My goodness…what a great NBA regular season basketball game!!!! Steph in the final three minutes was almost as pure gold as he was in the Gold Medal game in Paris this summer.
Am I out of line here saying Steph is currently the most impactful player in the game presently?
I don’t think I am. Jokic has only won one ring. Shai has done virtually nothing in post season play in his career, and quite franly I think Joel Imbiid is a bit of a lazy punk.
So it has to be Steph as far as I’m concerned.
This press conference is what it’s all about. Steph and Draymond respect the fact Klay helped them win four rings, but none of that mattered in this instant classic game. This game had it all.
I’m still amped and its Thursday evening. Draymond Green…dude, even with some of your emotional baggage at times you’re the dude I want in the the foxhole next to me if Trump ever turns Matt Gaetz and the Proud Boys loose on me. Draymond is one of the most competitive athletes I’ve ever witnessed in football, hockey, or basketball.
Matt Gaetz as the top lawyer in America, yeah…that’s difficult to absorb. But it is what it is.
Yeah, sure…Draymond slapped Lu Dort in the head the other night in the Oke City game, but you youngsters out there take note Draymond didn’t get a flagrant foul and hurt his team.
OU football needs someone like Draymond. Someone who’s just about winning and nothing else. Could you imagine Draymond as the Sooners’ Cheetah- back? It gives me chills just thinking about it. Yes…there could be a few targeting reviews, but the Sooners need more physicality in a big, big way.
I’m loving the Tournament so far and it would be very cool if it’s ‘my Warriors’ and the Thunder in the semis. That would be a ratings bonanza.
Anyway….I’m outta here. I think ‘my Nuggets play tonight if I’m not mistaken.
Klay…I still love you, but on this night I think it was clear who the Big Dog Alpha was in Golden State and still is.
Draymond playing hockey, eh? The thought of it makes me numb.
I was fishing and hiking yesterday at our family refuge southwest of Alex, Oklahoma so I didn’t post anything on Golden State’s road win Sunday versus the Thunder.
First off, like all real NBA fans I hope this latest injury to Chet doesn’t rob him out of a second complete NBA season just in his third year in the league. A very tough break for this kid whose body has always concerned me. But as far as his playing ability… he’s proven to be a gritty, smart, tenacious two zone complete basketball player.
But there’s always been that concern with me Chet could be the next Sam Bowie, the next Greg Oden, or the next Bill Walton.
I hope the best for Chet for certain. I tell you one thing…you add a healthy Chet to the Warriors and Klay and Draymond would be putting a fifth ring on their hands. Word. Send him a get well text and invite him to be on your podcast, Draymond. Just saying.
As far as the game on Sunday…I wouldn’t read too much into it either way. Right now from my view…the Suns without Kevin Durant are obviously not a Top 4 team in the brutal Western Conference. So…I’d wait and see there with KD’s health as well.
As a Denver Nugget and Golden State Warriors fan I’m very much liking what I’ve seen from both of ‘my’ teams so far this young season.
I think Golden State did a very nice job rebuilding their roster this off season after the departure of Klay. Buddy Hield, De’Anthony Melton, Kyle Anderson, and even Lindy Waters all make this Warrior roster deeper and more fluid to adjust to the rigors of a long 82 game haul in the West.
The Nuggets have gently pulled it together after their 0-2 start. The roles on their bench are starting to somewhat fall in place. That what good coaches do…they drive their teams to get better every week and so far it appears Michael Malone’s team won’t be irrelevant in the West.
My mantra with Denver is simple…Russ play under control..and Christian Braun, Peyton Watson, Watson, and Julian Strawther pull your collective links on the chain every shift you’re on the court. GET BETTER.
As far as the Thunder without Chet for ten weeks or beyond…I would still say they’ll win more than their share of regular season games as long as Shai and JDub can remain healthy. As far as the NBA Playoffs go…I would not view the Thunder as a serious contender to win a championship without a healthy, vibrant Chet. I think he’s a difference maker for certain.
In the regular season with Shai and JDub healthy…. just based on the Thunder’s overall athleticism in my mind they could still win fifty games just off their pace and the ability to create easy points off of live turnovers.
I’m excited…I believe we’re right on the cusp of our second In Season NBA Tournament and I loved the tournament last season when LeBron, AD, and Austin led the Lakers to the championship.
I’d love to se the Thunder even without Chet make some noise in the tournament this season.
Great question this Saturday on the Smerconish show. It goes something like this:
‘Did Donald Trump reveal the character of America or change it?’
I think its both actually. In 2016, he revealed the more basic private racist and sexist thoughts of many white Americans….especially males. Then I would say as we’ve moved along to what just happened in this election…. he has changed the narrative culture in America from aspirational to self-economic transactional.
Anotherwords…the polar opposite of JFK, Clinton and Obama when their melded philosophies were somewhat, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do to make your country a better place to live for all?
Duh….it was the economy, stupid. Especially the doctrine of self-economy.
And I think basically if you observe how many males in this country watch Joe Rogan podcasts its pretty simple to connect the demographic dots and realize that there are now three election generations who think Donald Trump’s gutter level act is the way forward as young men.
Hey…I’m not going to change that narrative plugging away here on okcthunderground.com.
It is what is…and that’s why I’ve never been a registered member of the Democratic Party. I’m not thinking I’m changing the world or anything on here. I’m just a dude working on trying to be the best version of myself every day. I’m not that complex. Never claimed to be.
So…I’m going to go work out and keep the good feeling going with my Stage 4 cancer little baby miracle.
I was born in 1957 in San Diego. My father was an officer in the U.S. Navy at Balboa. Dwight D. Eisenhower, America’s hero in WWII, was in his second term as president. America was the inspiration of the free world. It was a time when ‘American Exceptionalism’ was beginning to take hold throughout the world.
Then fifty-one years later… Barack Obama won back to back terms as the president of the greatest nation in the world after rescuing the country from the eight years of Bush 43 after the world economies failed.
From a historian’s standpoint…I would say this election was somewhat similar to Obama’s win in 2008 and Reagan’s win in 1980. That being, both of those elections had the same dynamics with domestic economic turmoil with the Iran hostage situation and the two wars in the Middle East we went into with Jimmy Carter first and then 43 in his quest to kill Hussein.
And BTW…that’s something Donald Trump and and I agree on…that being…43’s decision to invade Iraq was the singular dumbest decision in American foreign policy history. I’m over Trump…it’s not even him with me anymore…it’s you 72 million people who voted for him who bother me. Your lack of history acumen, or civics, or just basic integrity is beyond my realm.
I wonder if a black man like Barack Obama hadn’t been elected to those two terms if America as a nation would today have just selected a convicted felon and overall liar and cheat as it’s next president in its effort to take ‘the country back’?
You people who voted for Trump are the ones at this point who bother me. Your complete lack of any respect for the people in our country’s history who served our nation for your freedoms appall me. You voted for the man who said all of those who serve, or who served previously were/are losers, suckers, and chumps.
Yeah…I get it, Kamala Harris is way too far left. I agree. But why didn’t you GOP primary voters just make Nikki Haley, Chris Christy, or Ron Desantis your nominee if Kamala Harris is so bad and out of touch with the center?
If she was that bad…then clearly she would have been beaten by any of those three GOP candidates– one would surely assume.
But I guess they’re Deep State fake as well. Sigh.
So I must conclude at this point…. you people just love Trump’s anti woke/lit standup routine and couldn’t you people give a shit about the actual goverance of our country at what is a very critical time in not only America’s history, but the world history as well.
Where was your courage? If Kamala Harris is as bad as you people make her out to be you’d think my neighbor’s dog could have beten Trump.
25% OF PRO CHOICE WOMEN VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP!
Really???? You gave up your right to choice because a Big Mac and order of fries cost 35% more since Trump’s Pandemic?
I GIVE THE F–K UP!!!!!
I was supposed to be in Arkansas tonight in preparation for another trip down the White River with Captain Dave on Saturday. Captain Dave now treats me better than royalty since I informed him I’m the closest living descendant of Jesse James….which I actually am, no bullshit. He loves guiding ‘famous people’. First Clinton, now MJ. But its going to rain all day tomorrow in NW Arkansas….so that will have to be rescheduled.
Cozumel is calling me. I’m in desperate need of some head clearing.
OU is a road favorite tomorrow on the road at Missouri. Maybe with Deion Burks and Farooq back… my Sooners will give me some emotional solace by becoming bowl eligible for the 26th straight season. Maybe the football gods will show me some pity with a Sooner win.
From Eisenhower to President Obama to Donald Trump…if that chart of cultural descent doesn’t illustrate the deep cultural decline in America …then I don’t know what would.
It’s not about Donald Trump with me anymore. It was a fair election. I won’t break into the Oklahoma state capital and shit all over the walls and piss in Ryan Walters’ office. I’m not you people. That’s not El Prez.
What you people did was stunning. We have learned nothing from the Athenians and Romans. Virtually nothing.
Two very nice games for me last night in the NBA as the Warriors won on the road against the defending champion Boston Celtics while ‘my’ Denver Nuggets scrapped and clawed their way to an improbable two point win at home without Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon.
What a great win for the Nuggets as they won against the West’s alleged best team without their second (Jamal) and third (Aaron) best players.
There was some big-time stepping up last night as Russell Westbrook, Christian Braun, Michael Porter Jr., Peyton Watson, and Julian Strawther all in my mind pulled the collective link on the chain coach Michael Malone needs from these guys this season if his team aspires to make a run in the playoffs.
As far as the Thunder…they were okay last night at best. It was their first loss of the season and at times to me they looked like they were not exactly locked in. And I think that will be a problem here and there for Coach Mark because everyone in the NBA world is telling these guys they walk on water despite the fact they really didn’t do all that much in last year’s brief playoff run.
But having written the previous paragraph I will quickly add … I as well have the precocious Thunder at #1 on my current Western Conference poll. Time will tell with these young guys. We’ve yet to see Hartenstein and in my mind Alex Caruso is a defensive upgrade over departed Josh Giddey, but not exactly a game changer in my mind who will do anything Kenrich Williams hasn’t done for the Thunder in previous seasons.
The Thunder host the surging and surprising Warriors on Sunday, and I may actually see if I can attend that game in person. That should be a very cool game as Buddy Hield and Lindy Waters come back to Oklahoma.
The Warriors’ are so far the surprise in the West and it looks to me as if they can keep Steph healthy this very deep team could make some noise as this NBA season moves along.
The above video of John McCain’s concession speech is for Trump Nation. This is what it looks like when an adult losses an election and then shows the appropriate class, integrity, dignity, and just basic good manners. Just saying.
Be kind Oklahoma. Show me some of those ‘deep’ running Christian values as we move forward with your boy.
This is actually what I was going to use on my blog headline yesterday, but you know, me being the completely old out of touch dude that I am…there was this fleeting thought inside of me that some other Americans might have had a problem with a convicted felon and seditionist returning to the White House for a second term.
So much for that stupid self semi-revelation. Pull your head out of your ass, MJ. Get with this new America which has no soul or moral conscious. It is what it is. Que sera, buddy.
I’m already over it here on Wednesday morning for this very simple reason, that being, at this point in America’s downward evolution I’m not really sure it makes a difference at this point if Donald Trump is president or not.
My life will be fine. And the fact of the matter is many of the people who voted for Trump came from the demographic groups who should have flocked under the protective umbrella of Kamala Harris. Women, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, gays, trans, Asians, poor whites, the American Indians, and maybe even dogs and cats in Ohio.
The real irony here is the Obama coalition did vote, they just didn’t vote for Kamala Harris because inflation along with a country without an enforced Southern border are not great selling points to win the White House for another four years.
I’ll actually do better with Trump as president. So my days of worrying about you people are over. But I will pray for you and I will pray that somehow, some way… Donald Trump will conduct himself as an adult these next four years and help you people navigate your lives in this new America.
There are silver linings here for certain. The impending civil war will not take place. The country will not be mired in another election being decided by the Supreme Court as well. And most importantly…this should make all the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers not want to head to D.C. for another round of insurrection.
Just last weekend, my wife and I were in Denver because I was invited to be the Mystery Guest Reader in my grandson Robert’s kindegarten class. Never before or after will Ms. Megan Brake’s class EVER have Green Eggs and Ham read to them like Mike J laid it all on the line with what should be an Oscar worthy performance. Al Pacino could not have done any better.
I looked at those innocent little faces and wondered to myself…’What kind of a country are we leaving to our grandchildren?’
And unfortunately a voice answered, ” One without a moral compass or any soul whatsoever. It’s just about the money, Mike. It’s always about the money, dumbass. Always.”
So from this point forward on my blog, I’m done writing much of anything in regards to Donald Trump and his people.
Have a nice day and be kind to one another and pray every day for one another these next four years. Trust me….you’re going to need lots and lots of prayer.
Well…here we are. Remarkably…the convicted felon Donald Trump is not in federal prison where he belongs, but possibly a pick ’em or maybe even a slight favorite to win back the White House four years after the darkest day in American history.
Darker than Pearl Harbor. Darker than 9/11. Not even close.
A sitting president with clear ‘mens rea’ premeditated intent attempted to overthrow an American presidential election after he was defeated by eight million votes by Joe Biden.
We will see in the next 24 hours if America still has a soul or a conscious of any sort as the results of today’s vote begin to filter in via our fifty states.
Does America have a soul any longer or did Donald Trump and the fake Trump Christians and deplorables extinguish the American Dream and American democracy simply because this spoiled petulant trust fund brat has never been able to come to terms with the fact he got beaten in the 2020 election by eight million votes by Sleepy Joe Biden.
It will be a fascinating night of American history.
A note to you Trump Deplorables, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers…if the night doesn’t go your way please do not hurt innocent people. Feel free to harm each other, but please use your brains this time around. Don’t distinguish yourselves as the most ignorant group of dumbasses in American history.
Thank you, and God Bless America….where in essence we are all equal by the rule of law.