Today's Game Discussion [3/7/13]

[Knicks4life]

Oklahoma City 44-16 (Road: 17-12) 8:00pm ET
New York 37-21 (Home: 21-9) TV: TNT, C+1, C+D

LA Clippers 44-19 (Road: 20-12) 10:30pm ET
Denver 40-22 (Home: 26-3) TV: TNT

[Kidd]

lmao Kurt Thomas is definitely not in game-shape.

[Jace]

Nice comeback by the Knicks. Show them who the original blue and orange is! 59-56 Thunder at half.

[Dee-Zy]

Knicks playing some pretty good D.

Really pushed OKC out of their comfort zone.

[Jace]

That was weird. I thought Ibaka put up 4 fingers after he blocked STAT, then Marv said it was his fourth block, which I figured confirmed my observation. Then on the replay you see he was wagging his finger a la Dikembe. Weird coincidental misobservation on my part.

[Dee-Zy]

Man, how many putbacks does TC have tonight?!

[Dee-Zy]

STAT!!!!!!!

[Jace]

JR Smith be hittin' them buckets before he hit dat pipe tonight!

Man, kinda rooting for the Knicks. Feels weird. OKC and SA are the Heat's direct competition for seeding right now, though.

[hobojoe]

Nice job by the officials to review it and not call that a flagrant. Not even close to flagrant.

[Jace]

Clip Show with the scheduled loss tonight (teams going from the West coast to Denver on a back-to-back are 3-41 since '08). Anyone think they pull it off?

@netw3rk No choice *chopchopchop* RT @mdotbrown: JR is the Knicks cocaine. Great in small doses, but depend on him too long & you'll be out of a job.

On point.

[Dee-Zy]

Westbrook was out so KD had to chuck up 3 pts in transition.

WTF?

[Dee-Zy]

Thank god for WB getting back in the game to pound the air out of the ball.

[Dee-Zy]

I'm really shocked at how bad OKC is playing. I watched the Lakers game where Martin couldn't get a bucket and now this game, with the other 5-8 games that I saw of OKC this year, I find that he is a huge downgrade from Harden, especially when he can't make shot, he seem to need the ball in his hands a long time in order to get into a rhythm to create shots. That's not happening with KD and WB in OKC.

Harden was more effective without the ball in his hands.

OKC is not playing their game I find. Playing like this, I don't think they can make it to the finals...

[Jace]

I feel like it's been 89-87 for years.

Nevermind, Knicks take a bump of dat white girl.

[Jace]

Actually Martin has been more effective off the ball. He started out the season super hot, and has hit an equally cold dry spell.

As Scott Brooks seems more and more willing to sit Perkins and go small, I think one of their main problems is the all-or-nothing nature of Westbrook. If he learns how to play smart, they're the best in the West.