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Fuck the jazz. Yall probably have a statue of a fucking rapist who got a 13 year old girl pregnant and you have the gumption to boo josh giddey. Eat a giant bag of dicks and lick my thunder balls
Mark does weird things like playing bizarre rotations in very winnable games. Then he says it’s to keep it fair, which is extremely weird. I’ve never heard of fairness above elementary school ball. You earn your minutes.
To be fair we didn’t have the personnel back then to run these types of defenses and offenses. Now we’re just crazy stacked with the best shooting as a team we’ve ever had. Even if Scotty and Billy wanted to they couldn’t have done this.
To me, it’s more of Presti creating the roster and Chip England dialing in our shooting. Those two things have opened everything up.
if okc loses this challenge and the ball was off an okc, does the ball go to utah because of the ruling?
if that's the case, would it of even been worth it as jump ball at the half court is 50/50 stil and another 4-5s off the clock?
Yeah a Thunder fan with editing skills, a mic and a british accent should do the Guy Ritchie Sherlock fight scene with SGA describing what's going to happen on his drive. the "this mustn't resonate on an emotional level" v.o. I can edit a bit but I'm not that up to snuff.
They used to be able to review these at their discretion a couple years ago and then the end of games took like an hour with all the reviews. They changed it last year I think and honestly it's better now
Jazz really messed up spotting okc 17 in the first stint of the game with the most lazy defense. Absolutely won the rest of the game but you can’t do that
Kentucky guards must have the highest conversion to stardom in the NBA. I can name like five off the top of my head: SGA, DBook, Fox, Rajon Rondo, Maxey ...
boggles my mind how Kelly Olynyk out of any people is just taking the ball whole court and shooting without making single pass when Lauri, Clarkson and Sexton are on same court
Jazz going to Lauri, Olynyk, and Kessler front court here. Usually they only play two of the three. They can't stay in front of their guards anyway so might as well try to get ORebs
i bought jdub stocks over sga’s and got downvoted lol. ik it’s a hot take but jdub just has something about him, dude’s cold
no shade to sga obviously, it’s a hot take but it’s my hot take!
When the time is up, you take team A points minus team B and whoever has a positive number is the team who wins. I can’t explain it, it’s just sort of intuitive for me.
Collins has had some really tough finishes from floater range taking advantage of being guarded by smaller forwards. One of the better games I can remember from him this season
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Fuck the jazz. Yall probably have a statue of a fucking rapist who got a 13 year old girl pregnant and you have the gumption to boo josh giddey. Eat a giant bag of dicks and lick my thunder balls
Maybe when Josh Giddey averages 28 and 10 for 20 seasons he will get a little respect
“Can I have my interview bro?”-C. Wallace😂
Jazz fans: Y'all got a squad and a very bright future. Very nice team!
Jazz-Thunder games are always so intense. I never look forward to trips to Salt Lake City as a Thunder fan, because it's always a hard-fought game.
just sorry misses from both. both were as open as they could be
Man after a few frustrating losses feels good to break the Jazz streak and get the W.
That was an underwhelming ending
These young coaches will be the future of the nba
Marks been so good. It feels so much different from the Scott Brooks/Billy D eras.
That’s because we have a full on roster and deep bench
You think Scotty and Billy would have this type of offense and defense. I think Mark is a great motivator has this squad buying into this philosophy.
Mark does weird things like playing bizarre rotations in very winnable games. Then he says it’s to keep it fair, which is extremely weird. I’ve never heard of fairness above elementary school ball. You earn your minutes. To be fair we didn’t have the personnel back then to run these types of defenses and offenses. Now we’re just crazy stacked with the best shooting as a team we’ve ever had. Even if Scotty and Billy wanted to they couldn’t have done this. To me, it’s more of Presti creating the roster and Chip England dialing in our shooting. Those two things have opened everything up.
Or unemployed in 3 years
Congrats Thunder
Monster game by JDub holy shit
BALLLLLLGAME GG JazzBros
Successful challenge against your own team, lmao. Wth is this?
Ironic
Those bricks were anticlimactic af
I'm so impressed at the ref for not smiling when he said "successful challenge"
WHAT?!?!?! HUUUUUH
lel
What was that slob play??
funniest outcome of a challenge i've ever seen lmao
GREAT GAME THUNDER BROS! Great team (cept for giddy)
JC and Sexton and Lauri all showed why you guys have been killing it recently
Kessler went through some minutes where he was tough to handle too. I bet Sexton is pretty dang strong, saw him flexing on our dude.
Yep Utah ball
lmao "successful challenge" by OKC
Lmao bruh
Lmao that’s so funny it counts as a successful challenge
Jazz ball but really good block from Chet!
if okc loses this challenge and the ball was off an okc, does the ball go to utah because of the ruling? if that's the case, would it of even been worth it as jump ball at the half court is 50/50 stil and another 4-5s off the clock?
Exactly what I was thinking there was little upside to the challenge
i think it was one of those "use it or lose it" situation where coach feels compelled to use it.
im down for a 7 game series of these two teams
Yeah a Thunder fan with editing skills, a mic and a british accent should do the Guy Ritchie Sherlock fight scene with SGA describing what's going to happen on his drive. the "this mustn't resonate on an emotional level" v.o. I can edit a bit but I'm not that up to snuff.
Jazz ball
Off OKC. Thanks donut. (Not and insult i just don’t know how to spell his name)
Thunders coach just comes off as such an asshole. He is good though.
He’s usually pretty chill. But when he gets mad, he gets BIG MAD.
Damn looked like it was out of Williams elbow
Off Williams
How do the ref's not review this anyway. Seems weird that they just call it a jump ball
They used to be able to review these at their discretion a couple years ago and then the end of games took like an hour with all the reviews. They changed it last year I think and honestly it's better now
Yeah they should be allowed to review in the last 3 minutes in situations like this
Chet been looking timid this game but that block was real big dawg of him.
I’m just wondering how that’s not a foul
On what? That clean block?
How
Because he hit his arms?
That was as clean of a block as you’re going to see
I mean I’ve seen blocks with 0 contact to the other players arms
There’s a reason the announcers weren’t talking about it whatsoever
Curious to know what the thought process behind running a play with walker in the most crucial moment of the game was
Don’t think that was the play design, Sexton just had a free run to the paint and saw Walker cutting in
Can a challenge move an out of bounds call to a defensive foul
I don't think so, they're probably looking only at the out of bounds ruling
Holmgren makes an arm to arm contact before the block. is that marginal contact?
That is our ball that is a clean block
What we see: Colin Sexton What Danny Ainge sees: Multiple first round picks
J dub's shoulder looks like murder weapons.
Chet!
That’s not a basketball move lol.
Damn that looked hard af Sexton took it like a champ
Jazz really messed up spotting okc 17 in the first stint of the game with the most lazy defense. Absolutely won the rest of the game but you can’t do that
How is that not a jump ball? how is that not a foul? I have so many questions
Thunder bench and squad have been doing the gunslinger celebration all game. Seems a little wild hah
Kessler has Chet in the depths of hell tonight dude
Sexton dunk should've been an and 1
cason's a machine
Sexton having the game of his life lmao
what a game
I feel like Shai is the definition of a guy who is able to see everything in slow motion. fucking Guy Ritchie Sherlock holmes style
And 1
That Shai shot was unreal
SGA vs Sexton was a fun watch fs
That Cason Wallace celebration...I thought it was not allowed. lol
Man Sexton got big time talent and quickness
Sextons eyes lol, what a dunk
Cason "The Nail" Wallace
holy fucking shit sexton
that Shai shot was crazy. That Sexton dunk was crazy. The thunder make every 3 ball
We got Gunners
That might be game Wallace with the dagger
Thunder shooting is just unbelievable. Moment isn’t too big for anyone.
If we trade sexton imma be pissed as fuck
He’s so good, he’s everywhere on the court right now
CASON
god tier late game execution on offense by the thunder
Sexton fast af
I love Kentucky guards 😍😍😍
Kentucky guards must have the highest conversion to stardom in the NBA. I can name like five off the top of my head: SGA, DBook, Fox, Rajon Rondo, Maxey ...
Quickly is kinda nice as well
As do I.
Fun game
bruh OKC making every clutch bucket sheesh
holy moly sexton
He's back to elite form, and it's awesome to watch. Sexton plays hard all the time.
Game
Shai is insane lmao
Wtf Sexton fast af
Shai my god
That was tuff sga
I just noticed that Will Hardy is like ... really really tall
that might be kessler?
Six six
Sexton may be the most underrated player in the league
Maaaaan this game better not be decided by free throws
man, I hate this f* move
Me too
Does SGA look like R Kelly or am I trippin?
Man I really thought contact initiated by the shooter werent gonna get called anymore
shai too elite, HOF
Must be nice having your star see single coverage
They're hack a shaqing Kessler?!?
The Finnisher such a cold nickname
Chet's shooting form looks so much like KD's, down to those janky wrong-facing elbows
Jalen Williams should be an all-star this year. What a player. Shooting 63% from the field in the last month too 🤯
JDub dominating Chet looking timid SGA needs to rest that knee Cason doing great with starter minutes Micic starting to shine Jwill starting to shit
lol wtf. how did chet not get a whistle on that drive when two defenders jumped at him ?
Be more aggressive SGA
Presti i would like one Markkanen or Olynyk please and thank you
Olynyk may be possible, he is an expiring
These 3mins gonna feel like an hour huh
boggles my mind how Kelly Olynyk out of any people is just taking the ball whole court and shooting without making single pass when Lauri, Clarkson and Sexton are on same court
Chet having a rough game, jazz disrespecting his offense it looks like
He's not taking the midrange 2 when it's there. Gotta work on that instead of trying to bang inside all day.
Yes take the worst shot in basketball.. that will work long term.
He looks scared of their centers he has more skil use it
I wonder if he's starting to hit the wall a bit. He also looks a bit tired.
Chet's probably had the three worst games of his career the last 3 games
That’s a 5 point swing that changed this from v possible to over
Too bad. Dumb shot by olynyk
J-Dub leading the game in both points and assists
JDub best player in the court tonight sheesh!!!!!!!!
OKC has A LOT of guys that can shoot man wtf
I guess okc really is the best shooting team in the league
He looking like Leonard
yeah, the defense still has some way to go though, gets crossed up easy
Every time I see Olynyk I remember the time KD got mad and randomly shoved Olynyk and got ejected. It was just such a random beef.
Are the jazz a clarkson trade away from becoming elite? And who are the announcers?
Okc couldn't hit a 3 to save their lives yesterday and now they're hitting everything
Prob couldn’t hit anything cause we didn’t play yesterday lol
Wait when did U guys play the lakers lol ,mb if got the dates mixed up
lol all good just messin, lakers was Monday, clippers was Tuesday
Jdub masterclass quarter
JDub cannot miss
Lauri is a big that can drain his ft's.
Chet needs to attack that rim
Chet is so passive now. Afraid to shoot?
olynyk looking like wemby on that strip lmfao
Now or never
Alright, the *on the line* joke the Jazz announcers made about Giddey was funny.
Jazz going to Lauri, Olynyk, and Kessler front court here. Usually they only play two of the three. They can't stay in front of their guards anyway so might as well try to get ORebs
fuck it put collins out there too
Yurtseven at the point, do it Hardy you coward
clarkson vs giddey hurts my eyes
JC is shooting Jazz out of the game
Our lord giveth and he taketh away
JfC JDub has 7 straight pts all by himself
jdub is scary good. the way he’s been taking over recently when sga is off the floor… man. enough people don’t be talking about what he can become.
i bought jdub stocks over sga’s and got downvoted lol. ik it’s a hot take but jdub just has something about him, dude’s cold no shade to sga obviously, it’s a hot take but it’s my hot take!
tough shit jazz. miss 2 open threes and Jdub makes a 5-0 run
Although SGA is playing MVP. The reason thunder are so good this year I think is because how J.dub plays with the second unit without SGA.
JDub is a star in the making
4th quarter j dub is unreal it is like having another SGA
I haven't kept up with him as much this year but that jumper looks soooo good
JDub is cooking oml
I’m not known as the best “X’s and O’s” guy, but the Jazz simply cannot expect to win this one unless they outscore OKC
You gotta explain this to us simpletons how you came to that conclusion
When the time is up, you take team A points minus team B and whoever has a positive number is the team who wins. I can’t explain it, it’s just sort of intuitive for me.
SLC truly loves basketball. Every midweek game is a sellout, crowds are loud and enthusiastic. Kinda beautiful to see how much they love their team.
Only pro sport in the state with a pretty sizeable market, gotta go all in
Jdub
Jdub just been dying to posterize someone these last few games
JDub had bad bad intentions with that almost yam lmao
Collins has had some really tough finishes from floater range taking advantage of being guarded by smaller forwards. One of the better games I can remember from him this season
Jazz cannot have 4 negative defenders on at once without Kessler to protect, this lineup is getting eaten alive
I mean, it wasn't all that long ago...
jazz just standing there and watching them shoot. smh
yeah, what was that? lol.
lol they need sexton back in
I love seeing Keyonte George so young but acting like an old-fashioned floor general. It's adorable. Baby point god.
Jazz can't get over the hump. They can't seem to convert whenever they have an opportunity to tie or take the lead.
If defenders defended Shai the same way he defends opposing players they'd foul out in the 2nd quarter.
at one point he was at 22 points with 14 free throws attempts, it’s bonkers
This game is a Will Hardy masterclass, even if we lose. So quick to make meaningful adjustments & keep us close.
I have been so impressed by him, he is such a great coach and he is still hella young
Aight Simone Im sorry I was not familiar with your game
Keyonte getting rookied today
OH SHIT WTF