OKC was the youngest team of all time in NBA history to win 40 games and went to the Play-Ins but also had no veterans and we're riddled with injuries too mostly in their frontcourt last season, this year front office addressed those issues.
The Thunder signed/traded for vets plus added young talents once again then all of their players are all healthy now if they manage to stay that way especially maintaining it throughout the regular szn, OKC Thunder at that point would won at least 50 games have homecourt advantage in the Playoffs or give the opponents a real challenge like a run for their money
Spacing is going to still be an issue. Chet does help with that, but if Giddy can become even an average 3pt shooter, it's going to open things up like crazy.
SGA is the most overrated player in the league. He is a product of unusual foul calls by refs making it hard to guard him. Normally as a guard you will draw fouls from shooting, or you are so big and strong like Giannis and Embid you will get calls in the paint. Sga scores 80% of his points from the paint and foul calls. Basically he is getting calls driving in to point you cant touch him and he gets a layup or dunk. SGA shoots 1 3pt a game hardly any midrange shots and you can not give an example of another guard that gets points this way. If SGA was a great scorer actually he would be a shooter, now you will see that relying on calls in the paint as a g is not reliable. watch a lot of the calls he gets its basically refs randomly deciding to give him calls they would not give other players. I understand why people are looking at the numbers and feeling excited but if you watch the games the calls and realize that his scoring is a fluke simply because of foul calls its easy to tell he's not an mvp and realistically not an allstar level player. To be an all star you have to have elite skills at something. Ja Morant for example is explosive to paint dunks, kyrie skilled finisher. SGA isn't explosive or a great finisher he just scoring because these random calls. I get people will say he's lanky but so is Paul George, Kawhi and they dont get these calls. Sga isn't a good shooter, elite dunker, elite finisher at the rim and thats how you know he is a. product. of random foul calls. James Harden was a. product of foul calls as well but at least you can visually see that he was good a drawing the calls another thing you can not say about SGA. No guard is scoring all their points because of driving into the paint and leading the league in scoring.Im not saying its his fault or he is allowing the refs to make the game easy for him simply Im saying he is overrated for these reasons. Obviously if you are going to a foul call 1/3 times you drive in then defenders will not be able to guard you and you will get easy buckets. If I am wrong then explain how a none shooter, a non great dunker, non elite finisher at the rim is a leader in scoring?
I think if Bertans can be average on defense his ability to move off the ball as 3 point sniper, it will get real scary along with Isaiah Joe as a shooter. Imagine the spacing if you got Chet, Bertans, Joe. sga and Jdub/Giddey out there.
Only four players in the league have MVP potential. Jokic, Giannis, Embiid and Luka. The others don't have a single percent chance of winning the MVP in the next few years.
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OKC was the youngest team of all time in NBA history to win 40 games and went to the Play-Ins but also had no veterans and we're riddled with injuries too mostly in their frontcourt last season, this year front office addressed those issues.
The Thunder signed/traded for vets plus added young talents once again then all of their players are all healthy now if they manage to stay that way especially maintaining it throughout the regular szn, OKC Thunder at that point would won at least 50 games have homecourt advantage in the Playoffs or give the opponents a real challenge like a run for their money
Spacing is going to still be an issue. Chet does help with that, but if Giddy can become even an average 3pt shooter, it's going to open things up like crazy.
SGA is the most overrated player in the league. He is a product of unusual foul calls by refs making it hard to guard him. Normally as a guard you will draw fouls from shooting, or you are so big and strong like Giannis and Embid you will get calls in the paint. Sga scores 80% of his points from the paint and foul calls. Basically he is getting calls driving in to point you cant touch him and he gets a layup or dunk. SGA shoots 1 3pt a game hardly any midrange shots and you can not give an example of another guard that gets points this way. If SGA was a great scorer actually he would be a shooter, now you will see that relying on calls in the paint as a g is not reliable. watch a lot of the calls he gets its basically refs randomly deciding to give him calls they would not give other players. I understand why people are looking at the numbers and feeling excited but if you watch the games the calls and realize that his scoring is a fluke simply because of foul calls its easy to tell he's not an mvp and realistically not an allstar level player. To be an all star you have to have elite skills at something. Ja Morant for example is explosive to paint dunks, kyrie skilled finisher. SGA isn't explosive or a great finisher he just scoring because these random calls. I get people will say he's lanky but so is Paul George, Kawhi and they dont get these calls. Sga isn't a good shooter, elite dunker, elite finisher at the rim and thats how you know he is a. product. of random foul calls. James Harden was a. product of foul calls as well but at least you can visually see that he was good a drawing the calls another thing you can not say about SGA. No guard is scoring all their points because of driving into the paint and leading the league in scoring.Im not saying its his fault or he is allowing the refs to make the game easy for him simply Im saying he is overrated for these reasons. Obviously if you are going to a foul call 1/3 times you drive in then defenders will not be able to guard you and you will get easy buckets. If I am wrong then explain how a none shooter, a non great dunker, non elite finisher at the rim is a leader in scoring?
And they still have tons of draft picks.
I think if Bertans can be average on defense his ability to move off the ball as 3 point sniper, it will get real scary along with Isaiah Joe as a shooter. Imagine the spacing if you got Chet, Bertans, Joe. sga and Jdub/Giddey out there.
Agreed i think OKC and SAS will put pressure on the top teams in the west this year
Only four players in the league have MVP potential. Jokic, Giannis, Embiid and Luka. The others don't have a single percent chance of winning the MVP in the next few years.