The Blake Show 2015-16

[BigTime]

Wait a minute. I'm about as "rain-or-shine" as they come. I've probably spent more time inside the LNC than anyone on this site. With 42 home games a year and the drive up to OKC, I just couldn't do both. I had to make a choice between the two. I had more fun in OKC. My perspective is about how to fill the LNC again. I agree a high level competive team will do that, but if OU would be innovative, it would help build the program.

You were one. Hope to see you get back to it again.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Thunder fans are the biggest homer fans in sports. I started out a Thunder fan but cheer against them every game. They are like fans of pro wrestling, every player on the opposing team is a bad guy. Their radio announcer is worse homer than the osu football announcer. I could go on and on but I won't. Don't watch them and don't read any articles in the paper about them anymore. Loved it last year when they missed the playoffs. ha ha

lol

So you aren't a fan of any team in all of sports I suppose

 

[skyvue]

no offense, but you sounds like somebody in their 60s and would prefer a wnba atmoshpere

No offense taken, but that's generalizing on your part. What I prefer is the college atmosphere, where the focus is on the game. I don't need a morning zoo experience to enjoy a ballgame, and in fact it limits my enjoyment. It's intrusive, distracting and pointless, and I felt the same way in my 20s, 30s, and 40s (you overshot my age by a few years). And I'm far from a quiet homebody; I've probably been to more rock concerts in the past five years than you've been to in your lifetime. And I live in NYC, for pete's sake. If I needed quiet, I'd have left here decades ago.

It's not about age; it's about what you're there for. Are you there to watch the game or to giggle at movie clips? Are you there to cheer for your team, or to dance to club music?

And is it worth bringing a friend along if you can't even turn to them and discuss at least briefly the game you're watching?

I've been to other NBA games, including at the Garden. And their presentation includes some of the same extraneous stuff, but it wasn't nearly as wall-to-wall nor as overbearingly loud as the Thunder's.

So you root against your hometown team b/c some fans don't like a player from a different hometown team?

Seems a bit ironic no?

On the surface, perhaps, but you've never been turned against a team by its fans? I have. My parents raised me to cheer for oswho, too, when OU wasn't playing them (we were a Sooner family through and through), but my dealings with oswho fans over the years spiked that approach but good, and I now cheer for any team -- texas, notre dame, oregon, you name it -- against oswho without hesitation. And that came entirely from my dealings with their fanbase.

My mom, rest her soul, attended oswho, but even she, at one point, resolved never to go to another Bedlam game in Stillwater, and she never did. oswho fans were the lowest of the low, and she knew it.

So yeah, I've found Thunder fans (with exceptions, of course) to be so whiny, so judgmental, so entitled, so superior (or so they think) and in the end so clueless that I've stopped cheering for the Thunder. I cheer for the Clippers because of Blake and I'll cheer for any team that has a Sooner alum in the future.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

No offense taken, but that's generalizing on your part. What I prefer is the college atmosphere, where the focus is on the game. I don't need a morning zoo experience to enjoy a ballgame, and in fact it limits my enjoyment. It's intrusive, distracting and pointless, and I felt the same way in my 20s, 30s, and 40s (you overshot my age by a few years). And I'm far from a quiet homebody; I've probably been to more rock concerts in the past five years than you've been to in your lifetime. And I live in NYC, for pete's sake. If I needed quiet, I'd have left here decades ago.

It's not about age; it's about what you're there for. Are you there to watch the game or to giggle at movie clips? Are you there to cheer for your team, or to dance to club music?

And is it worth bringing a friend along if you can't even turn to them and discuss at least briefly the game you're watching?

I've been to other NBA games, including at the Garden. And their presentation includes some of the same extraneous stuff, but it wasn't nearly as wall-to-wall nor as overbearingly loud as the Thunder's.

fair enough i suppose. I go to double digit thunder games a year. I have never lost sight of why I am there b/c they are blaring music or playing movie clips during timeouts. The game is still very much the focus of the atmosphere imo.

 

[Leroy]

Go for the music and movie clips wow, what a basketball fan. I have never heard anyone that is a real basketball fan say that. Do you go to the OU football games to see the timeouts when they introduce folks? Man you need a life or become a soccer fan. Unreal

 

[BigTime]

G4 22/10/2 -9 in a win over PHX

 

[BigTime]

G5 23/10/6 +8 in a L at GS

 

[Leroy]

The Thunder movies and loud music and crap didn't help them last night. Got to play some defense.

 

[snydrosooner]

I am a big OU basketball fan. I also route for and enjoy the Thunder. I would much prefer attending a OU basketball game then Thunder due to some of the non basketball entertainment that goes on. I tend not to focus on the game and watch some of the other things going on.

Now when it comes to Blake. In previous years I routed for and watched all the clippers games I could. I still route for Blake and watch his stats as I try to do with any OU player in the pros, but since they got Chris Paul, that team has changed. Yes they win more games no doubt, but just some of the attitude you see from players that was not there before he joined. Blake on court actions changed as well. Some for the better and some I would personally say for the worse. But that is on him to due what he wants. Still will follow and cheer for him personally when not playing the Thunder.

And no this is not a Blake vs Thunder thing for me, cause I can tell you that Ibaka is one of my least favorite players due to some of his actions.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

People that complain that there are too many distractions at the thunder games to concentrate on the play are the same people that complain about the video board being too distracting at jerry world

It isn't the atmosphere's fault that you can't concentrate on a game...it's you

 

[Leroy]

I have never heard anyone complain about the video board at Jerry World, I think it is great. Maybe the Thunder are being distracted the last three games by the loud music. I get sick of the OKC media being such homers not to mention Matt Pinto what a jerk. If you have a good basketball product you don't need all the junior high stuff going on during halftime and timeouts. Bad products need that stuff.

 

[BigTime]

Guys,

Keep it about Blake.

Take your Thunder Blunder to the NBA board.

Thanks

BT

 

[MO]

Make it about Blake or take it to the NBA board

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Make it about Blake or take it to the NBA board

 

[MO]

Gee, dude. It was just a light play on your words for fun. I get it, all serious Blake business from here on

 

[BigTime]

Gee, dude. It was just a light play on your words for fun. I get it, all serious Blake business from here on

Thanks.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

So yeah, I've found Thunder fans (with exceptions, of course) to be so whiny, so judgmental, so entitled, so superior (or so they think) and in the end so clueless that I've stopped cheering for the Thunder. I cheer for the Clippers because of Blake and I'll cheer for any team that has a Sooner alum in the future.[/QUOTE]


Agree 100%


Blake is playing like a man among boys. Everyone who wrote the Clips off probably were a bit premature. My only knock on Blake is he sometimes stands around when he should be hitting the defensive boards. Some of that is because Jordan cleans them up so good, Blake often leaks out to be a part of the break...... Once he gets a little more aggressive in his rebounding mindset, he will be the best PF no debate, if he isn't already.

 

[BigTime]

G6 35/11/5 and +0 in a loss vs HOU

Two close loses in a row but Blake played really well in this one.

 

[SilliSooner]

So yeah, I've found Thunder fans (with exceptions, of course) to be so whiny, so judgmental, so entitled, so superior (or so they think) and in the end so clueless that I've stopped cheering for the Thunder. I cheer for the Clippers because of Blake and I'll cheer for any team that has a Sooner alum in the future.[/QUOTE]


Agree 100%


Blake is playing like a man among boys. Everyone who wrote the Clips off probably were a bit premature. My only knock on Blake is he sometimes stands around when he should be hitting the defensive boards. Some of that is because Jordan cleans them up so good, Blake often leaks out to be a part of the break...... Once he gets a little more aggressive in his rebounding mindset, he will be the best PF no debate, if he isn't already.

I can't think of anyone better. The only other one in the conversation is Anthony Davis, and I don't think AD is near the passer Blake is nor is as versatile in the fast break.

Blake could be a better shot blocker if he worked on it. That's one area where Davis and Ibaka are far ahead of him.

 

[BigTime]

SS,

Blake's wingspan lets him down a bit as a shot blocker but I agree he should be better at it with his timing and athletiscm.

Mizzy,

Nice post.