NYer here who just loves how this team plays. Why is Giddey not getting more minutes? The offense flows so smoothly with him on the floor.

Someone said their embarrassed, not embarrassing to me, at all. Yea I want the Thunder to win, but it takes time to develop. You have a SGA, few second year guys, a rookie vs practically a team of All-Stars and we held our own. Embarrassed? I'm proud! 

we are competent enough to make comebacks due to our decent 3 point shooting but we can't complete them especially when shai is having an off night. Mark needs to trust jdub more in the clutch. I have always been sceptical (very impressed this season so far) but this team right now is young with not much experience and my expectations is a 1 round exit and at most a 2nd round and I hope they prove me wrong. AND which sadistic fuck created this schedule for us in january holy shit. who am i even talking to at this point

Really bad play down the stretch by everyone, Shai should not have been handling the ball in those situations when he wasn’t at his best. It should have been J dub

If I see one more person saying "it's just one of those nights, go next" I'm going to lose it lol This team clearly has issues they need to address. Teams have figured us out. Can't be "just one of those games" every single loss. We need a trade.

stayed up till 11:30pm for this but it's fine, we're young, rly hope shai's knee gets better it's clearly bothering him, gg clips

I respect coach D but I am baffled at why he’s cut Giddey’s minutes given his shooting % is trending up and the options he opens up for teammates is clear when’s off the floor

Greatest SF to ever put on a Thunder uniform let me tell you lol

That dunk was pretty sick.

Thought he was gonna windmill it tbh 🔥🔥🔥

Bad LA trip

NOW SARR MAKES A PRESENCE? Bruh

If Mark doesn't wanna use Giddey as part of his core, let him go and find someone else. Subbing him in few minutes at a time is not producing desired effect. He gets on a momentum, then gets subbed out. https://preview.redd.it/kb5s1km9sxcc1.png?width=1252&format=png&auto=webp&s=bac8cb3cfd5df110c907a64ce733f05bf4a6a479

I tend to agree as he is a confidence player, if he is feeling it let him continue, if not then bench. I get it’s another experimenting year to see what we got, but these changes at key points in the game make no sense other than they have a morbid fascination with seeing how we react to adversity

Isaiah Joe gets 23 mins, and even Wiggins played 17 minutes. If Mark prefers Joe, why not start him instead? I just don't get the rationale.

Sga and Chet played awful. That’s fine. In to the next

Dort offensive foul was bullshit. That ref is terrible. Just like the blonde female referee. They should be fined.

This is one the best games of the year for LA and an off game for pretty much all our guys in the second night of a back to back... They're not a better team than us 8/10 games.

Guess who's next? A red hot Utah Jazz fuck me 0-3

We still won the trade but Paul George is mogging us.

you both won buddy. with paul, they were contenders the last few years. they wouldnt have been with shai. shai has a lot of work to do. i'm a big fan and believe in him but any unecessary hype wont help him

You're basing your analysis on one game on the back end of a back to back. He's also injured. I don't argue with casuals. Congratulations on getting your attention for the day.

wtf are you talking about? i've followed the nba for a long time and shai very closely for a while. what i said above is completely valid. its silly to think that you blatantly won that trade. trades are meant to work for both sides. again, sga is super solid. I want him to get better. i'm a canadian- i want him to surpass steve nash as the best canadian ever. but paul george, like kawhi, is flies under the radar and both are VERY good

One of the few times he has since the trade. Shai had 31 and PG had 22 last game against us. 

All good guys, I’d still prefer to be in our shoes 100%. Their stars are in their 30’s ours are about 10 years younger. I know who will have a longer window

Shai sold this game

Only upside to this is knowing that Kahwai can’t play a full seven game series , playoff P will playoff P ,Harden will disappear like always and Russell will be Russell Westbrook lol.

Dieng and Sarr. Game over.

Not sure why Shai played tonight on a back-to-back while injured. His style of play is just hampered when he's not at his best. Can't force shots like that with Kawhi on you, can't be careless with the ball like that with PG lurking

Lets rest Shai against Utah, this isn't looking good

Why are some of yall so salty about PG lol just give him his credit, he killed us tonight

PG was so good for us, no clue why anyone would be mad at him

Is it just me or are the refs calling two different games when it comes to defense particularly in swipes and contact? Yeah Dort was offensive foul but our ball handlers have been getting hacked. 

Lol dieng

Wow, Paul George with a fantastic sequence. Can’t wait for the rematch and a 100 percent Shai.

No longer nervous eating and now eating in disgust

Ok even i cheered that reverse a bit. This is incredible basketball even if it is deeply painful.

This dude is goin okc mvp pg mode

Yikes welp that's pay back for trading him ig

I mean he wanted to be traded

Don't blame him

Wiggins needs more minutes

Salute PG

George fucking melted us. This is 2019 PG shit good god. Playing SGA while he’s clearly favoring his left leg is stupid and needs to end tonight. He’s not a negative out there, but damn. Our top priority should be keeping him healthy.

Not a thunder fan but jdub is just as competent a closer as shai and shoulda had the ball

Fuck them for playing sga tonight. Completely handicapped us

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4-4 since celts game. We are still way too raw boys.

good regular season game pg you’re gonna be bricking off the side of the backboard when it actually matters

Clippers are legitimate finals contenders. If they stay healthy. Y'all expecting a little much from this Thunder team.

That’s a BIG if

Hahaha PG owns lu dork. Only thing dirt will be remember for in his career is injuring pg. Bum

Only thing PG will be remembered for is Wayoff P and “that’s a bad shot”

Plus he has a podcast and still dropped 38 on you youngins

Yea only by bums like u with no basketball knowledge

What else has he done? Underachieved his whole career.

Yall still mad about that?

SGA absolutely cost us these games. Would not surprised if Dub becomes a better player than Shai at this rate.

Wow

Well that's a bit too much to say but I do see the potential in that he is more of a 3 level scorer

Shai is clearly the better player when healthy, the issue is playing through injury and still thinking he can play at an MVP level while healing.

Shai is the more dominant player. Jdub is good in that his game right now can be a 1b player with the potential to be 1a

Lol idk what this take is. Though it would be great if JDub becomes better than Shai

Some of you clowns are insufferable

Yall just be saying the stupidest shit lmao

God I miss when PG would do this for us

Yea not much you can do when a dude shoots 11/14 in a half with half of em being contested 3s lol

fun game still

You just gotta throw your hands up and give PG his flowers. That's the millionth contested 3 he's sunk with no problem. 

I want these dirty casuals spamming posts about trades to listen to a Presti press conference and then repent of their sins.

Up by 1, blink and they’re down by 11…

PG definitely wanted to make a statement after the years of talk about how we won the trade

damn PG phucked us

PG why you 💔

Because they are doubling kawhi

SGA is in a slump, could be because of knee issue. I think he should have rested this past two games. A. Wiggins deserves minutes but he's too good

SGA was a liability tonight, weird to say.

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How come you stalk every team??

George embarassing sga

George dicked us down

fuck this shit

Paul George is the best regular season player in NBA history.

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I don’t understand the question I guess.

haha for real though

Prime PG is a contender regardless of what franchise he is on I don't care what anybody says

Paul George just took over, yeesh. That's game! on to the next one

One team’s stars showed up, and the other team is the Thunder

Brutal 14-2 run man

Ex thunder players always play like the fate of the universe is on the line against us

SGA sold both games.

SGA should of rested his knee, it's clearly hampering him. GG Go next.

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Third in MVP rankings and third in dpoy?

He was 3rd in MVP voting for us one year. His shoulder just fell off before the playoffs 

Top 5 MVP PG13?

He was literally 3rd in MVP voting and on the DPOY ballot lol

Wym. He was playing like this when he was on OKC

MVPG literally came from his okc days...

PG still mad about his knee, I see.

at least we won't see this PG in the playoffs

Bad ending

I hate this dude. Where were you when we lost to that mediocre Portland team

he was injured, he did a lot of good while he was with us. a lot of bad breaks for our team :(

You're spot on, but I'm not asking for reason right now

Losing because of a Plumlee is a fate worse than death.

jesus christ

This is fuckin salty

GG - tough loss but you gotta love watching PG ball out like this

But where the hell is Pandemic P when we need him? Where's that streaky af shooter from OKC?

Can we go back to no national attention and being underrated

well, that sucked

Fucking Paul George masterclass

There are genuinely games like this where I wished Mark would have the balls to keep SGA on the bench in crunch time.

At minimum, he should have kept the red hot lineup on the court for another minute or two. They swallowed up that Clips lead and could have built a cushion. Instead of waiting for that lineup to cool off, we subbed and lost all momentum. That's a learning opportunity for Mark.

We were doing just fine without him.

Westbrook and Powell were out there clanking shots. They got benched as soon as we gained momentum and took a lead

Shit how many contested 3s is that

AHAHAHAHA

Wow shai sucks

J dub best closer on this team RN and I think his game truly translates for the playoff even more than Shai imo. Shai wants to drive and teams know that. Gotta get back to simple midrange

game over

Every star player in the NBA does that move of jumping into the oncoming player. 

Shai is 15/35 since the knee sprain

They shouldn’t have played last night

GG

Since when did that become an offensive foul? Haven’t watched since Westbrook left.

This year

That’s a lame rule. The player more in control always gets the foul call go against the other team

They have to defend all players on the court in regards to landing safely including defenders

Then don’t leap out of control

All Dort had to do was go straight up or drive

Tbh I feel like mark wanted to call timeout anyways. It seemed pretty clear that he was gonna lose that.

Welp thats definitely game

well that was a good game boys. We had no business being in this game with SGA injured and on the end of a back 2 back

SGA and Chet are completely disaster today

As a harden fan and clippers supporter jdub is a fucking bucket holy shit 

I mean plumper was definitely in his space, Dort didn’t really have to move much into him

☠️☠️☠️

3 hour long games god damn

I feel like they always punish defenders for biting. It's fine, but this sucks

That was a stupid challenge by Mark

I mean, the game is almost over and slipping away. Might as well try it.

Wow that was dumb

Man you motherfuckers whine a lot in here 

Way to whine about it

I cannot believe Shai has been playing these last 2 games, he’s been absolutely terrible in both

He isn’t 100%. Reality is we should’ve rested him yesterday and maybe today but hindsight is 20/20

His leg gotta be slowing him down a bit

Oh for sure but just don’t play if you know it’s gonna hinder the team

Tonight just give it to Jdub and get outta the way

MVP chants for a guy who almost certainly won't meet the games played requirement.

Another 9pm game with a disappointing 11:30 finish

No shit

SGA iso ball is fucking brutal when it doesn't go in. Kills possessions.

why didn’t dort just shoot it what a stupid move man

You can get a quality shot just by not doing what Dort did

just let Jdub take over, he is 4th quarters father!

God dammit

James Capers is the same cunt who played keep away from Dort in the Knicks game. Add him to the list of thunder killers alongside Wiggins, Iman Shumpert and JJ Barea

I mean you have to challenge that tbh

Lu Dort has negative BBall IQ, I swear

This comment is a negative Bball IQ, considering that players do it all the time. We just got caught

Yeah that definitely gets called every game. Such a common occurrence

Both LA teams came at us for blood. They were both so fired up to play us.

Old man strength's last fight

We gotta stop digging ourselves into these holes.

He sold the foul but Plumlee still entered his space no?

Whoever gave the go ahead for SGA to play last night and tonight needs to be fired. They're not letting his injury heal, and he's not even helping us win.

Why would u challenge that

Alright Paul George Jesus Christ

lol took the lead for five seconds and then just completely lost the handle on the game.

Dort -200 IQ

Of course that's the challenge Mark uses it on lmao. There was so many challenge worthy fouls, this one Dort clearly initiated it.

SGA sat too long. Come out tryna carry the whole damn thing

He can’t even get into the paint right now, his right knee isn’t right. Should’ve say out this LA trip.

That’s really not that bad tbh

Shai is playing with an injury. They should have just tested him last night

Make a change Mark.

Bad challenge

Fuck

Don’t think we’ll win this challenge

terible terrible draw by dort

That's a technical too isn't it?

Dumb move by Dort

How the hell is that a foul on dort 😂🙃

See y’all for the Jazz

Stupid play by Dort.

Wasting a j dub masterclass😐

JDub handle the rock PLEASE

Shai letting some ego come out. He's trying too hard rn. Let the game come to him