By THE PICKER Sports Columnist on Feb 10, 2012, at 2:49 PM Updated on 2/10 at 2:49 PM
THE PICKER
What's better than watching all the chokers at a major golf championship?
Not the NBA finals, that's for sure. Tune ...
The only time it's not football season around here is the two weeks after a bowl beating.
Then it's spring ball.
Then ...
This is going to come as quite a surprise to our well-equipped army of readers: We don't know everything.
There's one ...
When the Thunder traded for Perkins from Boston, we took one look and said we'll see.
Here is what we've seen. Evidentaly we've been the only one in the state to see it. Perkins sets a mean screen, can knock a man's shoulder down. He's a good defender. An average rebounder. A great team player. But he has been terrible on offense, seldom scoring ten, averaging about half that.
And now the TNT analysts have caught on to the Thunder problem: a lack of inside scoring.
Barkley is not as funny as he used to be when he was tubby. Along with the pounds, he has lost some of his sense of humor. Mumbles is trying to speak up. The show has lost some of its spark, it is over-produced, too cute. But the analysts have been almost savage in their criticism of the trouble the OKC is having when it comes to easy points inside. When the threes are falling, this team is unbeatable. But there are few easy dunks, not many offensive put-backs.
Even though everybody else in this state has given the NBA title to OKC, we now have some support from TNT in our plea for scoring help inside.
Only active print or digital subscribers of the Tulsa World are allowed to post comments on stories posted to Tulsaworld.com. After you fill out the form below and click submit, your comment will be published instantly online along with your screen name.
By clicking "Submit" you are agreeing to our terms and conditions.
