Auburn Advances, Thunder Fall Flat at Home vs. Nuggets

My wife went to Auburn so during our thirty-eight years of being together I’ve developed an emotional tie to War Eagle Nation. I don’t hate Alabama like a true rabbid Auburn fan, but I would say Auburn has become my second favorite program to root for over the years easily supplanting the O State Cowboys since Holder only promotes wrestling and golf. But I will be watching Spencer Sanders with great interest this coming season though. I can’t wait for that dude.

It was good to see Auburn trounce Kansas and North Carolina in back to back games to advance to the Elite 8 where they will now have to face Michigan State without their star big Chuma Okeke. With Okeke–I’d pick Auburn to advance…now I’m not so sure. But that’s why you play the games.

As far as the Thunder they once again lost to Denver last night inside the Peake closing out a 0-4 season sweep by the Nuggets. The narrative I heard from Antonio Daniels after the game was literally absurd… and I’m a fan of Antonio as I wrote in my local OKC media rankings. It appears.. even Antonio has grown weary and appears to just be throwing in the towel on the no heart, no grit, no real basketball smarts Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team.

Denver came into this game on the second night of a road back to back on the very end of their toughest road trip of the season and just calmly outclassed, out-hearted, and out smarted the Thunder at every turn in the game which required a standup moment by the visitors.

Am I being too tough questioning the heart of the Thunder? I could care less. Unlike Low Energy Royce Young or Little Nick Gallo or even Antonio Daniels I in no way derive my livelihood from sucking up to the Thunder organization. I have my own blog and I’m going to call it exactly as I see it.

And here’s the way I see it with six games remaining in the regular season…for the second straight season the Thunder with one of the highest payrolls in the NBA is by far the most massively overhyped/underachieving piece of junk in the league. I’ve loved the Thunder over the years, but to be brutally candid—I don’t like or respect this team. I’d trade this bunch for the 23-59 group with Scott Brooks and not even blink.

The manner in which they play and compete sickens me as someone who’s played and coached sports. Or even just from the standpoint of being a fan…they sicken me. If I were Billy Donovan inside that locker room this basketball season.. I would have probably felt the need to destroy something nearby on at least a dozen occasions.

This Thunder team sickens me. But you know what, maybe some of this is on all of us for being duped into the notion that last year was on Carmelo Anthony.

Fool me once it’s on you. Fool me twice it’s on me.

The Thunder host the tanking Dallas Mavericks tomorrow afternoon. They better win this one because next time they play Dallas the Mavs will have Porzingus and Donic together as one of the most dynamic combos in the league.

You have to figure the Lakers will finally pair someone with LeBron. And you would assume the young Kings will be a year smarter and the better for it. What I’m saying here is that next year could even be tougher to just make the top eight and we have no idea yet who Jerry West lands for the Clippers.

We all know the NBA isn’t a coach driven league. It’s a star driven league and OKC’s two stars are 7-13 since the All-Star break. The two stars might want to do some serious soul searching on this Saturday afternoon.

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