Holy shit. Consider this….the Thunder at the No. 6 seed in the West and the fourth place team in the Northwest Division just got the pipe dream bracket in as much as you can get one with the Golden State Warriors in the draw.
But if you look at OKC’s improbable draw considering the season looked over after the home loss to Dallas–this is beyond miraculous for the Thunder.
No Nurkic for the Trail Blazers and as we all know…Enes Kanter can’t really defend all that much.
Houston by losing the game in OKC last night drops all the way to the No. 4 seed and will now hook up in the first round with the Utah Jazz and Rudy Gobert.
Everything came up roses for the Thunder on night No. 82 of the regular season and OKC will now be a Vegas favorite to beat Portland and advance to the second round for the first time since Kevin Durant’s departure to Oakland.
Houston finishes 20-5 after the All-Star break and that one game last night in Oklahoma City changed the whole dynamic of the Western Conference Playoffs.
I like Houston to beat Utah, but if Clint Capela can’t get it together it could be an interesting series.
What an ending to an otherwise somewhat depressing regular season for the Thunder. But here they stand with the best possible draw and opportunity they could have hoped for given they just finished in fourth place in the Northwest Division only above the Minnesota Timberwolves who were 3-1 against the Thunder this season.
Little Nick Gallo will be beside himself tomorrow writing his feature on Daily Thunder as he’s clearly become the alpha over there. This is his wheelhouse on this one.
Who knows…maybe the Thunder could be a destiny darling after all.
I hope the millennials understand just what happened here. The two OKC stars finally led and did it in an old school way by clubbing ZaZa Pachulia with a hammer chop across his throat and then by administering an elbow into PJ Tucker’s thorax. This just didn’t happen by accident and I hope the youngsters understand this doesn’t show up on a shot chart.
This is who the Thunder have to be if they want to win, survive, and advance in the West.
Here’s why Russell Westbrook finally took matters into his own hands and couldn’t wait any longer for Billy Donovan to protect his star point guard. Can you imagine a coach allowing a goon on another team to do this multiple times to your franchise player and you do nothing. Unbelievable. What in the world was Enes Kanter doing or thinking? Do you know what would happen on a sheet of ice if someone did this to Sid or Ovechkin?