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KDisNotNice
03-21-2009, 10:36 PM
Oklahoma City Thunder (19-50) at Minnesota Timberwolves (20-49), early 2:30pm Central time tipoff on Sunday!

The Thunder can pull into a tie for 4th place in the Northwest division with a win on Sunday. That would give OKC the same record as Minnesota and a 2-2 tie in their season series. Technically, OKC would be out of last place in the division by virtue of a better division record.

The Thunder are early 1 point favorites in the game.

Yahoo Sports preview of the game is here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2009032216
Betts
03-22-2009, 12:06 PM
Big game for us tonight! Thanks for the info about the early tipoff time.
StormFan93
03-22-2009, 12:25 PM
Thunder 98
Lumber Puppies 92
Rod4soonrs
03-22-2009, 12:27 PM
thunder 96
wolves 89
Capt Jack Sparrow
03-22-2009, 12:55 PM
Thunder 91
T-Wolves 98
Thunderhead
03-22-2009, 02:13 PM
Thunder 101
Wolves 96
KDisNotNice
03-22-2009, 02:20 PM
Thunder 101
T-Wolves 98

tiebreaker: 41 (points by Durant/Green)
Thunderstruck83
03-22-2009, 02:33 PM
Thunder - 103
Wolves - 100

Tiebreak: Krstic scores 15+
drrube
03-22-2009, 03:07 PM
oooh...35-16

found the defense. KD playing +19. For whatever that's worth.
Plainsman
03-22-2009, 03:25 PM
Did you hear Davis and Long talking about the T-Wolves piping in crowd noise ? I think maybe the T-Wolves are tanking.
Rod4soonrs
03-22-2009, 04:04 PM
I guess they were pissed after the utah game, taking it out on the wolves. Green didn't do a post game interview, so I guess those thinking we would tank the last part of the season can forget that idea.
Rod4soonrs
03-22-2009, 04:14 PM
Davis just said Weaver would be upset, his beloved wisconsin badgers lost today to kansas, last I checked Weaver went to Wash. St.
KDisNotNice
03-22-2009, 04:51 PM
Yippee! We're not in last place in our division anymore!

I'm glad we kicked their butt in each of the first 3 quarters because we just fell apart in the 4th though we got the win.
Rod4soonrs
03-22-2009, 04:56 PM
win number 20
StormFan93
03-22-2009, 04:59 PM
Davis just said Weaver would be upset, his beloved wisconsin badgers lost today to kansas, last I checked Weaver went to Wash. St.

Really? I mean, how many years did he work in Seattle for FSN Northwest before going to OKC? That's ridiculous.
Betts
03-22-2009, 05:04 PM
Really? I mean, how many years did he work in Seattle for FSN Northwest before going to OKC? That's ridiculous.

Weaver is from Beloit, Wisc, so I bet he was a Badger fan long before he played for Washington State. That's the only connection I can think of.
RicanThunder
03-22-2009, 05:04 PM
I thought Weaver was born in Madison, Wi. So maybe, the Badgers were his favorite team while growing up.

Edit: Didn't see that Betts posted the information above me until after the fact.
RicanThunder
03-22-2009, 05:07 PM
Good victory, but I'm still a little disturbed at how they let the Wolves back in the game at the end. I guess we've played from behind so much this season, that the team only has a killer instinct when they are behind, not when they own a huge lead.
Betts
03-22-2009, 05:11 PM
Good victory, but I'm still a little disturbed at how they let the Wolves back in the game at the end. I guess we've played from behind so much this season, that the team only has a killer instinct when they are behind, not when they own a huge lead.

I agree, although they let Minn go on a run when Chuckie, Malik, Weaver, Westbrook and Collison were on the floor. It's not quite the same as doing it with Durant, Green, Sefalosha, Krstic and Westbrook playing.
RicanThunder
03-22-2009, 05:40 PM
True Betts, but its not like Minnesota's team is loaded with All Stars though.
HotRocNRol
03-22-2009, 06:51 PM
Allowing their subs beat the crap out of our mixed-bag and subs is absolutely why the Thunder must develop depth; whether that be from veterans, getting rookies and underdeveloped players get more minutes or EVERYONE gets that killer instinct we need to be hitting on all cylinders at multiple positions with different match-ups.

These are learing times but is sure is frustrating to watch a big lead shrink so quickly against a team that we should be able to beat three out of four times.
Rumble
03-22-2009, 07:57 PM
Man, what happened?

I check my phone, ( I was at work ), and we're up by 30pts in the 3rd period! I'm excited! I check the score again 10 minutes later, and its down to like 9! I was shocked both times!! Glad we got the win, but dang, giving up a 32 pt lead in the 4th quarter is kind of scary!