OKC Thunder BLOWN OUT by Charlotte Hornets | How Much Concern Is There?

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1. Not gonna overreact still at 30 wins before 10 losses which is insane, but I've said for years we need more real 2 way big men. Someone who can consistently get something like 10 pts and 8 boards or even a stretch big with a sturdy frame that can shoot and grab boards (avg something like 35 to 40 from 3 pt and get about 6 to 8 boards a night) . For years its been our one missing spot in development/scouting. I don't know what the hell Rudy Gobert did for his development but they gotta get Chet on the same diet.

2. It’s tough to be intense all the time in a league where every team is giving you their best shot. I was wondering if there would be a “they are human after all” stretch. It will be fine. Unless the refs are calling more fouls on Wallace, Caruso and Dort now and less fouls on people guarding SGA, then we are in trouble.

3. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA – nuggets fan

4. We got to many tiny guards. Other teams point guards are taller than our 4 man. Jeez!!! Get some more size

5. Thunder are beatable this season 🎉

6. They really cheated their way to a ring

7. Nothing wrong to lose to any team but for okc to lose by 37 points to hornets that insane unbelivable. By 12 points or less its normal.

8. Frustration everywhere but I guess u have to go thru that.

9. Again, any team can beat another team on a given day!

10. The OKC fans keep talking the injury excuse. The Spurs have played with there starting 5 for a full game only a few times. The Spurs are playing without Wembanyama and the shooting guard. We lost games no excuses.
    OKC is 5 of 5 in last 10 games. OKC needs a bit of humble

11. I do appreciate you honest reaction

12. I actually like JDub and Chet’s game. Shai, Dort and Carruso tho, it feels like they operate under different rules and honestly I’m hate watching because of it

13. NO REPEAT!!!

14. Thunder fans are starting to sound like Lakers fans. The sky is not falling. You’re just going through a rough stretch. It’s tough to maintain elite focus every game for an entire season. Every team goes through stretches like this where you seem average. Shake it off and move on.

    The more you talk about it on social media, the more it’s going to get in your players heads. Also, give Charlotte some credit. They are better than their record indicates.

    Go Spurs Go!

15. Listen, I’m a spurs fan but I have to keep an eye on your thunder OBVIOUSLY. I love your breakdowns on okc over here. I’m just a fan of the sport. WITH ALL OF THIS SAID, NO SHADE OVER HERE…. There’s no reason why the HORNETS should DESTROY you guys at home. THE THUNDER ARE WAY BETTER THAN THIS

16. Dude the Hornets are a good spread team and now healthy they have been looking good fun to watch always

17. I dont want to hear shot differentials, paint points etc. I want some passionate WTF! This was a BAD LOSS. We dont want to think about it but Thunder have to go get a three point shooter.

18. All those Charlotte joints and we got smacked

19. The hornets… the fucking HORNETS?! What the actual fuck thunder. This game gave me flashbacks

20. Appreciate the honest reaction Rylan ! Is it possible for you to discuss the quote from Dillon Brooks regarding our role players? I feel there’s a lot of trueness there especially with their lack of offensive assertiveness. Ex: Peyton Watson of the nuggets seems to grow his offensive game both due to opportunity but also his assertiveness.

21. I don't want to be THAT statistics guy, but:

    THE 'IT'S FINE'
    1 – Currently on 67 win pace. Just think about that while you're throwing your toys out of the crib.
    2 – If wed gone 15-4 then 15-3 to get to 30-7 the exact same record wouldn't feel like that. The 24-1 start is why everyone feels like this.
    3 – We couldn't make a shot. It'll happen. But the defence was top notch. But you can have 30 steals, if you can't make a shot, you'll lose.
    4 – Shai's had two bad games on interstate back to backs. The last five years tells you that that's noise.
    4 – They shot 50+% from 3

    THE 'IT'S NOT FINE'
    1 – They shot 50+% from 3. Seems like almost every night, some player bends reality from three. I think everyone's onto the Thunder's abdication of outside for inside and they're starting to just go around it. If we keep getting beat the same way going forward, that's a problem.
    2 – Shai's had two bad games on interstate back to backs. The last five years tells you that that's noise.. BUT given you can waste a season with four bad games in seven, it's a concern how brittle we look when Shai's not Jordanesque. Experience has taught me that he GENERALLY is, but our shot quality recently tells me that even the Suns and Hornets can impair that sufficiently to beat us. That's a worry.
    3 – Team has wobbled since Dub got back. It makes sense because Dub coming back isn't the same as Ous coming back in the same way that replacing the Hard Drive on your computer affects it more than replacing the mouse.

    The team was in a good rhythm without him. Does that mean that the team would be better without him? No. But he's going through some stuff. Clearly. You can see it just watching him.

    So what's the solution? Bench him until the playoffs and play him in the g league? No. We take some L's whilst rebalancing, and probably still finish the one seed. I think that 24-1 start has fried everyone's brains. I'll cop to the fact that I had stars in my eyes and the wins record as well.

    But let's just pause for a minute now and accept that it's not going to happen. And that's a GOOD thing because it means that we can stop comparing the season as a whole to the first 25 games of the season. REMEMBER DRAYMOND AND STEPH AND A LOT OF THE WARRIORS LAMENTING THE WINS RECORD? I guarantee you that the thing that their lamenting a part obviously from the fact that they didn't win the title, was 4 months spent in the comments section of any current Thunder loss. To quote one of Michael Cage's aphorisms that I haven't heard for a while, a lot of posters around here need to be a bit more like a riverboat gambler. Shorter memories. The best way I can put this is to ask this. Imagine if Mark was reacting like this comments section. He'd be changing the starting lineup, dropping Dort, benching dub. ON A 30-7 team.

    Get some perspective people.

    Let's be fair a few of the haters were right. We played a lot of the worst teams in the league a lot early. It was a false 24-1. And the great news is that doesn't mean anything if we still finish the one seed which we absolutely can.

    The last six quarters have been terrible, but in a season with 328 quarters that is going to happen unless you are actual honest to God Gods. This Thunder team are not Gods. They're probably just a run of the mill 65 win team.. now stop reading this comment, do your own research on what percentile that puts this team in over NBA history and then come back and calm down.

    I might be wrong. Maybe the sky IS falling.

    Maybe we're terrible and collapsing in a heap in the last three quarters of a two-day cross country back to back really is evidence of the fundamentally flawed nature of the current 30-7, defending NBA champions.

    Or maybe we just lost a couple of games. Exactly like we did last year when we won the title.

    Maybe Shai had a couple of bad shooting games, exactly as he has the last three years when he's basically been 2020s Michael Jordan.

    Time will tell. I'm just saying that given the last two years of thunder basketball that we've all seen, maybe a few of you could be a bit less all up in your feelings and trust that the team that you have watched do something that no Thunder team ever has are just going through a rough transitional spot, rather than bagging them out for failing to hold up to an ephemeral media driven standard of a 74 win team.

    A Grade Nonsense OUT.

22. If this team was getting beat like this with I-Hart and Caruso playing proper minutes, I'd worry.

    I'm not worried. Yet.

23. SGA 20 pt streak tonight “ I’m leaving here with somethin”

24. Just a DM to Rylan in the comments as I can't DM you personally.

    Image being Rylan after we lost to the Wolves leaving us 41-43 (0.488) after the 2023 play-in. Positivity and hope.

    Now imagine being Rylan after we lost to the Hornets to leave us 30-7 (0.810) A man explaining why being sightly less best isn't terrible.

    This distinction above is why ALL successful organisations have a perspective that spans being a month, and all loser orgs don't.

25. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

26. HAHA. I hope you all lose and SGA go down like the coward and flopper he is. You Basterds stole a title and i hope your franchise gets disestablished. I rather anyone win but that crappy franchise. Forfeit your rings and leave.

27. I don’t want to overlook the fact that other coaches/teams are figuring out how to defend/stop Shai and really mess with our offense. Also, our guys have stopped moving the ball around the floor and getting the opponent to race around. And we’re sure not hitting the broad side of the barn with our shots

28. If there's ever a time in the season to play poorly and expose all the weaknesses, it's now, a month before the trade deadline. If I were Presti, I'd call Washington for McCollum, New Orleans for Herb Jones or Saddiq bay, Utah for whatever, etc., etc… Trades are necessary. Not huge trades, but a lot of things need adjusting.

29. ⚡️

30. If we lose to the jazz im concerned

31. It is very well known that OKC had a relatively easy first 30 game schedule but one of the hardest season schedules after that. I would just look for improvement rather than best record

32. Panic

33. Being out rebounded by 40 the last 2 games… We dont have a center.. Trade for a center or pack it up and reload for next year

34. Bad rebounding reflects effort….this ain’t good…

35. Youll be fine. Unless you get blown out by the clippers

36. Rylan, I really appreciate the level-headed, consistent commentary. Just a straight shooter.

37. Hornets Baby! 🎉

38. Shout out to Rylan the goat man