Wigs hits late 3 to sink OKC - KuBuckets Archive

kjayhawks

Oct 23, 2017 01:51 AM #1

http://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/okc/oklahoma-city-thunder ↗

Pretty cool to see, hopefully it's the start of a great season for the young fella.

mayjay

Oct 23, 2017 12:10 PM #2

@kjayhawks What a great game for Twolves. It was at OKC, too, which is huge for them.

I always look at the +/- in the box score just to see if anything pops out. Here, it is very telling about Minnesota's lack of bench depth compared to OKC. Every Minn starter was in positive double digits (+10, 14, 15, and 21) except for Towns (+2). Every bench player but one was negative enough for OKC to be so close (0, -8, -12, -13, -19).

Carmello Anthony was the only starter positive for OKC, at +12. Westbrook, although the high scorer at 31 points, was minus 17 for the game (37 mins), while their backup point guard, Felton, was +23 in 18 mins.

Nothing dispositive, but I have always sensed that while Westbrook and Anthony score at a heady clip and look flashy, neither necessarily makes a team around them better. I think I will see how the season goes with both of them together.

BeddieKU23

Oct 23, 2017 05:52 PM #3

Wiggins had a huge putback dunk 2 possessions before that shot. Towns made a tough 2 before that Melo 3.. Good to see Wiggins get one of those last second shots to go down. He's having a great start to the season again. We'll see if he can keep it going with better players around

elpoyo

Oct 23, 2017 05:56 PM #4

only took $148 million for Wiggins to do what he should be doing.
too bad he didn't get paid in college...we might have actually beat stanford

JayHawkFanToo

Oct 23, 2017 06:03 PM #5

@mayjay

Spot on on Westbrook and Anthony; great individual players but their teams don't seem to benefit...of course Syracuse did. :frowning2:

mayjay

Oct 23, 2017 06:07 PM #6

@elpoyo Seriously, that is what you are stretching hard to find to put him down? You would be better off if you said he wrote his name funny in 5th grade or something.

BeddieKU23

Oct 23, 2017 07:00 PM #7

mayjay said:

@elpoyo Seriously, that is what you are stretching hard to find to put him down? You would be better off if you said he wrote his name funny in 5th grade or something.

I'm telling you, Wiggins stepped on Elpoyo's foot one day and he's holding a grudge forever.

mayjay

Oct 23, 2017 07:11 PM #8

@BeddieKU23 Maybe he didn't smile at him sometime. I have watched lots of TV. These stalkers start getting twisted by the slightest perceived slights....

BeddieKU23

Oct 23, 2017 07:34 PM #9

mayjay said:

@BeddieKU23 Maybe he didn't smile at him sometime. I have watched lots of TV. These stalkers start getting twisted by the slightest perceived slights....

Should we be afraid or Wiggins? yikes

elpoyo

Oct 23, 2017 08:40 PM #10

BeddieKU23 said:

mayjay said:

@elpoyo Seriously, that is what you are stretching hard to find to put him down? You would be better off if you said he wrote his name funny in 5th grade or something.

I'm telling you, Wiggins stepped on Elpoyo's foot one day and he's holding a grudge forever.

oh..i'm holding a grudge alright..so should all of us..we got duped! Wigs gave less then 50% effort the whole time he was here..we should have made it to the FF that year! but he was too concerned about getting injured and protecting his draft status so we couldn't even make it past stanford.

even sadder - all this and he is still worshiped like some god by the sheeple here

mayjay

Oct 23, 2017 09:04 PM #11

Baaaaaaa! Baaaaaa!