This is a Thunder game I’m actually going to watch tonight as the feeble Thunder (20-35) travel to Detroit to play the wretched Pistons (16-39) in a 6:00pm CST tip.
I think we’re going to cater at home with some Peruvian food from 1492 and make a special Thunder night of it on another cold dank evening in Deer Creek.
For Thunder fans…..these last seventeen games are the playoffs. Embrace the moment.
This game will have my full attention. This will be like a divisional round playoff game to see if the Thunder are worthy of becoming a Final Four tanker in the quest to secure either Cade, Evan Mobley, or Jalen Suggs in this summer’s NBA draft.
I’m guessing right now Michael Cage in his hotel room is going over all his notes in anticipation of this game tonight in Detroit.
I know I’m a little amped myself. Since the Daily Thunder, the blog I used to run back when it was relevant, announced earlier this week it’s not even going to attempt to write recaps or content any longer… someone has to step in and write some Thunder content in this market. I tried to tell them…but instead they banned me and seemed determined to travel this road.
There is a moral to this story, boys. If you don’t have a Hemingway or a storyteller on staff….just do the plaguaristic Bolts and the provincial messageboard. It’s always wise to know who’s your Jimmy Chitwood and who are your role players…..if you know what I mean.
Let’s glance at the Super Tanker Standings heading into tonight’s game versus Detroit in the race to acquire Cade Cunningham:
1 Minnesota 14-42
2 Houston 14-41
3 Detroit 16-39
4 Orlando 18-37
5 Oklahoma City 20-35
6 Cleveland 20-35
So…the Thunder enter this game as losers of their last eight in quest of running the table and ending the regular season on a twenty-five game losing streak.
Will Lu Dort be allowed to play? Will Kid Poku be able to shake off the mid-arm soreness and play tonight like it’s a Greek B League championship game? Will Jerami Grant and Diallo get carried away and win this game despite the fact Cade would be a perfect fit with the two former Thunder players?
None of us know in the world of NBA tanking.
This is when the proverbial shit hits the fan in the quest to be worst and we see which of the last standing GMs has their heart set on landing Cade, Evan, or Jalen.
I personally think one of those Baylor guards will still be around when OKC has Minnesota’s second round pick to use as well.
I really am kind of jacked tonight for the first time this NBA season as far as the Oklahoma City Thunder.
If I were Presti …I’d have Dort enter the arena tonight walking on crutches with a cast on his right arm…just to let Detroit know they’re winning this game tonight.
LET’S GO THUNDER!!!
So…. this is Game 56 of this Thunder season and for the first time all season I sit here feeling as if the Thunder can acheive something tangible and positive tonight by losing to the pitiful Pistons in Detroit.
That being… better positioning to get better odds to land Cade, Evan, or Jalen.
I wrote before the season that it would be fiduciary malpractice if the Thunder didn’t tank…and low and behold after ignoring everything I’ve suggested to Sam Presti—he’s following me on this one.
I’m making a whole fantasy Thunder night of it hitting a pregame piano bar here at the ranch two hours before tip. The whole smear. A pregame bourbon and a cigar.
Peruvian food from 1492 hasn’t arrived yet …so let’s get to some pregame fun at a Thunder game.
Hope you like the first song.
Song 2—Pregame. Peruvian food still not here. But no big deal. It’s like I have an entire NBA arena to myself. The Peruvian food will get here. I usually save this one for big games only. This is a game we need to lose.