This is just so Sam Presti.
I took a week off on my blog from even writing about the Thunder thinking they’d be on the cusp of a nuanced tank two weeks before Christmas. I thought I’d enjoy college football’s Championship Week and get on here tonight with the Thunder standing somewhere around 8-15 after twenty-three games of their regular season.
Instead—these Thunder of Presti have confused me even more as they’ve now peeled off three wins in a row over the likes of Minnesota, Portland, and Utah—with the last two wins coming on the road in gyms where even Durant and Westbrook had some trouble winning basketball games.
Go figure.
Add to the fact it appears Presti was hiding a gem of a role player in a person named Lugeuentz Dort who was the Thunder’s second round pick from Arizona State this past summer.
So who is this Luguentz Dort?
He has a body like Marcus Smart. He shoots threes worse than Andre Roberson, yet looks decent at the free throwline and at the rim. Looks like the next linebacker Lincoln Riley should be recruiting and plays defense like Patrick Beverly against the other team’s best guard.
Amazingly, the Thunder now sit at 11-12 and are the No. 7 seed in the West. And here I sit for the first time in a year actually somewhat intrigued by the Thunder because of a role player named Lug Dort.
Like Operation Bongo—this could only happen in Oklahoma City which has another vote on MAPS to begin later this morning if you didn’t vote early. I’m voting for Dort.
Tank, rebuild, reset…I have no idea what the Thunder are doing. But I do know this after watching all the bullshit in Oklahoma City last season with Presti’s team of effort indifference. I know I’m going to click on Fox on Wednesday night and watch Lou Dort hound Buddy Hield in Sacramento in a game which all the sudden has the Thunder one game under .500 and apparently for the time being in the hunt for a playoff spot in the West.
I guess we in OKC should have known with Sam Presti in this season of the reset or rebuild or tank in Oklahoma City.