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Thunder Escape Great Northwest
Posted on 7 Feb 2012 by Steven Jones.
With a Little Help From My Friends (and Their Whistles): Five teams have beaten the Oklahoma City Thunder this season. No teams have beaten them twice. The Portland Trail Blazers, hampered by a lack of offensive firepower and some questionable officiating, were unable to buck that trend. The officials marred an exciting, if sloppy, evening by drawing undue attention to themselves on a game-deci...
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OKC Exorcises A Blue Demon
Posted on 2 Feb 2012 by Steven Jones.
The Oklahoma City Thunder  beat the Dallas Mavericks Wednesday night for their league-best ninth road win. The most compelling storylines are below. The More Things Change . . . It is impossible to watch a Thunder-Mavericks clash in 2012 without thinking of the bloodbath the two teams endured in the 2011 Western Conference Finals. Tonight's home team was clearly not last season's Dallas Mave...
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Blake Dunks! Also, Thunder Lose Big
Posted on 31 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
It's All Their Fault! The Oklahoma City Thunder have lost twice in 13 games. Each time, it was easy to find scapegoats. Step 1: look at the box score. Step 2: blame everyone not named Kevin or Russell. Durant and Westbrook each rose to the challenge of tonight's intense battle with the host Los Angeles Clippers. They combined for 67 points on 58 percent field goal shooting and led repeated runs...
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Thunder Offense is Best Defense
Posted on 28 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
The Defense Can't Rest Against an all-offense outfit like the Golden State Warriors, a team needs to feel confident in its ability to get stops. So tonight's spotlight for the Oklahoma City Thunder understandably fell on Kendrick Perkins. Perkins allegedly anchors OKC's defense, but averages about five points, six rebounds, one block, and two turnovers per game, and his Player Efficiency Rating...
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Worrisome Clouds Hover Over Thunder Victory
Posted on 25 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
Wednesday night in Oklahoma City, and the Thunder beat the New Orleans Hornets for the second time in 14 days, surprising no serious NBA fan. The observer who asked deep questions, though, found some surprises. Point . . . After? The point guards who have collected championship rings since the Clinton presidency: Derek Fisher, Tony Parker, Chauncey Billups, Gary Payton (well past his prime), R...
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Wizards Make Thunder Supporting Cast Disappear
Posted on 18 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
When the league's best team loses to its worst, the story practically writes itself. “Played to the level of their opponent,” sportswriters can grumble, or “Don't have the mental toughness to win it all.” Much more complex, but less juicy, is a hyperbole-free examination of facts. Here they are. The Washington Wizards outscored the Oklahoma City Thunder by seven points i...
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Westbrook, Durant Grow Up Quick in Triumph at Boston
Posted on 16 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
Is Russell Westbrook maturing? And will it make Oklahoma City a better team? First, examine the evidence that the young Thunder, despite their league-best 12-2 record, remain a work in progress. They allowed the host Celtics, led by 35-year-old Kevin Garnett and 33-year-old Jermaine O'Neal, to repeatedly win inside confrontations, snagging 15 offensive rebounds and scoring 48 points in the pain...
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Woeful Knicks Make Thunder Look Like Champs
Posted on 15 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
It's hard to learn much about a team by watching it play a terrible opponent. The Oklahoma City Thunder's Saturday foe, the New York Knicks with Bill Walker starting in the injured Carmelo Anthony's place, qualified handily. The home team looked great and won easily, but chicken-egg dynamics made meaningful analysis difficult. To illustrate the misleading nature of such a game, imagine watching...
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Thunder Keep Rolling
Posted on 12 Jan 2012 by Eddie McDonald.
The Oklahoma City Thunder adapt well to losing. After losing back-to-back games last Monday and Tuesday (January 2nd and 3rd), they have reeled off five straight victories, thanks in large part to the Durantula Kevin Durant. The reigning NBA Scoring Champion in back-to-back seasons continues to make great strides in this league. During the Thunder's five game wining streak the lengthy shooter f...
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Durant Plays the Strings, and Every Other Instrument
Posted on 11 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
The numbers tell us that Kevin Durant is one of the most potent offensive weapons in NBA history. They don't lie, but neither do they sum up all that makes the man Twitter knows as @KDTrey5 such a unique athlete. Durant's smoothly-flowing style would earn him multiple comparisons to jazz soloists, if anyone under the age of 45 still listened to jazz. In honor of this obsolete analogy, here are ...
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Maynor’s ACL Won’t Doom Thunder Yet
Posted on 8 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
On the same day the Oklahoma City Thunder received the season's worst news, they recorded their most impressive victory. Playing its third game in three days, the young team led start-to-finish in a 108-96 victory over visiting San Antonio that was nowhere near as close as the final score. The second unit also provided hopeful signs that the loss for the season of backup point guard Eric Maynor...
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Durant Throws On His Cape Just in Time
Posted on 7 Jan 2012 by Steven Jones.
For two and a half quarters, the Oklahoma City Thunder seemed content to watch Goran Dragic and Luis Scola run a shooting drill. Playing the Houston Rockets for the second time in 24 hours appeared to bore the Thunder's youngsters, who treated defense as something to hurry through in order to get the ball back. This malaise was most evident in the third quarter, when Dragic scored 12 points wit...
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