The Side Part: Technicolor Westbrook
I can body the track.
They need to bring back Man vs. Beast so Westbrook can beat a gazelle. I believe he’s part train. If you squint he looks like a shark. He’d be a cartoon if he didn’t like clothes so much. You would not catch his closet looking as homogenous as a Doug character. If he were drawn the palette would be neon pastels, lime swirled in each color, his sweat nuclear Blakroc cover snow drip. He’s on the flowers. He’s found a way to play on a SlamBall court while everyone else is dealing with hard maple. How is this going to work, is something I say to my television when he’s running downhill at three guys in transition.
You can imagine watching most of the guys in the league in black and white. Jason Terry would make sense in shades of gray on a tape delay. Westbrook could only be seen in Technicolor.
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The Thunder play the Jazz tonight in OKC so Kanter won’t get the boos. Kanter’s been stellar lately, averaging 15 and 10 on 63% shooting his past 10 games. His per 36 numbers on the year are insane: 21.5 points, 13.7 boards. It continues to be super interesting to imagine how Donovan will use him in the playoffs. Trevor Booker loads up tweets in his drafts folder talking about
Enes got his numbers and he got his L.
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What did you think of the visual storytelling in Midnight Special? Is it overrated? Should at least some questions be answered?
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Remember when I was good? It was in college.
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The remainder of the Thunder’s schedule looks like this.
Jazz
Spurs
@ Raptors
@ Funny or Die’s Pistons
Clippers
@ Rockets
@ Nuggets
@ Blazers
@ Kings
Lakers
@ Spurs
The Lakers and Kings games should be Ws. Aside from that, this is a murderous run to close out the year, seven of the last eleven on the road. Seven of the next eleven are also against teams that, were the season to end today, would be in the playoffs, with an eighth game coming against the Rox who are a half game back of that eight spot, fighting with the Jazz over it. There is a cushion now for that three spot, the Thunder a nice, full 5.5 games up on the Clips, but things can change very quickly. The NBA scheduler makers are a strange, sadistic bunch, trying to go full circle having the Thunder-Spurs open and close the regular season against each other. The last Spurs game came in the midst of the free fall, the Thunder right in the middle of their panic run of losing fourth quarter leads. Things have steadied since then, the scoring having become a bit more spread out, contributions coming from the collective rather than from only the power couple.
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In 2005 I almost bought Villanova shorts on Eastbay because of Randy Foye. This was when Kyle Lowry, Allan Ray and Foye were all on the same team. Jay Wright looked about twenty-five then. Someone made a grainy YouTube video of that team’s highlights and set it to Mr. Brightside. I wonder if Brandon Flowers knows who Mike Nardi is? They lost in the Elite Eight to Lee Humphrey’s Florida Gators. Noah went for 21, 15, and 5 for the Fighting Billy Donovans. It’s strange to go back and read this. The Thunder did not exist then. We were all watching a Chris Paul-Speedy Claxton backcourt in The Ford Center. Now the building is named something else, Foye gets serious minutes, Billy Donovan pulls the strings. Still wish they’d gone with the Barons.
