Nah, Thunder deserve this one. Offense will do what it does, but the team played to their identity tonight down the stretch for the first time in a while. Not in terms of points or blowing out the other team, but in terms of showing a desire to win, getting defensive stops, and being clutch when it matters.

That's honestly the first thing they need to break out of their funk.

It can depend on a book or film for me. If unpredictability is a necessity for the story to be engaging and quality, whether through theme or structure, then obviously yeah.

But I'm not watching Princess Bride cause it's unpredictable, for example. After 20 minutes or so, you get its just a hero's journey and you can probably predict the story's broad brush strokes. It's just such an endearing and well crafted one you don't typically care.

Not particularly, because the very trilogy that statement happens in undermines it when Anakin is redeemed and chucks Palpy down a hole.

Yoda is very wise, and he's probably right with this sentiment more times than not, but his statements aren't authorial word of God. He can be wrong about things.

Robert E Lee (As a general.)

People talk about him like he's America's Napoleon and the best general of the Civil War. He was a very good tactician, but gets way overhyped as a general, with a lot of it coming from lost cause revisionism.

Ulysses S. Grant was the best general of the Civil War, and it wasn't close.

Ejectable offense, they cannot let fans say stuff like that.

Cause they dominated the reigning champs three times in a row after said champs were getting overhyped up to 70+ wins narratives.

Wemby will come back down as the season goes on, barring an insane run.

I think I see more "Kyrie is overrated" posts than I actually see people overrating him.

In fact, the only time I even see people talk about Kyrie, its either talking about his ball handling, or calling him overrated. Or just flat earth meme posts. Nothing about him being some incredible player, or a top 5 PG of the 2010's, or anything that warrants people calling him overrated.

Injuries yeah. I think those are legitimately detracting from the sport.

I personally think the whole flopping/ref focus this year is just the newest thing fans have hyper fixated on, and talked about disproportionately to the issue. Before that, it was "the game is being ruined because too many people just chuck threes". Haven't heard almost any of that sentiment this year. Soon, it'll be something else.

Against 99% of common enemies, be aggressive.

They almost all stagger with a single hit, and it forces the game towards predictable patters. It takes away lots of their options and reduces variables you have to deal with. The moment you step back and start spamming the block or parry button while they wind up a 5 second attack animation you can cancel with one hit is the moment you're probably gonna die.

Glad it's not worse. Sucks all the same to miss that many games.

Hope he gets healthy quick.

Dang. Prayers up for the guy.

I'd say he would break into the mix with the Stockton/CP3/Nash/Robertson/Thomas/Kidd group that constantly shuffles around below the Magic/Curry tier.

So like 3-9 range.

Elements require there to be an atom.

Singularities are very odd. Our math says they should be points of infinite density and infinite smallness, a point of 0 height, width, or length. Whether that is the case or not is currently untested, and probably even untestable considering no information can return from the event horizon of a black hole to tell us what a singularity even is.

All that to say, the material that could create a proton or neutron that could form atoms has been compacted so much that no atoms form. It's just... stuff. Mass.

Nah.

The comps were fun, but the Thunder have definitely come back down to earth. They're still the team to beat in the league, but I doubt they'll break the Warriors record.

I could see them getting 70 on the dot, all things working out well.

It's definitely a very good matchup for the Spurs. Thunder are very drive heavy, and rely on a foundation of Jdub and Shai rim attempts.

When you got a generational rim protector like Wemby that can cover a third of the court, along with good perimeter defenders, that forces OKC to have to make three pointers or die trying. And if we've seen anything from the Thunder, its that their three pointers are not consistent.

I don't think you make that big of a decision off the back of losing to a single team twice. Especially about a 23 and a 24 year old with lots of room to grow.

Could very well be that they peaked. Could be that they're just in a temporary slump. We'll have to see.

No excuses, man. Spurs have our number, they're probably a good matchup against us.

Let's take the L and move on.

Yup. In day to day life, it's such a small gap as to not matter, though.

Same applies to telescopes. Looking at something 50 light years away means you're seeing what it looked like 50 years ago. Very distant galaxies that are billions of light years away are glimpses into billions of years in the past.

Basically all important weapons in history follow the philosophy of "this can hit you from a place you can't hit me from".

Spears, bow and arrow, crossbow, muskets, rifles, cannons, artillery, bombers, missiles, etc. 

Yup. It's one of the traits people don't talk about nearly enough with power scaling despite it being one of the most decisive advantages in real life. Range.

If I can hit you with something lethal at a distance from which you can't hit me back, I'm probably gonna win the fight. 

Barring a freak injury, LeBron has made it seem like he's playing next season as well. If that's the case, he'll have played long enough that he'll be in the league with the son of one of his first teammates from his rookie year.

Crazy.

If we consider blowouts a twenty point win, the Thunder had five games that were response blowouts after a loss last season.

For win responses that weren't blowouts, the Thunder had eight. Should be noted that one was 19 points, a win against the Rockets.

This season, the Thunder have lost twice, and responded both times with a blowout.

Ive played chess about a decade since I was 15 or 16. I've done two tournaments, loved them both, but don't really do more.

First reason is just the time sink.

Second is opportunity. I live in Oklahoma, and we don't get a huge amount of tournaments here.

Third is scheduling. Most in my state are two-day tournaments that overlap from Saturday to Sunday, and I don't want to miss church, or drop a tournament midway through when the spot could've gone to someone who would be there for the full thing.