Oklahoma City Thunder 111 — San Antonio Spurs (JV) 92
It didn’t really matter all that much to me because it was all about Buddy Hield and the Sooners whipping the Oregon Ducks to advance to the Final Four for the fourth time in the school’s surprisingly sneaky good hoops history even though OU is known more for the Mike Price School of Business and its college football icondom (word?).
While every stud Spur short of David Robinson, Avery Johnson, and Bruce Bowen were sipping Hurricanes and listening to Jimmy Buffet from the Spurs bench, Buddy Hield was on fire scoring 37 points and winking at his bud Kobe Bryant in the Anaheim crowd.
Note to KD and Russ…nobody cared about Saturday night inside the Chesapeake Energy Arena because Greg Popvich basically said he’s more important than the fans, television viewers, the league, and maybe even Donald Trump. But when you have five rings you can pretty well tell everyone else they don’t matter.
Trump-Popovich 2016 anyone? Those would be some interesting cabinet meetings for sure. I’m president, Basketball Boy. No, I am–I have five rings, you just have a bullshit reality TV show.
Anyway let’s wrap up this recap of the Thunder basically beating the Spurs junior varsity.
Durant scored 31 and grabbed 10 rebounds. He would be my No. 1 Star of the Game, but he can’t because Greg Popovich is my No. 1 Star of the Game for basically saying to everyone else…they don’t matter. But, hey, Danny Green played.
Westbrook had 29. Kanter went 20, 10. Ibaka had 15 points. The Thunder bench absent of Kanter was a complete clusterf–k. Dion went scoreless against a JV team and pretty much displayed why you can only count on him about one every three games. Which would mean in a seven game series he might matter twice. Maybe.
OKC’s win streak against mediocre teams grows to seven games while the Thunder improve to 51-22 overall.
Great game looming on Monday night in Toronto as the Thunder take on a Raptor team which has seriously challenged the Cavs for the No. 1 seed in the East. I’ll actually be jacked for this game and be ready to write a recap on the same night of the game.
My early line on OU vs. Villanova in the National Semi-Final Game is I have the Sooners listed as the favorite at -1.5 because they have a guy who Kobe Bryant wanted to see play in person.
How about that… Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Let’s see you two guys get to a Final Four this season. You guys have some serious work in front of you.
Rant over.
Mike Jackson