Travis in no way lost the game. Travis, Roy, Aldridge and Sergio played well. If even 1 guy out of Rudy, Jerryd, Greg, Joel, or Nic had stepped up we would have won. http://www.nba.com/games/20090206/POROKC/boxscore.html
Sergio did not play well. Nice try. To those bashing Oden exclusively: It's not like Joel played Collison any better. OKC outworked us for 3/4 of that game and everyone should be to blame, including McMillan, the staff and Oden. And just a little newsflash: Greg isn't as dominant as we all thought, at least not yet. Should that come as a surprise to anyone though? He's been through a huge transition with a lot of bumps in the road. He's still exercising the demons as far as I'm concerned.
does it really surprise you that oden has a "bad" game? the thunder are an undersized team. so they used this to their advantage and moved their smaller guys around a lot. they scored points on oden by using pick and rolls and by having quicker guys attack him off the dribble. of course, when oden is guarding a smaller guy that means a smaller guy is going to have to guard oden on the other end of the court. instead of taking advantage of this, the blazers shot long jumpers. when oden did touch the ball, he drew multiple fouls, but then instead of immediately getting the ball back inside they would go away from him.
it also doesn't help Greg when Sergio is "defending" Westbrook and Watson. The guy has gravy for brains when it comes to defense.
Since you know so much more about basketball than Nate, why don't YOU try coaching defense for Sergio? See, it works both ways.
And I don't know more about Basketball than Nate, that's why he's coaching the team and I'm a fan who has observed Sergio get beaten consistently for 3 years off the dribble by other NBA guards.
sergio wasn't the problem defensively against the thunder. no one played any defense in the first half.
Well, that's why Nate has to go. That's just poor coaching. Any decent coach would have told him to exorcise his demons. If you exercise them, they just get stronger. barfo
This is just starting to get repetitive with you KingSpeed. One more and you're basically just making threads to bitch just to make threads to bitch. Your act is old.
My act? If Oden played well, I'd celebrate. But when our #1 pick goes for 4 points and 2 rebounds, it's REALLY concerning. I can't vent that? I have to just sit back and act like I don't care?
