OKC Thunder 2023-24 Regular Season Discussion

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #2801 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:10 am

RingoKid · Post #2802 » by **RingoKid** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:49 am

shakes0 wrote:
RingoKid wrote:No Zion should make for an easy series win.

Too easy!

RingoKid · Post #2803 » by **RingoKid** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:48 am

How sweet to not see LeBron and DuRat for the rest of the post season.

Life is good.

It'd be nice to see the door hit Harden on the way out too!

Post #2804 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:22 am

We should get more Joe/Cason open 3's like we did in the regular season.

Post #2805 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:27 am

Monster series from Dort

Post #2806 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:39 am

Need a better Shai next series. Joe and Cason to hit some 3's, Hayward to stay on the bench. JDub is doing very well but I want him to be more selfish sometimes.

shakes0 · Post #2807 » by **shakes0** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:59 pm

RingoKid wrote:
shakes0 wrote:
RingoKid wrote:No Zion should make for an easy series win.

Too easy!

was thinking of you last night. I'm enjoying the crow right now, never been happier to eat some.

shakes0 · Post #2808 » by **shakes0** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:01 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:Need a better Shai next series. Joe and Cason to hit some 3's, Hayward to stay on the bench. JDub is doing very well but I want him to be more selfish sometimes.

Shai's game (especially his finishing) has noticeably fallen off in the past month or so. Not sure if it's fatigue, injury, or just the league is catching up to him a bit. Hopefully a little extra rest will help in that regard.

Right now just rooting for LAC/DAl to go 7 games plus lots of OTs.

shakes0 · Post #2809 » by **shakes0** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:09 pm

Kizz Fastfists wrote:
shakes0 wrote:told y'all you were getting way too ahead of yourselves talking about future rounds of the playoffs. Playoffs are a different animal and no amount of regular season success is going to matter once you get there. It's all about experience and taking your lumps and growing from them.

OKC looked every bit the part of one of the youngest most inexperienced teams in the league last night. Didn't look anything close to a #1 seed. Which is totally understandable.

Great win last night, let's be happy for any and all wins this team gets in the post season. Each one is a building block for future runs. Then again, each loss is a building block as well.

Like I said, just be happy if they get out of the first round. Anything beyond that is gravy.

The drastically superior team won in a sweep. This was as surprising as the sun rising in the East. Denver and Boston must need more playoff experience before they are ready, right?

yep, NOP turned out to be a pretty terrible team especially without Zion. And OKC rebounded from the slow start in game 1 and took it to NOP pretty much every minute of the rest of the series.

The disparity between the two teams made it almost not even feel like a playoff series.

Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

Post #2810 » by **slick_watts** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:23 pm

shakes0 wrote:Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

Post #2811 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:05 pm

slick_watts wrote:
shakes0 wrote:Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

with Perkins, Sefolosha and mostly Derek Fisher, there's no way they were as young as this current team.

and it's not only about age: Westbrook was in his 4th year in the NBA, Ibaka and KD 5th season...such a big gap between this and JDub/Chet experience. I don't think the lack of experience from JDub/Chet is gonna be the decisive factor but it's still an unfair/weird comp since OKC went to the WCF in 2011 and our squad in 2012 had way more experience. We look more like the 2011 thunder roster from a playoff experience and age.

Post #2812 » by **slick_watts** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:14 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:
slick_watts wrote:
shakes0 wrote:Not sure your point about Boston and Denver. Took Jokic 4 attempts at the playoffs before he won it all. His first playoffs he won a series and then lost the next one. Boston still hasn't won it all, but has plenty of experience in the playoffs and has made the finals. Took Boston and Tatum 5 trips to make the finals and that team was pretty loaded when he arrived.

set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

with Perkins, Sefolosha and mostly Derek Fisher, there's no way they were as young as this current team.

and it's not only about age: Westbrook was in his 4th year in the NBA, Ibaka and KD 5th season...such a big gap between this and JDub/Chet experience. I don't think the lack of experience from JDub/Chet is gonna be the decisive factor but it's still an unfair/weird comp since OKC went to the WCF in 2011 and our squad in 2012 had way more experience. We look more like the 2011 thunder roster from a playoff experience and age.

so it's experience, not age? what's a year or two of difference? what did perkins and fisher really bring the thunder in 2012? lol. come on. we keep moving these goal posts around so that there's a convenient excuse for the team if it falls short.

Post #2813 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:37 pm

slick_watts wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:
slick_watts wrote:
set your sights higher. the thunder are a great team. anything less than wcf after the regular season they had would be immensely disappointing. who cares about other teams? the 2012 thunder made the finals and were just as young (if not younger) than the current thunder.

with Perkins, Sefolosha and mostly Derek Fisher, there's no way they were as young as this current team.

and it's not only about age: Westbrook was in his 4th year in the NBA, Ibaka and KD 5th season...such a big gap between this and JDub/Chet experience. I don't think the lack of experience from JDub/Chet is gonna be the decisive factor but it's still an unfair/weird comp since OKC went to the WCF in 2011 and our squad in 2012 had way more experience. We look more like the 2011 thunder roster from a playoff experience and age.

so it's experience, not age? what's a year or two of difference? what did perkins and fisher really bring the thunder in 2012? lol. come on. we keep moving these goal posts around so that there's a convenient excuse for the team if it falls short.

yeah I think the lack of experience is an issue, I don't care about age. Perkins was still a starter, Fisher was not a factor. I also think there were an individual talent gap even if collectively we are playing better today. KD in 2012 > Current Shai; Westbrook > Current JDub or Chet.

Not willing to find an excuse for our current playoff run. I think reaching the WCF is a legit and fair goal and the most likely outcome when the POs started but I don't think that it would be such an underperformance to lose against LAC or Dallas. The gap between us and them is pretty thin.

Post #2814 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:07 pm

Clippers were the best team in the West at some point during the season and Dallas were awesome after the all star break / trade deadline. OKC was more consistent during all season but I don't think we peaked higher than those two teams. I rank them in the same tier as us and Wolves if healthy.

Big nick · Post #2815 » by **Big nick** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:10 pm

This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than. Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

Big nick · Post #2816 » by **Big nick** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:11 pm

This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

RingoKid · Post #2817 » by **RingoKid** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:20 pm

Big nick wrote:This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

My aging chihuahua with a gammy leg is mentally stronger than Cupcake DuRat.

Post #2818 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:24 pm

Big nick wrote:This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than. Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

Probably but we still need to see Shai taking over in a playoff series.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #2819 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:19 pm

Big nick wrote:This team is a better than 2012 team, sga is stronger mentally than Kd and jdub and the rest share the ball and trust each other were wb didnt.

There is no ball hog, low IQ bum to blow games like Russ which is a huge advantage for this team over the previous ones. No mindless idiot out there turning the ball over and taking early shot clock low percentage 3s and destroying any chances of winning a closeout game 6 when you are up 7 with 5 minutes to go by racking up 4 turnovers in the final two minutes on those valuable possessions of a winnable close where every possession counts because you lack discipline and the ability to be part of a championship team.

Post #2820 » by **Dadouv47** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:49 pm

Read on Twitter

/photo/1