Here’s what I would say on this road loss for the now 8-3 Thunder..”There didn’t seem to be enough mental investment by the team defensively, and specificly by the team veterans who very much have to display leadership on the road this season more than ever.”
I have to admit though, the game started so late, it’s hard for me to bring the emotion and committment as an underground blogger with a chip on his shoulder. So in a way I get it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not dogging Shai, Ajay, Kenrich, and Caruso, but what I’m saying is with this group of expanded youngsters…more than at home inside of compfy PayCom, these four cornerstone vets have to play well if the opponent if is a decent to good team. And this doctrine has to apply even if the game started at midnight CST.
Adam Silver…wtf, buddy?
Since the core was lazy or sleepy in this road loss, I’m going to recap this loss with an easy, generic-almost woke visual recap above with some woke background music that’s probably played in a Portland coffee shop.. It’s kind of sleepy-woke-trendy isn’t it? Just like the Thunder’s effort last night
I mean…when Damian Lillard is my No. 1 Star, followed by Advija and Cissoko as my two other stars I don’t see much reason to extert too much effort, space, and time beyond this.
End of Portland Game 1 recap.
It will be interesting to see which version of the Thunder shows up tonight….asleep or awake?
Mike J