Are the OKC Thunder positioned to become the NBA’s next dynasty? #nba #okcthunder
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OK, see youâre gonna be very good but theyâre basically never gonna have the top player as long as Luka joker and wemby are around
The cba isnt meant for super deep teams. Minnesota just salary dunped KAT, denver dropped kcp so they can extend gordon.. OKC will have to drop J Dub and cason wallace in 2 years
Everyone are overrating OKC, They got more assets to make moves but the window is narrower to strike. You can't keep drafting the picks. there will be lot of cap issues, roster constraints, if you consistently recycle players there won't be any continuity. There is lot more to winning than having lot of draft picks
Yeah but are their owners going to cheap out again like they did 10 years ago
I like OKC a lot but not sure they are having a dynasty-type run. Itâs always hard to predict a young teamâs trajectory until they finally win, and most never do. So, letâs hold off for now.
They should have traded for Draymond at the deadline. And I know that sounds like I'm smoking crack, but he was the perfect player/perfect situation to maximize this team. They needed rebounding, playmaking, playoff experience, a vocal leader in the locker room, and the "tough guy" on the court to back them all up. And importantly, he'd never need to take a shot for the team to get better.
If the playoff 8-man rotation were Shai-Dort-Jalen-Draymond-Chet with Caruso-Wiggins-Hartenstein off the bench they'd be golden for years.
The curse of Seattle. This team is cursed they might as well of built the stadium on an Indian burial ground. They may win the west but Seattle will win an NBA championship before OKC does.
Lol Wemby???
Bill loves looking at least four years into the future and going: "The Wemby shadow".
This is just not being realistic about it the the cap works. They wonât be able to bundle picks to pickup a top tier player because theyâll be capped out. And they wonât be able to draft multiple draft picks because theyâll be roster limited. Weâve seen this before, and you just canât have five all stars each making 25% of the cap. CBA doesnât allow it.
As an okc fan, theyâre setup pretty nice right but could turn into the nuggets situation where they have 3 huge contracts on the books. So thats where the picks are valuable. Imo they still donât have second guy next to Shai that can generate offense consistently. JDub really failed to do that in the playoffs so hopefully he can do that this year. And theyâre missing a 3/D wing. But, I donât really see a team better positioned than them in the west.
Imagine itâs June 2012, and somebody told you that OKC will eventually become a championship dynasty, but not until after Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden are gone đł
With that said, Iâm not as bullish on OKC as Bill and this guy are. I think Shai is absolute great franchise player, but all things considered, do I think heâs on Jokic or Lukaâs level? Not quite. Do I think heâll be above Wemby in 3-5 years? No I donât. I think they have 2 maybe 3 years to get a title before Wemby (if he stays healthy) takes over the league and RC Buford is able to put the right pieces around him.
OKC has 4 year window , they are not Boston. They are small market team.
Meh their best player is SGA thatâs not a dynasty
Remember when you guys anointed Denver as the next dynasty after winning a single title and then they won nothing before losing a bunch of good pieces?
Maybe you should let folks play a game first.
Just an absolutely insane take
Not sure why Boston gets so much credit. It took them 11 years into a rebuild to win a title even with their âwar chestâ and their supposed brilliant management. Other teams just built and won in the same timeframe. Boston has a lot to prove going forward. If they keep winning, then itâs all worth it. If not, they are going to fall into mediocrity and people will continue to dog them for only winning 2 titles since the 19 freaking 80s
Unfortunately for OKC, they don't have Anthony Edwards on their team
Lost me at kd returning
You know there is no chance this happens. Sure, a lot of itâs there on paper. But it wonât happen.
No one is talking about the Rockets future. The amount of young talent they have is insane
They need to win now if they want to retain that core in the future
Please donât. Please just leave Durant in the past. Theyâve been just fine without him and much more successful.