11/26/2010 Thunder @ Pacers (regular season 16 of 82) [Archive] - OKC Thunder Fans Forums

KDisNotNice

11-25-2010, 07:04 PM

This game between the Oklahoma City Thunder (10-5) and the Indiana Pacers (7-6) will be played at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Gametime is 7pm Central time on Friday and the TV broadcast is on Fox Sports Oklahoma. You can also listen to it on the radio station WWLS, The Sports Animal.

This is the first of two meetings between these teams. They meet again on March 2nd in OKC.

The Thunder are early 1 1/2 point favorites and the over/under is 205.

Tx Thunder

11-25-2010, 08:30 PM

:okc: 111
AMC Pacers 91

Tydude

11-26-2010, 09:27 AM

:okc: 104
Pacers 100

Thunderus

11-26-2010, 10:13 AM

I hope the H we win...

KDisNotNice

11-26-2010, 10:51 AM

Here's tonight's game notes and also the Yahoo Sports preview of the game:

http://www.nba.com/thunder/media/notes_pacers_101126.pdf

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2010112611

My prediction:

Thunder 101
Pacers 97

tiebreaker: 13 (pts+boards by Collison)

Klink

11-26-2010, 12:22 PM

Thunder 103
Pacers 92

Tordön

11-26-2010, 02:48 PM

:okc: 103
Indy 100

HotRocNRol

11-26-2010, 02:51 PM

Time to start another winning streak. Gotta hold the road.

:okc: .. 104
Pacers .. 99

Thunderhead

11-26-2010, 03:41 PM

:okc:102
Pacers 98

RicanThunder

11-26-2010, 05:03 PM

I don't know about this one. Indiana is one of those teams that just gives us fits (hello, Clippers).

Thunder - 103
Pacers - 99

RicanThunder

11-26-2010, 06:26 PM

Here go my 3 keys to the game from the GameTime Preview:

1) Control Roy Hibbert. We saw how quickly a game can get away if we let a big man dominate (i.e. Tyson Chandler in the Dallas game). We need to box out and play smart, physical defense on Hibbert. Do not foul Hibbert as he is one of the better FT shooting centers in the league at 81%. Also, having a perimeter oriented center (Krstic) should help keep the slow footed Hibbert from clogging the middle on defense.

2) Contain the penetration of Collison and stay at home on the shooters. The Indiana Pacers make the 2nd most 3 pointers per game as a team at just over 9 threes per game. Westbrook is going to have to contain Collison and keep him from penetrating. The wing defender are going to have to be smart and decide when to help and when to stay home on the shooters.

3) Win the battle of the benches. Now that we have our roster fully healthy for the first time in the season, it is time for our bench to assert itself against the benches of the other teams. Indiana boasts a pretty good bench, with high volume scorer Brandon Rush and hustle-man Tyler Hansbrough.

Colonel Thunder

11-26-2010, 07:39 PM

Not sure what it is...maybe the Thunder don't respect this team enough, but they always make it tough. If the Pacers don't win outright, we win 108-101.

Tydude

11-26-2010, 07:57 PM

Kristic is out tonight Serge will start

KDisNotNice

11-26-2010, 08:09 PM

Kristic is out tonight Serge will start

Lower back pain according to Matt Pinto for NEY-nad.

KDisNotNice

11-26-2010, 10:17 PM

Hope you all are watching this game. Thunder have battled back to tie it with 3 1/2 minutes to go in the game.

Thunderus

11-26-2010, 11:11 PM

What a great win !!!

Tydude

11-26-2010, 11:23 PM

best win tonight came back and win it

RicanThunder

11-26-2010, 11:24 PM

Here go my 3 keys to the game from the GameTime Preview:

1) Control Roy Hibbert. We saw how quickly a game can get away if we let a big man dominate (i.e. Tyson Chandler in the Dallas game). We need to box out and play smart, physical defense on Hibbert. Do not foul Hibbert as he is one of the better FT shooting centers in the league at 81%. Also, having a perimeter oriented center (Krstic) should help keep the slow footed Hibbert from clogging the middle on defense.

2) Contain the penetration of Collison and stay at home on the shooters. The Indiana Pacers make the 2nd most 3 pointers per game as a team at just over 9 threes per game. Westbrook is going to have to contain Collison and keep him from penetrating. The wing defender are going to have to be smart and decide when to help and when to stay home on the shooters.

3) Win the battle of the benches. Now that we have our roster fully healthy for the first time in the season, it is time for our bench to assert itself against the benches of the other teams. Indiana boasts a pretty good bench, with high volume scorer Brandon Rush and hustle-man Tyler Hansbrough.

So, I stated my 3 keys to winning the game. And the Thunder proceeded to poo-poo all over my keys and still win the game. Damn I love this team!!!!!!

1) Hibbert had an okay game, finishing with 19 points and 10 boards. I think we did okay on this point.

2) The Pacers made 8 of 23 three pointers. One below their average makes for the season. Their shots weren't falling in the second half.

3) Their bench killed ours 22-8.

My last key should have been we have Russell Westbrook and you don't.

Tydude

11-26-2010, 11:59 PM

Player of the game should be Russell Westbrook

TheresThatManAgain#0

11-27-2010, 12:14 AM

The recap is up guys.

Good win tonight!

Russell Westbrook was a hoss tonight, and pretty much owned Darren Collison

KDisNotNice

11-27-2010, 12:23 PM

I still don't understand why we can show this much 'intensity' on the road and not at home. Great, great, win though.

thundafan

11-27-2010, 01:02 PM

Great win. Shoulda started Mullens right out of the gate. Serge is great, but he's a PF, plain and simple. Hibbert is 7'2 and 280 lbs. Thank God the guy can't pass because there towards the end of the game we went small and basically just swarmed Hibbert with 2 and 3 guys. He got so flustered he couldn't find the 2 open guys on the court.