What do we have to gain by playing to win this game? Winning exerts more effort on our team, which they should be resting. We can't have better seeding or home court. Winning also makes us likelier to face OKC in the 1st round when Denver or Minnesota are easier teams to beat. We should be letting our 2nd and 3rd stringers get playing time. No need to risk an injury to a starter.
I'm so disappointed in Harden. He hasn't changed at all since last year. No doubt we're going to see him choke again in crunch time in this upcoming playoffs. Also, this game was really physical and you can tell our players are banged up a bit. Dumbtony and Morey should've rested all of our key players and fielded a d-league team for this game because you knew the Thunder was going to try-hard because they are on the verge of missing the playoffs.
*Throw. Harden is TOLD to lose games, he has sold his soul already and his death can come at the first sign of disobedance. He is REQUIRED to lose to the Thunder in these playoffs. The NBA is rigged and confrimed to be completely scripted if the Thunder win, which they should.
Every team is going to be doing this in the playoffs on top of playing their best defender against him and not switching on D, just like the Thunder tonight.
Yes they are, they are a great rebounding team and are very physicla. But, James has been pretty disappointing. He withers under pressure and the collapse is bringing back memories of him in the post season.
You would have thought after last season this would have been figured out unless they just thought the presence of CP3 would prevent it from happening, I really can't think of a reasonable explanation yet here we are less than a week from the playoffs.
Harden did well. We missed Rhyno and Gordon, two big pieces against OKC specially. What about Ariza? Where it was his intensity? What happened with him? Nene must play repeated games to get in rythm. We must use JJ on the block if he's on the court. Some of our players were not in playoff mode today. Still, as usual against top defenses, we did better when we played less ISO. I think the series would be competitive, but we would move forward, 4-2; 4-3.
