OKC - Five-peat! Final summary

[Phil89]

There only seems to be about 2-3 rookies in each draft class that get game time and play well. The rest are rated low and are usually inactive.

[Phil89]

3/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [45-11] vs Portland Trail Blazers [29-27]

Poor start costs Blazers dearly as Griffin stars



OKC - 36 31 28 32 127
POR - 17 30 28 27 102

Player of the Game: Blake Griffin




Video Highlights
Griffin beats Aldridge and dunks.


Harden finishes with a sweet dunk.

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Griffin was 1 rebound away from a triple-double at half time, but foul trouble slowed him down in the second half.
Fourth quarter was garbage time.

[Andrew]

Awesome effort by Griffin. Looks like the Blazers were never in that one.

[Phil89]

6/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [46-11] vs Golden State Warriors [24-33]

Curry matches Durant, but Thunder still win easily



OKC - 28 29 37 38 132
GSW - 28 27 24 24 103

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant




Video Highlights
Harden pulls off another powerful dunk.


Durant with a nice move before dunking.


Griffin sinks a full court buzzer beater to end the third quarter.

[Andrew]

Durant had significantly more steals and fewer turnovers, but that is an eerily similar line. Not that it did them any good.

[Phil89]

8/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [47-11] vs Los Angeles Clippers [28-30]

Thunder win big despite Williams scoring half of the Clippers' points



OKC - 29 29 42 38 138
LAC - 32 24 31 35 122

Player of the Game: Derrick Rose




Video Highlights
Rose bamboozles the Clippers defenders before scoring.

[Andrew]

I think I'm going to have to make mention of point guard domination again to the NBA Live 13 Dev Team. Definitely need to avoid performances like that...thankfully, your team effort trumped his big night.

[Phil89]

10/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [48-11] vs Los Angeles Clippers [28-31]

Thunder fall short of amazing comeback win



OKC - 23 26 42 27 118
LAC - 36 27 31 29 123

Player of the Game: Derrick Rose




Video Highlights
Harden throws down another monster jam.

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I was down by as much as 22 midway through the second quarter.

[Andrew]

So close! Tough night for Griffin, doesn't look like you got much help from your bench at all in that one either.

[Phil89]

It's my own fault. I favoured Rose because every time I play Mo Williams he scores 50+ points. I had to beat him.

No real danger of losing top spot in my conference though so I can afford to drop a game here and there.

[Phil89]

12/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [48-12] vs Los Angeles Lakers [31-29]

Thunder bounce back against Lakers



OKC - 25 35 30 37 127
LAL - 23 31 22 41 117

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant




Video Highlights
Durant with a big block on Bynum.


Durant hits a turnaround three over Kobe.

[Andrew]

At least redemption came at the Lakers' expense.

[Lamrock]

Looking like another banner year. Your bench does seem a little inconsistent though. How washed up are KG and T-Mac?

[Phil89]

Well they're both pretty old and only rated about 70 overall these days. McGrady will probably sit out the playoffs if Arenas is 'fit' again by then.

Garnett may well retire after this season too.

[Phil89]

14/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [49-12] vs Cleveland Cavaliers [29-34]

Thunder destroy Cavs despite resting stars late on



OKC - 33 35 36 33 137
CLE - 21 23 23 38 105

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant




Video Highlights
Durant lobs one up for Griffin to dunk.

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I rested my big 3 in the last quarter.

[Andrew]

That's more like it. Pretty nice numbers for the big three considering they only played three quarters.

[Phil89]

16/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [50-12] vs Milwaukee Bucks [30-33]

Former Thunder champions return to OKC with Bucks



OKC - 32 31 33 35 131
MIL - 28 25 25 38 116

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant




Video Highlights
Harden dunks over Calderon.

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Durant sat out the fourth quarter again.

[BD1899]

16 turnovers for Westbrook!? He must have set some kind of turnover record for the Bucks franchise. Good job forcing him into that many errors.

[Andrew]

Seems Blake Griffin's been struggling with foul trouble the last few games. Fortunately Durant and Rose have been able to carry the load.

Nice job connecting on 33 of 33 free throws, too.

[qfrmcpt310]

Nice win, looks like you made Westbrook wish he was still playing in OKC lol

[Phil89]

18/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [51-12] vs New York Knicks [36-24]

Thunder throw away big lead against Knicks



OKC - 33 30 20 38 121
NYK - 24 36 31 36 127

Player of the Game: Amare Stoudemire




Video Highlights
Rose gets around Conley then makes a jumpshot over Randolph.

[Andrew]

That's a tough way to lose, but looks like they turned in a pretty good all-around effort. At least Griffin was more his usual self, the turnovers aside.

[Phil89]

20/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [51-13] vs Toronto Raptors [28-33]

Durant leads Thunder to easy win against Raptors



OKC - 23 32 26 44 125
TOR - 15 28 32 30 105

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant




Video Highlights
Young cleans up after Rose misses the three.

[Phil89]

22/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [52-13] vs Memphis Grizzlies [37-28]

Durant lights it up from downtown in win against Grizzlies



OKC - 43 33 21 38 135
MEM - 20 33 31 34 118

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant




Video Highlights
Cook puts the finishing touches on an impressive opening quarter from the thunder.


Harden dunks all over Mayo.

[Phil89]

25/3/13

Oklahoma City Thunder [53-13] vs San Antonio Spurs [34-31]

Strong start gives Thunder the edge over Spurs



OKC - 39 28 32 27 126
SAS - 27 25 32 29 113

Player of the Game: Blake Griffin




Video Highlights
Young explodes for the dunk over Horford and gets the goaltending call.