One cupcake begats another cupcake it goes in some alien basketball universe proverb, okay— so I just made it up, but still. On the same night Michael Flynn resigned not even a month into the piece of shit presidency headed by Donald Trump, Sam Presti’s Thunder stank up the nation’s capitol even more with perhaps the most pathetic display of basketball in the Thunder era in Oklahoma City.
It must have been hard for former fired Thunder coach Scott Brooks not to rip off his shirt and show a huge cupcake painted on his chest, waggle his finger, and mouth the words to Sam Presti — ‘I told you so,’ but he didn’t. Scott Brooks has too much class to do such a thing. And, oh, by the way, Brooks’ Wizards have now won 11 out of their last 12 and are the hottest team in the NBA heading into the All-Star break. Good for Scott Brooks, he’s a nice man and a decent basketball coach.
Just to set the cupcake scoreboard clear before I hit paragraph #4, the other cupcake who now plays in Oakland was getting his ass beat as well as the Denver Nuggets mauled Charlie Bell’s Super Team by the identical 22 point margin the Thunder lost by in D.C. Call it Cupcake Karma, call it a Cupcake boomerang, call it whatever you want, but maybe sagacious Kendrick Perkins knew what he was talking about…cupcake wise.
God this sucks writing this recap. But somebody has to man the Thunder Underground and not just lap dance Sam Presti 24/7 like others do covering this team.
I didn’t really call Russell Westbrook a cupcake, but he did play his worst game of the season tonight. It was awful and it appeared he had nothing left in his gas tank, and with good reason, he’s carried Sam Presti and Billy Donovan all season long after they lost Kevin Durant in free agency. If you wanted a glimpse of what the Thunder might look like without Russell Westbrook’s heroics this season you got it tonight as Westbrook’s uber competitive soul couldn’t get up after the game in Oklahoma City on Saturday night. Call it a cupcake hangover per se, but Westbrook is entitled–his teammates, Donovan, and Sam Presti aren’t.
Russell Westbrook was -36 in 24 minutes of play in this basketball game. It was ugly to watch, but I don’t mean this to be an insult to Westbrook, but more to the point an accolade of how he’s carried this team to a winning mark heading in the All-Star break. I mean this to be an insult to Sam Presti, as in do your fucking job and get someone on your team who can score the ball consistently every night and be Westbrook’s second in command. That’s what I mean because if not it would be stupid of Westbrook to waste his entire pro career playing in Oklahoma City.
I actually like both Adams and Oladipo as players, but it’s becoming apparent neither are quite good enough to be the second best player on a team which wants to be a serious contender. Since there’s no way in hell I’d trade Steven Adams, maybe we’re at a point when some other type of trade needs to be made if one is out there to be made which can help this basketball team.
Granted, the Thunder have now played the Cavs, the Warriors, and the hottest team in the league in succession, but Russell Westbrook needs some help.
I’d like to close with at least one positive paragraph in this recap. I thought Joff Lauvergne had a nice game, his play was the lone bright spot I detected in this basketball game.
Somehow I want to close this Thunder/Presti recap recant with a dueling reference to the smoldering heap of shit dysfunction known as the Trump presidency.
Okay, Trump, in essence, just waived Michael Flynn. Which btw Barack Obama did as well back in 2014 when he canned Flynn’s reckless ass for subordination. Trump says he’s eyeing David Petreous as some sort of reclamation project. Don’t do that Little Donald or Sam Presti, what he did was far worse than what Crooked Hillary did with her emails. Maybe go for a solid two way guard in Milwaukee by the name of Kris Middleton and see what WTF happens when you add another honest two way player to the mix.
The end.