Carmelo Leads Portland Past Thunder, 136-119

It’s hard not to laugh out loud. Sam Anderson somewhere is laughing his ass off this morning and wishing this was another epilogue to his book Boom Town.

The Oklahoma City Thunder did two things on Wednesday night in Portland which they could never do the entire season Carmelo played for Billy Donovan. Two things. In 28 minutes of playing time Carmelo was 9-11 from the field and a +27 for Terry Stotts… +27

It’s making me laugh thinking of the part in Anderson’s book where the Oklahoma City leaders volunteered the citizens of OKC to be lab mice for the testing of sonic booms upon humans in an urban setting. Operation Bongo is what I think they called the sonic boom experiment.

Carmelo schooling the Thunder makes me laugh. Operation Bongo II and with a MAPS IV vote on the slate in a week or so.

Here’s the reality. If you take away the three wins versus Golden State’s current G League squad playing up with the big boys—what we have is an OKC Thunder team which is 3-11 otherwise.

3-11.

If you scratch Golden State’s G League team from the West and shrink the Western Conference to fourteen teams–it would appear OKC and Memphis perhaps might be headed towards a battle for the No. 13 seed in the West.

Which is a nice thing because I’m going to the December 26th game in OKC to see Ja Morant in person when the Memphis Grizzlies visit Oklahoma City.

I don’t think OKC gets to play the Warriors again this season. So the question which begs to be asked is how many games can this squad STILL WITH Chris Paul and Big Gallo win out of the remaining 65 games left on the schedule?

Who else can this team beat on the road in the West?

I don’t know. But I think what I need to do is go back to the 23-59 season and see how many road games that team won in Oklahoma City’s first season of having their own NBA team.

It doesn’t matter. But I’m just curious here in Deer Creek on Thanksgiving morning as Pauli and I are getting ready to go into the woods looking for her mountain lion.

A sense of humor and irony will be needed to get thru this first year of the Presti Rebuild as we all search for NBA sustainability in Oklahoma City.


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