Should be an interesting basketball week-end with the Thunder hosting Russell Westbrook and Frank Vogel tonight in Oklahoma City. The Thunder didn’t see LeBron in either of their epic tank defying wins earlier this season. So you would think this game could be lit as far as being fun to watch.
Then on Saturday Porter Moser’s Sooners take on No. 12 Arkansas in Tulsa at 12:30pm. Hopefully…OU will have as many fans there as Arkansas. The Hogs travel really well basketball wise and that’s only a ninety minute drive from Fayeteville.
Huge game for the Sooners who stand at 7-2 after a brutally disappointing home 66-62 overtime loss to Butler on Tuesday.
Porter Moser’s team just bascially became unglued in the second half when Butler went to a zone defense. The game went from OU up by ten to OU needing a desperation three from EJ Harkless to just get the game to overtime.
OU bascially played like shit for the second half of the game. Didn’t shoot well. Didn’t rebound. Didn’t take care of the ball. Didn’t defend all that well. Didn’t get the fifty-fifty balls. Didn’t play hard or very smart. I don’t know what else to write.
I’m almost dead-solid certain Coach Moser said all the above in the privacy of the Sooner locker room after the game.
Of the five OU senior starters EJ Harkless quite frankly was the only one who came out of the locker room for the second half.
In a nutshell—it was a very poor showing by the Sooners and a game like this won’t help the Sooners in March when they’re surfing the Big Dance bubble.
I don’t think OU will see any zone from Arkansas given they play uptempo as much as anybody in the country. Not quite Nolan Richardson’s ‘forty minutes of hell’, but clearly uptempo.
Huge game for OU. They need to show up and play well. After this game OU has two cupcakes before entering the Big 12 Death March where I would think it will be tough for this team to go any better than 8-10 at the best. Plus…OU has to travel to play a game at Auburn.
So…if OU wants to surf the right side of the Big Dance bubble they better start surfing.
I wonder if Laker coach Frank Vogel ever talks to Russell Westbrook like this?
Doubt it.
LET’S GO LAKERS!