The OKC Thunder have seen Josh Giddey start the season slow against through eight games. What is the answer for the Oklahoma City Thunder? Should the Thunder bench Giddey? Can the Bricktown boys stagger Josh Giddey with the bench unit but keep him in the starting five? Is the secret to Chet Holmgren getting foul calls his beard? Kings are without Fox, when is Kenrich Williams returning? The OKC Blue start tonight. Aleksej Pokusevski’s future.
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Giddey historically has taken about 10 games to really reach his strides each season based off of his time in the 3 seasons with the Thunder and year with the 36ers, and while that could be in part acclimatising to the competition, it is consistent.
Not yet. Cason Wallace is a better option with the other 4. Giddy doesn’t take the big open 3 point shots when open which minimizes the drive by SGA and JDub. Wallace takes that shot or can step in by two steps and take the open shot.
I like Giddy but he doesn’t have the offensive tools that help us in our spread offense which helps the penetration game.
Needs to add variety to his driving game including a stop and pop mid range game plus getting confidence/consistency in his 3 point game. Defences are loading up on his drives. He's not explosive enough to drive only/float game.
its a different game with Chet there… just needs time to work out the new roles and fit
If we are losing and we bench Josh then we are winning after that maybe
He just needs to run that second unit with Chet on the floor. Something like Giddey-Chet-Joe-Wallace-Dieng. Or another shooter in that mix, JDub would thrive in that lineup as well. And get consisted 5-8 minutes with ball in his hands. Other than that, I just don’t see how he fits with this team with no real improvement on 3point percentage and defense
Too soon. Think it's a new game with Chet, and with another quality player you have to expect that some players (Giddey and JDub) are going to lose points and stats to Chet. What's more important is team performance.
There is no reality when Chet comes in and scores 20PPG, plus Giddey and JDub climb 5-6PPG.
Monitor, but far too early to tell.
giddy is a little GOAT
Also, between the playmaker/ball handler and the rest of the lineup, the playmaker is the one who has the most new information to synthesize in a new season with a new piece in the lineup.
Plus it's not a normal team where he's the main PG. SGA has a lot of internal gravity.
Josh is smart and he'll work this out. But he's been posed with a more difficult task than say Dort and Wallace.
Dort is a defensive beast and gets asked to make open threes. That's exactly what he was doing last year. He's doing it better, but it's the same task. Wallace isn't being asked to run a brand new offence. Giddey is. SGA is playing the same game as last year because he's SGA. He's not going to be asked to sacrifice his game, and rightly so.
Giddey's doing pretty well for the person in the most difficult and proactive position in this team. Don't forget that the team is 5-3. Different conversation if we're 2-6.
Giddey is a 6'8 PG who played well in fiba, and is still very young, why are people making a big deal about a slow start less than 10 games into his 3rd year ayo