Well, I’ll say this on here after posting the ‘play’ on my blog this morning, maybe he did. With all the shit which goes on in an NBA game in the paint every night in every game though — I’m not sure this is what I would have been talking about in the post game after the pathetic blow out loss to the Warriors.
If I were a juror and this clip were shown to me I’d probably say to myself Pachulia did kind of semi-fall on Westbrook. The question though as a juror I would seek to answer to myself is if it were done to just fuck with Westbrook’s head or if there was specific intent to injure connected to the play? And what if any impact this had on the outcome of the game given the fact OKC’s three stars all played like shit and Billy Donovan isn’t smart enough to calibrate Alex Abrines’ role on this basketball team.
To me, my last sentence of the previous paragraph is what we should be talking about this morning and not the Pachulia faux semi-fall.
Good lord, I had no idea this Thunder team was this soft until Saturday night. I suspected they were mentally lazy and obvious underachievers this season, but I had no idea they were this frilly soft.
I thought Carmelo over-reacted twice to Draymond Green. I thought Paul George did the same with Draymond Green. And though I’ve never questioned Russell Westbrook’s toughness–this isn’t what I would be talking about with 21 games left in the regular season and the Thunder now even to the 9th place Clippers in the loss column.
Since no one else in this college market who covers this Thunder team will write this–I will. Is this Thunder team tough enough or gritty enough to be a contender or is it all just talk?
Right now standing as the obvious winner of the Most Underachieving NBA Team this season–I have to write this team doesn’t appear to walk the walk.
You know, we were all clinging to this notion this Thunder team was holding its inner greatness back just for special teams. Enough of that in that this Thunder team has now lost back to back games against top four teams Cleveland and Golden State by a combined margin of 40 points.
If I’m that juror I’m just kind of shrugging my shoulders and saying to myself, ” But why the fuck did Billy Donovan play Alex Abrines 20 minutes?” Or why didn’t one single Thunder player go after Pachulia like Serge did with Artest way back when.
What would this Thunder team do if they ever had to play a bunch like the Detroit Pistons Bad Boys? Would they just call their mommies and be a scratch on those nights?
If I’m Clay Bennett and I’ve had to watch this bullshit for sixty-one games so far, I can tell you this, I’m not real happy right now because I gave Sam Presti $130 million to spend and all I have is a soft basketball team.
If it was such a dirty play, then ask yourself why one single OKC player or coach didn’t go berserk? Not one single act of retaliation of any kind that I can recall. It’s a four letter word…soft. This Thunder team is jelly roll soft.