Seattle SuperSonics team preview

this might be mistitled by the end of the next season. i'm kind of mixed about whether or not i give a shit that the sonics move to oklahoma (probably not.) but the handling of the potential move by supersonics ownership is shadier than a giant umbrella designed to block out the sun. honestly, i cannot fathom the thought process that would incite any person in power to suggest that the motivation for buying the team in the first place was moving it. that's harebrained along the lines of videotaping your former defensive coordinators signals to gain an advantage when you just spent the entire offseason making your team so you don't have to do that shit.

let's focus on the positve: kevin durant, ya dig? pmac got on somebody else's sidekick to specifically tell me that he's "straight lanky." i can think of no better adjective to describe the ethereal kevin durant. he literally seems like a ghost spider crawling around the court, scoring from all sections. imagine a 6'9" spider with serious scoring ability and there you have kevin durant. i dare you to have a better explanation for him than that.

no he is not tmac+kg. he has tmac's weird intensity that he maintains despite the fact that he's basically at the whim of a zephyr that flies into the stadium. he reminds me a little bit of young kobe only way better at age in that he's just this waifish kid that fronts like he can score, etc. with the big boys. like kobe, i'm sure that arrogance--because what is it other than arrogance inspires that kind of confidence--is completely and totally justified. but as a result don't expect him to be putting too many banners up wherever the sonics are playing; players like him are notoriously hard to win with. kobe could be seen as the best example of that player type, and yes he does have those 3 championships, he won them when he was playing with the best big man in the league at that time.

weirdly these sonics seem a little like a natal version of the bulls that won so many championships. obviously neither the stars nor the supporting cast are there yet, but kd is an ultragifted scorer, jeff green is a "winner" (whatever that means), and they even have the big ron harper guard in delonte west. all they're missing is phil jackson and about 5 years of maturity for kd and jg.

all of their oozing potential will not translate into any performance at all this year, unfortunately. so expect a lot of long faces in and around seattle while durant finds his way into the lig. maybe a ROY is in store for him though, as he figures to be their number 1 scoring threat this season.

prediction 34-48, 4th in northwest division