You won’t get this type of content from the blogs of the OKC Thunder sycophants who get paid from the Thunder which litter the internet.
I don’t want to go overboard with Kenrich given I had a Kenny Hustle Appreciation Day last week.
But given the fact I left Kenrich off my Four Stars of the Game last night…I feel at the least I should use this as a teaching moment for the misguided Thunder fans who get their Thunder news from the likes of Little Nick Gallo and other homers on the Thunder payroll.
I want all of you to look at this short video of Kenrich guarding Wembyama last night. This is how you defend Wembyama as a shorter defender. This is how you leverage a tall, somewhat soft player like Wembyama. This is how you as a Thunder key rotational role player like Kenrich make it tolerable for Chet Holmgren getting paid all that money for being a finesse player who can’t do the dirty work himself when it needs to be done.
This is defensive basketball. Look at the stance, the lower body strength, the in the chest and space position of Kenrich. It is as if Kenrich has been studying my blog and taking copious notes on how one should defend the overhyped Wembyama.
Wembyama has no clue as to how to react to this from either Kenrich, JayWill, or my six year-old grandson’s favorite hockey player…Alex Caruso.
Kenrich played just under 15 minutes last night scoring only one or two baskets, yet because of his TSNBS metric rank on my blog…he had a major impact on the outcome of the game played last night inside of PayCom Arena.
This video and the Thunder’s defense on Wembyama makes Mike J proud to be the Thunder beat writer of okcthunderground.com.
No…granted the Thunders players probably won’t be allowed to play Wembyama this physical for the next Thunder-Spur game which will be played in San Antonio. And as we all know who read this blog…you as a player have to rapidly adapt to how the game will be called by the zebras in San Antonio. Anotherwords…don’t tackle Wembyama the first time he catches the ball in or near the paint.
Any of you youngsters who might occaisionally by sheer accident end up on this blog… you and your parents need to know this is the way you play defense. This is how you go about it. But again, if it’s road game …just don’t take Wembyama’s shirt completely off of him. That might be too much.
I’m thrilled to be covering the Thunder-Houston game tomorrow night from the Toyota Center. Literally thrilled the strength of the Thunder schedule is finally upon us in mid January
Mike J