Thunder Lose To Memphis On Eve Of Trade Deadline

It’s March 25th..with the hallowed ritual of the NBA trade deadline being pushed back a month this year due to Covid. I have no clue what Sam Presti will do, but you would think George Hill will be moved to a contender of some sort for a second round pick.

The Trevor Ariza trade which was made previously… I didn’t even note on my blog because it was of such little consequence.

I would think Mike Muscala could be moved today as well despite how well he’s played this season. Hope he lands on a roster of relevance because he was a true professional this season. Good luck…Mike Muscala.

With Big Al Horford’s large contract I’m not sure what will be done with Big Al today if anything as Shai Gilgeous Alxander needs someone on the bench to talk to now that it appears Presti with 28 games remaining in the regular season may finally get serious about tanking.

It appears Shai has some sort of mysterious injury which will require him to sit for awhile. The injury is called fiduciary malpractice…as in if Sam Presti doesn’t come out of this draft with a top five pick it will be fiduciary malpractice on a par with OU hiring John Blake to be their head football coach back in the day.

The Thunder club level scrimmage team now stands at 19-25 with 28 games remaining since the league is only playing 72 regular season games this year. Shai is playing at too high of a level to keep putting him on the floor. He keeps winning too much. You can’t tell Secretariat to run slow…so you make up the seriousness of an injury and sit him. No one is buying tickets in Oklahoma City this season and this is worse than pro wrestling….so you sit him.

I would assume if Presti got lucky enough to get a top pick at this point…either Cade or the trending Evan Mobley would be at the top of his list. But who really knows…maybe Poku has a second cousin in the Greek C League or a lost brother on the Serbian Discovery Team.

The Thunder last night in Oklahoma Cty got blown out by the Memphis Grizzlies after leading by as many as ten points midway through the third period. It appeared to be a classic tank maneuver… a rollover at just the right time or else the Thunder would be standing 20-24 as I write this morning….and still foolishly in contention for a spot as the 10th seed in the West.

That’s it for me. I don’t recap scrimmages on my blog….only real sporting events. Maybe the hapless Little Nick Gallo and the millenial sychopants at the Daily Thunder will continue to cover the rest of this nonsense on a game by game basis… but they have to do it as they’re being paid by Presti to do so. I blog for the pure joy of blogging about real competition. Sam Presti…like me, was a double major with a history degree—so at some point he should start reading my blog.

Anyway…March Madness and the glorious Sweet 16 gets in gear starting tomorrow. My feature game of course will 15 Oral Roberts vs. 3 Arkansas. I saw both of these teams play other opponents during the regular season and this should be an interesting game.

I have ho idea who’s up next for the Thunder, but I know this—they need to lose the game. and I won’t be recapping it. But I will occasionally feature highlights from one of the youngters if they have a good night on the hardcourt.

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