Wow. That's not an easy buzzer beater.

Nice buzzer beater

Pondexter got the highlight, but I think the bodies that were going on the floor was a Durant flop matched by a Prince "easy fall".

Grizzlies can't give up that many points on missed free throws.

Memphis is going to win this series.

Grizz choking hard...

Maybe not.

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Game changing no call

Good job Grizz.

Last two trips = no shots.

Durant is so damn clutch. Wow.

OKC better hold and take this game or they are in big trouble. Clutch performance by KD.

Why have ZBo in there?


Oh my on the call

Woah. Gotta make 3 FTs. Yikes.

Egah! Chokes on the first!

Put Tony Allen in for a rebound

Big time choke by Memphis. Had a lot of wasted opportunities. Not sure as a Spurs fan whether I'd rather see the grizzlies or the thunder.

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I can't decide either, but I do know we want this to be a grind it out, seven game series.

Lets worry about GS first. I just want this series to drag out. If MEM would have won today I think they would have ended this in 5 at the most so I'm glad OKC pulled this one out.

Grizzlies gave up too many free points on missed free throws.



That wasn't the best played playoff game I've witnessed in my life. Grizzlies can play better, OKC certainly can shoot better.

Very costly Game 1 loss.

Box score says Ibaka was 1/10 and he played 30 mins. Didn't see the game, did he defensively pull weight?

Harden trade looks dumber every day

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Box score says Ibaka was 1/10 and he played 30 mins. Didn't see the game, did he defensively pull weight?

Harden trade looks dumber every day

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Ibaka played pretty damn good defense down the stretch

And Kevin Martin scored 25 pts and was damn near the MVP before KD went nuts, so it's a weird game to mock the harden trade

Kevin Martin played very well. Or as Hubie refers to him, Kelvin/Kenyon/Cuonzo Martin.

Martin does an outstanding job of drawing fouls against the Grizzlies. He's always had big games, whether as a Rocket or Kings.

The west has and will have some of the best series I have seen in a while.

Grizzlies last 3 offensive possessions prior to the Pondexter 3 point attempt were all terrible.

A clock going down attempt by Prince (too many times today he had the ball with he clock winding down)

A fumble of the ball by Conley

A bad pass back out by Gasol where the defender stepped in front of Conley.

Ten missed FTs today hurt. And OKC showed why its often important to have a superstar who can take the game into his hands in the closing minute or two.

Ibaka was indeed total garbage, but had his best game against Randolph ever, totally shocked me to be honest.

This is going 7, no doubt.

All I have to say is ugh.

Game 2 tonight. I was going to head up to OKC, but I have to work on a project for tomorrow.

Man my buddy from church/softball is really coming through with tickets for me, going to the game tonight

Both teams will play better tonight. I don't expect the Grizzlies to miss so many free throws, but I also don't expect Ibaka to have that bad of a shooting night.



Mike Conley has to play better. For the Clippers series, he had 50 assists, 10 turnovers and seven steals, and a couple of 20 point games against CP3. He has to do better against Fisher and Jackson.

Agree, Conley has an advantage there and needs to exploit it. Playing Fisher/Jackson to a dead heat is a net lose for the Grizz at that position.

Want to see how they play Kevin Martin tonight. Durant will go for big points every night but we've got to limit Martin's output. If we can do that, I don't see any of the other OKC guys consistently picking up the slack.

This may sound crazy but I think the best defense on Durant is to make him a pure scorer and make him play "selfish" and limit his assists and getting other guys involved. That's one area where he's improved his game.

Lol Thabeet sighting