Tuesday, June 17, 2014

The Oklahoma City Thunder managed to blow a 16 point fourth quarter lead in their 101-99 loss to the Clippers in game 4.  This loss now evens the series at 2-2.  Kevin Durant led the Thunder with 40 points and 7 rebounds but his effort was not enough to pull out the win.  The Clippers win probability with 9:07 left in the fourth quarter was 0.9%.  The Thunder have a very strong roster so you have to wonder why they are struggling in the playoffs.  They barely pulled out the win in the Memphis series and Westbrook's brother went as far as tweeting that OKC needs to fire their coach.  The blame should be put on Scott Brooks.  For as good as he is at developing young players and helping them reach their potential like he has done with many of the players on the Thunder, he is terrible during games.  He does not know how to adjust his game plan when one of his players is struggling.  He also does not know how to adjust to unlikely players from opposing teams who are having a good game.  A good example of this would be when Darren Collison went off in the fourth quarter and it did not look like Brooks tried that hard to stop him.  When a team has such a big lead with so little time left and they blow it, the coach is usually to blame.  Many people believe that if Scott Brooks can not improve than he will be fired.  He has a lot of talented players to work with like Durant, Westbrook, and Ibaka now he just needs to learn to make adjustments during games.

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