02/21/2010 Thunder @ Timberwolves (regular season 54 of 82)

[KDisNotNice]

Oklahoma City Thunder (32-21) at Minnesota Timberwolves (13-43), 6pm Central time tipoff on Sunday night.

This is the second of four meetings this season between these 2 same division teams. OKC won the first matchup in OKC 94-92 and they meet again in OKC on February 26th and the final time in Minnesota on April 4th.

The game will be shown on Fox Sports Oklahoma.

The Thunder carry an 8 game winning streak into this game and the Timberwolves have lost 5 games in a row.

Oklahoma City is 16-11 on the road this season and Minnesota is 9-19 at home.

Yahoo Sports preview of the game is here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2010022116

[With a Dash of Nasty]

Need to take one game at a time and not overlook anyone. This is an important game, b/c IMO Minn. is better than their record shows.

[Blaine4oh5]

okc-103
wolves-94

[Betts]

Need to take one game at a time and not overlook anyone. This is an important game, b/c IMO Minn. is better than their record shows.

Definitely agree. This is a trouble area for young teams: playing those they expect to win, and are expected by others to win.

[RedDirt717]

Thunder - 109

T-Wolves - 89

[Tx Thunder]

I'm a little scared about this one after playing an OT game lastnight half way across the country,but I think the Thunder still pull off a win

Thunder 93
Forest mutts 87

[Urukgali]

Okc 101
min 92

[TS2MC13]

I hope Nenad wont get posterized by Wilkins again.


Thunder: 112
Min: 88


Go Thunder!

[DAK!]

I hope Nenad wont get posterized by Wilkins again.


Thunder: 112
Min: 88


Go Thunder!

You shut your mouth when you're talking to me...Nenad is best ballbasket player in history of Euro champions.

[Rod4soonrs]

96-89 thunder

[Thunderhead]

Thunder 102
Wolves 94

[thebig3]

Thunder 103
T-Wolves 99

[KDisNotNice]

Prediction:

Thunder 99
T-Wolves 96

tiebreaker: 12 (points by NEY-nad KRIS-tich)

[Tydude]

Thunder 98
T-Wolves 96

[StormFan93]

Thunder 107
Lumber Puppies 93

[Tydude]

Fox Sports OK (37, 722), Dct TV (679), Dish (444, 9514) Uverse (754) Tulsa COX (27)

[Colonel Thunder]

Thunder; 96 - 93
Looks like Darko will play for the Wolves tonight.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AgrPX6gH8_fmFOY1.4ntvOu8vLYF?slug=ap-timberwolves-milicic&prov=ap&type=lgns

[lloyd]

Thunder 102
Wolves 95

[HotRocNRol]

Goodfellas favored by 5 or 5 1/2 over 'wolves; o/u @ 201;

OKC...103
MIN.....98

Go THUNDER !!!

[AllNationalMediaArePinHeads]

I think they got their game two of back to back road games out last night:

Thunder: 101
Cartoon logo for bad Anthony Hopkins movie out right now: 97


Also - if anyone knows how to change my name for this site let me know. I was going to change after recent glowing remarks from Mr Karl about Thunder and obviously now I do not want to be-little the man. Can I change to "ALL NATIONALMEDIAAREPINHEADS" ?

[Fast | Break]

Also - if anyone knows how to change my name for this site let me know. I was going to change after recent glowing remarks from Mr Karl about Thunder and obviously now I do not want to be-little the man. Can I change to "ALL NATIONALMEDIAAREPINHEADS" ?

Leave it as is, NATIONALMEDIAAREPINHEADS is even harder on my dyslexia.

Thunder 98
wolfies 95

[Thunderstruck83]

Thunder - 100
Wolves - 94

We could be flat and lose this one but I think the guys will step up if MIN brings their "A" game, they'll realize that you can't go throught the motions and beat anyone. Also, Thunder8thSeed, your pregame preview said that we beat them in OKC 94- 92 but that was a road game so we still have them twice at home, this Friday and April 4. Should be two wins!

[RicanThunder]

I think they remember how close the last T-wolves game was and don't allow that to happen this time. It'll still be close, but won't let it get decided in the final seconds.

THUNDER - 101
Wood Puppies - 97

KD - 28 points

[ThunderMoneyBall]

Thunder Forever:102...Timber Critters:93. KD.....gets...32 & RW0 with another dbl-dbl

[Clangus]

94 - OKC

86 - MIn

[McThunderLovin]

OKC is on a hot start.

[KDisNotNice]

Thunder lead 82-68, late 3rd quarter. Brian Davis just said when KERR-stitch scores 10 or more in a game (as he already has tonight), the Thunder are 15-3 in those games. Anybody ever hear that stat before?

Davis also said KERR-stitch likes that 17 foot shot, though I heard somewhere else he really likes to play inside.

[RicanThunder]

Davis also said KERR-stitch likes that 17 foot shot


That is blasphemous. Krstic only plays inside. His stretch armstrong-like arms make it seem like he is shooting a 17 footer. But he's actually only 2.5 inches (or 6.35 cm) from the rim.

[With a Dash of Nasty]

This team looks tired

[DwightSchrute]

That is blasphemous. Krstic only plays inside. His stretch armstrong-like arms make it seem like he is shooting a 17 footer. But he's actually only 2.5 inches (or 6.35 cm) from the rim.Unfortunately, Collison paying Brooks under the table to get more minutes, every American player except for Dwyane Wade using steroids, and other stinky politics are the only things keeping Krstic from putting up 50 PPG and 40 RPG.

[RicanThunder]

Let's go Russ. Grab one more rebound baby!!!!! This guy is turning into a mini-Oscar Robertson.

[RicanThunder]

Triple double for Russ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KDisNotNice]

Game recap:

NEY-nad KRIS-tich scored 10 points and had 3 rebounds in just 20 minutes of action to single-handedly lead the Thunder to a 109-107 victory! Also, in supporting roles, Kevin Durant scored 32 points (though he had to play twice as long as KRIS-tich to get that), and Westbrook contributed 22 points and had a triple double.

Player of the Game: NEY-nad KRIS-tich!

[McThunderLovin]

What a great night.

KD with 28 +25 point games.
Russ with a Triple Double.
Colly with huge plays.
Thunder are on a 9 streak game.
Most importantly we are 12 games over .500.

[Karried]

Sweet! I'm loving this....

[DwightSchrute]

Game recap:

NEY-nad KRIS-tich scored 10 points and had 3 rebounds in just 20 minutes of action to single-handley lead the Thunder to a 109-107 victory! Also, in supporting roles, Kevin Durant scored 32 points (though he had to play twice as long as KRIS-tich to get that), and Westbrook contributed 22 points and had a triple double.You're going to get some arse from krstivoje for making that post.

[KDisNotNice]

What a great night.

KD with 28 +25 point games.
Russ with a Triple Double.
Colly with huge plays.
Thunder are on a 9 streak game.
Most importantly we are 12 games over .500.

Colly? That must be KRIS-tich's nickname. I'm assuming that since you said 'with huge plays'.

[RicanThunder]

Cue that Ice Cube:

"Get me on the court and I'm trouble/ Last week messed around and got a triple double"

[Tydude]

well it was a good game Thunder win 109-107 Thunder is 33-21 T-Wolves 13-44 we are current 5th seed of the western playoffs

[KDisNotNice]

well it was a good game Thunder win 109-107 Thunder is 33-21 T-Wolves 13-44 we are current 5th seed of the western playoffs

Yeah, Damian Wilkins seems to play good against us since we traded him. At least he is getting good playing time with his new team.

[KDisNotNice]

We got into the playoff hunt earlier in the season by killing the Eastern conference though playing poorly against the West. Now we are killing them too. We started out 8-14 against the West but since have gone 8-1 against them. That could come into play with tiebreakers at the end in mid April.

[StormFan93]

Thunder 98
T-Wolves 96

Nice job on the spread!

[Colonel Thunder]

We got into the playoff hunt earlier in the season by killing the Eastern conference though playing poorly against the West. Now we are killing them too. We started out 8-14 against the West but since have gone 8-1 against them. That could come into play with tiebreakers at the end in mid April.As of tonight's games, we finally own the tiebreaker against the Spurs with our Western Conference record.
OKC 16-15
SAS 17-16