Post-Sonics Watch
Feeling lost without your Seattle SuperSonics? Seattle-area NBA fans face their first season without an NBA team in 41 years. Primarily, our coverage here will focus on the City of Seattle’s attempt to bring the NBA back to Seattle. But we also will provide updates on the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oklahoma City Thunder and area players plying their trade for other teams in the NBA.

Eric Williams covered the Sonics' last season in Seattle. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.

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Keeping an eye on the NBA and Seattle's efforts to get back into the game
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Posted by Eric Williams @ 11:58:45 pm

33 -- The number of assists the Sonics had, a season high, on 47 field goals as Seattle defeated Toronto 123-115.

56-- Seattle’s shooting percentage for the game, including 10-of-17 from the 3-point line.

90.5 -- The Sonics free throw percentage, going 19-of-21 from the line.

20-- The margin Seattle outscored Toronto in the paint (50-30).

15 -- Down 62-56 at halftime, the margin Seattle outscored the Raptors in the third quarter, taking a 92-83 lead into the fourth quarter..

Boxscore -- Check it out here.
View highlights from the game here.

Durant watch -- Kevin Durant shot it well tonight, scoring a game-high 27 points on 11-of-18 shooting from the floor, including 4-of-5 from the 3-point line. Durant scored 14 of his points during a third-quarter run where Seattle surged ahead.

Did you see that? -- Durant went baseline in the third quarter and dunked over Toronto 7-footer Rasho Nesterovic, bringing the crowd to its feet.

“I wasn’t planning on dunking it to be honest with you,” Durant said. “I just went up, and I pictured Wheezy (Chris Wilcox) dunking on Tim Duncan when we played the Spurs, so I just tried to do what he did.”


Overheard -- “Get back and play some defense!” Toronto coach Sam Mitchell implored his team to do most of the night, but it didn’t matter as everything Seattle shot seemed to go in.

Final take -- A nice win for Seattle after two forgettable performances against Utah and New Orleans.

The Sonics ball movement was the most impressive thing tonight, as they crisply moved the ball around the perimeter and consistently found the open man inside for easy buckets. Getting shots inside the paint has been hard for Seattle all season, but if they can move the ball around like they did against Toronto on Friday the Sonics can compete against anybody.

Durant against showed why he is a special talent. When he’s shooting like he did tonight he’s pretty much unstoppable because of his ability to get to the basket and finish. And Wally Szczerbiak has been a nice complimentary player to Durant off the bench as a person you can count on to get double digits in points each night.

The defense wasn’t spectacular, but Seattle did have 10 blocks as a team tonight, with Kurt Thomas leading the way with three blocks.

Seattle will see if it can carry the momentum created from the win over Toronto to Portland on Christmas, where they will face a Trail Blazer team riding a 10-game winning streak.

Listen to Carlesimo talk about the game here. Collison says the Sonics need to play with energy every game in order to compete.

And Wally says everyone is starting to get comfortable with one another on the floor.

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