Comments on: Rapid reaction: Oklahoma City holds off Boston 91-79 for another home win

By: Ty

Ty — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:10:25 +0000

The Thunder scouts should be awate of the newer players of the Spurs that can make them pay with their 3-pointers, specially Danny Green, Gary Neal and Kawhi Leonard and the oldies; Matt Bonner, Manu Ginobili and Stephen Jackson. The Thunder have been burned before and once should be a learning lesson for them.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:05:33 +0000

Next game is crucial for the Thunder, if they would like to be on top of the western conference by defeating the Spurs. Without Tony Parker, it would be a cinch for the victory, but it depends if the Thunder plays like the game between the Celtics and them or even better. The Spurs have a number of bigs and defensive stoppers that could be a little problem for Durant, like Stephen Jackson, Boris Diaw or Kawhi Leonard. Maybe Tim Duncan will also try his hand on Durant, but the important thing to remember for Durant is to give it up early, if gets double teamed and try not to force it every time. Get the bigs involved and get Duncan to play honest defense on the bigs.

If Westbrook is not up to play, let Reggie take care of the point or Derek Fisher, that’s their job. Sefolosha should be more offensive minded by this time and maybe Thabeet should get his minutes of Splitter.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:11:49 +0000

Durant hanging out with Perkins and talking basketball, as told by Perkins on an interview, says that Durant wants to improve the passing and plays for future games. The bench players seems to be doing fine, with Collison and Martin passing on the inside, while the Durant to Ibaka did not materialize as the expected due to the ball slipping off his hands, by the bullet pass of Durant. They still have to work on that some more.

Perkins having 5 assists, 5 rebounds and 6 points, 1 steal, 1 block shot, shows that he was active in the game, which he should be doing every night.

There should be more interaction between the starters and bench players in order to get them acquianted with their passing, anticipate each other moves, when one will shoot or pass, and so on, so forth. That takes practice for all players and not only starters against bench players, there should mix it up a little.

Good game, but still needs fine tuning for the players and coaches! The bigs need to touch and shoot the ball, not passing it back to Durant or Westbrook, but driving it hard to the rim and also collect fouls during their effort.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:34:50 +0000

It’s a good win for us against a good team that’s been on a nice run learning how to win without Rondo.Boston is a very good defensive ball club.I thought we kept the pressure on the Celtics the entire game then we kicked it up a notch in the fourth quarter.(sound familiar?)The bench guys came in and played with great intensitity,aggressiveness,and confidence.I also thought the different mixtures of starters and second unit players worked good.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:07:48 +0000

I liked the game that just finished between the Thunder and Boston Celtics. The bench contributed 32 points and the starters had 59 points. It was nice that Perkins had 6 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block shot. Nick Collison was another big for the bench to have 8 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block shot. The game was more fluid with the big passing and receiving passes from everyone.