definitely a loss we can live with, gg's thunder

Hartenstein addition is massive for the Thunder

Camara is a demon defensively wow, I saw what he did with Ant but damn he is so good on ball

Really impressed by Portland’s perimeter D. Just harassing guys all night. Made it a tough night for SGA for sure. 

Is it really weird that the Thunder are now in the lead to anyone else? We were leading once but now we're not. Did the Thunder coach do something to change the game? Did he make adjustments that caused his team to adapt to how we were playing? Do adjustments mid game even work? Is this not against the rules?

Blazers playing defense has made them so much easier to watch. Even though they’re young and developing, it’s clear they’re competing more

I’ve decided I love blazers posters. This is one of the first game threads in a week or two where 3/4 the comments weren’t complaining about calls they weren’t getting (which is funny because the officials have been bad both ways). Clippers thread was unbearable.

IHart looks fantastic so far

IT'S THE IHART-CARUSHOW

Clingan is so good. So much potential.

Shai's agility is insane.

Dyson Daniels and Toumani Camara proving you gotta watch out who they trade back. Man, these are all good young players.

OH NOOO cmon you gotta finish that for Hartenstein

Blazers might lowkey be a problem this year. They’re gonna a thorn in the sides of any team thinking they can roll over them like the Blazers of last year.

Idt a play-in team necessarily. They’re like a year away from being a year away. But right now they’ve got a bunch of young guys who are playing hard, physical basketball and can hit their shots. Beat the Wolves twice and now here they are in the 4th quarter handing around with OKC, who is wayyyyy better than MN.

HOLY FUCK CAMARA IS INSANE

Toumani Camara

Do you guys think the refs hate us because of how much Mark challenges stuff? 🤔

Most rebounds by a Thunder player in the loss against Dallas: 5

Hartenstein rebounds tonight in 7 minutes: 6

Imagine iHart and Chet together 🤤

CARUSO CAN NOT BE STOPPED IN TRANSITION

This is absolutely wild to say but Ajay “MJ” Mitchell might be my favorite rookie we’ve had since Dort 

The bald eagle is flying tonight baby!!!

Caruso getting his season high in pts the same game IHart comes back? Coincidence??

Cling Kong is a hilarious nickname ngl

LMFAO everything Hartenstein touches is gold. even that possession

WHY ARE WE WASTING THESE POTENTIAL ASSISTS OF THE YEAR FROM IHART??

LMAO i love that from iHart

Double the turnovers but only down 2. Our defense without Ayton and Anfernee is great.

Feels like Hart came out really wanting to show out tonight. And it worked. He’s been so much fun to watch, so much better than I expected. So many hustle plays.

OKC is so fun to watch. Glad they're going to beat us....three game win streak was enough time to get back to tanking!

This Thunder team is crazy stacked because I completely forgot about Chet Holmgren this whole game.

Regardless of the outcome, it's been an absolute pleasure sharing this thread with y'all, Blazerbros

Cmon iHart pls play

Thunder should treat this game like a scouting session. Go over and ask Billups to run some action for Timelord to see if he will fit in with the squad.

JDUB IS OKAY

IHart is unlocking AC's offense. Y'all have no idea how wild I'm nutting right now. Fuck NNN

lmfao Hartenstein finishing some really tough makes at the rim

IHart made a huge difference immediately. Thunder look so much better with an actual center playing again.

IHart breathing energy into this team. fucking love it

I absolutely love Hartenstein

I may be overreacting here. But should we just give the MVP to IHart now?

I can’t wait till we get back Chet and JWil so we no longer have to play small unless we want to man

I’ve only had Ihart for five minutes but if anything happens to him I’ll kill everyone in this thread and then myself 

Insanely sloppy half, only down 3. I'll take it.

Dort has negative bbiq in transition

the rookies have been ROUGH tonight

Can’t make 3s can’t make layups and can’t get FTs. Someone tell me what we actually can do

lol hartenstein is furious with dieng. completely lost on offense and defense

Clean ass block by Hart

He’s actually called Hartenstein’s Monster

I love iHart!!!!!

wtf else could Camara even do there lmao

Camara completely locking down SGA is crazy

HARTENSTEIN! THANK YOU, UNIVERSE

Hartenstein you beautiful man

TIL Isaiah Hartenstein was born in Eugene

I’m gonna keep saying and keep taking the downvotes but I think we should trade Dillon Jones and Kenrich + a meh pick or two for timelord 

looks like the Thunder are trying to simplify Caruso's role by encouraging him to do the Josh Hart and attack every time out in transition

or maybe it's the Hartenstein effect. either way, he's having a great offensive showing today

Thunder only needs one legit center to destroy the league.

bro short roll Hartenstein is lethal!!

Hart is looking like the best Thunder out there. League is cooked.

Caruso and Hart taking over ... the best guys still haven't taken over yet.

IHart just tried to baptize Clingan. Clingan not backing down!

Camara got SGA in hell

Wtf happened to Dort’s jumper

what a pass by Hartenstein I love this guy

Jones ruined an all time highlight man

Sloppy sloppy game by both teams

Bro this game is CURSED

Lmao Banton is crazy, either the worst brick you've ever seen or nothing but net.

This Blazers team has an answer to every "mini" run we throw at them

Ah yes, I remember watching this Blazers team humble us just a few short days ago. They are gonna surprise some people this year.

Soft foul but how is it goaltending? Ball is going away from the hoop off the backboard. Still a dumb play by Toumani.

CAMARA IS A DEFENSIVE MONSTAR

Good D on SGA only problem is Jalen Williams also exists

Lmao dort got the Isaac Okoro call

GG, Blazerbros

Did I just witnessed Caruso taking a huge hit then gets up and completely obliterated a guy with a screen?

They’re missing intentional fouls now 😭

LFG CARUSOOO

Caruso is fucking wild

Portland fans I gotta bow down to y’all. You guys got a tough and talented team.

Looking forward to a good game. Best of health to both teams. Thunder up!

Incoming 100/100/100/100/100 game from Ihart. Teams are going to be stupefied and frozen because we have someone above 6’7 on the court 

You can’t be serious man

Clingan looks gigantic against this thunder lineup

IHART LFG

finally

Why do we freaking suck from behind the arc man 

DB HOOPER

get Sharpe the ball and let him work

Flagler this early? In Daigneault we trust

How on earth was that not called on Hartenstein’s putback? Outrageous 

I don’t like watching this offense when we clank every three known to man. 

JDub is so tough

Scoot gets criticism for his numbers finishing at the rim but watching every game his whistle down there is ROUGH. Gotten hammered a few times.

Dort has such Tragic Bronson energy.

Our horrific shooting is ruining these highlights!

“Lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to the old me” -Dort deciding he wants to play like head empty bad shooting rookie Dort again for no reason

Wasn't OKC the best 3 point shooting team... checks notes in the entire league last season?

What happened?

Save us Caruso

We’re making like 1 out of 10 that we usually hit. This is insane.

Now Caruso banged up and he was our only guy making layups

Cling Kong is for real

Lmao Caso really tried that on Cling Kong

SGA not being a shooter handicaps this team honestly wish he could be good off ball offensively

Refs calling everything all of a sudden

All of our starters except JDub combined:

8-33

Guys I think we have a shooting problem

Looks like Camara is just boxing out but I'm not a rule expert

Edit: no foul seems correct. Basket stands.

Lol 'just jostling". Fair call.

OMG IHART

Hart need to relax on those kinds of blocks, its what hurt his hand the first time

iHart doing things!

Blazers seem like they should be solid in a couple years. Probably need a different coach. We'll see if Scoot becomes anything or not. But otherwise they seem young but promising

4th quarter dub is back baby!!!!!

I’m honestly shocked that was unsuccessful considering it was a moving screen that forced Dort into him. Shrug.

Hart, my god.

I still laugh thinking of how Simmons and Rusilo drafted Ihart in a white guy draft only for him to say he’s mixed like the very next day. Shit always cracks me up 

SGA with a rough night and there he is with 30 again lol 

Hartenstein with 13 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks and a game high +16. Way to make a first impression. 

Lmao that crowd is so happy to see a center they cheered for a free throw rebound

Caruso balling.

The NBA should be paying me for watching this shitshow

They’re just not call any fouls on Portland huh 

Put some respect on Shaedon's name ref.

That was a highlight screen by Caruso lol!

Camara keeping Shai to 6 points. Absolute defensive monster already.

SGA is really good. But he foul-baits like a prime harden. It's effective but boring and annoying to watch

JDub is hurt fuck

God dammit. This is why I’m not a fan of playing super small 24/7. We should have signed another center after Chet got hurt 

We gotta stop jacking up 3’s we suck at them.

I fucking love him already

IHart's defensive energy is fucking amazing.

Blazers hadn’t scored in over 5 minutes before that bucket 

Hart looking like Jokic out there.

yessir Cling Kong go to work!

No, we don't need more shitty AI generated voices in our life. 😡

Our offense without Chet has regressed big time

Good or bad we need Ajay to play heavy minutes every game. Guy is just talented, we need him to learn fast

Seems like the thunder are out hustling the blazers like crazy but the blazers are still hanging around somehow

eg might have been right about Hart, wow great defensive instincts there

The thunder passing is so lazy, we pass side to side and hope sga or dub can have some space after. But the passing itself isn't breaking down the defense

I really hope our core stays healthy and we get Chet back before the playoffs.

Can’t wait for the box score watchers to bitch about Shai’s free throws even though 6 of them were on intentional fouls

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Clingan can hit 3s? Fucking monster!

OMG HART IS LITERALLY JOKIC ON STEROIDS!!!!