I had a great time. I bought myself three nice, collared shirts this Christmas for the Heat, the Warriors, and the Grizz. My ticker broker not only got me a seat behind the Warriors’ bench he got me an even better deal for the Raptors game coming up later this week. I’m not buying one of their shirts even though I think Nick Nurse is one of the best coaches in the league.
Like Melvin…I only sit low at this point in my life. Those dumbass suckers up in Loud City who paid full price to ante up this season I genuinely feel bad for, but I’m guessing those folks are primarily Trump Proud Boy types who don’t understand free market economies enough to sit down in the lower seats.
There were quite a few Warrior fans like me in the building. Almost what I would describe as an expectant electricity in the air even though the Thunder are in reality a G League team. I would love to see the Thunder without Shai play at either Kentucky or Auburn in a packed gym on the road. Those are the two best college teams I’ve seen this year and both have rosters and coaches in reality superior to the Thunder. But I’m not sure how they would handle Dort, Bazely, and Giddy in a forty minute game.
Calipari or Bruce Pearl vs. Presti’s little G League coach. You can’t be serious.
Klay and Steph basically just kind of walked thru the motions most of the game coming in on an eight-game winning streak. But when the annoying G League Thunder drew within five points late in the game it was winning time for the Splash Brothers. Like Tony Bennett finishing the night with an encore rendition of I Left My Heart in San Franciso.
No Shai as expected. His deal with Presti doesn’t require him to play games the back third of any of these tanking seasons in Oke City.
But I have to write this, as far as Lu Dort, Bazely, Giddy, Tre Mann, Ty Jerome and Kenrich…they worked their asses off so as folks like me could witness a fairly entertaining game between a serious contender and an NBA pretender.
My respect for those six players is genuine, but I feel sorry for them in that they got stuck having to play in what in essence is a Triple A minor league city pretending to be something it’s not.
Lu Dort and Kenrich on a real team with a real GM and a real coach could be tangible contributors this season. It hurts me that both of these guys have done everything right and find themselves trapped in this shit show in Oklahoma City.
Lu Dort has what I think is one of the worst contracts in the league while Shai gets paid a max deal in essence for playing limited minutes every season. Somebody needs to transfer some of Shai’s money into an account for Lu Dort.
Sam Presti never learns, does he? He created the monster known as Russell Westbrook, and I fear if Shai’s agent allows him to stay here too long Shai will turn into the same type of entitled brattish star Russell evolved into. How can he sit there and watch his young teammates play so hard and not feel any guilt?
That’s not leadership…that’s for certain.
The Warriors will definitely need Draymond back if they want to beat Phoenix though…that’s for certain. It was fun watching Johnny Kuminga and Moses Moody play extended minutes. Johnny Kuminga has the body and jumps of Giannis, just saying.
In closing, I laughed when I came home and watched the delayed broadcast. The pathetic Thunder telecast team evidently saw this as a ‘barometer game’ of sorts. Hilarious. The only barometer games this Thunder could hypothetically play are if they play either Auburn or Kentucky on the road. If you’re playing five fouls like in the college game that would make it even more interesting.
Those would be true barometer games for the Thunder.
Next up…the hot and always well coached Toronto Raptors in Oke City.