I’m back from Greenwood Village, Colorado and very much poised to cover Game 6 tonight in Minnesota as the Denver Nuggets attempt to stave-off a Game 6 elimination to the now Anthony Edwards-less TWolves.
This will be El Prez’s first post since the hiatus in beautiful Colorado where people read books, meditate often, and take great care in their own physical health and well being. If you did not know this fact..please mark it down…Colorado is the healthiest state in the Union while Oklahoma ranks dead last in education and first in obesity and sexually transmitted disease.
But here’s what Oklahoma has and Colorado doesn’t. It’s a three word answer. Hence the answer….Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. That’s the simple answer to my own semi-rhetorical posit.
And that three word answer is why the Thunder swept the totally overmatched Phoenis Suns in a walk in the park four game sweep in Round 1. Additionaly, that three word answer is why I’m picking the Thunder to repeat if Shai can stay healthy carrying the Thunder on his Canadian back….pretty much like Buck from the Call of the Wild.
While in the beautiful foothills of the Rockies at just about 5,280 feet of elevation…I primarily was Robert and Aubrey’s grandfather for six days. It’s a wonderful role to play. But this trip was even better this time as the ‘Fam’ has added six-week year-old golden lab Sunny to the mix to be the perpetual running mate of the soon to arrive chocolate lab pup Perk II.
For the first time since Pauli and Perk I’s passings…MJ’s soul felt right. My Soul of the Dog mojo, so to speak, is back. I’ve always openly professed I must have been a wolf-dog like Buck from Call of the Wild by Jack London. Perhaps, it is this previous life gene nobility which enabled me to so early and often proclaim Donald Trump as the petulant human trust-fund brat he truly is. Dogs feel these things intutively. Fake Christians only concerned with minimizing their effective tax margins…not quite as much… if ever.
So here’s what El Prez is scribing pre-game tonight…with a healthy Aaron Gordon the Nuggets are probably the only team which could derail the Thunder on their repeat quest. Without him healthy….these Nuggets might actually struggle tonight and would certainly lose to the Spurs in Round 2.
I watched multiple games while in Colorado and this Denver-Minny series, plus the Orlando-Detroit series are the only two to date which have captivted my basketball attention so far.
I will write this in closing…if Aaron isn’t able to play tonight then my immediate take is Christian Braun, Cam Johnson, and Spencer Jones better damn well bring their road role player A-games tonight if the Nuggets are to experience a Game 7.
My Road Role Player Axiom, which is worlds better than any metrics the young sissies on the internet blather about relentlessly in their cyberspace induced comas. These three role players might in fact determine David Adelman’s tenure in Denver.
In actual closing, grace, mercy, and continual spiritual well-being. In anotherwords…. absorb all the qualities regularly lacking from the Trump fake Christians. I may or may not at some point give my take on the most current Trump ‘fake’ assasination attemp debauclet we all witnessed this past week-end in D.C.
Inner peace…always.
MJ