, of the guys on the floor, Nick did the most damage to our cause.

By: M2

M2 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:21:22 +0000

& Tom M… We/I usually don’t include Dray as a youngin’ because our/my criteria is NBA experience. He could be 20 for all I care, we KNOW what we have in him after 4 seasons…
Crit, NY (for the most part, although I know what we have in NY), Dom & McGee are all guys that the verdict is still out on.
This season (& each passing week in the season) gives us a better & better understanding of those four. I am excited about those four because I’m constantly seeing upsides…
Dray is Dray (Kwame Jr for the most part) & I like him a lot, YES, he should DEFINITELY be a 20/10 guy in this league. Not sure he will be though… ?

By: GrifonRacing

GrifonRacing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:04:44 +0000

Gabbo that really isn’t Tapscott’s fault. The results of his eye test reveal he can’t see tall people?

Rick… Too Funny ! ! Unfortunately too true too LOL.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:26:03 +0000

Grifon, it’s true, we do not have the worst record in the association right now… but look at the bright side, there are still 21 games left :-/

By: dcbutler357

dcbutler357 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:11:14 +0000

Good Morning,

Happy Thursday!!

Too funny about did tomm watch the game or go by the stats…..lol…

Wizallday pretty much summed it up (as all of us have touched on at one time or another throughout the season).

Everyone enjoy your day

By: wizardsallday

wizardsallday — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:26:44 +0000

Tom M.

Like u state Nick did had a bad game but for him to lost the game is over the top. Nick was only try to do what he do best that of course is to score. Yea he may have force some shots and try to create something out of nothing but I give the cerdit to Oklahoma City defense for seal down Nick and Antawn down the end.

The bottom line is we lost for our poor defense, bad coaching, and bad offense down the line (but i guess you can put that with the coach). All of these is nothing new to us so until the year over we have to deal with it.

By: getabigboyoffense

getabigboyoffense — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:09:51 +0000

Grifon, Isn’t it too bad that we don’t have any size sitting on the bench that we could have used to get some rebounds?

By: GrifonRacing

GrifonRacing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:56:35 +0000

I didn’t complete my thought from above. I think Pesh would have matched up pretty well against either Krystic or Mr. “Tattoo”.

By: GrifonRacing

GrifonRacing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:50:02 +0000

Nick certainly didn’t have a very good game, but, I don’t know that you can blame one player for any loss unless he is shooting baskets at the other team’s goal.

Small ball has always killed this team and last night was no exception. They had 9 more rebounds and pretty much controlled the paint. Collison and Krystic are tall but they aren’t real atheletic. Andray played a fair game, but, way too often it was Antawn and Darius against Collison and Krystic. A little size in the middle may have helped. I heard through the grapevine Pesh was doing cross word puzzles.

The irony of that Rick is we don’t have the worst overall record. I believe the Kings do.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:29:06 +0000

i watched the game, and I give the loss to Mike James (if i have to pin it on one individual). he is a liability on defense and when he makes no passes and then misses a jumper on the other end (multiple times) it makes me understand why New Orleans was willing to part with him in exchange for an ailing Antonio Daniels.

but we all know, it is the team who lost. can’t say i am upset though, that was an important loss vis-a-vis lottery positioning,