It was Easter. The Thunder game in New Orleans was not one of my top priorities as family and personal reflection took center stage over the basketball game.
I’m not suffering anymore with this team. This is their team and their legacy as players. I’ll watch, but I won’t be venting and ranting anymore.
This isn’t life or death. These guys are pro basketball players and it’s not like they do meaningful things for society like teach, nurse, or protect society from harm. You would hope a collective pride would manifest itself, but I’m not holding my breath anymore.
Anyway… a relatively big win for the Thunder on Sunday afternoon on the road in New Orleans by a 109-104 count which snaps a three game losing streak.
The Thunder improve to 45-33 with four games remaining and are currently clinging to the No. 5 seed in the West. You would think these guys would do everything possible to avoid a first round matchup with either Houston or Portland.
Oddly, and this may sound crazy, but I actually think a first round series against a Warriors team without Steph Curry could possibly be interesting.
In this game Westbrook, George, Adams, and Melo combined for 84 points. Jerami Grant played well again, but the rest of the Thunder bench struggled.
Westbrook and Paul combined to go 14-17 from the free throw line which is something the Thunder will need from these two if they are to be competitive in the playoffs.
Four games left and if the Thunder split the four games they finish with an identical record of 47-35 just like last season.
Golden State visits on Tuesday night and who would really know what these Thunder will do against a Warriors team which is locked in as the No. 2 seed regardless of how they finish the regular season.
I think little about the Paul George situation anymore in that I assume he’s probably going to leave unless this Thunder team does something in post season which would be a deviation from the norm this basketball season.
But you never know. Maybe they’ll start making free throws and playing like they care…or maybe they won’t.
That’s a horrible thing for me to write about this team, but it’s just the way I feel about them. I don’t respect this team for their body of work this season. I detest their mental laziness.
But I trudge on with the death knell basketball season march.
Golden State in OKC on Tuesday night.
How ironic it would be if these two teams somehow meet in the first round.