Yea, but their D is even better this year, Chet is stying healthy and these guys have been playing together for awhile now and their chemistry is fantastic. I hope you're right, abeer. I'd love to see someone knock them off. When the GSW went 73-9, Lebron's Cavs beat them in the Finals, so of course anything is possible. When I watch OKC it looks like the entire team has telepathy, readin' each others' minds. Their defense looks awesome.
it's a long season. will chet be there in the end? is their defense as fearsome without him? will they look different in the playoffs again? anyway, no point in being doom and gloom about it. you do the best you can and hope to capitalize if something happens to them. history says it does.
We need the refs to clamp down on their fouling. I'm happy that Wemby backed up his trash talk yesterday. Caruso/Dort playing football out there at times with their hacking. Look at Alex Caruso crying over the lack of fouls when the dude hacked wemby like 2 times before!
dort's ridiculous, imo. he jerry sloane-ed the refs into 100 million dollars, lol. really, just draft a linebacker and tell him to grab guys on every play until the refs get tired of calling it bc it's his brand or whatever. edit: in the same breath: feed thiero dort clips. he's bigger and more athletic than dort.
Yeah OKC seems to get away with a LOT on D. It's almost as if the entire team gets superstar treatment on that end. Which is kind of unfair, especially considering how good they are without any outside help.
it can open them up for playoff trouble, though, should they run into a physical team that is allowed to grab and hack with equal impunity. i guess that's kind of what happened with denver and indy last year to some extent. the physicality ramped up and was allowed on both sides, and that helps negate okc's huge speed advantage on the other end.
