More than halfway thru this NBA season I feel a need to change the flow and tone of the previews on this rogue Thunder blog. We’ve seen all the teams once to this point and the reality is clear unless you’re a Fox homer drone who has a Nick Gallo sippy cup in his hand during the games. The truth is this…of the thirty teams in this league — only two aren’t mortally flawed to the extent they can win the championship this season. Only two, unless Cleveland or Oklahoma City make a game changing trade on the trade deadline to change the equation.
OKC plays the 19-22 Charlotte Hornets tonight in the Chesapeake Energy Arena. The Hornets enter as the coldest team in the East as they’ve lost eight of their last ten games. Their best big Al Jefferson is still out, and there’s no reason OKC shouldn’t dominant this game from beginning to end. None.
Kemba Walker and Nicholas Batum will test the Thunder defense, but it should be a game where Durant, Westbrook, and at least one other Thunder player frolick like freed sables in the ending scene of Gorky Park.
I’d like to see Serge Ibaka frolicking as the third sable tonight. He’s my desiginated third guy of the of game going in award winner tonight.
OKC is 31-12, they should be 32-12 somewhere around 9:15pm CST.
There are no secrets or keys to victory tonight if OKC plays with any focus or edge. This is a game OKC should take by the jugular and impose their superiority from the opening tap.
I haven’t bothered googling my favorite Vegas NBA odds site. I’m saying OKC -12.5 in this one.
As this season moves along the previews should be succinct, more to the point, and lacking any ambiguity. OKC is at home and is the superior team. A team which needs wins and in streaks of five, eight, and ten at this point if they want to be mentioned seriously in the same breath as Golden State and the Spurs.