It’s early in the season, but at some point these guys have to look within themselves and either compete for 48 minutes and take some fucking pride in their craft or come to terms with some things about their respective games. OKC is already five and a half games out of first place in the Western Conference and three games back in the Northwest Division. I feel like it’s late April with all the bullshit excuses from the Cox telecast crew so far. There’s four guys on this team making in excess of $20 million dollars and a decent enough bench. Scott Brooks was fired to make room for Billy Donovan so there’s no need here for any excuse making moving forward. Just do your job.
Mentally bear down. Stop looking around at each other. Read and react. Head on a swivel. Move the ball. Talk on defense. Move your goddamn feet. Rebound the basketball. Talk some more. Command your space. Get out in transition. Play hard. Move the ball. Finish like a winner.
That’s it. There’s no need for metrics figuring this out, there’s a need for some coaching and some heart to manifest itself in Oklahoma City tonight when the Golden State Warriors come to town.
It was cold this morning in Deer Creek. So this is my pregame music to get myself in the right frame of mind. This song always gets me in a positive frame of mind when things seem somewhat cloudy. It reminds me of the beach ending in Shawshank Redemption. I’d play the Pacino video, but I’m not sure that’ll work with these guys. Have a wonderful first ever Caligula Thanksgiving and thank god the constitution has somewhat held up so far.