GameThread -7: Preseason Gm 1 vs OKC (@ Billings, MT)

I believe the Sports Animal carries the games.

www.thesportsanimal.com

I don’t know if they’ll broadcast the game tonight but that’s the only sports station I can think of from OKC.

http://www.nba.com/broadband/alp_schedule.html

OKC has a link so hopefully it will be available for streaming.

on KSBI out of Oklahoma City, its not on league pass, nor can i find a stream online.

…is replaying last year’s Golden State game.

…it’s on line here:

http://www.thesportsanimal.com/article.asp?id=579140

…is having a fine 1st quarter. Since this is a Wolves “home” game, I imagine their promo staff are the ones pulling the strings. This is troubling because they are playing Love Shack when he scores.

…is all Minnesota land. I think it probably has a lot to do with the Vikings but the Twins have a lot of followers up that way as well. The Dakotas too.

…on the court together for the 1st time. They need a nickname.

Seattle no longer has a team. OKC, IMHO is unworthy of a NBA franchise

http://www.nba.com/games/20081008/OKCMIN/boxscore.html

Brewer with the nice game. Shaddy played like crap in the 1st 3 quarters and fouled out but he was the big scorer in the 4th.

I have no idea how they won this game. They were outshot, outrebounded, out free-throwed and they had just as many turnovers as the Thunder. The Wolves had 11 more shots than the Thunder with only 3 more offensive rebounds. Either the majority of their team rebounds were offensive or there is a score keeping error. I’m going with a faulty boxscore. Yep, it’s already changed a bit. Still, they didn’t win the 4 factors and you’d be hard pressed to look at the box score and tell anyone how they won.

That’s one ugly boxscore. It’s funny how similar Brewer’s and Carney’s lines are. Miller seems te going for the SG spot instead of the SF with all the assists and steals (though he a few turnovers as well).

Mccants FG% seems awfull but they do count shots that were fouled as missed shots right? So if you know that 4 of those were fouls it comes to 3-7 + 4 forced fouls .. looks a lot better. He’ll definitly make me change my opinion on him if he keeps this up. Will also make it easier for us since we won’t be looking at another SG in the next draft.

Bassy again had a good game. Okay he made only 2/6 but the sample size is still small. I like that he only tried one 3pointer and he got back to his splendid dishing while not turning the ball over.

What really made my day is seeing Brewer finish the play where Jefferson front irons it and he is totally hacked but still manages to get it in. Followed by a little YEA-kind-of-moment. He’s looks really confident, that was the most important thing he was lacking.