I Need a Song

Tough day for us OU fans. But life moves forward, not backwards. Pretty sure Ferris Bueller said this or something close to it. I need a little something to soothe the rough edges and put me to sleep without thinking about the game from earlier today. Can’t actually believe I went this many games into a Thunder season with Russell Westbrook and haven’t had to play this yet, but I need it tonight. Hope ‘Nova kicks North Carolina’s ass.

I knew Ferris Bueller said something like this. So, we lost a basketball game. Been there, done that. Moving forward…………….life never stands still. Smell the roses and all that.

 

 

 

 

Tar Heels, ‘Nova Advance to Monday Night

North Carolina and Villanova advance to Monday night’s national championship game. Both were easy double figure winners. But Villanova literally destroyed Oklahoma by a 95-51 count.

Thus, OU’s season ends with two milestones they wish they didn’t have on their resume. 1 The worst ever loss in a Final Four game, and 2 with 41 NCAA Tournament wins OU is first among all programs in wins without winning a national championship.

A horrible game for Buddy Hield and company. They never got going offensively and played uphill the entire game. Still, a great season for these kids, especially the seniors of Hield, Cousins, and Spangler. They were part of turning the program back around despite what happened this evening.

I feel bad for the way they exited, but they accomplished a great deal this season and can take solace in all the positives from this season despite how bad it feels right now.

With Jordan Woodard, Lattin, James, and Buford—Lon Kruger has some players back, but these three seniors were very special for OU hoops and will be remembered in a very good way. Namely, OU became relevant again and people actually started going to games again at LNC.

Golden State and Their Quest

There’s some team shuffling for the final spot in the West between Dallas, Utah, and Houston, plus there’s the possibility Portland jumps injury decimated  Memphis for the 5th seed, but otherwise the West is set in stone with Golden State, San Antonio, OKC, and the Clippers at 1 thru 4.

The only real drama remaining is to see if the Warriors can get to 73-9 and break the Bulls’ record. At 68-7 with seven games remaining, five of which are home games it would appear doable. Their remaining slate goes– Boston, Portland, Minnesota, San Antonio (April 7th), @ Memphis, @ Spurs (April 10th), and Memphis.

Hope they do it. They’ve been a fun team to watch and shown mental toughness in overcoming injuries to Ezeli, Bogut, and Iguodala. If they win tonight against Boston they’ll be sixteen games up on what has been for the most part a healthy Oklahoma City team.

Can’t wait to see the Warrior vs. Spurs games. Hopefully, Popovich plays his players.

Thunder Survive Clippers JV With Late Adams Tip

Oklahoma City Thunder 119 — LA Clippers 117

I have a suggestion for NBA commish Adam Silver, since none of the teams in your league seem to have any interest in playing an 82 game regular season then why not shorten the season to 72 games and give the players some rest and save the fans from watching this bullshit.

For the second straight home game, Oklahoma City fans wasted their time and money on a game which ended up being another version of junior varsity basketball at NBA ticket prices. No Blake Griffin, who’s still serving a suspension for bitch slapping one of his own trainers. No Chris Paul, no DeAndre Jordan, no JJ Redick, no Paul Pierce. But plenty of Jamal Crawford and Austin Rivers who had their way pretty much all night against a Thunder defense which gave up 69 first half points against these guys.

I must confess, I fell asleep at least four times and changed to Lawrence O’Donnell at least another six times in hopes of seeing something interesting on television…so I have no idea who purported OKC lockdown defender Andre Roberson was guarding, but evidently Roberson wasn’t in prime Bruce Bowen form tonight.

Please read this Adam Silver—this game had less appeal than a Texas Tech vs. TCU girls softball game. Less interest than watching to see if Donald Trump even knows what he supposed to say about abortion as a Republican. And certainly less appeal than Lyin’ Ted Cruz dicking with Trump about his wife. This was completely gongable.

Kevin Durant played 40 minutes after sitting out the contest against former teammate Reggie Jackson on Tuesday night. But I guess if you calibrate the fact no one wearing a Thunder jersey played any defense whatsoever, I’m to assume that calibrates into Durant actually playing 24 real game minutes tonight.

By the grace of God and a Steven Adams tip with 29.6 seconds left, this one ended in regulation.

In theory this could have been Kevin Durant’s last regular season game in Oklahoma City since only one more home game on the regular season slate remains with the dumpster fire and in turmoil LA Lakers coming to town on April 11th. I refuse to even go into the Russell-Nick Young  sexual wiring fiasco in as I’ve seen enough of that from Trump and Cruz of late.

Adam Silver, again I write this… if you’ve got a gong, please gong the rest of this NBA regular season away except for the Warrior vs. Spurs games.

Mike Jackson