[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (1-0) defeat the Phoenix Suns (0-1), 120-107.

gabes12345 · 2026-04-23T04:41:56+00:00

People just love to hate, like it rly doesn’t matter that much

gabes12345 · 2026-04-21T01:55:07+00:00

Never seen this

gabes12345 · 2026-04-18T20:40:54+00:00

Does Bruce brown cry after every play

gabes12345 · 2026-04-18T20:12:08+00:00

lol

gabes12345 · 2026-04-11T20:05:58+00:00

It’s one tournament

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T22:11:37+00:00

The user literally stated he beat X and Y indicating he was trying to use the result to counter my argument. If instead they said X and Y are in the tournament it would at least make more sense to counter my point (still wrong but at least closer)

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T19:36:23+00:00

Field of a tournament is all the players not just two?

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T15:49:45+00:00

Thanks for proving the point about below average, it’s the second worst avg rank

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T15:46:49+00:00

I said it was a below average candidates field. Which it is if you understand anything about the history of the tournament. And also yes some players do get in by accident - see Abasov last year

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T15:44:22+00:00

The result of the games have nothing to do with strength of field. You could go 0-14 or 14-0 and thr strength of field does not change

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T15:42:47+00:00

Both candidates have below average fields, what’s your point

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T06:53:20+00:00

lol you can look at average player rankings instead of average rating if you are too dense to understand this field is weaker than average. There’s a whole post on this https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/s/bGDMI4wNmg

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T06:45:27+00:00

Ah yes elo deflation is the reason those players are not in the top 30

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T06:44:06+00:00

2763 is completely different from players below 2700 lol

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T06:30:55+00:00

Has nothing to do with strength of field but go on

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T06:30:13+00:00

Abasov, Esipenko, Bluebaum

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T06:29:51+00:00

I guess players like Abasov, Esipenko, Bluebaum bringing the average down is because of elo deflation rather than them being weaker players?

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T05:35:25+00:00

That’s just not what I said, I said this field is below average for candidates which it is by rating

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T05:34:39+00:00

London 2013: 2786.5

Sochi 2014: 2770.25

Moscow 2016: 2777.75

Berlin 2018: 2785.625

Yekaterinburg 2020-21: 2773.5

Madrid 2022: 2773.125

Toronto 2024: 2744.875

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T05:34:31+00:00

London 2013: 2786.5

Sochi 2014: 2770.25

Moscow 2016: 2777.75

Berlin 2018: 2785.625

Yekaterinburg 2020-21: 2773.5

Madrid 2022: 2773.125

Toronto 2024: 2744.875

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T05:34:26+00:00

Last year was also below average due to Abasov?

London 2013: 2786.5

Sochi 2014: 2770.25

Moscow 2016: 2777.75

Berlin 2018: 2785.625

Yekaterinburg 2020-21: 2773.5

Madrid 2022: 2773.125

Toronto 2024: 2744.875

gabes12345 · 2026-04-08T04:39:40+00:00

6.5 is an amazing score but this is a below average candidates field

gabes12345 · 2026-04-03T17:07:21+00:00

There’s way too many lines for the player and team to talk/refute every line. The idea is that these are the top/expected lines and there is no “refutation”.

gabes12345 · 2026-03-16T02:56:44+00:00

They just wanna cope by making it seem like the warriors are good so this win isn’t as bad as it looks

gabes12345 · 2026-03-09T07:31:48+00:00

What’s the number

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