Thunder Win Streak Ends at Four With Home Loss to Memphis, 110-97

For the second straight home game… Danilo Gallinari was a DNP-ankle and this time it cost the Thunder dearly on both ends of the floor as the Memphis Grizzlies handled the Thunder with surprising ease on Friday night with a 110-97 road win.

A very disappointing loss for the feel good Thunder. Even without Gallinari’s silk smooth shot manning the stretch four position this a game you need to win if you’re the Thunder. Memphis was on the second night of a road back to back—and quite frankly if the Thunder want to be a playoff contender they have to be better than this as a rested home team.

The Thunder got pounded on the boards and lost most of the live ball one on one battles when it mattered. I mean…that’s a stat which tells you who came to the arena wanting it more. You don’t need a metric to read this. Memphis wanted the game more.

Memphis has a nice young roster with some talented guys like Ja Morant, Jerin Jackson, Brandon Clarke, etc… but this is a game the Thunder have to win if they want to remain relevant after Gallinari is traded in the coming days.

I don’t mean to be cruel, but I thought four guys were really, really bad for the Thunder on a night when the Thunder core wasn’t horrible. At home…you’re supposed to be able to get something from your role players. I’ll be blunt, Billy Donovan got little if nothing from Terrance Ferguson, Darius Bazley, Nerlens Noel, and Mike Muscala on a night when quite frankly the team needed somewhat tangible from them on the floor.

I thought Chris Paul was fine and Shai was okay. Steven got handled a little bit late and Dennis struggled early, but still……Donovan needs more than just four guys playing against an entire opposing roster.

If Donovan can’t get more than this from Ferguson and Bazley then maybe stick Dort out here a few minutes to at the least show these guys what it means TO BATTLE FOR A LOOSE BALLL OR DO THE LITTLE THINGS. What it means to be given viable minutes in an NBA game a sa young player. This was a game where I was surprised Donovan didn’t insert Dort to in essence give his lethargic team a kick in the ass spurt of sorts.

You can’t be the St. Louis Blues or the Washington Nationals with this type of half-assed effort and perhaps it will be a learning moment for several of these guys.

The Thunder play at Charlotte tonight against a sub .500 Bobcat team. I’m not expecting Gallinari to play so we’ll see if the Thunder take something from last night’s loss.

The fairytale Thunder stand at 15-15 with a game and half lead for the No. 7 seed. But here’s the thing—one would expect Portland and San Antonio at some point to somewhat get their acts together as we head into the winter months of the NBA season.

I shouldn’t have played the Jake Owens song. It was too much for these guys. I hope I didn’t ruin it for them.

We had great seats for the game last night. I could have literally touched the Thunder Girls with my spirit balloons if I were some sort of creepy perv. Add to it Kristen Chenoweth was sitting pretty close to us as well. So—even with the loss it was a decent night.

The basketball gods work that way at times. I try to cover all the bases on my Thunder blog since we no longer have a newspaper in Oklahoma City.

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