04/22/2010 Lakers @ Thunder (Round 1 PLAYOFFS, game 3)

[RabThunderFan09]

This could possibly be our last Thunder Thursday at Jersey Mike's. :(

If any of yall want a great lunch please come in and we'll be giving out Free Combos for anyone who say's "Thunder Thursday" at the Register!

We will be really excited about this one. It'll be the first time we ever have Thunder Thursday on a gameday!

Come out and see us Thunder'd Up and our Thunder Wall.

I-40 & Rockwell. In front of Home Depot

[KDisNotNice]

Los Angeles Lakers (2-0) at Oklahoma City Thunder (0-2), 8:30pm Central time tipoff on Thursday night at the Ford Center.

This is the third game of a round 1 playoff series (Best of 7) between these Western conference teams. The 1stSeed Lakers won games 1 and 2 (87-79, 95-92) of this series over the 8thSeed Thunder earlier this week in Los Angeles but now games 3 and 4 will be in Oklahoma City.

The game will be shown nationally on TNT and also on Fox Sports Oklahoma.

The Thunder were 27-14 at home during the regular season and were 6-4 in their last 10 overall regular season games.

The defending NBA champion Lakers were 23-18 on the road this season but only 4-6 in their last 10 overall regular season games.

The Thunder only shot 40% from the field and were outrebounded by 17 total in the first two games of the series and that will need to improve if OKC wants to win game 3. Also, the Thunder can't fall behind in the first 12 minutes again and expect to come back from a large deficit.

The Lakers only shot 39% from the field and missed 16 total FT's in the first two games but managed to hold on to victory each time. If they don't improve in those areas, they may not be so lucky in game 3 on the road.

Oklahoma City fans rabidly cheered on the NO/OKC Hornets for 2 seasons and after 1 season without the NBA, they have equally cheered on the OKC Thunder for 2 seasons. After 5 years, Oklahoma City gets their first two NBA playoff games. Needless to say, both games are already sold out.

[KDisNotNice]

http://twitter.com/okcthunder


Rock it to the bang bang boogie: Sugarhill Gang of "Rapper's Delight" fame performs 2mrow @ half Game 3 of Thunder v. Lakers playoff game!
about 7 hours ago via web

[KDisNotNice]

http://twitter.com/okcthunder

Ford Center's blued-out with Rise Together t-shirts going on every seat for Tues night (they mean Thursday), courtesy Chesapeake Energy! http://ow.ly/i/1cho
about 2 hours ago via HootSuite

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[KDisNotNice]

http://twitter.com/KhloeKardashian


Oklahoma here I come!!!
about 3 hours ago via TweetGenius

[Tx Thunder]

The home crowd is going to be crazy, the players are going to want to avenge 2 losses that could have been wins. There is no way I can pick agenst The Thunder in this one.

:okc: 111
L.A. 94

[RicanThunder]

Respect, community, courage - 99
Dumbasses, skanks, whores, druggies, rapists - 94

[Thunderhead]

I've never won at this, but I've never tried recycling my previous game's pick...
:okc:96
Lakers 92

[HotRocNRol]

Thunder are favored by 3 or 3 1/2; over/under @ 191 1/2

LAL ... 94
OKC .. 97

[RabThunderFan09]

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Oh fill up the ford man... Please draw my name, please draw my name

Thunder 101
Lakers 96

Tiebreaker: Loudest croud all year

[KDisNotNice]

Here's the Yahoo Sports preview of the game:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2010042225

David Stern will be presenting the Red Auerbach statue to Scott Brooks before the game.

[Tordön]

:okc: 98
LAL: 91

Finally getting a hot 1st quarter thanks to the Ford, will bring us the W in this one.

[StormFan93]

:okc: 105
Rodney King Territory 92

[Blaine4oh5]

Thunder-95
The Lake Show-92

[McThunderLovin]

LA: 98
OKC: 99

Good luck Rab hope you get your tickets too.

Wonder what size those shirt will be? If its to large I'll probably cut the sleves off and use it as a bball shirt.

[Colonel Thunder]

:okc:98-93

[dinosaurcow]

thunder 96
lakers 84

go thunder!

[colb]

Blowout.

OKC 102
LA 84

[Thunderhead]

I hope Colb wins.

[KDisNotNice]

Here's tonight's game notes. They've taken NEY-nad off the injury report as he is back to 100%.

http://www.nba.com/thunder/media/lakers_notes100422.pdf

[KDisNotNice]

It sounds like that IF the Lakers weren't taking us seriously at the beginning of the series, they are now!

http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/la-sp-lakers-transition-20100422,0,925700.story?track=rss

[KDisNotNice]

Thunder are favored by 3 or 3 1/2; over/under @ 191 1/2


http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/odds

Point spread seems to leveled off at Thunder favored by 3 1/2 (we were underdogs back in March at home) plus the over/under at 191 1/2.

My prediction:

Thunder 102
Lakers 95

tiebreaker 1: 33 (points by KD)
tiebreaker 2: 8 (assists by RW)
tiebreaker 3: 8 (missed FT's by the Lakers)
tiebreaker 4: 1 (scoreboard shots of Khloe Kardashian-Odom)
tiebreaker 5: 18,455 (overcapacity announced attendance)

[RabThunderFan09]

Wonder what size those shirt will be? If its to large I'll probably cut the sleves off and use it as a bball shirt.


The one's they always shoot are Larges. So I would think Large is the shirt size of choice.

[Urukgali]

LA 95
OKC 101

Beat LA !!!

[colb]

All of the radio stations are airing their own custom "Support the Thunder" commercials today. I've heard different BEAT LA commercials from: The Katt, Kiss FM, KJ103, WWLS, 96.9 BOB, 104.9 WILD and 92.5.


Go Thunder!

[KDisNotNice]

http://twitter.com/thundergirls


Also us Thunder Girls have been working real hard on our play-off routines! Get ready for us to bring it back old school! Thunder up! #fb
about 2 hours ago via web

Hey Thunder fans this is Krystal, are ya'll ready for us to spank the Lakers tonight? If not, then you better get ready! BEAT LA!! #fb
about 2 hours ago via web

Does anybody else feel the electricity in the air? The Ford Center is going to be INTENSE tonight! I can't wait. #FB

[KDisNotNice]

Be nice if you see her tonight! :)

http://twitter.com/khloekardashian


I'm excited for the game tonight! Who knew I would ever get this excited about a basketball game?!
about 2 hours ago via TweetGenius

[Doug Loudenback]

Blowout.

OKC 102
LA 84

I hope Colb wins.
I second that.

[jumperstop]

wtf is going on here?

[jumperstop]

Where is KD?

[slimjimzv]

I would trade Kristic for a bag of ****. I hate him. Hate him. . he doesn't rebound, doesn't score in the post, doesn't defend in the post, doesn't block shots, doesn't rotate and just blocked out JEFF GREEN to allow Pau to get an offensive rebound.

[slimjimzv]

Oh, and I forgot that he can't pass. . I don't know how many turnovers he has, but he was responsible for half of the empty posessions at the beginning of the game.

[Chelfspace]

Notice he is sitting down now?

[MJL1]

We're the only team in the universe that plays better in front of total strangers than the people that actually pay our salaries and how us support. I just can't figure out how they can put on a show for Hollywood and then turn around and let their home fans leave with broken hearts. I really hate that. It sucks really bad.:rolleyes:

[slimjimzv]

Just don't let Kristic back in and we've got a shot at this thing.

[Chelfspace]

I just want Westbrook to keep driving inside, and Ibaka needs to keep supporting and DEFENDING, and we can lock this thing up.

[jumperstop]

Good time to get our grove, got to keep this up.

[slimjimzv]

Durant is doing a GREAT job on Kobe. . fantastic switch by Brooks who has struggled with personnel decisions this season.

[jumperstop]

Durant is doing a GREAT job on Kobe. . fantastic switch by Brooks who has struggled with personnel decisions this season.

Kobe can't get a clean look

[jumperstop]

Please don't **** this up now!!

[jumperstop]

We are playing over agressive and giving them open looks from 3

[dinosaurcow]

oh man clutch free throws! just close it out and keep the defense up guys!

[jumperstop]

Let's just close this out!

[jumperstop]

Win! Boom bitches!!!

[OKCDrummer77]

WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

:okc::okc: :okc: :okc: :okc: :okc: :okc:

[StormFan93]

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Oh fill up the ford man... Please draw my name, please draw my name

Thunder 101
Lakers 96

Tiebreaker: Loudest croud all year

WOW! Nice Prediction Rab!

And WHAT A GREAT WIN!!! The Blue-Out looked fantastic on TV!

[slimjimzv]

UNBELIEVABLE! I love this team! GO THUNDER!

[BigShot]

Collison needs to start with that hard foul. He might get a reputation of being a dirty player.

Oh yea, :okc: BABY!!!

[MJL1]

Oh great!!! I guess they heard me. Boys.....I did it all for you. But please do us a favor, let's not get down early like that next game. Let's come out smoking from the start, not too much......just enough to maintain a nice 10 point lead and tie the series 2-2.:cool:

[Chelfspace]

Karried, we see you on TV!!!! Chanting "Beat L. A." behind the Fox Sports OK guy! GO THUNDER, Go OKCThunderFans.com!!! WooHoo!!

[Urukgali]

I would trade Kristic for a bag of ****. I hate him. Hate him. . he doesn't rebound, doesn't score in the post, doesn't defend in the post, doesn't block shots, doesn't rotate and just blocked out JEFF GREEN to allow Pau to get an offensive rebound.

You forgot that he can not catch the ball aswell ;) And that situation when he blocked Green letting Gasol and Bynum rebound was just hilarious.
But let's forget about it for now.We beat those suckers ! That's the most important.Let's just win 3 more and prepare for for the next stage :)

[McThunderLovin]

So much love...I love this city!

[RabThunderFan09]

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oh fill up the ford man... Please draw my name, please draw my name

thunder 101
lakers 96

tiebreaker: Loudest croud all year



did anyone notice my prediction???:D:D:D

[MJL1]

Hey, he's a hard worker. But he just can't hold his own with the kind of athletes that he faces every night. So the consensus should be that we need to look at making some kind of move. Nobody knows what Presti is planning to do, and if he is planning something, who knows when and what it will actually be. It's not a knock on Krstic to say that we need to upgrade that position. It's just being honest. He could be a good bench player for us, but he's gotta be out of the starting lineup next year. We have way too many other great pieces to allow that position to be such a weak link. We owe it to ourselves to do what's best for the team, and when I say "what's best for the team"....I mean what actually allows us to compete at the highest level.

[OKCDrummer77]

did anyone notice my prediction???:D:D:D

Well played! :cool:

[Chelfspace]

did anyone notice my prediction???:D:D:D

No, Rab.... we were too busy screaming "BEAT L.A." at the TV to notice.
:rolleyes:
:okc:

[StormFan93]

did anyone notice my prediction???:D:D:D

*cough*GOBACKTOTHETHIRDPAGE*cough* :D

[Westbrook0]

did anyone notice my prediction???:D:D:D

Yes, people noticed and commented on it.

[Karried]

Woot!!!!! What a fun game!!! Yeah, that was me! lol.... I so love the Thunder!

[KDisNotNice]

Even Khloe Kardashian enjoyed the game and she is married to one of the Lakers. I hope somebody got a good picture of her. There was this one chick in a purple Lakers t-shirt behind their bench but I didn't think it was her because she was too skinny. I assume she sat down low though.

http://twitter.com/khloekardashian


Man oh man. That was a good game. Its ok lakers! We will get them next time
about 2 hours ago via TweetGenius

[KDisNotNice]

I'm glad to see they finally got in a lot of playoff merchandise for the game on Thursday. That was cool to have that truck outside the arena that anyone could buy stuff also.

I could not believe how busy the Thunder shop was before the game and I got there really early. Then after the game, leaving Loud City, WOW, the biggest jam of people I have ever seen at a game. Even the bathroom lines were long during timeouts. :)

[McThunderLovin]

I waited a full 10 min during half time ridiculous. Yeah they didn't show and celebs which I think it was odd.

[Blaine4oh5]

Khloe sat up in the suites. THey showed her once on tv. She looked pretty lonley up there.haha

[KDisNotNice]

Khloe sat up in the suites. THey showed her once on tv. She looked pretty lonley up there.haha

Was that on the TNT broadcast or Fox Sports Oklahoma? Do you remember which quarter it was? I have the FS-OK feed recorded and wanted to check that out.

[borracho]

there was a lady in a shiny gold minidress behind the Lakers bench and a middle-aged guy wearing a Lakers shirt with her. he looked really really familiar, like some b-list actor that you recognize, but don't know his name? they seemed to know a lot of the Lakers staff...

and the "superfan" James Goldstein was there... the older guy with long grey hair that sat on the court next to press row. he was wearing a leather cowboy hat and long jacket...

[KDisNotNice]

Here's more photos from game 3:

http://newsok.com/multimedia/photos/gallery/600726