Thank god, I stayed home and didn’t make the drive to Norman to see the OU women get bludgeoned by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. That first period was right up there with the super tanking Thunder as some of the worst basketball I’ve ever observed in my life.
I know if I’d gone and sat behind the OU bench…I would have said something aloud which would have gotten me in trouble.
It was horrific even beyond what the Thunder have done this season minus the 73-point beating the Thunder took back in December or whenever that happened.
The first ten minutes tonight in Norman and the 73-point loss in Memphis rank as the worst B-ball games I’ve ever witnessed in my life to date.
But enough of that sunshine…tomorrow is the weekly installment of 405 Baller’s Thunder Journal
I want to thank the recently banned 405 Baller from the Daily Thunder- Cupcake for sending me the video above. The Baker Mayfield to Seattle Seahawks video was interesting as well. It should be a lively discussion this week.
I don’t think the Thunder are bad enough to list as one of the ten worst teams of all-time, but I would like to see the Thunder play the OU women or Jabari Smith’s Auburn Tigers on the last game of the season with the No. 1 draft pick at stake.
What would Sam Presti do at that point?
Who would he put out on the floor if this scenario unfolded?
Food for thought.
But let’s consider some of the data after the Thunder’s 132-123 loss to the Celtics tonight.
The Thunder have now lost ten straight games. Of the Thunder’s last twenty-one games dating back to February 4th the pathetic Thunder are 3-18. If you go all the way back to January 2nd, the Thunder Tankers are 7-31.
If the Thunder could somehow declare Shai Gilgeous-Alexander injured and out for the season tomorrow afternoon you’d have to think the Thunder would be a gut cinch to lose their last ten games of this NBA regular season.
That would bring the Thunder in at 20-62 for the season. One would think the Thunder a gut cinch to clinch a top three slot in the draft lottery where I’m pretty sure Sam Presti would draft the physically emaciated Chet Holgren as the next great bulimic White Hope of the NBA.
If the Thunder could lose these ten games that would mean the Thunder would finish this season at 7-41 in the calendar year of 2022.
It would mean the Thunder like last season would finish 2-23 in their final 25 games of the basketball season.
So…back up to 405 Baller’s almost prescient video above. If the Thunder in back to back seasons finish 2-23 in their last 25 games of the season…would that qualify as historically bad?
I’m going to sleep on it as well as the notion that Pete Carroll would take Baker Mayfield in Seattle as a one-year rental?
You better bring your Big Boy ‘A’ game tomorrow, 405 Baller.