What Game 1 taught us: Spurs/ Thunder breakdown

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First of all,  this is going to be a fantastic series.   As Alex Brown pointed out to me tonight in a text both the Thunder and Spurs are going to get their shots in this series.   Thank Jesus Shuttlesworth.   The 76ers/ Celtics series was an ocular affront to fans each night.  Besides the D-Wade/ Bron-Bron melodrama the Pacers and Heat were almost equally unwatchable.  Not a single series in the West has lasted longer than a dance-floor make out.  A 101-98 Game 1 is a great sign for what the rest of the series is going to be like.      The rest of this will be in bullet point form because I'm cooking mac and cheese right now.  

• Besides Harden/ Durant/Westbrook the Thunder are incredibly limited offensively.  They lack a scoring big man,  Serge Ibaka is a ten-footer better offensively than Deandre Jordan.   
• The Thunder need more Kendrick Perkins on Tim Duncan.  His bulk takes away the Duncan post game. 
• Don't look for Tony Parker to get it going in this series.  He lost a step right after he and Eva Longoria broke up.   A worse move than Tiger and Elin in my opinion.   He was guarded by Devin Harris and an slower-than-he-used-to-be Chris Paul in the first two rounds.   Now being guarded by super-athlete Russell Westbrook his shot looked bothered most of the game
• Manu Ginobli is very articulate and looks great in a suit
• Stephen Jackson is proving that you can teach an old dog new tricks.   Or at least to play defense.  He forced Kevin Durant to take a lot of contested jumpers tonight.  Durant is going to get 25 points a night just stepping on the court, but good defense keeps him from erupting and destroying the Spurs.   
• The NBA on TNT is terrible or at least the studio show. The competing buffoonery of Shaq and Chuck is like eating too much bad chocolate cake.  
• I really need to turn off TNT so I'm not stuck watching "Falling Skies" as I finish this. 
• As fifty columns will say in the morning how the Thunder respond to tonight's loss and to each every loss the rest of the postseason will tell us if they're a potential dynasty or not.
• Cheryl Miller is a man
• After watching Shaq dancing with a sign of a feminine Charles I'm turning off the TV. Thank god the Stanley Cup starts tomorrow.  

Prediction:  Thunder in 7.