Did the Thunder just quit?

WalkingLuckCharm · 04-17-12, 12:02 AM

a lot of shots starting going in and out, and then they gave up haha

Crofta · 04-17-12, 12:06 AM

Check these stats out and get back to me next time you see any of them happen

11pt qtr
25pt Half
Westbrook 4-16
No field goals inthe last 7.51 of the game
Outscored by 22 in a half
Shot 38%

End of story........

Gonz312 · 04-17-12, 12:06 AM

Thunder have zero mental toughness...this team will not win a championship unless that changes quickly. It was written all over their faces most of the second half.

therushishere · 04-17-12, 05:49 AM

Clippers have too much size inside.

Westbrook today reminded me of Tony Parker against the Lakers...

HoulihansTX · 04-17-12, 05:57 AM

Maybe it was a meaningless regular season game that you guys are attempting to attach meaning to.

OKC did not want to be there, W or L had no effect on their playoff seeding..

Spedizzo · 04-17-12, 09:58 AM

Thunder do not have mental toughness and when they are outsized they just start crossing their fingers lobbing 3s. In this case it didnt work well for them. Clippers match up way too well with them... This OKC team will not go all the way.

5mike5 · 04-17-12, 10:05 AM

classic overreaction to 1 game

sideline36 · 04-17-12, 10:06 AM

They sure are throwing up alot of red flags with the playoffs around the corner. The Lakers may be able to back door them if this is the case.

Vinnie Paz · 04-17-12, 10:35 AM

Originally posted by 5mike5

classic overreaction to 1 game

Yeah really.

Just relax guys, wait till next game when they rape whoever by 25+ and everybody can jump back on the hype train.

Frisco · 04-17-12, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by HoulihansTX

Maybe it was a meaningless regular season game that you guys are attempting to attach meaning to.

OKC did not want to be there, W or L had no effect on their playoff seeding..

Definitely has an effect on playoff seeding. Mavs will be a tough matchup for them in the 1st round if they end up w/ the 2 seed.

JM92 · 04-17-12, 10:47 AM

Originally posted by HoulihansTX

Maybe it was a meaningless regular season game that you guys are attempting to attach meaning to.

OKC did not want to be there, W or L had no effect on their playoff seeding..

nope. every thunder fan should already know two things by now: the thunder get up for 90% of those games (that's more than most teams I assure you) and second and worst, they are not as good as they are being advertised right now in terms of winning a championship because they still suck at half-court offense. They've made strides, no doubt, specially with Durant and Westbrook upping their assists and the bigmen working harder off the ball and with some new set plays.

They will need to get back to playing defense the why they did in 09/10. that's the only way they can get it back.

BigDofBA · 04-17-12, 10:50 AM

So when OKC wins by 30 everyone says they try to hard and the regular season is meaningless yet when they lose it's "OMG they have no mental toughness." Which is it?

The Thunder took the Lakers to the brink in the playoffs two years ago when LA won the title.

Last year we got by a tough Memphis team and made into the conference finals where we lost to the eventual world champs.

We have shown that we have mental toughness. Quit overreacting. It was one half.

JM92 · 04-17-12, 11:06 AM

I think the only reason people jump on that mental toughness conclusion is because they don't actually know the thunder and probably have not watched more than 30 or 40 games of them since they came into the league. They have toughness. They've come back inumerous time. What they don't have, is as much pure talent as some think. Like big said, to state that the Thunder have no mental toughness after last years series against Memphis...

Balco10 · 04-17-12, 11:48 AM

If it was a playoff game, then Thunder clearly win the game. It was on purpose tank job. This is the worst time to wager on the NBA!

yisman · 04-17-12, 11:59 AM

Not sure how it's possible to score only 25 points in a half against the Clippers. Not exactly a shutdown defensive team.

Gonz312 · 04-17-12, 12:20 PM

Thats laughable considering they mentally fell apart againt the mavs last year as well, the only thing holding this team back is their mentalilty..when they are confident, nearly unbeatable...yet when you get them down in themselves, they stay down

Originally posted by BigDofBA

So when OKC wins by 30 everyone says they try to hard and the regular season is meaningless yet when they lose it's "OMG they have no mental toughness." Which is it?

The Thunder took the Lakers to the brink in the playoffs two years ago when LA won the title.

Last year we got by a tough Memphis team and made into the conference finals where we lost to the eventual world champs.

We have shown that we have mental toughness. Quit overreacting. It was one half.

5mike5 · 04-17-12, 12:56 PM

such an overreaction off 1 meaningless game

i can pick a game from EVERY single NBA team in the last few weeks that looked the exact same as OKC did last night...

aman86 · 04-17-12, 01:04 PM

Okc doesn't need to try. They're Locked and waiting for the playoffs to kick ass

CrazyCarl · 04-17-12, 01:10 PM

I played them big so vegas called in the fix. Simple as that.

JM92 · 04-17-12, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by Gonz312

Thats laughable considering they mentally fell apart againt the mavs last year as well, the only thing holding this team back is their mentalilty..when they are confident, nearly unbeatable...yet when you get them down in themselves, they stay down

How do you mean mentally fell apart to the Mavs? They got outplayed by a team way way out of their league with a superstar playing at the same level of the thunder's Durant and a JET playing at the level of Westbrook. You wanna take those four guys out of each of last years team and tell me the Thunder wins? You're going to tell me that, if the Clippers play defense like they've done in some of these recent games the Thunder can just beat them like they want to?

BigDofBA · 04-17-12, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by Gonz312

Thats laughable considering they mentally fell apart againt the mavs last year as well, the only thing holding this team back is their mentalilty..when they are confident, nearly unbeatable...yet when you get them down in themselves, they stay down

You obviously don't know what you're talking about. They lost to Dallas because Dallas was the better team and best team in the NBA.

Everyone thought Denver would give OKC all sorts of problems and OKC won that series in 5 games. OKC then went on to beat a very tough Memphis team and reach the Western conference finals. OKC was actually down in that series 2-1 and won on the road in Memphis to even it at 2. If that doesn't show mental toughness, I don't know what does.

The last two years, the teams that have ended up winning the championship are the teams that knocked the Thunder out of the playoffs. Considering this team made it to the conference finals with three guys that were 22-23 years of age shows they have some kind of mental toughness.

Earlier in the year people were ripping OKC for "caring" too much about the regular season and now people are ripping them for not caring enough.

Did they tank it last night? YES. Does that mean they aren't mentally tough? NO! What team in the NBA doesn't tank it?

I don't think the Thunder will win it all but that's just because we are so damn young. Ibaka is 21. Westbrook, Harden, and Durant are all 23.

Losing on the road to Clippers when you have over 40 wins doesn't mean you aren't mentally tough.