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Time for me to get back on track with the Cade Cunningham Journal. It was a log jammed schedule last night for me hoops-wise as I had my eye on four games. But clearly Mike Boynton’s O State team beating No. 6 Kansas 75-70 inside Gallagher Iba was the game I watched primarily.
A great win for O State as they’ve steadied since a shaky Big 12 start and stand at 9-3 overall, 3-3 in rugged Big 12 play, and now sit as the No. 5 seed in the league.
This young team is falling into its roles while getting better every game. Cade, Ike Likekele, Rondel Walker, and Bryce Williams to me at least are the best four players on the team and it looks like Mike Boynton has his team going the right way heading into Saturday’s home Bedlam game with OU … 7-4, 3-3.
Cade was ice-cold steady as usual with 18 points and 7 rebounds. He plays with a fluid coolness which at times belies he’s the best player on the floor. But what impressed me more was the collective play of Likekele, Rondel Walker, and Bryce Williams. Those guys are legit and they made big plays when big plays needed to be made.
OU down in Norman blew out Jaime Dixon’s Horned Frogs setting the tone for a Bedlam game on Saturday which will easily be my No. 1 local hoops game to watch this week-end. Brady Manek and Jalen Hill both sat out the win over TCU as both are in Covid protocol.
In Oklahoma City the tanking Thunder played the semi-tanking Spurs with San Antonio prevailing 112-102 in a game in which I probably saw about eight minutes of game time as I did not miss any of the O State game.
What can you say? The Thunder needed to lose and get back on track on the journey to lose enough to possibly put Cade Cunningham on their team next season. Job well done and with the Lakers in town tonight on the second night of a back to back one would think the Thunder will have it back in gear with a two game losing streak working in this home stand.
To date — the Thunder have yet to win a home game in this Covid season of empty arenas. I would submit the lack of fans negates home field in basketball more than in any other of the four major league sports.
Again…this is the perfect season for Sam Presti to tank in an innocent college market such as Oklahoma City which by chance came upon an NBA franchise by way of Hurricane Katrina. If Sam Presti is going to tank this is the year.
It just stuns me that in little sleepy Birther racist Oklahoma… I’m still reading people who think the Thunder shouldn’t tank this NBA season. Just stunning. Sigh.
The fourth game I kept track of was the Houston Rockets’ loss to the LA Lakers. We might not need Houston to implode to this point as the Rockets have dropped to the No. 13 seed in the West currently. Steady in Houston… please don’t lose this much.
I can’t wait to watch Bedlam.