Thunder Moving Forward

Billy Donovan says his team did not watch the film of Friday's 47 point loss to the Bucks. We'll tell you what message he's sending to his team.

Billy Donovan believes that there are teaching moments that can come from any game, including a 47 point loss. The lesson to take from what went down Friday in Milwaukee is to move forward. 

Talk about putting a loss behind you. Billy Donovan said they didn't watch any film today on the 133-86 loss at Bucks. Focused on Clippers.
"We’ve got to be better, and we’ve got to be physical. So, we really just tried to get on the court and work on those things right away."

— Maddie Lee (@maddie_m_lee) March 1, 2020

Donovan told the media on Sunday that the Thunder did not watch the film from their historic beat down. "We've got to be better, and we've got to be physical."..." So we really just tried to get on the court and work on those things right away." 

The Thunder's lack of physicality led to a 66-36 discrepancy in rebounding vs. the Bucks. Despite Donovan wanting the Thunder to learn from their mistakes, he doesn't feel the team needs a refresher course on what they did wrong.   

"Obviously, they went through it, they knew."... We talked more about just the physical."... "Again, we're going to play a Clipper team that has a lot of length and a lot of size and are really long on the perimeter and forward positions."

Talk about putting a loss behind you. Billy Donovan said they didn't watch any film today on the 133-86 loss at Bucks. Focused on Clippers.
"We’ve got to be better, and we’ve got to be physical. So, we really just tried to get on the court and work on those things right away."

— Maddie Lee (@maddie_m_lee) March 1, 2020

 Lou Dort, Danilo Gallinari, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander need to set the tone early on Tuesday night. The Clippers have a size advantage in the starting five and throughout the roster. But if you can establish that you're going to be physical early  (without fouling, the Clippers are 79 percent from the charity stripe), by the fourth quarter they may not want to be knocked on anymore.  

I don't believe in built-in losses, but next to the Lakers and Bucks, a healthy Clippers scares me more than any team in the NBA. 

Deflections Totals through Week 19:

1. @BenSimmons25, @sixers: 216
2. @Jrue_Holiday11, @PelicansNBA: 213
3. @AndreDrummond, @cavs: 200
3. @FredVanVleet, @Raptors: 200
5. @CP3, @okcthunder: 198 pic.twitter.com/lVSrNGAWCx

— NBA.com/Stats (@nbastats) March 2, 2020

Thunder Strikes:

Gilgeous-Alexander had one heck of a February. He averaged 18.7 points per game and shot over 40 percent from beyond the arc. That three-point shooting percentage is better than his career and season averages. The Last time the Clippers and Thunder met Gilgeous-Alexander had his second straight 32 point outing, here's hoping he can put on another show on Tuesday. 

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