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Memphis (0-2) at Seattle (0-4)
7 p.m
TV: FSN
Radio: 770-AM
A few notes and some audio and then you're on your way to watching the game.
Seattle coach P.J. Carlesimo said he'll go with the same starting five tonight. That means Robert Swift will start his second straight game.
Kurt Thomas received an MRI today, which basically confirmed that he has a mild right hamstring strain. Thomas is listed as day-to-day and will not play tonight. Mouhamed Sene also is inactive tonight.
Carlesimo addressed the foul disparity situation during his pre-game talk. Seattle is taking nine less free throws a game than its opponent, and being whistled for five more fouls a contest.
Carlesimo said it has nothing to do with the officials, and everything to do with the team not going aggressively to the basket inside.
"Usually two of the best ways you’re going to get to the free throw line is establishing an inside game or taking the ball to the rim, and we haven’t been very good at either of those," Carlesimo said. "I don’t think it has anything to do with the officiating.
"In general late in the game you don’t want to be dependent on jump shots. It’s always been that way around the league. The jump-shooting teams don’t shoot a lot of free throws. That’s just the way it is. And you have to play around that if you’re going to be a jump-shooting team. We don’t want to be a jump-shooting team. But saying you want an effective post-up game and you want people that can really attack the rim, and getting effective at it are two different things."
Listen to the full conversation with Carlesimo here.
Damien Wilkins echoed Carlesimo's sentiments.
"A lot of times we are not being aggressive enough," Wilkins said. "I think the more aggressive you are, the officials will give you the benefit of the doubt. And that’s what has been happening against us. Teams have been pretty aggressive against us, and they’ve been getting the calls.
"Instead of coming down and shooting jump shots late in the game, being such a jump-shooting team, we’ve got to go to the basket more, and maybe we’ll get the calls."
Listen to the full conversations with Wilkins here.
Also, Sonics Chairman Clay Bennett will be inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame on Thursday. And his presenter is a name you'll recognize -- NBA Commissioner David Stern. Read more about the induction here.
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