04/15/2009 Thunder @ Clippers

[KDisNotNice]

Oklahoma City Thunder (22-59) at Los Angeles Clippers (19-62), 9:30pm Central on Wednesday at Staples Center in L.A.

This is the last game of the season for both teams. Each are 2-8 in their last 10. The Clippers lead the season series 3-0. However, the Thunder are early 2 point favorites.

The game will be broadcast on Fox Sports Oklahoma.

[HotRocNRol]

gotta think the Clips wouldn't mind losing this game to hopefully preserve that tie for second worse, maybe even secure second worse. AND if we get to 23 W's then:
Wompus Cat, THUNDERnOKC378, Scotplum, & I tie for the Final Record contest. And a lucky draw gets one of us an Autographed Ball. ;0)
Thunder 101
Clippers 98

Go THUNDER !!!

[Thunderstruck83]

Three factors IMO make this a loss: 1) the guys seem to have stopped caring sometime last week, except for the bobcats game. 2) it's a road game. 3) we don't seem to match up well with the Clips and haven't beat them all season.

Thunder - 100
Clippers - 108

Tiebreak: At a final record of 22-60, Mister P beats the odds and wins the drawing for the Final Record contest.

[Rod4soonrs]

Hopefully it's the clips that win, and I win the ball. Goodluck to all involved.

[KDisNotNice]

The point spread has changed and now the Clippers are 1 1/2 point favorites. I think both teams are just going through the motions to the end of the season so it will probably be just a matter of who stinks up the court less in a low scoring game tonight.

Yahoo Sports preview of the game is here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2009041512

[thundermike]

Thunder 97
clippers 93

[Thor]

I'm with Car RamRod... I want to be in the drawing for that ball!

Go Clippers! ;)

[lloyd]

Thunder 100
Clippers 99

[Thunderstorm]

Thunder 89
Clippers 85

[RicanThunder]

We don't match up well with the Clips and the Thunder have been caring about basketball as much as I care about how tissue paper is made lately.

Clippers - 105
Thunder - 89

[KDisNotNice]

Thunder 95
Clippers 88

tiebreaker 1: 24 (points by Durant)
tiebreaker 2: 10 (points + rebounds by Swift)

[CNC]

Thunda: 101
Clippers: 94

[Clangus]

Thunder Blowout the clips

115
89

KD goes for 45+
Westbrook get 10ass
Green has 10boards
Clangus says 'YAY"

[Rumble]

Thunder: 102
other team: 99

Thunder will win this game! Take it to the bank!!

[HotRocNRol]

We don't match up well with the Clips and the Thunder have been caring about basketball as much as I care about how tissue paper is made lately.

Clippers - 105
Thunder - 89

I don't care much about how it is made either but am DAMNED concerned about its performance...esp end result (pun intended)

[Rumble]

Dang, the Staple Center looks bare!

They play at the same place as the Lakers?

[Plainsman]

Memphis won tonight, we are in the four spot.

Now , they need to win tonight to go out on a good note.

[RicanThunder]

Wow, Russell already has 8 pts, 3 rebs, 4 asts after the first qtr. And Jeff has already eclipsed his point total from the last game.

[Rumble]

Doesn't westbrook need 6 rebounds this game to set some sort of record for a rookie? Hope he does it!

[Rumble]

Oh yea, sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet slam by Livingston!!!!!

[RicanThunder]

We're whooping tail. Up by 21 at halftime. Here's the best part.....guess who's probably at the game????????
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Bill effing Simmons. He's a season ticket holder for the Clips and has stated that Durant is one of the players he won't miss a game if they played against the Clips. Eff you William Simmons. Fricken prick. HiJack this....


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/96746881_4e461add54.jpg

[DwightSchrute]

How could I forget about Simmons and his Clipper tickets? Nice catch, Rican.

[Rumble]

There have been some great dunks tonight!

DJ White, Livingston, nobody blocked Durant out for that free throw! Ouch!

[RicanThunder]

C'mon Russ. You need one more rebound for the 1200/400/400 club.

BTW - we're whooping their arses on the boards tonight. Gotta love the dysfunctionality that is the Los Angeles Clippers.

[Rumble]

Man, that would suck to miss it by 1! I don't even see him in there right now.

[Rumble]

Nice dunk for nick.

[Rumble]

Hey, at least we don't have that ugly "60 loses" for the season! It stays at 59!

[Rumble]

I think Durant is done for the season.

[RicanThunder]

You know we're whooping butt when Damien "Watkins" is in the game (inside joke ;) )

[StormFan93]

You know we're whooping butt when Damien "Watkins" is in the game (inside joke ;) )

ha. :D

[Rumble]

He's hitting some shots too!

[KDisNotNice]

We kicked the Clippers A$$ tonight! How'd you like to be a Clippers season ticket holder and go to the last home game of the season and get beat by 41 (and finish with a worse record than the Thunder)? Oh well, that's their problem, not ours!

The Clippers got THUNDER-struck tonight!

[Rumble]

Nice way to finish the year!

Also, we avoid the "sweep" from the Clippers!

[Rumble]

We kicked the Clippers A$$ tonight! How'd you like to be a Clippers season ticket holder and go to the last home game of the season and get beat by 41 (and finish with a worse record than the Thunder)? Oh well, that's their problem, not ours!

The Clippers got THUNDER-struck tonight!


I don't think they liked it too well. Heard alot of boos! Feel bad for them in a way, our record isn't much better than theirs, but I feel good about next year and the players we have!

[Thunderstruck83]

I wonder if "the writer that shall remain useless" was among the boo birds at the end of the game? That was classic, they were getting booed off their own court to end the season, although the way they played warranted the boos. Simmons actually did have good things to say about us in his 450 to 1 MVP column (other than calling us Hijack City repeatedly): http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090415 He talks nice about us just below Krstic's paragraph...I still think he's a jumbo size box of Summer's Eve, but at least he can realize potential when it's all over a roster.

[Westbrook0]

Why do you guys even bother reading Simmons? The best thing you can do in a situation like that is not give his stuff the time of day and never let it get to you...

[THUNDERnOKC378]

Let him call us Hijack City. I'm proud we snatched this team out of Seattle. And next year when we're an even better team, they can just hate us even more.

[Thunderstorm]

I don't think they liked it too well. Heard alot of boos! Feel bad for them in a way, our record isn't much better than theirs, but I feel good about next year and the players we have!
Yes, I heard a lot of boos for the Clippers and it sound like I heard them cheering for Thunder.

[Clangus]

Thunder Blowout the clips

115
89

KD goes for 45+
Westbrook get 10ass
Green has 10boards
Clangus says 'YAY"


126 - 85

I suck at this game

But I did predict the blowout

[KDisNotNice]

I was the only one to get an exact prediction correct this season. :)

http://www.okcthunderfans.com/vforum/showthread.php?t=871

[Fast | Break]

Heard alot of boos! Feel bad for them in a way

that's what they get for being clippers fans. . . I mean is there a worse team in the history of sports?

[BigShot]

that's what they get for being clippers fans. . . I mean is there a worse team in the history of sports?

Detroit Lions

[KDisNotNice]

Detroit Lions


Chicago Cubs. Haven't won a World Series since 1906.

[OKCDrummer77]

Chicago Cubs. Haven't won a World Series since 1908.

Fixed.

IIRC, there are 5 teams (the Seattle Mariners being one of them) that have never even BEEN to a World Series.

[lloyd]

Not that two years makes a big difference, but the Cubs lost the 1906 World Series to the White Sox. They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 & 1908.

EAMUS CATULI!

AC0063100

[RicanThunder]

Fixed.

IIRC, there are 5 teams (the Seattle Mariners being one of them) that have never even BEEN to a World Series.

Stop picking on Seattle. Bill Simmons is now mad at you and will from here on out refer to you as the "OKCDrummer not to be named".