I’ll start with this, I thought the way the Oklahoma City Thunder organization handled Martin Luther King Day was lovely. I actually kept the volume on during the Fox telecast because I enjoyed the MLK tributes the organization paid to MLK. Maybe the organization should have invited James Lankford and Jim Inhoff to speak. Chances of that of course would be twofold…as in slim and none. They’ll be too busy this week praying the U.S. government doesn’t shut down under Caligula’s watch. BTW, Lindsey Graham, he surprised the shit out of me as he removed Donald Trump from his mouth long enough and actually did the right thing. Who would have thought that possible from a white southern GOP senator? Who would have thought?
The game was terrible except for the fact OKC did make some plays in the second half to avert another embarrassing loss to one of the worst teams in the NBA. For the record, OKC did beat the Sacramento Kings by a score of 95-88 to improve to 24-20 on the season.
OKC’s first half performance was horrific as the Thunder trailed 52-46 and had trouble getting the ball across half court and getting a shot off. The Thunder had something like 12 turnovers in the half. Russell Westbrook for some reason made more plays for the Kings than the Thunder and I have no reason why.
I actually thought the most important play of the game was when Kings’ rookie point guard De’Andre Fox got his fourth foul early in the second half and had to sit prematurely. The Kings lost their aggressiveness and the game shifted as Carmelo and Patrick Patterson stepped up and made a couple of threes to change the flow of the game.
Russell Westbrook got ejected in the fourth period when he was fouled twice on the same play going to the rim. Russell got two T’s and his mild mannered coach Billy D got one as well. Interestingly, Paul George who up to that point had played like a walking corpse then stepped up and made some nice plays for the Thunder as they closed the game.
A win is a win is a win for this low energy underperforming team. Maybe as a team they need to take Viagra. Do trainers ever administer Viagra to their teams as one? I mean, as I watch this team play…their overall limpness is the thing I can’t get off my mind. This team has ED. It took me forty four games to figure it out. This team has erectile dysfunction. Thunder trainer Joe Sharp could very well hold the key if that’s the case because I’m not seeing anything else to date which is giving me a ton of optimism right now. Maybe it’s the extreme cold weather in Oklahoma. Maybe that’s it. Maybe the lack of sun has me feeling jaded and snarky.
Anyway…I reflected quite a bit on our country yesterday being it was MLK Day. I truly did and despite the fact Donald Trump is a fat-headed illiterate idiot–I’m still bullish on America. I think we’ll reset and figure it out. I truly do. Don’t give up. Read. Be informed…and vote. Even you dumbass white motherfuckers from southern ‘shithole’ states who were dumb enough to vote for a candidate who never cared anything about you at any point in any of this. You people need to smarten the fuck up. Start with this…google the difference between marginal tax rates and effective tax rates. Start with that.
Thunder host the LA Lakers on Wednesday night.