T-Wolves in town tonight to play the Thunder for the second time this week. After their 8-8 start, reality has set in with this team as they’ve settled downward to the No. 14 seed in the West currently only ahead of the tanking dumpster fire Lakers.
The only ones not seeing this trend coming we’re a group of hoop youngster knaves over at Daily Thunder who started their own rogue Wolves blog because of their restless boredom on Daily Thunder. But still — you have to admire their passion however misguided. We’ll be chatting about the midway scores in the Daily Thunder Western Conference Seeding Contest soon though.
I have great seats tonight–so I’ll work hard at making it fun just seeing Wiggins and Towns.
Vegas has OKC as a 13.5 point favorite, which should be about right if the Thunder bring some focus into this game. This marks the halfway point in the season for OKC. Hard to tell in the past two games if OKC’s confused perimeter defense has improved in that Minnesota is a terrible three point shooting team and Dallas held out Dirk, Chandler, and Matthews on Wednesday night. I would suspect the answer is not much.
If OKC shows up and plays with any kind of fire this should be another game where Cam Payne plays at least 25 minutes. The Thunder bench was torched with a -28 earlier this week against this next to last place team and needs to assert something so as just to get some kind of positive feel going about itself.
The curious Dion Waiters had a horrible game on Monday, a solid game on Wednesday…how would one know what’s in store tonight. Kanter’s defense has been the subject of many recent local stories with various local internet scribes using every imaginable advanced stat to tell us what we already knew….Enes Kanter isn’t very good on the defensive end.
In defense of Billy Donovan and his rotations, he’s going to be dealing with this for the remainder of this season in that Kanter has a no trade clause in essence for the first year of his contract. This is on Sam Presti, not Billy Donovan.
OKC’s record is 28-12 which is good. People can’t be down on the Thunder because of what Golden State and the Spurs are doing. Both are on potentially historic runs and OKC has only played one game total against either of these teams so far.
It’s pretty simple for OKC…their bench and their overall team defense have to get markedly better if they aspire to go beyond the second round.
Not that I think tonight will tell us anything because Minnesota is a bad team, but I’ve got a great seat. So— take smart shots, Dion. Play some defense, Enes. LET’S GO THUNDER!
Hope you’re having fun at the game. Let’s hear about it later! 🙂
Dabei lernt man auch, wie man im Alltag den Beckenboden kräftigen kann,
zum Beispiel beim Warten an der Einkaufskasse, abwechselnd kontrahieren und loslassen.