OKC Thunder (28-8, 10-5 road) at Portland Trail Blazers (20-16, 13-4 home)
TV: FSOK (Cox 37, HD 722, Tulsa Cox 27, DirectTV 679, UVerse 754)
Stream: Click here
Radio: WWLS The Sports Animal (98.1 FM, 640 AM, 97.1 FM Tulsa)
Time: 8:00 CT
Offensive Rating: Thunder – 113.2 (1st), Blazers– 105.2 (13th)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 103.3 (8th), Blazers – 107.5 (25th)
Pace: Thunder – 92.6 (8th), Blazers – 90.8 (23rd)
View from the enemy: Portland Roundball Society
UPDATE: Serge Ibaka is out tonight (chest contusion) so Nick Collison will start in his place.
Danger, Thunder. Danger. This isn’t the same Blazers team you easily beat the second game of the season. This is a young, intense, fiery and talented team that is building bunches of confidence. Their home record is one of the best in the league at 13-4 and they’ve proven they can beat the best of the best in the Rose Garden as they took down the Heat there a couple days ago. Keep Reading…










Finishing Left: KD’s new move
On a new TrueHoop TV, David Thorpe talks about a “new” move he’s noticed from Kevin Durant. This one. Basically, it’s simple as Durant jumping off his right foot and finishing at the rim with his left hand. With a dunk.
Thorpe asks if it’s truly new, or if it’s something he’s been doing in the past. As someone that’s watched KD pretty closely the past five years, I can’t really remember him ever going lefty at the rim like that before.
Especially with any regularity. Just in the past week, Durant has gone from maybe never doing it, to doing it twice (he did it again against the Wizards). Coincidence, or is it a something new Durant has added to his game? Considering the fact that KD is always working to add things to his game, always trying to improve, always trying find a way to be better at the details, I’d suspect it’s an intentional evolution. Keep Reading…