If you want the polar basketball opposite of Texas Tech then I’d suggest watching the Oklahoma City Thunder play basketball. With little defense displayed by either team on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis-the Thunder eked out their first win of the season over the Wolves by a 132-126 count.
The win improves the Thunder to 47-33 and coupled with a Clippers loss to Golden State has the Thunder as the current No. 6 seed in the West. This was the Thunder’s third straight win over a team with a losing record and not playoff bound. OKC’s last two games are against Houston and Milwaukee. No one for sure knows who will be playing for those two teams as the regular season winds down this week.
OKC’s defense was porous against the Wolves and in no way showed the Thunder are figuring things out on that end of the floor, but at this point you just hope for the Thunder’s sake they in no way fall to the No. 8 seed and find themselves playing the Warriors in the first round.
Beyond this — I really didn’t take much else from this game except at times even the ABC announcers were incredulous in regards to the Thunder’s indifference on the defensive end of the floor.
Game 81 is next up versus the Houston Rockets at the Peake. This could of course be a preview of a first round matchup if the seeding holds this way thru the week.