I've decided to become a Thunder fan

[War Wagon]

Mainly just to needle Dins with endless comparisons between Durant and Oden and wtf, it's not like I have anything better to do.

Durant = 24.8 ppg
Oden = 8.4 ppg

Oh, but I can hear Dins now squealing about intangibles and what not, so we'll look at another stat: Player rankings.

Durant = 32nd
Oden = 56th

As well, they are the closest team, geographically speaking. Why, I can make that drive to OKC in 5 hours...

My boys are 3-3 and just smacked down the Magic, maybe they're going to be pretty good not suck.

[Go Coogs']

I root for the Thunder when they're not playing my beloved Rockets.

Btw,

How good are the "Little Rockets"?

What a fun team to watch.

[Dinsdale]

24.8 PPG...

His matchup must average about 35.5.

The guys Oden is playing have averaged approximately 0.JackShit

The right decision was made.


Kevin Urant is overrated. (No "D" in Kevin Urant... just a horrrrrrrible defensive player... who Martell Webster just absolutely CLOWNED last week).

[War Wagon]

KD went off for 35 last night, Thunder be 7-6.

Don't half the teams make the playoffs in the NBA?

This is the early stages of a DYNASTY and I'm in on the ground floor.

[Dinsdale]

And the guy he was guarding had a fine evening, as well... which is quite the norm for anyone who has the good fortune to be covered by Urant.

If you actually look over the boxscores, 50%+ shooting nights are the norm for whoever he lines up against.

At least he bulked up and can actually bench 185 now, so he's at least improving.

[War Wagon]

What's this I see while looking at the box scores in the sports section?

The Thunder just won their 6th straight, thumping the Blazers in Portland. Durant scored a measly 33 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists.

Wow, what a liability this guy is. A few more games like this and Thunder fans will be hoping he blows his knee out.

tch... I also see the Blazers are in 4th place, looking up at The Thunder. Man, they might get a good draft pick next year. Sure hope they don't fuck that one up.

[War Wagon]

Just for you, Dins

[Dinsdale]

Wow... the Plunder beat a team without their starting center, their backup center, their prennial 6th Man OTY candidate, a one-armed SF, and their All Star 2 guard, and resorted to playing rooks?

Huuuuge win there.

[War Wagon]

8 straight, 121-118 in OT against the Knicks in MSG with a rejuvenated Tracy McGrady. KD hit a 3 at the end of regulation to send it to OT and then another jumper at the end of OT. That's a pretty good win, eh?

Durant becomes only the 3rd player ever to score 25+ points in 27 consecutive games, matching AI, with MJ the only one who has gone for more (40).

C'mon Dins, give up some love.

[Dinsdale]

KD and LaMarcus Softridge are in a contest to see who can go the furthest into their their career before racking up their first career assist.

[Diego in Seattle]

Only an idiot would become a fan of the Thumpers. Especially while they're owned by this guy:

[Dinsdale]

One of these days, I was going to get around to informing Whitey what a POS organization the Plunders are, and what a complete lying POS Bennett is... but it actually kinda suits him.

[War Wagon]

While I'm not aware of the ownership issues, I'd say it probably couldn't be any worse than when they moved my Kings to Sacramento.

But Diego, if you read my first post, you'll see that I was being mostly tongue in cheek about being a Thunder fan.

I'm a Kevin Durant fan, who just happens to play for the Thunder... because a certain other dumbfuck franchise passed on him when they had the #1 pick. For a bag of bones.

I'm also a fan of needling Dins and probably will be for the rest of my life - or until KD goes into the NBA HoF, whichever comes first.

[Dinsdale]

a certain other dumbfuck franchise passed on him when they had the #1 pick. For a bag of bones.

How did Andrew Bynum do his first 3 years?

Oh -- he sat most of them out with injury. Now, he's a ring-hunter.

While Ball Hog is quite the scorer, he sure the fuck ain't Brandon Roy... and last I checked, they still only play with one ball, right?

How would MeMeMe be doing on Cleveland about now? LA?

[indyfrisco]

How would MeMeMe be doing on Cleveland about now? LA?

I don't know but one thing's for sure, he'd be on the court and not on the bench.

[Dinsdale]

Not if we lined him up at center, he wouldn't.

The Curse lives on.

Look at the guys we've crippled here -- There's the big names, like Bill Walton, Sam Bowie (laugh all you want, but he was a MUCH better college player than Jordan), Greg Oden.

Then there's Ramon Ramos, who didn't make it through his first training camp before he got knocked into a coma.

Marcus Camby made it partway into his first game before missing time.

And remember, the Curse cost Kevin Duckworth his freaking life.

I'd run for the hills before I lined up at center for the Zers.

Props to Mychael Thompson for mostly beating it... but the Curse will get him.

[Goober McTuber]

Yes, but at least Oden was either leading, or in the top-few of several major statistical categories when he went down, right?

[Dinsdale]

What's this I see while looking at the box scores in the sports section?

You probably just saw the Blazers knock the Thunders' sorry asses to the 8 spot.

Dominique Durant's merciless chucking of the rock came up a little short when crunch time came around.

Although as much as I hate Kevin Garnett, he was pretty much spot-on with his (expensive) assessment of Durant's "stature" with the refs -- he scored a ton of points against the Blazers, by the grace of the Greyshirts sending him to the line under questionable circumstances, over and over and over.

But while he scored in bunches (that's what he do), it was almost comical watching him on the other end in the closing minutes of a tight game that had HUGE playoff implications. I guess he decided he needed to save his strength for the offensive end or something, the end result being...


OLE'!

On offense, he's a maverick.

On defense, he's a matador.

[War Wagon]

You probably just saw the Blazers knock the Thunders' sorry asses to the 8 spot.

For a team that won like 23 games last year, just making the playoffs is remarkable, no matter the seed. I'll root for them to steal 1 maybe 2 from the Lakers when the series moves to OKC.

As for his majesty Kevin Durant, didn't he win the scoring title this year? Yeah, something about being the youngest player since some legend or other to do such a thing.

And you want him to play defense too? Silly Dins, nobody plays defense in the NBA. When they went to the 24 second shot clock, the players union demanded in their collective bargaining agreement that defense be only for show... sorta' like WWF.

[War Wagon]

I'll root for them to steal 1 maybe 2 from the Lakers when the series moves to OKC.

Did i say "steal"?

I meant beatdown.

Watching that game, and seeing all the white shirts of the newly OKC faithful, that was sorta' disturbing.... but I digress.

The Lakers better pack a lunch when the series moves back to LA.

[War Wagon]

bump

Dins, where were you tonight, when Kevin Durant hit that last second shot to beat the defending champs?

Where was Greg Oden?




This will never get old.

[R-Jack]

Where was Greg Oden?

Watching the game with his grandkids.

[SunCoastSooner]

I was honestly happy to see OKC get a franchise when the Sonics moved. But that feeling has changed a great deal since. I have to say I think that the Thunder fans are among the most absurdly delusional fan bases in the NBA. Passionate they are but delusional as well.