Even the Thunder couldn’t lose this one. The Nets without Kevin Durant and the still unvaccinated Kyrie Irving were on the last night of a four game in five days stretch…. this is one the Thunder couldn’t lose.
Plus…I think whenever Hinkie-Presti can beat Durant and Harden it’s cathartic balm for his provincial franchise to get all fired up. The Thunder rolled. In the process OKC won a game they’ll probably regret come mid-April.
This game marks the mid-way point for the Thunder in the eighty-two game NBA regular season. OKC now stands at 14-27…which means for me to hit my 22-60 bet on the Thunder’s win total this season…the tanking Thunder need to go 8-33 the second half of this season.
Chris Fisher actually used the word alacrity during the broadcast while I was watching my Thunder ten-minute quota. I was stunned. Where did that come from? I loved it, but I wonder how many Proud Boys and Oath Keepers even knew that word existed. I loved it though.
Alacrity….noun: brisk and cheerful readiness.
I love that he had the nerve to use that noun in Oklahoma. It must have been the former USC broadcaster in him. I’m giving Chris Fisher a helmet sticker. Not many Oklahoma dudes dropping alacrity in their daily conversations. Juanita Elijah, my high school English teacher from John Marshall would have kissed Chris Fisher for using alacrity during a Thunder game.
The LA Clippers may be tanking full fold pretty soon so maybe there’s hope for OKC that pick will actually turn into a player since Poku is back playing G League basketball again.
I watched maybe ten minutes of this game then started watching other things on Thursday night:
Texas Tech rolled Mike Boynton’s offensively punchless Cowboys in Lubbock like I thought they would.
Memphis won their 11th straight game.
Milwaukee rolled the Golden State Warriors at home.
The streaking Boston Bruins, 10-3-2 in their last fifteen games, beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in Boston behind a David Pasternak hat trick. It was the second night in a row the Bruins were featured on either TNT or ESPN …so for me it was a nice hockey week.
With the Thunder now down to 7th place in my current Oklahoma sports relevancy poll…this is where I’ll pick it up with my hockey coverage. Trust me…you won’t get this anywhere else in Oklahoma.
The Bruins can score goals and have a wonderful power play, but I just don’t know how far they can go with the emotionally volatile Tuuka Rask in net.
In hockey—you build your team from the net out if you aspire to hoist a Cup… and I fear while the Bruins are an exciting team to watch in the regular season—it could be tough for the Bruins come Stanley Cup Playoff time. Pray for Tuukka.
I need to get ready for the NFL Playoffs and the cold weather headed our way. Nothing better than a brief cold spell while watching NFL playoff football.